The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-24
What it Looks Like and
Where it is.
LIFE AMONG THE MONGOLIANs
Get G0ssip-Native Vehicles-A
Look at an Inn Tho Army
and Navy-Etc.


seventh prince, or hefather of the EN-
psror of Caina, has had to move out o
his ancestral mansion, and it was to .da!
sold to the government for little owe
sl0a 900 1t will be ussd as a tempt
aud the reason for the selling is that Al
Chinese subject can live in house il
which an emperor was born. The DO!
emperor now outranks his father anC
the relations between the two are yer!
curious. The empress regent and thii
seventh prince still hold great influence
IN the cover lment, and the empress re-
gent will probably still have her place
behind a gauZs screen whenever the en-
Reror gives an audience. The prssent
imperial family of China is stronger
than usual. The prince Kung, who was
regent in connection with the last boy
emperor, is living at Picking, and tae
fifth prince Kung's brother, is said to
be msu of weight. The fifth primo is
the harouu CT alracnid of the family.
He delights in going about incognito,
and manv funny stories are told of hiE
practical jokes. One is as to a cart dri-
yer. The prince met the driver when
ne was in disguise and asked for ride.
The man looked at his poor clothes and
asked him to jump in. He did so and
directed the driver to take him to
Prince Kung's residence The driY er
stopped when he came into the street Of
the great prince and said he feared to
go farther as the great Kung was not q
kind-haar g | man, and if he trespassed
on his territory he would certainly get
the bamboo across his bare legs, and he
might lose his head. The ragged noble
urged him onward and, to his surprise,
stopped him at Kung's door. Here
great retinue came out to meet him,
and the man learned that he had bsen
entertaining the imperial prince. He
b sd been talking vary freely during the
ride as to what the people thought of
the emperor, Prince Kung and the fifth
prince, and he feared that his tongue
would lose him his head. The fifth
prince dismissed him and the next day
sent him lot of money and a new
horse and cart, This seventh prince, as
the father of the emperor, is now the
mightiest man in China and all the eel
esti6I world goes. down on its knees to
to him. He rides about Picking occas-
iouaily, and is by no means bad-look-
ing Ohinaman. Heis well made and in
clined to fairness, wears the brightest of
imperial silks and sports, at times, a
hat for all the world like an inverted
dishpan. His pony is a fine, white Mon
goliau griffin and he goes about the city
with retinue of servants and soldiers
Picking is like no other city in the
s1uHd. 1t is essentially different from
the ether cities of China, and is the
most Asispolitan city of Asia. 1t is
more like great camp than city, and
It's walls, fifty feet high and thirty and
more feet thick, make one think of SOL
diers and sisges, of rising and falling
empires, Thu t1ous ands of do-nothing
MOBILES in gorgeous gowns, who gallop
Through the vile, filthy streets, on po-
mics with hundreds of soldiers and serv-
ants dressed in the raggedest of gaudy
.itveries, carry out the illusion; and when
YOU ask the reason of the rags, you are
gsCid it is not pc verify, but that the no.
kIes dare not appear rich for fear the
government would levy contribution
1pon them. The chef of these mobiles
are Tartars, and they are taller and bet
ter looking than the Chinese who come
TO America. They form tbs greater
mart of the soldiers of the Capital of Chi
ma, and it is said that there are 50 900 of
them in the city. They are poorly
armed with the oldest of muskets. all
patterns, and would avail little before
one-fourth as many Americans armed
with Winchester rifles. China, all told,
has an army of three quarters of a mil
lion, and some of the troops of the
provinces are we'll armed and are being
trained by Europeon officers. The
country now has eight arsenals and our
naval officers tell me these are turning
out some guns which are equal to those
of Krupp, and also that the rifles made
at the Shanghai arsenal are on the Spen-
Ger and Winchester pattern. The Chi
uess navy has wonderfully improved
sine the jate war with France. Their
northern squadron is commanded by an
English naval officer and their ships
built in England and Germany. are
among the best of the small men of war
afoat. They carry the latest improve
ments in the way OF guns, and the bulls
OF some Of their boats are of steel. They
are, am told, now making gun boats
of thsir own, and they have cruiser OF
2IO0 tons and of 2400 horse power which
they built not long ago. The country
has but small national debt, amount
ing, say the statistics, to not over $25-
900 900, aud by judicious taxation it
could est 5lish a navy and army which
might make the rest of Asia tremble.
Ihave just returned from trip to the
Chinese wall, and L have seen enough
TO say that there is no doubt of its OK
istence and its greatness. Built 17O0
wears before America was discovered,
when our ancestors, half naked and al
together savage, wandered throughout
France, Germany and England, when
Rome was in the height of her republic
au form of government, and when the
Roman empire had not yet begun to be- |
these massive towers still crown the
parapets, and the 1900 miles of wall still |
stand. 1t is two days ride by donkey |
from Peking and one goes through the
northern edge of the great plain of Chlaa
aud meets it in the great chain of
mountains which separates China from
Mongolia and Manchuria. Manchura
and Mongolia lie directly north of China.
They are both subject to and governed
by China. and they equal in size about
Que half the whole territory of the