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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
WE FOUND HIM IN AN UNDERTAKERS SHOP LEFT OTHER
 POOR LOWS, TO DIE

sion by devils. When incantations, charms and medicines of dried snakes, snails, worms or what not fail to cure the poor wretch is put out of the house just as the evil one would be put out. They stick a few punks into a block and burn them to drive away the imps of wickedness which sickness has called while they appease the good spirits with tea or choice food. Be tween a death by starvation or life sustained by food set out for the guards a sick Chinaman would not hesitate to choose death.
 We had heard of a sick Chinese, Chang Foo, who had just been put out on the street with his bed clothing be- cause he did not have the money to pay for a wagon to the undertaker's S. It was a weary quest to locate him, for his tong, or company. had later had him taken to an undertaking eS- tablishment, but no one for long while would tell us where it was.
 Every Chinaman who comes to America contracts with his tong" or company, to send his bones back to China The tong in turn employs the undertakers, who wait till the man dies, helping him occasionally if he is long about it. After the body has been buried the length of time required by the law the bones are eXhumed, packed in carefully marked boxes, and these are stored till 1t is convenient to ship them back to China.
 In our quest we had come along an alley off Pacific street, opening in turn the doors. At the fifth we heard a groan from the darkness. Our captain called out Chang Foo" There was no answer, but our eyes. becoming accus-
 ,F +I,. T saw the whites of a pair of eyes, so we went in, leaving the door open behind us. The room was small, inconceivably dirty without a window; and ohi the vile smell, the Chinese smell of it.
 Along one side of the room were piled quite to the ceiling boxes of bones of dead Chinamen At the end a sort of brick table, with two small bars of iron, on which to set a small vessel, served for the usual Chinese cooking-stoVe but the ashes looked as if it were some time now since they had been wood. shelf half the width of the room di- vided the space not occupied by boxes into an upper and lower floor. On the upper floor a man was fixing what looked like an Indian tepee, but he paid no attention to us. Life was but one idea to him-to smoke the opium he had obtained and begin the dreams Of bliss I wonder what those dreams could be. He has known little but labor, being of peasant birth, and can, of course, dream only of what he has known. Two other tents were on the shelf, one open and empty. blue stockinged foot proclaimed that some one was in bliss in the other. A bundle of very dirty bed clothes wiggled on board covered with mating, and the eyes we had seen peered at us out of drawn, yellow face.
 Another bundle had no visible head, for it was very cold in the place.
 You Chay Foo?" No answer.
 You sick?" No answer.
 You have rice?" No answer but the eyes seemed bit keener.
 The captain showed him her red badge, painted with Chinese charac-
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AFTER US.

had a husband and two children, and she gave us no peace till we had hunt ed them up, too. and had brought them into the fold. They were tired of sin, and were only too glad to find a way out of it.
 In one saloon I offered a paper to a man sitting alone at a table with a glass of beer before him. He was a. handsome man, perhaps 8 years old. and he was drunk-drunk enough to talk and say what he felt.
 Well, l am on my way to the bow-wows," he said. If you can help I wish you would
 talked to him. and he promised to come to our meeting. 1 watched for him, but did not see him. Yet somehow I could not forget that face.
 One day, it was about a month after I was at the hospital. and I found him. He had fallen while drunk and broken his leg. He remembered me, and would not talk to me at first but before left he told me his story. Born of good family in Boston, he had had every ad- vantage, and was a graduate of Yale. Because he always spent money freely he was fiattered and courted by those who wanted it. Before he knew it he was a drunkard. He would not be 0 disgrace to his family, and so came to San Francisco. He had been going from bad to worse till even his mother would scarcely know him. He had tried to reform again and again but he slipped deeper and deeper into sin, and had finally given up in despair.
 It was several months ago he told me that story in the hospital. We talked about his home and hopes and faith. Since then he has not drunk any liquor and I do not believe he ever will again He is now member of our army.
 Often we are told to go home; that it is not right for us to be out at night. Pray, at what other time can we ever find those whom we want to save? It is seldom that we are ever inSulted, for those who know the most of crime and evil know us I cannot but wonder that the men who keep these places are so kind to us; they know we are working against them, yet many and many are the words of encouragement we get from them. Almost all of them take our papers, and try to help us in every way they can.
 HELEN GREY
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''You mean the woman you worA for is, not you; for you have no money; you are in debt to her." replied the lassie
 What do you know about it?''
