Hindu, myth.) Roof of the 45 Scrape with, the foretor Similar stories could be told ad infinitum. In the bad old days taxes and impositions were, in the words of the song, "too many to mention." The question is: in how much have things changed since those 2 There are still many who rantennber the abolition of the Tuchun which occurred in those It had been decided that evil from which China suffered was the Tuchun, With the exception of those ills which were directly due to the pigheadedness of the foreign and they were many—everyt! was due to the Tuchun, So was abolished. The Tuchuns fell in with the scheme without trouble, They allowed themselves to be abolished: evea issued proclamations abolishing. themselves, ud thereafter they reigned as Tupans, But: the general feeling was that' much had been accomplished: the Tuchun -had gone never to! return. People waited for the country to take a turn for th better. Instead, the result is we -known.—Where Tuchuns tised with rods, the Tupans chastised with scorpions, The' last state of the country was worse than the first.
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