Victories such as Japan has won over China might affect any other nation but China; but they are trifling and insignificant in their effect upon the gigantic mass of China.

Suppose China has lost 20,000 men in this war, in one day there are 20,000 births in the Empire, and I am perfectly sure that, outside the immediate neighbourhood of the seat of operations, the Chinese as a nation, apart from the officials, are profoundly ignorant that there is even a war, or, as they would term it, a rebellion, in progress.
Trouble, serious trouble, will begin in China in the near future, for the time must be fast approaching when the effete and alien dynasty now reigning in China--the Manchu dynasty--shall be overthrown, and a Chinese Emperor shall rule on the throne of China.
At a native village called Schehleh there is a likin-barrier.

The yellow flag was drooping over the roadway in the hot sun.

The customs officer, an amiable Chinese Shan, invited me in to tea, and brought his pukai for me to lie down upon.

Like thousands of his countrymen, he had played for fortune in the Manila lottery.