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 guage, the customs, habits laws, etc., of the United States, and the most proficient and apt will be selected for the Western education. After the young men have gone through their courses here they will return to China and take part in her activities.

These young men are to be taught specialties. Medicine, law, agriculture, forestry, mining, chemistry, architecture, physics, banking, etc., will be taken up as their aptitude for these professions develops. It is proposed also by the Chinese Government to give these youths, when they graduate, all assistance possible in the way of employment, so that the whole of their people may be benefited by what has been learned.

China has been going to school for several years. The educating of over four hundred million people is now under full way; every governor is active, and every city is organizing new schools as fast as it can.

in Funchow there are thirty native schools of foreign instruction; also a Normal School, a High School, a Military School, a Police Training School and a very large number of private schools.

Tientsin has all sorts of educational institutions, from kindergartens to colleges. There are similar ones in Peking, and among them a half-day school for officials who wish to improve themselves along modern lines.

China is also establishing industrial schools, where the use of modern machinery is taught and where the boys learn mechanical trades. The Chinese city has an Industrial institute under its Board of Commerce. It was started five years ago, and is now in full operation with over seven hundred students at work.

This school teaches twelve industries and it gives a course of three years. In addition to this there are seven other Industrial Schools in Peking and the Manchus are starting some in the Tartar city.

Peking is not so far advanced as Tientsin in the pushing of the new education. Still it has more than two hundred new schools, and over twenty thousand children and young men are working away in Government institutions.

In some schools there are courses in law and political economy. The most of these schools are, as yet, not far advanced; but there are something like ten thousand students attending them in Peking alone, and of them, four or five thousand are Manchus.

High Schools and Normal Schools are now to be found everywhere. According to the regulation every town and city has to maintain one, and every provin-