1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAt.. 



821 



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Mlister Leditor Melican Blee Jurnl : — Flaps I tlink 

 you llkee see my picture. Me velly fline man — that's what my 

 fiends say — slotne say me dlude and slom say me lady's man, 

 all same Mlister Lambler. I like tell you me no dlude and me 

 no clare for ladies, except my wiffo. Me plain Wung Lung, 

 one-time legetable man, now sugar-fly keeper and miner. 



Lots Melican man get him plictlure in blee-papers. He 

 awlso tell allee bout himself. I llink I like do awlasame Meli- 

 can man. 



I blorn near Plekin, so you see me glood Chinaman — no 

 Coolie blout ma. I go school to Plofe-ssor Al Jung Koik, who 

 kleep academy near my father's lice flield. When sleventleen 

 yers old me coma Clalifornia, where my clousin come first, and 

 like he mal<e heep money washee and ironee. I tly wash-tlub 

 little while and no likee him. I likee out-door belly muchee, 

 so me go in plartuership with one Chinaman, and lalse legeta- 



I could no more be solger, I go to the mines. I tell you blout 

 mines next time. As I take up muchee you splace allredy, I 

 won't tell blout myblees. 



Slome one say, In one of the sugar-fly papers, that the 

 only Chinaman In Melica that keeps sugar-fly'is in Los Lang- 

 les clounty ; he make mistake, and If he had led the " Old 

 Reliable" he would have sleen that I kept sugar-fly near Slan 

 Flancisco four ylear ago. 



Me could tell you belly muchee more blout myself, but you 

 might tlink me legotistical. 



Tell your leaders, Mlister Leditor, should you print my 

 plicture, that I do not dress every day as I applear in the plo- 

 toglaph I send you. This is my best suit, and I wear it when 

 I go to Slunday schlool, to a funeral, or to a wedding. I am 

 slorry my queue is not shown at length ; if you look close you 

 will see that it is wound round the black of my head. You will 

 note that it shows off my flace to great advlantage. Still, I 

 should like to have had it exlibited acloss the front of my 

 jacket, as it is a beautiful queue, and I take heep muchee 

 pUde In it. I may tell you more about this and blees the next 

 tllme I lite you. Gud Ely. Wung Lung. 



[It is with some degree of pride that we reproduce Captain 

 Wung Lung's photo' in the " Old Reliable." While we recog- 

 nized from the letters we received from him in the past, that 



ble in Alameda county. My plartner no good man ; he too 

 muchee cheatee me. I lose money. 



Next me lun lanch of glarden thick myself. I send you 

 pictlure of my old home sometime ago. At this place me flirst 

 commence to keep sugar-fly. Me do belly well with legetable 

 and sugar-fly. Make heep much money. Me get another 

 plartner; this time be belly good man. 



Pretty sloon, blime bly, me go China see my old home. 

 War come on and me go fight Japanese man. Near Plort 

 Arthur me get belly bad shottee and long time hap die. Me 

 no die, just slame, but long time get well. My clusin, Li Hung 

 Chang, make me Glaptain for blavery shown on the field of 

 battle. War all over me cum back to Melica. Now me got 

 heep nice wifiFo in San Flancisco. 



Last April I lite Mlister MoKinley and offer my slervices 

 as officer or plivate in Melican larmy to go and flight Splanlsh 

 man. I tell him that I much plefer to go to Manilla, as heap 

 Chinaman there, and belly muchee chance tor me to make 

 money there when the war is over. I tell him, Mlister Mc- 

 Kinley, that heep lich Nu York man go to Manilla so as to 

 grab land and money down there soon as no mora fightee 

 Splanlsh man. Mlister MoKinley no answer my letter ; I guess 

 he think me too honest. So I next lite to Mlister Jim Bludd — 

 you know Mlister JimBludd — him GlovlonerClalifornia. Well. 

 he tell me too many Melican man want to go to flight Splanlsh 

 man, so he had to give them a chance flirst. When I flind 



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Copt. Wung Lung. 



he was quite an intelligent celestial, we did not know that he 

 was such a distinguisht personage until we read the above 

 modest, and, we feel sure, very incomplete autobiographical 

 sketch. He shows commendable ambition — from a knight of 

 the wash-board and flat-iron, he has become, we understand, 

 a distinguisht apiarist, a brave soldier, and a gold-miner. We 

 hope, later on, to give some racy letters from him about the 

 mines and bees. — Editor J 



Xbe BIcEToy Foul Brood Xreatment is 



given in Dr. Howard's pamphlet on "Foul Brood; Its Natural 

 History and Rational Treatment." It is the latest publication 

 on the subject, and should be in the hands of every bee-keeper. 

 Price, 25 cents ; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year 

 —both for $1.10. 



