The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1902, Page 15

having Ho Yow THE SUNDAY CALL. only troubls is that he can’t understand English and speaks only Chinese—a dis- advantage felt more keenly by the inter- viewer than .the Interviewee, for Chow Yu Kwdn has the true Oriental com- placency that seems to say, “My lan- guage is centuries older than yours; why - have you not learned it?" Although he has spent his life in study, he has never undertaken English—which means one thing or another, according to your point of view. And in the year he has spent in America he has not even 13 Peculiarities oF Newonsul Who Wil Stand Be- tween Qhinese and Great ““White eVvil.”? - taken the trouble te learn to pass the time of in any other language than his own. signature in English is his one concession. 4 But Chow Yu Kwan fell hair to Ho Yow's secretary, who chances to be Ho Yow's nephew; and as Ho Wing Sew is a young man of charming manner and uses & yery excellent brand of English, the Consul is relleved of much responsi- bility in talking. Ho Wing Sew is something of an artist &t sidestepping questions that people have no business to ask; though just why there should be a limit is not quits plain if Ii Hung Chang adhered to Chinese eti- quette in the matter of questions. The result of questions asked is some- thing like this: Chow Yu Kwan lfkes America He likes it very mucn. Of all the things he has seen here, he thinks the weather the most wonderful. Nothing in the way of Western civiliza- tion has made such an impression on him as the weather, He has not yet outlined a policy. He must first study oenditions. But of one thing he is sure: he will do everything in his power to make the Chinese good citi- zens, He has no hobbies but books. His rec- reation is study. He will not bring his wife to America. His ‘one son is here, studying under a private tutor. Incidentally, it was learned that Chow Yu Kwan is a man of parts and not with- out honor in his own country. He Is a scholar of no mean standing, having passed not only the first and sec- ond, but the third and highest degree in the literary competitive examinations held by the Imperial Government. This corresponds, as nearly as may be, to a degree of A. M., and it has a political nificance as well, for it 1s from the ranks ¢ those Who successfully pass thess ex- aminations that Government officials are recruited under & sort of civil service sys- tem. Chow Yu Kwan loves hls books better than anything; that is, better than any- thing except office. Bix years ago he left his books te be- come assistant secretary of the Supreme Court, & very homorable position and one that brought Bim in close touch with the men who are making China over to fit these latter days. Kissing goes by favor. So do consular appointments. And the fact that Chow Yu Kwan is a close friend of Wu Ting Fang, and also of Sir Liang Chen Tung, 'Wu's successor, is good reason for bellev- ing that Chow Yu Kwan has coms to stay, for Chinese Consuls are appoiuted by Chinese Ministers. Perhaps Chow Yu Kwan had soms hint of what would be doing here when he gave up his secretaryship last October to come to San Francisco as president of the Sam Yup Assoclation, ons of the most in- fluential of the Six Companfes. All presi- dents of these associations are ex-officio members of the Chiness diplomatic cirele, but the presidency alone is not big enough bait for & man whose hat is topped with a white glass button, Iindlcating sixth rank. The salary of thess presidents ls enly about $50 , and that was ne in- ducement, for Chow Yu Kwan is rich— ves, very rich, as riches go in China Ii Hung Chang to the contrary notwith- standing, it Is not good form to ask the exact figures, and if you do ask, you get no wer, for the question gets lost in the interpreter’s head. The conclu: is that this is the man who for the next three years will stand between the Chiness of the Pacific Coast white devil. Ho Yow has gons. Long live Chow Yu Kwan. MRKING AND GUARDING | MEDIQINE FOR THE KING. ONSIDERING how vigtlantly ¢ King’s life 1s guarded in other di- rections, it Is only natural that even greater preca should be taken | with regard to his es, and It is practically an impossibility for them to | be tampered with or any mistake made |in their preparation, says a Londom | paper. Although all the royal palaces are fitted with laboratories well stocked with drugs_ it is only in the case of urgent ne- cessity that the medicine for royal pa- | tients issues from there, the resident apothecary being generally called ‘upon