Two other incidents in connection with Shén's period of activity at Taiyuanfu deserve mention. At the time when the Boxers' frenzy was at its height a number of the notables and gentry of the place had erected a monument to Yi Hsien in the city and inscribed upon it the nam of the grateful subscribers. When Shen arrived and announced his commission to hunt down those responsible for the atrocities, the gentry, whose names were published on fe monument, made all haste to protect themselves by pulling the erection down and destroying the stones of which it had been built. The site was subsequently used by Shen for a monument in European. style, whereon was written the Decree expressing the Imperial sorrow for the massacres and plundering, that had taken place. The house which i Hsien had made a trap for his vie~ ins was appropriated by Shen to public es, and its gardens laid out for the moral benefit. The China Inland Mi: ion has since set up a monument near the South gate to the Governor Tsen and to Shen, the first two Chinese, to whom, so far as is known, a public memorial has been raised by Westerners. Another tablet in the somme place records the names of those who lost their lives in the fatal 1900.
The many important services by Shen to his country have been marked by propriate advancement in rank and dignities, So valued have his services been the north that in response to a memorial from Governor Tsen he has been ctant official of Shansi instead sti, his former province, and is now Taotai of Taiyuanfu. In July last he was called up to Peking to fill the office of Ca-Director of the Bureau of Mines and Railways, where with large opportunities the many friends he has made among Westerners will wish him equally large success. At the Imperial audience recently granted him by the Empress Dowager and Emperor he was awarded the First-class Button, a signal mark of the Royal favour,
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