The Sunday Oregonian., March 17, 1912, SECTION FIVE, Page 11, Image 71

INN IN CHINA OFFERS BUT FEW
COMFORTS TO WEARY WAYFARERS
Fleas are Everywhere, Bed Consist of but Bare Plank, and Guest Chambers are Both Small and Lacking in
Cleanliness.
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BT ASHBT FORD.
HONUKONO. Feb. IS. (Special.!
"Th-r are tho who ride and
thus w!io alt on a horse and are
carried." So there are those who traye!
and thoje who sit In au opservalion
car and ar pulled.
If your tastes lie in the latter di
rection thty run be met to some ex
tent today, eren In China. You can
be pulled from IVkin to Hankow or
to the Great Wall. Yon may move
round the roast and for hundreds of
utiles up the Yanstue Klrer In steam
ers as comfortable as reason can de
mand. Only don't think you are trav
eling In China. You will lie on a soft
bed. but you won't knov all the fun
you'll mi. IW. borrow or steal a
pony then ret out and see the real
orient.
I had been doing; so for some weeks
together, when darkness overtook me
mono; the hill. My servants were
beictnnins to wonder where we should
spend the nisjht: at lenath a turn In
trie pass diKrloaed a small villaice. Inn
there was none, but obsequious villaee
elders put the schoolhouse at my dis
posal for the occasion. It was the
teacher who acted as our hont. For
hours, as It seemed, he sat. renllins; my
cup with scaMIn? tea after every sip
that I took, and talking Incessantly.
Kventuaily he arose to retire; I was
almot avlecp where I sat.
Many lira In Itoomi.
"There." he said, waving towards a
corner of the schoolroom and with the
air of one who offers all the luxuries
of the season, "is the bed. It has many
liens. My rurlls bring them."
Next evening we stopped at a large
city. 1 was an official person of con
sideration In those days, wherefore the
magistrate preoslngly Invited me to be
Ms guest and take up my quarters at
the schoolhouse!
-Tell his honor," I Sent back word,
that I am much obliged, but 1 wish
to slp tonight, and alone."
I dare not Imply that the average
Chinese Inn Is free from the "terror
that walketh by night" far from It;
but there Is a comparative In all tnlngs.
I write this In one of those rare
haven of refuse to the traveler in
China, a clean Buddhist monastery.
Buddhist monasteries are commonly
hospital-!.' t the better class of way
farers though their cleanliness Is usu
ally f:ir to seek. This Is one of the
ex.eptions. I ara not going to reveal
Its whereabouts, for It Is now within
reach of that modern abomination, a
nllro.id. and therefore accessible to
the Kloe-trotter. I don't want to
throw open my safest retreat to the
crowd. Heid.-s. the abbot is equally
loth to have his privacy disturbed by
those rJ.o know neither his language
nor t ie s xis. He an I 1 have been
friends for years ami I would not so
d:M!ge him.
Writer I i-o Unrtt Cliambcr.
I am In the guest chamber, the world
shut out bv fnnsstve Mack doors sup
ported on Brest red pillar. Round me
In the gloom carvings In wood Jut out
here and there and the Gods of Asia
r-nile from their niches In the wall
lTeetit!v 1 shall He down on a bed,
the "mattress" of which Is a rug such
as an American millionaire would buy
I if he had tn rli.inri and taen trample
with sacrilrKioue leather shoes. My
good host h.i provided an ample meal
tf steamed bread, with a bowl of fine
macaroni and poached ec? swimming
In a thin vcxet.iM bruiM. Added to
t:ls was superh leu ami freshly gath
ered walnuts. What more could the
wary traveler
In tVc :'.r!r morning I shall ride hi
my lwtr n c pri-clad hills till
the vatley opens out Into the rich
fsr-nlnir country whlrh know lies be
yond, and I phall wonder as t ride why
an) cue ever wauLs to do other than
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travel, or to travel elsewhere than la one. The official of high rank will
China, travel In hla sedan chair, carried by
The question will obtrude Itself, how- relnya of bearers. A more usual ve
ever. "What of tomorrow night's , hide, for a person of lower rank, is the
sleeping accommodations'" ! mule cart. With its strong axle and
As my halting place IS to D a large
town, . I may reasonably expect a good
Inn. This means that the guest room
which I shall occupy will hava a brick
floor nnd be furnished with a table,
two chairs and a bedstead, the latter I
nrnh.ihiv consisting of two broad
planks, side by side on a pair of tres-
ties. Hung over the table and facing
the door will be an unspeakably bad
mirror, or the picture of a cat. Both ,
of these are used to prevent the en
trance of devils.
