Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-16

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was a stone cutter. He was gooo
stone cutter, too, but very poor man.
as stone cutters In Ch,2a always were.
His little hut contained his wife and
their two children, and he was happy,
very happy, until, for the first time in
his life, he visited large city.
While strolling along the streets,
mingiing with the crowds, he suddenly
saw a man, dressed in a splendid pur-
pie robe, running.
All Foo could see the people give
room before the running man, and
could see his mouth move. He knew
that he was speaking, but he did not
know what words were potent enough
TO make that crowd fall back against
the buildings until he approached much
nearer. Then he heard the man say,
In q loud voice:
MAKE way for the Mandarin! Make
way for the Mandarin!
All Foo had never in his life seen a
mandarin. OF course, he knew there
were such things, but the hand OF gov
ernment falls so lightly in the distant
provinces Of China that a mandarin
had never taken crystallized place la
All Foo's life. He fell back with the
crowd and waited breathlessly to see
the great man pass.
With a hundred retainers, some OF
them preceding, some Of them follow
ing him, while others walked on either
flank to keep the lowly and the vile
from touching his heavenly person, the
mandarin came. Two held shades
over his head, four carried his palan-
quin, while girls in purple dresses ran
in front and scattered lotus flowers In
his path.
For the first time All Foo felt the
dart Of Envy enter his heart. In his
own village he was great man, and
had never given way for anybody, poor
as he was, for was he not skilled
craftman? Here, only a few miles
away he was but as the dirt under
foot. He heaved a sigh.
"Ah," he told himself, at must be
nice to be a mandarin! 1t is celestial
20 have the mob make room for one.
Oh, was happy, but am no more. l
would be happy only II were man
darin!"
How it came about, All Foo did not
know, but in the twinkling Of an eye
he found himself in the mandarin's
palanquin! He was the mandarin, and
people were making room for him and
bowing to the dust before him. Slaves
were shading him; slaves were fan
ming him; slaves were running In front
of him scattering lotus flowers. and at
home slave women were awaiting
him, to aid him in beguiling the time,
while other slaves, thousands Of them,
were working for him.
The party Of the mandarin contin-
ued long way, and then came into
larger road, along which great con-
course Of people were travelling. AS
the litter bearing All Foo reached the
larger road, with his advance slaves,
he saw them suddenly scattered and
pressed back by a man in yellow, VINO
shouted as he ran:
Make way for the prince! Make
way for the prince!"
Without waiting for orders, his bear
ers stopped and All Foo, the great
mandarin, had to suffer the mortifica-
ton of seeing another take precedence,
great as he was. His heart grew heavy
within him.
"A mile back" he told himself, sor-
rowfully, II was adored Of all the earth,
vet here already is a greater than l..
All, I am no longer happy, but If l
were a prince such as that great man
10 whom 1 have had to give way, /
would be happy"
The thought had hardly been COM
pleted before All Foo found himself In
the princes litter. Such happiness as
this gave him cannot be described or
imagined; 1t has to be experienced.
For one slave as a mandarin he had
ten as a prince! for one person who
gave way before him formerly, there
were ten to fawn upon him now. HIS
name was in everybodys mouth, and
he allowed the mandarin, whose place
he had occupied but a moment before
TO kneel in the dust Of the road and
kiss his hand.
The procession continued until a
bridge was reached. Here his advanc-
ed troops found sentries posted. The
prince arrived and bade his troops
scatter the sentries, but the latter said:
"Sir, We hold the bridge for the en-
peror, who is within two days march.
None may pass before him, under PEN
atty Of death"
In vain All Foo ragged. In vain he
declared that he would be of the road
and out Of the emperor's way II he
were allowed to pass, as he was TO
take a byway on the other side OF the
bridge. All Foo and his retinue had
to wait for the emperor.
On the following day, about noon,
the advanced troops Of the emperors
great army came in sight. For four
hours they passed over the bridge
then in the distance could be seen the
thousands Of the emperor's body
Suard. Next came musicians, playing
celestial music, then dancing girls,
whose 1.-the limbs furnished enter
taInment for the hosts, then the per-
sonal servants Of the emperor, the
great men Of the empire, and then the
emperor himself, followed further than
the eye could reach with other retain
ers.
Prince All Foo sat in his palanquin
until the emperor appeared, then
alighted to do him homage, and his
heart was sore.
"Ah, a prince is as nothing" he
walled. Here am ready to go down
in the dust and kiss his hands as that
vile mandarin kissed mine. All, l was
happy, but 1 shall never be happy
again unless am emperor"
Again the Transformation occurred
and this time again All Foo was In the