The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-06
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while the Japanese were performing in Chi
mngo they attracted the attention of many OF
Hhe first ladies of that city, who made them pre-
vents and presented them with their photo
graphs. IL was the fancy of an hour which
RIaLihed both parties and was forgotten BY both.
There was one lady however, daughter OF a
merchant of our neighboring city, a beautiful
girl of eighteen summers, who seems to have
become completely lost to the infatuation, and
TO have captivated entirely the heart of one of
the Japanese, who has the musically y-sounding
name of Sing KeeChee. This worthy, as we
have learned from the members of the
company, has something OF a romance IN
his history. His father was nobleman
attached TO the court of the Tycoon
He loved and married girl in the lower class
very pretty, very good, but not hlgh-blooded.
The Tycoon learned OF 1t, and his indignation
was great. The nobleman begged and prayed.
II was no use. He had insulted the dignity of
the Tycoon. There was but one way to make
reparation-to commit hdtt-kdrt-in plain
English, to disembowel himself. The Tycoon's
word was law, and the nobleman died, his pro-
perty going to the Tycoon. His wife, disowned,
ioined a company OF acrobats. Years after, this
same company was performing before the
Tycoon. In the bamboo act, which is his
favorite, the Tycoon was much struck with the
daring of boy who did wonderful things on
the slender reed Upon inquiry he learned that
the boy was none other than the son of his
once iavorite minister and friend, and had high
blood In his veins. He took the boy from the
company, and trained and educated him. for the
friendship he had once borne his father This
boy grew up about the court, and was none
other than Sing-Kee-Ohee, which in Japanese
means the son of nobleman who had offended
the Tycoon.
Sipg.KeeChee grew up about the Court until
he attained the age OF twenty-seven. He has
an excellent education, and speaks several IAN
guages fuenty. English he also speaks well,
With Sing -Kee.Chee it was that the Chicago
lady became infatuated. He came out with the
company at the order of the Tycoon, to watch
them and to give his highness history of the
country, its people, and its customs. He no
common juggler, although he delights in the
bamboo act which brought him before
Ahe favorable notice OF the Tycoun. The
young lady made his acquaintance in Chicago,
talked with him and invited him to her
house, where he had made himself quite a
favoTite. His history was known and the
lady, by one of those romantic fancles which
will, IN the eye of the world sometimes
make fools OF the most sensible, learned to
love him. Not for his good looks certainly; for
intelligent as he is, and with the high blood
coursing through his veins, Sing -Kee- Chez is not
the most fascinating OF the party. Perhaps the
lady loved him for the sacrifices of his father.
Perhaps not. We will not attempt to imagine
the excuse for the notion, to call It by no other
name. Sing-Kee-Chee was delighted with the
lady, but he had no further thought for he lett
her with no other exchange than that of pho
toeranh, he carrying hers with those of other
ladies which had been given him. At Detroit
Sing -Kee-Chee was surprised to meet the lady
who found the world blank desert after her
heart had become another's and in Detroit
Sing,Kee-Ohee first began, to discover the
secret, and to feel, too, that although his
was pledged to another in Japan, there
was an attraction for it here. He did not
discover this until it was the subject of Joke
by the members of the company, whom he one
day surprised by the information that he loved
the young American better than he loved the
maiden OF his own land. TEis was phase in
the affair that the company had not dreamed of,
and was startling one. They told the lover
to beware; that he must take lesson from the
fate of his father, who had loved without the
consent OF the Tycoon, and if he persisted his
fathers fate would be his. Sing-kee-chee did
remember this, and endeaVored to Danish her
from his heart, but it was a useless task The
more he tried the deeper he loved, and before
the company left Detroit he made the romantic
maldens heart happy by declaring that be loved
her, and that 1t the Tycoon's consent could be
gained by the strongest entreaties, he should
make her his wife; and with this assurance the
maiden returned to her parents in Chicago, who
are striving by every means in their power to
eradicate the notion from her mind.
Sing Kee-Chee is obstinate and determined. He
has written to the Tycoon the full account of the
materials told his love in the barbaric but
expressive language of his people, and has sent
forward with this the testimony of all the
Japanese that the girl is OF good family and
respectable and worthy, that she loves to dis
traction, and will be no disgrace to the best
blood of Japan. We are told by the interpreter
that the present Tycoon is young man who
has a high estimation of the American people,
and it is believed that if the parents of the
Chicago lady will give their consent to the
union, which for very good reasons they at
present withhold, the Tycoon will gladly yield
his consent, as step towards winning
the favor of the people of this great country.
OF that we shall know more hereafter. At pre-
sent two anxious hearts are awaiting the de-
cision of Ethe Tycoon. Sing-Kee-Chee knows
very well that if the consent is not given his
fate is sealed, for with the refusal would come
a notice that by the asking of such favor he
had offended beyond redemption, and only the
commIttal of hdri-kaTi would wipe out the
insult. We certainly trust that no such sad fate
awaits the lover for the lady has decided that If
he dies for her, she goes to the grave with him.
After the arrival of the company in this city,
every mail brought to Sing -KeeChee a letter
from his betrothed, and on Saturday she came
TO meet him previous to his departure from this
city. Her strange love, instead of decreasing,
seems TO flourish as time rolls on and opportu-
nifty is given to think it over and when the
party left this city last evening to 90 to Fort
Wayne, passing through Chicago there seemed
no happier or more devoted lovers in this world
than Sing-Kee-Chee and his Chicago betrothed.