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THE STJXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAT 31, 1J14. - OP CWA e&7V j.-0 -Yv-? - V- w lucT Mrs. Bulsft&dG. ii r 'KiLu.'ilI'rifW I . S3 .1 till I I r---,. :::: i Jm-s - f .f-r s iJ i ' .- ' VS. V,. c v J? f V is! BY HATOEX CHURCH. OKDON, May -- (Special Corres one la do longer surprised at hear ing that an American. Engllsh or Eu ropean woman either is setting out that she could use these weapons. "I , LONDON. May 23. (Special Corres- am far from being a brack shot," aha pondenee.) -It Is getting so that says, "but T have practiced Quite a, lot, fn. m n't -t,-1j4 a V a r- tAth With . t1f1 anil With A. nllltflV BTlA I usually can hit what I aim at- So, on one occasion, when feeling a little alone for, or Just returning alone from, doubtful about the attitude of the peo- some wild, uncivilized and little known Pie among whom I was traveling, and region of the globe in which no txav- an eagle swooped conveniently low, I eler's life is safe. shot It, and the moral effect seemed Since a Yankee woman In the person to be good." of Mrs. French Sheldon set the example Eh makes little of the dangers at- by adventuring through Central Africa tending her wanderings among the the name of the fair ones who have Mongols, whom she says are easy to followed her example has become le- 6"ot along with If one Is careful to glon, and the list Is being Increased stroke them the right way, but the fact every day. It seems only yesterday, in remains that a short time after -she fact, that the papers were full of the passed through TaBol, In Southern adventures of Mrs. Marguerite Robey. Mongolia, an Englishman named Grant, another daring daughter of the Stars who was in the telegraph service, was and Stripes, who played the part of a butchered there in cold blood for the "medicine woman" in the heart of the sake of his food and stores. Congo and averted war between two It was while on her way from Pekin powerful and savage tribes by arbi- to Kalgan, on the way to Southern trating 'twlxt their respective chiefs. Mongolia, that an unpleasant adventure and those of Beatrice Grlmshaw, befell the traveler. She had made a among the cannibals, sharks and rep tiles of Papua. Since then we have had the experi ences of Mrs. Amaury Talbot, among the expert poisoners and torturers of the African district, of which her hus band is District Commissioner, and seen the beautiful Countess Molitor setting onV-almost blithely. In an attempt to cross the great desert of Arabia, where no European is known to have set foot and where almost certain death awaits the explorer. Worthy in every respect to be classed with the intrepid women men tioned Is the latest feminine traveler In wild places, Mrs. Beatrix Bulstrode, an Englishwoman who has Just re- halt at the famous Ming tombs for the purpose of seeing them, and leaving her men outside with the animals, she struck a bargain with the official guar dian of the entrance (who tried, with out success, to cheat her) and entered the sacred precincts.' At the Inner gate or doorway of one of the principal temples she was stopped by anotheV "husky" fellow, who demanded a dollar. "It never does to let a Chinese think he can bully you," said Mrs. Bulstrode, "and as I happen to be a fairly large person myself I simply refused to give him the money, pushed past him and went in. Then, of course, he'd got me. He simply turned the key, and there was I securely "locked in an almost turned from wanderings that have pitch-dark temple, the only visitor to lasted for nearly two yeis In the least the place that day. and with no means known and, to a foreigw , most dan- of getting out till the door was un- eerous corners of the Chinese Empire locked again." and through Mongolian wastes, where It was not a pleasant situation by rarely a white woman has been seen ,... tut it is characteristic of . before, and where extinction in a vari ety of forms has to be Vaken into ac count by the traveler.. Her adventures there Include the dls- . covery of what surely must be the most t terrible form of punishment in the world, and some of the queerest re ligious rites In existence, wanderings In regions Infested with brigands of . the "White Wolf" breed and over seas swarming with pirates, and long and