Chin is surely the land of con-traditions. Everyone thought that Boxerism was as dead as a door-nail six years ago. Now we are treated to s recrudescence of it near us. The teachers of the rites are said to have been driven over into Kiangsu from Shantang. For months they have been teaching their secrets to gullible youths who can pay for it. They say that it is only @ society to protect its members against robbers. Youths in the towns of Pichon and T'oshan ray be seen walking the streets with swollen foreheads showing the marks of violent kowtows. It ix said that the exercise is 80 violent that a hole is beaten into the ground. We cannot learn that any antiforeign or anti-Vbristisn ideas are instilled.
One of my acquaintances was present at one of there lessons. The pupils bared their breasts and received the bulletx that were fired at them by the teacher—our friend teasingly said, " Let me load joint that gan and I'll break the They simply drove him off, half in fun half in earnest, declaring that his words would break the spell.
The soldiers and officials are unable to handle these men without a speci order or an accusation and for the time they are simply winking at the fact of their existence.
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