The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-08

but his private fortune is small.
Nhen | met him here at Marking
about eight months ago he was the
Nlceroy of three of the greatest prov
inces Of the lower Yangtza valley.
ana under him was a population lar
Gr than hat OF the United States.
He vas ruling a country so rich that
1t almost raises gold dollars. n.
has scores q walled cities and thou
sands Of Villages It is so thickIs
settled that much of it more
than a man to the acre, and is so cut
Up by canals and dykes that one can
go to every mans house in a boat
e reg on includes such cities as
Shanghai, the New York of China:
SntthtW, the Manchester, md Nan
king, the classical, reminding one OF
| oston. it has thousands of factories
and it nuns like a beehive. OF these
provinces Tuan Fang was the ahso-
lutte ruler and his income was greater
than that Of the smaller European
kings. He had q large corps of &C =
clerks ard most Of his subor-
dlnates were laying up fortunes. The
taotal, or mayor. of Shanghai was
getting about one thousand dollars a
year as a nominal salary, but tn
office was SO valuable hat within
three years it made him independently
rich The mayors Of other cities were
re vim large sums, and of all that
11lc the treasury i uOuDI not
that every hand through which 1t
passed p.nched out a portion. Never
the)ess, there We're millions left for
the Niceroy. and he might have made
himself rich beyond the dreams Of
. ~"f"". He did net. All of the sur
plus went into public improvements
ana INTO the carrying on of reforms
of this new >hinese movement.
A Chinese Reformer.
W. -:
dence of what is going on out here
in what is supposed to be the deadest
coun4ry of the world. Tuan Fang
yanled up the dry skeleton of Chinese
conservatism and PIT on it the flesh
and blood of our civilization. He or
ganized all sorts of reforms III his
various cities. Here at Nan>ing, he
esta blished industrial schools, com
mtrcial schools and a school for
teaching silk culture. He had school
Of law and debating societies for the
study of Lie new constitution. He
established an academy for the GUS
til * officers @rd there were meetings
right otter night where the people
were educated in modern government.
He reorganized the courts, the police
.,Ti the priSoEs He built roads in
the cities, and esta bfished factories
and industries. He had one govern
ment hospital which treated 500 pa
llctlS q udy, AIT dI1OI4S I1c dSSlSl-
ants were lady physicians and nurses,
educated abroad. He sent Chinese stu
dents to the United States and had a
coeducationa school in his own prov
ince. He did hat he could to wipe
out opium in the Yangtse valley and
had opium hospitals here and else
where. He did much to push rail-
roads. A lire was constructed from
the river TO Marking and ha aided in
building the railways to
Pek1ng and Tientsin.
Tuan Fang and the Rebels.
Tlan Fang did 50 much in h line
Of reform that he aroused the enn1ity
of the conservatives and they tried
to assassinate him. The chinese OBJ
jected to him on several grounds. One
was that he was u Tartar ard there
fore an interloper AMI should be
wiped out. The secret societies were
against him and they planned to kill
him in the rebellion which was to
spring W on h Yanstse when the
empress ~dowager died. The plans for
this revolution had been perfected
and it was the intention to Kill the
missionaries and drive the foreigners
ont of this valley and at the same
time create an army which would
wipe out the present dynasty. Tuan
Fang had many spies and they re-
ported the scheme. At the time OF
the QeaJh ne ndd MS DiS army I'll
gagged in maneuVerS and by means OF
it was able to quell the rebellion and
thus save China. He went himself to
the seat of the trouble and his spies
told him that there was a scheme
to shoot him on the way from the
ears to his house upon his return. He
foiled the assassins Iy having 10 r
carriages sent to the station. Eacn
of these was the exact counterpart
of the other. each was driven by q
ooachman in the yiceroy's livery, an
when the train storDed four V1"e-
rows dressed exactly alike and made up
to resemble Tuan Fang stepped from
tn car and entered the four carnage.
The makeup was 50 sklll1ul that no
one could tell which was the vice
row. and his excellency thus had
three chance out Of four Of s|"oe
one else being killed in his stead
rha result was that no bombs were