 We talked to her for a time and asked her to come with us. In half jest, half earnest, she said she would if we would take her as she was.
 We took her at her word and our leader slipped off an under-petticoat and gave it to her, another gave her cape and the third held out her bon while we were doing this.
 Well" she finally exclaimed. T couldn't be much worse off than I am here I guess I'll try it, anyhow. It'll be something new, and I'm tired Of this by -
 We had been afraid some one would surely come in before she consented to escape with us, and a row in such a place is not pleasant. We had been as quiet as possible, but the mistress of the place appeared just as we were at the door.
 She knew our rescued woman's tem- per too well to attempt to interfere, but told us we could bring her back when we got through with her. The woman's trunk and belongings she would keep herself, she said
 Captain told her very quietly that we would send for the things the next day. We did and got them, too, for the police were only too glad to get rid of the woman. She feared neither man nor God. and came back from jail worse every time, and they were all afraid of her.
 We took the rescued woman to our own room. After a warm bath she put on clean clothing and lay down in clean bed. On a small farm she is decent Christian woman to-day. She
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winds, rather to the smokes, he ate it. It was just what he had been thinking of We left little food. Some white people lived directly in the rear, who were in the habit of stealing the food left for the dying men.
 We have wanted so long to start a hospital in Chinatown, but the Board Of Health will not allow it. A China man would never go to a hospital in any other part of the city except by force.
 Over one hall we have a few rooms fixed for the accommodation Of the sick ones we find. and hither the man was brought and made as clean ana comfortable as we could manage.
 A Chinese woman who some time be- fore had been saved" had sent a po- liceman to tell the captain she wanted to see her as soon as possible. The girl was about r years of age, and always so glad to see us laSSieS. An old man had paid her father $500 for her, and having married her, now owned her body and soul. He watched her con- stantly, not allowing us to visit her till she had fallen ill. Then the husband was but too glad to have us care for her and for her baby He had become very friendly. asking us even to pray for him and giving us money to help us in our work
  child of F, holding the baby on her knee, looking down at him with utterly hopeless misery. The little one was Ill.
 We said God bless you, and knelt for a short prayer, but the poor mother seemed not to know we were there. on the table the punk sticks were purn, ing, and tray of delicate food stood near.
 I took the tiny creature in my arms, it was indeed very i'll, but l was afraid to examine it's mouth or throat lest the mother should think l meant IL harm Taking off the clothing round the characteristic rash of measles, ana while I arranged a hot bath to bring out the rash better, our captain went to get some medicine. The mother understanding that we did not thlnk the Hines of the little one serious, her hope and faith in us were more pltlIul than her woe had been.
 Next day we found the youngSter Ike a good-sized lobster just boiled, put laughing as much as Chinese bapy can laugh, and so evidently better that the mother told us she had thrown away her idols and punk sticks ana would only pray to Jesus, and her hus- band would go to meeting ana bring her maybe and be saved.
 Sure enough a few nights after in meeting our captain asked those who wanted to be prayed for to come and kneel at the drum, and while we were singing little old man came forward and got on top of the drum.
 It was well for the drum that he was small. others came forward and knelt on the floor He saw his mistake, got down off the drum onto the floor and was saved. Hallelujahi
 One morning we started to find woman whose child had not recovered so fortunately. She had little girl years old-a dear, bright little thing, whom we had once coaxed to our chil- dren's meeting. The next time she had hung back looking in wistfully at the other children, but refusing the oranges we gave to our pupils l suppose her parents had punished her and forbidden her to visit us again.
 Word had come to us that the child
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ters. and showed him the red Saliva tion Army ribbon on her bonnet. A light broke over the ivory face; he knew the army, and was less afraid but theirs is an ignorance which makes them fear every unfamiliar sight and sound with superstitious terror.
 ''Velly silk, velly silk"
 We stirred upon the ashes, and with some Sticks out of the captains basket cooked bit of rice.
 Hercules might have cleaned out the place if he had the River Alpheus handy The smell of the rice must have gotten into tho second bundle, for 1t opened, and when 1 offered plate of food the shrunken sick face pretty near ly smiled, and throwing caution to the
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HAVE been a San Francisco halle
 lujah lassie for a week, and I pro
 pose to tell you some of my expert-
 ence among the human wrecks
 with whom we labor.
