which has
involved the
Powers of
information
times to the prese
day. Dating back to
China has outlived all
is a living empire
fall
the dynasty
is traced, and
legions.
But
ages
are
rigid
and
of
make up
of the old world.
people of
their
happened in
another planet.
interest to the
the
convenient
The
Chang
Rulers.
This
prince
that
kong
the
Prince
of
authority of the
central government passed
teachers and lead-
ers. He was
advocated
a
policy
of
so far ill-
policy
of
throughout
the
he
failed
master.
The
rescued
fered
a
severe
defeat
its
Chow
dynasty
came
had obtained
him
his
later
Hwangti,
Huns
of
Attila.
"
found
provinces,
and
the
proved
weapons should
dence,
named
to
building.
to
He
was
thus
the
and revenge
all the
national histories.
The struggle,
declare that he had
had had
received with murmurs
merit
the
criticisms
fed.
Hwangti
generals
opposed
to
him,
great
Ming dynasty
warriors,
declining
phase
of
effeteness,
by
genius
to
make
to build
tory applicable
sion.
another,
come
with
acclaim
the
system
traversed it,
other coun-
called
popularity was
great because
he promoted
Canton
entailed
and Europe.
Hiongnou
or
Hun
tribes,
against
con-
united
keeping
and
the
general
the province of
Kaot-
sou
gave
this
barbarian
prince
riage
as
culty. His
Another
of
by
placing
her
; but
the
dissatisfaction
had
apparitions
duce
strove
ing
in
a
mortal
struggle
from Kansuh
tribes
Yuchi
ants. They occupied
RULERS.
35
and
prosperity.
Powerless
and
Balkh,
conjunc-
tion
not
abandoned,
his
intention
of
overthrowing,
might
gave his
direction of the war. His incompetence
en-
and
incapable of further mischief. Liling,
the
was
out-mancEuvred,
and
Death
of
a
Great
Ruler.
fortunes of the State
of
Chaoti
was
partly
from
because
their
his throne,
jus-
tice."
It
is
said
that
her position, although she had effected
marriage between her daughter
prison.
in these plots,
of
his
successors.
under
Chingti.
the worst,
trated
to
got
rid
of,
and
throne
the
change
if
Wang
Mang.
At
become a
of
and an experienced general
in
him
the
reputation
of
A
semblance
of
reign
was
that
general
Huns has
formed
a
a
strong
position
at
the
limit
two half
dynasty-
known from this fact as the Sankoue.
One
prince,
a
held possession of Szchuen, which was called
the principality of Chow. The
southern
A
struggle
for
days later he
seige.
On
sending
to
the struggle
steadily pointed
the Hiongnou,
his followers
become
rich
seems
to
have
sighted
policy.
Hola
the
against
the
his chief
Genghis
Khan.
There
con-
nection
with
the
birth
following
hare
Onon. When
him, exclaiming,
authority
by
about
half
the
warriors
who
great advantage
round him
was
his
principal
not
abandoned
the
hope
old
enemy,
Chamuka.
the
of
Hia,
white yak-
Rewards
and the
them
before
are
and
that their authority might
with
the
he
remark-
able
in
itself,
and
did
larger
find a
dynasty, ruling
Genghis, the Mongol
upon the
Genghis
2 1
to
Taitong,
securing
an
unopposed
passage
the
But
At
this
moment
"
state, ordered him to return to
Kaifong. The
beg-
ging
to the pernicious
declined
to
and
death
of
Muhula
Mongols
would
dence,
threw
off
the
army which
death.
The
five
shall not
He
Died.
The
under his
a
greater
number
southern tribut-
yet as fully recognized as it should, be. The
doubt has been already -expressed
whether
appearance of
authority.
Even the Chinese
which
he
moved
vast dis-
war against
advo-
cate
the Mongol
own
roads,
their
pursuit,
and
in
Mongol
ferocity.
flood
the
massacre
proposal.
for fate to have any worse experience in
store
whose
power
authority,
the
discomfiture
of
their own
beset every
had
up
comply with the more important part
of
the
convention,
by
and
to
Mongol garri-
destroying
were
to
sides.
of Szchuen,
grief
shortly
afterwards.
humane and
rare dis-
wronging
a
masters.
Wise
and
did
little
a
warm
and
pro-
 
61
all the
of
Russia,
and
the
whole
course
his
successor.
By
This
their original
that he
Chinese
ruhng
families.
In
support of his younger,but more
able brother,
complete
the
conquest
first
was
thought
by
his
had
lost
the
main
support
of
of
his
enemy.
He
encouraging the
literary classes
similar
in
his
neighborhood,
cam-
aspired
to
where
you.
My
advice
your family
and pro-
of
tion Mangu proclaimed that
formed
It
and the
Rapid
Movements.
soon,
it decided not to
determined
Hochau,
was
hasten-
ing.
The
fortress
gols as
buka
not
formal manner and
impression
Terms of
Sungs
by
land
and
sea.
The
to
delay
the
opening
of
Emperor
ruler,
but
successors,
he
might
be
to
which
acquainted with
the defences
of Southern
large garrison
drawn up
threats of
evident that the crisis had arrived.
The campaign
had
the
river,
soon the
Mongols recovered,
and from
interest
of
in person.
engines capable
Ibs. weight
the river were
first destroyed, and
Not a
slaughter was over
general
reputa-
towns were
triple
Hanyang.
and
ap-
parently
a
capable
man.
He
committed
Chinese
never
dared
to
the
courage
this
was
only
shall
struggle
with
When one prince died
ished,
had served so
longest in being
not
Kublai had
a
great
the
always
remain
one
effete-
ness
on
the
other,
The Chinese were
by
mas-
his
countrymen,
induced
him
to
enrol
them
in
faithful
scattered
chu authority, but it
Mongol
princess.
The
Manchu prince,
who took
only
one
of his
for
the
provocation,
showed
the
grasp
to a
reputa-
joined
with
an
arrow.
The
death
exe-
crated
by
those
massacre
all
the
desert.
1
wealth which it offered, in order
that
your
easy, but one obstacle which might prevent
or
delay
the
conquest,
I
meditate,
disturbs
my
mind.
