Show A RECENT issue of American and Chinese flrewwsays that China now possesses a greater body of literature litera-ture than Europe can show It Is now known by all intelligent people that the empire contains a large and wealthy middle class that a Chinaman who can neither read nor write is a rarity that the rights of property are everywhere respected that education is universal and ignorance ig-norance reputed a crime and that as a Chinese mandarin told the people of Philadelphia in excellent English If after a rule of three years tke head of a city in China does not improve his people in morality mor-ality and intelligence he cannot be promoted and if a school teacher during the same period makes a I similar failure with his pupils he loses his position |