The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-09

tMHt1@1 sistant in Che details az
SW E&M All Sam loved Miss HI
Sing. All Sam Was by
profession cook in California miners
boarding house and trading post com
bined, at little mining camp on the
Tuolumne river. Following infinitely
the culinary teachings of his employer,
having no conception of cooking save as
a mere mechanical operation-dead to
the pernicious mental and physical effect
which his Ill dressed dishes might have
on the minds and stomach of those he
served-Ah Sam, while dreaming Of Hi
Sing, fried tough beef still tougher in
hot lard, poisoned -four with saleratus,
and boiled potatoes to the last extreme
of soddenness, all Of which culinary out
RACES promoted indigestion among those
who ate; and this indigestion fomented
general irritability of temper-from
whence Swett's camp became noted for
its frequent sanguinary moods, its bat
ties by midnight in street and barroom,
with knife and sixshooter, and, above
all, for its burrying ground, of which
the inhabitants truGhfully boosted that
not an inmate had died a natural death.
Hi Sing was the handmade Of old Ching
Loo. Her face was broad, her nose fat,
her girth extensive, her gait waddle,
her attire blue sacque reaching from
neck to knee, blue trousers, brass rings
on wrist and ankle, and wooden shoes
whose Gathering heels betrayed their
owners presence, even as the shaken tail
OF the angry rattlesnake doth his I'M
pleasant proximity. She had no educa-
ton, no manners, no accomplishments,
no beauty. no grace, no religion, no
morality, and for this and more All Sam
loved her. Hi Sing was virtually slave,
having several years previously, with
many otEer fair and fragile sisters, been
imported to California by Ching Loo,
and not until meeting All Sam did she
learn that it was her right and privilege
In this land of occasional laws and uni
versal liberty to set up for herself, be-
come her own mistress. and marry and
unmarry whenever opportunity offered.
But Ching Loo had noticed, with a
suspicious eye, the growing intimacy
between All Sam and Hi Sing; and
arguing therefrom results improbable
to himself, he contrived one night to
have the damsel packed off to another
town, which happened at that time to be
my place of residence; and it is for this
reason that the wool of nv existence
temporarily crossed that of All Sam and
Hi Sing.
All Sam followed up his love, and dis
covering i'll me an old friend who had
endured and survived a whole winter of
his cookery at Swett's Bar, told me his
troubles; and l, resolving to pay evil
with good, communicated the distressed
story to my chosen and par
tlcular companion, a lean and cadaver-
Gus attorney, with whom fees had ceased
to be angels visits, and VINO was then
and lowering between two
plans-one to run for the next state legis- |
lature, the other to migrate to Central |
and found new republic. At |
torney Spoke, on hearing All Sans case, |
offered to find the maid, rescue her from |
her captors and marry her to him per-
and for ever in consideration |
Of thirty American dollars; to which |
terms the Monaghan asserting, Spoke
and myself, buckling on our arms and |
armor, proceeded to beat up the filthy
ourlieus of chinatown" and about
midnight we found the passive Hi Sing
hidden away in a hencoop, whittier she
had been conveyed by the confederates
If Ching Loo.
We bore Hi Sing-who was consider
ably alarmed, neither understanding our
language nor our purpose-to Spokes
'fhce, and then 1t being necessary TO Sc
'ure the services of magistrate in unit
ng the couple, departed to see the jus
ice of the peace, who was still awake
or justice rarely slept in camp at that
lour, but was commonly engaged at the
5ella Union playing poker, while Spoke
ought after the groom, An Sam, whom
lie found In Chinese den stupidity
trunk from smoking opium, having
AIKEN such means to wear the edge off
rs suspense while we were rescuing his
Not only was he stupidity but
'erversely drunk, but he declared IN
English that he had concluded
lot to marry that night, to which obser-
alton Attorney Spoke, becoming pro-
ane, jerked him from the cot whereon
e lay, and grasping him about the neck
nth Strengthening hold. bore him into
he street and toward his Office. intimat-
1g loudly that this business had been
roceeded with too far to be receded
rom, and that the marriage must be
that night with or with
ut the consent of the principals. an
am resigned himself to matrimony.
The Office was reached, the door opened
nd out In the darkness bolted the bride,
or she knew not what these prepara-
ions meant, or whether she had fallen
mong friends or enemies. Il
After lively chase we cornered and g
aught her: and having thus at last
rought this refractory couple together
re placed them in position. and the jus
ice commenced the ceremony by asking
II Sing If she took that man for her law ,
u welded husband, which iuterroga-
orr hfina Chaldaic "a her shs renlisd | :