To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cunxa Dany News, Sin,—It appears to me important that the misunderstandings that exist as to the name and style of the Boxers" should cleared up. The real name used on all placards in the North and also on the one found here is HEZPAR. "1 Ho Chuan," and REAPYH]. "1 Ho Tuan." The character Ff} "Ho " for "Harmony "is never used on any placards yet found* and is when substituted for the 2 Ho" or "Union" part of the secret name, ured only by the initi.ted, hence the Empress oWwager said to the Boxers " Let not the word 'Harmony' be heard from you among strangers." The Harmony character would have at once given outsiders the clue to the organisation being the same as that suppressed in 1809.
Tf you will refer to "The Chinese and their Rebellions" by T. T. Meadows, Edition 1856. page 346, the note at foot of page runs as follows, (substitute "1" for L"E For instance T, means public-spirited. i.e. actuated by a desire for the common good. There are in China I Fen, public or free cemeteries; I Hoo, public or free schools, and ['Tsang, public (non-official) granaries: all which are partly benevolent or charitable institutions and should therefore according to_our notions rather be called Jin Fan, Jin Hoo, [if we take Jin as meaning Chv-ity. "I Ping" again must be rendered Patriotic Soldiers, certainly not Righteous So'diers."
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