14 What Electricity Can Do in China (Copyrighted, llwu, by Frank G. Carpenter.) brought tho telegraph Into i'ckln. Tho cltl SlIANdHAI, Oct. 20, 1000. (Special Cor- zona objected bocnuso of tho Four SIiuI. respondenco of Tlio lleo.) Some of tlio big- They mild Hint the wlrcH would deHtroy gest fortunes of thu futures' will coino from their luck, mid that It tho nhndow of n tho electrical development of China. It polo fell upon the graves of their ancestors tho powers by their now treaties can make the latter would rlso up and howl and causo foreign property secure, a thousand cities trouble. At first tho poles were dug out and towns will ovcntually ho lighted with and tho wires cut. Then the emperor at electricity, thousands of miles of electric tached a decreo to each telegraph polo to railroads will lio built, thousands of tele- tho effect that tho man who damaged It phono companies established and the result would bo killed and there was no more will ho millions In dividends. trouble. This Is a laud for tho telephone, not the China Is naturally fitted for electric rall- rVTTT? TT.T norm) Arunn ti-n-n iaijj i ; o i a j. x JU1J J J 111 JUi December 10, MOO. from which candles can be made. The tree Is a well-rounded ono about twenty feet high when full grown. It has heart-shaped leaves of the size of a silver dollar and berries about us big as a cherry. The ber ries have shells much like our hickory nuts. As they ripen the shells crack and fall off, leaving white seeds. The whiteness comes from a wax with which tho seeds are cov ered. This Is removed by boiling. As tho water heats the wax melts from tho seed and It rises In a scum to thu top. It Is skimmed off and poured Into candle molds In which nre wicks Just like those In the candle molds of tho United States. As It cools It hardens and when taken from tho molds It Is In the form of candles ready for burning. The seeds nro nlso ground and boiled and n second-rate tallow Is skimmed from them. This wax Is known UNION MHN IN CHINA-OIUKCT THLKOHAIMIH, TO RAILROADS AND TUN S.MAIiL-KOOTKI) WOM 13 N WILL PATRONIZE TII13 UM3CTRIC CARS. telegraph. It has already about 1,000 miles of telegraph which Is paying well, but this will bo wiped out, and tho telephone will take Its plare. Tho reason Is plain. Tho Chinese Is an Ideographic language. It has no alphabet. Koch word In It Is repre sented by Us own sign, so that it takes tens of thousands of characters to write It. It Is impossible to telegraph every charac ter, and so the common words uro repre sented by numbers, and In telegraphing only thu numbers are sent. The sending clerk takes down the telegram In Chinese and translates It Into numbers. He has a regular code, consisting of page nflcr pngo of figures and signs, printed in vortical col umns. There are ten columns an uvury page anil about 10,000 numbered characters In the book. After he has translated thu telegram hu transmits It, anil tho receiver retranslates It Into Chinese. This takes a groat deal of time nud In expensive. It nlHo causes mistakes, and thu result Is that thu tulephone will lie used Instend. At present there aro telephone companies at most of thu open ports. There Is one at Shanghai which has about 100 subscribers at $.1.1 a year. Its Instruments are of the oldest stylu and tho survlco Is poor. There Is a telephone company In Tleu Tsln and others nl Canton, Ilnukow and elsewhere. I bollovo the telephone could hu Intro duced Into all parts of China. Wo have hero a business and manufacturing popula tion, and the demand for quirk communica tion Is great. There aro ninny largo cities anil countless villages. When onco tho peo ple see thnt they can make money out of tho telephone their superstition In regard to it will puss away. They will learn that tho wires aro harmless and not the homes of spirits, The native capitalists will ho come Interested and the telephone will bo everywhere used. Iltl) N' ToIIHIICK UN lllNlllllllll'S. At present thu common people think otory telephone bus a devil In It. They look upon talking through wires as a work of magic. They cannot understand It, and they would surely mob tlio "hollo" girls If they woro Introduced Into a town with out proper explanation. 1 heard last night how a Dutchman living near thu Urand canal almost lost his life. Ho had had something to do with putting up the tele gruph lino thero, and was, 1 believe, ono of tho repair men. Shortly after the wires were put up suv ornl of tho boys of tho neighborhood were found missing. It Is nut uncommon hero for a man who has no sun to buy a boy to raise and take his name, so that his ancestral Hue may go on without a break. Uoys uro kidnapped for this purpose and Bold. Tho Chinese consider It u great mis fortuuo to lose a sou, nud so when the re port went forth that this Dutchman was tho kidnapper tho country rose up In arms. They gathered about tho Dutchman's cot tago and accused him of stoallug Chinese beys and killing them. Said they; "Wo know very well what you ore doing. Wo know that each of the glass insulators on tho telegraph posts contains a boy's tongue, and that through these tongues you aro nblo to carry the words from polo to polo." Tho Dutchman protested, but It was only b7 tho aid of tho soldlors thnt ho escaped with his life. Not long ago a now tolegrnph lino was built from Ku Klang to Han Chung, about 160 miles northward. Tho people objected and cut tho poles down during tho night. Tho ChlncBO ofllclaU arrested tho offenders nd bamboocd them, but It was all In vain. At laBt thoy cut off tho heads of a gang caught In tho net and stuck a hend on tho top of ench polo. That stopped tho cutting. Tho Chlncso government hnd a similar ox norlonco about liftecn years ago when It roads. Thero Is coal In every ono of the provinces, so that fuel for generating elec tricity enn bo had at low cost. Tho people llvo In villages and cities. They uro not good walkers and the small-footed women especially will patronize