As might have been predicted the Havlin Reader Ch'en' Pin-ho neutralised his memorial against Li Hung-chang und Chang Ju. hen he wound up his denunciations incurred the enmity of certain high by dedoing ent he feared he hed already Ministers of the Court by making the above and so refrained from saying more, The Empress Dowager demanded an expliuation of this hint and required the memorialist to point out the high Ministers by came. Noone dreamed that he would have the daring to mix up the most powerful officer of the Empire avd a rising favourite of the Empress Dowager in this affair, ixeny Jung Lu and Li Shao, Senior Viee= President of ths Board of Revenue. Yet so it appears this Hanlin has done, Chen Pin-ho deciared that the hint was directed against Jung Lu and Li Shan, for when the former was Tartar-Generat at Hsian, ho is declared to have boon on most intimate terme with Chany Ju-mei when Chang was Provincial 'Treasuroe and. acting Governor in the same city (Hsian, capital of Shensi). This according. to an' edict of the ist of March. is declared tobe absurd for Jung Lu left Heian for Chihli, where he has been ever since, in 1804, whereas Chang Ju-mei did not get to Hsiao until the yenr following or 1899. As for Li Shan, the denouncer Geclared that when he was Imperial Commissioner of the Soochow Silk-looms, years ago, Chang Jo-mei, then an expectant 'Trotai of Kiangsu, was connected with the Salt Gabelle at Hunian, and the two wore very great friends then. To this charge the Empress Dowager says Li Shan, as Silk-loose' Comuuissioner, was always at Soochow in the South of Kiangsu; Huaian ig in the North of the province, " distance of many miles, where, moreover, I one had nothing to do with the other, their businesses being so very different, and separated as they were by many days journey. Hence both charges being pesterous they must naturally fall through—as the denouncer apparently meant them to. The memorialist," says the edict in west-n, " ought to be severely punished jor his culpable charges, but he is pardoned foa a matter of extraordinary grace, and we command that he be only reprimanded for his folly."" Ju other words, Ch'én Pin-ho by making absurd charges not only saved the reputations of his victims with the Empress Dowager, but by wnusing hor with such flaring and preposterous charyes, the politic Hanlin succeeded in turning the wrath of the Empress Dowager and all the Ministers of the Court from NorwrrusraNprxa the many wonderful developments of science, no rival has yet been teand to take the place of Holloway's Pills and Ointment us reliable and speedy cares for the various diseases with which weareall liable to be afflicted. The Oint-meet is universally acknowledged to ba 6 certain remedy for sore throat, bronchitis, coughs, colds, glandalae swellings, gout, rheumatism, and all akin diseases. The justly earned " world-wide reputation fur all female complaints; for infantile disorders: they are invaluable, and they. are ap unfailing remedy for all disorders affection the liver and stomach. Tt would be difficalt, indeed, to same " cowwplaint for which both the Pills and Ointment are not beneficial, Thousands of people in all parts of the world can testify to their merits. They are suitable for any d or season of the year.
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