Show an emperor rebuked A french journal tells a story which deserves to he be true of a chinese man larin who dared to speak the truth to the emperor not a very safe proceeding a as s is commonly supposed when the emperor happens to be in a passion the favorite horse borse of emperor tsi tai had died through the negligence of the man to whose care lie he was in trusted the emperor in ills his rage would have run ran him through but the mand mandarin ann yent se interposed and p parried a aried the blow sire he cried this man is not yet charged with the crime for which he deserves to die well then said the emperor tell him what it is listen you scoundrel said the minister to an enumeration of the crimes that you yon have committed first you have allowed a horse to perish which the emperor had in trusted to your safe keeping moreover it is owing to you that our sovereign became ea e so exasperated that he was on the m point of killing you with his bis own hand and lastly it is your fault that he was about to disgrace himself in the eyes of everyone by killing a man for a horse let him go said the emperor 1 I ardon him hial 11 youths companion |