Cashion Advance. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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7 HE CHINESE COIN
Ey MAXWELL ALEY
'(Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
The shop where the Chiuese coin l little hope. I knew from the first
cam* Into my possession was in that I that the ship was doomed and that we
part of Shanghai where foreigners : on board might be thankful if wo es-
seldom go. I went there to get some
lare porcelain.
A wizened-lip Chinaman came for-
ward salaaming to me. 1 was mo-
tioned to a silken cushion and after
taped with our lives.
From my luggage 1 took what 1
could carry on my person, putting sev-
eral valuables, strange to say, the
Chinese coin among them. In a leath-
1 had seated myself the shop keeper ] ern pouch which 1 hung around my
neck. When the storm did come the
junk weathered it bravely for a time,
but at length we saw that it was go-
I i?;g to pieces and the captain, my-
self and llie crew embarked in the
j only boat.
1 shall pass quickly over the hor-
rors that ensued, though they are im-
[ pressed indelibly upon my memory.
One by one the men died off till I
alone remained, a mere ghost and
skeleton of a man. 1 grew frenzied
and I remember little of what happen-
ed. I remember last of taking the
Chineaa coin from ihe pouch around
my neck and tossing it to see if res-
cue would come. 1 remember that it
disappeared. I glanced about the
bazar. I gave a long-drawn "Ah!" as
1 saw a matchless tea service of the
ware 1 sought. That Indeed was Ke-
angsee porcelain, but flner than any
1 had ever seen before. Alacia would
be pleased with that!
The shop-keeper returned. On a
tray he bore a pot of tea and two
small cups. He placed the tray on
the teak-wood stand by my side and
after gravely pouring me a cup, did
the same for himself. Nothing was
said of buying or selling; that is
against eastern etiquette. We drank
in silence. When the tea was fin-
ished the old man arose.
"Chang-ho he speak Knglalsh. Me fell in my hand with the smooth side
no," he said, by way of explanation, i up—which meant, as 1 had distin-
and then vanished. | gulshed between the two sides, res-
in the course of time Chang-ho ap- j Cue. 1 remember that I laughed in-
peared. He was a fat Celestial with j sanely and kissed the coin with my
a face as innocent in expression as a ■ (jry parched lips and then replaced it
baby's. He was young, little more , jn t)le pouch. After that 1 remember
than a boy. He hoped my most glo- | nothing for a long time.
rious excellency was well, after hav- j They tell me that I was picked up
ing salaamed gravely for just five min-
utes. We exchanged a few more
formalities, and then I began by ask-
ing to see everything in the shop, but
the Keang-see tea service. After I
had looked at a quantity of things I
did not want, I asked to see the thing
I so much desired.
Chang-ho brought the tea service
over to the teak-wood stand. It came
into my possession for so low a sum
that I was ashamed of my bargain.
I had nothing but a rather large
piece of silver to give in payment, so
it waH necessary for nie to have
by a steamer and gradually brought
back to life, but that 1 lingered in a
hospital in London, whither the
steamer took me, and nearly died of
disease brought on by my exposure
and privation.
The first thing I remember is of
hearing a clink on a stone pavement
and glancing down and seeing the
Chinese coin laying before me. It
seemed the connecting link and mem-
ory returned.
An attendant of the hospital ap-
proached me. "Come," she said in
the persuasive tone one uses to a
change. Chang-hoo went to the back i chii(| .You must go in now.'
of the shop and returned with a hand
ful of coins. He placed them in my
outstretched had and just as 1 was
withdrawing it an evil gleam shot
•over his angelic countenance and with
his eye on the old shop-keeper, who
had reentered the room and was
busily arranging some of his wares,
he placed the Chinese coin in my
liand.
1 emerged from the incense-laden
air of the bazar into the foulness of
the alley and made my way to my
rooms. I did not think of the coin
till 1 was retlrihg late in the evening.
Then I took it from my inner pocket
and examined it by the light. It was
Indeed peculiar. It was nearly a quar-
ter of an inch thick and about the size
of a half dollar. The more I looked
at It the more the mystery of what it
could he grew upon me. I studied its
cabalistic characters till far into the
night.
It must have been a week after the
Chinese coin came into my possession
that a peculiar thing happened. I had
left Shanghai and was in Canton.
One day while walking along the
street I heard something hit the pave-
ment with a clink. I looked down. It
was the Chinese coin. It bounded
along over the rough pavement with
a most remarkable velocity, and 1
gave chase. Just ahead of me v as a
crowd of coolies. "Good-by, coin " I
said to myself, and sure enough it had
vanished. I spoke with what little
Chinese I knew, offering the coolies
any price to restore my coin. Hut
they protested that they knew nothing
of it. I really felt grieved over the
loll for I had intended to keep it for
a poeketpiece and curio.
