The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-10-11
FALL OF "HEATHEND0M,"
THE DYNASTY OF TUAN Ii CHANG AND
HOT SHU, THE EMPRESS OF CHINA
Vritten for The Prison Mtr7Or.

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Written for The Prison Mirror.
Now it being the one thousandth
anniversary of the great Chang Ii
dynasty that has ruled the world since
the year 1851, or as the heathen
reckon it, the year 1910, in which year
all the heather tribes that peopled the
great nations of Europe bowed down
before the mighty son of heaven, Tuan
Ii Chang, and surrendered their great
steel ships and terrible guns to the
great viceroys of China: therefore the
great and only emperor of the son,
moon and earth caused it to be made
known that the great historian, Kno
Lung, should come to the palace that
was built from the spoils of the
heather, and read to him from the
great scroll of history, which his an
cestors caused to be written after the
great victory of the celestial sons of
sought to conquer the great empire of
China thousand years ago. And
orders were given that great feast
should be prepared for the princes and
mandarins who would attend the read
ing of the great scroll. And the feast
was sublime in it's deIicacy, richness
and variety.
After the great air dragons arrived
with the guests, the silver gates were
opened and the guests entered into the
palace of princes and were soon at
ease on the silken couches that were
prepared for them.
The great KnO Lung was then led to
the mighty emperor's throne and took
his seat near the moon of moons that
she might hear fully the great story Of
her great, great, great grandmother,
the mighty dowager, Hot Shu, who
de6ed all the world and drove the
heather devil from the continent of
Europe, across the seas into the west
ern world where snow and ice and
Kansas cyclones had their homes.
And after the moonlighter had turned
the power on and the light from the
moon made it like day and the great
revolving spheres of music had been
started, the mighty son of heaven gave
the signal for the great Kno Lung to
begin the history of the terrible war in
which all the world fell before the
mighty dragons of China in 1910 or
17501 according to our time. And it
began thus:
o son of sons and ruler of rulers
whose wisdom hath made sages hump
backed trying to fathom it, whose
beauty hath driven fair women to face
powder and complexion masks, whose
voice is like the jingle of minted gold
in an American presidential campaign,
and whose valor causeth the Teddys
and Bobs to fade away like the truth
in a campaign newspaper.
Let it be known to all the earth that
today the fifth moon of the year 1901,
or 1910 among the palefaced heathen
of the earth, that China rules the world
and that from now on, never more will
the heather Whose ancestors left our
fair cities ten thousand years ago to
build rude huts and to live in the
forests of the earth} be given freedom,
or power to menace China again. And
that all men may know that China has
for thousands of years been kind and
indulgent to these heather whose an
cestors left our celestial kingdom to
settle in what they now call Europe
and the continent. We must 60 back
a little in the records of the scrolls.
Eleven thousand six hundred years
ago, Som Ci Nor the great caused all
the big feet men and women of China
to be driven out. And they were given