The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1900, Page 7

¥ Account neiTling nd uthen D_\) tic L ) [ FRIE R RS ¥ PoTrrEA R Ny Ay +ee e uarters. can' €, Sas il Bb Tl f' within the e s 't arll, - “ - . + + - + L Diped sick call I the surgeon’ weak to aw surgeon. you() t arill— with Pfll Num- fortifi a- than “avite s rounds, I indy.“Cer- get it but the supply is ex- dered then, as I do now, that the liquors in- e sick and dying eoldlers n responsible for the condi- I too frequently saw cer- e_commissioned officers of the of Peking. It seems beyond ®elief, more so than that the medical de. should have exercised so little , bound for known to be disastrous, with in- of the common medical necessi- month’s use. s subsequent to my conversa- e surgeon 1 was visited by our the Rev. Father McKinnon, and se kindness promptes many a good AT OATSA TR more at ( I wo *_ v and promises have been se- ater than these—the trump ‘which the soclety s preparing to slay—is its new acquisition, an American ’ citizen. Homer Lea has joined hands h the Chinese revolutfonists. Homer up in military affairs, claiming a x'ul ary ancestry back through all ¢ America’'s wars, is the masterpiece of conversion. The importance of gaining a member great that the presi- Macao is looking at the Californ ment. Homer Lea will be reward- nd the revolution are successful. man in China and will be plums in the shape of diplo- tions falling in his path to be ashils ‘the Yookl Jeehiiy Fesl that their success is now assured—now that an erican military man is working with m He is a 2i-year-old collcge student, who father in Los Angeles, is allowance for several back has been $300 per month, which eat little sum and which he rather *regrets the loss of. For it so happened, ding to his narrative, that he told rer about three months ago of his kTR TR Tk T THE SUNDAY CA LL. ) weak, it without alone near came crying out sking fo to man. and, c . bade him * cer was carried the blow a vile nam The volun out xt m Yet for his cot was for @ time immediat next to mine and he was transferred w me from the navy yard hospital to the hospital in the town of Cavite. The boy told me he was shortly to have graduated from one of the San Francisco high schools. He had i zen il for a month with the fever, and as he heard the taps of life he, too, raved and cried in his delirfum, Often in the middle of the night I heard him calling of home, of his father, of his mother. I re- member they sald to him £0 many times “You — — — - that it tore my heart, “why don’t you die?’ He died as the other. And they both were Americans! Toung Californian Is Plotting to Become Commander-in-Chief of Chinese Rebel Forces. & plans for being a warrior bold. The reply was: “I will supply you with money to attend college, bt with none to start rev- olutionary wars.” And the $300 was cut off. This had no effect upon the young man's determination. He went about his work more stubbornly than ever, hobnobbing with the Chinese, and becoming intimate with one of the leaders of the Los An- geles reform soclety. This man was Tom Tsal Hin, narrow-eyed fashion value of the name of an stand on his lists. a person shrewd enough in his to appreciate the to American Moreover, Homer I would be valuable to attend to the actual gement from a military standpoint Proud to bursting on the strength of his acquisition, Tom Tsai Hin had pictures taken of Lea and himself grouped with another member of the soclety—Chang Kung Sing. Eight of these photographs were sent to Honolulu, Yokohama, Naga- saki, Hongkong and Macao, and letters went along explaining that one Homer Lea, a student at Stanford University, California, a man well up in military af- fairs, is in sympathy with the Pow Wong Wuey and desires to operate the cam- paign from a military standpoint and to bring it to a successful issue. Tom Tsal Hin's next move was to put SETSATSE SET kTR SRR ilitary Hospltal at /T\amia me some fr"m a private Pathos puncmm-d each day. There is do? I can’'t dle; I can’'t! Oh, my God! of home again, and then for nd saw n 4 he s accustome 2 the one pigeon-holed In my memory My God! th faking illness r it 1qu e floor firerar, ere was a lad from Southern He asked me if I ever prayed and to s ng o8- he mes A3 nd th me N n i 1 n ) ne 1} {1 ey i i 1 ] / g\ YE UEO / 7B 75 ME JTM‘/& oF mjf/ea 7 AND o 7?1& G Roup Y ooy fresH L Woury e (, Jos&, ovJo 0o e f‘l o2 7 THE RESTING SYACE- OF MAN Y A HECo California, TTe had an acre of land at pray with htm. I 81 se. Death came & them deffoacies, writing letters home for Those men fortunate snough te possess home, and had been saving up to build a week later. them, praying with them in their last mo- the means added to the hospital fare milk little house. And there was a girl waiting I do not remember that I had felt bit- ments. and eggs, purchasing them from the na~ for him—a girl who still weeps over the terly because of suffering or had had any I came to dread the hours when the tive peddiers. So bad, however, was photograph of a dead soldler, whose grave cry against fortune whatsoever, until one operations were being performed. I can- nt:u‘cn of (heupoddl?r“l milk, in spite of lies under the hot Manila sun. day the steward came into the ward and, not say whether there was a dearth of tb:; ;Ml;!n lengm'z" !:!&'-;nuz.v’ur& t A nurse whose mother was dependent stopping at my cot, sald that I should go anaesthetics or whether the cases were from such as to forbid thelr use. But thers were times when from the operating room thereafter to the kitchen for my meals upon him fell 1il. We had been good that I was able, and that faking did not dler. Whose bottles were always friends and he asked to see me. I went wards, save one little pleasant-faced fil.