From China I went to Japan, spend-
ing several months there. From
Japan I went to the Philippines, where
my stay was somewhat shorter. Just
before I left for India another strange
thing happened. I wus walking along
the beach when my foot hit upon a
.small piece of wreckage, and I stooped
to examine It. It seemed to have
been lately washed up, tor the wood
was well preserved, though much
water-soaked. Idly turning the piece
"Where am I?" I gasped, bewild-
| ered. "What has become of the boat?
Where—" Hut a doctor approached
' and stopped me and refused to let me
talk until after I liad had time to col-
j lect myself and get my thoughts ad-
I justed.
As scon as possible I sent a'cable-
gram to America. I received the an-
swer:
"Father dead; fortune left to
charity."'
What was I to do? I was a strang-
er in a strange land and penniless.
They promised to keep me longer at
the hospital and I hoped to be able
to make some plans in that time.
A few days later I was sitting on
the pavement where I had sat when
memory first returned to me. 1 took
the coin from the pouch and idly toss-
ed it idly in the air. "Rough for luck,"
I said. It lit in my hand rough up.
' You have been a friend to me be-
fore, old coin," I said, "I hope you are
right.
1 sat turning it over and over again,
pressing it between my thumb and
Tore-finger. Of a sudden a circular
part that formed the center flew open.
"How strange!" I exclaimed. "There
must be a spring that my finger press-
ed." I examined the opening. It was
filled with gold dust. I poured this
carefully out In my hand. With it
came something else. I gazed In as-
tonishment. A magnificent, flat,
pigeon-blood ruby lay glowing, burn-
ing in my hand.
"Luck, old coin!" I murmured soft-
ly. "Luck! You were right!"
• •••••
It brought me over £5,000, which
was an ample amount to get homo
on and have something to live on af-
ter I got there. I did not contest my
father's will, but went to work to earn
a fortune of my own. I have It now
and I have Alacia too—though she
hasn't the Keang-see tea service—and
sometimes people wonder why I wear
a heavy brass coin for a watch charm.
Use of the Fan in Japan.
Visitors to Japan are usually im-
pressed with the many curious uses
of wreckage over I was astonished to i to which fans nre put. The umpire at
see a coin securely embedded In Its ' wrestling and fencing matches uses a
under side. Hv an effort I managed [ large fan, the various motions of which
to extract the piece of money. What j constitute u language that the coin-
was my surprise when I found it to ! batants understand and promptly
be the Chinese coin. I looked at it in j heed. Men and children, as well as
astonishment. "Tho coin, the coin, j women, use fans at all times. The
THE coin!" I kept murmuring over ! servant has a flat fan, made of rough
and over again to myself. I paper, to blow the charconl fires with,
I left Manila on a largo Chltieso | or use as a dustpan. The farmer has
Junk Instend of a steamer. We wore
four days out from land when a sud-
den slortn seemed to drop from no-
where. In these regions the typhoon
comes with little warning. It Is a
whirlwind of enormous velocity ami a
diameter of from 200 to 600 miles.
The center of It Is the most dangerous
part and a ship cannot possibly live
there. A large steamer can often es-
cape a typhoon by proper manipula-
tion, but with a sailing vessel there Is
a stout fan to winnow his grain. Still
another variety Is made of waterproof
paper, which .dipped In water, creates
a pleasant coolness by evaporation
without wetting tho clothes.
Gladstone's Library.
Olai'stone'n library is now accessible
to all, as tli > St. Delniols library at
Ilawarden, erected ill a cost of $300,.
000. There are 37,000 volumes, large
lv on theology.
Oklahoma News
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Cutting the Wheat Estimate. —
Although I lie harvest is barely over
and the threshing yet unfinished, it
seems certain that the government s
prediction of lb,000,000 bushels of
wheat for Oklahoma is too high, anil
that the yield will not reach 12,000.
000, with a strong probability that it
will not run over 9,000,000 or 10.000,
0C0 bushels. The best results this
year were in the extreme western
counties. Woodward and Beaver. A1
though Beaver had a comparative!;
small acreage, the quality of the
grain is fine and most of the fields
run from flfteen'to twenty-five bush-
els per acre. Taking It over the ter-
ritory as a whole, this year's yield
will not be more than 40 per cent of
a normal crop on the acreage origin
ally planted. Grant count* reports
conditions rather better than expect-
ed, and indications are that around
Pond Creek at any rate the crop will
be an average on* or a little better.
Joseph French, who sold the first
new wheat In Pond Creek, had 120
acres in the first field which lie
threshed. It made nearly thirty
bushels to the acre anil tested strong
CO pounds to the bushel J. Haddlx,
the second man on the market there,
also had a good quality of wheat.
