The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-08
CHINA DEFEATED AGAIN
AND HOP LUNG WAS TIE NAN TO
LOSE HIS FEATHER.
He Tried to Get Even With the GOOD Little
Boys" at Third and Main, Blu. They
Were Too Quick for Him.

China suffered another humiliating de-
| feat yesterday, and Hop Lung. and not
Ii Hung Chang. was the man to lose his
peacock feather.
Hop Lung is an almond-eyed Celestial
who runs a laundry near the corner of
/ Third and Main street, and ne has be-
come famous, not because he can spit
water in a fan-shaped shower over more
shirts at a time than any other heather
Chinee, or smooth them down any Slick
or with the heel OF the round-edged iron,
but because OF his frequent and unsuc-
cessful contests with the squad OF young
| sters who play and make mischlet arouhu
the corner OF the above named streets
| and style themselves the good h'tie
boys" ,,.,,
They have made Hop Lung a nissan
! throne and filled his days and nights
with uneas:ness and discomfort. Ihey
have from time to time filled his back
ward with brickbats dead rats and dead
cats. they have turned his laundry sign
INSIDE down and changed the lettering
on it until stranger could not teli
whether the name was Chinese OF nus
sian: they have made faces at NM
Knocked him when he spoke TO them III
pure Shanghai billingsgate, asked MN
| IL he wasn't ashamed to let Japan peat
China out of her boots, and IN many
| ways. brutal and refined. nlade hop
Lung wish they were dead.
TIL. ID TO GET EVEN.
Time and again he has tried TO get
even with them. He has called IN the
| aid OF the police many times over anu
Nv the time the officer arrived the boys
Nt
10 has tried TO catch them as ihdlVld-
nils hut they were always smart enough
80 Leon the Chinaman's ironing counter
between them and him. o,d
Many a time Hop Lung, worried anu
disgusted. has retired 10 the lhleI'Ol
"a don "a smoke his bra3s-button pipe
| and ponder over a quotation lro'h W"
fucius lust to get away from the earHu''
,ttentious yf 1.-THE good % little boys.
vester5av afternoon after the gang had
,ussIed with each other until they were
tired had tied tin can TO setter
! buebv tail and sent him OFF IN terror
r,cked ALL the cats in the vicinity. ana
exhausted all the other boyish dehshts
furnished by the neghborhood' they
turned. as a last resort, TO Hop Lung the
never-failing source or run.
LOCKED THEN UP.
Fifteen or twenty of them, ranging III
age from ten to sixteen years, entered
the foyer OF Hop Lungs Castle and maze
various demonstrations of the Japanese
/ capturing Wei Hal Wei, and gave some
| limitations of Chinese talk that would
| have paralyzed the entire Chinese army
! If they could have heard il. Hop Lung
watched them for a few minutes and quit
, work. He pretended TO be in a good hui
| NOR, and gave chaf for chaff.
| After awhile he walked from behind
| the counter with an All Sin smile and
mixed around with the boys.
Finally he got near the door, and with
| a movement that would have done credit
to Corbett in the ring, he sprung into the
street ard locked them inside. Hop Lung
| had sprung his trap and he was happy.
! His arch enemies were caught like so
many mice i'm a trap.
He stepped next door and phoned for q
! policeman. When he returned TO the
| street again he saw sight for which
| he was unprepared. Due 10 the halt OF
| a brick propelled by one OF his said enc
| mics several moons previous, the lower
| half of one OF the large panes In the fronl
! window was missing and a large piece OF
| pasteboard which had taken the place ol
! the glass had been removed, and the boys
! were tumbling out the hole in rapid sue.
( cession. Hop Lung lost more than half
/ Of his prisoners by this strategic move
| ment. but he held the balance until the
| officer arrived.
There they stood. looking crest-fallen
and sheepsh. as the officer came up.
/ lie opened the door with a swing. The
| boys. with true military instincts, had
/ formed a rush line that would do credit
TO Yale or Harvard. and with a mighty
rush they dashed against the policeman.
| and before he could take in the situation
! the boys had everyone made his escape
| and evaporated as usual.
| Hop Lung spent the night schemng
to get even with the good CD little boys
| and he may yet succeed