‘_ od ood milk. His ste) t wers so over to !l~ cot. work. It was too much, to suffer through came the most hideous shrieks and the And his uml}e 0 s::mpu etic that oy he sald, “it's all up. I'm long weeks, to feel life slipping from me, most awful cursings I have ever heard. came to be "-;’»'}‘mn‘nr as a pleasant fea- II' up! What will my mother almost to lose hope of seeing the shores Once I chanced to pass by at such a mo- Why milk was not placed regularly up- n the hospital fare I cannot concelve— erhaps Government was too poor. e was in the Cavite Hospital a lm- ed amount fu shed for the use o! fever Hpa!l»nts but those stricken with dlnuu the bowels, although it was ised the surgeons, were not given any own expense for milk, eggs an SATH T A SA AT R TASE AT AT A ATSA TSR AT TR TR SRRSO him he could organize a regiment of 1100 corn Mr. Lea into action at once. Ie pro- was the sensation. Dr. Tom She Bin was \nrrh when, during the iast weeks, I vided him w important documents, much elated and spread the news joy- discharged United States soldiers to g0 to®*could ho longer endure the hos‘flm tooa. such as identification papers, letters of fully. He advertised to such good effect Hongkong and to join his forces there. (Jwas approximately $130 per 3 introduction to the president and leaders that eight prominent reformers callel Three white men are ready to help they were prepared for me by a company eoua- sine provided From the navy yard hospital I was enterprising Mr. Lea. Dr. E. H. Samuels ) thers was no other means of Mayfield will take charge of the mili- o's soclety and, most val- . five letters to the most im- upon Lea and invited him to a banquet in his honor at a swagger restaurant on portant leaders in the Orient. They were Jackson street—a restaurant where carved tary hospital. He is a New Zealander, 0*transferred to that within the town of addressed to Kang Yue Wel of Macao, stools take the place of chairs and where years of age, the son of the surgeon gen- ACavi and from there, after runain, who goes by the allas of Hong Nam Hol; the soup comes last. eral of the Union army. He expects toygam dw}%:—':? v’.rf;(vuerrn:éxdmmm :;.mf Leon Kei Chew, now in Honolulu; the Mr. Lea behaved prettily and the ban- direct a staff of twenty-five physicians. r i Mantis, Dut 1 wos Geubin Gee Sun Po, a Chinese newspaper in Ma- quet took place on the night of March 1§ He has already submitted an elaborate on. Th , cao; the members of the Tal Tung Hok last. Famous reformers were present and plan for his field hospital, showing col-#headquarters again they carried me Hau_Association of Yokohama, and to Chinese custom was infringed upon to the lecting stations, dressing stations and all )to the ho L The weeks passed sway Lee Yung Shue of Tuck Wing, Hongkong. extent of specch-making. Mr. Lea's part the rest of a complete outfit. 1 Renad. >l e:::le. = The fac simile given here of one of the of this was done through an interpreter. L. aggart is a Stanford student in ail v-n*lbl- pa- letters Is of all, as they are identical. Silently eager Chinese sat about and the department of civil engineering. The ¢ ip. They merely introduce Mr. Homer Lea, heard Lea’s propositions. He would start scheme assig wooks m m. explain hiz plans and dwell upon his an- d—chrenic dys- cestry of warriors, which means much to a revolutionary war At either Hongkong engineering corps under the control of Jho or Macao; he would go up the river as A . ing I = od-by to the these Old World people. far as Foochoo and establish. three way John York, a Los Angeles attorney, will% O5¢ s e Slany u et Mr. Lea does not speak thelr language, siations, and if given entire charge of manage the signal corps. He 1s, Lea says,(sieepin e D that knows not waking. aves, melancholy but sweet, tt major in the National Guard of Califor-pAbove their e sounded taps—taps for an nia, and a valuable man for the army. ) the bugles h He, too, will be entirely controlled by ¢ °ternal nigh Lea. e T And so it is that the merry war is ex-() pected to progress. Lea awaits only his final contracts from the Chinese. Across j o the waters a youth of another race has a /P greedy eye on the throne of a great na-% 12 tion. Here in San Francisco is the Amer- ican boy who proposes to win It for him.gy s0 he had difficulty in finding the San Francisco president of reformers when he arrived here, Rev. Ng Poon Chew helped him out. He is a reformer from Los An- geles, editor nowadays of a local Chinese newspaper, the Chung Sal Yat Po. When the president read Mr. Lea's let- ters and saw his photograph taken with the Los Angeles leader, glad-hand was no name for it. He trumpeted Lea's ar- rival among all his colleagues, and great the military ferces he would agree to bring them to military perfection by pro- viding them with equipment and sub- sidiary officers in thorough going fashion. He promised that he would be able to cope with any armed forces. Still more he told the secret men. He sald that he had been in correspondence with Charles Wnite, Third Artillery, com- missary department, of the United States army now at Manila, and that through ras on board a home-bound he gates of Hades open to irits they will know the joy to eseape the death-laden hospital for the fresh sait I knew that thers But 1 clung to the slowly health came back. ERASMUS KIRKWOOD,