Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

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SIZE or my wrist The head Is like
the body. enormous. The animal looks
| something like a hippopotamus, with
| the neck OF snake According TO the
| legend this beast once tried to swal-
low great quantity OF silver but IL
burst Its neck and died in the act Its
picture lss therefore, placed at the en-
trance To every viceregal palace TO
warn the officers within against over
| extortion. II is to let the vIceroy
know that II he takes too big bribes
| or squeezes too much he will probably
bite off more than he can chew and die
| In the attempt.
CHINA'S NEW CONSTITUTION.
During my audience with Tuan Fang
was received In large parlor fur
nished In Chinese style. His cxcellency
and myself sat side by side at a big
black table, upon which were refresh
ments of various kinds. Tea was
Drought In as we talked together. and
our audience was terminated with a
glass OF champagne
The first subject OF conversation was
Iuan Fang's trip around the world.
He was sent abroad to study modern
politics and to plan a constitutional
government for China Upon his re-
turn he wrote the memorial which
formed the basis OF the changes now
taking place all over this country. He
was the author of the now constitu-
tion, and might be called the father of
the new China
asked him whether he thought that
China would actually install modern
government He replied:
Undoubtedly 1t will. Our people
have come to appreciate that we must
adapt ourselves to modern conditions
and be ruled along modern lines We
believe that our old methods are good.
but we would add to them the good
that the western world has discovered
We are studying modern politics. and
wlthln a short time We shall have a
constitution and parliament Accord
ing 10 our present program. that time
Will come within eight years"
'Wiil not this make great changes
in China?"
Yes 1t Will make us by far the
greatest people of Asia. It Will bring
about the development of our material
resources. which are unsurpassed In
tho world. We shall start factories
and shall produce not only for our
enormous home market, but also for
that of other countries. You must re-
member that we are industrious We
have skilled hands and quick brains.
and. indeed. the future Is hard to pre-
dict"
CHINA'S NEW LANGUAGE.
will China develop a new ltcra-
ture?"
II cannot sec why not. We have
our own classics, which have come
down from generation to generation,
throughout tho ages. We have a GER
tain kind of mind which has been
trained upon these classics. and which
Go 90 thz.
the world. That mind is now to be
turned to other subjects. 1t IS to deal
with the western sciences and methods
of thought. and out of the whole may
come something entirely new. We
may turn to invention again. We were
the original discoyerers of the COM
pass, gunpowder and printing, as we'll
as of other things. We shall hardly
square tho circle or invent perpetual
motion. but the big discoveries OF the
future may come from US"
How about the Chinese language.
VIII 1t be changed2"
IT do not know. 1t will be modified
by our western studies. Indeed.
think mankind ought to have world
language-one for all nations and
tribes. It might be something like
Volapuk or Esperanto"
A CHINESE PSYCHOLOGIST.
From language the conversation
drifted to history Tuan-Fang de-
scribed the wonders Of ancient Egypt
and the JOY he had In the museums OF
Europe He spoke of national ex-
position which he had planned for
Nanking some time this year. and said
that he hoped to aid China in estab-
fishing a national museum of its own,
At this point the vIceroy asked mo |
IL unull like to snls his cnllnctinna