Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1893, Page 12

= = a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. —_— - RIL 22,°1893-SIXTEEN PAGES ON BOARD THE U S. S. BOSTON. SEEN FROM THE FORT. The lovely weather today and the knowledge that there might be some considerable addi- tions to the fleet were all that were needed to bring to Old Point the largest crowds that the place has vet seen since the beginning of the | review. i | Every train and every excursion boat came in | packed with sightsecrs here to spend the day | until it seemed as though this quiet old reser- Sights and Scenes of the Naval INTEREST IN THE CARAVELS. Rendezvous. A Hard Blow Im the Koadstend—Courtesy Shown by the Army Officers to the Vis-| itors—A Question of Precedence—' and Commen: Brat Correspondence of The Evening Star. Fort Moxrog. Va. April 22, 1892. cAT DEAL OF 4B sa e interest of the crowds here still ec tinmes to center in the earavels that arrived morning as ‘The Pinta and the @id not come the ba: but remained ¢ in the neighbor- of the English me vessels, while the Senta Maria was tied up to the big Spanish era the Reina Regente. Here they were visited by Bamerous sightseers, though the majority of | those who went on board ona tour of tion were naval men and rewspaper corre spondents. The weather and the condition of water were not«uch as to make about the -ozds at all pleasent for the average | Person who had as to his ability as! inspec- ' | i ' ADMIRAL HOPSINS. | As soon as the caravels had entered the fieet there was a scamper of smail boats from the ships carrying their officers to pay their visits Of respect. Itseemed almost as though this effort to reach the Isabel bad resolved itself into a race, for the small boats followed after | the Isabel and her tow, each trying to be the first to reach them when they should drop their mudhooks into the water. It was a stern chase and rather a trving one on the sailors at the ars, too, for the caravels did udt come to an- ehor at once. ‘The little Cushing was cruising around them, now ahead and now beuind, shooi- ing about like a biz water spider and at the same time acting as # guard of honor and escort on their way to the piace that bad beon assigned to them. ‘They circled up around the extreme western | end of the fleet and passed around the French ship Hussard, going up on the inside and re- toruing on the outerside. It was 10:45 when the infanta Isabel dropped her anchor just beyond the Blake and the Phila- delphia. She was at once boarded by the smal! oats, the Russian and the American officers ONE OF TEE WHITE squapnox. being the first to reach her deck to bid them friendly welcome. The Pinia also let down her | eompanion ladder, though one could probably | have stepped directiy onto her deck frora the @anwale of any one of the steam launches. i An idea of her size may be had when it is| stated that this side was nothing more than a apap apnea with only five steps from the | deck to the waier. | ‘The Santa Maria declined the offer of a tow | within the bar. When ske was up in the neigh- | borhood of the Huseard she eut loose from the | Beina Regente and set ail her sails. There was alight breeze biowing with her at the time an? ‘the tide was in her favor so that she was able to move along nicely. She made » beautiful, | ever a romantic picture as she swooped along Uke huge bird. To the ordinary observer she seemed to have an enormous spread of sail. Assbe skimmed along over the water toward the shore and her anchorage place she was the atchers observed of all th ¢ Spanisia contingent makes om to the fleet in the roads, for the Reina Regents may well rank with the larger and more imposing shivs at anchor here. Bhe is the largest 0° anish men-of-wai Bhe is 320 fee: lon=, crones now two l-pounders and eight machine ‘The Infante is an 0: She carries a crew of 178 men. ‘The Espana is a schooner-rigged tor- Yeusel of ninety feet long. with two 472- Borsa ie vation was crowded with humanity beyond all here was no ¢ jozen Washington oy the officers with a nade them: wish they work the rendez ve What the crowds will be here tomorrow and Sunday if the present state of things c is a matter that no one dares A EARD BLOW IN THE noaps, All the morning the weather had been as nent perfect 2s one could imagine or wish for, but in the afterncon a heavy wind Liew di- rectly inshore and at times almost assumed the Proportions of w gale. it lashed the wa foam and canted the heavy waves to break over the wharf and onto the board walk along the edge of the shore. As for the little iand- ing stages that had been built up for the con- Yenience of the faunches and small boats that | » and from the men-of-war, | carry the crowds under water all the time. landing stages are above the & wharf for a distance of fifty or sixty feet fro: the government wharf. They are built of