The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29


shouted, peering oversize into the
humping lorcha. The chain ran down
rafting, till they signaled the winch
TO stop. with yellow hands waving alb
stractedly and a wall of Abs"
tirunts and thuds rose out OF the lorcha
in thin but pungent cloud of DUST
then the watchers at the rail cried
t''Nirra-virra-virrai in frenzy, the
chain clanked taut. and a giant sling
full of brown gunny bags swung in
board with a rush, poised over the
black yawn of the hatch, twirled and
suddenly dropped out of sight, to the
hollow iron music Of the winch and
polyglot scream of "KubbsTdar-arrea
guar aba o."
The winch boy-an odd little aged
Chinaman in a pastoral straw bonnet,
with a sheath knife sticking out. like
e a rudimentary tail stump, from under
his blue dungaree-had hardly exerted
muscle: instead of the Tuning, sweat
ing tug which a white man gives the
lever, he had laid on calm hand and
70 done the trick Two bricks. dashed
with rope yarn at the proper pOirg.
swung below; and a "Hylam" coolie
had scored one mechanical triumph
= over a Glasgow firm.
Now that's ingenoOity" said the
second. He paused 20 kick at Bengal
boxwallah down the ladder, and fol-
lowed 10 cut the sampan loose. ShrieAs
of protest-"Oh. zoolumi-Zubberdu
rose and drifted astern over the glar-
ing harbor. The second remounted,
hopping sweat from under his pith
helmet and muttering-"black swine,
chatting all the paint off my stan
choins.'
''Ingenooity," resumed. That's what
counts"
This he elaborated after tihin, in
Macs cabin against the silent en-
gines. We all smoked Mrs. Middietons
cheroots, scratched prickly heat. and
cursed Chittagong.
But American ingenoOity's the most
. ingenious" he declared. periodically.
What? Oh, Scots be hanged. Hoot,
loot. Mean by it? Definition? Why.
sure. / mean-er-that quality which
-er-which promotes the general hap
piness with the least fuss to all con-
cerned. There you are. Now let me
talk" And there is the second story:
Before / was in steam this way,
knocked about in oil ships a spell and
fought some in the Philapeens. and
fore that prospected considerable in
Colorado and China and all over. Well,
A crowd of US boys was sent up into
Sumatra by some Dutchmen-Padang
highlands. and way up in from Fort de
KOck We found some gold and lots O
dengue fever. But the Dutchmen ma
turally didn't pay us as per contract.
and we got back TO Batavia with
something over 500 guilders between
four of US. for all our worldly goods.
We put up at the best hotel, and fig
ured how long it would last.
We ought to moved out quick, but
after the bosQue things was so inter
esting in that little Dutch burg that we
kept staying on. Seemed like a me-
tropolis And presently, what with
circuses and biographs. and myloTds,
and Duck-and-D orises, and-and enter
tainments, we found that a conserva-
tive estimate left us S54 guilders in debt
by the time the next boat sailed,
Chinese boat and deck passage at that.
'Twan't altogether our fault. We'd
have cleared out and been all right.
I've always argued, if the king Of Siam
hadn't come over to investigate Bud
dhist ruins and paddy growing. He was
hot on modern improvements then;
Travelled in a yacht a converted hook
er that was improved some. He
stopped al the same hotel, o course,
with a push o courtiers and fifty-two
wives, a full pack and him the little
Joker Everything blossOmed out gay
at once-one long state feast. o. course
We stayed. The queens all wore silk
knickerbockers. fifty-two of EN-; an
interesting sight, a floating round and
pining at the windows. We stayed.
No prospect G. more money, or even
Jobs The cousurs one O. the whitest
men in the east. and helped US a whole
LOT. but he didn't hold out any rosy de-
lusiOns o. grandeur much more.
Finally, ! remember, we all sat up
late one night, loafng round in sarongs
i'm the ground floor verandas and list
ening 10 tree lizards a-calling TO
kay To-kayi" the way they do. II
makes Won thirsty if you like sweet
wines Well. about midnight we'd ex-
hausted ever project and were knock
ing each other g good deal All the
kings wives had disappeared long ago,
upstairs. and everything was dull and
We were peevish.
I see a way O. financing ourselves.
I think" says Sam Bird Perhaps
He was a big California boy, talked
slow and lazy a demonstrating boy.
but one of the best Don't go knock
ing this way. Wait till tomorrow or !
next day"
Just what we been doing" snaps
out Bassett. 'TOmOrIer, and tOmor-
rer. and tomorrer, shifts into the lean
and slippered pantaloon." (Bassett
came from the Uni of Indiana or some
where. and he knew Shakespeare by
the back-little chap, big spectacles.
thin face and a nose as pointed as a
lead pencil-one more whittle and the
point'd break; a little sharp nose and a
little sharp voice through it-No, Nor
Shakespeare. Bassett,) That's what
YOU lazy Pacific slopers are always say
ing he tells Sam. 'TOmOTrer. mana
ma. besok-bad as these COOS"
I knew what Birds game was. Ii
thought. and said so
You're trying to sell those snake
skins 10 those two French epidermist
men in Noordwijk. Saw you pervad-
ing round there They amt fools.
Neither are we. You'll get twenty
guilders-if you have luck. What's
THAI in our crisis2"
.'Pe~"90s, v-"s a1l 7 said" drawls this
Sam Bird. Don't get hot And lie
leans back and smokes his Palacombo.
and looks I'D dreamy at the royal
apartments windows IN the second
story. through the Llama creepers. ITS |
taxidermatist, anyway"
Don't you go figuring on any firta- |
ton motifs with the forty second |
queen" says Bassett. following his |
glance. THAT don't b'long honorable |
pidgin