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deep water again. though such damage
Was done TO her undeTbody that 1t was
touch and 20 to get her into st. Johns.
A few years later the Maylands, another
ship Of the same line, bound west, broke
down through the racing Of her propellerina
December gale, dislocating her machinery,
and she drifted about the Grand Banks
for a whole week exposed TO the full fury
Of the storm Then the Allan liner Hiber-
nian sighted her, took her in tow and headed
for St. Johns, continuing on for nearly
three days and being almost In sight Of
land. Then one dark and stormy night
the Hbernian plunged into an unusually
heavy sea. She ,pt doggedly on, how
ever. but when morning broke could see
no sign OF the Maylands, and on hauling
I'm the towing hawser found that there
was attached TO IL the 'bitts.' stanchiols
and part OF the forecastle deck Of the May
lands. which had been uprooted bodily
when she took the wave.
In November 1899, the westmeath, per-
haps the most up TO date freighter Of that
time her hull valued at 100000, and con-
veying a cargo equally valuable a large
portion OF il consisting Of winss and liquors,
left Hamburg for Montreal on Bellesle
Strait, in the height Of a tempest her pro-
pellor slipped and jammed the rudder
The Norwegian some time after hove In
sight and tired TO tow her to So. Johns,
but could make little Roadway with her.
No other steamer appearing to help In
towaEe and share In the salvage, the cap
tain and officers Of the Westmeaih decided
10 abandon her and took 70 the boats On
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than there would be Crunkards among an
equal number Of whites away from the
restraints of home.
Chinatown here is like a new community
in the Western mines. They are away
from their families. their women and their
code Of respectabilty. They work on their
love Of excitement In gambling.
As a matter OF fact, their gambling is
mainly for excitement. Half Of tfP games
raided in the periodical police clean ups
are no more harmful than a society game
Of bridge or a quiet hand Of poker at the
club.
A laundryman drifting into Chinatown
after his days work forgets the cares
Of the day by winning OF losing s5 cents
In the course Of an evening at pie-gow
and returns to his laundry refreshed for
another day OF scrubbing. On the other
hand, there are games where men play
for the money in II, and there is a small
class Of professional gamblers who live by
buokinE the tiger
The games are three. First Is the lot
terry, a complicated system Of spotting
out numbers in long rows Of figures. 1t
coats Is or 90 cents TO spot ticket, and
the player, by q fortunate combination OF
numbers, stands TO win several hundred
dollars. Lottery tickets are sold almost
openly. The drawings are held at noon
in four or FIVE different houses.
Pie-Eow ia only dominoes with Chinese
complications. This is mild game
usually about as innocent In the matter
Of stakes as playing pinoole for the drinks.
Il Ia the pet evening pastlme in the back
rooms Of clubs
Fan-tan IL the game for plungers. This
il the simplest device for losing money
ever invented by man.
On the four sides Of the table are the
Chinese characters for 1, ?, 8 and Z. The
dealer puts handful Of counters, OF Chinese
cash, into a bowl and dumps them out on
the table.
with a rake he draws them out Of the
pile four at time. IT, after the last four
have been drawn there. are two odd cash
on the table. No. wins, il three, No. 3
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Misfortune never logged a ship more
determinsdly thsn It did the Georgia, Of
the State Line. Sold out Of that service,
she vas bought by an Aberdeen firm in
1893. and proved a particularly unfortunate
venture. On her hrst voyage across from
Montreal, with a general cargo and cattle,
she was found in midooean 10 be short Of
coal and had 10 run back 500 miles to st.
Johns TO rebunker. Coming west next
trip, in proceeding up the Sc. Lawrence
the pilot ran her nhore and though she
was rehoated abe spent that summer In
dock. Then, in November, she loaded
grain and cattle again. but $50 miles on New
foundlAnd her engines collapsed, and II
was only with the greatest difficulty that
her artihoers could patch them up. Her
next outward voyage, in February, 1897,
was to New York, but she has never been
heard from sinos. Il il believed that she
was lost in the ice on 81. Johns.
