Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28

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two millennluns since the coming u
the Chinese the people of Hsin Kiang
have been converted from paganlsh
to Buddhism, and then to 3Mohaniin,e-
danism; they have been CONQUERED W
Uighurs, Tartars, and ribeatans;; Il new
language, Turld has been imposed
upon them; and they have suffered
from famine, war, and pestilence and
their attendant, ravages. Yet the char
acter of the people appear to nave
changed but little. The accounts OF
ancient Chinese pilgrims to India, and
the evidences found in ruins, indl-
cate that the life of the past was
not unlike that of today Tho origin
al Aryan stock still remains domln-
ant, though more or less mixed With
half dozen other races.-IIllswortn
Huntington in tlarper's Magazine Tor
December.
Leo Tolstoy 1 am ugly, awk-
Speaking ward, uncleanly. and
or Himself. lack cociety educa-
ton. I am irritable,
a bore to others, not modest, intol-
Grant, and as shamefaced as q child.
/ am almost an ignoramus. What
do know. have learned anyhow, by
myself. in snatches without sequence.
without u plan, and 1t amounts to
very little. am incontinent, undecid-
ed, inconstant and stupidity vain and
vehement, like all charactcrless peo-
pie. am not brave. i am not method
lcal in life. and am SO lazy that idle-
ness has become an almost uncon-H
querable habit of mine. l am clever.
but my cleverness has not been
thoroughly tested on anything; /
have neither practical nor social nor
business ability I ar honest. that is
to say. 1 love goodness, and hove
formed Il habit of LOVING 1t. and when
T swerve from it / am dissatitied with
myself and return to 1t gladly; but
there is thing I love more than
goodness, and that Is fame. / am so
ambitious, and so little has this feel-
ing been gratitied that, should / have
to choose between fame and goodness.
L fear may often choose the former.
Yes ! am not modest and therefore
/ am proud at heart though shame
faced and shy In society.
pesrerate eleven months after her
Methods. keel was laid, about sixty
per cent Of the battleslip
North Dakota took the water Never
in an American shipyard has a war
vessel OF the battleship class been adj
vanced so far In so short n time. Even
in England. where war-ship construc-
ton is most rapid, battleshtp Is on
the ways from eight to nine months
Americans, then, may we'll congratulate
each other upon the early launching of
the Dakota. But they should remark
that they have no cause for congratula-
ton over certain incorrlgible and we
cannot but think. inexcusable mistakes
which the bureau OF construction has
made in her design. 1t is the re-
corded opinion Of majority of the
naval officers (of the line) who par
ticipated at Newport in last summers
conference on the Key criticisms, that
az the twelve-inch guns of the North
Dakota and Delaware will be inferior
to those of their British contempora-
rles; that (2) their torpedo defense bat
terles are placed too low to admit of
use sin ordinary trade-wind weather."
and that go tho arrangement of their
Is undesirable from a
point of view" These are the
mistakes Others, which
the conference also discovered and
which allow of at least partial correc-
ton are, a. the location of n maya
zine amid steam-pipes, (2) insufficient
protection of the yentilators and up