An
effeminate
heart
cause us. I feel that the only
way
by
setting
you
penalties, the order to all your soldiers
to
each accom-
an
extreme
intoxicated
by
nephew
in
the
work
of
conciliation,
which
produced
a
beneficial
effect
be
attributed
the
rulers
and
exists,
under the
Emperor of
the
Emperor
one
hundred,
provided
Nieuhoff,
contact with the Chinese,
the
tie
thus
established,
timed
point.
But
piratical
confederacy.
In
166
1,
the
health
of
death of
his favorite
of
officials.
class
in
the
power of
Dutch
traders
might
not
at Fort Zealand.
by
plans
but
not
long
survive
this
triumph.
his
eldest
its
Christian
of
them
with
for the
mode of
Chris-
pre-
scriptive
right
that
itself.
Kanghi,
conduct of
camp
of
western frontier,
saying
that
self-assertion
on
with
special
honor
He
received
the
which
he
old,
The Old Man's
comply
they
repeated
and thought
to
prowess
the
of the State, and
approaching
Manchus
and
destruction. The
close
resemblance
Manchu
officer
at
Fuhkien to
early
an
clans
could
have
against
the
main
force
Although he obtained no signal success
in
of his fortunes
endeavored
certainly
Kanghi
from
much
Chinese warrior
most
critical
periods
in
the
territory,
where he was closely besieged
by
the
Man-
chu
forces.
Although
by
storm.
The
mined
on
the
invasion
by
was spared, and
Manchus
empire
rebellion.
The
storm
at
he
declared
somewhat obscure. According
"
more formid-
able front
to the
Imperial authorities.
the Chinese Premier, learne from Lord
Elgin the full extent of the success of the
Taepings
on
officials at
imperfect and inaccurate
practice
they
soon
1857.
as the city
cold, snowy
statesman, but his
mined to
and lost
i860—Ho
Two Kiang,
English and French,
was
to
issue
a
hands
solicited
the
be em-
the Taepings
the whole Imperial army
a
warm
fire,
sent
a
boast-
ing
message
men could not storm."
called off to
who
quite
an
troops,
Sunkiang for the purpose
hundred
prudence
ings for the
space of thirty
therefore, a
dred
Pekin brought
Prince Kung
rebels, it
seen
of
China,
and
country
Taepings
tance,
and
an
English
detach-
on
some
relieve the garrison.
seven
Honan
braves
and
grossly
mismanaged
and
was
Chinese authori-
the credit for
he had anything
called friends,
but never
dered
to
In
Burgevine
he
from his
a
certain
desire to conciliate,
his
all
outstanding
claims.
Burgevine
was
sup-
ported
by
immeasur-
ably
with Takee. The
meeting was stormy.
vine did, for
had
as-
The
new
would
have
been
quarters,
of
wavering.
A
a fresh
up the
Gordon's Difficulties.
their
of
rank
and
Major
Gordon
answer to their
with
nearly
3,000
men,
well-equipped
and
rebels
closely
rival. Major Gordon
raised his own
intrenchments, and by
it
could
only
succeed,
if
General Ching, he
vigorously pursued those
strong and
well-built fort
A
key of
a
cessation
of
cap-
a
army it was popularly
supposed to be. The
commander,
and
to
appoint
morning
without
a
Firefly,
a
sister
vessel
to
the
attack. At Wokong
of this
all
their
other
stock-
ades.
Wokong
itself
with those
of
round
him.
Major
Gordon,
information
that
lected
about
300
Europeans,
flag,
a
white
Government by seizing one
the
he
at
once
withdrew
and
also
on
of
the
very
same
day
that
from
weak foreign
Burgevine had lost
place
in-
extraordinary
energy
fresh
great
rebel
stronghold.
Quin-
san
had
ated
by
quaidong
withstanding the superiority of
nefoy
led
a
end of
of
this
change,
but
there
true
it
was
Europeans and
the disciplined
Chinese, seize
prevented
in
silk
districts
had
moved
up
the
Grand
Canal
and
held
the
Major Gordon therefore
hastened to their
great
determination.
jealousies and differences.
General Ching hated
a
the
the enemy's position.
The Troops Confused.
and others were landed
the
possible.
due to the
been
revealed,
than might
have seemed
ordered
Mun
stockade.
again sounded, but this second attack
would
the stock-
killed,
as
chow
from
Wang,
ing
the
sistance and encouragement from Lar
Wang
no wish to save
though he had
way
or
another.
He
as he
the
Imperial
enemy
against
whom
it
towards
to carry
rebellion in
had broken
leaders
in
rebels
re-
vealed
by
at the village
lieutenants, Colonels
banks
to a
a
rude
once took
by
a
week's
rest,
pitched
resumption
of
the
offensive.
following
morning,
and
promised
very
few
con-
tinued
for
a
next crowning
follow-
his
pontoons
GENERAL GORDON.
up his
of
over-
whelmed,
In
this
his young
inferior animal. As a
Wang was
victory, which extinguished
the Taeping re-
called
traordinary military successes. He
gle. Another
Chinese. He
when lead-
ing his
"
and importance happened at
to
in Pekin, ratifying the
;
capital
treat all othei
equal
to
himself.
But
ror
ceived
ror's
residence
at
greatest
straits,
of author-
have been
the serious
the available
complaint
of
princes."
In
he had
than
six
years
of
age,
to
a
Board
of
Regency
composed
of
eight
at
A
Kung nor his
brothers, nor the
would
be
only
Octo-
his col-
league, Wansiang,
arrived.
At
Jehol
capital,
resign the func-
in a
while the
Empress Dowager,
or the
obtaining,
remained
to
carry
it
out.
Not
Given
a
Choice.
On
and, producing
Prince
no
were
promptly
con-
of
the
empresses
knew
Manchu
which began so successfully at
Jehol
and
necessary
free.
Arrested
had
befallen
out
of
the
capital
peror's name
for their
views of
personal ambition.
the
Prince Kung
which
state
of
things
de-
parture
that
country,
to
fill
the
about the
the
often
abused
their
power
than
sought
In the
at
the
any open
185s
the
relled
in
province,
greater
younger
fastnesses with the
his
colleagues
Viceroy
of
which his
desperation
which
the
the
kwan-
shihs,
as remained
to the
Mussulmans.
the
struggle.
The
garrison
of
tranquillity
promptly
ar-
ment.
Every
Man
for
Himself.
its
train
officer and
town
which
had
was
expelled.
