The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19
THE WORTHINGTON ADVANCE.

rum was . pretty good sign that he wa
o genius. Night after night he woult
pull Eng out Of bed while sound aslee]
and jerk him around in the dark, jottinl
down memoranda Of thoughts he hat
during the night. Chang had invented
what he called the authors friend. Il
consisted Of an illuminated wall at ont
= end Of the room made of mixture
; which lighted it up so that he could pre-
serve thought which had made its ap
pearance during the night.
He also invented the Edinburgh joke
Yimlet and used it successfully while in
Scotland.
They were more irritated against each
other after the war than before, for
Chang lost his niger and bitterly re-
preached Eng for being at the bottom
of it. On top Of all this, Eng tried to
reconstruct Chang.
Chang married some time before the
idea occurred to Eng, and though he en-
tered fully into the spirit which prompt
ed Chang to wed he often felt i'll at ease
and out of place sitting up late of nights
during the counting and taking cold
looking at the moon and pretending to
be asleep.
Therefore he soon turned his attention
toward marriage, and accompanied by
his brother one evening made proposal
to Changes sister-in-law. She rejected
him, claiming that, according to her no.
tions, relatives ought not to be too thick.
Nevertheless it was Changes wife, who
felt that she had bitten off more than she
could masticate, who induced her sister
at last, while under the influence of wine
jelly, to accept Eng, and for some time
the four occupied the same house, ate at
the same table and drank from the same
canteen. But jealousy arose, and as :.
result each husband built a separate
house. Chang would go over and visit
Eng for week, and then Eng would
come over and spend week with Chang
They were passionately fond of horse
back riding and baseball, Chang playing
in the Surry team and Eng in the Mount
Airy Sockless nine. This was told me
by the man who claimed that Chang was
married quietly, while Eng took his wife
on tour of European travel.
AS farmers they had some trouble in
certain kinds of work, but NJ. Dufour
says that they often hoed in the field,
using the ''outside" arms to take hold of
the hoe. They also enjoyed chopping
wood, using the ak in the same manner.
By signal, consisting of grunt, which
seems to be necessary to the chopper
anyway, the two struck simultaneously, |
the ak helve being grasped by the right
hand Of one and the left of the other, the
hand nearest the ak being permitted to
slip on the handle at the right moment. |
just as in ordinary chopping.
The children and grandchildren of |
Chang and Eng are scattered pretty well
over the country. The brothers married
two Misses Yates, and Nancy Bunker,
the eldest child, had some educational
advantages. She Travelled in Europe
with her father and uncle and acted as
their secretary.
NJ. Dufour claims that the two broth
ers did not unite with the Baptist church,
but that the widows and children did.
Perhaps this is correct, for I am gradu-
ally losing faith in the man who said the
brothers were immersed while Chang
had Siamese jag on.
DR.. Jacob states that 1.-The connection
of the Siamese twins took place in their
epigastric regions between the navel,
which was common to both, and the en-
storm processes, which were bent out
in forward direction and met very
closely, held together by igamentous
apparatus. The coupling itself was
inches in circumference and q in diam
ter. It contained connection between {
the two livers and was composed pGr- {
tally of liver TISSUE" !
The band was very curious from an I
anatomical standpoint, as the skin at
he median line was mutually sensitive,
md inside there was combination of
he peritoneum, so that after death l
land introduced into the abdomen of c
Chang entered two pouches reaching into '
Eng, and the reverse produced almost a r
imilar result as to Chang. 5
Separation during life was therefore o
tt
One evening in the winter of 1856
Chang went to bed feeling indisposed, v
nd Eng, who was of sociable turn of Il
aind, joined him. After conversing for II
ONE time about their prospects, and b
nally getting somewhat acrimonious u
egarding their management, they at last t;
agreeing that Chang
hould go under one management and al
ing under another.
Then they dropped off to sleep. In the
light wild cry from Eng pierced the
and when the family came t.
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