In February, 1890 the Lowlands, freight
steamer from Bristol TO New York, was
enRirt by the icepaok on the Grand Banks
and held In Il for days. A terrible storm
arose and the bergs were flung like hattering
rams against her sides, opening her plate,
and causing her 10 leak 90 that she was
almost at the waters edge when she finally
worked clear and made her way into st..
Johns, with every man on board more or
less frostbitten and all on tho verge Of
collapse. Returning from COosaw, s. c.,
to Liverpool with cargo Of phosphate rock,
she ooaled At Sydney. n. s., and thirty-siE
hours later ran on a reef near Cape Race,
her speed carrying her over Il and into
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therl lodge behind their laundT1es.
They come into Chinatown by night to
buy at the stores, to feast stthe restaurants
to spend their money in the gambling
hou ses or In other places Of questionable
reputation which flourish In this Chinese
Tenderloin. Il follows that the permanent
residents Of the district include all the
tou,Ihs, the dissoluts and the dishonest Of
the Chinese colony.
With the attraction which everywhere
draws the very lowest OF the white popula-
ton toward the haunts Of q race considered
info -ior, it has followed also that the whites
WHO live on the fringe Of Chinatown are
ma = outcssts.
- 1t IL IL Is unfair TO Judge our colony
by Chinatown cay the conservative
Chi sse. 'as It would be to Judge the Amer
i"ais by the West Side Tenderloin.'
ON the 1000 permanent inhabitants
Of 40 quarter have arisen the gambling
feu =, the blaclmAiling quArrels, the muir
den all the subtle chickering's Of the Hip
Sin, and On Leongs which are keeping
the olice busy just now.
TIE quarter has three reasons for being
straight commerce, vice-and tourists.
Tie Chinese cling with tenacity to their
nav y Olbbt however buol bDduuOn bu6lI
mai dress; buy their Chinese radishes
and ugar cane. their vanished pig. their
planked roast duck at these stores. More
than half Of the goods offered for sale come
from far abroad.
Many Chinese vegetables do not flourish
IN tie cold climate Of New York. 50 these
veg tables, from sprouted rice 10 yams,
are 'aised near New Orleans by Chinese
Syn icste and from there shipped fresh
ever day or 90 10 q syndicate Of dealers
whi supplies the restaurants and stores.
7 o condiments and preserves, from
plain picked ginger TO expensive birds
nests. come from China. So do many
Of the preserved fish and meats, and such
uncommon delicacies as birds nest, purple
seav eed pancakes for soups and sprouted
lily ulbs.
81 ne Of the smoked and preserved meats
whioa hang from the rafters Of the butcher
EhoT come from San Francisco and some
are preserved by Chinese methods here.
In iese shops the Chinese, frugal buyers.
BARI ain for smoked bacon OF ginger OF
pres rived melon rind by the six and seven
cen worth
1cles Of European use and manu-
fact re- and Of homely and machine made
appt arance are curiously mixed with
articles Of Chinese workmanship whose
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stoke hold at firing the boiler.
After reaching port artifcers had TO cut
holes in her plates near the waterine,
TO flood the bunkers and holds. and when
the cargo was partly discharged later
TO make sure the fire was all out it was seen
she was the worst Quilted ship that had
ever eptered this port. She was repaired
sufficiently to carry her to England, where
after arriving, she was sold TO another
concern, which changed her name to Aroma
and sent her across 20 New York to. load
grain In December. Returning In the Feb
ruary following, she was one Of the ten
ships, with Sil men, which disappeared in
the blizzard OF that month. The Dora
Forster also had put into 81. Johns for
repairs, having encountered hurricanes
in December which dismant led her. and
after repairing and reaching America
Was bound back again with grain when
she, too. was overv helmed 10y the hurri-
canes.
In December, 1892 a curious case oo.
CURED. The British bark VIII, from
Quebec 20 Liverpool, with a cargo Of heavy
timber, was struck bya tornado on Cape
Race and strained 80 badly that her leaks
caused the crew 90 refuse duty. and the
captain bore up for st. John's The port
was reached with the ship a waterlogged
raft, unable 10 sink because Of her cargo.
Here she was beached In the mud. Her
deckload being discharged the mud filed
her SEAMS and she made no water.
