Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-20


will be no rain IN China until an the
foreigners have been eXtermlnated
CHANG CHI TUNG AND his MON.
KEY.
Il seems impossible that the sharp old
empress doWager could hold such su-
perstltlons. She is a Chinese woman
however. and the Chinese are satuated
with an kinds N crazy ideas as 10 spir-
rs and the spirit world, One Of the
chief causes OF the trouble Is. ] am
told. the hatred which the people have
for foreigners because they propose to
put railroads through the ancestral
grave yards. and thereby spoil the
luck Of the Chinese and anger the spir-
he OF their ancestors.
The Chinese believe every one has n
spirit which controls him. Take for in
stance Chang chi Tung. He Is one Of
the greatest scholars Of China. a nan
who rules, j venture half as many peO'
pie as President Mckinley. and who
spends millions a year He Is a scholar
and an author having written q book
on the modern movement for China.
Now. Chang Chi Tung believes In the
10 imagine that his soul came from a
monkey. According 10 tradition. when
Chang Chi Tung was born there was
monkey IN his brothers house This
mysterlously disappeared the same day
that his birth took place. and, accord
ing 10 the Chinese theory. Its soul
nassed into the newborn child.
Whether Chang really believes this or
NOT ! cannot say. but his friends tell
me that when he Is accused Of foolish
ness or OF acting lmprudently he re-
plies.
I was born? II must be the monkey
IN me-
HOW THE EMPRESS TERRIFIED
CHANG.
Speaking OF Chang chi Tung, he Is a
living evidence OF the terror inspired by
the empress dowagers anti-retorm
ideas Prior 20 this be has held the
broadcast opinions OF a modern ciyillza-
ton for China He has put up an
enormous steel plant az Han Yang, and
has been making steel rails Tor a rail-
road which he proposed TO build from
Hankow 20 Pekln. lie has opened iron
and coal mines. and has gone into an
sorts OF modern enlrIIFlNes'
Among other new things proposed by
him was an agricultural experimental
college 20 teach his people our methods
Of farming he sent 10 cornell ior
American professors. and made three
wear contracts with them at high sal
aries 10 come out and take charge or
this school When they arrived they
were given a house and told 10 20 10
work
in the meantime the old dowager Is
sued her edict and Chang chi Tung be-
gan 10 draw back He refused 10 give
the professors farms on which 10 work,
putting them on on one plea or another
from month 20 month until the time
Of their contract had almost expired.
At last the young men would stay no
longer Their salaries were being para,
but they would not consent 20 remain
without they were given a chance TO
earn them. 50 they have thrown up the
Job and gone back 90 the United states.
Chang Chi Tung had ordered all kinds
OF agricultural machinery In connection
with this school. The latest moving
machines, plows. harrOws and cultiYa-
tors were shipped out 20 him. They
arrived In good order. but are rusting
away unused. He had ordered q mod
ern carriage I'm order that he might ride
about m state and astonish the Chinese
I'm o region where our carriages are I'M
known and where the only conyeyances
are rude carts and sedan chairs. The
carriages came. and Chang Chi Tung
has plenty Of horses. but he does not
Use the carriage II ne did be would
be looked upon as a modern innoyator
and a friend Of the foreigners. so he
sticks to the sedan chair and the cart
KILLED FOR A CIGARETTE.
close this with a few lines I have
Just received from a missionary at
Kiao-chou. In speaking Of the Boxers
he says:
1T is a mistake 20 consider this an
anti Christian movement, II is I'M
ouestlonably an anti-foreign crusade.
Non Christians. employed by merchants
and railways. and clerks In the imperial
post and telegraph offices, have suffered
as we'll as the converts In Chihh
province even the possession OF a
watch. a foreign lamp or a cigarette
has cost many their lives The settle
ment OF the trouble should be on broad
lines. The empress dowager has UNI
doubtedly secretly encouraged the
movement. although latterly her rival,
Prince Tuan. has stolen her thunder