Evening star., 1900-08-18
of the changed ceremoptss the empires.
dowager's court

of the changed ceremoPAs + the empress
dowager's court
The Coup d'Etnt.
Before that family would reach Pekin the
crash came: reaction r, reacted. the coup
d'etat fell, the reformers fled Tor their lives,
decapitations were made Bye wholesale and
the whole group Of progressives who had
reused the emperor to his eountry's needs
and perils were extermfnated All were
emperor sent a last mAssage to fly for his
life. The emperor in attempting to escape
from the palace himsem-to- seek refuge at
the nearby British legation, it Is said-was
seized by the empress idowager's eunuchs
and carried off to the Island palace in her
suburban park.
had counted without the empress dowager
whom they openly antagonized. Chang
Liu, reformer. in one memorial to the en-
the empress dowager to the late Emperor
Tungchih was that of his own mother but
her relation to you is that of the widowed
concubfne of former emperor"
The DovvaGer's Shrevdnesa.
While they had written essays and
memorials and inspired edicts, she had
quietly mustered an army to the neigh
borhood and the unsuspecting reformers
conf1ded In this Tartar general of hers. who
Immediately informed the dowager It
suited the Manchu general and all his kind
to keep to the old order. Moreover, all the
reformers were Chinese Of the middle and
ACE The rnost hated ~ all CbJnoo h ~
Mancbns 80, ~ 30 of ~ liz W .ie
Cantonaas cnoJ,as n,orLad for tha re; ~,,on
and saw the Manchus defeated and with
sbrawdt~ h,aa ~. tirne 90 ~ 90, ii.Iu
saa ted her on tho tbrnne With - ohs.-as ae
erous stepson in some indefinite sort of d,,r.
anca dafhronad navho or ahdjoatad -.
hans hut at anv rate ont of har 70, HS, ~.
little epIsode of KangsI1's nlav at r,,iine mas
over. and that 246th Son Of Heaven was sat
aside as easily as is a puppet in a box ali
because he had lacked the coura % and
force first to set aside and crush the en
press dowager
r,a
i'-e si An.
Ihen. by request the empress dowager
unselnshly took up 1.-The burden of rule In
her old age" all that the invalid enoneror
might rest! Not an allusion was made to
the young empress Yehonala, although two
of Yehonala's brothers, nephews of the
dowager, were among the prescribed and
persecuteo reIofmers; II was not known
or shared the imnariaS nr,son At E-ho parl
AS there were no imperial children the
Empress Yehonala counted for nothing in
.ne ill.,, asis W anna piaylns o IN tIose tnick
as the beantifui concnbina Tsza Hi sn
made use of fortv Years hafnre Enn,,chs
Guarded her somewhere as ern;,cbs o-nard.
ed the emperor at E-ho. and although
eunuchs were ruthIessIy decanjtated With
the reformers Kane Yu Wei doubts ~ the
government can ever be reformed until the
palace Is wholly rid of thesa nests tbase
oriental survivals of primitive society who
are the arch enemies of all progress and
reform.
When Kang Yu Wei had escaped to
SHANGHAI to HonRkong to Japan and 70
ha
spies and emssaries told off for his cam
ture, or murder Only the Closest nolice sur
VIGILANCE protected him and the price on
his head was raised to 300 600 taels when
he ventured as near as Siugapore Az the
last stroke the yindicuve dowaker COM
manded that the tombs OF Kans YIN Wera
ancestors should be desecrated and de-
stroyed. Chinese hatred and malice the
greatest fury Of revenge could not devise
direr punishment than such outrage Of all
that Chinese hold most sacred.
Az Aua,o ~. A.. D
~ INC -"
Inc wives OF the enVoys ana the ladies
of the diplomatic corps had never been
recoenized during the thirty-edeht years
.,.. ,o,.,,-, h,a w., o...tuL. =. ~
AN oNe'i a.
MIL aiio aitef lhe uo"deei reauy aSsent
to Prince Henry's suggestion 1t took months
of pressure and inststcnee. and long dis
u5o -, - th 60, ~, -. 80,
the audience took place The empress
dowager protested against receiving any
put tne enVoys wives. because OF the great
ha apnIat,sI tn W. ~ a. tSta = the anrn,,s ,lv
nor half the secretarics word married Ths
Chinese brain could not comprehend such
condition. such unevcnness, ouch irresu-
laiitS' ~ couia soihpreheho l"o ara Two
cdrJa5 nd tho wiIos ~ tbe Eritish CO..
NAV Jananese Russ,an anerican and
E.rHnes noinist.rs cnnn-;sinn H. I;,tia
| re,I,e of iaatian b,taiatt,as 1,o,a ,r,aar-
T., ~, ~, ,,olII,,t ci'atr t ~ A.. ~ 90
| oata and corricG to Tho door ~ tbo recen-
9ior hall T,bra. 100000. IN adyan notn. .
LII % tsi 80, .a'.' IA o.' us .rsi
90 , Ee,aoar o,o, 'tao ao, ~ - nIno
| G,na,a an',a.e ~ ano 20 60 -. -.
sa, ;,a eHlie y. .ne Gorps, ieau s,oi
~ auuiess me sooeiiy attleo 10" aser li-iue
stacious reniarks aiio tHe guess were en-
eertalned at u ieasi IN an aaJoinihg nail.
Sne dio not slt win them. nor was any
Ihihg seen OF nearo OF the Ettie empress
LeHohaia IN dethrehement. Rows OF SILK
ant pearl rings We're distributed before the
VISITORS look leave, and none VINO took part
In the AFFAIR seemed to show more interest
or pleasure thar her redoubtabie majesty.
| Tsze 'Hsi An. When the diplomats came
| OF that trance thcy found that the all-