Her owners, therefore. ordered her 10
20 20 sea unrepaired, but the captain,
officers and crev refused, and a new outfit
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The Chinese say that Wing Gnu Chung
conssr 'ative old merchant, who keeps
out OF politics, il their richest man. Old
Tom Lee, Mayor Of Chinatown, must be com
fortably we'll on, and j. NJ Singleton, head
OF the Chinese Empire Reform Assoda
ton, has a comfortable income from real
estate, a cigar factory and an interest In
many stores. All Of thess fortunes, how
ever, are Insignificant beside the wealth Of
certain merchants Of the Pacific Cast.
Opportunities ire lacking here.
Gambling Is at once the delight and the
troublemaker OF the Chinese quarter.
Here and in China Il IL the besetting vice
and the fayonts amusement.
Except for that one weakness It may DO
said that the Cinnamon are on the whole
more moral than the white people who
surround them. They do not drink and
there are fewer opium smokers amoRg them
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wins, and 10 on.
The players on the lucky number get
triple At axes minus a percentage for the
house. Il h IA simple, as SHINING.
Before Capt Eggers's reid on Easter Sun
day night there were about twelve fau.tan
games going. Some Of these he caught,
some Of the "densT he raided were only
little private games Of pie-Zow. There are
fan-tan tables gci1g now, although very
guardedly.
No white man IL allowed In a Chinese
game. Some Of the degeneraton who live
on the fringe Of the quarter buy lJttery
tickets. but this game has never spread
among the whites ~ Il has Ia the Pacific
Coast cities, where the lotteries maintain
agents in the downtown business district.
Gambling brought on the Hip Sing-on
Leong highlander war; which Il still going
on and will 20 on, the Chinese say, until
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OF recent history. The calculating Chinese
politicians at ~ Bowery and ~ Mott street
have pulled the string and the white au-
thoritiea have danced,
All Chinese affairs 60 by syndicat o..
Oriental society IL honeycombed with secret
and open associations. Besides these two
tongz, whose membership comes mainly
from the characteristically troublesome
1900 who live In the quarter, there are three
associations Of great influence In Chinatown.
These are the Chinese Empire Reform Asso-
citation, the Chiness Masons and the Chinese
Court, or Ching Wah Gung Shaw.
OF all these the Reform Association Il
the most important Its success In the
Ave years OF It's existence measures the
progress Of the American Chinese toward
European ideas Formed with the idea
Of lifting China from her rut, just as japan
has been lifted from hers, It boasts mem
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the Parkhurst society ceases TO encourage
the Hip Sing Tong. In brief, here is the
status Of that miX-up:
The gambling house keepers need pro-
lection against the police and against
Chinese toughs. II is their custom every
where to put this matter into the hands OF
blackmailing companies or tongs, which
collect a regular tribute, out Of which they
pay themselves and brihe the police.
Against outside Chinese meddlers they use,
when necessary, the ~ caliber American
revolver, or the threat thereof.
This delicate function was handed out long
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was sent here 10 man her. She then sailed
and beyond the banks met rough weather
which renewed the trouble The Persian
Monarch being sighted the crew demanded
TO be transferred TO her, and she lay TO
20 receive them. The captain and mRta
went with them, but the second mate re-
fused 10 leave and threatened 10 shoot
those who tried 10 force him. The captain
and mate thereupon returned and stayed
with him, and the three worked her into
Queenstown, where. on being docked, 10
holes bored In her hull, 40 the captain and
mate we're tried for barTatry and sentenced
TO long terms Of Imprisonment the second
mate being handsomely rewarded by the
underwriters.
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ago to the On Leong Tong Of which Tom
Lee is the brains. Later, the Hip Sing
Tong, whose members are laundrymen and
persistent players Of the fantan game,
tried to get in. Threats Of shooting and
even one or two actual gun plays failed to
move the On Leongs
Then the Hip Sings turned reformer and
began to inform to the jealous Parkhurst
society, which found IL rather easier to
make a record in Chinatown than in the
Tenderloin. The string Of shootings which
followed the gradual drawing in Of the
precinct police the District Attorneys
Office and finally Of Commissioner McAdoo
and his Headquarters STAFF are incidents
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Once, too, when Chuck Connors was in
his glory, and Chinatown was supposed
to be thrillingly, terribly wicked, the
tourist trade was considerable. That has
fallen Of in size and quality. Even the
rlbbemeok wagon has helped but little,
for the up-country topsiders come TO look
and not to spend.
