Out of the north gate of the For-hidden City—the gate which is always used for the purposes of the inmates of the Oity—streams >f passed servants, wearing red-tasselled hats as of yore, passed en and out. "Boon we will see better folk come out," he said, "never to go back." That was interesting. Yes, now being arranged to transfer.he Imperial family to the old Summer Palace—where a lake of solid ice will greet them to warn them of their ultimate fate. That will be their graveyard—accessible ultimately to the tourists of the world at the price of one dollar Mexican per head, payable at the gate." So spoke the dolorous prophet.
As a fact there is a movement among certain members of the Council of State to have the Imperial family moved to the Summer Palace in accordance with the original proposal, but it is questionable whether that will be done. If the transference is made it will surprise many, the belief existing that the Government is not likely to let the Imperial family stray out of its immediate sight to any place where it might devise opportunities to hatch plots to the detriment of the Republic, and where the plotters might come and go with comparative freedom. In the For-hidden City all comers and goers can be watched—but at the Summer Palace not quite such a strict eye could be kept upon the doings of the inhabitants,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.