Excerpt from The Dominion Educator Box-el'der, the ash-leaved maple, a small but beautiful tree of the United States. The tree grows rapidly almost anywhere, and accordingly it is a favorite shade tree. The wood is soft and brittle, but is used in making bowls, pails and wood pulp, and as a fuel. Boxer rebellion, an outbreak in China in 1901 against foreigners. After the chino-japanese War of 1894 - 1895 the Euro pean powers secured for themselves so many commercial and territorial concessions that a large number of Chinese began to fear that the nation would lose its independence. Feeling against the foreigners grew steadily, and by 1900 much was heard of the Boxer organization, a body of volunteer Chinese soldiers. Boxer was an incorrect translation of the Chinese name of the organization, which really meant Fist of Righteous Har mony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.