The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12

4 and the people who have sought refuge on the
Il bleak uplands descend their drenched
!, houses and begin again that fierce struggle to
force the uiggardly earth to bring forth enough
III TO feed the hungry millions
q The Sikiang, which makes its snuous way to the
= slow sea- becomes in April shallow and sluggish
q ram, with huctuating channel and treacherous
lid fats upon. which native pilot can with the
/ Xatest ease stick warshp and point TO his chart,
h hieh gives good water over the place
fIientenapt Tourneau, commanding the French baby
nnboat Hirondelle, with draught of eleven feet,
smid skim about the river in comparative safety,
! trrticularly as Tourneau had two eyes in his head
s lie Frenchman,- this indomitable Tourneau, with
SSories of suffern and Jean Bart tinglng through
This was good time for European or an Amer
An to distinguish himself, for the Boxer uprising
sktre were no longer armed bands OF Boxers who
owns and villages but strange disappearances took
= nce and it difficult to keep telegraph wires in
De often found that European dwellers had gone into
e unknown.
q faced famine every day for cehturies was seeth
z unrest. And the blood thirst was upon it. The
bod thirst meant. The captains of the naval YES
ak dining together pleasantly aboard each others
psent terrors. But blood thirst side produces
bod thirst the other, and these keen eyed, alert
val men represented the gospel Of the whetted
s1TOurneau the French lieutenant, had stake in the
skn in the international naval force had. In the
low town Of HowGhin kwnng, far up on the left
GIt firmly in the marshy ground Around the stone
Z nsent was high walled garden to protect it from
THE superior of the convent was short, stout,
;tsekcyed woman. the older sister of Tourneau. He
beer e n3 hoy g when t She pretty
Those adventurous orders of which 90 forth
aE he boy OF and
Hh for his sister and wrote her passionate letters
her to ffgFR ea the To 2n hSs s s
full Of fascinating stories of danger and adven
sfe; but like, the soldier, she would not take off
boy grew older he realized that this small woman
hsr blue . habit had in her the fighting spirit which
y VTs TO love danger, It's grim companion.
Twenty Years After.
Nearly twenty years had passed before the little
E who wept and kicked franticaly when his siste,
Ds the commanding officer of the little gunboat which
inferred UP the Sikiang TO what was going on
Iddle aged mother superior Of the convent in the
qalid Chinese town fell into each others when
fer Of the full blood # Mother seraphine had been
-Iy. and if her brother had put on the blue habit
ID aapping white bonnet of Sister of Charity they
ipt the lieutenant slim and Mother Serapbnc,
pugh fasting and praying and working like dray
nee. had become As round as a barrel. Each had
Gaelic eye, bright and hawk like.
Fss Mother s4perior although she did not know
Inds full in contending with the Chinese officials.
yPon the writing table in her Office lay copy of the
fpther Seraphine fguratively speaking planted her
' sturdy feet and stood there, In her secret heart
row with the Taitoa She never entered into a
~ with the local authorities unless she knew she
hto bully the Dowager Empress of China. She could
.fak inc Chinese language huently. and going to
lls Ike herself. as ready for a fight as for a fast
= Good Friday, she would speak her mind freely
:H all the sisters and set FIRE to the convent To
sF Mother SeraPhne would with equal
f9kness:
~ You may murder and burn all YOU like but If
iF convent is burned every house in the town Will
iieveled to the ground and, for the executions to
,fd will probably be the first cut off, and the
pes Of your ancestors will float unon the river
-lDn IL 'Hlrondelle S first visit. which in Noyem-
r. Tourneau spent week at the town of Howchin-
{sng with his ship and had never enjoyed himself
ester Seraphine managed the convent precisely as
raau rmrneau managed his ship and, like good com
rmrpeau chucksd with delight at the complete prep.
atlon for danger which Mother Seraphne made.
fpared to if necessary in defending the Euro.
fh children committed to their charge and the
I've children, which they bought for something like
bEEy cents apiece. TouIneau suggested that he
&ua leave a supply Of revolyers at the convent,
10 this Mother seraphine declined as being con.
ry to the rule of their order. Nevertheless she
sePted some little shells, made by Tourneau him
~ hS who had an inventive genius. These shells lad
= Them some melinte. and when thrown over The
~ cn at an attacking party would probably terrfy
~, so lourneau said. He showed his sister where
Keep the shells buried in the ground and warned
10 De careful of them. At which the brother and
lrer exchanged significant glaDces.
NJ The Love Story
ourneau, in his sisters private Office where she
9 Pt the code, confded TO her that he was deeply,
spperateIy and wildly in love with rose of girl.
ctrce Harbord. the daughter of the fierce English
@airais commanding the China station.
~ Inc old Buebeard,' cried Tourneau, bringing
sp hsts down the International code 'is full OF
g2uar preludices. He will have none but English
cFfn TO marry his daughters. Verv well we shall sect
Taxe friend, American, Lieutenant AIywin--
na! ha!-who adores the eldest daughter Mary
4ev9ro' You will see, my sister, how we will out
tnat heavy numbering beef eating Englishman'
~ould you my BROTHER cried Mother Seraphine
EpssI lshalupg. marry girl against the wishes OF
NI,: only give me chance responded Tourneau,
brihg ht the end Of his peaked black beard