(By Arrangement with Sixty Wears Hgo From me "Norri-Cruxa Dary News" or January 20, 1878
The Governor of Soochow has called the Imperial attention to a custom which has grown up among officials, of shirk-Ing the period of mourning which they are bound by regulation, to observe, on the death of a parent. They ought, on
homes for between two ani uch occasions, to go to their famil rilly instead of which they linger about the capitals trying to get employed on some special commission. or other temporary employment, with a not unnatural desire, presumably to earn their daily bread. It is all very well for à rich man to be ordered to his family estate, though it must be annoying to have one's career interrupted: but to a poor man—and there are plenty of poor officials—it must mean next door to privation. The proprieties, however, must be observed. and the Emperor fulminates with due energy against such iniquitous evasions. Starve they may, but go home and mourn they shall and must, or be impeached.
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