lonely journeyings through a land where civil war was raging and over ground that had been recently strewn with headless corpses. Tall, fair and extremely' good-look- V Ar -Mv V,i- Z-" ts V S - . iv vV-- 1 5 9 the new temple which had Just been built at great cost in the center ofthe Holy City are two thrones, one for the Bogdo. and one of equal grandeur for his wife. Facing the thrones is an enormous figure of Buddha, the largest In the world. "post-riders" kept up, and a couple of Cossacks, who overtook the tarantas at one - post, had to be called on for assistance. They found the vehicle, however, beyond repairs, and the Jour ney was completed In ox-carts, with. solid wooden wheels, drawn by ponies. The Bogdo, fact, mads anything From Kiachta Mrs. Bulstrode went on but a favorable impression on Mrs. Bulstrode. "The Russians," she says, "take advantage of his great wealth and sell 'The Living God' costly motor cars and champagne, while his wife and her influence are the commonplaces of conversation. Yet when the Bogdo makes one of his rare ceremonial ap pearances In public the people fling themselves to the ground In an ecstasy of adoration, and even high mandarins tremble with excitement." Mrs. Bulstrode returned by "ortoh" to Werkneudinsk. where she joined the Trans-Siberian Railway for St. Pe tersburg. She is now in Brittany, where sh will set :ibout writing the detailed story of her experiences. Meanwhile she has had the distinction of lectur ing to the Royal Asiatic Society on her experiences, and thinks It quits llkelyi that, after a bit, she may run across the Atlantic to tell Americans of her wanderings. "Meanwhile." she said, "it may possibly be of interest to soma though that seems scarcely credible. With Mr. Gull as interpreter I managed to talk with one or two of the Chinese prisoners, and found them In a deplor able condition and quite hopeless. "Their abject misery," she adds, "made it easy to understand the light headedness with which three Mongol soldiers went to their execution a few days loter. Six months previously they had murdered their general, and In the Interval they had been dragging out a miserable existence In the coffins. They looked ghastly enough after thejr in or posting stages, to Kiachta, a journey American woman to know that the to- which took four days. Quite a loo-of minor accidents happened as a result of the furious pace which the Mongolian tal expenses of my trip were not over $1500 for each of the two years that I was away." MILLIONAIRES ARE REDUCED (COJTTIJrUED FROM FACE S.) the public revenues: and, further, the 01 the first questions pressed for set properties of legal and primitive own- tlement. It is one of the biggest re- ers. wrested from them by the in- sponsibilities that the State Department dividuals mentioned, ever ready to take assumed in keeping European nations arceration and ate greedily the food advantage of their power, shall be re- from active Intervention, irhir. w. r.Kr.i stored to said owners, so that full Ju- .... GJcsrcA one? Sef whlfh wa. tA thaw, rf.j.n th.v were taken out of the carts. One of "hall be done to every victim of The meekness with which Secretary them shouted ribald jibes to the man- the usurpers. cryan took the rebuffs given him by darln who was present In his official "Third All of the confiscated prop- Carranza will hardly be repeated in capacity. ertles shall be administered by the the general diplomatic adjustment that "Come out and watch, us die," he State Bank, which shall be required is ahead. Some measure of compensa jeered. "That Is what you are here to keep an exact and' correct account tion will be demanded by the European for! Don't stop skulking In that tent." of all receipts and disbursements. governments. Restoration to their na- One of the others remarked to the lama "Given in the government palace De- tionals would interfere with the pro who held the sacred picture of Buddha cember 12. 