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CHINA DEFINES
her position
[lsuies Responsibility For the
Present Troubles.
f[LL STATEMENT GIVEN OUT
imperial Decree Drawn Up By
privy Council and Transmitted
to China’s Representatives
In All Countries.
An imperial decree dated 3d day of
fixth moon (June 29) was received by
telegraph Wednesday by Minister
Wn, in Washington, from the Toa Tai
of Shanghai, transmitted on July Ist
from the treasurer of the Chi Li prov
ince, who received it by special courier
on June 30th from the board of war,
who in turn received it from the privy
council in Fekin. The decree in part
is as follows:
The circumstances which led to the
commencement of fighting between
Chinese and foreigners were of such
a complex, confusing and unfavorable
character as to be entirely unexpected.
Our diplomatic reporters abroad,owing
to their distance from the scene of ac
tion, have had no means of knowing
the true state of things, and ac
cordingly cannot lay the views of the
government before the ministers for
foreign affairs of the respective powers
to which they are accredited. Now
we take this opportunity of going
fully into the matter for the informa
tion of oui representatives aforesaid.
In the first place there arose in the
provinces of Chi Li and Shan Tung a
kind of rebellious subjects who had
been in the habit of practicing boxing
and fencing in their respective vil
lages, and at the same time clothing
their doings with spiritualistic and
strange rites. The local authorities
failed to take due notice of them at the
time. Accordingly the infection spread
with astonishing rapidity.
At first the foreign powers requested
that foreign troops be allowed to enter
the capital for the protection of the
legations. The imperial government,
having in view the comparative urgen
cy of the occasion, granted the request
as an extraordinary mark cf courtesy
beyond the requirements of interna
tional intercourse. Over 500 foreign
troops were sent to Pekin.
The imperial govermment was by
no means reluctant to issue orders for
the entire suppression of this insur
gent element. But as the trouble was
so near at band, there was a great fear
that due protection might not be as
sured to the legations if the anarchists
should be driven to extremities, thus
bringing on a national calamity. Asa
measure of precaution it was finally
decided to request the foreign minis
ters to retire temporarily to Tien Tsin
for safety.
It was while the discussion of this
proposition was in progress that the
German minister, Baron Von Ketteler,
was assassinated by a riotous mob one
morning while on his way to the tsung
li yamen. On the previous day the
German minister had written a letter
appointing a time for calling on the
tsung li yamen, but the yamen fearing
lie might be molested on the way, did
not consent to the appointment as sug
gested by the minister.
Since this occurrence the anarchists
assumed a more bold and threatening
attitude, and consequently it was not
deemed wise to carry out the project
M the diplomatic corps to
under an escort. Ho
orders were issued to the troops de
tailed for the protection of the lega
tions to take greater precautions
against any emergency. To our sur
prise, on the 20th of the fifth moon
(June 16th) foreign (naval?) officers at
-Faku called upon Lo Jung Ivwang,
the general commanding, and demand
ed his surrender of the forts, notify
ing him that failing to receive compli
ance they would at 2 o’clock the next
day take steps to seize the forts by
force. Lo Jung being bound by the
duties of his office to hold the forts,
how could he yield to the demand on
the day named. They actually first
fired upon the forts, which responded
and kept up a fighting all day and
then surrendered. Thus the conflict
of forces began, but certainly the in
itiative did not come from our 6ide.
Even supposing that China were not
conscious of her true condition, how
could she take such a step as to engage
in war with all the powers simnlta-
neously, an 1 bow could she, relying
upon the support of an anarchistic
populace, go into war with the powers?
Our position in this matter ought to"
I'e clearly understood by all the pow
ers. The above is a statement of the
wrongs we have suffered, and how
China was driven to the unfortunate
position from which she could not
escape.
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■ 9 IV ning your
fl fingers through it?
; 3 Does it seem dry and
lifeless?
tj Give your hair a
rl chance. Feed it.
ll The roots are not
i \ dead; they are weak
|] because they are
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food
is
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visor
If you don’t want
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once a day. It nakes
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“ One bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor
Btonjied my hair from falling out,
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Julius Witt,
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If you do not obtain all the benefits
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Vigor, write the Doctor about it. /
Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass.
Willing to Make the Risk.
“I have seen it stated that any girl
who marries a man under twenty-five
years of age is taking big chances,”
he casually remarked.
“I do so love to gamble,” she an
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A I)odor’s Advice Free!
About Tetterine. Dr. M. L. Fielder
of Eclectic P. 0., Elmore Cos., Ala.,
says: “I know it to be a radical cure
for tetter, salt rheum, eczema and all
kindred diseases of the skin and scalp.
