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Show 5. instance there la no question but that Mr. K'ung, whoa I have known personally for many years, is just who he says he i s . He is now President ©f the fine Christian School he has housed in his home, a big-brother-school-in-China of Oberlin College in U.S., from which he was graduated. Hs i s also an official of the China Republic Government his I i fLi SeVS i f@r 0f M r S e Sm I a t Sm> m i th@y l i v e i n Shanghai, but he comes feack heme to the School as often as he can. "the flower Garden" - English translation of th© Chinese name of the estate - is a sacred spot for in i t are the graves of more than a iaaea American missionary martyrs af the "Boxer" atrocities of 19CC, us this same Mr I ung rescued the bodies of his friends. Being told upon my arrival that Commencement Exercises were to be held that afternoon i t the Memorial School - "Qberlin~in-8h®asi" - and that I tea invited to attend, my aeeT- .shment was quickly swallowed, and toilet made, at that I might enjty this treat. ' As I hart Iten telling *% various modes af transportation, l®t m© t e l l how we rede ever t® She Flower Garden that afternoon, a l i t t l e m^re than a mile, for we went an th© carefully guarded road! At that time no automobile was ewn®d by the Mission Station in Taiku, A "rear car" (hot th© usual "side car")foften attached te the Doctor's motor cycle,served as a double 'ricksha, as twor=ef us could sit side by side; and alts i t s rubber tires a fleet footed eoelie made easy work drawing us. I t would take much time to describe that picturesque homestead with i t s up-curvei corners of its tiled reef a, grottos* etc* ail of which were a '••art of a well-to-do Chinese hom© of the old days.. Mr. K'uag himself was there for the occasion. There was the Academic Procession of faculty mi students in caps-and-gowna, just is would b® seen on such an occasion in other countries, Mr. K'ung (or Dr. K'ung, as he should b© called; had his Blu© and fhite Yal® hood, emblem of his degree, and the hoods of other American Colleges signified the degrees of others of the faculty. One thing was funny. Th© Dean had a few days before loaned his hood of the Oberlin tallage eeXera te 1 Chines© tailor for a pattern who had been given silks af Amherst colors to make another Profassorts hood. It was tin© for the procession to start and the tailor had eat returned with thee* hoods. Two College professors were panie%. Their wives had seats in the audience and suddenly beheld the "be-Doctorel" tailor reaming up and lean the eielea with Oberlin and Amherst hoods ewer his shoulder looking for their owners! There was just time to don their deceratieaa 6J the procesaion left the room in which i t was formed! Prominent Chines® officials - one of them having been sent by Gov. Yen, - in elegant robes sat on the speakers' platform, and in their speeches, which I could not understand* extended their greetings to faculty and students. A Play was given that evening by the students and a feast by Dr. K'ung. fa American ladies were invited to both, but excused ourselves as Chinese women do not attend such functions, so ee thought i t more consider te for us te leaHae. though we knew a play pat on bj Ghinese students, who are natural icters, would be well worth seeing. Th® friend with whom 1 asa to have travelled from faking, had been detained a fee days by business, so I had com© alone te Taiku to await her there. Th&t I had made th® trip aleaa safely from Yut^e hed not seemed remarkable until 1 knew ©f th© visissitudes which befell'my friend and others a few days later. A competent American lady had gene fraa Taiku to Sitae aita carts to meet this friend, intending to spend th© night there, as had I* and to come leaiurely the next day to Taiku. But there #er© complication a. Two mule l i t t e r s were there awaiting an American Army Officer and his eifa and child and Chinese asiah (child's niirsejfrom Peking, who arrived on the same train with my friend. There were also en English miaaienary and his wife and bab© aal amah who had' come over from Taiyuan. It was a hot July night and bright moonlight. The party was not keen about spending the night in an Inn# as all wished to get to Taiku. It was decided to start and travel seat of th® night. Then things began to happen. My friend was in her cart and before they started the mule took fright at the l i t t e r s and ran, passing over her carter, who was injured by th© heavy wheel. Instead of his acting as commander-in-chief of the expedition, his passenger had te get into another cart, and his vehicle eaa used as an ambulenee to get him in great pain to Taiku. Another cartsr thought he had a |