Our city has just -been treated to the sensation of a living burial, and that not accidental either. A woman had attempted to kill her husbandzby dragging his wine and came very near accomplishing her purpose although the man was still last reports. On. discovering foul pla etiraged mother-in-law deliberately grave dag and then the woman, bound hand and foot, was carried to the burying-place A large crowd followed but none were di posed to interfere in what appeared to all such a well-merited punishment, for wh counts the life ofa woman when compared with that of her husband? And so the awful tragedy was actually consummated? and, unable to move hand or unt, the poor unfortunate was consigned to her livin grave, Even at suck cost must the dignity of the lords of creation be maintained in China, and woman taught to treat them with the proper respect. On asking if the official would probably take any notice of the affair, E was told that he would not, Indeed the punishment that he himself would e meted would have been even more torturing and disgraceful than that administered by the mother-in-law. How apt the word, of the Psalmist: "The dark places of the earth are full of the habit: tions of cruelty."
Wsiichoufu, 27th February.
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