boards that are fastened to the main beams abont an inch apart +o that they make a sort of grating, and when a wave would strike them By raised but a foot or two FORT MONROE RAPID TRANSIT. from beneath the water would pour up ina shower, insuring a pretty thorough wetting to any one who was standing on the platform. It was great sport for the crowds that filled the wharf to stand there by the hour and watch the mishaps of the unforturates who were try- ing to get in or out of the launches. It was not nearly so much fun for the people themselves. The Little boats would draw up as closely to the wharves as ther possibly could and then the sturdy tars would make their best endeavors DIMITRI _DONSKor (RUSSIA). | with the assistance of boat hooks to hold her in position long senough to discharge their pas- sengers. In many cases it amounted practi- cally to a discharge, for when a wave would carry the boat near enough to the dock for a an attempt at a landing he would have to make a jump for it, and lucky he Was indeed if he got off with noting more than « pair of wet fect. Tue dapyer young officers who were compelled to stand on the | landings to lend @ helping hand to their fair Passengers had by far the worst of it, for they | were not able to make a break for higher ground when they saw a'wave coming, but had | to stand and tage it as if they hiked it, The re- sult was some pretty damp uniforms. tinues | into | ter and run out from the big | FROM THE FLEET. ‘There was a dance given on board of the San Francisco, but it was not so largely attended as it would have been if the guests could have reached her decks without being tossed about in the little cockle shells, apparently at the merey of the waves. A big’ whaleboat from the Australia came in under sail to bring a party of junior officers who were coming ashore for an afternoon's leave. A landing was effected with some difficulty. and as most of the eailors were barefooted and covered with huge oilskins THE BAUSAN (ITALY). | they got off fairly well. But then the question rose as to how they were ever going to get their boat out through the maze of small craft that were banked up about the landing places. It was not an enay maiter, for long before they could have got their sails up and the boat un- der control the wind ard waves would have tberched her on thelsand in front of the hotel. | Just then a big launch from one of the ships of the white «quadron came aiong and offered to jtow the Engiishmen ont. The offer was ac- | cepted in a twinkling and a rope was passed to the launch. Even then it was « task of consid- erable magnitude, for before thos could get the tow rope taut and the bow of the whaleboat around she was well in toward the shore. It was finally accomplished, however, by good | managemen: and the English boat was given a | good start on hor way back to the ship. WAI’ OF WASHINGTON ON HAND. It seemed yesterday afternoon igh the | half of Washington must have come down tosee | the rendezvous and their frionds on board sh:p. | One could not turn about in the big oview roo of the hotel swithou ing into friends, Most of them had c for the day, he s have been dis- bie to get what the wanted. Ata big bh ‘com reservations are made on the theory that aout so preple will be “leaving ‘This | crowds here a Us Ww it ie that cail a conges than a week p na let up im th Se of ING A YARN. who has souvenir books of the heard in the land from eariy morni at night. WITHIN THE HOTEL. ‘The fact that they were unable to visit the ships | Seek recreation and amusement. Tue band from yesterday afternoon drove many into the hotel to the artillery school in the fort that furnishes masie for the dancers in the ball room every evening also plays from 1 to 4 in the after:oon, and itis quite the proper thing to xpend an hour. or two after luncheon in the mazes of the waltz. ‘As a rule the naval officers do not get shore in any numbers so early in the afternoon, and it is then that the civilian and the young lien- tenant from the artillery school have their best | chance with the fair sex. It is in the evening, however, that the ball room puts on its gayest A OLIMPSE OF THE FLEET. . Then the men from the ships have it all their own way, or so nearly all that there islittle left for the others. The uniforms of the foreign officers are gay and gorgeous in the quiet in comparison. all is the taifless red coat of the English officer of marines. This beanty added toa waistcoat that is gaudy with geld Ince makes the Enghsh- man well-nigh irresistible. As rule they are |e ruddy, ciear-complexioned lot of men who how the good effects of pleiity and exercise. it is true that th | of good waltzers as judged n stand- ards, but then they are Eng! ow, and they’ make up in energy and activity whatever they may lack in the way of grace. GAYETY NEAR ITS END. Now that the rendezvous is