The
Rejected
imi-
to
of Kwei-
chow. To
contradistinction
Yuying
by
virtue
of
his
would per-
whole power of the
representations, and
rebels who
and
obtained
several
small
successes.
A
wound
received
more active
had
begun
approved
manner
capturing
the
arrived.
With
of Ma
distinct
advantage
over
the
rebels
of
Talifoo.
A
Terrible
Plague.
creased
by
those
Talifoo
the other
Wensiu for
execution and
the opium
victory
to
Pekin.
the
and
by
on
the
de-
fenceless
townspeople.
descrip-
sides,
and
witnessed
commander-
higher
rank.
He
removed. But, although quiet
was
long
before
Wide-Spread Discontent.
of
of
undergoing
a
sisted in
perish by the
of
under
the
spread
to
the
three
and
Aksu,
West of Aksu
formed a
those ruled from Kashgar and Yarkand, the
Chinese
weakness on
the part
had
so
Fled from
the Country.
come.
things quit,
their
slaughtered after surrender.
the
former
slain. When they
set
of
native
leaders
in
the
enormities
by
the
less important than the
alone
would
be
time for
the cen-
the
evince
respect
towards
foreigners
and
to
comply
with
the
other. Instances
of
countries
Chinese mandarins
and a
certain number
of Chinese
to
take
in
the
no doubt
in
but only
upon
statements,
after
awakening
public
attention,
had
already
It may
perhaps be
surmised that
the
Franco-Prussian
allegations
resulted
in
a
measures
dents
and
that
all
foreign
missionaries
peril, but
responsibility of
from
his
revolver,
whether
Chung
How,
like
settlement.
The
whole
the
the unfortunate
affair was
daughter of Duke Chung,
of the
to exercise
ciliatory
disposition.
right
Chinese
Emperors,
it
After
the
training
and Kansuh.
The promotion
provinces were in the
of
Souchow,
where
1872
the
Imperial
degraded
Prince
their
hereditary
rank
as
to
personally
ex-Regents over
in
the
interior
publicity, there
The
be revealed.
resumed
preg-
legal
Emperor,
time not to injure
plan that
necessary to
inheritance.
Choice
of
for
present reigning
mentioned
at
the
Seventh
of
January
was
proclaimed
Emperor.
governing power again
took vigorous
bud
countries
was
he
had
undertaken
the
Mar-
gary
him. At
is
Momein,
which,
under
worst
to secure the
safety the expedition.
while
to
oppose
Europeans and
steadfastness
numbers.
pression on them, abandoned
at
not merely
147
secretly
attack,
officer
dently
not
an
occurrence
having
pun-
ishment
on
rage
in
company
with
solution
could
be
dis-
most
emphatic
having
been
baffled,
there
was
and
less
importance
to
the
pas-
sion
of
China,
disrepute.
Canton
ramifica-
tions
extended
the Vice-
this
new
source
of
revenue
against
officers did
of any
large amount
While
be
attributed
to
either
power of
utility, they
allowed the Governor of Fuhkien
to
remove
The fate
area
of
Wuhu, were
merce
on
the
Wenchow was
accomplished
during
the
two
periods
of
the
government
it
heard
of
forty-five,
as
The
but fortunately the presence
of China and
of
the
special
misfor-
Euro-
pean
Annam
was
a
years;
French
activity
in
Indo-China
Tonquin
stood
lationship
there
opin-
with
great
vigor
which
they
It
was
be-
because
French
were
vince.
by
name
to the
to read them
the depend-
continued without intermission ;
ofthe command by
attacking Bacninh, which
their
artillery,
May a treaty
repulsed
by
declaring
Min
forts on
be
strictly
observed.
retaliate
the
fact
that
there
was
nothing
that
military art,
nucleus
the
commanders
war
positions
and
art.
But
like
all
Asiatics,
can
China was calculated
greatest
Powers
of an
imperious will,
of the
the
immediate
cause
of
at
China's
destiny
Taeping
rebellion.
lekin
or
subject had
debar China
freely granted, and
pected
to
comply
with
thrice and knocking his forehead nine times
upon
a
the first
Hall
vast
Emperor held and
put
into
force
date.
In
March,
189
1,
is,
no
doubt,
and
pur-
according
to
sorrowful in
place of
audience, which
the Powers them-
was yet
made, and
feel
present
his
credentials
to
the
interest
in
the
This
en-
couraging
yet
held
with
the
Emperor
Kwangsu
by
afforded
dignified
of
against
China.
The
crisis,
and
it
manners
of
this
matters,
nothing
all
that
empire.
No
fear
of
have it
powers take
emperor
is
an-
nounced,
of
to
he does so in
primi-
position which is
robes,
terrace. This
marked
resemblances
acknowledged
to
other per-
who are
himself to
the
Tientsin, and
able
Tseng
mate adviser of the throne, and was held ir
the highest
esteem as
Viceroy of Fuhkien, "petitioned the throne
to
deify
a
great
number
of
miracles
for
the
good
of
to
the
two
genii,
that she
ascended from
worshipped
them
worship.
the local
gentry and
in
ac-
compliance
with
people."
In
Gazette,
such
and
thus
conveys
written
with
the
omission
agree
with
suzerain
Lama
is
sur-
valid
Emperor has
his seal of
alms. For
seal
were
the
same
time
decreed
by
Pekin
us,
search
may
be
made
to
body the
household
of
have
people are
his
subjects,
and
at
of
British
repre-
sentatives
to
From
the
1792,
down
to
a
few
the
Chinese.
At
or
three
occasions
on
which
the
European
ministers
have
been
one
of
the
millions
to breakfast.
Palace
to
will
take
his
seat
"
to
be
a
suc-
At
to
assume
by
the
self
a
serious
matter
to
power. It
was necessary
affecting
so
exalted
a
that, in case
the
taste
tion
of
lotted place,
a
the
"The august
and
prostrates
favor.
The
departure
of
greeted
ceremony. The
cham-
berlains
and
high
officials
equipments.
an
Imperial
letter
to
son-in-law,
declaration
of the bride.
the
kneels, and thrice, and again nine times
bows
low
at
reads
the
clause,
the
of
gold,
thoroughfares
the
envoy
terms
bride, with
to complete
officers of
given
up
to
from that
Our Forefathers
^
inspected
by
the
the
per-
cessor. The
confine the period
regrets of the
the
Imperial
family
are
not
supposed
to
marry
arrives for
should
of grain.
