Show Surveyors Woes Fn China There Is a humorous side to the foreign for-eign troubles In China The chief engineers en-gineers of the railway that Is being built through Shan Tung province by the Germans complained to a Taotai or local Governor that the people pulled up and carried off the stakes that his surveyors had driven into the ground to guide the construction gangs in grading the right of way so ranS he had been compelled to do the work over three or four limes The Iao tal promised that the mischief should stop and said that ho would give tho matter his personal attention The surveyors sur-veyors went over the line again and marked It out carefully with wooden pegs When they came back n few wes later they wen disgusted to find that every one of the markers for miles had disappeared The chief engineer In the heat of his wrath rushed to the Taotai to make complaint and the lat ter with a smile that was childlike I Kiivlnrr and bland attempted to soothe him 0 The stakes are all right every one of them I had my men go out and tale them all up and keel them safe ly until you returned and I have got them tied up In bundles for you The letter which brings this Interest I ing anecdote all the way from Shan Tung relates that the engineer grabbed I the mandarin by the throat gabbe ly shook his head off although the lat ter had done what he supposed to be a great favor with the bet of Inten I tions Washington Correspondence or the Chicago Record I |