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threw up his post of Censor on the plea of ill-health. He then raised a yolnnteer force and did good serrice against the rebel ^ J^ Li Gh*6n, after which he retired once more into priTate life. Sammoned to o£Bce by the first Emperor of the Chin dynasty, he was appointed President of the Sacrificial Coort, and had entire management of all matters connected with the Imperial mausoleum. From his great purity of character, he was compared with ice and jade. Though he rose to be a Minister of State and was known as the Model Scholar of the age, he li?ed in a hut which scarcely sheltered him from wind and rain. Canonised as

Ho I-yü  8th cent A.D. A magistrate at Ichang in Hnpeh. While at that post, an attempt was made to tax tea; but he declared that such a measure would amount to cruelty, and burnt the Imperial order. Luckily his superior officer held him in high esteem, and he escaped without punishment. With all criminal cases he dealt promptly, and his administration was so successful that within three years grass grew in the prison yards.

Ho Ju-chang "^ ^ ^ . A native of ;;^ j^ Ta-p*u near Swatow, who graduated as chin shih in 1868 and in 1875 was a Han-lin Compiler. He was then recommended by the Tsung-li TamSn for service abroad. In 1877 he went as Minister to Tokio, and on his return was appointed Director of the Foochow Arsenal. For cowardice at the French attack on the Arsenal in 1884, he was cashiered and sent to the post-roads, whence he returned in disgrace to his home in 1888.

Ho Kai ^ >^ (T. jit :2^. H. ^ ^). Born at Hongkong in 1859, he began the study of English at the age of ten. At twelve he was placed at the Government Central School, and two years later he was sent to England. Until 1875 he was a student at the Palmer Home School, and then joined the medical and surgical college attached to St. Thomas' Hospital. In 1878 he