From
the
provincial
treas-
messenger.
and
table
of events
is that
law.
No
Indian
histories of the
City would, if
that
to pro-
number, he alleged,
six. Beyond
represents
itself
provisions
are
what it would,"
general
commutable
with
wealth of the criminal.
the
cord
by
paying
Pardon Often Granted.
But besides these
himself
to
from the
support
jesty."
In
any
are
allowed
tion.
with
sentences of banishment
to
banish-
Emperor in
prac-
plication, and kneeling when
intensity
Barbarous Punishments.
bidden
City
incurs
a
he had
of blows
political
peace
mother
of
the
people,
to
shall receive
for
him
by
his
parent.
Bigamy
is
judgment;
but
in
China,
office to
retire into
inflicted
on
dispensed with
to marry
desired.
Of
a slow
of the gates of
it was con-
sidered, the intention
of murdering the
by
the
trial,
made,
a
confession
of
his
guilt.
In
hold,
father
or
in the Pekin Gazette
are those which announce
authorized
to more stringent measures
in cases of rob-
"a
middle
piece
of
of each
piece shall
At
a
distance
throughout the
To induce unwilling witnesses to say what
is
expected
Others
are
tied
up
to
beams
by
their
some
tion
the
principal
of such ridiculous
rumors. But the
to
invoke
the
tioners
of
ties
of
the
Imperial
mind."
This
very clearly, of
torture.
Compelled
of his associates,
and
by
a
self-condemning
lie
he is held
his
wife
for
striking
and
abusing
his
father,
mother,
be
and
a
half's
banishment,
and
this
he
pilfered
2,000
the old
to
act
as
executioner.
This
on
other
Gazette
darins,
to their
ished
by
lingchi,
death
father, mother, or paternal
that "a son
shall
and
that
the
long
as
him
in
the
to
die,"
the
and
with
of
the
blow,
are
when
the
tion
to
satisfaction
of
games
it can be played
speculation and games
have
ceased
means
unhappily,
remain
work.
Chinamen
watch.
Jacks
who
earn
of a bro-
shoes re-
to rest
they
on this
the world
a
of the
their mer-
chant princes,
in
the
countrymen,
have
their
ings to
found that they
clubs, either
of
his
access
'
trade,
that
the
The
rules
and
a
theatrical
entertainment
for
precisely
described.
So
Chinese
in the
1852,
meted
Ijjindly
ignoring
the
brutal
of violence
ITINERANT
CHINESE
BARBER.
of
the
razor.
During
nations.
Though
complaints
of
this
depri-
vation
had
been
long
should
always
refrain
clutches
have given employment
most useful
history
there is
the social
machine, which
of
great-
est
heart of every Chinaman,
an
advan-
tage
over
those
never be
undertaken in
registry office
necessary to
remember that
practices vary
throughout
the
land the
bitterly
complains
ex-
amined,
to augur aright, the man's friends
send the
to
the
girl's
Betrothal
con-
tract,
acci-
dents
which
pass
set
terms,
the
as
house
as
"
"
out
conspicuously
carry
containing
the
and
present
of
their
sincere
trate,
bright-
ness
lines."
ents.
Your
cotton
skirts,
that
jewels, the bridegroom dug in the field
and
pair lived
no
youth
sighs
in
lonely
con-
On arriv-
ceptance boxes of
com-
monly
borne
in
the
pert
The Dragon and Phoenix.
large
cards
China,
_be
made
in
heaven.
To
that
power
is
fixture
is
arranged,
the
bridegroom's
father
sends
gifts
groomsman
turn
dresses
of
the
bride.
On
the
the instructress
of matrimony,
out the still
enshrouded young lady,
been
lifting
the
bride
over
gazes
on
and
is
expected
He dragged her,
bleeding, by the
band burst
loud
shoulders
violently
away,
home. Vio-
they
have
the
Chinese
in
full force in
and
re-
secured
the
case
Nothing Said.
the men
otherwise
;the
law
Seven Grounds for Divorce.
monial causes, the
of the
Plumblossom
Willow
the
the husband approaching his dwelling
after a
back , door
own
a
blossom
befriends
Willow,
this
ap-
China.
But
in
tories,
authors are
happiest re-
and with
of
the
young
ladies
who
a
Europe,
their
ignorance
ments
to
house
her
no
wounds
inflicted
by
the
repinings
and
re-
grets
monly
have
an
abundant
his
by
sale.
In
market is held of
ferers
some places
It
con-
their natural
which
abound
of
his
his father
the
unlawful means
of
the
exile.
rest in
the remote
Let
me
How
without
nourishment.
"At
inces,
where
after
who
was
dressed
the
handkerchief
over
her
face,
gave
her,
approval
Emperor gains
of
the
State where women
healthy
and
beneficial
bet-
but
the
example
lands
minded women exercises
possess
for
what
is
by
of reform
we
can
only
by
the
medical colleges or
and ignorance
of the
people without
the
only
mem-
at-
tacked
by
"
high," the
study
of
of disrepect
assured
by
foreign
doctors
that
go
to
their
graves
rather
than
lose
a
limb.
On
the
same
principle,
a
doctors and
the fees
recourse
the
malady.
say,
"to
strengthen
equalize
the
humors,
purge
illness
cal categories, and they
lymphatic temperament
than that
ten thousand
as
infectious,
there are leper vil-
suf-
strange remedies
as
unhealthy
food
the
stated,
that
the
disease
recent epidemic
a
resident
arrived
promote
pea dried
and
form
it
into
Second
sight,
miraculous
present
day
many
believe
invigorating and
export duty levied
on this plant,
The plant grows
each
stalk
like
a
on the
the
is com-
any
one
a
with
off
than
in
or
as
and were
public
opinion,
also,
he
ex-
pected
his
son
to
of the son or
daughter, who should first
daughters
privileges
had held
up to
for their
man
to
his
aged
with tears,
leave
her
thigh,
recovery
they
stand
giving
a
country
where
women
by
Turkish
No
jects, when
landscapes,
boredom. It is not' considered proper for
the visitor to
scribed
his
On
be at
into the
"Is
the
phrases
a
visitor,
a
honorable
chariot
well?"
meaning,
tions.
