There has been some talk amongst the country people on the imposition of new taxes, and this led in Weihsien to a local disturbance which ended in some twenty or thirty individuals—many of whom had only come to look see"—finding themselves in durance vile. The shopkeepers took alarm and closed their doors, while confidence and business were only resumed when the local magistrate went round in his official chair and exhorted the fearful and unbelieving to take courage to th fainting hearts, and once more buy and sell as heretofore.
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