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Greatest of Chinese Sinners." On the side of each man were characters showing who he was: the first was! supposed to represent Tsing Kuo-fan (the first Marquis of that name who "eoiquered the captured Taiping rebels and their capi Nanking, in 1864); the next represented Marquix Tso Tsung-tang, the conqueror of the Mohammedan rebels of Kansu Governor of Heilungkiang. ly. struck with paralysis on Frida: last week at Kirin. His Excellency wax on chis return to Tsitsil Hei Shih-ch'ang.
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Governor. the seventies, and the third man was Marquis Li Hung-chang, whose history most of us.know something about—more or less. The third picture was mort gruesome one and also contained the representations of three men. The first represented a man divided into sword. Thin! nan" (Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai); the second man had' hhis head divided vertically into two parts. Under this one was the character Chang" (Viceroy Chang Chih-tung). The third man had his cranium slashed off as to ite upper part and under hin was the character "Tsen" (Viceroy Teen. Ch'un-lwwen). There wore in tone and effect, but not so plain to the discernment as the three drawings noted in the foregoing. The strictest investigation ordered by Viceroy Hu Shih-ch'ang failed to reveal who it was that had had the audacity to place the book of drawings—they were lore like caricatures—on the Viceregal desk.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.