Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03

him. although he may not be as conserva-
tive as herself He has never interfered
with her plans. but has carried out his own
without regard attitude ana she d ae
not diminish her prestige and power.
Yuan Shih-kaI is especially friendly to
missionaries and I'd all educational move
ments and publication societies He Is
ciety for the Diffusion of Christian knowi-
edge. He is especially tolerant towards
newspapers, and encourages their puDilca-
ton as an educational measure. He is
constantly on the lockout for improvements
and promotes all worthy enterprises.
Tuan Fang Also Progressive.
Tuan Fang, viceroy of Human, is another
of the most progressive and promising of
the new viceroys, and much is expected
from him also, because he has jurisdiction
over section of the country that has al
ways been notorious for its conservatism
and hatred of foreigners. He is rapidly
bringing his subjects to understand the
value OF foreign methods, and within two
years has practically reversed public senti-
ment and regenerated the entire territory.
He Is hereditary noble. His father and
other ancestors occupied positions of prom
inence and influence generation after gen
Grafton. He was destined to nigh positions
from his youth, and educated for respon-
sibilitieS.
None of the viceroys is more eager and
enterprsing in the promotion of modern
improvements, and to secure competent as
sistants, he has sent to Europe fifty young
men, selected for their abilities and char
acter, to be educated for engineers. for rail-
way managers, for the management OF
mines and other industries and for official
responsibilities and undertakings. Ten have
gone to England, ten to Belgium, ten to
Germany, ten to France and ten to Swift
zerland, and he expects to send similar
number every year. The modification OF
the policy of government toward chi
nese students will enable him to place some
of them in our colleges. Chi-Hsien, his own
son, is now in Washington preparing for
Yale. Chi-HSien is even more progressive
than his distinguished father, and few
weeks after he was placed In school he
went to the nearest barber shop and had
his queue cut off SO that he might be like
other boys. He had already discarded his
native costume. When his father heard the
news he was greatly excited and spent hum
dreds of taels in cablegrams asking for ex-
plantations and giving instructions and adj
vice. There is nothing in the laws or re-
ligion of China to require the wearing of a
queue, but social conventionalities require
it. A young man in Chinese society with
out a queue Is regarded very much as an
American young man would be If he wore
one Furthermore, criminals In China have
their queues cut off and are not allowed to
wear them.
other of the Chinese rulers in his efforts to
prevent the foot-5inding of women. He has
net only forbidden his subjects to compress
the feet of their girl babies but has for
hidden the manufacture and sale of small
shoes and has even gone SO far as to forbid
the marriage of women with compressed
feet
Within the last few weeks Tuan Fang has
presented a memorial to the empress dow
ager asking permission to send a commits
sion abroad to study foreign affairs and
methods appropriate to lis province.
The Province of Sezchuen.
Sezchuen, one of the largest and most
populous provinces. in the far interior Of
Asia, and lying along the boundary of
Tibet has always been the most conserva-
tive, primitive and lant-foreign of all the
empire. 1t las been the scene of repeated
missionary masssCres and anti-foreign riots
and until recently no foreigner has been al
lowed to liz, there or even travel with
safety. Under the rule of HSi-Liang, lib
crat-minded, progressive and patriotic vice.
roy, the sentiment of the people is changing.
The hostility to foreigners is growing less
and less. missionaries and merchants are
! now welcome to- most of the larger cities.
while foreign methods are being introduced
everywhere, foreign schools are being es-
tabiiShed in every tow? as fast as teachers
can be obtained, and university for for
eigE education is now being established at
the capital no
Like his colleagues of Hupeh and Human
the viceroy of --Sezchuen desire to secure
tilc dSoiStdtlCc Oi competent Liel III the
construction of railroads. and in the deyel-
opInent OF the natural resources of his ter
Iitory; hence ne has sent forty young men
to Japan at the public expense, to learn en-
gineering, railway. construction and man
agement, and to obtain practical training
III the operation of mines. He has eighteen
other young men whom he would like to
sero to America for the same purpose if
our government would admit them, but he
dare not Try it, and they will go to Europe
instead. Viceroy Hsi has been in consuta-
ton with American missionaries, consus
merchants and travellers regarding this
matter, and much to their regret they have
been compelled to advise him not to subject
his students to the humiiations Ehey would
suffer from the Immigration officials at San
Francisco They should and will. be advis-
ed, however that there has been change
in the policy and practice of immigra-
lion officials, who now treat Chinese stu
dents AMI scholars with consideration.
Trying to Abolish Gambling.