Both sold for 80 cents. The first sale
at Waukomis was from the farm of
Rev. Mr. Brewer. It made 115 bush-
els from seven acres, tested 69
pounds and brought 77 cants. Around
Lahoma the wheat was a disappoint-
ment, and many growers who were
expecting fifteen to twenty bushels
to the acre did not get more than
eight or ten. The Oklahoma millers
claim that the present price of wheat
is too high, and that if they cannot
get it at a lower rate they will be
compelled to Increase flour prices.
They have been obliged to pay from
75 cents to $1 for good milling wheat
for six months past, and quotations
from Kansas and Nebraska show
that as high a price rules there, in
spite of the reports that the Kansas
crop will be a bountiful one. The
Oklahoma farmer who has any outs
this year is a notable character.
Harry Hunter, living near Med mil,
has five acres of oats that lie says
will make fifty bushels to the acre,
and claims that there is only one oth-
er crop of oats in Grant county.
Confederate Vets to m:et. — M. 1).
Davis, brigadier general command-
ing the Third brigade, Oklahoma di-
vision of the Confederate veterans,
has issued a letter calling upon Ok-
lahoma veterans to accept the invita-
tion of the Indian Territory United
Confederate Veterans to join the lat-
ter in their annual reunion at Mc-
Alester on August 19, 20 and 21. Geit.
Threadgiil offers a life size portrait
of Stonewall Jackson to the Oklaho-
ma camp sending the largest delega-
tion to the Indian Territory re-
union.
Dead Body Found in River. —
The dead body of Professor Wayne
Manzilla, teacher of mathematics in
the state A. and M. college for ne-
groes at Langston, was found in 'he
Cimarron river near Coyle. The
death of Manzilla Is a mystery. Two
theories are advanced. One that he
was demented and committed sui-
cide and the other that he was mur-
dered and that his body had been
thrown in the river. The former the
ory seems more plausible that Man-
zilla had been ill with malarial fever
for several days, and it appeared
that his mind was affected when ho
disappeared. Manzilla was one of
the oldest instructors in the Lang-
ston unlversitv. having been there
since 'he institution was founded.
Natural Gas in New State. — Gov-
ernment inspection reports just com-
pleted give the available natural gas
production of the Red Fork and
Glenn Pool fields as upward of 500,-
000,000 cubic feet daily. Tho val ue
of this output nt 3 cents per thou-
sand, the rate charged to manufact-
urers, is $15,000 dailv, and the out
put of the field Is equal In fuel power
to the mining of 35,000 tons of coal
dully.
One Killed, 2 Bsd y Injured. — \V.
A. Watts was shot and Instantly kill-
ed and Hence Love and Bud Rowan
were seriously wounded as the re-
sult of a drunken row which orr ir-
red during a picnic at Baum, Trouble
started over some trivial matter be
tween Love and the other two men,
nnd It Is charged that Love drew his
gun and commenced shooting, killing
Watts Instantly and wounding Rowan
so seriously that his death la expect
ed. Love resisted arrest when Posse
man Sieve Cole attempted to take
him Into custody and while trying to
make his escape was shot through
tho body by the officer. Love whh
placed In tho hospital wan! of the
federal prison at Ardmore.
Election Is Cal.ed. — Governor
Franta lias issu d bis proclamation,
calling for an election to vote on tho
constitution, and for state, county
and township olllcoi i in Oklahoma,
or. September l< After le itingbis
authority for issuing the call and
setting forth the election ordinance
adopted by tho convention, the pro-
elaiuatlon reads: "Now, therefore,
I. Frank Frant , governor of the ter-
ritory of Oklahoma, by authority of
said amended ordinance, do hereby
make proclamation giving notice that
the elections hereinbefore mentioned
and provided for will be held 111 each
and all election and voting precincts,
in each and every county and dis-
trict. in and throughout the said pro-
posed state of Oklahoma, on Tues-
day, the 17th day of September, A. 1).
1907, at between the hours of said
day fixed by law, at which elections
the qualified electors for said propos-
ed state of Oklahoma shall vote di-
rectly for or aga.nst the said propos-
ed constitution, and for or against
the separate provision separately
submitted as aforesaid, and for any
and all of the elective officers for a
full state government, state, district,
county and township and members of
the legislature and representatives
to congress herein before mention-
ed." The opinion of some of the
best lawyers in Oklahoma is that the
issuance of this proclamation places
it beyond the power of the conven-
tion to further amend the constitu-
tion or to change the date of elec-
tion. Attorneys for the divided coun-
ties are now in Washington, trying to
perfect an appeal and to secure a
writ of supersedeas, by which Ihe
election may be tied up untli tile au-
thority of the convention to divide
counties may be decided upon by the
I nite.i States supreme court.
