The Archive · 1896

SWEEPING CLEAN

Immediately upon arrival the chifie had single and double cangues made and placed at his yamen door as a menace to evildoers. Still more recently a cage has been pre-fared for the punishment of a criminal, permission from the capital has arrived and the examinations completed the criminal will be slowly killed, The populace say he has but to rule thus " few months and all lawlessness will he at an end. Truly he rules with a rod of iron,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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