Since writing the above ro our plucky magistrate, the following has become the common talk among the people "The magistrate issued a proclamation urging the people to plant cotton instead of the poppy, which means a marked decroxso in the county revenue; in the second place he declared that the Tings' must disband xnd that village wars must cease; that ho will under no circumstance accept money for condoning illegal practic furthermore he gave a notorious pettifogger who has Leen fattening on the litigation the people notice that unless certain chronic eases were settled speedily he (the pettifoger) would lose hia. degree, and finally, for the lit he chose the thesis from Mencius, Without Father, without Emperor,' which the literati as.a'a body took as an insult, The Prefect, smarting in anticipation of the financial logs that he would suffer from the proposed reforms, denoun-ed the magistrate foreign official, the literati were hastily. rilled by the anxious pettifogger, and when the Literary Chancellor came the reformer was summarily dismissed, Wormy wood splits hard."—So far the common talk, much of which sounds plausible. But the report that the magistrate has been dismissed has been contradicted. The assertion, however, that unless the people fought each other, destroyed each other's crops, killed and' maimed each other in pitched battles the government could not exist has not been contradicted. How strange then that Christian governments do not always duly respects the rights government The oldest government (1) Under the sun." And how much such me as Ng-choy (Minister to Washington, please observe) owe to its benign sway. Now that the atrocities have been published,
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