Tale Told of Experience.
I hope, at least, that one of my ex
periences of years ago may not be re
peated. I arrived about dusk at a vil
lage. The Inn was small and bad, pos
sessing only a single dark guest room.
My baggage was already being deposit
ed there when I went to Inspect my
quarters. I did not proceed beyond the
door and could see nothing within, but
I felt a distinct warning.
"Bring the bed outside." I ordered
my servant; "it Is a fine night. I will
sleep In the yard."
This was done. By the morning light
I Investigated that room. It was a lit
tle one and half of It was occupied by
the father and mother of the Inn-
They were In their coffins, awaiting
a "lucky day" for their funeral.
I Judged, too. that "they had been
waiting a long time.
It may well be guessed that In China
an Inn Is not that welcome place of
rest for the tired wayfarer which It
commonly Is In other countries. Clean
liness, tidiness and even usual com
forts are conspicuous by their absence.
Typically. It Is so built as to enclose a
rectangular court-yard. Towards the
street will be a roofed gateway, amply
large enough for the passage of a mule
cart. Opening on either side -of this
will be the kitchen nnd the livlngroom
of the Inn-keeper. Facing the gateway
Is a line of single-story rooms, each
opening dlrectiy onto the yard, while
the flanking buildings consist either
of the Inferior guest rooms, stables or
pig styes.
Courtyard Deserted by Pay.
By day the courtyard is almost de
serted, but t night It Is likely to be
filled with carts, wheelbarrows, horse,
mules and Pckin nightingales, which
latter term Is a local synonym for the
common or braying Jackase. I have
known travelers to complain that their
song banishes sleep, though I have
never been troubled In that way. If I
have, the blame has been wrongfully
Imputed to the smaller and silent fauna
of the place.
Tet with all their squalor and prlml
tlveness. these Inns give a sense of
comfort which Is Ineradicable and
artaes from the personal freedom which
the traveler enjoys. One day. In a Chi
nese city, so much visited by tourists
that It contains a "first-class" hotel,
under foreign management. I wound up
a series of complaints to the owner
with the remark, most sincerely meant:
"Were I to consider my personal con
venience. I should stop at a Chinese
Inn. It l my business connections alone
that make It necessary for me to patro
nise this place."
primitive conditions Imply a large
measure of personal freedom unknown
In the Occident. Though my surround
ings are dirty, I need not be so; a piece
of soap Is easily carried and. with a
bucket of water, can work wondere.
jorttmotlon Wsjs Varied.
Although a horse Is by all odds the
mod ueful means of locomotion in
North China. It Is not at all the only
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neavy iron siuuuou w uccra. unf.,
noccnt of springs. It Is dear to the
heart of the native traveler. Why this
should be so I have never yet found
out.
As It bounds from rut to rut the un-
honor Dassenger Inside Is thrown nun-
er and yon with such force, and In a
manner so erratic, as to make vain the
most careful arrangement of cushions
and naddlng. Kven on a smooth road
appreciation of the scenery la Impos
sible. On three sides he Is Inclosed by
a superstructure of blue cloth, while
the driver, perched on the only passably
comfortable seat the rear end of the
shafts -shuts out llgnt and air alike
on the fourth. Lucky Indeed will be
the traveler If the driver does not feel
called upon to encourage his long-eared
team with song!
I have traveled In a cart once.
Though far more humble, I prefer the
wheelbarrow.
The traveling passenger-barrow i to
be met with almost everywhere in
North China. It is utterly unlike the
barrow seen by wondering tourists In
Shanghai, on which four or six persons
may sit on narrow boards, their feet
dangling close to the ground. The
Northern vehicle, built for long dis
tance work, resembles rather a pair
of litters, mounted on each side of a
ingle wheel. Two men, if they are not
uncomfortably tall, may stretch out at
full length upon It, or a single pas
senger may be balanced by his baggage
tied Into position on the other side.
An arching canopy of straw matting
forma an admirable protection from
sun or light rain. Light rain only, he
It understood, for In really wet weather
no vehicle but a cart with a good team
can move over a Chinese road. Pro
jecting shafts both fore and aft enable
two men to furnish motive power, while
a small donkey wanders In advance,
the slackpee.i of the rope traces by
which he is harnessed furnishing am
ple evidence that his principal func
tion In the procession Is to give encour
agement to his owners..
