Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-23
CHCOTHE LIVINGSTON co, MISSOURI THURSDAY OCTOBER 23


From the New York Herald.
Jules Verne's "Tribulations of a China
man in China" has been translated into
English by Virginia Camplin, and will be
published in November by Lee & Shepard.
1t is one Of the most whimsical of It's
althor's books, and introduces the tele-
phone, the phonograph, and Capt. Boy
tons litesaving suit as familiar articles
to an educated Chinaman. The story
opens by showing the hero at bachelor
dinner which he gives on the eve of his
marriage, and at which he complains that
he is too fortunate for happiness. Wang,
the philosopher, his friend, thereupon
prays that evil may befall him, and that
night he receives a letter telling him that
the Central Bank of California, in which
all bis fortune is lodged, has suspended
payment. He Immediately determines to
commit suicide, but being good hearted
creature, resolves to benefit his friend and
his betrOthed by his death, and so goes to
the Shanghai office of the Centenary Life
Insurance Company and insures his life
for 500, 900, quarters of the sum 10
favor Of Le-Ow, his betrothed, and the
rest in favor Of Wang, and then he walks
home to die. Unfortunately he has set
his heart on feeling some emotion when
at the point of death, and, finding him
self quite cool and comfortable when
about to take poison, he gives up his
plan, goes to Wang, and makes nm
promise to murder him before the two
months for which his life insurance pre-.
MUM is paid shall expire. Kin-iO now
begins to feel sensations of but fear, they
soon depart and it is again unpleasantly
comfortable, when he suddenly learns that
the Central Bank of California has re-
sumed payment, that its failure was a
money making pretense, and that he is
richer than ever. He now wishes to live,
but Wang has disappeared, and with
him has vanished Il letter written by Kin
70 and saying he has committed suicide.
Now begins very pretty chase; the man
who wanted to be murdered follow
ing the man whom he chose for
his assassin to tell him he pre-
ferred living and being guarded
while engaged in the pursuit by two
Americans, agents Of the Centenary Life
Insurance Company, who are determined
not to allow the corporation to lose val
liable life. The three find Wang at last,
but he runs away from them and appar-
emily browns himself, and they return to
the home OF Kingfo, thinking that he is
safe at last. This pleasing delusion is
rudcly disturbed by the reception Of Il let
ter written by Wang, and saying that he
had handed the letter to Lao.Shen,
Tripping rebel, and engaged him to do the
murder and to pocket the legacy. Kin-fo
and the insurance cOmpanys agents I'M
medately start to redeem the letter, and
begin the journey on junk loaded with
cofiins of Chinese who have died in Amer
lea. The agents Overhear a conversation
between some pirates hidden in the coflins
which constitute the cargo, and catching
the name OF Lao.shen infer that the life of
their charge is in danger. Thercupon
they dress him, his valet, and themselves
in Boyton suits and take to the water,
thereby escaping the massacre in which
the crew on the vessel are killed. They
land, and find Sao.shen just as the two
months expire, and the Americans bid
Kin.fo good by, leaving him to shift for
himself and 90 back to report to their
chief. Lao.Shen captures the young man,
who falls in love with life as soon as there
is danger of losing it; and, after grand
scene of explanation in which it appears
that Wang is not dead, but has been
teaching his friends lesson, the story
ends. The phOnograph is introduced as a
means of communication between King-to
and his betrothed, and also figures in a
small servant episode.