Show a 0 6 aj L 9 t d ale n ire r INCIDENT 1 IN MOROCCO hi I 1 after adventure need go no burthe than S I 1 malocco toi fol stirring inci i j dent let aci A ci them iuliu delely lucev be w thi captured by the tribesmen who are in revolt against the sultan and it if they live to tell the etory publishers will b lip eager enough to buy it they are fairly certain of receiving courteous treatment they may inay be chopped to pieces as an ex ample of TV hat the followers of the prophet can do to a do dog of an ail un believer but until tl ti at moment 1110 alent arrives they will ih ill e is as iv vv ell as their thir captors which if not i IP p to n estern standards Is better th ill a not living M at all thia this is suggested by the told by mr it harris the of the lon don times who speaks from expert clice his capture and xe ie by the tribesmen constituted almost an international Inel incident dent as his captors desired and his release after three un comfortable weeks was the result only of much skilled diplomacy on the part of the british mr air harris Is an old hand in ili the east he ile has lived in morocco many years tears and knows everybody there that is worth knowing lie ire has lived with the arabs of ane yemen and escaped from their des ie te to ull kill christians by eo so to say the sl SI in of his teeth but his capture shows that he has not yet fully fathomed the guile of the orien tal the troops of the sultan had just burned a i billage and mr harris went out to see what had been done 1 he 10 was unarmed tita armed and was accompanied only by his gicona Outon out on the plain he was hot at and a retreat was ordered nhen hen his movement move meat was stopped by the approach appi app loach of two tribes mea men whom he luew who advanced i conventional signs of they w anted to know what the intended doing and asked him to to the chief chef so that he might get messages to carry to his majesty under prom ses of afe ife conduct he be went ind and ivas ft is promptly pounced upon and captured by retainers of the chief according to his story Is a handsome young man in id in manner and courteous in address mr air hall s had known him well in tang er betcie he took to the hills lie he repelled rep elved the englishman warmly and told him that no harm would come to him as long as the sultan made no attack if this happened he would be compelled to ki I 1 him s he would kill 1111 him anyway for by what better means could he embarrass em banass his enemy than by I 1 ailing a prom i ent christian and an engi engl at that this was all said in the presence of come 2000 tribesmen most of whom were the r knives land and hangers in a most threatening manner in the meantime everything possible would be done for the comfort of the prisoner they put him in jail it was a very email small very dark and deiy dirty room when the prisoners ees became ac customer cus tomed to the daleness dai dal kness he saw on the floor the beadles headle qs trunk of a man that was a cheerful be beginning ginning and find mr air harris s feelings were not quieted by the remarks made by some men who a little later came in to remove the corpse ahe intimation was that eoon there would be another in the same room and of a gimour for nine days he was kept in this room he ile got in quantity all be he wanted to eat cat except once when for thirty six hours there waa was food for no one and save for a few kicks and slaps with slippers he was not misused lie he was not allowed to change his clothes or to wash his face every evening at sun down he be was taken out to have a con vers atlon with I 1 who kept assur ing him that possibly but not ably his life would be spared once as an earnest of this he was taken down to a gully to see the mutilated body of a moorish soldier who had been captured ind and jokingly assured him that a few days might see him in the same condition at the end of n ne days on a hot moonless night be he was put on oil a mule s back and taken up into the mountains where he was tie ti e capthi e of a tribe friendly to him he for twelve days in great luxury as compared with what he had endured at the hands of he ile became in a sense one of the tribe shaved his head and adopted their customs generally it was a very pleasant vacation and would have been thor hughly enjoyed had not there been the very uncomfortable feeling that should the negotiations fall through he would be put out of the way with small cere mony in the end he got his rese release ka though it almost led to bloodshed among the tribesmen and with great ceremony was conducted into tangier thus ended the adventure which merely shows that the balkans have not a monopoly on oil the exciting inci inel dents of the modern world A NIGHT IN A AKING S TOMB writing of bome some of the many old places in which she has slept during her trivel travels around the beesie ackerman sas sacs will e trading ng in that interest ng section of in iia ila cashmere I 1 I 1 eard card of a wonderful tomb of some ancient ung and was ur urged ge d not to leive leave the countie without feeing it it wag was about a day s journey from where I 1 was stopping and I 1 started on tl e trip one morn ng ilg in a goi arnn ent cirt cart with a native guide who also isted as interpreter and a cool E aliher expecting to re turn urn ti 0 it i 2 it I 1 t I 1 took tool ne ne tax bedding oi baggage baggage was just setting M N in and men looked w se as we started that morning predicting all linds kinds of