The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-28

/ over the door TO small private office
was sign in black letters on red pap or,
Step insitde to look at the ginseng 1 e
side the sign was another. Cinnamon is
\ kept here" asked why the ginse og
and cinnamon were kept in the otner
/ room, and was tod il is becarse they are
so valuable. Like a little red ''supernas-
/ ural treasures" ginseng and the cinnamon
bark which Chinese druggists use are
worth their weight IN gold.
The druggist was putting up the pre-
| scription and Suey asked Hmm TO tell US
what eacn thing was and what it was for.
First he counted out ten dried bad
smelling bits of griktle. which he said were
the sinews of deer. Deer are very fleet
of foot and never are tired, so for the
tired feeling the sinews were remedy.
Then he put in a handful OF reddish
! brown pressed leaves. They are the
leaves of the Haw Show Woo tree and are
TO make one feel young again The first
Haw Show Woo tree was gtft of the gods
| thousands of years ago.
Legend of Drug.
Chinese herbs usually have some legend
| connected with them to ilU strate their
virtues, and this is the story connected
with the. "Haw" herb; HaW Show WOO
| was a very good very devoiL and very
old man. One day he was accused OF
stealing the affections of his brother
| wife and was sent to prison for trial. He
! became very hungry and prayed TO the
| gods as became a man of his great piety-
| During the night a bush sprang up
| through the floor of his dung con, and IN
the morning the famished man ate the
leaves. Days went by while he was walt
ing for his trial and he continu ed to piece
out his scanty diet with the leaves OF the
| bush. When ne was taken into COURT ior
trial the officers exclaimed "This is not
the man who was arrested and confined
in the cell The culprit is an old man; this
is a young man."
Sure enough Haw had become young
man to all appearances again.
They investigated the case anyhow and
discovered that Haw was innocent all the
Before taking the shaekles off the pris-
oner they asked him if he was really
Haw.
yes" he replied.
Then tell US about this wonderful
change in your appearance So HaW
told him the story of the little plant that
had grown up in his cell and how he had
eaten the leaves.
The official dug up the shrub and pre-
sented il TO the Emperor. His family for
many years was the only one that had
| the privilege of eating the sacred leaves.
But as time passed slips We're cut from
il and sent through the kingdom, and
now the commonest coolie may eat of the
wonderful Flaw plant and renew his youth
if he possesses enough money.
| BESIDES THESE
nut in some powdered bone of the elk
The elk has stronger bones and the horn
is as il were, the cream of all the bones
So powdered elk's horns will take away
the ache in ones bones.
Then there were two dried lizards,
which the druggist cut in half with long
scissors before ne threw them in. Lizards
are agile and quick and active in their
movements, so they are good to cure that
disinclinatton TO wake up and go 10 work.
The hvelier the lizard the more agility
YOU acquire by drinking a broth OF hlm'
Then there were cucumber seeds and wa
termelon seeds, because everyone knows
J how cooling are watermelons and cucum-
hers They are 10 combat the "iSnoous
element and make it retire to Its proper
sphere.
Terrible Mistake.
! A handful of big brown beetles was add
: ed to make Suey increase in beauty, or
to take on more fat. The beetles are TAT
and soft themselves, so increase those al
I tributes i'm her whom eats them.
A handful Of spiders went in. Spiders
, are hungry. They eat and never have
/ enough. so spiders help TO create an APP
petite and make everything taste soou'
even In a boarding house.
z he added the last ingredient, handful
l OF waters which looked and smelled ike
parsnips, but which he called wang tslns
or bright slave.
While he had been talking messenger
. brought in stick of wood, SNAPPED IKE q
: knife. The handle part was red. and on
the blade were some black characters. He
said II was a notice for him to attend q
meeting of his company. He tied up the
- marcel. about six inches square, tucKe'
= The folded prescription INTO the gras'
| string with which be tied up the bundle
leaving a loop to carry 1t by.
n Then suey asked him for something
4 else and he consulted his book of pre-
: seriptions He made up another muci
smaller prescription, but did not tel u
O what went into il. When we hao salS
. "Sinfr sing and were ON the street, Suel
: told me she had asked him to give he
sometbing 10 make her hair stop falling
. o,t was sure that l had seen som'
3 dried rats go into the prescription, an'
i Suev said / was right but not TO ga!
q anything about rats before Sh,haihau
% because he does not like 1t. asked ne
a ,e me ala not think the desc would b
,r hard TO take -.
"a | ed bad devils not like bad devils; g
,r away." Which meant she could stand II
"A hut the bad devils of sickness could no
n and would go away and let the melo
M ana cucumber seeds do their work an
"a bring harmony in her "sublime organza
he ton
suey was to pour four bowls of waite
Is over the medicines and boil them. VINE
re the four measures Ol water nav w
n boiled down to one measure, about tw
n teacupsful she was to drink 1t as hot an
de as quickly as she could.
ds She was quite sure she would soon b
al we'll and l agreed with her when sh
be quoted to me the proverb while th
be medicine works the patient Is under th
We care Of the Most High one"
,r. She told me another proverb the CHR
nd csc have which says, "A doctor has Oh
le, heart to cut flesh off his own thigh
US give to his patient. but never the hear
n TO deceive him" That would be quit
or as true in English Chinese.
IL suey had been charged to bring hon
"a sundry articles for her neighbors, an
so as the parcels Of medicine were large
IN suggested TO her to leave them i'm the frs
shop she entered, as she wanted TO 8
into several.
he She looked her horror at my ignoranC
elk and then explained that around the res
re ing place Of medicine all the devils
ICE illness lurked, and any man would veI