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Show THE MAN WITH TEN EYES BY MRS. ARTHUR H. SMITH In the province of Shantung, China, about two hundred miles south of Peking, stretched out along the banks of the Grand Canal, lies the venerable old city of TehchowA A most perverse and self-sufficient town it was. But since they began their civic career more than a thousand years ago, perhaps it was but natural for them to be irritated when the American infant, (whose country had not yet been put into short dresses), arrived on the scene, and tried to reform them. Irritated they were, so they mobbed the next foreigner who passed through their streets. As this chanced to be the American consul, it made the American eagle scream at Peking. The official at Tehchow was removed. The city, thus having its ears officially boxed, took notice and mobbed no more "Foreign Devils," but sat, and sulked, and hated, and spread abroad such venomous lies about Christianity, that Satan felt safe enough for a nap. In this atmosphere there grew up a boy named Tong Yu Shan, (Jade-Mountain Tong), to the age of twenty-eight years. His widowed mother was about seventy. In the lustful, dissipated city, the. boy went with the current. He was an adept at quarreling, reviling, and gambling. He daily consumed four hundred cash worth of opium, an amount equal to the full day's wages of an artisan. He constantly trampled the seventh commandment under his unheeding feet. *Tehchow is pronounced Duh-jo. 3 |