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. To her own people, up to this period in her
career, she was kind and merciful, and to foreigners she was
just." From the time of her return to the capital after their
flight in 1900 till the time of her death she became one of the
greatest reformers, if not the greatest, that has ever sat upon
the dragon throne. One cannot but wish therefore in the interests
of sentiment that it were possible to overlook many things she
did from 1898 to 1900, which in the interests of truth it will be
impossible to disregard. Nevertheless we should remember that she
was driven to these things by the filching of her territory by
the foreigners, and by the false pretentions of the superstitious
Boxers and their leaders, and in the hope of preserving her
country.
Her first act after imprisoning Kuang Hsu was to offer a large
reward for his adviser Kang Yu-wei either alive or dead. Failing
to get him, "she seized his younger brother Kang Kuang-jen, and
with five other noble and patriotic young men of ability and high
promise, he was beheaded September 28th, while protesting that
though they might easily be slain, multitudes of others would
arise to take their places." One of my young Chinese friends who
watched this procession on its way to the execution grounds told
me that,--
"The scene was impossible to describe. These five young
reformers," after expressing the sentiments quoted above from Dr
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