Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-02

keen SlanceS in every direction. Even
uhen the highroad. seeing solitary
isure advance t. I'd him, he showed
unmlstakable si@ns of apprehension
until the peisaa VAS well in view. He
was looking for somebody; he. expected
some one. He seemed assured of the
meeting and yet fearful Of It, What
would happen then? His evident fear
tended toward catastrophe. Being
fatalist, think he had no doubt what
would be the result of the encounter.
During this period my own soreness
wore off, and as knew him better
discovered the suggestion of many
good points in him and when the terror
was not on him jovial to degree. Or
rather l should say he showed the
wreck of stanch heartiness from
which one might guess what the ship
had been. And so began to take an
interest in him and his affairs and
thought less of myself and my Uncle
Jim. will not pretend that felt for
him anything like the affection which
l had bestowed upon my mother, but
he was my father, and, account for It
as you may, one must take certain
amount of interest in ones parents.
Thus his fears became my fears, and
used to long for him to take me into
his confidence, but that, despite numer-
Gus broad hints, he would never do, re-
garding me as nothing more than q
boy. Yet boy as was misfortune had
sharpened my wits, and, piecing his
words together, knew that he feared
the yellow, slit eyed men of the east.
had not forgotten the man with the
strange eyes nor the little brown faced
gentleman who had stood in the door
of the waiting room.
l remember once reading out to him
the account Of an attack by a Chinese
mob on an English mission during
which the rioters had set the place on
fire and deliberately burned several of
the inmates.
$50 like themp' he said. 81 loathe
the yellow, Shiny swine. Cruel, treach-
erous. they know neither pity nor mer-
cy. OF course it's only English life and
English property. 1t doesn't in the
least matter to the bloated fools who
sit at home and fancy they know how
to govern outside of England. It's not
their property. It's not their life. Ig-
norant, plgheaded fellows, they want
whipping, every one of them. They
are responsible for these outrages on
Englishmen because they do not make
the name Of England feared Heavens,
II they'd only give me command of the
squadron and free hand I'd teach
those yellow devils and all the world
besides what the power of England is.
1t makes me mad" he continued, ito
think that our ministers insist upon
treating these Asiatics as civilized be-
ings. Any sign of courtesy or of con-
Citation has but one meaning for them
fear. They have never been treated
as Intelligent human beings, and they
do not expect such treatment. Give
them orders; don't ask favors."
am afraid my father got very ex-
cited as he dilated on the delinquen-
cies of the Asiatics and that he used
some language which might sound
stirring when delivered from the
bridge of ship. but which would be
singularly out of place in decent
narrative. He also spoke with con-
tempt of her inajesty's government
and gave it some sound advice, which
l would reproduce If thought minis
tiers would profit by It. But as advice
of any kind. and. above all. sound adj
vice, is the thing most detested by the
Jack in office refrain After all we
have our own village pumps and our
own parish councils. and the present
holder of a great Office is necessarily
n great man. and the government
knows everything about everything.