The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-01-03
: A Chinaman'S Gratitude


XXTE ELL, there's good thing
Wv about a Chinaman, any how
he's GRATEFUL reminiscent1y remarked
Washington man who put in cou-
pie of cruises as an apotheeary in the
United States navy. you may, of
late, in the great mass of rubbish
that's been written about the slant
eyes, have seen that fact disputed;
but I just happen to know that a Chi
naman's grateful However, in order
to make the point clear I'll have to
begin at the beginning. So here goes:
''When I was serving board a
cruiser the Pacific station I had s
a shipmate private marine named
oh, we'll, Tom Kingsley's near enough
to it: some of his people, of good sta
ton, are still living in Philadelphia, and
this boy hurt them enough. SO we'll
just make it Tom Kingsley. Kingsley
was sent 20 the ship with a detach-
ment of marines quite awhile after
I was attached to the vessel. noticed
him particularly soon he came
aboard-Eot SO much because he was
a tall, broad-sh ouldered, fne-looking
chap. who completely outclassed the
bunch he joined with in appearance and
bearing. because I saw what his
trouble I clapped an
eye on him. i understood as soon as I
made the discovery why Kin gsley was
wearing the uniform of a buck Iriva e
in the marine corps. 1t was because
a slavery to winch ne mad become ad-
dicted in civil life had rendered him
unfit and incompetent to keep up with
the procession in civil life
s'That is to say. I didn't need two
looks a t Kingsley to see that morphine
had him. His gray eyes focused to
pin-points, and he had all of the other
ext erior indications of the man chained
in the morphia bondage
+'At the inspection on the Sunday
following Kingsley's coming aboard
watched my imm ediate chief, the ships
surgeon, narrowly to see if he was go
ing to get on to Kingsley when he
passed by the marin e in following after
the commanding officer. When the
surgeon passed by the row of marines,
eyes straight ahead, observed that
he gave one sharp glance at Kingsley,
and that was Ill.
spection, the surgeon looked at me out
of the tail of his eye.
Have you noticed that marine.
apothecary?' he asked me.
Yes, sir replied
Sc 'Hum-Im glad to be corroborated
yet I was sure / couldn't have been
i mistaken said the surgeon Better
have an extra eye to your store of
| morPhia-keep it under cover
However, Kingsley didn't become
| incapable. He was admirable SOL
der of the sea- He was always right
| on the minute, a top-notcher on guard
duty, spick-and-span man always
| The marine officer in charge of the
guard never, of course. suspected that
! there was anything wrong about
| Kingsley, and he thought SO much Of
| the mans faithfulness that he had him
made corporal couple of months
after Kingsley Joined u.s. Kingsley
was always under the influence of the
drug, of course He never out of
| the stuff. You know how morphine
/ slaves provide against that awful con-
| tingency- He kept edge all the
! time, and never appeared to overshoot
his limit Kingsley surely was man
/ of powerful self-control in that re-
spect. However, knew that 1T would
| get him in time, and throw him. Tt al
| ways does throw its victims if they
! give 1T rope enough. you know, and
morphine Is one of those things that
| Just demands all the rope it wants
Kingsley knew by intuition that j
knew about his ha 1T, and he avoided
me very elaborated One noon-hour,
however, I happened to be smoking a
pipe at the gangway. Kingsley was
looking out over the beautiful harboz