| Show M i f TI Rich ae and Id flung E tr II I FOR 1 i Chang floods Nation ot of file Ill Ready for vs lit Tie TI graph and nel Why the Former Wilt WUI I ii land of Kerosene and Confront to be Made in f Lights and a U Trader Who Demand DIe Look nt at S Railroads Chinas l m VJ J v L G l spit by br 1 Frank a 0 O JO 20 of oC oCth th tb biggest fortunes of the tut will to rope from Ute ts electrical development of Ohms It If the powers Owe by their nw new trestles can n snake make torel foreign properly se cu curd s a thousand Idea clUel end nd towns town will ine It lighted with electricity of mile of at electric railroads will wUl bs be built buill ot of telephone computes and the result will be millions mUlto In dividends A WAND LAD FOR lOR TIna flu TIa Is II a for tOI the telephone not the It 11 already about 1 w MIO of telegraph which I is paying will well but bat th this will be wiped out and the tUI will 11 take Its place The rea sea Is II Th The Chinese ii I an Ideo language It hu has no alpha wet Each Raeh word in III It I is represented b bIt by It owr n so 10 that It tak takes tens ten ot of ot of characters to write It It Is Ie to telegraph elIr ovary e ter and so 10 the common wor words are rep led lIr by numbers and In Iq ins only the number are Stilt sent The sending clerk takes lak lIon down the telegram In Chinese hla and translates It into num lIum Ten 11 Ile h has a regular code consist la ot of page pae after arter page Illge ot of and sign ne printed In vertical columns There are ten columns on every cery pare page Md and shout about ten thousand num numbered red In III the book Atter Arter he h has translated the telegram he transmits Itt it and the receives retranslates It Into Classe This des t el a great reat deal ot of time Ume and Is II expensive It also allO causes callie mt mistakes and the result is II that the telephone win will be used instead At present there lire are telephone com paal patties at most mott of at the open torts There Thre I is on one at which has haN about four hundred subscribers at 8 2 a yr year Its Instruments are ot of the oldest style and the service Is II poor There I Ia is isa a telephone company In Tien Tan and others at Canton and el else elsewhere where I behave bellve the telephone could be Intro Into Inlo all parts parte ot of China We have hero II a business II and fill manufacturing population and the demand for tor quick Is I great There are areman man many large Irge cities and countless vii U lases I When Rhen once the people see Me that they mike make money out of the telephone their In regard to It will paw J Away They will learn that the wires are nd aRtI not the homes home ot 0 t spirits The native nath e Interested and the telephone will be everywhere used BOYS TONGUES AS INSULATORS At present the common people think fiver every telephone hat has a devil In It The They look 1001 upon talking through wires wire a as a work of magic malc The They cannot understand It and they would surely mob the hello girls gins It they were Introduced Into n a town without roper proper Lion I heard sat lat how 1 a Dutch roan living near the Orand canal al almost most lost loat his life lite lie hall had had some to do 10 with putting up the tele telegraph graph line there and was I believe bellee one of the repair men Shortly after the wires Irel were wre put ut up several of the boys ot of the neighbor hoed were Iro found It is IH not uncommon here for tor It a man who has no nolIon nonon non lIon to bu buy A 00 boy to raise ralee amt take his hili tame so 10 that his hll ancestral ance line may go goon on without a break 1108 are kid kidnapped kidnapped napped for tor this purpose And sold laid The Chinese consider pr It a great to lost lose n a son IOn and so 10 when the Aport went nt forth that this Dutchman was WAI the kidnapper the country rose roee up In arms Th They gathered about the cottage and accused him of at stealing Chinese boys and killing them Said they Wo So kno know very ory well what you ou are Insulators We know that each of at the glass on the telegraph posts con a boys hoys ton tongue ue and that through there tonGUes you are able to carry the words from pole to poll pole I I The Dutchman protested but It was I only b by the aid of the soldiers that he hee e with his hili lire life Not long ago II a new nel telegraph line was wall built from Kulang to about miles northward ro The people and cut the poles down dur ing the night The Chinese arrested the offenders and them but It was all In vain At last lut they cut eul oft olf the heads ot of a gang caught In 14 the not and stuck 1 n bead on the top Qt of each enoh polo pole That stopped the cutting The Chinese government hind n a lar experience about fifteen years ago when they brought the telegraph Into ekin The citizens objected because ot or the Shul Shui They said that the wires wi roe wo ld destro destroy their lurk and that It if the shadow ot of a pole tell fell upon the the graves ot of their ancestors the lat latter tr ter would rise riM up antI and howl and cause trouble At first the Idles were re dug due nut and the tho wires wire cut Iut Then the em emperor emperor a to each lei tele telegraph graph pole to the effect that the man who damaged It would Ue be killed and there was no trouble ELECTRIC RAILROADS