Year: 1870

AimOsb every Ahlf a. Tue S4blduRe
of the Occidental Hotel, on Bush
street, may be seen an old lame
ChinamaD, who importunes us for
aims. A cOuntenance traced with
the furrows of care and starvation
is no way improved by its total
abstinence from water. And yet,
who Of the many persons who be
stow a passing glance on that wealth
er-beaten, dirt begrimed face, think
for moment that in those old
shriyeled veins courses blood Of
royalty? Yet this is even so. Fifty
one years ago all the bright dreams
oil Oriental luxury were his. He,
Ine youngest Of five brothers, had
lor M ms father no less a parsonage
than the Sovereign Of the Celestial
Empire. Until his tenth year, reared
in the splendor of that court of
which 80 much is told and 40 little
known, he had not a wish that was
not gratified. Mandarins of biCb
rank we're glad indeed to wait IN
this scion Of a royal house. he
with his brothers, had each their lit
tie court. To one was allotted the
care of the royal fowls; to another,
the royal sheep; to another, the
royal goats; and to him belonged
the care of his mothers pet peacock.
Sinecures, that exist in all we'll
regulated governments, are by no
means unknown in China. So he
grew up, happy in the execution Of
his duties and the paternal CON-
mands. Already had he been pro-
missed the command of the Thibetan
frontier.


Far from the capital, in the coun.
try where the rebels were most
powerful, we can well imagine the
CONSERVATION caused his mother at
this intelligence impaired to her BIZ
her favorite son. Even at that early
age he was eager for this MAJ tial life.
He dreamed only of great deeds and
wars alarms; and when his mother,
gently braiding his tiny little queue,
would gaze into her boys bright eyes
and read there the language which
they spoke, her heart alternated be-
tween hope and fear. A gentle lit
tie maiden had long been mis- be-
trothed. She, too, felt keenly the
pangs of parting, which his hopeful,
chatting heart had not the time to
feel Bright, bright indeed, was the
future for him; and yet one short
night cast him from his airy height
even to the depth into which he is
sunk. One of those sudden revolu.
tiOns to which that kingdom is 80
subject hurried his father from his
throne, and caused the murder Of
of all who loved and hOnored him.
Through the fidelity of an old ser
want this Prince was saved from the
general butchery. Still, his name
alone would have been his death
warrant at any time So he lived
in poverty and constant dread, shun-
ned by all and stunning all When
the first cargoes of Chinese were
sent to our State he, welcoming this
opportunity for escape from an
atmosphere of death to him, Snug.
gled himself on board one of the
ships. The close confinement which


he had to undergo, and the tossing
of the cargo in the hold, ruined his


health and crippled him for life.
| Too weak to beg, and too honest to


steal, nothing was left him but to


accept the bounty which a stranger


in strange land saw fit to bestow


upon him. Who can tell the pangs
it cost that proud heart before II


could descend to this? As you sec


him now, so he has lived for the past


ten years.


Through the aid Of an interpreter


we cleaned the sad history Of this


poor old Prince. That hardship and
want may have affected the brain
Of the unfortunate is more than like.
ly; but his tale is told with so much
apparent truthfulness, so much ear


nestness, that we have thought il
worthy the hearing Of our readers,


Brighter was his starting in life thar


one in ten thousand; dark, darker
| perhaps in its closing than one in ten


million.-San francisco Chronicle