Murray Files Constitution.—Presi-
dent Murray, of the constitutional
convention has filed the original copy
of the constitution and prohibition
ordinance, nnd a certified cop of the
election ordinance, with Charles
Kilson, territorial secretary. He also
ransmittcd to Secretary Kilson and
iovernor Frant/ letters informing
them officially of Ihe t'li'r: The
copy of the constitution filed with
Secretary Filson is the original
sheepskin draft with the amendments
recently made interlined. Mr. Filson
will keep it in the vault, where it
may be inspected as othi r public rec-
ords by persons securing the con-
sent of the secretary. It Is believed
that this places the constitution
where it cannot lie further amend-
ed.
Sicond Territory Census. — Th?
taking of the census of Oklahoma at
the present time by the federal au-
thorities is only the second time In
the history of the United States that
tho federal government has ordered
a special census taken. The other
instance was when Minnesota was ail
mltted to the Union, in 1S57, a special
census being ordered to determine
the population before the state was
fina'lv admitted. During the delib-
erations of the senate committee on
territories in regard to the admission
of Oklahoma it was suggested that a
census be taken of the proposed new
state, but to this Senator Beverldge,
of Indiana, in charge of the state
hood blli, objected, pleading it wool I
take too much time and delay ac
t Ion.
Fight in a Convention. — An at
tempt by Henry Asp, a Santa Fe rail
ro"<| attorney of Guthrie, to address
the Republican county convention at
Muskogee converted the meeting into
a howling, fighting mob. Pistols
were brandished, knives flashed and
chairs wielded right and left, result
Ing In bruises and minor Injuries to
several persons. Officers with drawn
pistols who threate •<! to shoot into
the crowd If the fighting dill not
stop, failed to quell the disturbance.
United State s Marshall "find" Led-
better appeared on the scene and
pr.ictlcailN tool charge of the meet-
ing Ledbettei", who Is a democrat,
saved Asp from being mobbe I nnd
prevented bloodshed. Asp pule and
treml ling, was taken away from the
meeting. The trouble started when
the lint I-Frant* and alii I Statehood
forces, of which Asp Is a member, at-
tempted to address the meeting be
fore the organization was perfected.
The Frant* forces were victorious In
the test vote for temporary chairmen
and the other element then subsided
and quiet was restored.
's Pe-runa Useful
for Catarrh?
Should a list of tlie ingredients of Fe-
ruiia be submitted to any medical ex-
pert, of whatever school cr nationality,
lie would be obliged to admit without
reserve that each one of them was of un-
doubted value in chronic catarrhal dis-
eases, and had stood the test of many
years' experience in tho treatment of
such diseases. THERE CAN BE NO
DISPUTE ABOUT THIS WHAT-
EVER. Peruna is composed of the most
efficacious and universally used herbal
remedies for catarrh. Every ingredient
of Peruna has a reputation of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh.
Peruna brings to the home the COM-
BINED KNOWLEDGE OF SEVERAL
SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE in tho treat-
ment of catarrhal diseases; brings to
the home tho scientific skill and knowl-
edge of the modern pharmacist; and last
but not least, brings to the home the vast
and varied experience of Dr. Hartman,
in the use o f catarrh remedies, and in tho
treatment of catarrhal diseases.
The fact is, chronic catarrh is a dis-
ease which is very prevalent Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. They have visited
doctors over and over again, and been
told that their case is one of chronic
catarrh. It may be of the nose, throat,
lungs, stomach or some other internal
organ. There is no doubt as to the na-
ture of the disease. The only trouble
is the remedy. This doctor has tried to
cure them. That doctor has tried to
prescribe for them.
BUT THEY ALL FAILED TO
BRING ANY RELIEF.
Dr. Hartman's idea is that a catarrh
remedy can be made on a large scale,
as he is making it; that it can be made
honestly, of the purest drugs and of
the strictest uniformity. His idea is
that this remedy can be supplied direct-
ly to the people, and no more be charged
for it than is necessary for the
handling of it
No other household remedy so uni-
versally advertised carries upon tho
label the principal active constituents,
showing that Peruna invites tho full
inspection rf t','> "-'Me*.
Poor Paint i3 Expensive
If one is rich enough to repaint his
buildings evi-ry year for the pleasure
ot having a change of color scheme,
the quality of the paint used may cut
little figure. Hut if it is desirable to
cut the painting bills down to the least
amount possible jier year, it is of the
utmost importance that the paint be
made of Pure White Lead and the
best of Linseed Oil. I here are imita-
tions in the form of alleged White
Lead, and there are substitutes in the
form of ready-prepared paints.
We guarantee our While Lead to be
absolutely pure, and the Dutch Hoy
Oil the side ot every keg is your safe.
guard. Look for
him.
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