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

Wonderful ColIet tiOns of the Times
of tic Pyranfids-A Mighty Ccles-
tial Who Doe Not Graft - His
Doubles and How He Escaped As
s.naton-Eenind tie II With
tie Highest Official.
Copyright, 1910. ty Frank G. Car
penter.)
NANKING.
The biggest men Of China are be-
ing laid On the shelf. Shortly after
the baby emperor came to the throne
TIE prince regent and his party re-
tired the great Yuan Shin kai, ana
thy have now ordered Tuan Fang,
the strongest Manhu Of the emp :,
into disgrace. The plea for Yuan
Shih kais a dication was that he had
8 lame leg, and hence could not at
tend to his official duties. The cause
Of the dismissal Of Tuan Fang is that
he outraged the proprieties wher he
had charge. of the empress d~owaeer's
funeral, allowing foreigners to photo
graph the procession, and also that
he attached heather telegraph wires
to the heavenly trees of the Imperts
cemetry. Yuan Shih Kai was the
most able executive China has hid for
years. Tuan Fang is its ablest states
man, He might he called the father
OF the new constitution, and he has
Dttn at the 1IOHl III all SOfiS OIL
forms. He is also a scholar along
many lines. In some aspects he re-
minds one of Gladstone, in others of
Alexander Hamilton, and again of
S"hiienan, the great Greek explorer.
He is now in retirement at Peling
and will carry on his studies there.
Queer Chinese These.
We Christians have no conception
Of Chinese of the class to which Tuan
- N O. hAlarrr No look 11nnp f1sa
celestial as a curiosity in the zoologi-
cal garden of international human.t"
Tracings from Ant lent Chinese Mar
bic Tablet over 1000 Years Old.
lung Fang has Hundreds of These.
He IS a sort of yelioW-skinned ORA
without fathers, with eyes cut aWry
and a long braid of hair down his
hack. We are told that he dresses
in silk and varies his diet of rice,
rats and eats with birds nest soup
and shark fins We do not credi,
him with having a soul, nor with the
same ambitions and tastes as our
selves. The truth is these peop'o
as human as we are and they think
act and feel in the same way.
fhe Chinese are divided into al
sorts of classes. There are phllan-
~thropists k Carnegie, who start Ii
braries, soup Kitchens and hoen=ta1s.
Tuan Fang is one Of these. He re-
Gently bon~h+ q ~1assiea' 'ierary and
quilt 8 home for it in Nan
him has olu millionaires who hoard
their money like Rockefell~t', and
rich young sports who scatter it as
did Hyde of the Equitable Life IN
surance Company. Ii Huns Chang
was a hoarder. He built up an es-
tate like the Astcrs. buying corner
lots in the cities and many -qua
miles of good farming lands HIS
sons are rich. and they take care of
their p~opn~+i"~ - 10 the de-
scerdants OF old John Jacob. t
peddler, who staI.~u ,lle Aston for
tunes.
Speaking of Ii, / met him for the
third time during his latter days,
when he was vlceroy of Canton, a.
as usual he asked me all sorts OF
questions. One was as to just h
much money / made in the newspa-
per BUSINESS. [ should not like to
publish my answer but l added that
] should be satisfied if at the end
Of my life / could lay up one-fiftieth
of the sum which he was then credited
with having.
And how much do your people
say l am WORTH" said the great Ii.
1T is reported that your excel
lency's fortune is from fifty to one
hrndred million gold dollars" said I
interrCgativeiy.
That is a great deal of money
was Ii lung Chang's only reply.
Well. there are but few mulfimil-
liOnaires among these Chinese states
men. but there are some who's graft
ing compares with that of our own
high city officials. Men will pay q
Quarter of a million dollars for a
th~ree-year job at a thousand-do11ar
salary and come out rolling in wealth.
They squeeze right and left and their
COMMISSIONS rank with those Of the
contractors Of the new statehouse at
Harrisburg, who, you remember,
charged Pennsylvania for furniture
and t~inishings at SO many dollars per
inch.
\ Chinaman Who Cares Nothing for
Money.
/ also know Chinese who cannot
be bought, who work for their coun-
try and do good for goods sake. This