By ihe sid of a friend in Honan word was got through to Peking and shortly afterward a high official called.' Look here," said he, holding out a bunch of telegraph slips, ''here is a four-page telegram from Yuan Shih-kai telling us to protect you any cost and how to do it. But how did he ever fird it out is what puzzles us." He was informed that an Eoglish friend had helped out the American missionaries. "Oh," was the reply, "so the English do your business for you, do they?" He was most thoroughly disgusted, for, as was confessed, the officials supposed no word could be got through to Peking until they had been able to do something in a leisurely way which would piss as "protecting." The Soldiers Appear.
But the danger was too great to think of trusting women and children to the protection of such officials. The local general ordered in several regiments (the force in Tamingfu was wholly inadequate to meet the large force of " Orchardis!s"), but it was manifest that for the next two or three months the missionaries could do nothing, and as said above, they have all come away.
The "Tsai Yuan" and its Anti-Foreign Design.
Have we not all heard about the wonderful Peach Orchard, which like i in a Japanese kikemono is and everywhere present? Well, according to a scholarly Uhinese friend who has talked with members of the Tsai Yuan," itis in memory and imitation of the three worthies who joined together to save China in those ancient days, that this new society is formed to rescue their country from the unprincipled railroads, telegraphs, foreign schools, foreign religions, and increasing taxes—- these are what the peasantry ser. And ho also sees the prices of provisions rising (ment particularly) while many industries on which the mechanics or women have depended, have been ruined by cheap goods Mndo in Foreigndom."
The Officials sve things a bit clearer; as one of those at Tamingfu remarked: ' [f there is another Boxer uprising, it will be the end of China,"—smashed to pieces and the bite of crockery gathered up by the vations of Europe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.