The reaction against opium dens has
cut OF another source OF revenue, and,
finally, the coming Of the Parkhurst society
and the resulting tong war has hurt gam
bling a lot
There are references now and then to
Chinese millionaires.' II IL hard 10 tell
anything about the wealth Of any Chinese ;
that is a thing which they conceal even
from one another for fear Of blaolunan.
But It ia probable that there are no CON
spicuously wealthy men in the quarter.
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How Photographer Manufacture Expres-
aions.
From Es C""ags ,,-,Vv'c,r.

From Es CaSHgS yrtOstcfr
a remarkable fact ia lay profession
said a photographs "is that Ne portrait
artists can give to sitter any expression
that 10 desired. =. bland look. a noble look,
a serene lOOk-it IL no trouble TO ua 20 put
any one OF these expressions on the most
wooden face.
The matter l. achieved BY the repetl-
ton Of certain words. II you. for instance.
came 10 me and said you wished 20 look dis
tinguishei would pose You IN a distinguished
attitude and then ] would get you 10 say
brush Just before ! snapped the shutter.
For some tnexpllCable reason the pronunCln-
ton 81 the simple vOTi brush gives 20 the
mouth an mir Of t's ~ st striking nobility
and distinction.
~ you want 10 have In a photograph .
look OF ser~nty you must say bosom
~ yot SAINT 10 make your mouth look
small say 'hip. n you want 70 NJ 10
look larger say cabbage
ITO have an expression Of melancholy
ID D. necessary to Say kerchunk
To have an expression ~ pr de or hauteur
Il Il necessary ~ say 'phUniG.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-18

paliation Of the shooting, Mrs. Sprague should be
allowed to introduce evidence Of wrongs suffered at
the hands Of Norton he will dismiss the case against
her and endeavor to secure another Indictment says
the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Whether the charges Mrs Sprague makes against
Merton are true In every detail or false In every par
ocular is not the question. She charges her ruin
ana disgrace to Morton. She alleges that he repre-.
serted her to be his wife, acknowledged her as such
anH then cast her of and attempted further to dis.
grace her. AZ to the charges she makes, Mr.. Sager
says; 81 couldn't make charge against him on ac-
cuFahons OF that character. He has done nothing
Of which the law can take cognizance. If Mrs.
Spfague wants to prosecute him on the charge Of
striking her that Is another and minor matterv
tIf the law says that, !" said Bundle, the beadle,
"theR Fsay the law fs an ASST and what Bumble,
the beadle, said of his troubles may be said Of the
lRFspt Missouri If man can do the things with
which Morton is charged by Mrs. Sprague and es-
cape punishment, while the woman who shoots at
hAA-violating the law, OF course, in SO doing--is
togo to the penitiary for ten years. It may be the
Way Of the World It appears to be the law Of
MlssoUri-and the ways and the laws should be
mpnded. But, perhaps it il in the conclusion Of
tle remarkable interview given by Mr.. Gager that
true reason for his peculiar Interpretation Of the
lNF is to be fOUnd tWhy, II Mrs. SpragUe should
nnpunished there would be women all over town
tsging to shoot maen,g said Mr.. Sager. Indeed! (!
Are the morale of ST. Louis At that remarkably low
ebbf Il is difiCalt to believe 1t, Mr. Hager to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-18

considered very Ilgenious and original although, Of
course, not striCtay new at that time.
Only twelve years later this system Of finger print
Identification had been adopted by the prison ON
cals of nearly ell great nations the nsllible dis
tingushing mark Of one Individual among millions.
