The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02
Tales of the China Seas

1894? You ought to be satisfied with
having given Hop Sing and his people
n good licking then
Sun Off the Flag.
A flash of light came into Hoshi IS
black eyes as he replied softly:
"We did lick
"Why didn t you make the Chinese
take the sun off the flagp, continued
"You know they put il there 200o
years ago, meaning that the Chinese
dragon had swallowed the Japanese
sun, and there it has stayed ever
since -
A rapid grin like streak of light
ming passed over Hosh IS yellow face.
1t is no natter he, said The
Land of the Rising Sun goes forward.
Hop Sing, when he speaks to Satsui
and me. still calls us Wo, which means
the Submissive People, and when the
treaties of peace between his country
and mine were made the Chinese named
us in them still as the Submissive Peo-
ple.'
This species of information from "A
cook of any other race than tho Japa
neSe might have been called surpris.
ing, but nothing is surprising in n Jap
aneSc.
The week in Hong Kong sped away,
and seven days later the Seagull was
trailing up the river toward the Boca
Tigres, which is the best the Portu-
gnosc could make out of "Tiger, S
Mouth in Chinese. The Cotesworths
and Miss Egcrton were also going up
to Canton for a week, and the pros.
pect was most alluring to Trevor and
the bashful Bruce.
The run TO Canton was made in a
day. Trevor had IIalkett in to the
- o'clock breakfast. The wardroom
cook was not particularly good and
Trevor felt it would he a sin never
TO share Hoshi's rissolos and salads
and other delicacics Halkctt s graf
itudc was touching,
When breakfast was over Satsui
handed the cigarettes on a silver tray.
with tiny gladiolus blossoms fringing
II. After the boy had left the cabin
Halkett said:
Handsomest japanese boy 7 ever
and flowers. This cabin smells like the
Garden of Gul. What is it?'
An idea came to Trevor
cit is the perfume that Japanese
ladies of the highest rank .use. How
did the boy get hold of it?',
"My dear fellow replied Halkett,
You have suite of persons of much
higher rank than anybody in this ship
and don { You forget it, y
Even as they spoke the cabin was
flooded with an odor of roses almost
intolcrable in its sweetness, but it came
from without, not from within, Tre
vor touched his bell and Hop Sing APP
peared.
"What is it7" asked Trevor holding
his nose. while Halkett put his head
outside of q port
GA black man WHO waits in the
waldroom got hold of Satsui s bottle
his wool. Satsui told Hoshi, who gave
the black man hell all the day
"Send Satsui and the black man TO
me- Trevor ordered.
In came the black man, Ananias
Green, wardroom attendant and ma
tive Of Chinauapin Ridge, Va. Ana
Mas s skin had turned the peculiar ash
en- color which shows when negro is
thoroughly alarmed, and his wool ex-
hailed the perfume of a million roses.
Behind him came Satsui, trembling,
and with tears in his eyes.
"Look, my captain,' walled Satsui,
showing tall, slender glass bottle,
holding a couple of gills; "the black
creature took my altar of rose, of
which single drop is perfume for one
person a whole day, and rubbed it all
-dlI-8ll--ln MS Oalr.
81 'clar fo' Cord suffered Ana
Mas, 81 ain n-n-n-nevver see Satsui s
ashes of roses. I ain never fetch that
bottle-I aim got one single drop on
me -
"Shut up" said Trevor, "I m south.
ern, and when YOU begin to 'clar fo'
Cord, that means you arc lying from
the start. And you haven put drop
of perfume on your head? Ha! hal"
Trevor might laugh. Not SO Satsui,
who said In a voice broken by sobs:
cit is a perfume used only by ladies
of the highest rank In Japan, and he,
this creature of black skin, has dared
to use it-has dared to use it!'
"Cap'n, / 'clar fo' Cord" An
anias began again.
"Take him to the barber and have
his hair clipped and his head par
boiled, 3" were Trevor's orders. and they
were AS nearly obeyed as feasible with.
out endangerlng Ananias life.
On the seagull.
Satsui looked so fearful still that Ire
vor said to him, kindly:
''Was the rose perfume SO valu
ableq"
cit was very valuable. my captain
and to think the black skinned crea-
ture should have it ALL"
"Why, if it is reserved for ladies of
rank, do you dare to use it''
Satsui smiled mysterious and beau.
tiful smile, showing his small and per
feet teeth.
"It was a gift to me, my captain.
My brother Hoshi does not want-me
to use it. but / do not always obey
Hoshi. Hoshi, however. did give the
black man hell, for which I am glad, =,
for love justice.
81 am sorry for your loss, Satsui
but glad to get rid of the perfume. II
has bothered me ever since 1 came
aboard
In the late afternoon Of the day they
had left Hong Kong the Seagull reached
Canton and found comfortable berth
at the naval anchorage. Three hun
dred yards away lay a big japanese
battleship. whose $4,000 tons made the
white Seagull look like yacht. On
the battleship's stern were gilt letters
like those on a tea box, which being
interpreted meant "The Conqueror Of
the Sea-
The Japanese are we'll up in naval
etiquette, and by the time the Seagull 3
anc hor had kissed the mud q launcb