The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-11
ALL THE WAY FRoM CgINA.
Why the Eminent Scholar, Wong Foo
Ching, Is called the DOG Boy
From, the Neo York Times.


The following Story has Just reached
Wong An Hi of Mott street from a cousin
Of his at Canton, China The letter was
from Wong All Dick of Canton, and the
hero Of this story is Wong Foo c ing of tie
village Of Ha Ming. who has just been
| decorated with the degree Of Han Lin Yuen
although only p years Old. I degree Of
| Han LIN Nusn can only Be obtained by
| years II studiQus labor at colleges. With
| the excapti1 N Of the degree Of Chun Nusn it
Is the highest literary honor that the people
| and the Emperor IF Chi a ca 1 confer on a
sen lar. There goes with II also a high
| political office.
1t was through the extraordinary liter
/ airy attachments If 50 young a man that
ais early romantic career came t. be pub
| iIcy noticed
| Wong All Kim, the father Of Wong Foo
| SLiny, died at the early age Of IS.
| On MS death-bed his devoted wife, then
ony II male vow in tile pres
suce OF the other members of the family
! that II the cdild soon TO he born to her
should be a male she would never az ia
marry, but would devote her life to the
care and education of the son. Should 1t
| be girl sue would drown it Immediately,
| . end its }sslble misery, as she would
| then be compelled to remarry, as girls are
| no required to support their own parents
| Wnel tne iaLJer become old.
Seven days after the death of her young
husband Mrs. Wong An KIM gave birth
| - a son. With her was Mrs Wong All
Dee, SIS er ln-law. who was widow with
| four SONS and daughter. She had heard
| the young woman'S VOW to her dying hus-
| band, and did not like the idea of her re-
naming burden upon the family's re-
| duced estate. The family was at one time
| a tilted one, but that was several genera
/ "a nd ha toto
then but mere tribe, of which, by reason
of her husband being the firstborn, she
| had control
| The moment Mrs. Wong All Dee saw
that 1t was a male child she ecare fright
ened. But soon happy thought struck
her fertile Drain. The youag mother
family whispered" Is it boyp
mo, it is a GIRL" hastily replied the
cruel relative. The disappointed mother
fell back upon her pillow, and for a NOM
ent great tears began to roll down her
checks.
tits too bad" she again whispered.
ITS no use for me. I can never
depend upon it in my old age.
My poor fate is sealed, and l will
have to find another husband.
Throw the poor thing into the river,
| sister,
The cruel sister-iD-law was so happy that
| her strategy was successful that she made
haste to obey the wishes Of her equally
cruel mother, and carried the little walf IN
the darkness Of the night toward the banks
/ OF the nearest river. The baby was wrap
ped up in bundle of blue rags. In her
haste she had not noticed the family dog,
An Dow, pet of the younger woman, fol
| lowing her.
All Dow had quite a family of young
puppies. Still she loved her mistress so
well that she did not think it was any bur-
den to her to have one single addition more
to her already large family. So the NOM
ent she saw the infant was thrown into the
| PUSHES All Dow pulled the little bundle out
with her teeth and landed 1t safely upon
the river bank. She found a little cave
| near by and carried it there. She kept
| running for three or four days and nights
between the outcast infant and her own
family.
Upon the fourth day the childs mother
was able to be up An Dlw was so delight
| ed that she whiue1 and hOwled and
! scratched her mistress until her actions
arols d the widows curiosity. Finally the
wido v followed the dog, and the animal
led her straight to the cave where the
child was hidden
Without letting her relative know any
thing about her wonderful find, Mrs. Al
Him asked her where she had thrown the
infant, and was told at such and such q
point of the river. For fear of further
treacheries on the part of her relatives
Mrs. All Kim hid the child at friendly
| nelghbor'S and tlen demanded her share
OF her husbands property, saying that she
had resolved not to marry again any way
+ II the sake of her dead husband. BET re
she could obtain anything of her share
she had to make solemn public vow be-
fore all elders OF her husbands
ia nily. Then she only got about
half of the property. With this
she started little home of her
own in another town, where she secretly
brought up her own lost child.
When Wong Foo Ching was 10 years
old he came home one day crying. Mother
why do the other children continue to cali
me Dog Boy2" he asked. Il Will not go
to school another day until you tell me WHY
| am called Dog Boy hate that name.
and it hurts me-
La despair the poor mother told him how
his own aunt tried to murder him, and even
now their lives were in danger 1t was not
IN Wong Foo Ching's power to obtain
redress until he had obtained at least one
literary degree. From that moment Wong
Foo Ching put renewed energy into his les
sons, with very successful results-the at
tainment of the august degree of Han Lin.
to whom even the great governors or vic :
roys of provinces would have to bend their
knees and bow their official heads. If not
|
least have to stand while the 20-vear-old
literary monster sat upon his chair of state.
In the meantime the aunt and all her
family died in poverty, except the eldest
son, who suddenly learned of his you 2
cousins ascension to power, and disap-
pesred to avoid tae responsibilities of his
m theirs crimes, for which, according to
Chinese laws, lie is held re ,ponsible.
In graf full remembrance of All Dow.
Wong Foo Ching has already ordered
great monument to be erected upon the
spot where lie the bones of ne dog.
The newlv-made HIM Lin Yusn is still
popularity kno Yn as the Dog Boy" and
his intimate friends call him by that name
to this day. Poems and histories have
recen ly been pull shed about HIM.
prophesying of his future greatness as a
reformer and ruler.
a STRANGE LAND.