 In dispensing salvation one comes upon many marvellous revelations of human life-of depravity on the one side and self-sacrificing trust in the Lord on the other.
 Looking over the work 1t seems to me that the most unique, most uncan- ny service performed is the rescue of dying Chinese from the undertaking establishments of Chinatown.
 Sickness to the Chinese is the posses
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was i'll, and we started to hunt for her. The Chinese doctor had used his charms and blessed the burning punks to drive away the evil spirits The mother in her trouble, had gone to her gods, believing they were punishing her child for worshiping white devils. She wanted us to go away before any more harm came.
 Three days after we returned, and found the mother alone and weeping. Her little one had grown worse. The father, who loved his child just as dearly as you may love your own little girl, had followed his nations customs and taken the child away to die. They would not allow her to die in the house, for then it would be unsafe for any one
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a home, and after much knocking was admitted to what is a fine home in Chinatown. It is in the basement and is rather light when the sun shines. There were nine children, but only five of them could go. The eldest, a girl of perhaps 13 years, was too old to go on the street. It would have been con- sidered very indecent for her to do so As she was not old enough to marry she spent her time making mems cus- made clothes.
 had often wondered at the cheap pess of ready-made clothing, but in the awful dens of Chinatown I found out how 1t was done.
 The children were not ready, so I sat down. and the girl made me a cup of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-22
COMPANY L, TWELFTH.
Sons of Veterans Would Not Object
to Doing Garrison Duty.

Sons of Veterans Would Not Object
to Doing Garrison Duty.
Special Correspondence The st. Paul c,ohe
CAMP THOMAS, Ca. Aug 1s-serseant
Barber and Private Gregg have transferred
from Company L to the ambulance CORPS.
The boys are very sorry to see them leava
ton. and we all join heartily in wishing
them the best Of luck in their new position'
corporal Bauman. our Kansas cyclone is
q sergeant now. vice Barber, transferred.
geon will have to try to cure Jim Of n
bad case Of caput magnum
IL begins to look as though we will soon
be coming home, unless the Twelfth Minna-
sofa be one Of the regiments held for earri
son duty. The boys of L are maturity in
favor of garrison duty. We all want to see
Corporal Joseph Whitney seems 10 want
passes pretty often to go to Dalton, Ga. We
w9 Wa no What I; the -. attraction can be-
fress OF the 18th ms. an article furnished
to that paper by Corpora. Howard. of the
Fourteenth Minnesota. who is at present
tee is HC sR as p pss heading Of s
she statements contained in the article "a.
rerred to are partly true many Of the state
m saHa th are greatly exaggerated When he
when 1t is no. a'ning the sun is biisterine
not, ne Is making statement that is not
Ioe. we nave not had drop of rain for
the past ten days. But about three weeks
ago It rained about every day for nearly a
week; since that time we have not had rain
enough to keep the dust settled in the road.
sofa In August than we have had at any
time this month. Corporal. Howard speaks
OF o. there being four deaths in Che Second IL
ity when one stops to consider that thera
are over 10 600 men in a division Instead
OF OLD blaming the medical department for dn
s br1i many cases) fancied maltre@.ment, we
aeath rate considering the facilities they had
f0 W. TAXING n,aso; care 60 Of the sick.
I've we merely take exception to, the remarks
iety OF the mothers and sisters at home who
have sons and brothers at the camp. We do
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to do any kind of service needed, and We
are as willing to go on garrison duty as any
other kind OF work. / do not know muci
about Corporal Harris trouble for signing q
round robin asking to be sent home. / dc
know the Fergus Fails fhen want 70 bee
the thing through.
1.-The health of the Fourteenth IL very rood
It Is much better than that Of other regiments
In Chtokamauga. The greatest trouble II
no The SECOND brigade hospital has been re-
patient In that hospital, and I know The
hospital Is as sGDS any eSS'a be under the
but the doctors are not to be blamed foI
that; The treatment Is az good as can b.
how high his rank, does not receive any bet.
Ter treatment than the humbles! private
the DOCTORS. 'A"A
There are 81. 600 men at Chickamauea. bu,
IN few days the camp will be broken up,
smaller camps will be formed and the men
Will be distributed around where the condi.
tons are more favorable" 5
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-22
TRAVEL COMFORTS.
Things Needed In Making n -Four of

EUROPE.
From the Philadelphia Press.
