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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1929)
mvh Stretch of ths Famous Khyber Pan. (Freptred by the national Oeotrraphle Society, Washington. D. C.) 117 TITI1 the King of Afghanistan I dethroned and the country YV ln tun11- Khyber Paaa, which connects Afghanistan and India, la again the object of Brit ten vigilance. Located as It Is, In the northwest corner of India and at the head of the "Broad Eoad" or "Main Street" of Ilpllng's lama and hl youthful disciple "Kim," the Khyber rass Is the key to the back door of India. It is one of the few breaks In that en circling wall of mountains and des erts which has been the main ally of the British ln protecting their bard-won domains from the Inroads of the Independent and lawless tribes of the North and the West ' The seeker of romance, of contrasts, and of danger might well end bis Journey here. As one writer snys, "There Is perhaps no other mountain pasway In the world so historic as this, so filled with the ghosts of armies, so thoroughly soaked with romance and battle and blood." Many centuries before the roar of the motor track. Its canyon-like walls reverber ated to the shouts of Alexander and bis Greeks. It has known In turn the exultant cries of the Moguls, the Af ghans and the pioneer English. For more than thirty centuries the Khyber Pass has been a great floodgate, through which. In turn, peoples have poured In search of conquest, ad venture and trade. r The very name of the Khyber Pass Is romantic To see It on the semi weekly convoy day ts to be trans ported back through the ages to the time when three wise men, garbed In voluminous mantles like those the Afghans wear, swayed back and forth to the slow stride ot their desert mounts, while following the Star. Out In the dry plain below the south ern mouth of the Pass Is the mad fort of Jumrud. Its flat surroundings cluttered with tents and ndol huts. High on s plnteau near the Afuhnn er.d Is l.nndlkntnl. a lonely camp held hv the guards of the grit on of India. Twin roads, an aerlnl cahleway. the slender life lines of the military tele phone, and lately a short stretch of light railway these are the only signs during most of the week to Indicate tlint traile here runs the gantlet be tween threatening hills harboring lawless spirits who consider a hair trigger pin the best defender of life and liberty, nnd most elective In the pursuit of somebody's happiness. Half way through, almost hidden In a depression which Is mortal dull In winter and a place of Intolerable heat In summer, Is a duster of tents, mingled with lines of fathered ani mals, known as All M.isjld. A Flsry Furnace. In winter the Khyber Is more like the Near East than India, hut In sum mer the gash In the sunliot hills Is a fiery furnace and a living hell. Then the shaggy I'.actrlnn camels are not seen and winter's flowing robes are cast aside, revealing hard chests weathered brown by sun nnd wind. At All MasJId a breeze would tie god send. The atmospnere shimmers In heat waves like the surface of a boll. ng cauldron. Here the two caravans meet at onndny, the one to hasten southward oward the Kabull ftnxnnr In I'csho rar, the other to finish before night nil the most dangerous section of Its rig trail to the Hindu Kush or the lolsy khnns of ti.l;harn. When the rough-coated Hadrians, a-hose home s. retches along the high li'ateau of Asia from Iran to the iiobt supplement the ugly but hurdler cousins of the lowland deserts, the narrow funnel of the Kin her aoms clogged with musses of dark-brown camel hair; but. dashing along beside the road reserved for rarnvans. hug ging the new highway which has been constructed for their benefit or bound ing over culverts bridging bone dry waterways, there roars a covey of military motors. , Although the entire Pass Is In Brit Ish territory, safe conduct ' offered on only two days In the week. At dawn Tuesdays and Fridays mer chants and their caravans assemble at each end of the Pass and there Is a great hurry and scrumhle to get through before sunset, on these two days troops occupy the hilltop block houses and are stationed along the road to protect the caravans from anlpers and highwaymen. Ily herd ing all the traffic Into two weekly passages, too, there Is the added safe ty of n -.tubers. At All MusJId the two 1 streams of traffic meet at midday, thus the highway ln either direction can be devoted to one-way traffic. On other days the Toad Is