The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-18


into the cean-man's streets and fire
Great cheers greeted this sentiment
and all pledged their heartiest loyalty
and support. The meeting was about
to break up in an uproar. when
solemn and venerable bearded hgrre
arose and babe them wait. The ira
ditional veneration for age compelled
listening and the beard swayed them
with the power of magic. Listen my
children the unknown voice began,
ito a few words of ancient coun-
sell"
Yes they cried. "go on. old White
Beard, let us hear what you have to
say
The ocean-man is the best friend
you have in the world. Who fills your
bags with cash and your bowls with
rice, is it not he? Why do you fool
ishly do that which throws away your
livelihood? Why are you angry at him
for doing that which he does not I'M
derstand? He knows nothing of your
old traditions or the customs of your
ancestors" AT these words tho crowd
grew suddenly quiet and began to
listen as he went on. His ocean-ear
cannot hear the sweet music of your
barrow wheels; to him it is only that
| awful discord of which the Sages
wrote. You should pity him-not
blame him. Let US go to him and ex-
| plain to him. His heart Is great in
kindness and after his religion he OBJ
serves the five great relations of which
| the Master spoke I ask you to agree
| to pay the extra tax and request the
| ocean-man to allow you to keep the
CHEEKY music of your wheels
THE old White Beard has spoken
welli" they cried. I'VE viii send him
| {v,fa 20
81 will go and speak for you he
answered but still. the Yello " Jacket
must decide It Behold! At midnight
on the second day. the sixteenth OF the
moon, our Lord shall draw his great
bow and shoot his fiery arrow through
toward the streets of the ocean man,
then our cause Is lost; but If ne shoots
It toward the native villages across the
! river to the East, then our cause is
won. We will pay the extra cash and
he will yield the greasing of the bar
rows
Golden words! Golden wordsl" they
| exclaimed, I'VE will watch for the
shooting of the arrow of the Yellow
Jacket" as the meeting broke up and
the old white bearded orator vanished
as mysteriously as he came.
hundreds OF the barrow-coolies to the
rivers bank on the second night of the
Chinese feast very few If any of the
Europeans in the Settlement imagined,
and just what they were chatteriEg
about as the hands Of the Custom
House CLOCK approached the hour OF
twelve they neither knew nor cared,
but to the watciSul eyes of Wang Foo.
the Consul and inspector Gubblns, who
were secretly observing them from the
tower gallery they presented IN inter-
esting and most significant sight.
1T lacks but one minute of twelve
now" said the Inspector. nervously
looking at his watch. Mr.. Wang, the
safety of this settlement is largely in
your hands; I hope you will not fail
u.s."
81 never fall" was the slow and quiet
answer of the great detective.
They heard the whirring of the
| wheels in the clock chamber beneath
them. Onei Two! Threei-suddenly
a CLEAN of light shot out from the OPP
posite side of the river and q long and
slender line of fire streamed across the
sky toward the East yellow Jacket
is shooting" came from a thousand
throats''
"Yes!" cried Wang Foo. yellow
I y
outstretched hands of his two COM
panions. "and he is shooting away from
the Settlement! Gentlemen, the danger
is over. there will be no riot in Shang-
hail.
The Shanghai Daily News of the
seventeenth of the moon announced IN
it's headlines:
ALL DANGER OF RIOT OVER
1.-THE Municipal Council has wisely
| decided to withdraw its proposed or
| der compelling the wheeIbarrow
coolies to grease their wheels, on
condition Of their agreeing to pay
| the extra tax for the license. We
trust the European residents will
not object to this trif1ing annoyance,
| which seems to have stirred up SO
much native feeling.
1t is a very small concession to
our faithful laborers, upon whose
services the handling of the business
of the Port Is SO largely dependent.
They will all return peacefully to
their work on the morrow"
| "A little compromise after all does
no HARM" remarked the Inspector to
| Wang Foo, as he read the notice from
tie paper; st oils the wheels Of life,
as the grease does on the wheelbar-
| rows, does it not2"
/ les answered the detective WIN
a smile. "and 1t certainly IL not ex.
ipensive. The fifty dollars that gave
to the sailor who fired the signal
rocket from the roof of the temple was
very little compared to the safety and
welfare of the city. As the old Chinese
saying goes
! 1.-Two CHA Pien. Pao Hwa Chr,'
1.-THE cost of harmony Is little.
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