1t is not well, says an experienced
traveller, to try to reduce ones lug
gage too much. This doing Europe
with tooth brush is neither necessary
nor economical.
One should not burden oneself with
too much impedimeuts, but there are u
few things which are absolutely neces-
sary to ones Comfort. l found room
in the dress-suit case even, which l
kept always with me when out of reach
Of my trunk, for hotwater bag and
tiny spirit lamp arrangement for
heating water.
These two things gave me more coru-
fort than almost any other part of my
Hot water in the small stopping plac-
es in provincial Europe is the most
difficult thing to procure and is
promptly put down in the bill If 1t is
got.
Most of the lodging rooms, even In
summer, are cold.
In Switzerland, one positively suffers
from that cause, and my precious hot
water bag many a time gave me a
comfortable and refreshing afternoon
nap that I could not have had SILVER
ing in my chilled bedroom.
A bag Of biscuits and Jar of beef
extract with my spirit lamp I found
another valuable combination.
Coming to my lodgings after hours
OF sightseeing, often faint and hungry,
the cup of bouillon that could quickly
produce was just what l needed to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-22

CHICKAMAUGA. Ga. Aug. 1.-THE
movement Of troops from Camp Thorn
as was begun this afternoon, when,
Immediately following the departure
Of Brig. Gen. Sanger and his head
quarters, the First Georgia and the
Thirty-f1rst Michigan, comprising the
First brigade, Second division, First
corps, commanded by Gen. Roe, were
ordered out. These regiments marched
to Rossville distance Of six miles,
this afternoon. and loaded, leaving late
tonight for Knoxville, the camping
place selected for them by Brig. Gen.
Mckee, commanding the Second d.
vision. The car Accommodations Of
these two regiments consisted Of
eighty-eig coaches, eighteen stock
cars. thirty-two fiat cars and eighteen
box cars, all Of which were promptly
furnished upon application to Acting
Cuartermaster Col. Wheeler.
The Twelfth Minnesota and the Fifth
Pennsylvania, comprising the First
brigade of the Third corps, received
orders today to leave tomorrow for
Lexington, KY. They will march to
Rossville under command of Brig. Gen.
Wiley, and will begin leaving at noon.
Other brigades Of the Second and Third
divisions of the First corps will leave
Camp Thomas as rapidly as trains can
be provided for them.
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ed her. Any vessels saved there will
COST twice their value"
THE Colon was beautiful vessel"
ventured the reporter.
Beautiful and every inch a fighting
ship. would have got away: none
Of them could have stopped me, but
The captain paused ard said: Got
away said, you understand. I mean
It. Schley knows IT. Sampson knows
1t, and SO does Cook. I told them it
was not the Brooklyn, nor the Oregon
that kept me from escaping. They say
1 Went only sixtyfour miles. I tell
you 1t was seventy-two. Divide that
by the time and you will see my aver
age was 17.2 knots an hour and at
go sixteen and was steadily dropping
the Brooklyn behind. Oh, no, neither
Of the two kept me from escaping; but
I cannot tell you now why I was not
able to save my splendid ship" and
the captains voice trembled.
you won't have long to wait,
though: you won't have long to watt
he repeated. when tell why, it will
be on the floor of the cortes. am
member Of the Spanish parliament. I
represent the Montreil district In Gra-
NADIA province. have been permitted
by the president to go home now, that
may be present at the opening Of the
cortes, which will take place in few
days. Then 1 will explain, and many
things dark now will seem clear. 1
know many Americans don't seem quite
clear from. their own accounts as to
why did not escape when was in the
lead and gaining. They will know
soon."
who should get the credit for the
viotory-Sampson or Schley?" he was
asked.
Both officers are men of great intel.
ligence and high character" he said
But sigsbee. Ah. what shall say of
him?" said the captain, bitterly.
After the Maine explosion he was in
Capt. Eulates cabin in the Vizcaya.
| There, with tears in his eyes, he said
his career in life was ended, because
| he had lost his ship. We rescued the
| American seamen while their officers
were drinking champagne on shore and
| then Eigsbee goes into court, forgets
| all about his tears ard lamentations In
| F.ulate's cabin. and tries to shoulder
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-22
SOLDIER BOYS OF MINNESOTA.

senior officer Of the guard. Lieut.. Griggs.
Company B; Junior officer of the guard,
Lieut.. Nelson, Company G; sergeant of the
guard, Sergeant Bellows, Company L.. junior
Sergeant OF the guard, Sergeant Rocky,
Company !.