1913. General Francisco gramme of a general distribution and before his eyes a few minutes prior to Villa, military Governor of the state. subdivision into small holdings, execution. "I don't mind dying, but I S. Terrazas, secretary.' Tho whole question of land tenure la want to be a soldier when I am born The State Bank was provided for in a complicated one, but it has to bo again." a decree issued on the1 same day. solved before Mexico can be considered The lamas. Mrs. Bulstrode declares. It will be noted that the declaration on an economic basis which will give are the dominating factor of Mongolia, of confiscation Is complete, although any assurance of political stability. A Every family contributes at least one the equitable distribution of the prop- ou """i will bo laid. Those who son to the priesthood, which is said to ertles conflacated is to be regulated by -ro Permitted under the new regime represent approximately 65 per cent of a future law and the soldiers are to c n"nue as big land owners will pay the, male population of the country, share In the distribution of the lands. lr s" are toward the maintenance of Ther are said to be'SO.000 lamas In The promise to restore their properties neve haveTone. heretofore they Urga alone, whose great temple, too, is to the primitive owners has reference t,,,.... . , ... ligent eyes with determination In them Tmere sheds where' an egg In an egg cup. and was met with They cannot sit upright, they cannot lie the place of worship of the supreme to the farmers who were dispossessed se zeT cotrof V th f and a bearing that suggest, great pl.c- "er th9 D7 'D"3onS4 "J lookf of blank surprise. Then her com- down flat, and they see daylight only head of the sect. Bogdo, the "living through technicalities and their little but it w.! only a ?ho2 e agoav Wlty. balanced by a keen sense of hu- np U'ne" panlon had a brain-wave. He flapped for a few minutes when their food is God of the Mongolian Buddhist holdings swallowed up In the big !.tbat his government ouUtaeoSi mor. Mrs. Bulstrode considerably sur- sheer and open pr ... haciendas. nlte programme. Tis Cs " tht fo prised her interviewer by declaring purely .omrtlc. . Not a tf and rled "Cock-a-doodle doo!" and hours. ' Aa it happened, Mrs. Bulstrode ar- The International view of the land of a project for land taxation -uT that, far from being an experienced . " seen TL e3 were at once forthcoming. "These dungeons are pitch-dark.- rived in TJrga at the time of the semi- question is not one that the revolu- mitted to the congress by the ministers globe-trotter before she started off to ua"y " nZ?L Jhtrh So they "ached the Holy City of Mrs. Bulstrode added, "and upon enter- religious. semi-athletic festival of tionists concerned themselves with, of finance-and ' agriculture. it wander far from the beaten track in Srroups of tents, caned w"c" Urga, where this traveler saw at least lDg the first one we could see nobody T'sam Haren, or sacred dance, when How many of the ranches and haciendas posed tho creation of a federal land China, she has, apart from some months are made of filthy relt, stretcnea over on)J gl&ht wnloh she declared Bhe can onJy tho corfln.llke Iron-bound boxes lamas congregate In vast numbers to were mortgaged by their Mexican own- tax, graduated taxation according to in Canada and an intimate acquaint- wicker frames. Both tents and people never forget For ln the prlson at urga. on low trestles, each with a hole about Pay tribute to Bogdo, whose private ers to foreigners almost to the full tho value of the land, and the exemo- ance with nearer Europe, traveled no were ln an extraordinary condition of tQ whlch Bhe thJ flrat whlte woman to the slze ,& mano head ,n the g,de lQ llfe lB a blt of a scandaL Now a dla. value u conJectural, but there have tion of the peasant proprietors, further east from her native land than dirt, but the Mongol encampments were , Bucceeded ln gaining admission the five dungeons I counted about 50 of sipated-looking old fellow, and nearly been many BUCn instances, possibly Whatever government comes Into uuiaor trav- - only alter tne greatest ainicuiiy, is these coffins, all occupied. What makes onna, Mrs. traisiroae gamerea mat Bometimes in collusion. In the case of power wm provide vivr uul wuuuy unitnown 10 xame one Christopher Columbus. "But China always has had a fascina tion for me," she said, "and when the death of my husband made me long Mrs. Bulstrode, that she lost no time in speculating on what was going to hap pen to her, and promptly began trying to discover how she was to escape. Two or three plajie that seemed to promise well she tried, but none of them could be