Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
MIR. WYSP AND HIS WIFE
az HELEN SMITH DAYTON.
THE STORY OF TWO CHINs.
sv HELEN SMITH pAYTol

didn't want me To have cheap ones.
henry Wysp! I'D bet anything that
ah expensive pair WAS going to he your
surprise Tor my birthday next month";
No wonder you pretended to disapprove
OF them. IL you haven't already bought
eneta. dear. I nope. you will let me have
much.'
Il assure you that 1 haven't bought
them-and until tive minutes ago--Oh.
hanG 1t all! Get en-. Get a ring for
your nose If YOU want tn. don't care"
lsabel hugged him. She put her
nahd under his chin and remarked In
you've got. Henry. You know mine
Is rather weak~but ear rings seen, ia
take away the pointed look anS
strengthens my whole fact. Watt untE
Isabel. with many Siggles and guilty
o'usfes returned in ~ twtf.kling Of the
eve with the most modest littlc nai.
"l ear rings that % cents could buy.
'hese We're Just tn experiment on"
she explained. But don't they look
"Well-' admitted Henry. "vou are
the first woman that l ever. liked them
on somehow they do sort of suit YOU.
is una Inc $6.9& ls.ir? I'm, sure they
look X the real thing"
Ihese We're 20 cents informed isa-
49," 'oN aN'N tustV YOU lNSlGI unDn
my having good ones-rM buy them
tomorrow To please YOU"
~ please met" said Henry. "lsabel.
you nave made me cat crow. but un-
Tess you want to talk yourself out OF
your triumph. please don't say that i
am forcing you tn wea,. ea,. rinxr
against your own taste an i%nclination.,
But you do like Them" she asked.
Henry grinned and nodded. Then the
oirnpie on Is',bers chin ca,ne out to-
pay: OF course" she affirmed. II
wouldn't wear anything YOU djdn.I like
for the world!"
Whom Sun Vat Sen Cut OF IN. Queue.
At Kobe. whittier 1 fled from Hong
Kong writes Sun Vat Sen in the Strand
o IL step of great Importance. I
cut on my queue. which had been
growing all my life. FOR some laws I
had not shave my head. and l allowed
the hair to grow on my upper lip. Then
1 went out to II clothier's and bought n
suit of modern Japanese garments.
When was fully dressed ] looked In.
the mirror. and was astonished-and
a good deal rcassured--by the trans
formation. Nature had favored me. i
was darker i'm complexion than most
Chinese. IL trait I had inherited from
my mother. for my father resembled
more the regular type. have seen II
said that l have Malay blood in my
veins. and also that / was born In
Iooln tHeSc statements ART
false. l am purely Chinese, as Tar as
know; but after the Japanese war.
when the natives of Japan began to bic
treated with more respect, 1 had no
trouble, when / had let my hair and
moustache grow. in passing for Il
1 adinit l owe a. great deal
To this circumstance. az otherwise 1
should not have escaped from many
dangerous situations. Japanese them
selves have taken me for one of their
couIltrymen. Once when | was being
Swallowed i'm a public place, two YOko-
hama men accosted me. Unhappily. i
DO not know a word of Japanese, but L
pretended for a few minutes that I did.
IN order to put the spy of the scent.
a similar experience befell me in
Honolulu. where I spent six months
AFTER leaving Japan. / found. many Of
my countrymen there, and they re-
ceived me with open arms. They knew
all about my exploits, and h e also
knew that IL big price was placed on
the head OF the notorious Sun Wen."
In the town of Honolulu / held a sort
of lcvee every day, and / received let
ters and reports from my friends. the
members of the reform party, the KaO-
Thence ] went to San Fran.
cisco. and enjoyed u sort of triumDhal
journey through America. varied BY
reports that the Chinese minister to
Washington was doing his utmost to
have me Kidnapped and carried back
to China. where 1 well knew that fate
that would befall me-first having my
ankles crushed in n vice and broken nv
a hammer, my eyclids cut off. and.
fnally. be chopped to small fragments.
SO that none could claim my mortal re-
mains. For the Old Chinese code does
not err on The side of mercy to pols-
tical agitators.