. New life currents in China . trucks, or carrying enor-mous weights suspended from poles on theirshoulders, what a boon it will be for the countrywhen with better means of transportation, thesemen are released for other labor. In this connec-tion I must not omit to mention the humble servants of the government do reallywonderful work. From a point in the provinceof Honan, where the railroad ends, to far-awayTurkestan, the Chinese post-ofifice maintains a dayand night courier service of 2,223 rniles, probablythe longest single courier line in the world. Themail-couriers tra
. New life currents in China . trucks, or carrying enor-mous weights suspended from poles on theirshoulders, what a boon it will be for the countrywhen with better means of transportation, thesemen are released for other labor. In this connec-tion I must not omit to mention the humble servants of the government do reallywonderful work. From a point in the provinceof Honan, where the railroad ends, to far-awayTurkestan, the Chinese post-ofifice maintains a dayand night courier service of 2,223 rniles, probablythe longest single courier line in the world. Themail-couriers travel by camel, mule, and pony, onrafts made of inflated hides, and on foot; they crossturbulent streams that are not bridged, hanging onto wire ropes and bamboo poles; they face deathfrom brigands, unruly soldiers, and wild that travel by foot cover forty miles a travel sixty miles at a stretch, carrying fortypounds of letter mail, and without any rest exceptbrief stops for food. Mail is rarely lost. One. ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGES 125 winter I traveled from Shanghai to Szechuan, downto Fukien and up to Peking. My letters were for-warded and reforwarded, till the original addresswas almost obliterated, but as far as I know therewas only one letter that I failed to receive. The Dawn of a New Industrial Day Not long ago I read in a morning paper that atWusih, a prosperous city on the railroad betweenShanghai and Nanking, smoke rises daily from thechimneys of fifty mills and factories, whereas onlyten years ago there were not more than half adozen. I have learned since that the statement wassomewhat exaggerated, but it at least gives anidea of the rapid industrial development of the pastfew years. The advance in some directions hasbeen by leaps and bounds. Cotton-mills lead off,but silk- and flour-mills, paper, soap, match, can-ning, and other factories are rapidly a large canning factory in Shanghai, the em-ployees wear a white uniform wi
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