beginning to draw toward a close and every one realizes the sad fact that on Monday the fleet will haul up an- chor and start for New York the fun reigns fast are not a set THE MONITOR ¥1ANTONONOH. and farions. No oppor: and entertainment is misse¢ fashion reprevented at the Hygein. The result at itis usually well after midnight when the crowd has cleared out for a night of needed rest. The incoming crowds from the north, wea CROWDS COMING AND GOIXG. from Washington, Baltimore and Ne get here on the eatly boats about 7 o'clock, 0 that there is but the briefest of letups in the tle und life that for the time being charac- rize Old Point Comfort, usualiy so quiet and restful. So great is the pressure of the crowd sheat the hotel that for, days past it hae been and necessary to station men at eo en- trances to keep the outsiders from monopoliz- ing everything. This is done in the interests of the regular patrons of the hotel. but even then it isan impossibility to keep the peuple out. Many of the cfficers on the shipsdake their mealson shore whenever they can get the chance as a welcome change from the menotony of ship's fare, and the immense dining room Dusy place these days. AT THE TENNIS COURTS. Inside the walls of the fort there are a.num- as well, for they were | ber of very good tennis courts. These notcare to run the ri deen placed at the disposal of the L “olIN THE LAMA'S LAND. here or a few miles further on I told them to send men ahead and notify the nearest post of soldiers that a foreigner was coming and that they disclaimed any knowledge of his move- ments and had nothing to do with him. TURNED BACK BY THE SOLDIERS. ‘This plan was carried ont and Mr. Rockhill's party was stopped on the bank of the Dangeh’a by s party of Thibetan soldiers and detained for five days in an unavailing discussion with the Nagch’n Ponbo as to the route to be followed. One day a chief came across the Mr. Rockhill’s Adventurous Journey Into Thibet. IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. ‘THE PHILADELPHIA. the army officers and are patronized freely every afternoon, by the Englishmen especially. It is a common tight to see a clean-out young Englishman, Enghsh in his every look and TRE BLARE. | gesture, in spotless flannels, hending for the fort for a few hours of his favorite exercise at the nets. They are good players, too, though they have met their matches in a number of well- | contested games with the boys from the white | squadron. ‘The army is tireless in its work of showing every attention and courtesy to the visiting officers. Asa simple instance of this the soldiers from the fort make it a practice to ralute an ~ Penetrating # Country Unknown to Euro- peans—Turned Back by Soldiers from Lh’asa—Nearly a Year of Interesting Travel Attended by Many Hardships. —_+—__. RoW. WOODVILLE Rockhill, the chief clerk of the State Depart- ment, hasa well-earned rep@tation as an in- trepid and extensive traveler and explorer, and no one to look at his youthful face and tall erect figure would imaginehe had endured iver to see the strange visitor and find out | what he had for sale or what he wished to buy. | and from him Mr. Rockhill learned that se | Dangeb'u where he was camped marked the eastern boundary in this part of the country | of Lh’asa territory. The chief told him that | if be would come across the river to him he would assist him to cross the country, get new horses and ultimately reach Ch’amdo aud | thence China, THE CHINESE PROVINCE. The explorers crossed the Dangeh’u July 27 and entered the territory of Jyade or the ‘Chinese Province,” governed by native chiefs | appointed by the Chinese minister resident at | Lh’asa (or Lh’asa Athban). This important province was separated from Lh'nga by the Chinese in the seventeenth century, in view of the enmity between its people, who profess the Eonbo religion (a form of the devil worship or shamanism, which obtained at one tims or the hardships that have | another through most of Asia, though now PA 7 RN? “cracked Mactoantarces | cca up with lamaism to wach an extent that | | XS 7 ZS career. At the age of | it is hardly distinguiehable from it) and the fol- lowers of the yellow and red setts of Buddhism living on Livasa soil, One of the c! Jyade traveled with the party as far as the Su- chu’, the main stream of the upper Jyama nu | ten years he left his American home to go to | France for his education, finally passi®g | through the military school of St. Cyr and serv- ‘efs of | Sfeady been mapy FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Preparing for a Great Political Contest Kansas. AX AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION G1vrxa WOMEN THE BALLOT To BE VOTED OX IX TRE NEXT GENERAL RLECTION—AN ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE OF THE PIONEERS IX THE ‘MOVEMENT. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening S Torzxa, Kax., April 17, 188%. That the combined forces of the advocates of ‘equal suffrage will be centered in Kansas in the campaign of next year is now a settled fact. Por years the leaders of the movement in this state have labored diligently toward the con- summation of their fondggt hopes. They have met many reverses and rebuffs, but with « courage that commanded respect from their opponents half dozen women bave at every | | session of the legislaturemarshaled their forces | and renewed the fight until finally at the last session that body passed « resolution submit- | ting to the people an amendment to the consti- tution giving women the bailot. At the next general election in Kansas—in | November, 1894—-the voters will decide the | qnes and during the campaign preceding every sehocl district im the state will be can- | vassed thoroughly. |and there is to be wade one of the greatest fights for the amendment ever anaugu- | rated in any staie in the Union, In fact. the details of the campaign have ped out, and during the Already the contest is on | officer, no matter from what ebip he may eome. | ing for three years in the Foreign Legion in For all Tar Stax correspondent knows this | Algeria, He afterward saw service in New may be one of the rules Isid down in the army | Mexico and on the frontiers of the United regulations, but at any rate it has given rise to ch'n(theSalwen). Thence toMer-dzong the party received the createst kindness from the people and the Bonbo lamas, whose liberal views readiness to accept new ideas was muc d- extreme and make the Americans look cold and | ‘The loudest uniform of | if outdoor life | | ® number of amusing incidents. 4 Goop ONE. One of these came year to being unnoticed, but it is too good to go unrecorded. Thursday | evening when the boat from Norfolk to Wash- ington tied up to the dock here among the first RUSSIA'S GENERAL ADMIRAL, |tocome ashore was a party of Knights of Prthias who had been over to Norfolk for the day's exercises there. They were in full uni- form and as gay as the Lest of them. When they eame down the gang plank there were a. good many soldiers standing aboat the wharf watching the ¢ he first of them saw the newcomers 10 time in getti position ant si a formal xalute. nmple was quickly result was AGSIIP ARETAUSE. Enights of Ps thias passed ap the wharf throngh a double line of raluting bite coats. | THE QUESTION OF PR! DENCE. A rather interesting question has arisen in | the matter of the precedence that muet be fol- | | lowed in the fleet when it puils out of the roads ork, supposed tint the nthe place of houor nasmich aw they were the first with | on board to arrive. It has been | discovered, however. that the admiral of the | fleet on the Dimitri Donskci has a com- | n that antedazes that of Vice Admiral | | Hopkius of the English contingent and that, as | | a result. the desived pince will’ be given to the | Kustians, ‘This ‘id to be not at all to the | taste of the Englishman, | THE BALTIMORE. Yesterday it was stated on good authority that he did not like the ebange and bad ex- preseed himself accordingly; in other words, [Af he could not have what he thought he ought to have he wouldn't go. It is understood that he has provided for every coutingency. in that | he bus in his cabin ready for uso a commission | from his home government giving him the full rank of admiral. and that on Monday, if he ehould be given the second place in the line, he Will run up his xdmiral’s flag, salute it and go! ahead of the Russians without any more to do. It looks like a small matter, but 1t may mean more than one would think at first signt. ‘TRE CHICAGO. Among the boate that have arrived here within the past few days is the steamer Lan- caster, that has been churteved by th and Navy Cinb of Washington to brin the members of the clab and their families f the rendezvous. It has on board about a half | hundred well-known Washington gentlemen | jadies, who will make their home on the boat while they are here. V.K PINKY Y CONVICTED. The Trial of Barber for the Murder of Mr. Bowie to Begin ou Monday. William Pinkney, on trial at Marlboro’, M for the murder of Frank M. Bowie, was con- victed of murder in the first degree inst even- ing. After Mr. Mezrick’s argument Mr. Robert ddy, counsel for Pinkney, spoke. Rodd; iT “I attribute the prisoner's complicity to the fact that he is an ignorant young negro, who | ' did not know the position he was putting him- elf in, I desired to move the trial to another , but Pinkney said he wanted to be tried where he was born and raiced and by tha people | who knew him since he was a boy.” Mr, Roddy | concluded his address with a pathetic appeal to in behalf of the prieoner. . Brandt, state's attorney, closed the argu- ment. He addressed himveif chiedy to answer- Mr. Roddy's argument and wound up with | brief