In the most recent report of r. w. McCIaughry,
warden Of the federal prison at Leavenworth, the
announcement Is made that this system has not only
been adopted in that institution as supplementing
the famous Bertillon system of France, bat since
year ago the record clerk Of the Leavenw0r prison
has made and Fled finger prints of 1,5T3 prisoners
and has received from other penal Institutions and
police departments in thisccuntry 40a sets Of fla
ger prints
Gt is worthy Of note that it was Warden GcClaugh-
ry who introduced the Berflllon system into this
cOuhtry, he having sent his son to Paris to study
under the discOwerer Of that mode OF ident6cation
1t was also Warden McOlaughry who became inter-
ested Ia the finger print system which was demon
strated at the worlds fair In 6t. Louis by J0hR
Kenneth FerrieE, Of the Scotland Yard detective
force, OF London. In his report Warden M6Clahgh
ry says In reference to this subject:
3sThe report Of the record clerk explains the in
tt0ductiOn into eur Identification system al the
method now In use in England, and which was in
trodnced into America last year at the worlds fair
called the finger print system. 1t is believed that
this system. in the years to come, will prove ex-
Iceedingly eHectuel in identifying criminals and
thereby lessening the Inducements to attempt es-
|eape What is known as the BertilOn system Of
Identification has been in vogue at this institutiOn
for several years. and it will be noted that no escape
has occurred during the past three years.. Every
appliance that can be used to render more certain
the recovery Of the fugitive s to lessen the
dency to attempt escape, and is therefore valuable
economically for the government because it lie al
ways expensive to follow and appIehend prison
eKe.v
The record clerk explains In his special report
that az rnle he takes Eve sets Of finger prints from
each prisoner entering the institution One sheet is
fled with the nria0naFsa commitments ranora IN q
reprOof yaNlt another sheet is fled in che classified
OF the finger print system OF Identification for iden
tidcatiOn purposes only, and the remaiDins three
sheets are kept on file in reproof vault to be used
In apprehending escaped prisoners or to be used as
evidence IN courts. Thus the practical adOp-
tiOn Of 8 theory conceived in some obscure philO-
sophical fancy and brought into public notice
through the rOmancer's pen.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-18

tEnergetiC efforts are still being made to attract
people from this cOnntry to Western Canada, and
they appear to be meeting with considerable sue
cess LGnd can be had there for less price per acre
than is asked In our Northwestern states and so long
as this continues TO be the case people will 60 to
Western Canada. In doing 80, however, they must
expect to encounter more OF prvatiOn and hardship
than they would experience in this eOUHtry, and II
is doubtful IL the ultimate benefits will compensate
them. The enterprise, however, which the Canadian
government is showing in encouraging American
immigration is certainly to be commended and must
result most adyaRtageOusly to that country"
The grain and timber regions Of Canada are bleak
and in many cases poor. Severe hardships are en-
ccuntered By those who follow agricultural pursuits
there The land as rule, is not fertile and re-
uuiFeH rigid care and hard work. Here in the South
the climate s IDEAL the soil is fertile and crops
be easily marketed. The social life Of the rural re-
gions Of the South is superior to that Of the rural
regions Of the West and Northwest. Law and order
prevails in the South, and educational advantages
can be easily enjoyed.
But the South lacks The energy and system en-
ployed by by the West and Northwest and Canada
iii letting desirable hOmeseekers know what they
can ret In this section.
IA good deal has been done Of late years to ex-
plot The advantages which the EouthG offers indus
triOue, laW-abiding workers. but hall enough has
been done. The whole South Is short on labor, and
on this subject the Birmingham News says: 'sThe
Birmingham district while making great progress
IN general uoFeivpmenb ~ uUg uvAns What ~ cVulu
and would do Tilt had adequate labor and, in fact
with all the progress made by the South during the
past few years. it has not done what 10 could and
would have done II there had been plenty Of efficient
labor
The subject 81 immigration il one Of the most I'M
portant that ID being studied In the South today.
More labor IL badly needed, and this need eroWsI
more urgent n proportion to the vast industrial OPP
eratiOns and agricultural purhnits being started OIL
under contemplation.
why desirable labOrerE and hOmeheekers should
" IL large numbers from The West and Northwest
fo the still bleaker regions Ol Western Canada when
fhey ceud come South, seems strange u hrst, but
when the cause il considered The mystery ID solved
Carada appreciates the value 81 its investment IA