The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14

person who understood the workings OF
the ke-Li motor. was treated with the con-
tempt the proposition deserved.
The country was electrified by the news
ofthe great victory. Bonfires blaxed upon
every hill. Cities and towns were illumi-
mated No village was too small to hold
its mass meeting. where patriotic speeches
were made and the praises of Mr. Edison
and the American soldiers were acclaimed.
The thanks of congress were extended TO
Edison, General Gregg, Major Haines and
Captain Fuller, and the promised star OF q
brigadier soon glittered on Haines' shout
der. The remaining numbers, necessary
to make up the 100000 volunteers called
for, were raised in three days. Gold went
down to los. A spirit of general confidence
possessed the people, and il was felt by all
that the great Chinese invasion had reached
its high-water mark.
The remaining events OF the war are mat
tiers of history. How the American army
was rapidly supplied with Edison airships
of the Lammergeir type. ke-Li motors,
chariots and lighting engines; how the
American navy was reconstructed with
ships of an improved Chinese model; how
a rebellion broke out in kwang-Chin, Yih-
Huns native province, when the order for
his deposal and death was published;
how, with this as nucleus, the
Tai-pings broke out, threatened repe-
tition of the horrors of their hrst
rebellion, thus for time wholly
distracting the attention of the imperial
government from operations in the United
States; how the nations OF Europe at length
became ashamed of the spectacle of one
Christian nation fighting singie-handed
against the power of all heathendom, and
formed a general alliance to demand a
cessation of hostilitles-all these facts are
known to the reader of history, as we'll as
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signed at London, by which the United
States agreed to permit a limited immigra-
tion of Chinese citizens above the rank of
Iaborers. and to admit such to citizenship,
but did not paw an indemnity nor cede
a foot of soil. These facts, | say, are in all
our histories, but what does not appear IN
them is, that on New Years day, 1911, "a
brilliant ceremony took place at st. Johns
church, at the national capital, at which
Acknowledgement Haines, the hero OF the
battle of the Yellowstone, espoused Lady
Mauna Qua daughter of his grace, ki-Tsin,
prince of the Chinese empire, Duke of
Qwang-Chin and Count of Wo-Lan. !"
This was the way the society papers
printed it.
have been confiscated, and price put
upon his head" said Ki-Tsin, with some
bitterness, ..that is rather an imposing
string of titles"
On the death of the Emperor Kwang-Su
in 1913 member of collateral branch of
the imperial family came to the Dragon
throne, and one of his first acts upon as
Stunning the imperial dignity was TO restore
Ki-Tsin to all his estates and titles and
urgently to request his return to his
native land The old nobleman accord
ingly fastened homeward, but on account
of his advanced age soon obtained permits
sion to return to America, where, with his
daughter and son-in-law and numerous
group of grandchildren, of which he was
Unfortunately fond, he lived several years
and died at last full of years and honors.
Haines attained the highest honors in the
gift of his country. All his happiness and
advancement in fife are due to the Great
Chinese invasion.
THE END