Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-07-13
A WONDERFUL WOMAN.

The career of China's empress do
wager reads like romance. Today's
dispatches in The Press indicate that
she is once more in supreme control at
Pekin. She is the daughter of
a Manchu noble, who, as we learn
from The Independent, being on the
verge of starvation, sold his daughter
to rich mandarin. She was treated as
half daughter and half slave, but was
thoroughly educated, learned. to read
and write before she was years old
and, in doing the marketing for the
family, developed considerable bus
mess ability, In 184S the emperor
issued marriage proclamation calling
on all eligible Manchu maidens be
tween the ages of 10 and 10 to present
themselves at the palace and stand an
examination for secondary wives.
This was sort of civil service test,
The young girl Immediately decided to
enter the list. Her adopted parents
laughed at her, but she was spirited
and determined. They gave her a
handsome outfit and enough money to
travel from Canton to Pekin in a style
becoming Manchu princess, There
the young girl, by her grace and at
tainments, passed among the first ten
IN the imperial examination. She was
taken to the palace and installed in the
woman'B quarter. She commenced to
plan and intrigue and, by her tact and
intelligence, made friends with the en-
press. After while she was thrown in
the company of the emperor, won his
admiration and affection, and finally
presented him with son. Her infu-
ence with emperor became so great
that by proclamation he appointed her
empress of the west. She became the
real power behind the throne, though
she was careful never to cross the real
empress. In 1860 the emperor of China
died and Tsi Ans 5-year-old son as
cended the throne under the regency of
the two expresses. The boy developed
considerable intelligence, but died at
the age of 10 and suspicion of foul play
rested even upon his mother.
Under the new emperor and since the
death of the sister empress in 1881
Tsi An has been the mistress of China's
desti Y, controlling the people and the
councils. Even now the great powers
are warned in case of the capture of
Pekin not to kill the empress dowager
because she is such favorite with the
people. The empress dowager with
aeumen has noted the growing power
of foreign nations and has resisted it.
She has been especially hostile to Eng
land. The present instruction is
though to be fom ented by the en-
press herself. The indications are, &C
cording to The Literary Digest, that
Isl An is playing the last and most
desperate card to secure continue
ton of her own rule, The empress
dowager is opposed to reform and
heads the anti-foreign party.
This remarkable woman was born in
1885. When she became empress of the
west her body was graceful and, &C
cording to poetical writer, her body
was as attractive and supple as the
neck of a swan under the water.
''She has broad forehead; nose CO
quettish, straight, and slender -singu-
larly sensitive to all impressions. Her
eyes are a brilliant black. She has not
been without her love affairs and has
never hesitated at violence to carry out
her plan Two years ago she forced
her way into the emperor's chamber,
took with her various witnesses, and
compelled the emperor to acknowledge
that he was an accomplice in British
plots. She heaped abuse upon him,
boxed his ears. and forced him to sign
a decree making her empress regent. =
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