The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-10-17
i LIS PAST WORK.
cs;oa's Noted Statesman
cerved His Country.
80 THE FOREIGN DEVILS.

lHT
rave Changed HoweVer-Ni
anc,s Task Today More
,n,ate Treachery of the
cu' neral Gordon's Experience
His Checlkered Career.
:, the past has Ii Hung Chang
mad on to pacify the foreign
c'n md his work has always been
rsbed with success. But IN
Zines the dragons teeth were
With the innocent blood OF the
stranger within the gates; the
~ Of the embassy was indebted
'.os are new. Ii Hung Chang
.nasned the fact, says the New
slI Commercial Advertiser. His
coon the armies and the
of the west.
',rscore years save three is the
80 For five decades has he
u nrhlic Office. He has gained vast
p bp has reaped rich rewards
1 ~ have fallen thick on him
W. " home and abroad. He has
q" Mistakes, he has committed
brt when all is said and done
CO. served China we'll. Although
is seyenty-eighth year, Ii Hung
- carries his age bravely. He Is
~ civ feet tall, and his face is
w Wv, nodded and is marked by
u y and deep lines. Resolution and
Enicance are its most distinctive
= His mouth is shaded by thin,
pning mustache, and a struggling
noriap' covers the chin.
.n 60 many of the brightest intel
If the age, Ii Hung Chang has
aostic nature. He is very fond OF
~ lifn and takes the deepest inter
in the progress of his family. His
is still alive. Sons and daughters
:. hoon horn to them. The youn-
son Ii Ching Mai, fills the post
& CONFIDENTIAL secretary to his father.
oro are three unmarried daughters,
h are reputed to be pretty.
n old chinese proverb runs, with
nov rou can move even the gods,
Ebout money you cannot move even
nan" Ii subscribes to the truth of
adage. He has amassed riches
kadjly throughout his life and is now
serted to be not merely the wealth
man in China, but the most multi
ed millionaire in the world.
s ro tbe European eye Ii makes little
ow Of his money. When in Picking,
lived in an old rambling Buddhist
nple which he hired. The rooms
pre small and dirty, the walls most
dangerously decorated. Here were
otog.aphs of the m0narchs Of Eu-
pe there cutting from an illustrat-
paper depicting Ii on a visit to
elgaD factory, beside it a scroll COW
ed with Chinese characters and bear
the sign manual of the empress, re-
ting in fowery prose the singular
erits and peculiarly high endow-
ents Of Ii, earl of the first rank and
nior grand secretary Of state.
M The furniture was of the simplest
Ind. There was little of it. The place
knerally was dirty, no kind Of show
~ state being kept up in the halls of
iS great plutocrat. Wisely so, for in
hina today it is no more polite to be
ktentatiouSly rich than it was in Eng
#nd in the days of the Plantagenets.
Kut though an opulent mandarin does
NJ spend taels on tables and cabinets
n on gems and gold or on pictures and
zines he does indulge in silks Of mar
#elouS texture and very precious furs.
Ms furs were among the finest in the
yellow empire. Some of them found
per way to the London market about
#FO years ago, and The Spectator de-
ROted long article to a description Of
|Rer magnifcence. An annual tribute
u furs from one of the northern prov
RpceS of China is one of Lis chief
purceS of wealth.
This powerful satrap is not only in
u closest touch with all that goes on
throughout the Chinese empire, but he
STps himself well posted in the cur
NY news of the world. His career
IL not been an uncheckered one.
&&lrlce he has been dismissed and re-
HEed into private life. He was blam-
perhaps justly blamed, for his coun-
Il! S disastrous defeat by Japan. Then
Il went to Simonoseki to negotiate
T. terms of peace. While there he
saS attacked by fanatical Jap, who
EScnarged a revolver point blank in
race The bullet entered under the
II eye and has never been extracted.
Try in this year an attempt was
#aue 70 poison Ii, but it failed.
hung Chang almost suffered
WI at the hands of General Gordon.
story is worth telling because it
lays an ingrained spirit of treach-
"ulch no doubt still turks in his
oIn When the head of the TAPPING
q 4 -. mad been practically broken
1,; 'ne chiefS of the rebel army were
A'Hs final stand in the city of