in an amateur sort of a way, and had never realised what it all meant. Their plans and their professions contradict each other at every point. They tell us they intended to abolish the Manchu Government, and at the same time to replace H. M. Kuang Hsii, the Manchu, on the throne. They object to Boxers, and to the recent reactionary edicts, and yet plan to attack and murder a Viceroy who has opposed them as vigorously ashe can. They are going to protect harmless people and fill the land with happiness, and, as a start, propose to lay in ruins threefgreat cities, Shore there are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle." They profess to be most friendly to foreigners, and yet would let loose on them hovels of cut-throats who would respect nu one, and whom they could never control. The whole affair is pitiable in the extreme, and will lead not a few to reconstruct their opinion of the reform party.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.