utilized. The only way that looked at all promising was to mount an In ternal staircase in the temple and then to scale a 30-foot wall which offered only the slightest assistance for such an undertaking. Just when things were literally looking rather black, however, eggs. Knowing no Russian, little Chi- palisades- are five or six dungeons, the door was pushed open and a Chi-- nese and only a few words of Mongol- There are human beings ln those dun nese guide made an unexpected ap- ian, Mrs. Bulstrode was ln the habit of geons. who are shut up for the remain pearance and the prisoner was free. making drawings of what she wanted, der of their lives ln heavy, lron-boun Into Southern Mongolia she pene- generally with as much success as if coffins, -out of whichthey never, under way. a general federal meted out Mrs. Bulstrode thinks, and it oil tha mnr hnrrihi ton u tha t Boedo was selected in some fashion c? 1 i, .nrh.a nnd land tax'and the YrT,r.tin ,, . " ' " . tu, oiuiau unuw., . - - v lUw fllQall iw.B-i, -proDaoiy correctly, wnai must do me many of these prisoners are educates, wnen quite a cnua ana was specially bacienda8 they have been treated as If noiaings. That Is possible and will ing at sunset one evening into one of most cruel punishment on earth. cultivated men. Chinese merchants, who brought up and trained In the tunc- they were Mexicans, and the land has correct much of tho Injustice of the old these camps. On the plains where the ... are imprisoned for political offenses, as tion he was to exercise. Nominally he been ocoupied by Villa's men as of Spanish land system, whose worst tents Btood were thousands of wild and -rh Mnnl -ha -nlrl "hu it in well m th Mone-ols who are In for Is supposed to be a celibate, yet he has a . , abuses have been flt in m-i to put familiar scenes behind me and shaggy ponies, and a number of the them to be mOBt dlabolically cruel, and serious thefts or for such offenses as wife, and at the time of the traveler's -when tn& foreign governments find ... seek distraction in change, I decided men were rounding them up. Besides a ,ore terrible fate than befalls the shooting animals on the sacred moun- visit the whole town was excited over a gOVernment 0f some kind established The Partition into small holdings, so to satisfy my old craving and put in. a being not much less than the finest Mongol malefactor at Urga it is diffl- tain or murder. , the approaching birth of a son. Nor ln Mexico which can be held responsi- that there will be enough to create a few months I planned for six af'the horsemen in the world, the Mongols are cult of conception. Within -a small One unfortunate is said to have exist- was any concealment of this anomalous bio, the restoration of the lands real clasa of peasant proprietors-, is a ,u traveling lorougn some wonderfully expert witn tne lasso. A compound fenced ln by high, spiked ed ln this living tomb for 20 years, state of things attempted. In fact. In claimed by their nationals will be one "- aniicuit question, especially In of the less well known parts of China, little company riding at full gallop, ab and. If It were humanly possible, get- solutely reckless of danger. Is a sight ting to Northern Mongolia by the cara- to be remembered. The women that van route across the Gobi Desert." evening were folding sheep when I In Mongolia It was that her queerest came up with" them. They seem to do adventures befell the traveler, and It Is nearly all the hard work, and the men for this reason that her doings ln China are much more Imposing people, al- itself have been summarized here ln o though the women have a great love sketchy a fashion. Perhaps the most of pretty clothes and ornaments and vivid Impression of the Inhabitants of g.-.tlfy It on every possible occasion. A Mongolia which she brought away was brld for ,nBtanCe, Is quite a mass of . their Invariable filthy condition, for the deCoration." Mongols, It seems, do not wash from ' ... one year s ena to another. Quite pos . slbly you wouldn't either If you held a similar belief to theirs, for th.'Mnncnlj '. according to Mrs. Bulstrode, are firmly Physically impossible to her, Mrs. Buls- convlnced that if they make too lavish trode returned to Pekin to find out a use of water in this incarnation, they both from the British and Chinese au- wtll be fishes ln the next, so they nat- thorltles whether there was any chance Ttly tik ,.no dances. of bein( a paBsport: it was at They believe, by the way. in the al- once evldent that there was not, and a most instant transmigration of souls. few dayB later order8 went forth from .. ww.