China Chinn Is naturally fitted for electric railroads ds There Thera I is coal In every one or of the provinces so 10 that fuel for tor gen IOn electricity can be had At 10 low COlt coat Tito Tho peo people le 11 live In III villages and cities They Ther are not good walkers anti the women especially will pat the electric cars There Is an enormous trams bel between the different centers centera The fhe country roads road make you ou think there must be a circus In the next town They Ther swarm with Ith toot foot passengers The Chinese are k a nation A large hart ot of then them Are devoted to manufacturing and near Mar MarIr Ir every cory house has hall its Ita little industry This mis the highways with men car carYln ying frel freight ht There Ire are of pushed AntI and pulled b by men carrying goods good frown village map to It or the reverse reene There are caravans cara vans Ans ot of donkeys and long lines lIneR of rude arts Irl In the tho extreme north the freight freighting In ing Is done largely large upon camels which take all kinds of goods from and Tien through the Pass Passover over OYer the mountains Into Mongolia and amI Manchuria There Is also nillo nn an enormous traffic on the waterways which cover Chita like a net and nd n a ices Ios on p These methods of transport a are aU all slow and some IOme of at them very el expensive A goal rOo electric railroad system Item could rould tall take their places The people would such weh roads and Ih the roads I pa pay dividends from th the start he e trouble would tJI be In the In quieting the I fleas of the people and last but by no means least In fighting till the labor unions I by the Ole change These unions honeycomb Chinn They extend to the therl cart rl drivers and wheelbarrow men mell and dictate terms to both bolh capitalists and lIt LIGHT COMPANIES The In en Seta electris light At p tnt eat this country of people Is V i lighted almost entirely b by kerosene lard oil and vegetable tallow the are lighted With coal oil all Nun of at the native cities ettlel have gas and It Itis is 18 only 11 in the larger larr cities ot of the Ihl oll open n parts porta that tbt rOIl you fled hll electric light plants plant The imperial palace ul al Pekin has haM one lone There I is one here at al Shanghai and oth others ers at and Canton tanton Several ot of the viceroys have put In electric light plants but such plants are private and do not extend to the cities doubt It if there are re darker towns In central I Africa than the municipal centers centell of China after sunset The streets are 1 deserted A little candle andle or lamp may han hang here and there out In front of II a astore store to but there thre f Is neither gas nor diem elec The coal oil consumed como comes largely from the United States although within the last few tew years yearl there have been con considerable import from Russia and Suo Su mitts The There are at Shanghai enormous ous gil II tanks tilled with Ith Dutch Itus HUI Ilan elan And American kerosene I INI saw w Philadelphia oil for tor sale ale In Tien and I have seen n camels ramel loaded with Standard all cans on the borders ot of Manchuria A nay DOY WASTED A large luge pert of at the u used In China Chilla I is made from old kr kerosene cane can There are strops In each earh town which deal In such ware and ami man many ot of the buckets of the country are made from It The Chinese are very economical and In buying oil they figure all on the money to be had from the cats call u as well ell as from the oil Itself This Thill desire to save Ave recently caused the death ot of an servant of a 11 missionary at The mi mil had bought a can ot of oil and had ordered the boy bey to open It The boy thought It ft would be 1 a pity to In InJure Jure so JO rood good IL a can so 10 he be tried to re remove remove move the solder IOlder with II a poker The result was an explosion whIch wasted walled both the oil and the thc be boy CANDLES GROW GnaW 0 ON TREES ES Much ot of the light of at the Yant val valley al alIe Ie ley I Is from II a vegetable tallow Indeed they have hae trees treel In we western tern China which grow tallow candle candler At least leut they grow ro berries from which candles candle can be made The tree is II a well rounded one about aboul twenty feet teet high when full grown It hat has leaves ot of the rise 1 of at a silver Iler dollar and berries about as bl big a as a cherry The berries have shells much like Ilk our hickory nuts nut As AI they ripen the shells craCk and fall oft ott leaving white while seeds eed The fhe whiteness comes front a wax with which the seeds ed are covered This Thill I is removed b by boll ball hi As 11 the water heats heat the wax melts melta from the seed and It rises In 1 a scum to the top It Is skimmed oft of anti and poured Into candle molds In which are wicks Just like ilkI tho those t In the candle molds ot of the United States As 41 It cools cool I It hardens and when taken from tilt the molds It l is In the form torm ot of can candies dies read ready for tor burning The seeds are also 1110 ground and boiled belled and n a lIe second ond is 18 skimmed from them This wax is III known as aM vegetable tallow It lion ii one of at the chief exports of the KUklan region RICH CIU AS INVESTORS China Is 18 glutted with money much