deserted. The Government of Afghanistan has maintained Its "Absolutely Forbidden to Cross This Border Into Afghan Territory" sign, for many decades, but there have been many "one-foot visitors lo Afghanistan (that Is, tour ists who step over the border so they can have something out of the ordi nary to tell the folks back home). Some of the wild land beyond the Pass In Afghanistan ts exceedingly beautiful, resembling, according to the few Europeans who have seen It, the famous Vale of Kashmir, the land of Lalla Ilookh. Areas around the bead waters of the Kabul river, the most Important river In the kingdom, have not been explored by Europeans since the days when Alexander made his way to India. More Interesting than the scenery of the Pass are the Afrldls. the un tamed tribesmen who live In the vi cinity ot the passes between their country and India. They are power ful, independent, treacherous and fer ocious. Hiding In the seams of the hills they once picked off with their trusty muskets travelers on the road below. Many punitive expeditions were sent against them, expeditions which were as unfruitful as the Moroccan campaigns long were against the Riffs. Acting on the principle that a thief can catch a thief, however, the Brit ish have been more successful. The daring plan was conceived of train ing and arming the wild tribesmen of the Pass Into a protective body. The "Khyber BJfles,, composed en tlrely of Afrldl tribesmen under Eng lish officers, has become a famous and successful British colonial mili tary organization. The Pass the Key to India. "The Man Who Was" pictured the Khyber as the key to India. Wheth er It be the military or political key today Is a question. But the Khyber on convoy day does give a key to understanding why It Is that the an- thropolorlcal museum which we know as India still deludes the world with visions of untold wealth Instead of unspeakable misery. The camel Is the reason. The heavy duty engine conceals Its romance In firebox and boilers; but the xoologlcal caricature enlleC the camel 1 a re lief map of romance. When anyone mentions cost per ton mile, this beast turns op his Jlsda In fill nose. No cheap bulk freights for him! Silks, spices, Jewels, price less stuffs of soft pashmlna or stiff cloth of gold these are his cargoes! Who ever saw romance In lentils or block tin? Alchemists do not dream of pig Iron. Itlch cargoes spell ro mance. And the camel, ngly drudge that he Is, excludes cheap freight a easily as a white-stockinged footman excludes the proletariat. Peshawa,, largest Indian town m?n the portals of the Khybor. like many another city In India, Is a combina tion of native community and canton ment the former closely packed and Interesting, the latter widely .iprnwled and as deadly dull to the casua. visit or as the outside of sn exclusive club, There ts tennis on excellent courts. sensational polo hy military men mounted on splendid ponies, with whlte-legglnged grooms lined np be bind the goals, and the side lines a sandwich of attractive Europeans wedged In between Ire less attrac tive and more Interesting natives, to whom polo seems aristocratic and ex otic, although this ir.ost ancient of, hockey games came overland from Persia through Turkestan hundreds' of years ago and was played In In dla long before the English, smash ing the Spanish Armada which barred the water gate to the opulent East, gave Impetus to Imperialism hy found Ing the East India company. The cantonment Is the place where the visitor sleeps nnd eats, and where be obtains permission to traverse the gash In the barren hills through which the Central Asian commerce ebbs and flows. But for Interest he drives or, better, plods along the two mile dusty road which leads to the native city, composed, like Its Central Asian counterparts, of mud walls nnd mud houses, with an added story, which Is often nothing mora than a wattle fence plastered with mud, on the roof. Here live the women folk, and thither the natives climb when the hot brenthlessness of the dark rooms below drives them to a summer refuge beneath the stars. FLASH : The Lead W N U 8ervie SYNOPSIS t'p the wild wnters of the un known Yellow-tits, on winter's hunt. Journey Itrock McCain and Uaspnnl Lecrotx, his French-Cree comrade, with Flash, llrock'a puppy and their dog ,am. After several battles with the stormy waters they arrive at a fork In tht Yellow-Leg. Itrock Is severe ly Injured ln msklns a portage and Flash lesde anspnril to tht unconscious