The "Reform Party" from Hankow made an attempt to spread its sheets here, but a liberal and prompt lopping off of heads seems to have crushed it out cffectively. To be found in Chinkiang with one of these '*ptiao-tze" on his person, be he innocent or guilty, is as much as his life is worth to thw unhappy native. Between the great Salt Smuggler, who wields the power of life and death, and the local official under strict orders from the Viceroy, the criminal has little chance to escape.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.