Straightened circumstances are productive of lawlessness and crime. A short time ago the officials, under pressure from Peking, have been energetically after the capture of the pirates, who have for years been fa terror to sailors, and a fear to business men. One young mau has paid the extreme nasty of the law in his twenty-fifth year.
began at the age of eighteen years, he became reckless and daring, life was a small consideration to him where it stood in the lwway of gain. He went to the temple to see the theatricals at the New Year. The "runners" were waiting for him. He was taken in the midst of his friends. His guilt was known near and far. They did not give him many days to consider his ways, or make amends for his evil deeds.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.