It is painful to read of these things, more to write of them, but what must it be to endure them? Alas! for the victims, Alas for their friends, Alas too! that, humanly. speaking, such tragedies neod never take place if foreign governments would recognise that China is a heathen and not a Christian power, and in some respects no more civilised than those smaller heathen tribes who cannot be taught the respect duo to the lives of others without the strong arm, We do not demand. that blood should be shed, or that towns and cities be destroyed with shot and shell, but we do say that if those who are entrusted with authority by foreign Powers were only at liberty to sty tothe native oficial "Henceforth, gentlemen, with regard to our countrymen who are under your care it is to be measure for measure'; just as you treat them we will treat you," we would soon have peace and safety." How much may be expected from a heathen mandarin without the use of pressure let the following show.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.