Late in the reign of Ching Tse-wang, the Emperor of China who built the Wall, he felt age creeping over him rapidly. His energetic and trying life was beginning to have its effect on the Heaven-sent war rior, so he consulted with various Chinese physicians and wise men as to some method by which ho might prolong his days and be restored to his former vigour. The advice of one doctor found great favour in his eyes, and the Emperor ordered it to be acted on immediately. recommendation was that three thousand boys and a similar number of girls, all about the age of 15 or 16 years should be captured, in the best possible health, should be placed alive in large caldrons and boiled down #0 as to mako a pill which would be a concentrated extract of life from six thousand ins. If the Emperor then swallowed this pill he would be 50 filled with fresh young life that he could live for six thousand years. Tt took some time singling out the suitable vic-Jength it was accomplished end the day arranged for the experiment of extracting life, when one of the ebiof advisers to the Imperial Court. suggested that they were all very pale and therefore had not that sufficiency of vigour to mako auch a pill as the Emperor required. He suggested the boiling should be postponed and the victims sent to some very healthy place so that they might gain strength, thereby adding to the potency of the Faustian pill; and it w s finally decided that they should be sent to some islands off the coast for one year, and not allowed to escape, and the humane chief adviser was sent to look after them and make frequent reports. Time paseed: no re ports came: the postponed date arrived, and no Minister and no six thousand vie tims were forthcoming. Messengers were nent to bring beck the insubordinate and disobedient Minister. but the moeconcors never returned. Tf finally leaked out. however, that this tender-hoartad but disohadiont advisor of his Auonst Majesty had found the islands to which he had Been sent unpeopled, ce a brilliant iden came into his head of ponulating the islands with the means to hand. and ae cordingly he paired aff cash youth with a maiden, and this started a rising yvonne nation, which after many vieriec some time ta ant chine the Fi had Anamod ite faundore ta an early and horrible dagth, Na nille sara fnethanm ino, and the rage into which the Emnerer Fell ut Reine on hated hactonad an tha end of 9 croat hit tnenmnnlane and cole marian-h, wut one cham the ward mer thank for tha ranean, Heennch ory wene deser a fortnain~ Shad Fland Pounten at the Aciant which San-t has par the hanner of Rising Sun."
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