The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-13

New York Sun.
Gratitude is born in the heart of all good
Chinamen, and politeness is the big end of their
morai law, and for days past all the Chinese
laundrymen OF New York and Brooklyn who 20
to Sunday school and get free lessons in En-
gllsh have been eagerly anticipating the pleasure
which they would soon confer upon their teach
ers by taking them on an excursion, filling them
with all the good things they could hold and
paying all the bills. This is the delicate method
which they have employed for two wears of
showing their appreciation of the English LAM
guage and Bible verses so patiently driven into
.nem oy tneir instructors, and yesterday was
the appointed time for the third picnic.
Early in the morning the steamboat Sirius
which was to carry the scholars and their teach
ers, cut through the sparkling water She was
radiant with flags and rivaling in gayety Of APP
pearance the crowd waiting at Pier l. a thou-
sand Cinnamon were there all arrayed in their
smartest clothes, and SO were five hundred uree-
ty Caucasian girls. the pick and cream of the ret-
ty Sunday school teachers of the finest churches.
Ihese nice girls Were arrayed in clothing
so wonderful and so gay that crowd of rouehs
which had como to scof remained TO admire
while two sleepy-eyed policemen hustled around
as actively as though the Cinnamon in, such
company, were as good as aldermen.
The Cinnamon were in command Chnameu
with silk badges stood at the gangway and toek
tickets. Cinnamon who spoke English stood osa
the wharf with hats and did the agreeable to the
very nice girls. Elderly Cinnamon with badges
and spectacles, beamed on the, young folks 20
whom they could not talk, and welcomed in the
mother tongue new and bashful scholars. China
men bossed everything. They ordered around
the two policemen; they bossed the captain
squelched the odd hundred American men who
had slipped In by virtueof their Sunday y-scb0ol
connections, and ruled with a rod of irorsa hclp-
less German band, which had to abandon its
regular repertory to please a heathen fancy, and
could lind no language in which to claim its
ancient right OF playing the same march always
The crew of the Sirius, accustomed to all
kinds OF picnic extravagaRces were reused from
their listlessness by the unusual hugeness of the
lce-cream tanks which were dragged aboard
Colossal piles of cake, hundreds Of pounds or
candy, red and gold punches of bananas endless
racks of pies and two melodeons were brought
IN among other things, and then the Sirius
whlstled thrice in honor of its load and started
away. The Chinamen waved laughing farewells
to a few heather who do not 60 to Sunday
school and had attempted In vain to get aboard,
stopped the boat to pick up more teachers and
scholars at Jewell's wharf, and then devoted
their entire energies to having great time.
big flag was run up on the staff at the bow,
and thousand patriotic Threats yelled as they
beheld proudly floating above the stars aud
stripes red dragon with fiendish head and a.
caterpilars body, stretching its neck in the effort
to swallow a blood red moon. Another flag went
on the staff asuern, and yellow dragon waved
in the breeze, with yellow moon in front Of
him. More yells went up, and then the German
band stopped and turned pale strange notes
foated to their ears and strange discords drowced
their own lt was genuine Chinese band,
playing an overture
The Chinese needed nothing more to mako
them happy. The incest Sunday school teachers
possible sat around on the long, comfort
able benches and presented unbroken rows 0f
benevolent smiles Each young lady had a.
big plate and all the way from two to six cour-
teous Chinese gentlemen to heaplt with thrco,
kinds of ice cream and be devoted. There was
German music on one deck and Chinese music
on the other. Musical teachers were ticked,by
rival hymns out of three different meodeonS
between their plates of ice-cream, while groups
of devoted scholars worked hard to make aaess
particular hymn loudest and best The Chinese
gentlemen sang English words of books full
of Chinese characters. A favorite hymn, waas
Shining Shore:"
My days gliding swiftly by, and T. a pilgria
Would not detan them they fly. these hours of toll
and danger,
For stand on Jordan's strand; friends ara
passing over,
And, just before, the shining shore we may almost
discover"
When rebelhous nature closed the ice cream
cans there were cakes and candies to take off the
chill and when they, too, lost their charm there
remained the untiring devotion of the Chinese
scholars, and the pleasant duty of walking with
them up and down the decks, encouraging them.
teaching them and making them feel more aud
more that they were gentlemen and brothers.
element of sadness and detection. The boot
blacks who had embarked with the he.excursion
rOamed sadly among. the swarm of pattering,
cloth-shod feet, or gazed dsconsolately at the
looking glass polish which had been carefully
applied by every scholar who wore leather Tha
American Sunday school young men who
hoped to be sought out as rare birds in the flock,
found that they were not sought out, or even
appreciated. The young ladies did not feel re-
sponsible for instructng them. When they
nh
ese wall, three gentlemen deep confronting
them, and it grieved them to see all the ssteriy
gances intercepted by the wall
The German band stole as far away from their
Chinese rivals as they possibly could. 1t was in
vain to tell them that those awful sounds wera
classical music before the first German hand
was born, or that those gongs and snake-skin
fddeS were in good repute before the Bible was
written, much less translated by Luther. They
declared that 1t was wrong to get them boat
where there was Chinese music and no beer.
and they could not get away.
But these little drops of sorrow in the bucket
of happiness did not affect the bucket, and tina
boat reached ROTOR Point Grove at noon, with
more happy Cinnamon aboard, with better
reasons for being happy than ever met in this
country before. There, under shade trees, long
tables were spread, more ice-cream cans were
opened and the picnicking began all over again.
A big restaurant afforded beer to the weary
band, and chicken and rice, with other solid
LuluSS vera administered NY tuo ocuoidIo W
their beautiful teachers. After dinner, while
some teachers went hobbing over the waves in
row boats pulled by devoted Cinnamon, others
roamed along the beach for shells, and others
wandered off into the fields, arm in arm
seeking wild flowers. young Chsna-
man won honor and bright smiles by.
making three bulls-eyes in succession at long
range; another beat Caucasian at bowling
another few up in SOUP higher than any one
else, and all astonished the residents of that
mar nf GoOr an+i f,1ff nd arfl
the least gloom was cast by the work of the Sab
vation Army people, who had been around there.
and had painted on all the rocks You must rs-
pent or go to HE'LL because all Cinnamon were
familiar with that sentiment. There were three
little accidents: Chinese lad hurt his back
falling off swing; a tramp who strayed In, Was
arrested for bad behavior. and as the boats pad
died away from the point two Cinnamon APP
peared on the shore with big bunches OF Wild
flowers. which they waved wildly but inefeck-
4oaohars for1 whose sIniles thew had