Show I WAS wAs O Ghang Minister Mi ulster men From Chinn Chhin r Cle Cleveland Administration WashIngton Star e ever r know me or of Minister Chang who represented China Chin here during tics asked a well known resident of ofa a S Star r reporter th the o h r da day No Well Vell his career was a 8 very er unusual I one You remember doubtless that ho he resided In Stewart castle fronting on Dupont Circle and hS prodigal hospi taUt broke the record He gave en entertainments on the most 1 lavish scale and Invited hUndreds ot of people some of whom fairly wallowed In cham champagne r f Tr Tried ed to Modernize China I Chang w wa a 0 very able men n anI made man many tri friends In this and countries to which he was was accredited Re He had bad very ery progressive Jd Ideas as about abou the future China and he was waD re led he carried with him a first firm do de determination termination to put them in force H became one ot of the IntImate advisers or of the emperor and w was s one or of that little band or of Chloe Chinese who m en to modernize China in the nineties and who were making very good progress until the empress d dager dow dowager f ager assumed control anti took all eu au from the emperor and made only a dummy of him In Im order to d that she had to get t rid or of these liberals who mch influence over oyer him This she did b by condemning aU all of them to death Chang was among the mini num bs to be beheaded Before time Ule was waH executed an was made to save him anti it was successful U It Cm came about In this way a V V Foster who knows China and the Chinese better than an any man manIn 1 In thIs country countr and who war waD u a person alfriend of Chang decided tu to save his It If possible He called on Hay and placed the facts In the cas before him and asked him to use his good offices In behalf and nd to ask the British government to join In Int Inthe t the good work Mr Ha Hay readily agreed to do so and both the AmerIcan an and British representatives at Poking were at once ed to uk ask a of sentence as ag a fever to their go goern gor ern men ts S Life Saved Their efforts we were successful and life Ufe was saVed but he was banished for ute life He have asked any anything thinS batter than to live Ie In one of the western countries that he ad admired admired mired so much but that of course w wan not allowed He was sent or miles Into the provInce ot of Mongolia P and ho he was as sentenced to hard labor fOL life He had to make the trip In a cru crude le Oriental cert cart and It took hint him a long Ions longtime 1 time to r reach ach hits destinatIon He wa Wi always fond of at good living and sac suc in gaining permission to taki tak hit his cook a good one with him The ent Chinese Was at that time he was wal allowed to his mal mae malt t ter r part of tM the wa way The governor ot of Mongolia whose duty It was to see that sentence was carried out had at one time been a of Chang fortunately and he saw to it that Chang was not compelled to labor That much of his severe sentence was not carrIed out But there he was In that distant province cut off from frem role rela relatives tives and friends e living the life ot of an outcast Th Then n came the uprIsing of be the Box Bot err ern and the conservative element lement g ined absolute control at t Peking enemies used their In with the empress dowager to secure the et execution of Chan 5 original sea n tence A secret messenger was di dip die p patched to Mongolia and on his arrival Chao was promptly beheaded It was very unfortunate te for China to for advice would have hae been bean inval inal invaluable In the unsettled affairs at Pe Fe Peking king which followed Appeal Front From Son Sono Now o heres the sequel to th the story stOl Not Kat a great while ago Mr Foster re received a pitiful letter from It a young oung son oon of Chang telling him bim that his fAthers 1 property had beet confiscated and the family name had been degraded H He begged Mr Ir Foster to use his Influence to have his fathers good name restored ye 10 th that t his descendants would not br be disgraced forever forer Mr lr Foster was touch touched by the appeal He promptly called upon Secretary Ha Hay told him the story an I 1 asked Ida rIs assistance It was as promptly given n and his efforts proved suc hangs good name Dame was restored aril and I think some If not all ot of his estate W was S returned to his family Curious country that China It |