Native accounts of both cholera and plague are simply heartrending. Allowing for the inevitable exaggeration, one never. ion that the twin s other in decimating the doomed popul: Shocked by the indescribable filthiness of the streets and dwellings the stranger has exclaimed a thousand times: "I wonder they don't all die!" At present one feels inclined ty pi Speak softly, stranger; they re dyin The " Poor-houses" do_not even now "ride on" the Chinese "like a nightmare" (to quote the author John Chinaman's words flung at Westernrs). The poor here simply die out of doors and quietly wait for some one to come along after dark and ting them into the river. Charming civilisation Justice a la Chinoise.
Faithfully following the Confucian "law that is within them," our various officials are wreaking terrible vengeance on the wealthier villages of {fyi sion, because s me of the less circumspect neigh: ours saw fit to resist the immense squeeze levied on them in connection with the Indemnity tax. Houses are destroyed by the score; here and there some one is killed to make the people "tremble and obey," while women jump into wells or in. other ways escape ihe fiendish soldiers. Some of
squeeze, but an enormous fine to boot. Of the villages have not only, paid, the tax this the grasping old Viceroy—who was remarkably ready to send dowa soldiers to quell the rebellion!—is supposed to bank the lion's share. Perquisites, merely! Not all the Chsistians have escaped the official ire, and quite a_number of both Methodist and C. M. $. adherents are imprisoned.
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