Reports from South Africa seem to indicate
that it has played no unimportant role in England's subjugation of the
Boers, and General Elwell S. Otis has even been accused of employing
it with terrible effect against the forces of Aguinaldo. With such an
awful weapon as Tap-Key has invented the Chinese government might defy
the allied powers with impunity and even regain the territory captured
by Japan. The young Emperor could doubtless put to flight the august
but doughty dowager, as well as his beloved relative, Prince Tuan,
and rule his flowery kingdom in peace and harmony, while Li Hung Chang
would lose his head, metaphorically, if not literally, in favor of
Tap-Key, future lord of the war department."
DRAWBACKS OF THE KING BUSINESS.
"No," said the Observer, thoughtfully, "I never cherished dreams
of inordinate wealth or power; there's nothing in it. If a man is
satisfied to reach a moderate altitude he may enjoy it unmolested, but
if he succeeds in scaling some remarkable height, there immediately
arises an army of envious cranks ready to take his life or make it so
miserable for him that he will be glad to sell out at half price and
gratefully descend into the obscurity from which he rose.
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