up
between
the
lovers,
way through
the
ground
that
things
desire
to
marry
their
ficient to annul the bond. Even this event
is
possible,
how-
occasionally pay
Lu
to
Confucius.
good
by
wild
of the dead.
invalid is borne
feet
help
of
a
friendly
stafiF
goes
to
the
river
thickness,
ground
for
wealth
due to
by
the
in
man
of
consideration,
follow him to
stition
is
carried
the
ancestral
whether
mother,
which
he
carries
rela-
standing
at
mourners
their first duty
token of respect, to the principal room,
where it remains
that the
funeral cere-
panoply of woe.
are
their
their
hus-
erals vary
in different
parts of
sidered
that
it
up prayers
Hell to Heaven.
to prevent
of a
law
having gained
may
the
by
commanding
that
bidden
so useless a
with
prised that so
become
complicated
been known
tials
audience
delay was sufficiently
in
the
night in
the open
of
Great
tributaries,
the
Emperor
marked
his
regard
bassador
bent
dentials,
the
audience,
said,
difficulty.
In
a docu-
self
command, as the
commissioners expected he
would do, on
was obliged
sidence
of
the
peror
tribes," and
should
not
the Emperor, but
Prince
was seated
of
benefit.
interpret.
Accordingly,
rose,
expressed
closed
ministers,
although they
implored us
may deliver letters from
audience,
and,
together
with
years,
if
the
courtiers
hold
plenipotentiaries, but
announcing this
been suppliants
such.
of
souls.
Pigs,
fowls,
most
useful
eaten, and
and though
the flesh
system
same
poverty
fact that
water
chestnuts
and
com-
line
of
more than dimly
visit paid
first
Chinese
Minister
at
izing the
situation, hurried
hand
innovation
this
season.
cone
made
covered with
which
the same way
and under
and
richly
chased
to
give
taste
to
the
coiffure.
the origin
is
all
shaped
hands
is
from
bright
embroidery
swaying
never tired of
shaped eyebrows, the willow waists, and
the
they
liken
to
boughs
is possible
to find
ally minded Chinamen add
to
that
it
prevents
does,
men and women of
themselves,
pro-
longing,
greater
part
of
with
climate
that
prodigal profusion.
scattered over the grounds.
belongs to Chinamen, the appearance of
the
blooms
on
the
the
into the country
which
adorn
peach,
ization
to
the strange
glanced
to be
quality.
Discomforts
to
Ichang,
a
dis-
nature
of
the
coun-
try.
In
face, carts are
idea of comfort as we understand
the word,
and these
goes, no
the
other
case.
It
is
remarkable
their very rough
construction. Springs are
of driving is
wood
vehicle,
axle.
No
of other
as far south as the banks of
the Yang-tsze-
firma,
Empire,
features, are
vessels
are
large
and
commodious,
and
commonly from sixty
through
a
vestibule,
ing are
which remains
directly
bear
the space available
Wretched
racking
much
No com-
fort is
provided, no
and infinitely dirty, and,
in the north, sur-
apartment,
bugs.
pleasure
to
turn
to
those
the ves-
are all that
—are acted
follow. As
sented
to
ad-
judicate
on
any
of
to the
ances
of
cial proclamations abound
with lofty senti-
ments and righteous
breaks
waterman finds fault with
—
a
friend
of
her
friend
and
he had given
pose
of
engaging
troupes
of
should cut
his
victim,
who,
however,
had
struggling
and
which
aloft
a
dummy
head,
easy victims
by
a
lame
whole
quantity
with
Another well-known
himself wheresoever
self to
time, and the
the secret thoughts
planchette
a
box.
their
meals
every other
it
chien,
and
but as
neighborhood.
In
strung
that
for
the
pur-
chase
of
anything
In
strict
accuracy
name
of
coin,
lent example set
note
and
establish-
first bank in Europe
and
handle,
the
Japan
the
very
inferior
specimens
to the real merits of
the pictorial art
by
from
their
played
was
weeping
under a
willow tree
In
their
miniature
colors with such
a
steadiness
prominence
fidelity
and
skill
with
which
water of
of
the
earth,
the
Mongol
their work the
dis-
tance,
presenting
life-like
representations
determine
what
of
a
"
of
in council.
of
wisdom
which
fell
from
were
not
with
the duchess
to that
years
which
to
mutter,
as
his
door,
"The
to
induce
the
rulers
to the
ideal sys-
for
was
the
by
contamina-
tion
with
the
world
from the
disgrace
mankind,
recognize
that
our ends,
strict regard
forthwith
they
be
glorious.
people
were
the
duty
of
loyalty
to
give his
followers with
regard to
at
a
distance.
But
while
occasions to observe the
you," he
of
Con-
Of
by
Indian
Philosophy.
His
surname,
Li,
also
which
in what is
universe
and
first
mean-
noth-
re-
cognition
of
sary to designate them.
urged
his
disciples
of heaven
we
of
Laotzu
as
expounded
forth
and
influence
was
man
encouraged
the
growth
oblivion
of
Eastern
Death
to the
further con-
At
Taoist priest is
of
pains
and
by
Buddhism,
which
was
disappeared from
the scene,
In A. D.
tions.
the
highest
to
the
lowest.
Governed
by
the
Senses.
As is the case everywhere,
women are
seen scores of votive
mercies
vouchsafed
to
prayers
of
suppliants,
above
sus-
and
tales
the
cause of
selves
selves
virtue which
to
the
majority
of
both
monks
from
God."
Both
Mahommedanism
and
ents are
distinc-
and moon-cakes,
INTERIOR
OF
an
hereditary
nobility
is
equally
unfavorable
to
do-
edifices in the
Shanghai, there have been reared
on
the
kind of
on
exactly
left as narrow
fort is made to
improve the healthiness of
magnificence
and
splendor
a dream.
nature
lowest
of
ac-
cordance
with
is devoted
make
a
double
roof,
by
mental
to
the
houses,
with
a
blank
resting-place
of
the
pillow
is
some-
Chinaman
it
conveys
quite
a
object.
of
on
a
cushion
furniture are those
brought from the
camagon,
ebony,
puru,
redwood
chairs,
are
used
to
the various
of beauty, and
water, and
pavilions shaded
literally,
the
courts
is
on
the
ward,
left
to
If
graph
Feng
Shui
has
a
as
the
con-
junction
juxtaposition
of
cer-
tain
as the
the "White
who
occupied
soon as
is
unfortunate
to
tempt
them
to
and
to
out
of
their
stition of
beneficent
avatars
of
of
the
people.
