Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07

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IA M uIlDEN, Manchuria, 1901
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Il & This country has long been
Y considered the most barbarous part of
the Chinese empire. Tho home of the
III Manchus, 1t has been held as synon-
S5ymols with brigandage and corruption.
Until recently neither life nor property
was safe. and today there are guerrillas
who Eswoop down from the mountains
s to levy taxes on travellers In transit
Il and to blackmail the villages. The
Y Whistle Of tho trains on their way from
Siberia to the Yellow sea has sounded
n the death 5lsnell of the old civilization.
y and he4hordeS of Russians and Japan
ese. by whom the land has been over
q run during the last few years, have
i aided in nursing the new into life. Man
81 churia has now some OF the most pro-
e gressivc Of the Chinese officials as its
rulers and they are instituting all sorts
y Of reforms. The larger cities have
from filth, and all the way from here to
i Dalny the Japanese have been intro
u ducing western ways
NIANCHIrRIA.s NEW SCHOOLS.
Here In Mukden the changes are be-
( Ing made by the Manchurian Chinese
This country Is a part Of the Chinese
Elempire, and Its officials are appointed
Il from Picking. 1t contains three great
4 provinces, each OF which has a, COVER.
Enor, and over this whole Is q viceroy,
EWho lives at M kden. Most of the re-
i forms have been largely due to the
provincial governor, His EXcellency
! Tang Shao VI, who was recentlyin the
i United States to return thanks for the
remission of the Boxer indemnity. This
! man was for u long; time director Of
railways OF North China and as such
was closely associated with Yuan Shih
/ kal. who until lately held the place OF
/ ia Hung Chang In the councils Of the
empire. Under Tang common schools
have been started and tho young Chi
i inese mind is being trained along the
Hines of west ear, methods. The boys arc
i stldying arithmetic and the modern
n sciences, and they have a military drill
4 several times every week. "a big indus
trial school has been established, and
/, also the agricultural college OF which i
3 have written In a previous letter.
i, Y d rove out into the country yestes-
& day to look at the beginnings of a for
4 estry department, which may some day
II clothe the bare, dry hills of southern
\ Manchura with trees. and from there
4 to an experimental farm where modern
agriculture is being taught.
K MUKDENtSi INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. +.
Leaving the plantation. visited the
Industrial school. This has now go
& students who are learning manual
training under Chinese who have been
\ educated abroad. 1t has large car
penter shops In which beautiful fnrni-
ture is made, and that from the native
/ woods. IT is only the lower part OF
i Mlanchuria which has no forests to
speak Of. Along the Sungari river
there are vast areas of walnuts, oaks
and other hardwoods Some of the
/ best timber Is only so miles from the
railroad, but the transportation Is so
bad that Oregon pine can be brought
across the Pacific and up here to Muls-
den and sold ut lower rates than the
4 iManchurian lumber. At present there
4 Is a scheme TO build a railroad to con-
meet the forest regions with the south
+ Manchuran system, and when that is
y done the Manchurian wood will be used