A REMARKABLE JOURNALIST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 4

A REMARKABLE JOURNALIST.

, niS CONTRIBUTIONS NEVER \ ' ■ REJECTED. In tile -latest ;■ instalment of Li Hung Chang's diary, printed in the "Observer," thero is this entertaining passta!— ; I am a journalist myself. Many people would lx> willing to doubt And to ridicule. but it is truo, : nevertheless. While I havo never published a journal, nor acted as editor, tho profession of writins is SO noble that I am honoured, to claim' membership therein. When m my youtli I thought of my future,.l Baid that some day I wan tod to bo Hie Chang-yuan (poet laureata) of my country, and I studied lone and diligently. I fcoolc my degrees abcad of ■ many thoua-ands-tho hsui-tsai, tho chu-jcn, and the ttun-sz, following each other rapidly. And I havo Written and written for many Toung reporter laughed lon£ when I told Tliim I was a newspaper man, too, and that ho surely" did not expect mo to give hini all tho information I had gathered. Ho had been, asking mo questions liko a rnpid-ilre gun, and I saw lie was new nt Lis profession and I pitied "You say, Mr. Li Hung Chang, that you are a newspaper man P" ho asked, wlion I appeared serious.. "Yes," I replied. "I have written a great deal that has been published in our Chinese papers and which tho editors did not dare refuse," "How-was that?" ho inquired. "They irero decrees from the Throne," I told him. . ■■ ■ Evidently that was all ho needed for his article that day, for ho left immediately, after ottering mo a cigar, and the next morning I read in one of the New York papers that "Li' Hung Chang is a writer who uses an axe on any man i who dares blue-penoil his stuff.",