With
indefatigable
labor
these
religious
for
himself
a
wooden
case
like
a
sentry-box
in
case
on
all
there
until
the
nails.
to
to
represent
was
as those
with which
the willow-pattern
hope of obtaining official
into
degrees
by
an
many
thousands
Kiehyang in Kwang-
efforts
of
the
govern-
ment
In
his
sacred
edict,
Kanghsi
(1662-1723)
Buddha and Laotsze
grounds of
in
a
beneficent
way,
exerts
itself
with
unpre-
crime was brought
not
comply
with
her sex, the Empress,
berry-trees
though not sur-
of
crimes
which
are
attributable
inheritance
Probably
the
earth
the
village
ac-
cording
to
their
money,
before
him.
The
the
prosecution
of
is
farmers
the tax in such
especially
endowed.
water is
raised from canals,
either
by
of
raising
water
from
wells
the
shaduf
which
If
to
be
irrigated,
and
holding
a
bucket
and ingenuity
carefully
while
ex-
tended
travellers
even
de-
of the differ-
to
sow
his
harvest; and
of a
publication,
works
on
strong
A
MANDARIN
as the peo-
chow,
desiring
to
than
now commonly
far
later
but stultified its professions
poppy.
Lovers
not
only
brought
large
while pro-
ters
tistics is
unknown, it
number of opium
on
thousand
dollars
a
the con-
be packed
encourages illicit
whose
baggage
by
international
to re-
reaches
the
planted
outt
in
before
the
tannin
high
and
among the
not
bricks, and
the
Tientsin
of exports,
in
consid-
erable
ravelling
is
a
multitude
its eleva-
enters
in
to
sell
handles
to
eat
fuel
bamboo.
The
his water-
pipes and
straw-rakes, the
his
dreaded
instrument
of
punishment.
to which
thought and
an
old
country
mind and
of the
splendid
temples
without
the
to find
encountered
in
among
whom
may
be
seen
by
hundreds
engaged
in
manual
undiminished for
many years
not
that
the
infant
the death-
rate from
epidemics, against
which no
the
Chinese
;
found
communicate with
the invariable
the
official
language
em-
have
rendered
further, they
accumulation
there
should
tility
is
once
in
1891),
the system is mutely
humanity
laziness of the people.
widely divorced
artistic
atmosphere
of
Japan.
grafted on to it an entire pantheon of
semi-
popular
cult
appears
to
apprehension of
where,
would
invariably
bow
Soul I
and of
duty to
plentifully
sprinkled
with
in the extreme,
strewn bed of
Corean pony could pick his way.
Tough
and
Wiry,
A
ox,
which
is
the
by
slush
of
beans
three
times
a
and
in
the
viduals,
and
among the
,Ug
or
the
soaking
rice-plots.
or
shoot
them
sitting
rather in fur and skin than
in
feather.
Hares,
foxes,
badgers,
wild
cat,
wild
boar,
sables,
ermin,
and
and
different
kinds
for the
young
buck)
are
the
mountains.
Leopards
size;
and
I
saw,
while
in
Corea,
some
splendid
skins.
His
and
when
I
(the
Hall
of
Eternal
Peace),
hunters,
who
capture
them
by
means
of
pits
and
and the
with spears.
beaters;
whence,
perhaps,
by
the
flail;
but uncleared
wagons on my
be-
tween
the
lips
in
governor, who has earned
spouse.
Royal
mauso-
spirit of
the defunct
ride,
kuan-chow,
I
should
appropriate
without
payment
out-of-the-way
but
to
compulsory
resort
wooden blocks to
with her crew in sight of Phyong-ycmg.
In
1
87
1876,
when
a
treaty
policy
led
to
discontent
on that country.
ON
to
of
it,
about
the
middle
of
the
eighth sovereign
grandeur did
sacrilege to even mention his
name.
He
An
ruler of
fan. The common hat
classes always
them. In
There is no
The
tion.
It
money.
It
is
all
a
foreigners,
including
Japanese,
stands
for
something,
coast of Corea.
none
outside
of
the
suzerain
of
Lower
"
The
the prime
cause of
the trouble
isian
society.
ex-
posure.
nation
by
order
of
Japanese
counter-proposals,
and
was
not
willing
to
yield
her
prerogatives.
Advices
from
Shanghai,
Twelve thousand troops
of any point in
been great
of
fatigue.
After
land
forces
are
divided
into
number
can
tion
that
cavalry
ofificers
are
thoroughly.
Most
of
these
Japanese
cruisers
Chinese
ironclads
at
by
modern
in
Europe.
It
and hardy
to a
Osaca
on
and heavy
to the strong, as
was found out in
can judge
small
by
the
Naniwa.
At
this
attack
the
boarding
alongside.
Tsi Yuen turned
shallow water
Japanese.
The
Chinese
fought
their
guns
much
more
they
not
been
Prior
to
the
The loss
plosion
of
the
transport.
The
her commander made an attempt
to
beach
her.
had been impressed into
German
battery included
Japanese
army
into
the
by
Japan,
for carrying it on, troops had
been landed
that
the
Japanese
She believed the
time would come
by the
of
Japan
man,
case.
From
will be of
mouth.
which, in
divided.
times
been
besieged
The province
shown by
are more
the south, Whang-Hai
ince
is
Ai-Chin,
and
a
noted
reconnois-
forts and thus ascertained
combined
River.
one.
body
posi-
tions
at
Ping-Yang
Japanese
oc-
this
direction
the
troops,
which
The
order
The
Japanese
full
protection
to
were
informed
that
of
the
Chinese
that
she
trained and bravest
armies
of
Japan
of the
her fleet,
troops in
the
Amity.
It
tribute
more than
established
that
the
throw
off"
the
game.
far back as the
the
claims
of
Japan
with
Corea
forth
United States, then knocking
Chinese
Yang,
Dong
River,
a
combined
ned
by
main
Spencer or Mosler rifles,
piece
of
the
There were two
ese forces,
central
forces
at
from
or
his
de-
tachment
which
walls the
works and forts below,
been engaged
of
these points,
was
now
by
what
central
di-
of their
armies' victory.
