Tsi An, tho late Empress of China, has not always been regarded as a model of the gentler virtues, and yet hero is a story to the effect that each year on her birthday she was in the habit of buying, from her own private purse, ten thousand captive birds and setting them free, praying to the gods as she opened each cage that they might not be caught again. Even if superstition entered into the motives for this act, it was nevertheless a kindly deed done in a royal way. Perhaps the Manchu dynasty would have lasted longer if the Empress had shown the same consideration for people that she had for birds.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1355, 5 February 1912, Page 9
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114Untitled Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1355, 5 February 1912, Page 9
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