The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-13
LOVED AND LOST.
Chinaman Failed to Win His
Sunday School Teacher
And Dies In Misery of a Broken
Heart.
JUST LIKE WHITE MEN
Sam Moy Bought Books, Bon
BOns and Music
JUST LIKE WHITE MEN
And Posed DevOUtly In the
Sunday School Glasses.

New York, Oct 13.-When the candles
are lighted and the narrow dingy
streets of the Chinese quarter become
fantastic, as if a quaint spell had been
cast upon them by the many hued lam
terms, the yellow-faced denizens Of the
colony seat themselves before their
doors to smoke their cumbersome pipes
as they discuss the gossip of the day.
They are a little world in themselves,
and pay but scant attention to the ev-
cry day happenings in the big city
where they live.
So when the smoke from the strangely
shaped pipes suggests things romantic,
they tell the story of Sam MOy. His
laundry was on Columbus avenue. He
was a young man and had an excellent
business He la bored hard during the
week, but passed Sundays playing fan
tan and smoking the pipe. He was
fond Of whisky too By his fellow
countrymen Sam Moy was regarded as
a dandy. He was ambitious and wanted
to improve his knowledge of English.
He was advised by his friends to join
Sunday school. Moi Yen, who stin
sells green groceries in Pell street, guild
ed Sam to the Sunday school.
From that day Sam Moy was a regu-
lar attendant at the Sunday school. He
was an apt pupil and the fair haired
girl who taught him paid him many at
tentiOns and he, in turn, attempted to
repay her faVorS. Not a Sunday came
that he did not appear with a gift fOl
his ''pletty' teacher. First it was a b
of Chinese sweet meats, then a silk
handkerchief, a cup and saucer and so
on, up the list, until ore evening he
called at her home in East Fifty-eighth
street. H had a box of Chinese cakes
In one hand and parrot in a cage in
the other.
The teacher received him kindly. She
played the piano and sang several
songs for him.
Sam Moy was completely regenera ted.
He stopped his Sunday debauches in
Chinatown. The ugly idol that had
rested in the rear room of his laundry
had disappeared and in it's place stood
a picture he had purchased because it
resem bled his new goddess. his teacher.
and before 1t he burned countless
lunches of joss sticks. He changed his
dress and sacrificed his queue.
HIS Chinatown friends thought he had
been beWitched. The teacher told the
story of the devotion of her latest pupil
and always ended the recital by saying
He's the funniest little man imagin-
able, and 1 wish you could see HIM
Nearly a year passed. Sam Nov had
made remarka BILE progress in his study
of English and his business had grown
apace- He had four assistants to help
One night he went to his teachers
house determined to declare his love.
But there was a strange man with the
young woman.
Sam" she said, ''I want you to know
t L gentleman, because am to marry
him next week
The little Chinaman shook the hand
OF the stranger, but that evening he did
not remain as long as usual, and an
night he walked the streets
Sam MOy did not go to the wedding
although he received an invitation In
stead he sent gold watch thfckIy set
with diamonds and with it went note.
Which the messenger was instructed to
denver to the teacher in person. 1t
read:
I like you. but I no happy that you
marry him"
From that day Sam NToy was a diff
ferent man. He returned to the pleas
uTeS OF Chinatown and he burned the
picture of his divinity
And when the teacher came in search
OF him. as she did after her honeymoon
an expressionless Chi aman ALWAYS met
ner with the information that Sam had
gone away" One day. as she an
preached the laundry, she saw him she
was offended and came no more. =
And still Sam Moy grew weaker ana
weaker He had no ambition His
customers were neglected, and one nv
one they left him His only concar1
was that the dope" pipe should he
filled and that a glass Of LIQUOR shouI6
always stand within reach Of his ha1S
he died last week
me physicians certificate abo1va5
that he had died of CONSUMPTION b11t
the people in Chinatown know that he |
dled of broken heart There vas ~
pubic funeral, for firing of crackers ana
the burning of incense were useIass ~
the case OF soul that had already lone
been lost. 0I lOAs