The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-14
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER 4

How much, do you earn a year?"
 "Oh," replied the correspondent, talk ing the chance that he might be able to sidetrack the question, T earn twice as much as I'm paid, anyhow"
 'Ye9?" said Wu, with flick of his fan. well, do you find it difficult to ] save anything on your twenty thous- and a year?"
 The implication, even if it was only bit of Oriental persifage, that Wa considered the correspondents service to be worth forty thousand a year wasn't an ungFaceful way of turning that thing off.
 Wu had an inimitably bland way of stating facts that he knew to be facts. At a dinner given by the late Secretary Hay the stanchest friend Wu ever had | in the United States, the Chinese min ister sat next to an exceedingly well known American Bishop.
 will you let me see your ring?" Wu said very politely, to the Bishop, who is not only a clergyman, but man of the world.
 Surely" said the Bishop, and he re- moved the large and splendid emerald ring from his finger and passed it to the minister.
 Wu examined the ring critically for quite bit. Then he passed it back to the Bishop.
 It Is the best imitation emerald I ever saw" said Wu to the Bishop,
 "Tmitation?" exclaimedl the Bishop, not heatedly, but wonderingly. "Why, that is impossible. The ring was used as an Episcopal ring in England for 200 years before 1t came to me by way of gift. It was and is considered a per feet flawless emerald and very val uable one"
 Nevertheless" said Wu, most civil ly but with subdued positiveness, tit. Is not an emerald. The stone is an imita- ton emerald"
 The Bishop didn't become agitated over the matter at all. He knew that most Orlentals of rank are expert in gems, and Wu is a particularly clever c6nnoisseur in fine jewels. Yet he was I puzzled.
 He esteemed the emerald as his most precious trinket. It had had a dletin- guished history in England, as told Wu. It seemed incredible that the ring should have passed on from hand to hand during SC. many generations with out anybody discovering that 1t was not genuine
 The Bishop was In New York soon after that. He took the ,ssperald to a noted gem expert of t5SS town.
 Fine example of the emerald doub- let" was the experts verdict.
 "Doublet?" said the Bishop. What is an emerald doublet?"
 1.-TWO stones So clamped together that they are made to look like one" said the expert 5as
 Would that constitute an imita- tion?" asked the Bishop.
 "As to the whole stone, yes" said the expert. 'As 1t stands, it's an imi- Etation. There are only few real emer- aids in the world the size of that doub- let of yours" b
 The Bishop met Wu again few months later and told him that he had been right about tue emerald
 T have reproach6d myself for hay ing told you aboutit," said wu.
 T am glad you did tell me about it." said the Bishop. f'Else," he added, T might have transmitted lie to posterity." g9
 You would have been in good com pany in doing that, wouldn't youp? asked Wu, with asmile, and the little matter was at an end.
 When he considered himself stepped upon Wu had a quiet yet very effective way of getting back at people, Once at a little poker fiesta. at the homeNof a senator in which Wu sat in--he has forgotten more about poker than good many average players ever knew "a certain representative from the west, known for his lncurable habit of "busting out" with observations that were better suppressed, leaned over to Wu and said something to him about the following effect:
 "Mister Wu, hear that there's a movement in China looking to the abo- lition of the pigtails you fellows wear What do you wear the fool thing for, anyhow?"
 Why" inquired Wu, peering at the margins of the cards that had just been served to him, "do you wear your fool mustache?"
 "oh, replied the representative, "I've got an impossible mouth"
 "Er--so I should suppose, from some of your remarks observed Wu, calm ly tossing some chips to the center to open the jackpot.
 The representative wore stung look for the remainder of the sitting. This Chinaman is living refutal of the dictum that men of his race lack 2 | the sense of humor. Tn Washington , ha showed himself extraordinarily quick at erasping the humorous threads of a situation
 Once he was passing down Connecti- cut avenue in Washington when he came upon first latc dog fight. The dogs were of high degree both as to themselves and as to their ownership.
 One of them was a Russian wolf hound belonging to the Count Cassini, then Russian ambassador to the Unit ed States. The other was an English bulldog belonging to one of the sqcre- taries of the British embassy at Wash lngton. A Russian groom and an Eng fish groom were out with the unleashed dogs giving them their daily constitu- tonal, and the two dogs no sooner met : than they went at each other for keeps. The two grooms tried to pull them apart, but that wasn't any easy job. Wu, strolling on Connecticut avenue,