to dispense for the various members of the household only. The King’s medicines originate from the pre: tion drawn by | the s apothecary, Sir Francis Lak- ing, in consultation with the other physi- cians in attendance. After it has been written out in Latin and signed It is placed In a wallet, which Is then locked and sealed. There are two keys to this wallet, one retained by the physician and | the other by the dispensing chemist, to | whom the prescription is thus sent In charge of a special messenger. It will be seen so far that it is !mpos- sible for the prescription to be changed | or tampered with, and the chemist on re- ceiving the wallet takes it into the small laboratory specially set apart for the preparation of royal medicines before breaking the seal. This is then dome in the presence of an assistant. All the of the edge of Chinatown dragon flag flles fr roof and a tall iron gate guards tf w S royal dispensers are required to have a eboad bl special laboratory wherein the drugs, of ! e of ab the highest quality only, are kept apart i at Chow Yu from others and under lock and key, s Kow-tows and = *while In the same room is a fireproof safs aats e The S containing a book of vellum into which o¢ Francisco a standard by which to meas- of ure Chinese Consuls. Although a man of forty-one, Chow Yu the prescription is carefully copled and checked before the medicine is made up. Equal secrecy 18 maintalned in the dis- big men Kwan bad never béen outside the Flow- ery Kingdom until he came to America ar ago. He has the manner of the vincial. He lacks the nonchalance of who has gone and seen and conquered the world. pensing, which is carrled on behind locked doors, and every portion of the drugs used is three times -carefully weighed and analyzed before being com~ pounded. A final examination is then | made, and the bottle or box having been sealed down is placed In the wallet with arriages disy y, it was the end the preseripti after which to the physician. But even now the medicine is not ready for the royal patient. It has agaln to be | examined and checked by the physician in the precincts of the royal laboratory. This ne, he seals down the cork and puts the bottle in a box which is kept locked and only opened when a dose has to.be administered. .So cautious Is he that, although the box is kept in the pa- tient's chamber, the cork of the bottls is sealed agzin whenever it has been opened, and only wnen doses have to be frequently given does .the bo remalin on the table n and locked and sealed, messenger takes it back He seems hardly accustomed to the offi- 1 of purplish silk, with bright nd the heav! the breast. Yet he comes from Government service in Peking, and robe indicates that it does the hat which n of his rank. Perhaps Chow Yu Kwan thinks there are more important things than clean collars, a smooth hat and a neatly brush- old regime, the beginning of a new. Chow Yu Kwan, the new Co first of all, Chow Yu Kwan is facings ly embroidered hinaman He 1s & Chinese, m row—as truly Chinese as d pig t some great feast day or the odors t issue from the cellars of Chinatown. Not that He Yow was less Chinese, but of other He was of the ©d East, and Ho Chow Yu Kwan is graclous. He clever, Ho doesn’t object to being interviewed. On Ban t¥ s to enjoy it. The Wwin Eavms OF Two Sexes! Mind Qultlre For DoGS. the collar of h has seen servi bears the butt eue. contrary, he seel N consideration of the many marvel- and bade him bring them to me, which he & INTENDENT WILLIAM R. Intendent Smith, “when fully developed, = i of the Natio Botanic have mearly [‘(‘{)“’""3‘”{';*1 ‘}'[""kf‘-fi;‘fi“‘?‘y ous stories about intelligence in the did readily enough. When he brought [ has recently received an SHCEECH ;’:xos ’.th “‘n“_*"“l‘(‘:r““?m “g’m“v;: lower animals, and especially dogs and the plain card I simply threw 1'.'hack. valuable and curious uite upright—straight as an iron eolumn horses, it is commonly taken for grant- while when he brought -the ‘food card sdd ady extensive collec- —and In the male trees frequently attains | ed that their reasoning power differs from I gave him a plece of bread, and in tion of plant life now under his charge, et in height, the females be- | man’s not in quality but only in degree. about a mionth he had pretty we.l }eajnie‘g ess young specimen of & 1a¥8 $ S vard opiped leaves, S0I¢ | time to establish 'this seeming likeness poo/y 6"y, RRR S L STV twarans h are upward of twenfy feet long | the doubls « paim, it 18 POP- ha'iwelve feet wide. The fruit is usually | experimentally, but it