The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-01-12

= tie CITY os Fekln- i abilities
aany wsre killed - the cssatry
nwAvhy.
Aboas tAEs dale. late - tie sir
seeatA ce1snry. The Emperor. kaax-
nee. made Al EFFORT "a g1ate TIE dit
scrrnt factions: n0s oaIy u Caisas
proper. bat IN TArtary- He ytsatssd
the eastern pors!oa OF Tartary siih
AL OF BIZ eouFs and s@vensy tAoas-
and soldiers Hit IL supposed thai
ire Emperor believed Re eoald scaTs
!. tie Tartars b. nakIn' shts great pa
/ rade- lie continued these visits eaash
year. goin' 20 dinersas points IN Tar
tary. The Emperor spoke o. them N
hunting trips.'' and they we're some
thin great But most ov the author
: tiles held that IL be bad bee soldier
] and had any sort ov an army. even
/ half ~ large Al these "huntin' !"
/ parties. he mite hsv whipped Tartary
10 finish. In 1883 the line between
/ Russia and China WIZ established 20
the satisfaction ov both Countries
In 1913 the Emperor or China had an
attack ov fever. Missionaries sup
piled him with medicines. somethin'
not In general use In China 81 that
time. II at this date. and he got well.
On this account the Emperor arlow-
ed the missionaries q guide deal ov
latitude durin' hix life time. Bet for
many years afterward other rulers
gave them but little chance. For q
time they were not allowed 10 live
In Chinese territory.
Early In the Seventeenth Century
the Emperor ov China employed q
number ov missionaries to make q
map ov China. Hit wuz q big Job.
But az they put in ten years on the
work hit liz likely that they worked
in an easy-goin' style In order that
the pay would last longer.
The Emperor, Kang-hee. died In
1722, aged So. Historians claim that
he had ruled wisely. and that he real
ly did much to put China In better
shape. One great writer says that he |
ruled with the tenderness of q par
ent and the firnness of a prince"
Kang-hee wuz the father ov thir-
teen sons. and just before hiz death
he named the fourth son to be hiz
successor. Hiz name wuz Young
tching. which signified perpetual
peace" The new Emperor wuZ
smart, hard worker, and ruled the
country pretty well for Chinaman.
or, rather. Tartar. But he couldn't
stand the sight ov a Christian and
soon had them awl driven out ov the
country. The natives who had en-
braced Christianity were killed, some
cases whole families, some ov them
prominent in the affairs ov the coun-
try, were put to death.
In 1871 Pekin and neighborin' ter
ritory wuz visited with another ter
rible earthquake and more than 200,-
900 people air said to hev bin killed
In the city and in the locality. The
Emperor wuz sailin' in a boat on a
canal that had bin constructed in the
lark near the palace an this probably
saved hiz life, for the Emperor's pal
zee wuz totally destroyed. The En-
,eror caused large sums ov money to
De applied to the relief ov those
whose homes had been destroyed In
lwl cases where there were sur
yivors. In
After the death ov Young-tching, | |
liz son, Kien-long occupied the [
,hrone. He liz sed to hev bin a Il
mild and benevolent man. Durin | {
liz administration Tartar leader by &
he name ov Amour-sana, tried &c
reate trouble. The Chinese defeated &
linn and he wuz compelled to take
efuge in Russia, where he lived for
ome years. When he died the EN- Y
'eror ov China claimed hiz body, but a
he Russian government declined tt
Illow it to be removed az hit wus {
hen customary to offer various In /
ignities to the bodies ov any dead '
'erson who had offended the Chi ] t
lese government at any time and
Fho had escaped punishment I'm life a
y fleein' to any other country, pro- @
ided, ov course. the body could be 4
About the year ITO nearly one ,
SAAA~oS PCOPAC WAO udu IVCQ
d Russian territory again became
ov Chinese territory. This \
leased the Chinese ruler very much
nd he caused the erection ov great
to commemorate the event.
bout the same time he caused a :
arge number ov government officials =
rho had been guilty ov embezzling :
ublic funds to be punished, and, al 2
ne same time, the taxes paid by the .
oorer classes were greatly reduced. =
his caused him to grow In popular .
y very fast. But this state ov af-
airs did not last long. The next
ear number ov insurgents began to
ause trouble in portion ov the
ountry and soon raised an army ov
bout 100000 men. The Chinese
u1er sent small afacbrerts -,