youth. tisepsrd tells Brock of hit determination to And out who killed hit fnther Tracks are discovered and tht two boy separate tor acoutlnK pur poses, Itrock It Jumped by two Indians and a white man and knocked unconscious, lit It held pritontr. Gaspnrd rttcuea him while hit raptora tleep, Osspard belleree these men killed hit fa ther and tt prevented from kill-In- them by Ilrook, While oul alone Ontpsrd It thot from am. bush by an Indian and kills hit would-bt-tlayer. While out on his trap lines Brock It caught In a heavy tnow storm. Osspard Anda him and tht two start oul on Prock'a trap lint. They kill enough deer and caribou to sup ply lhani with meat until spring CHAPTER X 18 The Stalk of the Dead The day following, as the vunlshed sun rimmed Indigo ridges with red and gold. Untitle, the white reaches of lake and muskeg with rose, the dogs were stopped a mile back of the main camp. "We tuk' no chance, dese day. Dose peop not ambush us eef Gaspard t.e croix cun help. I go an" htlve 4 Ivik." "Klght enough! But Iiu going, too." The hunters wired the teem to trees, then, separated by a Lundcrd yards to bloc a possible surprise from bid d.'n enemies, started a complete circle of the camp to cut any approaching trails. They had nearly completed their circuit and were close to the decoy trull, made weeks before by Gaspnrd, when the halfbreed. who was ahead, walked swlftlj forward and stopping, bent over the snow; then raised bis band and be 'kor.ed to Brock. "One passed here and did oo: re turn." muttered Ucrolx. "lie wait for us." First, the two, again widely sepa rated, cautiously completed the cir cuit. No sttange trail led from the camp. He was there. Hidden In re thicket of young spruce, near the tent, lay a Cree wlih a cocked rifle, waiting. The forest was purple with dusk as the two friends agreed on a line of action and started their stalk. He bad bidden himself this unknown enemy to shoot them In cold blood. .Merci less as a lynx watchlr.g a rabbit run. be was walling for their return from their trap lines. They would show him equal mercy. "Why not get Yellow iiye snd flush? They'll smell bits out," Brock sug gested. 'No!" hod been fiasporj's decisive answer. "Ken de dark, de dog weel yelp and warn heem. and he get away tef dey Jump heem he night sliool or cut one wld de kulf-j. I bunt dat Cre." So they started. S hundred yards apart, to follow the trap line In to the camp, for the one In ainhinl uld wult, now. to sliisit by the light of the fire of the returned hunters and would lie clone 'n. Fifty yards from the camp the mov ing shadows faded Into black pah lies of scrub. An hour passed snd the forest floor beneath the spruce was banked with blackness. Then from a great naked poplar beside the decoy trail Ito-ited the "Whoo, boo hoo-- boo, whooo hoool" of the horned owl. A.'nln, the burning rail of the winged ushjish o f the night broke tin. tense sill no. Shortly, the ans erltii vole of its n te drifted ovei the frozen spear beads of the black spruce. For a spate, the froafed slurs glittered ubove s soundless fittest then, again, the muffled threat to the little people of the snows waked the Miter night. Shortly, ilke a ghost, s blur of black crossed the snow of n open space, blue In the starlight, to dissolve In the blackness of a thicket. "See anything)" "No," came the whisper. "I hunt every place neur de camp. We gel de dog. IH-y weel flu' heem." "You bet they will! If he's still here." Stealing buck lo where the Impatient dogs i-hufed end whined at their trees at being thus deserted without food, (Juspard and Brock, each taking two on leash, returned to the hunt Willi repealed puts and whispered communds, "(jo get 'em, Flash I (Jet em. Kcna 1" Brock released the strain ing huskies, who sensed that some thing was wrong some solmnl near the camp the should bunt down In the blackness. Mad with excitement the two huskies faded Into the gloom, yelping at each plunge in the deep snow. 