-x,--u-i, .r- entirely th. i.-.tlon, that no foreigners wir. No 7 The IrtAoiN-A-xivE Mood the north, with so large a desert and semi-desert area. The cactus country does not offer at promising field for Having seen enough to make her de cide that the Gobi desert task was not careless of their dead. "They throw them out on the hillside," remarked Mrs. Bulstrode, "where dogs and vul tures promptly eat them. "What does it matter they say. "'The body Is only a new .case for the spirit. No doubt this Is another reason why they never wash their cases.' to travel north of the Great Wall, which meant that even Kalgan was out of bounds. Both the British Legation and the high Chinese officials were annoyed that she should have ventured Into Mongolia without official sanction. "I know now," she said, "that they were All during her travels In Mongolia, rl8rnt- " 1 naa ""tempted croea the Mrs. Bulstrode wore riding breeches dBert ln the unsettled conditions, con- and a long ooat and rode astride; and -tan -hting and so forth, which at this led to her being almost Invariably teh Um Prevailed. I should most prob- mlstaken for a man. a thing probably ably have been killed.;' all to the good so far as her safety was So 6he chanKed hor Pn co- concerned. and that now and then had pany wlth an Englishman named Gull, amusing results. Being a remarkably belonging to the Chinese customs serv- good-looklng woman, she naturally 6et " for Northern Mongolia. The made an uncommonly personable man, toey thither was a still and excit- and mora than once mh m-ct th Mnn,o- iS one. To begin with they took train Han variety of the "glad eye.' to Werkneudlnsk, ln Siberia, and then At one point, too, she made quite a went up tne 6elensa River ln a Russian complete oonquest. a most attractive "earner, a trip wnicn jastea tnree aays Mongol girl, who belonged to a lama. and a half, and so reached Kiachta. Jailing an Instant victim to her "mascu- where toey Did a lot or ootner witn tne line charms." and insisting on carrying R'", customs on account of the on an ardent flirtation. Referring to her attire, Mrs. Bulstrode remarked: "You trust your luck pretty much In j where, 'even this minute; have you, too, had an Imaarinative Mood?" "Oh, no one. no one ln all the world sms.ii termers, nor can many of the big shall know love as we shall know it. ranches be conveniently broken up for You who will respond to all the myriad purposes of mixed farming, moods of me, you who will love me Irrigation as it was carried out under for myself, not for my pretty girl- the Dia government was made another being, creature of dancing eyes and means of enriching the big landowners wavy hair, whom no one can or ever and despoiling the small farmers. Un does take seriously, whom no ' one aor a different system of admtnistra. credits with a brain. Ugh! my silly tlon th,a injustice may be corrected, but girl-being, the living contradiction of in Chihuahua there will still be a ques my great splendid self, thaj no one tlon ot finding enough land for the ever realizes. But you will know me, Peons. If they do not get what they Real Man,, you will know me as no want they will wonder why they went one has ever done. ' lnto the revolution. "But how will we meet?" I cry with Tne restoration of the land to Its anxiety. "This wonder love that is to original owners the Indian race has come to us and sweep us off our feet Deen the one cardinal principle of the with Its reality, its infinite under- revolution , as led by Villa, so far as standing. Its perfect union of thoughts, there has been a principle. Its harmony of moods. Oh, how will it Meanwhile. though dispossessed, come and when? though his own palace and the palace "Just in a glance a swift poignant of his kln are in the hands of his for frightened glance, ln a startled moment mer Peons, there is one forceful figure when the souls of both of us are caue-ht yet to be reckoned with. I saw him off guard or will it be a wonderful lingering of days becoming acquainted, accompanied