Once again there is attracting our attention that interesting psychological problem:—How does a Chinese infant know when to shriek, 'Foreign Devil'? and how does he know when not to do so? "To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven." For many months one travels here, there and everywhere and serene smiles greet us! on all sides. Suddenly, within a few days, in places widely remote, the little shrieking imp life his lisping baby voice and we cannot understand the why, till some future "North-China Herald' reports some strained relations synchronize ing in diplomatic circles in Peking. What is the source and medium of such patriotic telepathy?
Though we have heard nothing of it otherwise, a proclamation jointly.signed by the civil and military chiefs of the Hotung cir-cult calls attention to the activity of the notorious Old Brothers Society" and exhorts the peace-loving lieges of Shansi to beware of its agents, who, with the usual plausible promises, are said to be recruiting in preparation for some outbreak of lawlessness.
Tue reports of a scheme of disbandment projected by Peking continue to appear in the Chinese press. The latest on this subject is is that Gen. Chang Shao-tseng, Peking's Premier, is holding a meeting at the Western Hills, Peking, during the next few weeks ta discuss the whole question. Among those invited to attend, it is said, are the various military, political, industrial and commercial leaders throughout the country.
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