must be confessed and other words to which the dog was ularly called peculiar and, in many (gyered with a rich fibrous husk, and |that the results are still negative, says expected to attach no signification. In a ways, freak ecies of the palm fam- crdinarily contains one immense nut,| the New York Evening Sun. Nor can an Yery short time Lord Avebury found that e Botanic Garden often weighing from thirty to forty | exception be m; In the case of Lord Van was able to make distinctions; when rector of BChenley pounds, with excessively hard shell. This | Avebury, Wwho B ine London: Magazine he wanted to go for a walk he would and aside from one wonderful tree requires fully 100 years | gives the results, sych as they are, of an pick up the ‘“out” card and run to the e same variety of pefore it arrives at maturity. The short- | interesting series of experiments with a 400T, when thirsty he would pick up the k conservatories, est period before it puts forth its flower | black poodie. It should not be sald, how- . Water” card, and so on. Special precau- nd in the United buds is thirty years, and a period of near- | ever, that he sought to ‘“establish” any {ions were taken to avoid discrimination v ten Tears clapaes bafore. the toult ma- | Srersahat heisoueht to “establiah’ ahy by the sense of smell, It ia Interesting €0 sons which com- {urcs, aithoush It attains full size in | ooeomceired Delers for a8 & Man he NOte that on one of the few occasions coacoanut palm about four years. truth. Our ignorance of the physical na- Yhen he was mistaken he fetched a card to the botanist. =~ “The discovery of the only spot in the | ture of dogs I8, according to Lord Ave- mgrked ‘door’ klyxszcnd of “food. the fact that It world where the nuts grow made in | bury, very largely due to this, that the 50 far it looks well for the reasoning ery limited area the year 113. This was on a small and | effort of their owners in the past has Power of the dog. =~ But some further nowhefe to be found ynimportant island in the Indian Ocean, experiments were rather disappointing. been directed ‘mainly to teaching them § ; : except en two OF not far to be northeast of the island of | Instead of learning from them. In order, Lhus, when' Lord Avebury took three in the Seychelles Madagascar. The muts were first discov- | therefore, to reverse the order, Lord Ave. {733 yellow, blue and orange. respective- the northeast of the cred floating on the surface of the ocean, | bury decided to employ a modification of L @nd tried to teach Van to bring one or another according to a duplicate of simi- r. The plant In ques- and a great deal of mystery surrounded | the system used by Dr. Howe in-teachlbg lar color exhibited beforehand he. found in what is known as their origin. By the natives of the Indian | deaf-mutes. “I took two pleces of card- 4 o, Incanabl i al” house at the Botanlc archipelago it was thought that -they | board about ten Inches by three,” he says, oo the dok e\ possiBiibe of - calor ¢ guarded with most jealous grew on (rees at the bottom of the ocean. | “and on one of them printed in large let- plindnass mecurreg. to Moy of - color crable superintendent. The In certain islands it was death to any | ters the word ‘food.’ leaving the othor futed cards marked resmetiocie r 91 m which the palm springs native to have ome found in his posses- | blank. I then placed the two cards OVET and ITT. byt after cxpermmoiing Yoo’ nd presents a very peculiar sion, as all the nuts became by royal edict | two saucers, and in the one under the weeks he found that Van moiing, for ten ce. The plant Is in & large tub the property of the King, who sold them | 'f00d" card I put a little broad and milk, to mudersten Wit he whassgilLgnable greater part of the big double for from 6 to 15) crowns each. It is|which Van, after having his attention curious, for it Seems that while the do " lles above the sofl. This speci- reported among the inhabitants of the | called to the card, was allowed to eat. was capable of assoclating in :amefl "g : w about two years old and has islands where the tree grows that a load. | This was repeated’ over and over again ner the iden of & cortalns cora et o loped frond, with another ed ship has been given for a single dou- | until he had had enough. In about ten idea of food. it was umAble to rinbine ginn to open ble cocoanut which measured as much in | days be began to distinguish between the two ideas which seem at first gl 1 ificent palms,” sald Super- breadth as in length.” . two cards. I then put them on the floor most as simple. b e