American Kallroad Compared.
Mtrty miles have I covered In such
a manner as this, and I have met with
greater discomforts, sometimes, even
on an "up-to-date" American railroad.
Ancthcr means of transport much fa
vored by the more wealthy traveler In
certaJf parts of China Is the mule lit
ter. Consisting of a kind of hammock
slung on poles, between which the
mules are harnessed, and covered with
a straw mat awning, it Is said, by
those who have tried it. to be luxuri
ous so long as the animals keep step.
When they fall to do so (and such fail
ure Is the rule, not the exception) the
victim within generally suffers the
evils of severe sea sickness. A much
traveled friend has lamented to me that
the highways of Eastern Shantung are
Einrked at regular Intervals by the
dinners which his mule litter has caused
to lie completely wasted.
Of donkey riding I need say nothing.
Much resorted to by the native of
small means, this method of locomo
tion Is seldom used by foreigners. In
the Yangtze Valley (and farther south)
houseboats are much employed, and
soma are very comfortable. Any form
of water transport In the North Is out
of the question, except on the Yellow
River or the Grand Canal. Along both
these routes the available boats are
usuallv best avoided.'
"Is It not dangerous to travel In
China all alone?" I have frequently been
asked In America.
Travel Not Dangerous.
"At any ordinary time and place the
traveling foreigner la China Is as safe
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or eafer than In bis native land," Is
my reply. Of course, a traveler must
be cautious In revolutionary times like
the present.
I have ridden defenseless, for days
at a time over roads reported to be in
fested with brigands, and never met
with anything but polltlness or even
marked kindness. In the very unusual
times of intense popular excitement
against foreigners, matters might be
different, as they certainly are In some
pirate-haunted districts of the 8outh.
But let It be remembered that there are
parts of the United States where from
time to time It may be said that every
negro Is carrying his life In his hand,
citizen and brother though he may be.
Neither state of affairs Is normal.
There are not a few for whom travel
In China holds no charms: to others It
is ever-alluring. Suppose it is 8 o'clock
on a line Summer morning. If you have
been riding ever since 5:30 without hav
ing eaten, the sight of a well-furnlshed
teahouse at the entrance of the village
Is more than welcome,
i "Well furnished" means, In this con
' nectlon. that In the front is an awning
of straw mats, giving shelter from the
sun to thoeo seated on the narrow wood-
en benches round the dirty, rickety,
' table which stands between the shop
' and the roadway. Perhaps across the
' street Is the village temple, with a few
! large trees surrounding It. These offer
I an even -more grateful shade, where
mysterious kitchen smells will not be
so obtrusive.
The horses, with loosened girths, are
led up and down to cool off by small
! boys whose only garments are a pair
- . i m tittn hrown dust-coat ;
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they are a bit shy with the foreigners
at first, but that soon wears off and
the ehanre. to earn a copper each is not
to be neglected.
1 Tables and benches are carried be
neath the tree. The inevitabld teapot is
filled from the ever-ready kettle. Next
comes a plate of hard-boiled eggs, then
another of touch native flapjacks.
There is the making of a very good
meal. Salt we may carry with us; It
Is an object of curiosity to the small
: crowd which has collected by now, for
; that condiment, as known to the Chl
i nese villager, is so coarsely crystal
line and so biacg wnn oomi
as not to be recognizably the same
thing. I have before now known my
talt to be played off on an Inquiring
graybeard as "foreign sugar" to his
great discomfort when he took a good
taste.
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A hitherto unpublished, novel of 136
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It seems that Balzac, In gratitude to
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own handwriting, with the story
"LAmour Musque" Love in a Mask,"
and for more, than half a century the
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the history of the volume as related.
As for the story itself, it la as bril
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the great Balzac. It is also very French,
so French that no American novelist of
1912 would surely dare write it. The
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Leon de I'reval, unmarried, a captain
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which she suggests a plan for their
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that two watchwords are his: "Silence"
and "honor." He promises. "The inter
view can only end one wnv. Leon is
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when the bandage Is taken off his eyes,
the negro servant has disappeared.
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chain, but was miserable amidst all her
plenty because she was childless. She
deliberately chose Leon de Preval to
supplyMier with her chief desire. When
her baby was born, she sent word of
the event to Leon, who was filled- with
anguish because he could not discover
his child and the woman he wished to
make his wife.