Desperate
Fighting.
up
earth-
detachments
of
the
Japanese
forces
journals,
who
was
with
or
import-
ance
in
and
begin-
ning
of
we
were
general. The privilege
of moving in
project of
incidents
of
the
contest
caused
by
northern
part
which
are
still
back
to
the
main
at
Kaisong,
a
form, and for nearly
sleep as mere trifles, scarcely
to
my new
desig-
nated)
to
Changhwa.
but
by
on
feeling
of the past three
to
Taitong came in view of the foremost skir-
mishers
the
develop-
ment
by
General
Nodsu.
Experience
had
shown
at
Asan
and
flight
of
retreat,
the
to move
the
was in
considerably
to
the
north
the interior,
other side
of which
come fresh
the Taitong
hordes, maintaining
forth
being
conquered
resolution and sagacity of their leaders.
"During
front
and
assumed
the
direct
their
per-
habit of
promises of rich
under
whom
they
immediately
and not
luxury
compared
with
some
relief
to
was not so
and
Taitong
for
crossing
at
Tetsudo
and
bank.
naturally would
the
for striking the
great, decisive blow.
directing its course
was
Investing the City.
to be almost completely
at the
conducted
defence
was
not
more
obstinate
stands on a
aid the passage
bank might
goal after
pushed
Confused Accounts.
too
abun-
dant
of minute
it would
wholly
and
Japanese
may
single
and set an
the three
carried the enterprise
approved
tactician,
num-
ber
the victory
that could
be expected
;g70,000
to
^100,000,
cult
as
any
in a
the rule,
the
west-
ern
Rifles, mostly
be
uninjured to-
boats, succeeded
was formed
in a
speed
aster. The
for
the
Japa-
nese
guns
all
parts
that
of
the
Chao-Yung.
morning
an hour
ously
their com-
soon as they
long
time
steel plates which
seemed
to
the
Japanese
observers
to
pierce
accomplished
and
to
of
her
slowness
great danger
shot
and
shell
seemed
instance.
badly
overmatched
com-
killed
while
her unmanagable. She
Tai-Tong.
left the
not
be
prolonged
fourth, the
the
say
to
a
practical,
up
the
Yang-
Wei,
deserted
and
unfit
and
referred
men killed
and men
despatch
engagement
on
the
17th
inst.
but
plishing their purpose
long range
The
with
were joined
two
of
the
lesser
draught
guns
tice with
disabled
Japa-
exception
they
King-Yuen.
A
Cowardly
Captain.
The
action.
In
doing
machine
hard
down
in
then,
to
the
great
indignation
the
Kuang-Chia,
guns.
It
is
a
moot
point
whether
action or not.
eye to the main
wounded,
burned
one
structure
damaged
by
some striking
episoded. A
third killed
to
take
to
his
master,
was
literally
not
dare
Japanese
ships
twelve
hundred
yards.
advantage,
nearly
were fired
iionclads ran
mous number of
skilled
direc-
tion
of
the
shots.
The
manceuvering
tion.
Taking
kept at the distance
coming within
destructive range
of the
aloft watching
for torpedoes
the Yang-Wei
injured. All of them, with the exception of
the
very laconic and greatly
same
time
^2300.
any important
in
the
the various
armies from
longer be
calling
for
a
as
there
is
a
Samurai
classes,
not under
Chosin
province.
Chosin territory.
His strategy
and tactics
Japan's
Greatest
Marshal.
a
mili-
tified
places
of the Orient
where nations were
from the
composed of
our treaty negotiations with
conten-
with
at
large.
It
would
cessionists
dynasty.
Four
the Emperor
turned, it is doubtful
upon the removal
Japa-
nese
occasion of
front of
and
loyalty
was
of
peculiar
time-
expired
soldier
then
was
resolved
to
die
to
the
on
natives.
always
country.
The
Jesuit
missionaries
that
went
to
China
about
the
came
into
power
Mission
examples are sufficient
renders it
practically impossible
that
two
Japanese
students
who
in the
United States
Senate December
2,000
Chinese
at
Wi-Ju,
and
passable. The main
still occupied the city.
se-
Imperial Diet at
"
of
of
Japan
by
comply
the bar-
Denmark, and
armistice
that
a
detachment
the
morning
of
Wi-Ju.
the
the
to
cross
Chinese position
enemy
were
down
the
river,
their
flight.
the
been
placed
between
China
and
Japjm.
his
knowledge,
According to the
number
wounded,
though
in
coming
fight
to attack the enemy
Japanese.
The
number
flight.
The
China. This
walled
iity
ages
of
direction.
open-
ings
to
allow
was considered almost impregnable.
can be seen of
the
shan complained
bitterly of
the violence
in
Antong,
and
placed
said
to
have
Sword,
off
Niu-Chwang,
and
expressions of
the
de-
struction
by
dynamite
from
on
found.
taken
ashore,
and
across
the
Pacific
to
Japan,
any
unnecessary
cruelty
despatch
transmitted
Japa-
nese
One
see
The
Japanese
the
correspondent
sees
prince,
a
half-
of
my
?????
it would
ment has from the
everything
peo-
making
to
guns was weak
land
force,
which
was
Ta-Lien-Wan confirmed
but the
against
the
in
order
to
be
of
interest.
A
married
to
Moon
never
unhappy.
the
business,
enlisted on
her side
tween these august
had
toward China, and
doubtless seek-
tragedy,
at
to a
second,
form-
apparently
pointing
right,
therefore
upright,
"righteousness"
does
vengeance
against
their
a
flag
Kienlung,
when
their
organization
went
by
Emperor
Kiaking
attract the attention of ruling power. At
the
beginning
of
since then steadily increased in
power and
the latter's cause and adopted opposition to
the foreign creed and its professors as
their
principal
creed.
"Hing-Tsing
apparent
his
aspirations
the
ambi-
all events,
They assert,
at a Cabinet
camp
1900,
according
to
the
Rat,
or
the
seventh
Stem,
are
the
will
of
Heaven.
predict
fined
to
a different
of the
individual to
finds
them
cast
in
China
by
Japan
in
1894
East.
hps
of the hatred of
the
turies of conservatism
be
at
the
preme
power
that
coveted
be
checked
seated
only
being only four
a
into
close
relationship
with
her,
princes'
dignity.
Corps, direc-
who
joined
disastrous
to
do
also
helped
to
enemy
de-
feated,
German-trained
Tuan.
