Again, the Literary Superintendent of the acting, Shen-tsung-chang, and assistant Yang-chun-yuan, have trans:
ted a numerously signed memorial, headed by one Shiamung-lin, a civil gre duate of the above named city, te the following effec The former A Magistrate of Lanasanative of Fae tment of Ting chow, inthe Pr nee of Shan-tung. His third' daughter, me Té-kn, was gent, of a tranquil disposi-every early age developed perature, showing a special the Book of Odes, "She wrote tiful Land, eagerly imbibed the sound principles inculcated by her mother, attended te the wants of her parents with singleness of heart and respeetiul love, and when, in her sixteenth year, her paternal grandmother fell ill, she nursed her with unwearied assiduity, The ly having been of the poor scholar class for successive generations, the perform ance of the menial duties of the honsehold devolved upon her mother, and from this burthen she was wholly relieved by her daughter, Afterwards, when she accompanied her father to his official post, her manners were marked. by a se vere simplicity, and her life and behavyiour were modelled on the rules of ctiquetta Even the most unimpor details she managed with consummate care. To her believed with a grave. kindness which dependents, whether young or old, she
checked familiarity, so that she was treated by them with a loving respect not unmingled with awe.
After his transfer to the post of district strate of Lau-ting, her father was stricken with a mortal sickness, but line gered on for two months. During this period, his daughter offered up incense and burnt papers inscribed with, suppl tions to the Gods, entreating that her might be taken in substitution for hi also addressed her two sisters in the following terns. My sisters our mother is a great invalid and likewise anced in years, do you, therefore, ister-in-law, carefully adminis: ter to her wants. Our father in. the nether world will be solitary and lonesome, and I am about to follow him thither, to wait on him and. bear him company.' Deeming this to be the natural expression of her highly-wrought feelings, no notice whatever was taken of these remarks until the hour of her father's departure arrived, when she secretly swallowed a draught of deadly poison, in order to enable herself to follow him beyond the limits of the grave.
Although 25 years of age, she was never "betrothed, but chose the better part of "cheerfully walking in the paths of "righteousness, which she brought to a glorious end by this supreme act of filial "piety, an act' eminently calculated to "afford an illustrious example to, and "exercise a happy influence upon, the present tion."
The Literary Superintendent and his assistant having reported the above facts 4 the Mayisty panied with the 5 3
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