the elec tric enrs. Thero Is an enormous trnlllc between thu different centers. Tho country roads make you think thero must bo a circus In tho next town. They awnrni with foot passengers. Tho Chlncso nro a business nation. A largo part of them aro devoted to manufac turing and nearly every houso has Its llttlo Industry. This fills Hu highways with men carrying freight. There aro hundreds of wheelbarrows pushed and pulled by men, carrying goods from village to city or tho roverne. There are caravans of donkeys and long lines of rude enrts. In tho ex treme north tho freighting Is done lnrgely upon camels, which take all kinds of goods from I'ekln and Tien Tsln through the Nnn kow I'nss over tho mountnlns Into Mongolia and Manchuria. Thero Is nlso an enormous tralllc on tho waterways, which cover China like a not, and a less trnlllc on ponies. These metheds of transport nro nil slow and some of them very expcnslvo. A good electric railroad system could take their places. Tho people would patronize such roads, as they do the steam railroads, and tho roads would pay dividends from the start. The trouble would be In securing the concessions, In quieting tho supersti tions of tho people, and, last, but by no menus least. In lighting the labor unions arfected by the change. These unions honoycomb China. They extend to tho cart drivers nnd wheelbarrow men and dictate terms to both capitalists and otllelals. Thu electric railroad men could also es tablish electric light plants. At present this country of 400,000,000 people Is lighted almost entirely by kerosene, lard oil and vegetable tallow. Kvtn the yaniens nro llghUd with coal oil. None of tho natlvo cities have gas and It Is only In tho larger cities of the opon ports that you Had oleu trlc light plants. Tho Imperial palaco at Tekln has one. There Is one here nt Shang hai and others nt Hong Kong nnd Canton. Several of tho viceroys hnvo put In electric light plants, but such plants aro private and do not extend to the cities. 1 doubt If thero nro darker towiiB In central Africa than tho municipal centers of China nfter sunset. Tho streets nro deserted. A little cnndlo or lamp may hang hero nnd there out In front of n Btoro, but thero Is neither gas nor electricity. Tho conl oil consumed conies lnrgely from tho United States, although within tho Inst fow yenrs thero hnvo been considerable Im ports from Russia and Sumntrn. Thero aro at Shanghai enormous oil tanks filled with Dutch, Russian nnd American kerosene. I saw Philadelphia oil for snlo In Tien Tsln, nnd I hnvo seen cnmols londcd with Stand nrd Oil cans on tho borders of Manchuria. A Hoy WiiNtcil. a lnruo imrt of tho tlnwnro used In Chlnn Is made from old keroseno cans. Thoro nro shops In ench town which denl In such ware, nnd mnny of tho buckets of tho coun try uro mndo from It. Thu ChlncBo nro very economical, nnd In buying oil they llguro on tho money to be had from tho cans ns well as from tho oil Itself. This deslro to snvo rocently caused the death of on almond-eyed servant of a mis sionary nt Cheo Foo. The mlsslonnry had bought a can of oil nnd hnd ordered tho boy to open It. Tho boy thought It would be a pity to tujuro bo good a can, so ho tried to remove the soldor with a red-hot poker. The result wub an explosion, which wasted both tho oil and the boy. Much of tho light of tho Ynngtso valley Is from a vogotablo tallow. Indeed, they have trees In westorn Chlnn which grow tallow cnndles. At least, they grow borrleB as vegetablo tallow. It Is one of the 'chief exports of the Ku Klang region. Chlnn Is glutted with money, much ns the United Stntes, and In organizing electric light, street railroad and telephone com ponies a lnrge capital could be raised from the natives If tho powers will demand tho right treaties as to the safety of Invest ments. I am told there are thousands of rich Chinese who have trouble to make their money bring n fair Interest. At pres ent tho only outlets nre In pawn shops grnln shops nnd houso property nnd the risks aro so grent that money rarely real lzes more than 2 per cent. The Chinese nppreclato what Interest means. They are savors nnd economizers. They nro not afraid to Invest In nnythlng that promises well If tl.ey know Hint the men at tho head of It aro safo and that the undertaking Is freo from tho olllclal leeches. They hnvo faith In foreigners nnd will go Into schemes which nro under foreign superintendence. How 1,1 IIiiiik CIiiiiik llonuiM StoeliN. Just now there Is much Chinese capital Invested In cotton mills, silk mills nnd rail roads. I hovo before me a proclamation which LI Hung Chnng Issued when ho built tho Tien Tsln-Knlplng railroad In order to Induco tho people to buy shares. In this ho offers 1,000,000 tools' (about J750.000) worth of stock and asks for subscriptions. Tho clrculnr shows how tho Chinese look upon such undertakings and how they may be mndo Interested In them. I quoto only In part. Says LI Hung Chang: "This railroad will be of ndvantngo to the government and convenient to tho people, Thu company will bo carried on In n strictly commercial manner nnd Its otllelals will protect Its rights nnd see that It Is honestly directed. A cnpltnl of 1.000,000 tnols Is to bo rnlsed. Printed prospectuses have bpen distributed, but In order that you may put faith In the scheme I Issuo this proclamation. It must be understood Hint railroads aro In use In all foreign countries. Our people who hnvo traveled havo seen with their own eyes the advan tages and wherover there nro rallronds the trado will flourish. "All rich peoplo In foreign countries in vest their money In rnllroad stock as an ln herltnneo for tholr children. China In fol lowing tho example of foreign countries Bhould bo saving and deal honestly with the shareholders. When a profit Is realized by the railroad company It will bo divided JitBtly nmong the stockholders, nnd the mnnngors nro not to profit theroby. 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