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

OLD SR1GHBoRs OF THE TWINS.
er's society by a circumstance which they
could not prevent, and which was abour
y inches in length, lived until the win
ter of 1856 under the American name
of Bunker. Here they were married
here their children We're born. and here
they died.
Recently I have had the pleasure Of
| reading an instructive article on these
gentlemen prepared by M. A. Dufou,
| for French journal, and with the items
of interest offered me by the old neigh.
bors of Chang and Eng besides venture
to write letter on these much talked OF
people from Siam.
M. Dufour goes on to state that elias
d'exhiber leur 'trait-d'union' devant les
curieux DIES deux mondes, lis avient &C
quis une jolie ferlne, Mount Airy dams
10 comte de Surrey Caroline du Nord)
peti d'armees ayant la guerre de seces-
sion, ct passedaient quelques esclaves.'
Caroline du Nord is good. Ishall have
that put on my cards hereafter. Trans
lated, M. Dufour's happy expression i'm
plies that. tired of displaying their
natal hyphen to the gaping crowds of
both worlds, they had purchased pref
ty farm at Mount Airy, Surrey county,
N. c., few years before the war of So
cession. They owned few slaves
On this last question there is differ
ence between authorities. M. Dufour,
who was thoroughly familiar with his
subject, states positively that they were
not antagonistic regarding the great
question of the right to maintain and
extend slavery-irl other words, that the
war did not separate Chang and Eng.
Yet l was told by man who claimed
to know them. we'll that Chang owned
one slave, while Eng did not, and did not
favor the unholy traffic. Chang believed
that, slavery being good thing, one could
not have too much of it, also that states
had the right to regulate it as they would
the liquor traffic, while Eng believed
that it was a national question and final
ly refused to help catch and return
Changes niger for him.
My informant said that this led to in
ternecine strife between the two, and
that when they were on their way home
from the lodge, where Eng, not being
had reluctantly gone to see
Chang take the thirty-second degree,
they had an open rupture almost, after
which Chang enlisted in the Confederate
army and Eng in the northern army.
Later, however, both deserted, noticing
how awkward it would be in case one
should suddenly decide to die for mother,
home and country, while the other ia
Vored longevity.
This same man told me that when
Nancy Bunker was born her father in
sisted that her Uncle Chang should run
;or the doctor.
Eng and Chang mean, in the Siamese
;ongue, with which l am perfectly ia
niliar, fright" and "left." They were
BORN at Bangesen, Siam, April Is, 1911,
Ilmost simultaneously.
They had q Chinese father, and their
mother was one-half Chinese, the other
lalf being Siamese.
In putting on their dress suits they left
ut the lower stud of the shirt in order
o give room for the strange coffee COL
red coupler which joined the two at the
ase Of the sternum.
The sternum is the breast bone.
These two twins were brought to the
United States at the age Of 1S and were
n exhibition up to the time they SET
led down at Mount Airy.
They appeared jointly.
Those who saw them say that Chang
nd Eng did much by their public ap-
to elevate and refine those who
Nv them.
Still Chang Was irtemperate, accord
lg to DR.. jacob, and many time Eng, T
no was quiet and sober, had to go on t
| Changes place as an understudy. d
Eng was Baptist, and on the day he a
nited with the church and was i'm
ersed Chang insisted on accompanying
in in a beastly state Of intoxication. g
These were the best known twins in II
STORY, living to the age Of "a, or nearly
y The Two Headed Nightingale is yet t,
wing at the age of AZ, but is still single q
that is, unmarried. I do not know 4
Nv I would propose to the Two Headed a
ightingale. I might be acceptable to 81
10 of her reasoning faculties, while the T
her might be more sensitive to horri- :,
Q sights and refuse. Il
Chang had some literary ambition, al
hi1o Enn IA mt Cho~nsa 1o~1o Ro~ a