A war broke out between France and
Spain, and in one of the battles Leon
was seriously wounded Ordered home
to France, his' journey was stopped by
accident at Madame de Roselis' house,
where the woman he loved, nursed him
back to health. Here, though he did
not know It, he saw his own little
daughter.
Leon is torn by conflicting emotions,
and. faithful to the memory of the
woman In the mask and yet fearful that
he might love his pretty nurse, he has
tens away In his Ignorance. Once
again, at the opera ball, Leon and the
masked lady meet. She Is as cold as
ever. In the conversation Leon reminds
the fair one of the cruelty he had expe
rienced at her hands for the last three
years. So sensibly did Leon talk, at
last, that his attitude was not that of
the fond lover. He even admitted that
he loved his recent nurse, Madame de
Roselis.
Now what did the masked one then
do?
ft is presumed that thlg Balzac story
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If not, some unknown genius shows
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Harper Bros., New York City, N. Y.
Scotland, in recent literature, has
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The story is practically told in Eng
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The time of the novel is around tho
year 1860.
Bobby really belongs to the farmer
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tance of Edinburgh, but he loses his
heart to Auld Jock, a shepherd In the
employment of the said farmer. Bobby
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and when the farmer discharges Auld
Jock as being too old for the work,
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Knowing instinotively that he had not
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a cheap lodging-house near Edin
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was found that Auld Jock had left
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Bobby keeps watch over the grave
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on Auld Jock's grave. The whole
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lumbia River Valley and Mount Hood
what he has already done for Mount
Tacoma, and the pictures he has al
ready shown of his new book, "The
Guardians of the Columbia," demon
strate that he is making excellent
progress toward the end outlined. "The
Guardians of the Columbia" is now in
the hands of the printer, and Mr. Will
lams has made a contract with the
J. K. Gill Company, of this city, by
which this firm will handle 10.0U0
copies and act as agents for the Ore
gon trade. The deal Just closed calls
for eight tons' weight of books. Mr.
Do not.
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Williams intimates that his new book
will have an edition of 35,000 copies.
Nearly 1000 photographs have been
gathered for it and the best of these
will be reproduced. "The Guardians
of the Columbia" will be ready about
June 1.
Mlllionltm vs. Socialism, by H. Slack Worth
lngton. the Shakespeare Press. .New York
City.
Written with courage and sense. The
book favors the establishment of a new
political party, Timocratic Republican
ism, that shall "aggressively and cour.
ageously espouse and promulgate prin
ciples in favor of a qualified ballot or
equitable relativity in the exercise of
suffrage and which shall defend prop
erty rights and Individual ownership
and management, as against the so
cialistic and governmental tendencies
of both the existing great organiza
tions." Arguments are made that self
preservation is the first law of nature;
that, as socialism implies that the
preservation of society is the first law,
It would reverse nature: and tjiat in
dividual ownership should not only be
permitted, but encouraged, until both
self and offspring are adequately pro
tected, plus a sufficient accumulation
for the preservation of society. What
is known as soap-box socialism roared
at street corners by half-educated and
earnest but ignorant speakers, is
shown to be medicine for one class
only, the class that hasn't any prop
erty on which to base estimates of
taxation for tha expense o govern
ment. i
The Referendum In America, by Ellis Pax
son Oberholtzer. Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York City.
ir. Oberholtzer has made It plain
that although he has studied the ref
erendum in this country, and also the
initiative, and recall, he is not an en
thusiastic admirer of these new . and
comparatively untried systems of gov
ernment, to the extent that he is car
ried away by direct government by the
people, without sense or reason. He
rather presents arguments for and
against, and allows the individual read
er to make his preferences. Dr. Ober
holtzer's previous book on this subject
is recognized as a standard authority.
This book is a new edition, with a
supplement covering the years from
1900t to 1911, and as an educational
factor ought to be read by all interest
ed in the principles of government
all good Americans should be. On
pages 468-470 are discussed statements
referring to the proposed recall of
Judge Coke, of Lane County, but those
outside of Oregon should know that
the recall of the official named is not
on accomplished fact. Jt was only dis
cussed. A Manual of Mental Science, by Leander Ed
mund Whipple. 11. The Metaphysical
Publishing Co.. New Tork City.
