The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-24

rum was a pretty good sign that he
was a genius. Night after night he
would pull Eng out of bed while sound
asleep and jerk him around in the dark,
jOtting down memoranda Of thoughts
he had during the night. Chang had in
vented what he called the authors
friend. 1t consisted of an Illuminated
wall at me end of the room made of a
mixture which lighted it up go hat he
could preserve a thought which had
made it's appearance during the night.
He also invented the Edinburgh joke
gimlet 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
reproached Eng for being at the bot
tom of it. On top Of all Of this, Eng
tried to reconstruct Chang.
Chang married some time before the
idea occurred to Eng, and though he
entered fully into the spirit which
prompted Chang to wed he often felt
i'll at cas- 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 atten-
ton toward marriage, ndaccompanied
by his brother, one evening, made a
proposal to Changes sister-in-law. She
rejected him, claiming that, according
to her notions, relatives ought not to be
too thick.
Nevertheless it was Changes wife,
who felt that she had bitten eff more
than she could masticate, who induced
her sister at last, while under the in
fuence of wine jelly, to accept Eng,
and for some time the four occupied
the anne house, ate at the same table
and drank from the same anteen. But
jealousy arose, and as a result each
husband built aeeparate house. Chang
would go over and visit Eng for a week,
and then Eng would come over and
spend a week with Chang.
They were passionately fond of horse.
back riding and baseball, Chang play
ing 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 a tour of European
travel.
AS farmers they had some trouble in
certain kinds of work, but M. Dufour
says they often hoed in the field, using
the "outside" arms arms to take hold
of the hoe. They enjoyed chopping
wood, using the ak in the same man
ner. By a signal, consisting Of a grunt,
which seems to be necessary to the
chopper anyway. the two struck sim
u~ltaneously, the ak helve being grasped
by the right hand of n 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 ordi-
nary chopping.
The children and grandchildren of
Chang and Eng are scattered pretty
we'll 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.
Mr.. Dufour claims that the two
brothers did not unite with the Baptist
church, but that the widows and chill
dren did. Perhaps this is correct, for
1 am gradually losing faith in the man
who said the brothers were immersed
while Chang had a Siamese jag on.
DR.. jacob states that the connec-
ton of the Siamese twins took place
in their epigastric regions between the
naval, which was common to both, and
the ensiform processes, which were
bent out in a forward direction and met
very closely, held together by a liga-
mentous apparatus. The coupling it
self was eight inches in circumference
and two and one halfinches in diameter.
It contained a connection between the
two livers and was composed partially
of liver tissue"
The band was very curious from an
anatomical standpoint, as the skin at
the meadian line was mutually sensit-
i've, and inside there was a combination
of the perioneum, so that after death
a hand introduced into the abdomen of
Chang entered two pouches reaching
into Eng, and the reverse produced al
most a similar result as to Chang.
Summation during life WAS therefore