Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-02

that those Who enter the new schools fnr
girls must come win their feet unbound
As 10 opium the government al pek'n-
tfS demanded that all the Opium acaS
salii bt closed within sin months and
tat The sale - this drug stall be era D
u"ily reduced daring The next ton Years.
after which un more can be sold SctNu'
tcdC ."rs m" forbidden 60 use Opium. aul
IL" cultivation Of the poppy viii b.
eventually stopped. TIE government h.ls
= sort al Goluid or krolcy cure ana il -
furnishing anridpje opium pills. Chi,I
las now moro chan 1nn.oanroa opium
smokers and this movement promises -
sIrpass in it's magnitude that III trmNcr-
auce in the Dnited states
During my past visits la the great CT
nese cities. I have seen the examination
halls in which 1o"JU or more students
were being examined at once with 4 VieW
% giving tho most successful contcStan'
ctci9l positions. Ta.ir studies were tiv.
chinese classics. and according to the
o.a biographies tie earth was fiat W.t'l
In tae Tass tNo ar three years the gov
eminent has ABOLISHED that system, and
tons OF thousands OF new schools are now
being established. There are 3.sDp new
Iutiic schools IN Chihli alone. and the
emperor has ordered them started In ev-
cvv Chinese village. \ quarter of nil
Ion new text books are wanted. AMI
fore the reorgan ization Is completed. TIE
great liceroy Chang -Chi-Tung is at t..
lead of this movement. The new school
ere 10 be modelled after ours and are -
teach the western sciences. Certai
Americans at Shanghai are now organiz'
ing publishing houses 10 supply the book
demand. New colleges are also project
cd ard a great educational reform -
under way.
An Interesting feature OF this branch ~
the movement Is the schools for girl
The late empress dow aGer founded one IN
Picking fOr nohlemen's daughters ana
there IS another for princesses Ihe'e
are also kinderSartens The misslonar1'~
are doing much work along these lines
The Chinese are preparing to have
great army and they are hiring TIE
Germans and the japanese tn driil th'
troops All the new schools are TO hs'
military exercises and 1t is thought that
every boy will soon he forced to serve
in the army. There are now three nun
dred thousand soldiers who are more or
less trained. and when the present a.
rangements have been completed and ara
I'm full force China will be on the Wa
to an army numbering fifteen hundred
thousand.
The Chinese have been estab lishing gan
works. They have such no" al shah-
ghai Marking and Hankow. They a~s
making Mauser rifles, smokeless ca
tridges and big guns.
I expect TO travel over the new rail-
WAYS which have been built in China
during the past few years. There are
several thousand miles in operation, and
nine thousand miles are projected. one
can now go from Hankow to Paris nv
railroad. | shall enter the empire from
ManChuria by the northern system and
stop at rientsin on my way to Picking
From there l shall go south to Hankow
by train and then by boat. down the
Yangtse to Marking. where ] shall get
another railroad which will take me In
Shanghai I shall tell you of the ra'i-
roads that the Germans have built IN
ShantuRe; and may go over them to tie
birthplace and tomb OF Confucius. TIE
American line which Calvin Brice, Pier
pont Morgan and others were to build
from Canton to the Gangtse has nov
been taken over by the Chinese. / shall
tell what they are doing upon it and
show how Pierpont Morgan made 800 per
cent from his investment in that road
In connection with the railroads | shall
describe the new mines and factories
which have been recently built in many
parts of the empire. There are great cot
ton and silk mills in Shanghai and ST.
chow and there are nineteen new cot
ton mills in other cities. with something
like half million spindles. Away UP the
Iangtse at Hangyang there are iron
works which arc making steel rails, and
which have been shipping iron to Japan
and the United States. Nearby are coal
mines connected with the works by rail
road. and all the surroundings needed for
great industrial center Manufacturing
plants are also being started in Other
coal regions and the mineral wealth Of
the country is being prospected. IN
fact. The whole empire is undergoing a
material and intellectual revolution,
that as ] have said. il is practically a new
world. Something Of what this world is
l hope TO show in my letters.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.