Show cc it E WERE standing at the end or of the car our arms laden W with coats umbrellas and cam cameras cras awaiting the blowing down of our train at tung chow station when ft hen vulgar tin im petus lj impacted us against the door earner M van norden writes in the ne new york times our mend friend an enthusiastic alm edder smelling an accident extricated himself from the press and hurried forward only to find a poor bumpkin bang beside the train minus he file toes the engineer explained that this man had stood on the track grinning at the locomotive until toppled over by the cov cowcatcher catcher noth notwithstanding withstanding the frantic efforts of the fireman who pulled the whistle rope with one hand band and strewn coal on him with mith the other A peculiar thrill attends attend the pull ing out from the railroad and the plunge into the interior even the old mules start more brickl at the first few cricks cracks of the whip the jabber ing of the bystanders and the snarling of the curs have the same exhilarating beet on the mental tension as the chidebe firecracker or the brass band on in the german steamers merb tung chon claims the name of port ot of pekin beisse it Is the head of navigation on the small river which marich connects with the grand canal be core ore the railroad was built all of the tribute rice used to be here and hauled oi dierland oe rland erland to the cap ital sandstorm on chinese desert the houses are all on about the same p pattern a t tern built of mud and straw bards ards ire b fences of hao kaoliang stalks oen in arlous arious de sigil resembling the paper mats made in our kindergartens at each gate Is to be seen a black pig halt half a dolen doen naked children and in old grandmother smoking her pipe nj nei e nears oars gods adorn the gate posts posits and overhead hangs bangs a cige I 1 from r om which floats the melodious notes of a mon MOD gollan golian lirk lark As me e neared the ains gu disien i riat mat vaile cit me e left the green wheat fields behind and found our olics on i a qu quivering ivring heri desert riot not i house ahouse in sight not a tree only the i melding trea treacherous treachery chero 1 I I 1 sand suddenly there ippei rc I 1 on the lioi lionson izon a deep ello al lowish mili cloud ex e tending rapidly from the northwest to tile the south our pick triin train the donke bos bons c ci berthina er thina about us became tinged a tulious hue bue our guide i greit great hulk ing lid lad dibala cd con neri nen listless at aich I 1 ns mas Eur prie el 1 for one becomes inured to dut duct storms in north china 11 cach ach succeeding minute I 1 the vind mind increased in I 1 force orce arc greil 1 mist of air droe the slurp sand ad against our fice ices until smelling ng tears then ma a loin doun our I 1 begin began to reel feel i a bit uncomfortable I 1 itself ill acl f no tile the aello cloud cloid lit in til anest est gi duall became darlier darker ind darker until it aas as into the most oin inous nebb it as suri ly g toward us with alth greated ra pi illi in me e slipped from our beasts and couched douched beside them ai mi ai linial was shaking like a leif leaf too enen een to whinny the air ma a belll charged with elee elec tricht we tingled all air or in the twinkling of 0 in etc just as we expected to be under the hole scene changed tim the storm seized the great dark cloud as b a voight might hand band and twisted it around into a whirling column twenty bardo ard in diameter standing for or a moment with perfect perpendicularity tiler little bj little it leaned forward ana like a great specter it swept by UK ua so near that tangential parti achs struck us with a ath incredible torce force ahen hen a mile away ll it unwrapped its shroud and collapsed directly across our roid road the clonkey bo be bent over scooped up a mindful of sand and tossed it to the da diang ing wind all vaa mal still approaching a buddhist temple throughout the afternoon we were climbing and by nightfall we found our ourselves selNes at a most charming dud ibish temple cainan ling miao 1 li 1 1200 feet above abode a wild gorge on an over hanging rock backed bl a lenee grove ot of cedars the temple is tile the hundred vears old ind and looks lochs accrues to the great wall what bloody scenes the priests of 0 old must hava IN witnessed from their watch match tower tomer ars a the rapa clous cious invaders slaughtered their flocks below thwing and I 1 were armed with two letters from pekin which worked like magic one was addressed to the gen eral in charge of 0 tho the forces which buarl the tung ling or pastern eastern tombs where the latu lato empress dow ager abu list is buried the other to the tartar general at aebel jebel i therefore we me were within mathin ten 11 II of su sit s camp we sent form forward ard tr 14 4 4 U syl I 1 I 1 t M q www ji j i 4 s i aw tv y N 4 f 0 LX Y k fl I 1 m V I 1 i I 1 k wt ta ar I 1 I 1 1 yi 1 AZ st 1 ff y ilg fm s r 33 our large chinese cards with the first letter we me ourselves following along slowly on our donkeys ever thing hid had been prepared toi for our ar abrial rial word hang been sent of 0 our journey b special courier from pekin so me lie remained in our sad dies until we me had pissed the imposing gateway and entered the large outer court tills this lard bard was lined with beds heds for the accommodation of scores of horses and had down domn the center a stone feeding trough oer feet long cut from a single block on leaving the yard vard we passed through the kitchen and lhing hung apart clients ot of the manc man cipal thence into a most loel loiell garden containing contain lug several weird aird dwarf trees a rooker and min lature like lake running nater and glit gilt bering goldfish this tiny paradise is the inner court from which there ire exits one leading to the te tern m pic proper with noth the priest quarters qu aiters another to the hall ball of documents and a third to a cloister inclosure with buildings on three sides these build ings are for the lec reception eption an ana enter t tinnent of high officials m when hen passing through this pirt part of the counton of ill nun mn under the sun the cht nese gentleman gentle imn mike make the most de the most plausible the most elegant giai in differing from linn him one feel po posit ithel liell uncivil uil clil N ith a charming frank frankness frankas ns and an winning log ic lie he will afflic ahat lie he knows knous to be directly to the fact ind then lien i A inthout the lightest ht compunction but alm lawas an s m with ith the b ime adroit fice face ev lug ins pretext he will swing around and the opposite to be true alot heathen chinese do lie but hya ask the min man in the field which roid road to take to such and such a vil lage age he will mill invariably bay ho hn doesn doean t know or that he is a stringer noth both of thiebe answers are untruths un truths beem bec ingli vei sill 1113 s senseless use ess ones the man his been brought up in a worth from tin his childhood he has been taught tha beauta of truth does he be lie i he be Is inherently bad tot not a bit or of ft t I 1 he hates bates his bis lie as much as i ou A it la Is merely self defense |