If he has the pluck of one 21d official now in Shanghai he might. The official alluded to was once in a very distant dependency. He was impeached by enemies, and the Throne (it was in the days of the Manchus) ordered that he be beheaded. It was expected that ne would disappear suddenly, but packed his trunks, wired the Throne that he would come to Peking and face his accusers and generally kick up more dust than the Grand cretanes would deem good for them, Every telegraph station reached hie long journey towards Peking received a telegram from him for despatch to the Capital announc. ing that he was that much nearer his accusers, and apparently his determination worried the folk in Peking quite a lot. Ultimately he reached a port well up the Yangtze and no sooner did the inevitable telegram reach Peking than one promptly sent back to him not ing him that he had travelled 1 very long way and that he was to bother coming any further, structing him, instead, to await where he was for an appointment!
Though he is, according to all records, officially dead, he is still very much alive in Shanghai, baving since that time held office der the Manchus and under the Republican Government. This policy may not, of course, work to-day even if ex-Tutuh Chen is tempted to try it,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.