All day long crowds of people are vi him, and making him presents, while num-beries petitions are being sent into the yamens on his behalf.
On the other hand eye and heart-scooping business—and not few are being stirred up to emulate the glorious deeds of Li Kia-chung. How far the yamen may have a hand in this itis of course impossible to say.
AT A STANDSTILL, Li Taotai has returned to Wuchang, and district magistrate taken to bed sick, Nothing whatever is now ing in the cage save making several strong cages in which to bring the guilty prisoners unto Wuchang. These are the three coolies several times mentioned already, namely Chu 'Ts'uen-fub, Li Kin-ken and Li Wan-fuh, 'Their guilt, if they are guilty is of the same kind as that of the dogs which.only bite after being -hounded on by their masters. Search, however, is still being made for' more prisoners, especially for a noted professional pugilist named Kug San Minu-tze, friend of Li and follower of Li Kin-chung, and now said to have been the leader on the occasion, thus again agreeing with our first information. The two Bos were still in the same prison as the criminals,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.