with all the sweet i de liclous force of Indifference until, Vin- til the moment when all the dreams of the other day in El Paso, where ha maintains an office. His powerful physiognomy, at near 80 years of age, still marks a master ful and undaunted spirit. Feudalismin the world pale before us, beside the Chihuahua is dead, but Don Luis Ter one deMrlous moment of reality. razas, his sons and sons-in-law, his "Oh, dear Real Man, despair not over nephews and grandsons, do not yet ac- thls chasm of separation. Seek me and I will wait for you." ft may be that our eyes will meet In some crowded subway train, or our souls will unite in gladness in the sordld ness of a business office, but we will know: yes, we will know. I would cept defeat at the hands of Villa, the peon. (Copyrighted. 1914. by Charles M. Pepper.) Towing locomotives for Canal. I ONIGHT my rich red Imaginative Mood Is with me. -tha mood that awakens every fiber, of my being -the wonderful roseate future your infinite capacity for love. It Is a revolver under the pillow and go .to deep. arms and ammunition they carried. Eventually,-' however, they hired a tarantas." or cart, with three horses. Mongolia. You don't do any undress- and set oul Ior ,jra 1118 caP'tai or nto ecsiacy ana senos tne muuon ien- ing. You put on your big fur coat slip Mongolia, ana ny far its most important drlls of my fancies neiter skelter witn wh , ' ; . , , of my ambition success in my work. ' But I have never met my Real Man. rivers, the Hara-Gol and the Ura-Gol. rain beats against my window-pane The Ima(rlnatlve Mood dear Mood; I never, never loved," I - . - - - """- corae. Moser and lavs a melting hand answer. - "I ; know he Is somewhere, desecrate way to fill the void- Mrs. Bulstrode (feeling, she says, like no pleasant job. They met Russian wind I can hear the occasional bod .,, .,,,.. , , w. i thi. -r-.t h-.i. liv. a solitary life of unvieldina-. our- While running idle or on return tracks. a, Gilbert & SuUlvan pirate), carried, in emigrants on the way to the Mongolian of a violin. . ' ear "Li-ten to me, yield to me this work-a-day world, but will he find me? pose and put the veneer of love from the speed is changed to five miles per slings and holsters, two Colt revolvers, gold mines and bartered tinned meats Oh, I am intoxicated with the very oncei jt js not in life, it is not right Oh. Real Man, you who have existed me with firm hands. I want real hour and the machine is propelled by a shotgun and a Mauser, and thought it with them for fresh mutton. One rather Joy of being alone this night with my that you should be cheated; you are for me since the beginning of time, love, not veneer the love that will the regular traction method, ths rads -prudent, now. and, then, jo demonstrate, funny. Incident happened fiver a deal in taaginatlve Mood, X can dream cf the a creature madj 05 iovo, and with you who. are w<j.ns for me, some.-, some iQ P1 with, y.ouReal Man." p.lnlon, being entirely release - . (Electric Railway, Journal.) The first electric towing locomotives hear It ln the roaring of the trains, for hauling vessels through the locks the clatter of the traffic ,The glad of the Panama Canal are now being re words would sing out, 'It is he, the Real cetved at the isthmus. In all 4t "elec Man!' Then would come, the moment trie mules" will be built. Four of them, when our yearning hands would reach two on each side, will ordinarily propel and cling while stern convention ir.- steamships through the locks. Some, troduced us! Oh, s how trivial, how times Bix engines will be needed to han lnane our commonplace chatter would die extra large vessels; in every case sound in comparison with the tre- two astern, acting as a brake on the mendous joy surging through us, and ship's movements, will give direction to the marvelous confession of our eyea her course. No vessel will be allowed "Oh, this is the kind of love that I to enter the locks and go through on revel in, and I will have It, though ier own power. The locomotive is pro I wait a million years. Until then, 1 pelled by means of a rack rail while shall struggle on under the leash ot towing and ' while going up or aown the Ambitious Mood, striving in some the steep grades from one level to an- I shall other at a speed or two miles per nour. o
