The steamer Washington which dragged anchors with a disabled engine for over thirty hours on Peacock Spit, off the Oregon coast, with a cargo of lumber and fifty persons on board, was bravely rescued by the tug Tatoosh, November 14, when certain destruction seemed to await her. It was a great and wonderful surprise to the people on the disabled vessel as well as to those on shore, and the captain of the Tatoosh was cheered again and again.
A map of China, showing the various provinces and many of the leading cities and centers of revolution. The Yang-tse River divides China into two parts, north and south. It was in the vicinity of Hankow, in the province of Hupeh, in the center of the great Yang-tse Valley, that the revolution first assumed formidable proportions. Pekin, it will be seen, is in the far north; Canton, another large city, 1,200 miles directly south.
Even so, only more mighty and effective is our Lord, who is able to save every soul stranded on the shoals of sin.
General YUAN SHI KAI, commander of the new imperial Chinese army, who was recalled from banishment, and who is largely responsible for concessions made by the government to the revolutionists. Great pressure is now made upon him to become premier of China, but he has not yet accepted.
