1902.
"Your Majesty—"The Ladies of the Diptomatic Corps have responded with pleasure to your kind invitation to this audience, and we most heartily congratulate you and all the Imperia Comt that the unfortunate s tuation, which led yon to abandon your beaw-ful capital, has been so happily resolved that you are_now permitted to return to it in freedom and in peace.
"Your sats return to Peking and to this 2 undestroyed will furnish pages to future history, litti!e comprehended at this time. The events of the last two years must be as painful to you as fley are to the rest of the world, but the sting of the sad experience may be eliminated, and we sincerely hope it will be, by the establishment of better, franker more trustful, and friendlier relations between Chinese and the other pen-pies of the earth.
"The world is moving forward, The tide of progress cannot be stayed, and to be hoped that China will join the great sisterhood of nations in the grand march. May all the nations, united, manifest forbearance. respect, and good will, moving on to the mutual good of all, "The recent Imperial edicts give promise of great good to come to your people and to your vast Empire, and it is our earnest prayer that God, may preserve you Majesty and the Emperor, and guide you to the fullest fruition of this promise."
Did the despairing telegrams sent from the U.S. Legation and from other points in Peking during the siege cross Mrs, Conger's mind, by chance, as sh" was making this flattering address to the authoress of the crime of 1900?
"The world will not believe a man repents, And this wise world of ours is mainly right," says Tennyson. But we are to be assured that the Empress Dowager has repented, for did she not weep evpionsly over the recitation of the events of 1900. and bring forth from, her treasures Dutch gabd 14th rentary, worth S100 give two to each of the ladies, wit! gold bracelets studded with june and rolls of very fine sik? Such gifts have all the potency of the very wacers of Lethe.
Meanwhile, says ano-her corres-"Yung In has called upo several Mini 1d protested that Heaven alone knows how he endea-youred to help them in their time of trouble!"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.