We still have the redoubtable Chang Hsun with us I occasionally see him whirling round the city in a swagger limousine, two be-queued yelling soldiers hanging on to each footboard, flourishing Mauser pistols, and" his driver making the proc terrific through the thousands of plodding and scared ricshas.
The queues on Chang Hsun's soldiers, strangely enough, attract more attention than doe the hero of the bloody—affrays about Nanking. The soldier of the regular army of the Republic! long ago shed his hirsute appendage, and it is already a novelty for the citizens to see men with queues adorning their regimentals, And by their queues as well as their deeds are Chang Hsun and his men known.
The Queue in Court.
It la related that when the stalwart defender of the Manchus kowtowed to the Emperor in the Forbidden City the other day his queue displayed itself in ostentatious wriggles to those about the Emperor. They reminded him thas queues were incompatible with the progress of the times, and particularly with the standing of a Republic, and suggested that he Id consign it to the limbo. He sprang to grim attention immediately and read a defence of the queue to all who cared to! listen that stifled all argument against it, "AI my soldiers have queues," be related, "and it is of supreme military importance that they should have. All soldiers should bare queues—by the queue they will be known as soldiers, and no traitor can get in among them, un-loss he has a queue, a thing which most traitors now have not!" While loud applause is not recorded as having greeted this point of the General's speech, it no doubt met with approval from the Manchus, and nothing more was said which might tend to make the one-time mafoo of the old Dowager attire himself in the manner of the new time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.