"One of the worst outbreaks ever recorded, th which occurred to the China and Missiv at Yangchow in 1868, is suid to have been started by the scientific zeal, carelwasly guarded, of a doctor, in putting a human feet us into a bottle, and it exposed to the view of Chin attendants.
Michie's Missionaries in China, page 13.
IWis also generally believed that the tint 41864 which occurred in Yangchow was hast a physician, who put a aman foetus in" bottle and allowed it to be neon by the Chinese." Rev Gilbert id, Masse Nurth-Ohina Herald, May 19h, "Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment." Such was the opinion of Solomon, the wisest man of his time; but according to the Solomons of our day there is one particular kind, the anti-foreign e, that which every now and then fastens its fangs in the pour stranger from afar, and it acts otherwise. Guless strong ichantments are used it may be safely trusted not to bite; and the fact chat it does bite must be taken as positive proof tit the bitten one calls forth ite rage by in-bulging in practices which are either unlawful or unwise. These sages tell us that the enchantments which have this fatal effect upon the quake are very widely diffused and very numerous, They may be sought for in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters under the earth; while they are also, like the all-pervading and deadly microbe, so plentiful that ten thou ud may be picked up on the point of Hence the inordinate length to which " treatise on this subject occasionally as is the case with all sele ite theories, no matter how popular, there are sure to be x few obstinate persons who refuse to adopt them, so in this instance there have been thuse who maintained enchantment or ne enchantment', serpent would bite every time it felt auf doing On the strength of a fairly wide perience, they denied. that missionaries were in the habit of irritating the reptile by such proceedings as ' preriching that Confucius waa in hell," or interfering with the magistrate in the discharge of his duty," or " outraging native notions of propriety," or many more such-like matters, To disprove these charges was of course beyond their power, since they were level-Jed not at an individual who could be called up to speak for himself, but at " whple budy of men scattered over half " continent. Such " body is necessarily dumb, and ca not talk back. Still these things were denied, and the mischief was traced to the nature of the snake, with the result that the obstinate persons were promptly huked in the grent names ut cur Michies, Rosser, and Reids, however, that the parti-which we are told in dat the head of this articls, is one which admits of proof, rdisproof, Some of those present at thy Yangchow tint-are yet alive, and in answer ty a request for information one of them 8 as follows There statements regarding the ori of the Yangchow riot are quite new to me, and took me quite by surprise, for 1 d not remember ever hearing this version before, I should like to xak these gentlemen where they got their information so long after the event, Certainly not from any one who was there, OF course, Mr, Taylor J. Hudwon Taylor, Director of the Tuland Mission) must be the doctor mentivnod. This being taken far granted let me say, first, nu medical work had been need as we were nat settled down louse was only just rented and under repair. Second, Me. Hudson Taylor would been the lust man to de such " thing 1g been with him Tapeak from peraounl experience, The riot was brought. about, as all riots have been since, by placards ch as we are still only too well acquainted with. These were put up all aver the city weeks before the riot tonk place, There were several series of them, exch worse than its precedes tot all will be found in M 's bouk ina condensed form. The statement: that hunan foots was exponed la utterly false, You are wt liberty to make what axe you please of this, and pat my name to it, ed, W. D. Rudland.""
withstanding a pretty wide acquaintance th riot literature the present writer also to confess that the Michie and Reid version is quite new to him. At the time it occurred the Yangchow affair wan no doubt regarded as "Sone of the worst breaks ever recorded." In consequence a great deal was written about it, and nny be that something may have got in print somewhere about " bottle, Nowadays such an event would be regarded everyday affeir and dismissed with n few lines in the new the delightfully Mr. Reid, one would say it ix als genvrally believed that" the fatal bottle had no existence eave on Mr. Michie's writing table where it contained No doubt, writ story which was report outbreak, but must have adrift in his mind fre its proper moorings, and so like a man who has found "stray hat and sticks it on the first head which seems to be i want of such an ornament, he fixed Yau chow Moral: Don't believe all the tales which are told xbout enchantments, even when they appear h big names to back thew, ROWLAND'S ODONTO.—This has been known for 60 years to be the best, purest, and most fragrant tooth powder. Te whitens the teeth, prevents and terests decay, strengthens the gums, and gives a pleasing. fragrance ty the breath, Rowsaxn's Mavassax Ort preserves and beautifies the hair, and ix the best brilliantine for ladies' and children's hair, as it is not too greasy or too drying. Also sold in golden colour. Ask any chemist or perfumer for London, 2a Rowland's articles, of 20, Hatton Garden,
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