IS as the United States State and In organizing electric light steel teel und and tele telephone telephone phone companies a large capital could lII be raised from the natives It If the powers power will demand the right tr treaties atlee as 81 to the safety ot of investments I Am told there are thousands ot of rich Chinese who have trouble to make their money bring a 11 fair interest At present the only out outlets lets letl aru In pawn shops grain shops and house pro property ert and the risks are so great that mone money rarely realizes more mora than Z 2 per cent The Chin Chinese ate what Interest t means The They are savers and economizers Tile They are not afraid to invest In anything that prom rom tees Illel well It if the they know that the men menat menat at the head of It Are sate NC and nd that the undertaking I is tree free from time the leeches They lher have filth faith In foreigners and will go 0 Into schemes which are un under der foreign superintendence now LI BUNG CHANO nOO DOOMS S STOCKS Just now there is 18 much Chinese capt tat lal In cited In cotton cotlon mills sill silk nulls and railroads railroad II I hI have e before me IL a which Li Rung Chang ls s sued when he built the Tien Ing Ille railroad In order to Induce the peo lItO people Ille to bu buy shares In this he offers task tull about worth of at stock and asks for tor The cir ular shows how the look upon such uch undertakings and how they ma may be made interested In thorn them I quote only part Says LI clung Chang This railroad will be ot of advantage to the government and convenient to the people The company will be carried on In a strictly commercial manner and It Its I officials will protect prot lt its rights and see ee that It is II honestly directed A capi capital tal or of is fl to be raised prospectuses have hae been dl Jut but In order that you OU may put faith In the scheme I issue this procla matlon It must mUll be understood that railroads are In use Ule In all foreign coup tries Our people who ho have traveled have bave seen leen with their own on eyes the ado ad advantages vantages and ami wherever are railroads the trade will flourish All rich people In foreign countries invest their money In railroad tock stock at as asan inheritance an for their children China in III following the example lc ot of foreign countries C should be and deal honestly with u Ith the shareholders When a is II realised 11 by tile the railroad cows pany It will be divided justly among the stockholders and the managers are not to profit thereby This I fa import important ant to the government and the must mUll see ee that It will W be lasting and work ork honestly All the work must be carried on as al In II a foreign country and the lea sealed led b by the shareholders and managers manra Although are connected with It they the have no power to buln business and are only to tolee see lee that It Is II carried on honestly Anyone Any Anyone one In the Ibe dearing shares will apply appl earl early Do not lees ION Dated the year ot of use lIau moon SUh da day Signed Li 11 CHANO ot Lt 11 W WANTED TED TilE TIIE FUR In striking contrast with this procla matlon nn and illustrative ot of how the Chi Chinese I nese naturally claim every everything t thing h IlIr 1 I Ie a tory story J I heard ot of Li 11 Hung Chung as al to this same me railroad ad adIt It Will was wham the toad road Will was completed and his hll the viceroy had taken his nt first trip over oer It In III a special mall made for tor the car ar The a probably superintendent ot of the road It was wal fin shed In mahogany nM and Its furniture wes upholstered In the richest of satin brocades It sofas tables and As AI Li 11 hung Chang Chan rested his hla large larre frame in III one ot of the easy chairs chain he greatly admired hi his sur lur 1 and said to the directors this is fine furniture and andI I should consider tr It a compliment it the b of It It I 1 to m t Jain n not at front the great viceroy they would hr h delighted to make mke him such luch a present and the furniture followed him to his hili house haul Among the other troubles that the companies have Ilave Is II that every Iery want free transportation not only for tor himself but bul for bl his servants On the Tam road the native natle sol 1101 soldiers diers have been demanding tr tree passes and some were recently discovered taking tAk ing other with HII them under the name or of servants and collecting from said passengers the regular tart fare Truly the heathen Chi Chin n nee I f CHINESE SI A AND D lU WORKS At present the Chinese towns and vii vil villain loges lain are not alloWed t to issue bond to construct public works work This Is II done dOni entirely by time the general government and andin In laws IRWI recent recently r issued as AI to foreign loans loan such bonding I le prohibited It may Le be that thal tile the new treaties will change this and nd It if so 10 China will 11 be a held for the public works promoter and amI speculator The Are now nol practically free from debt There lire are cities here ranging from to halt half R a million In population which do not owe a cent The They Ire are without waterworks sewers rI gas gal elec electric trio lights or street cars call should he proved 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