The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-12


a case of losing his head or gathering
some heads on his own account tina
. Governor had chosen the latter course
> He got a complaint from the Russian,
about the holdup of their train and an
other from Picking, so he got busy.
! ''That s why on the third day after
. we had left the Hung hutzes' camp &
bunch of Chinese soldiers, headed by
the Governor of that part of the world
himself, met us about twenty miles out
side of Chang chung. Ouch 10y went
all to pieces.
II can see that poor beggar now
grovelIing in the dirt at the Governor s
feet and offering to give him all the
rubles if he would close his eyes for
half an hour and forget that he had met
Ouch Loy riding into Chang chung. For
myself, | thought it was time that |
passed in nv checks and I just wonder.
ed how they would do it-beheading or
thirty slices, which is a delicate sort of
/ torture.
''Well. they made Ouch Loy kneel
on a bunch of chains all next morning
and at noon they came with two-
handed sword and cut his head off 1
saw them cutting off his long red queue
afterward. Being a white man, the
Governor didn t dare to monkey with
me and he just took all my money, the
portion of the Russian loot I had re
eeived. and went away from there with
his Chinese soldiers"
The story teller paused and made as
if to wipe the sweat of fear off his
brow The reporter did not breathe.
"'You got it down that they cut off
Quoh Logs hair7" queried the mar
ratOr.
The reporter nodded.
H'Well that red hair of Ouch 10y is
in New York now and l can tell you
where to find it.
The cub gasped The man opposite
him pulled out soiled slip of paper
from his coat pocket and handed it
over to the reporter. 1t was aaclpplng
taken from the ship news columns of
the reporter S own paper. A portion of
paragraph which had been under
scored read:
Part of the strangely mixed cargo
which the British Prince carried from
Singapore, Shanghai and Japan ports
were two bales of human hair. The
captain says that since the Chinese
troops in Manchuria have been getting
active in pursuit of the Hung hutzes
the human hair crop from Dalny and
Newchwang has been increased. The
| Chinese have a commercial eve for the
value of hair and they consequently
keep the market well supplied with the
crops harvested from the severed heads
of the Hung hutzes.
The cub looked up daZedly into the
eyes of the man who had been talking
| "How-how do you know?' he bah
bled
'EThis is how I know" answered the
story teller. 81 got into New Yorl
last week after beating my way bach
transport line, and the day after L go
here 1 read this story in the paper.
81 went to the captain of the Indian
Prince and made out that [ was re
porter wanting to get story on thu
human hair in his cargo. He showed
me the manifest of ais cargo, and ther'
it was-two bales of human hair
Chang-chung, New York, f. 0. b., con
signed to Lipps & Son, dealers in hui
man hair, Thirty eighth street.
81 went to Lipps s, and he showet
me the two bales of hair from Chang
chung-all black except one long queue
and that queue was RED AS FIRE. ,
The story teller ceased. He reached
over and dropped pinch of salt in hi
stale beer, and when it foamed b.
drank up the remnant.
"Well?' breathed the reporter.
"Well, - the other answered, "tha
red hair was sold yesterday, as I hap
pen to know, and Lipps can tell yol
who bought it. / know, but d rathe
Lipps told you"
The cub folded up his sheaf of notes
with a hasty gesture, saving out tina
sheet with the address of the hair store
on it. Then he grabbed his hat ant
started for the door.
''Well, we might have one more drini
before you go, came protesting
voice from behind him, but the cut
was out into the wet before the words
reached the door.