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"Nothing," answered Dr. Tenny, "except to be willing to submit to
the conditions."
"And what are those conditions?" asked His Excellency.
"They are that you open schools in every important town, place in
them well-educated, competent teachers, whom you are willing to
pay a salary equal to what they may reasonably expect to get if
they enter business."
"May I ask if you would be willing to undertake the development
of such a system?" he asked further.
"On one condition," answered Dr. Tenny.
"And what is that?"
"That you allow me to open a school wherever I think there should
be one, call my teachers from whatsoever source I please to call
them, pay them whatever salary I think they deserve, sending all
the bills to Your Excellency, and you pay them without question."
The Viceroy had known Dr. Tenny for years, had always had the
most implicit confidence both in his ability and his honesty, and
so, lightening up his duties in the Tientsin and Paotingfu Uni-
versities, he commissioned him to establish what may be termed
the first public school system of education on modern lines in
the whole empire. This one act, if he had done no other, was
reason enough for a wise regent to have continued him in office
even though he "had rheumatism of the leg." But it may be that
there are extenuating circumstances in this act of the Regent as
we shall point out later.
There is one phase of the Boxer uprising that I have never yet
seen properly represented in any book or magazine
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