unpleasant vv neither the road was abandoned during the winter because it led over a great waste and no pro vision v was made for tr delers I 1 etteen miles in iles from our dest nat on oil in an accident befell our hoise darkness was fast gathering the only possible refuge was the king s tomb which we had started to see ee so we decided that the only thing to do was to walk the dis tance I 1 have alev always ays been fond of 0 walking but I 1 cannot truthfully say that I 1 enjoyed that fifteen in ie le tramp through the cold and darkness reach tag ing the tomb at last we decided that it would be best for me to take tale up my quartets teis within the tomb the guide remaining with me while the coolie walked to a village some miles farther on in search of another horse it was dark beyond description inside the tomb and when the footsteps of the coolie could no longer be heard every sound sa sav e one d ed away on the still ness of the n I 1 made my way cautiously to the farthest corner groping along against the wall of the tomb thinking 0 to take what comfort could be had from so miserable a situation io no sooner had I 1 settled for the night than I 1 beard heard the most weird unearthly sound that ever pierced human ears cars the uncanny place had suddenly tal en ell on the atmosphere of I 1 fe there was a sound of rushing of wings that froze the mood blood in my leins veins my aly heart seemed to hae have stopped beating sud denly I 1 d saoi acied what it was A horde of horrid bats had awakened from their lethair let letha haig igi and s started on a tour of investigation bits bats are ugly crea creatures tules I 1 aou would ild rather have sixteen active babies all clutch my aar lair at it the same time than surrender my locks to one Rp sportive ortIve bat especially of the in binl an i ar at ety their wings and shrieks became a rhythm to wl ich my tired censes kept t me until ble essed slumber came and the morn ing brought a t pa r of flesh horses and a coolie laden with breakfast for two the housekeeper House leeper S 1 GOLD surgeon general steinberg baa had a IT esper ence at the battle of bull eun run just beffie go ng ng in ili he was approached by an irish sergeant sergeant major of his regiment who handed h him a bag of gold con n ip gling three or four pounds doctori said the ir it I 1 know I 1 in to be lilt hilt an I 1 want you to tale take care of th ill s money an ail see that it gets to the folks at home in the doctor had no time to remonstrate or male mal e any other arrangement for the irish man dropped the bag ban g into the surgeon s lip ind and hurried away to h s place at the held head of the column all through two bloody days dr sternberg earned that bag of gold with his surgical in st and it was a burden ind and embarrassment to him he tri tried ed to get rid of it but he couldn coulden t find any one willing to accept or even share the responsibility and he coulon couldn t throw if it away tor for the sake of the folks at home lome toward the close of the second day the surgeon was taken prisoner he lost his surgical instruments and his medicine case but clung to the gold and making a belt of his necktie and handkerchief tied it around his waist next to the skin to prevent its tion by his captors during the long hot and weary march that followed the gold pieces chafed bis his flesh and his waist became so sore and blistered as to cause him intense dufferin suffering 7 but he was bound thit that the folks at home should have the benefit of that money and by the exercise of great caution and patience managed to keep it until he was exchanged with other prisoners and got back to washington here he found his regiment in ili camp and one of the first men to welcome him was the irish sergeant major who was wits ro del gated to learn that the doc doe tor had saved his money that he got drunk and gambled it all away the first night wash agton star CLIMBING MOUNT HOOD an excellent wagon road leads aiom the IV I A V il lamett v alley valley to with n five miles of the summit of mount hood to leach the top involves much itol to I 1 some cl el mb ng and no small amount of danger despite these obstacles the peak has been ascended ase ended by thousands of persons and only one fatal accident in making the descent has been re corded that occurred two years ago although though il the air Is extremely rare and the tempe temperature lature low a number of per sons have pissed passed the night on the topmost crest arom the summit the scene Is one of indescribable grandeur and beauty here you are I 1 eted above the clouds so far away that the world lies iles remote beneath the eye cities and ond towns shrink into insignificance N ast indeed lb Is the panorama outspread to view forests mountains plains valleys and streams grow indefinite and bial like a subdued picture floating la in the sky an all pervading sense of the unreal takes posses possession of the soul above the ethe ethereal strata of the clouds you can call gaze down upon them the cloud effects are wonderful looking in all direct ons you fancy your eyes are ranging rang ng over 01 er a vast ocean yet there is a wildly tumbled and tossed aspect that the sea even when shaken by the most furious tempest does not assume while the bounces stretch of clouds remind vou you of the ment sea et the fleecy masses benl far too light and airy for the lim ties waters of the pacific with ts is far reaching waste of waters J mayne baltimore in sunset maga zine |