Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thought
Tsarits,l When u certain Count i
Afraid OF Tolstoy was minister OF

| Tsarits,l When Il certain Count
| Afraid of Tostoy was minister OF
Education. public instruction he once
appealed to the empress TO
aid him in extending the educationaai
advantages of the empire to the girls
and young Women OF the country. q
have Count Tolstoy's own permission to
relate this incident.) The Tsaritsa rs
tened to the minister attentiveiy as ne
set forth the needs of Russia IN thls
direction, and when he had cohcluued,
he replied that she thought all young
girls should be taught to sew, 10 care
for their homes, in short, to become
helpful wives and good mothers, puL
as for granting them the privileges OIL
so-called higher cducation, knowledge
of history, philosophy and the sciences
to this she was entirely opposed, be
cause these studies, when offered to
women. only resulted in such terrible
times as Russia Is now passing
through" This. surely, is a remarkable
tribute to the women OF Russ1a--the
Tsartsa holding them responsible for
the great movement toward liberty as
Ii result of their education and cultures!
kellogg Durland, in Woman's Home
Companion.
No More They are at it again--the
Heroes OF idol snashers, This time 1t
History. is Cleopatra and Antony.
We are told, gravely and
with every semblance of learned and
austere dignity, that their historic love
was not real, genuine, moving pass
ionate. mutual emotion of the heart at
all, that 1t was IL mere diplomatic stage
play an affair d'amour, for reasons OF
state, We dislike to dispute with per-
sons who make assertions of this char
acter They are always and invariably
loaded with such Wads of pestlferous
and annoying data and evidence. pre-
isumptive, cumulative, and apparently
conclusive, that an argument is peril
ious no matter how just and praise
worthy. They have abolished William
Tell! banlshed Pocahontas, and consig II
ed George Washingtons cherry tree to
evcrylasting and unfathomable obliv-
ion. We still have our private opin-
ion concerning these cherished old
friends, and the mere fact that we de-
cline to publicly express it is no sign
that we have surrendered. Being pos
sessed of no worm-eaten and dust-coy-E
cred testimony. however. we content
ourselves with adhering to that child
like faith in the eternal fitness of
things which admonishes us that these
good stories should have been, and
probably were, true even though they
may not be provable by the records to-
day For our part, however, IL we
could not find anything better to do In
this world than upset noble old tradi-
tons and overturn time honored ideals,
we would retire to some dark. deep
dungeon and pull the hole in after us.
We would not take candy from Il baby,
neither would we have snatched that
cherry tree prop from underneath
George Washingtons reputation for
vcracitr. 1t has served to point many
a. fy,,y vol ~, II ntjNep a. a "a
should have let 1t be forever in all of
its ancient and honorable renown So
with William Tell and that apple and
Pocanhontas and Powhatan's big stick.
Washington Herald.
Turkestun Over two thousand
Compared years ago China, the
TO Arizona. dean of nations, spread
her conquests far
westward to the Sea of Aral,
the so-called Lake OF Cathay.
Hordes of barbarians soon drove her
back a thousand miles, but she was
able to maintain her authority to the
east and south of the Tima-Shan or
Celestial Mountains. With them as a
bulwark she organized the New Pro
vince-commonly known as Chinese
Turkestan--which comprises the great
Lob or Tarin basin, together with the
more northern regions of Turfan 300
feet Sea-level, the fertile vale of Iii,
and the waste plains and mountains
of Dzungaria Time and again the
Chinese rule in Hsin Kiang has been
overthrown, sometimes for centuries
and sometimes for only a score of
years; and time and again China has
reconquered the province With each
conquest Chinese officials and mer-
chants have poured in. They have
taken to themselves wives of the
Aryan Inhabitants, they have built
government houses, forts, and towns
largely of mud; and they have en-
tirely dominated the mild Chanto
natives. Then, when foreign invasion
has driven them out, they disappear
ed, and Hsin kiang, lapsing into its
ancient apathy, has become as though
the Chinese We're not. nor even had
been, Hence. today, in spite of two
thousand years of intermittent Chinese
rule. Turkestan is still the New
Province IT is related to China
much as Utah and Arizona We're to
the rest of the United States before
the days of railroad. 1t resembles
those States in other ways also, es-
pecially in climate and topography,
although In every respect its ex-
tremes are far greater than theirs.
Cut off from China by three or four
hundred miles OF the most rigorous
desert and from the rest of mankind
by the greatest of mountains, this
old New Province has pursued the
tenor of its ways almost uninfluenc-
ed by the world at large. During the
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