So far, the chief complaint against
many books on mental science Is that
they are so expensive and difficult to
understand. Mr. Whipple's little book
of 221 pages is written in the language
of every-day expression, and its ex
planations are concentrated and easily
comprehended. No attempt Is made to
argue the truth or falsity of the many
statements of mental science, and the
author rather gives in convenient form
the main points of fact, law and rule
of action for the use of the science to
make daily, life better. "Mental sci
ence" is shown to be a science of the
mind, nd a scientific use of the men
tal faculties. It is argued that men
tal science carries with it a healing
proposition, because the right and
therefore real processes of mentality
lead directly to a wholesomeness of
idea; that such thinking establishes
healthy action, impulse and genera
tive force with everyone, and that man
is forever a spiritual being.
The Drunkard, by Guy Thorne. $1.33. Stur
gls & Walton Co., New York City.
An Englis'h novel, written with fire
and sweep of intensity, of a kind cal
culated to -create horror. The trouble
Is that books of this kind disturb the
sober, who don't get drunk, and fail
to reach the drunkard, who is not as a
rule in love with fiction which would
separate him from his liquor. That
kind of drunkard believes in the right
of Individual liberty, his liberty to get
drunk.
Ohantemerle. by V. K. Broster and C. W.
Taylor. 1.35. Brentano's, New York City.
Opening in the French Tuilevies in
the year 1792, this attractive novel has
a hero who commands one of the small
but devoted armies that made La Ven
dee the last fighting ground of the
be con-tent with
religion Live it,"
monarchy against the revolutionists.
Well written, romantic fiction.
The Story of Ram-Tag. by S. J. Kennerly.
11. The Cosmopolitan Press, New York
City.
Filled with dramatic values and
charming little bits of autobiography,
this book, reflecting a boy's experi
ences in the buffer state of Tennessee
during the Civil War, wilLbe read with
genuine interest. He was 10 years old
when the war began.
JOSEPH M. QT-KNTIN.
Books Added to
Library
BIOGRAPHY.
Harte The life of Bret Harte. with some
account of the California pioneers, by H. c
Merwln. 1911. . .
Button S. Thomas of Canterbury. An ac
count of his life and fame from the con
temporary biographers and other chroniclers.
Ed 2 1899
llas'salle Ferdinand Lassalle, by George
Brandts. 1911. ,
Thackeray Some aspects of Thackeraj.
by Lewis Melville, pseud, ot L. b. Bcn-
JanBOOK8 IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
Freeman Europos Istorija.
Frodlng Valda stycken.
Haberlandt & Letourneau EthnoIogUa.
Paterculus Histnrla Romans, book IT,
chapters XLI-CXXXl; ed. with Introd. and
notes by F. E. Rockwood. 1SH7.
Slenkiewlci Quo vadls. 3v.
Tolstoi Ponas ir bernas.
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL.
Orenfell Down' north on the Labrador.
Griffith Dominion of Canada. 1911.
Johnson The New England country. "iU'
Llet'eld Faces and phases of German lite.
1"Fre"brev Motoring abroad. 190S.
RIverThe Todas. laOS.
Koss Changing Chinese. 1911.
Williamson The cities of northern Italy.
2v. lUtltl.
FICTION.
Hay Safety match.
Jacobs Ship's company.
James The outcry.
Ingemann Prince Otto of Denmark og
nans samtld.
OUIvant Taming of John Blunt.
Richmond Strawberry acres.
Shute Country lawyers.
Vosmaer The Amazon.
Webster Girl In the other seat.
Wharton Ethan Frome.
Whltechurch Canon in residence. .
Wylle Dividing waters.
FINE ARTS.
Bensusan Reynolds, n. d.
Chicago House Wrecking Co. Boole er
plans. 1912. .....
Corder Modern musical composition, a
manual for students, n. d. . ,
French Tho house dignified: Its desisn,
its arranitement and Its decoration. 1UOS.
Hackes David's practical letterer; in
structions In commercial lettering with
brush or pen. complete details of show
card work. Practical hints on photo-engraving
and designing. Ed. 3. 103.
Huntington Our wild fowl and waders.
"inexpensive homes of individuality; be
ing a collection of photographs and floor
plans Illustrating certain of America's best
country and suburban homes of moderate
size. 191 1. . L ., ,
Knowlton Nature ongs for children.
19Mars!ial'l Handel. ISS3.
Phillips Art and environment. 1911.
pnIHir9 With other photographers. 1910.
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