summary of the evidence and made. a strong presentation of the facis against the Lriscoe instructed the jury that they could find one of four verdicts—murder in the | first degree, murder in the second degree, man- sinughier or not guilty. ‘The jury came into court at 8:40 o'clock p.m. and announced that they bad agreed upon a verdict. Judges Briscoe and Crane were in the Scourt room. Judge Briscoe asked if they had agreed upon a verdict. re Jurors to retarn | to the room wud zeturn the verdict in proper form. On their return again the foreman ven- dered the verdict of “Guilty of murder in the | firet degree. Mr. Roddy, counsel for the prisoner, asked the court to suspend sentence pending a mo- | tion for an appeal. ‘The court remanded the | prisoner to jail. Pinkney did not look us ua- concerned as he had appeared all along dari the day, and while ou his way to jail wi Deputy’ Sheriff Doye remarketl that he had been told that ther would hang peoplo in Metl- boro’, and he now believed it. The court room was crowded when the verdict was rendered. No demonstration whx made. The people con- Hider the verdict isa Just one. Barber's case taken up on Monday ‘and will probably be concluded by Tuesday. ‘The Same Barons. In days of old, when knights were bold vs were And barons held their ‘sway, Coal was st seven dollars sold, Fast as it is today. | di | mountains to the south side of the Ts’aidam, | sheet of water,discovered by him in 1889, Th {| | States, and then joined the diplomatic service | of his country in China. After over four years in Peking and Koreahe got off on his first jour- ney to Eastern Thibet, as the resalt of which he wrote what must be considered aa the best of the recent works on that stramge country. The experience gnined in that remarkable jour- ney made in 18%! led him to uridertake a second one to complete his researches among the Thi betan tribes of the northeast and to extend bi exploration toward the interior as far as possi- ble. Star reporter last ion Mr. Rockhill said: tane favored me to be able to coute of which I had heard se in Ulterior Thibet with- ing on this expedi hoped if f reach indin 2) /1 | ont passing on Lh’ ter country I kne Wd “imeet with insur- | , man raised barriers more come than any snow-covered | wind-swept desert.” diplo; by his visitor, who | had become interested in the subject. Mr. Rockhill gave ic description of his ex- | of the Grand Lama. MR. ROCKNILL'S Ro MAREABLE JOURNEY. Leaving Peking December 1, 1891, he said be traveled to the frontier town of Kalgan: then entering Mongolia he parsed through tie pas- ture lands of the Ch’ahar Mongols, After a few spent at Kuei-hua Ch'eng he continued West aud crossing the Yellow river—here 400 i yards wide—on the ice at Ho-k’ou_ he crossed tue Ordos Mongols country aud afterward Alashan. Again entering China proper his route led through Ning-bsia, Lanchou and Hsi-ning, the westernmost town in China on he high roud to Thibet. Near Hsi-ning is tho famous lamastry of Kumbtm, reached February 11, from which Kockhill had started on his first i ‘Thibet, und here he again re- paired to get the men he hal then ad with im and make up his caravan, The men re- sponded at once to his cail, aud while his head mun was making the necessary purchases of food, clothing, horses, muies, &e., he made a trip of @ fortnight to the valley of the Yellow river to visit the Turkish tribes celled “Salar” (or Salaris”) and the egziculiural ‘Thibetan tribes of the enme district. There are no ditions to indicate when they came to China from Samarcand. They now number about 40.000 persons. OVER AN UNEXPLORED ROUTE. On March 14 Mr. Rockhill and party left for ‘Thibet by an unexplored route, passing south of the Koko-nor and along the foot of the making several excurrions on the way, one of | special importance from the Mongol village of | Shang to Lake Tosunor to determine by as- | tronomical observations the position of this party with Mr, Rockhill consisted originally | f five Chinese, but one bad to be invalided jome a few days after leaving Kumbum and ; two others deserted him at Shang. He was able to hire at this place an old Chinese trader. With these three men, assisted for a while by a Mongol and then by a ‘Thibetan guide, he traveled until he reached China again in Octo- ber, 1892. Speaking of the credulity of the Thibetans Mr. Kockhili said: “More than one I have overheard saying that I had a battalion of sol- diers concealed in the little camera I carried with me. My prismatic compass, others con- tended, enabled me to detect treayures in the earth and to tee the farther side of mountains and with my sextant I angled for the sun.” On May 24 the final start for Thibet w made from the Naichi-gol in western Ts'aidam and A general southwesterly direction to west of where Prjevalsky and Carey crossed the | range was followed until July 7, when