Not
turned
and his
Boxers, Ching
cham-
was offered
Arthur
and
Ta-lien-wan,
with
Province
of
Shantung,
was
seized
by
the
Germans,
ostensibly
in
Hongkong,
of
Numerous
in
the
that arose
posed almost
classes
resentatives of all
origin-
ated
in
densely populated provinces in the
north
for its
It
was
made
Empress
Pekin mobs attacked foreigners and besieged
the legations.
England immediately
Admiral Kempff urgently
bombarded
evacuated
by
the
other
attacking
international
column
Chinese
shelled
city
on
the
left
wing.
The
Japanese
shelled
the
The
facing
day
were
estimated
at
800."
allies
the 14th, when it was
captured, che allies
who
officially
for
their,
safety.
If
they
the
allied
Powers.
If
any
fighting,
and
of
my
pacific
intentions."
about the
sore about
China ?
it
them.
mur-
der
can get a
mean
in
the
interior
cities,
parcel was
snatched from
course, his
anything
nickel-
plated
farmers
miles, throwing
him
their boats
honey
and
couldn't
being
the
prospect
of
venturing
fell, the
keeper
had
they
of admiration
whether
pur-
natural
Strange
Beliefs.
woman's
coming
is very shocking.
and intimate social terms with mascuime
mis-
"
advance
choose, the
their
country
fight-
have .it stolen from
had
enough
of
fighting
by
members
the Chinese,
That
"fear
of
that
which
is
unknown
ghost
in
straight
lines.
the
necessity
of
caring
prevents
the
Chinaman,
and
causes
to
god
temple of the war god
twice
moved
to
another."
oppo-
embarrass-
has
on
the
face
the
of
Athens,
in the
Chinese empire,
tians with
pill,
his
sealed
up
use for
an
opening
horrors unspeakable.
Female Children
shed,
the Pi'ado
to
Chris-
mil-
lion,
of
favorite for
persecution is not
govern-
ment
quite
China,
where
it
was
steam and electricity, which
the
was
never
the
ad-
vance
of
an
enemy
great
ancient times,
development,
and
in
a
certain
assumes,
either
by
longer
be
taught.
ought to be, next
does not possess.
resources
of
their
own
who had
while
sticks.
of
so very far
Mant-
choo
dynasty
sand years ago,
pirouette very
toes. The
the evolutions
isfaction,
and
to
bandage
their
feet.
An
Obstinate
Race.
But
into power the
It
is
custom
reinstated.
The
Chinese
erty
strongly swayed by the
their superstitions or religion is
ancestor
worship,
and
on
certain
rice placed
for him
at every
made of
self before and worshiping
mother
of
a
alike
are
are kept
of
ancestors
and
of
the
have
before
a
god.
This
can,
and
be-
acquire
a
degree
one
foregoing that
his
power
of
any
crime,
is
tortured
times he is
fesses,
is
taken
to
the
execution
yard,
accepts the inevit-
tuck
sup-
posed
so pathetic. Never before
ago
spection
seem
that
son
nor
understood
the
warning.
I
It
matters should
the
common
people
who
view
of
the
Eastern
situation.
It
is
The
after
hands.
As
the
States should wish
If
to take
have.
the electric
are
upris-
known
E.
Jackson,
of
Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania,
struck
she could give me a
for my
"When I got in sight
of home
the toughest
ever traveled.
buildings,
and
clashing
first,
but
bolder
soon
few
days
as
we
discussed
the
situation
strong fighting,
and if
the
most
of
many
men
took
guns, did splendid work, but it was
fighting
all the
sandwiches and tea most of the
time.
we
to
Japan.
United
States
and
British
of
Shanghai
had
quito
nets
and
fans.
and
—and which
was
other
Chinamen.
Boxers
to
leave
were
young me-
the
made
up
had been
days in
had
to
reach
"They
had
not
bayonets, and inch by
were far
of
men
wounded
men.
with the
of
cars
canying
and the
Three
and
which was
A
letter
depicting
D.D.,
his son,
up
there. Nearly
Mr.
to
Mr.
Cousin's.
get comfortable
quarters at
the Drews.
of
which
went
through
had some
take
any
a
joyful
shoe.
Mission
soldiers
killed
about
seventy
Boxers,
along
station,
have
been
burned,
foreign soldiers, in
order to keep
shoot
through
and
many
streets.
Last
night
in the Chi-
one
in
such
a
they
are,
mention
were
the
first
to
break
the
gone.
am
glad
we
had
a
5
this
morning
by
the
damage
was
done
the Tsung-li-
how,
I
believe
God
a thing
as the
large
number
owing
above
us.
TheChinese'have
a
river. They
court. The
general attack
made on
itself.
There
as follows
property.
Colonel
some
car-
riages,
to
mud wall with companies
Tien-Tsin having
our servi-
the bre-
the
evening
States
cruiser
'Monocacy,'
attended
by
all
the
Japan,
France,
battle
with
men
during
these
long
trying
of
many
of
his
command.
previously
con-
in
the
battle
of
brevetted
of
Tien-Tsin,
China,
where
forces
regiment,
July
13,
1900,
is
manded the
engaged,
namely,
Japanese,
the
second
protec-
tion
minutes
Colonel
space,
right
to
the
front,
a
try at a
loo
to
irregular, filled with dikes and
ditches, the
urged
his
forti-
fied
position,
which
taken
onel
R.
Noyes,
adjutant,
my
orders
during
officer
gallantry in rescuing at great risk to
his
Ufe
a
assumed
formidable
proportions.
foreigners,
furiously
troops
were
inner
wall.
The
troops
500
marines,
the
soldiers
and
Boxers
ready
to
shoot
buildings bordering on our north and west
sides.
Han
Lin
ground
cracked
wheat.
Later
mills
of
mills.
Protection
by
Sand
Bags.
"Another
of
power
sewing
barricades.
telegram
(it
Gazette
for
of
the
Chinese
the Boxers,
who were
given hundreds
that
they
actually
ment
the
butter
and
valids
and
fare
is
hard
to
find
cannot
get
eggs
strong
horse
meat
broth.
Fortunately
we
had
many
horses
and
mules
here,
but
they
this
joyful
announcement
sound of
cannon and
Powers would
State
directing
him
crimes
imputed
to
in
of North China