Show THE SITUATION tue the chaotic condition prevailing in op chinese empire or more strictly speaking at the palace in pekin is likely to hasten a crisis that has been ex picked ever since the nature of the of the state became better un otly by an immediate change thisie methods of western civilization the safety ef life and proper djs assured pan can the partition of the be prevented but such a turn far toot probable aible perhaps not even pos eftie recent events at the palace are asce or less jew clouded in mystery but it eans aim 5 from the accounts published thit the late was removed at tion of thie dowager empris emp maln one report is that hat he was vau wa am another thelt that he waa aa to death while still itin another lother al at hev to torture ail t froat being thresh lud e wa e de abid iri AM td 1 fjames the classical works of traus it la u further ang alleged ed ilhan he had ordered high officiate to don european clothes and that he contemplated vorous various reforms rei forms it Js ia about forty years since the lady who now hs As supposed to rule china commenced the that have bave led her tp to the hight summit of power during that time many mysterious deaths have occurred within the th e palace walls tue the story forms sm an exceedingly interesting section of human hu n history the emperor hieu hien pung fung died an august and a nd by hla his will lefft the kingdom to his six beaff old son eoin tung che in the fool following lowIng november Noy ember the teoy boy was brought to pekin plots plate quickly followed the of the ini im danule emperor into the palace two women ashl and tsi tat an through wince kung abra a brother their of ulen hien flung deposed delbose d the regents and prince kung was given high honors in the state in a short time A an p had 0 obtained ordinate coordinate co cio power with tsi ashl the dowager empress she stripped kung kiang ot of his honors for the purpose orf oaf Ms his ambIt ambitions lons but after being humbled he was reinstated in 1872 the young emperor had reached his emith birthday the em emp presses permitted him to marry ah luta inta a manchu lady pour four months later tung ebe che announced in an edict that the two empress impresses em presses had bad commanded him to assume the reins of power he soon showed that he was desirous desiro irs of being emperor in fact and degraded prince kung but the very next day their imperial majesty issued a decree restoring the fallen prince to all his former dignities it was given out that the youthful emperor was still fractious rumors spread at the same time that his health was poor on december 18 1873 and edict appeared requesting the empress dowager to take personal charge off of public business A tew few months afterward the emperor died it has always been believed that he was murdered his death was speedily followed by that of his widow Ah apilita Ilita the em eni presses selected as the successor tsai tien a son of prince chung who was proclaimed emperor under the name of kwangsuk Kwang su IK kwangsuk Kwang su was born in 1871 he was a mere infant when devo declared lared emperor which was a fact convenient to the two feminine intriguers intrigue rs after the province of III was restored to china by th iho treaty of st petersburg in 1881 1981 empress tot ashl died she was the nominal superior of tsi Ts an her illness fiess was remarkably short in duration death beath was attributed to heart disease in 1884 a former secondary wife of Hien fung was in absolute power she deprived prince kung of power and sent rent him into an obscurity where he remained for eleven years thenceforth prince chung father of the young emperor and ll LI hung chang were wax in her fingers prince chung died in january 1891 his ally marquis tseng died a few months before the manner of their deaths has been a similar secret in china kwangsuk married the daughter of bf a manchu general in 1889 1899 she still lives tipoti the celebration of the marriage an announced her retirement from active in affairs but she ruled the young emperor as before LI 11 kung bhag has always been his favorite favorit 6 and on more than one me fcc occasion a he has saved his head bead it was his removal froma from a seat on the toung teung 11 camen that assaid is said tp to have preely precia the palace a which ended 0 an in ithe AM death of W 1 41 fiam this attao bit wt bitof of hla tery arf to jb the nt york journal that imperial power in the Mou mongolian golian empire d ft for the ot of those who by chance or fortune are invested witta iland and that human life Is counted for nothing if it happens to stand an inthe the way of insatiable ambi ambition Uon no wonder that the people hate the dynasty and that numerous secret societies alac jot with revolutionary alms no wonder that the methods of these are those of the assassin when assassination is taught from the ee cret recesses of the palace the people are sure to profit by the lessow in the atmosphere of tyray tyranny the poisonous fungi of revolution thrive ve it is in believed that the european Eu roVean powers must be prepared to interfere the warships of great britain aad other powers are already in tha gum of or on their way there and two of deweys deleys ships have also been ordered to phinese waters tensis Tin sis an aa it should be if it comee come to a partition of china the united states seitei tins has abt to be american CRUs citizens have suffered d in an the rasa nots at pekin and elsewhere american trade tra wih china demands as much cj amsid did bratson a as that h t of some kar especially je germany rah aty and id the itha laavy that oat destroyed fleet in the most victories on record to is SL a power not to be ignored |