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Title: Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cleveland, Harold Irwin
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed him to seize the Emperor and confine him. The Imperial Court at Pekin has been perhaps the most exclusive of the courts of the world. The Emperor is father, priest, king of the Chinese nation. He is the Son of Heaven, the chief god of the people. He stands higher religiously than either Pope or Czar. He prays and sacrifices for his people, and every-thing connected with him is holy. It has been much the same with the Empress Dowager, who has been pulling the strings which made this imperial puppet act. 400 SACRED CHARACTER OF THE EMPEROR. An Empress is too holy to be looked at by common eyes and her feet are too sacred to touch anything but clay of the imperial yellow hue. I had visible evidence of this during a recent visit to Pekin.I was riding through the streets early one morning when I saw several hundred half-naked coolies, pushing wheelbarrows of yellow dirt in front of them. A little farther on I saw others scattering such dirt over the road, covering it smoothly with the yellow clay.
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A MOUNTED MANCHU ARCHER. At the same time I could see the householders tacking up straw mats and cloths in front of their houses and officials stretching blue cotton across the side streets. I asked the reason and was told that the Empress Dowager expected to take an airing that afternoon and that the streets were being prepared for her. Our minister was apprised by the court of the fact, and he there upon warned all Americans to keep away from the line of march, and I was told that all the Chinese living along it would get down on SACRED CHARACTER OF THE EMPEROR. 401 their knees and bump their heads against the ground in adoration while her Imperial Majesty passed. At such times Royalty is always accompanied by Manchu archers, and the Peeping Tom who dares to look out through a hole in the mats is liable to get an arrow in his buttonhole of an eye. Her Majesty has always been a great stickler for form, and the Pekin Gazette is full of the punishments meted out for the infraction of the rules of

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