Show THE E EMPRESS DOWAGER R. The Emperor of China is a badgered and bullied figurehead and hardly that It is reported that when the she devil Empress Dowager permits him and the poor little Empress to dine with her they are compelled to eat kneeling Kwang Hsu is not allowed to speak at the audiences he is compelled to give to the foreign diplomats and the old virago is id hidden behind a curtain to see that he holds h his s tongue All power is centred in the Dowager Only a few ew years ago the tile suppression of the Emperor of China and the usurpation of his authority authority author author- ity and functions by this same brutal and bloodthirsty bloodthirsty blood blood- thirst thirsty female fiend were resented by the Powers some of whom threatened and seriously thou thought ht of removing rento her and liberating the unfortunate law lawful ul ruler of China from her clutches Knowledge that thata a a movement of the kind was in the wind was what whai drove e Tsi Hsi to fury furJ caused her bel to incite the Boxer movement and to order the destruction of the legations legations lega and the tile massacre of the tile ministers their families families fam fam- and all other foreigners in the compounds The TIle war with all 11 ll of its hardships hai and loss of American and European lives was strictly her doing I If ever everit everit everit it was justifiable to seize and decapitate a murderess murderess murderess mur mur- deress it was-so was in n her case Now after all her crimes crines and wickedness and the ruin she has wrought this vile and infamous creature returns to Pekin in triumph and the representatives representatives rep rep- of the tile Powers bow down before and worship her bel It is enough to make the blo blood d boil in inthe inthe in the veins of ofa a graven graYe image |