The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17
GOOD PIRATES; FINE TEAS.
The Principal Products Of the Annoy
District in China.

DIR. Bedloe Tells How to Craw Tea
and Says the Recipe Should be
Added to the Decalogue-Tea Worth
$50 Pound-Americans, Howev er,
Do Not Drink that Quality.
Edward Bedloe in the New York Advertiser
More famous than any of the cities of
the far east is Annoy. Its harbor is the
best and handsomest on the Chinese coast.
It's suburbs are noted for fertility and
rich harvests. Its people take to fight
ing as naturally as Denny brook Irishmen.
If they enter the army they become brave
soldiers and able generals. Those who
do not enlist become pirates who could
discount Capt. Kidd. At least such was
the case up to within a few years. Be
fore the British gunboat and American
sloop of war ruined the business the
China seas and the Malacca straits
swarmed with piratioal craft of every
kind. Nearly all of these freebooters
were manned and commanded by Annoy
men.
Though piracy as a trade is extinct, the
pirate spirit is as strong rs ever. Some
times it expresses itself in the old-fash-
Toned way by the capture and looting of a
steamer. This has occurred several
times in the past five years
More frequently it takes the form of
riot and fendish cruelty. In 1890 in
Tong-An, near Annoy there was an Of
hccr who deservedly incurred the eumity
of several powerful families in the dis
trict. Knowing the people. he never went
into their neighborhood without a bat
TALON of soldiers. Twice he did this with
impunity. The third time his enemies
attacked the troops, killed thirty and
took him prisoner. They tried him in
proper Judge Lynch style and found him
guilty without taking testimony They
buried him up to the head in quick lime
and poured molasses on his head to at
tract insects and start perspiration.
In 1891 a salt commissioner proclaimed
an internal revenue law which, however
well intended, proved cruel and obnox-
ious in it's operation The people petit
toned him to repeal it and return to the
former system. He refused, and fined
and imprisoned the leaders of the petit
TONERS. A month afterward they arose
in their might and attacked his office and
residence. He managed to escape, but
his oldest son was captured by the riot
ers. They nailed him to door. split
him into CHASTITY slices and fragments and
covered him with salt as mute explana-
blOn OF bIO uOIIlUlG 0NGnb. HQen Jle
news reached the commissioner he COM
mitted suicide to save himself from a
similar fate.
Strange to say, these pirates make the
best employees. They are faithful, honest
and fearless. They will fight for a Euro
pean master against their own country
men or even against fellow pirates. They
make splendid boatmen. gardeners,
watchmen and guards.
Annoy is one of the great centers of the
tea industry. From the surrounding
country come the Oolong, Congou and
Pouchong that at one time were famous
the world over. AS late as 1865 the trade
was enormous in volume and profit. As
many as a hundred million pounds have
been exported in one year. The planters,
brokers and exporters, however. became
too greedy. The planters used less care
upon the shrub; the broker mixed infe-
rior with superior grades and the ex-
porter shipped everything on which he
could realize a profit. One large con-