Avparently Mr. Mandevie's bullets ala not take effect-as the cause of Are i tit very much in evidence, there' must be" numerous. dre devils about, li bent on destroying temples and lamaseries and" idols" covered wits goto. Since the big fre rome JAays ago numeroes fires Nave broken out in diferent parts of the cli and Shang lame, a native of Hupeh, now Informs the Bewildered. populace that isialeidoscope potely tells him that Lntes something is dove, 'Tachientr Will be wiped out. by fre on the fwentyeeighth of the' present moon: and to-day ts the twenty, sixth, 'Shang. lama came tothe. border over forty years ago, traveling with his tather, who: wes' a native st the Province of "Hupeh. He lives. for many years in Balang, spending a part of his te with "the Gergen carnation. Newa ax just come that the Gong-gx incarnation has" passed away. If true, one of the most along the whole frontier will now
absolute authority on things nat yet func no more: Shang lama to hand and the people have sri shaken belle tu his prognostications, "The Chiat of Police. like alcawoe will stter from pecuniary embarrass: Ment tthe local inhabitants have red him to, bea man of his word. Great speeches about patelot.
trid "ones relation to fires and the feed Gt money to put them out may deceive somebody" but not the People of Tachientu. The inhabitants firmly believe their money is safer in'thetr own hands and "they "can But cut res without "water and without money. Thus the sition stands at the present moment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.