First Reiief-Corporal Rafferty,, Company i;
lPrivates seoshegan, N; GilbertsGn, J. GIL
bertson, Hagerman, Coffin, Taxor, Deh,. Com
pany D. Tarell. Ekboni H. Fisher, S. Fisser,
Company q; Rogers sohuros osmpanh n.y. L.
E; Privstes Flaherty, Coiapahy E; Redei,
Gustafson, videll, Company L; SEQ t, sinuh
Running. shurr, Company g; murphy. Nc
Laughlin, Merritt, ROBBERS, Mcfarland, Com
pany /.
Third Relief-Corporal Munich, Company q;
Privstes Clark Kankas. Halro, Finn, Riveh
Company L. Johnson, Zas ,dil Krieger, n
Tor, Company A. Hamilton, Gauth!er. H-S-
zard, Gaskiu, Company B.
Outposts-Corporals Porter. Company D, and
Magnnis Company L: Privates Peters OF,
McCarty Company G: see'y, Company D.
Orderly for Colonel-IIicks, Company B.
Orderly for Adtutsnt-Flavery, Company h.
Orderly for Lieutenant Cooce.-Gri!letty,
Company B.
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not wish them 30 be led to believe that II
their hoys are taken sick they will nave
to dc owing to the negligence Of the medi-
cal department, for such fs not the case.
Somebody ask Lieut. DAILY how he likes to
ride q broncho when he goes to the target
Corporal Lime and Private J. Caswell left
lsst night for st. Paul to enjoy thirty days
oa leaxn vii a7 t sxaaa and p1ysts
ALSO on sack leave for thirty days.
Guard defah for today: Sergeant .Bauman.
Priyates jacobson, Scott, strester, Wallace.
Pf.Taiss Martin and Dunn were the two
appointed copoTals to I'LL the vacancies 90
eaHopsd By the promotion Of sergeants Clarke
Sergeant Bauman says he wishes Company
L would DO guard duty at Alexander's Bridge
all the time and Corporal REYNOLDS says
that Pautnan's reason ls that Col, Gordon
FL FL sys 9v 81 auburn haired cook that jun has
view yesterday; Reviews may 30 ali right
fs IT,, 'SSs s eS St tn We ~eS9 ss
know what fsview looks like, aa having
always been part Of the review We do not
ws sr y sos s s e. Soe q 70 s' Hassa
There is > marked Improvement in the teaa-
per Of the men since we have moved to
e ss@e S s. sseeen lhs sanitary OF the
galns e tackle Sergeant gasse again with
the gloves. II
Sergeant Bauman says that some day when
and knock Sergeant Clarke out, and Jack
says he hopes Jim will helfeeIing good pretty
toop. Pat Wells says he will fbet to 1 on
Clarke. IN
Company L Is now sdtuated lin the Second
battalion. being the color company Of the
regiment. The company lie very proud OF the
distinction. Both Of the. Tags were presented
to the regiment last Saturday.
Tho drlarterrnaster sergeant Issued twenty
new guns to different menbers1of the company
| today; II we are going home why are they
guitsf Tent rs.
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ARE ON SICK LEAVE.
Capt. Baxter and Sergeant Phelps, Of
Fergus Falls.

Capt. Baxter and Sergeant Phelps, Of
Fergus Falls.
Two men from the Fourteenth regiment at
Chickamavsa arrived in this city yesterday
and went to Fergus Falls on furiough. They
were Capt. Baxter and Sergeant A. W.
fhslps, Of Company B, and both are on siok
fsays.
"The stories Of dissatisfaction in the Four
tssntb are all wrong" said Sergeant Phelps
70 4 reporter f H The GLOBE who net him
hs ss S , , are snxisas g e III
f. r. q ps ssst 's5 nay '1 s.
,. TIE reporter t tea him hat eomglaiat had
q the ssgtmspt had voted for garrison duty
Sshs5 ies q r. 1psP and that tho
-. s,s.t tIas s .. as.sssat Phelps. THAT he
Wgton 70 Bsrgp the regiment TOR garrison
duty, end the ohlcials answered that the re-
guest would DO appRdered, Az far as con
tgdFs. the ofieers did express the sent!menta
Of the pep. for am certain most Of the
--rinaAnk wants q % 70 Cuba. We enlisted