. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. the other a troop of soldiers. The trouble was abouta division of some valuable property. Her judgmentwas worthy of Solomon. The men happened to bebrothers, and she decided that the younger shoulddivide the property into two parts and the elder shouldtake first choice. About forty li from the capital of Szechuen, a manslew his wife and nephew and cut off both their these before the magistrate, he affirmed thatthe two had been guilty of adultery. To test the truthof the
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. the other a troop of soldiers. The trouble was abouta division of some valuable property. Her judgmentwas worthy of Solomon. The men happened to bebrothers, and she decided that the younger shoulddivide the property into two parts and the elder shouldtake first choice. About forty li from the capital of Szechuen, a manslew his wife and nephew and cut off both their these before the magistrate, he affirmed thatthe two had been guilty of adultery. To test the truthof the statement, the magistrate ordered a large firkinof water to be placed before him, and put in the twobloody heads. If they turn face to face, it provesthem guilty, said he, but if they turn back to backthey are innocent. The heads turned back to backand the man was seized, chained, and flung into aloathsome prison there to await the just reward forhis crime. Perhaps the most sweeping condemnation,if unconsciously so, of Celestial officialdom, is theverdict of a missionary critic of Chinese characteristics,. ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION, ICHANG
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