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Show Our Washington letter yesterday morning suggested a possible solution of the mvstoo of the recall of Minister Min-ister U'u nnd tils continued stay, for which a precedent hlMi In Chinese tin-clltlon tin-clltlon afforded an example That Is that the Minister doesn t Intend to return re-turn to China ut nil fearing that tho cllmnte there would be "bod for his throat" The Illustration quoted was that of a mandarin who was nlloive.l to have his thro it mended, nftet a substantial "placebo' to the llmprees It Is considered that Wu Tlng-fung has ptobably not been able to "stark up" quite to the pile of 100.0) taels that the mandniln contributed but ptrltups half the else. As to where he would net the money, a small levy on every Chinaman In the country would maku It. and tho collection of this lev) Is shown to be quite feasible. It lu all an Interesting specimen of Chinese wa)s tint ate dark and trick that mo not ala)nj vain" |