'Be hind them stole Brock McCuln. his knife loose In Its sheath, his blue fin. gers gripping his rocked rifle, IJeyotid tus eo.np, to the east, the thick vein of Yellow-Eye mingled with the higher voice or Hllt-hur as Gaspnrd set them lido the murk to hunt down the lurk 111 enemy, and the forest was shortly I Da-Ham ss the excited dogs thrashed GEORGE MARSH OrrrtaM Tht I'enn hibUahlng Co. Dog : through the deep snow yelping as Uiey ran. For a space, from the direction of the yelping. Brock knew that the dogs were beating aimlessly back nnd forth over a wide urea; then the familiar snarl and fighting roar of Flash, not a humlrxl yards awuy, started bis blood with a leap. "Flash's got him I" From three directions the growls of Flash had drawn the separated huskies through the murk of the spruce, yelp ing as they ran. Then as I he flounder ing Brock ncured the spot where his dog was blindly fighting to the death against steel snd lead, from the blackness ths great husky bellowed forth bis pesn or victory. Beaching his dog with a few strides Brock fingered the trigger of his gun. thrust forward at a black muss lo the snow. "Flash I Yon got ... By the Northern Lights the bear trupl" Brock struck a match. With leg gripped by the toothed Jaws of the bear trap, set In the decoy trull, lay ths crumpled body or a Cre a. Knotted In death, the frost blackened face grimaced horribly as sightless eyes stared np at the boy who bent over It "So we've froxen out hands to stalk a dead man I" muttered Brock with a shiver of mingled pity and loathing, as he thrust hl blue lingers Inside tils coat beneath the armpits to revive circula tion, fur the night was growing bit ter. Then the excited huskies, fol lowed closely by Gaspard, reached the trapped assassin. "Ah hah!" exclaimed the surprised hnirbreed. "I pass not fifty yards from here w'en I circle de camp, but Dev oirs look for de trap." "He must have been caught yester day," said Brock. "In forty below, he'd freeze In a few minutes. Well, this camp Is getting too hot tor us We've got to move." The body was that of a short, mid dle-aged Cree. The gun which was rocked, was a S'KIO Winchester, com nionly used In the country, hut when Gaspard drew the knife from the bead embroidered sheath, he gave an exclamation of surprise. "Ily gar," he gasped. "My fader's knife!" What!" You're surel You recognise It7" "Yes; It ees de handle dls cut here I And de same notch ceo de blade. He chipped eet on a stone." For sn Interval, the kneeling figure of the son of Pierre l.ecrolx set as stiff as the froten murderer, anchored to the Inexorable vise of steel Jaws Then the small eyes glittered as they met bis friend's sympathetic gate. "I go oord an' learn from dese peop een de moon of de crust." "Yes. old partner, we'll go north when the snow grows hard for good sledding. Now, come, let's feed the dogs sud our own empty stomachs." So returning to the camp, the friends left the thing lo the snow thai had come to destroy them shoot thero down ruthlessly from ambush. To (las pard. these murderers of the father he had loved were so much vermin. Be cause they desired the Yellow lg coun try for H eir own they had wiped oul Pierre 1-ccroU us one crush s the black fly on ones fac. and now would deal likewise with Brock and hi in. In the moiilha on the headwaters he had be come s fatalist. Never again did be hope lo se Hie Starting river and the people nt Hungry House Some day before the wedges of tht returning geese crossed the sky, he would go lo Join his father some day, the Cree wolves of these while traders would lake toll of Gaspnrd l.ecrolx for the men who hnd so mysteriously disap peared. The following morning they pried down the spring with s spruce sapling, freeing the Jaws of the hear trap, and burled the Cree In the snow. (TO HE CONTINUED.) New Light Shed Upon Origin of Language It Is now suggested that the student of language must look for origins In Africa. I lector Murr, of the llusslan Academy of Science, has announced that from the early Stone age, when peoples of African type picturesquely dotted the European fringe of the Mediterranean, languuge has been brought down with ths retention of some of the Afrlcold elements and words. The Hottentot language was a highly sophlHlcnted speech, Instead of s crude and primitive one, although, perhaps, not as formidable aa the ag glutinative Tugalog of the Philippines. Hottentot seems likely now to charm etymologists awuy from the progenitor tongue of the Teuton and from Bnns crlt It may make ths Scythian plnlns but tarrying spots for speech, rather than the homeland of modern refuted languages. Cues Again 'Buying movement follows early nervousness." That sounds Ilka a stock market note, but It merely re fers to the follow who finally has made up his mind to buy the ring. New Orleans Tlmes-I'lcajune. - Ancient Warehouse At Nurillliigen Is a structure dat ing from the Thirteenth century which Is designated "the oldest warehouse In Germany. 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