I never prescribe anything else in all
skin troubles.” Send 50c. in stamps
for a box of it, postpaid, to the man
ufacturer, J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah,
Ga., if your druggist doesn’t keep it.
Drawing tlie Dine.
•‘I suppose you feel sure of your ground in
the coming campaign?”
“I should say so, ’ answered Senator Sorghum
“I think I may say without boasting that I have
enough laid by to hold my own without mort
gaging any real estate.”—VY ashington Star.
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and bunions. At all druggists and shoe
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Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Laying Out a Celebration.
“Freddy, tell pa what you want for your
birthday.”
“Oh, pa, I want a tent In th’ hack yard, an a
pun. an' a grea’ big cigar store Injun."—Minne
apolis Journal.
The Best Prescription for Clitlls
and Fever Is a bottle of GhOVE’s Tasteles3
Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c.
Elusive.
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be, there is one thing she Is not.”
Will —“What’s that?”
Jack—“ She Is not contagious.
Will—“ How do you mean?
Jack —“You can’t catch her. ’ —Detroit Free
Press. _____
Carter’s Ink Is Used by the
greatest railway systems of the United State®.
They would not use it if it wasn’t the best.
No Longer Friends.
Tess—You and May used to be very chummy,
but you don’t speak at all now, do you?
Jegg—Xo. Just before Easter we foolishly
acreed that we would candidly critldee each
other's gowns and hats when wo got them.
Putnam Fapelebs Dyes do not spot, streak
or give your goods an unevenly dyed ap
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Take the baby talk a woiqan uses in convers
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will have a first-class college yell.
Conductor E. I>. Loomis, Detroit. Mich ,
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wonderful.” Write him about It. Bold by
Druggists, 75c.
Piso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever need
for all affections of throat and lungs.—w M.
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Mrs. Winslow s Boothlng Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma
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How the Earth Grows.
The earth is growing heavier at the
average rate of 500 tons a year. The
meteors, or shooting stars, in passing
through the earth’s atmosphere, are
burned up and fall on to the earth’s
surface, occasionally in a heavy mass,
but most usually in small meteoric,
dust.
Frofessor Nordenskjold, from his
great experience, estimated that, from
the cause named, 500 tons fall uniform
lly and steadily over the whole globe
In each year, and the observations of
Russian scientists yiold a similar re
sult.
These meteoric streams, says another
astronomer, are really small planetary
bodies, revolving around the sun in
fixed orbits by the force of gravity.
The earth revolves on its axis at the
rate of 1,000 miles an hour, and speeds
through space in its orbit around the
sun at the rate of 1,000 miles every
minute, and in August and November
plunges into the orbit of these small
planets, and the very opposite direc
tion.
The rapidity with which they enter
our atmosphere and the fiiction thus
generated are so enormous that they
are set fire to, the smaller ones being
consumed and falling in dust, while
the larger ones occasionally reach the
earth in the shape of meteoric stone or
Iron.
Wealth is an Essential.
Belgrave and Eaton squares are In
the southern portion of the west end
of London, and both are very hand
some and extensive. The value of prop
erty there, as in the districts just men
tioned, is literally prodigious. Only the
richest people can nfford to dwell in
these quarters and only the richest peo
ple do. Many persons of title and long
descent, who have not money enough
to occupy their ancestral homes, rent
them to tenants with fatter purses than
their own. Thus decade by decade
London society is losing its old repute
for exclusiveness, and the claims of
money are superseding those of birth.
Many of the oldest English families,
indeed, have now retired altogether
from active participation in social af
fairs. Parvenus and upstarts hobnob
with the rich nobility, and not seldom
intermarry with them as well.
To Cure a Cold In Olio Day.
Take Laxative Bkomc Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money It It foils to cure.
E. W. Grove's signature is on ea.*h box. 33c.
Force of Habit.
“How much did you pay for that horse 7” asked
the ice man.
“Seventy-five dollars a front foot ” answered
the real estate man. —Indianapolis Press.
That Ing Powder
•old in the South than all other brands combined
thoroughly confirms the fact that ll I* Wholesome.
Healthful and Highest in Leavening Power, Look for
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cleaning inside. If your bowels, your liver,
/ your kidneys are full of putrid filth, and
you don't clean them out in the spring,
/ you'll be in bad odor with yourself and
l / everybody else all summer.
WMiWmy DON'T USE A HOSE to clean your
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I positive and forceful CASCARETS, that
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