a point | some tuirty miles trom the nortnwest corner of | the great central Thibetan lake called Tengri- | nor by the Monzols azd Dolma-namts’o by the Thibetana was reached. Between the Naichi-zol and the Ts'nidam the | party endured grea: hardships,the bigh attitude | ranging from 14,000 to 17,000 feet above sea | level, terrible dai:s suow und hail storms, fierce winds, frequent absence of fel and toward the end partialstarvation. ‘The route, moreover, led | through vast salt’ mar-hes and bogs and across numerous rivers in which quicksands were fre- quently found. Gx0GuAPuIC DIScovERIES. ‘The geographical results of this portion of the journey were important, (1.) The derermi- nation of limits of the bi the Murus (the great Yang-Tze-Kiany )and the is y of the sources of ihe mein branch of A fanks of the Tange of mountains, in the snow-cover great couiral | | afur our medimval castles, crowned ever | winds a broad swift river, mired. All the feeders of the upper Jama nu ch’u. were crossed, some forded and others crossed by means of a rawhide cable anchored to either mde of the river and along which tho travelers were drawn tied by their middles. On August 15 the pretty Batasuimdo valley was reached d the next dav party came to the Seramdo-ch’u, where hamlets, reserabling from and the whole valley was green with elds of waving bariey. On 4 camp was pitched of his protector, Nor Jy hich is a few miles above the big village of Ch’ebo Tenchin on the Ze-ch'u, A STRANGE ENCOUNTER, “At this last named place,” said Mr. Rock- hill, “camo to mo in the night and with much mysiery aman, who showed me a sheet of very eciled foolscap. asking me to translate the lines ten on itand which a p'iling (foreigner) had given him afew months b it was | seventeenth | had sup- er, and en on the aonta in trom the od enetward h of the one bits and e i ae bed to mo that it hi mind as to the truth ud now it was confitmes ing from such widely se Lada. and Poking, bad 1 as Leh, y met in the i | heart of Thibet. REACHING THE HIGH ROAD To CHINA. next year and ahalf the hi voter in the » of every male te will be touched with the earnest. eloquent and sympathetic appeal of @ leaders of this movement, unless his heart 18 of stone. To WHOM CREDIT IS DUE. To Mra. Laura } Johns is duo largely the present statusof the equal enffr novement in Kansas, She is the president of the assoc! tion and she bas been a tireless worker. ing the r¢e ssion of the i by the threat = the hall of tae hour passed members working fo measure. Sh ong republicanan? tanith in the final action of the repro» otatives of that pa: qual suffrage question. On the memorable night of Febrnary 15, when ihe Dougiass or republican house had Possession of the hall, with every entrance her pet wer lost On August 22 Mir, Rockhill reached the town of Kiwoche,a place famed for its beautifal temple and picturesque situation at the foot of steep forest-clad mountains, between wiich 9 here spanned by a substantial bridge of huge pine logs. Passituz to the south of the city of Ch'aindo, to whieh town Mr. Rockhill, lik» his predecessor, Capt. Bower, to China was reached at Pungie (two stages south of Ch'amdo),and frbm this point to China a Chinese escor: was given the’ tra and he waa able to enjoy (?) all the luxuries of Chinese travel. Stopping at Draya, at Gartok, Bat‘ang and Litang, Ta-chien-lu in Ssu-ch’naa was reached October 2, nnd he again met his good friends, the French iathers. Here on the eastera bor- der of Thibet the journey was practically ended, for, though several thousazid miles «till separated “Mr. ftockhill from the seaboard, they could be traveled rapidiy and with com: fort. Leaving ‘Tu-chien-lu on October 5 he was in Shanghai on the 29th, exactly eleven months from tie time he had lett 1t. | | was refused admittance, the high road | WHAT Was AccomPLisaED. “In that time,” said Mr. Rockhill in con- cluding his narrative, “I had traveled about 8,000 miles, surveyed about 3,117 miles and during the geographically important part of the journey crosse? sixty-nine passes, all of them rising over 14,000 feet above sea level and not @ few reached 15,000, had taken a series Of sextant observations at a hundred points | along the road, determined 145 altitudes by the boiling point of water, taken 300 photographs and mude important ethnological and botanical collections. For two mouths we had lived at an altitude of over 15.000 feet, soaked by the rains and blinded by the snow and hail, with little or nothing io eat and nothing co’ drink but tea and yet not one of us bad had a mo- ment's illness from the day we left to the day we reached our homes again.” BEFORE THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL s>cIETY. In February last Mr. Rockbill read a paper in regard to his exptorations in ‘Thibet before the Royal Geographical Society in London and | a hearty vote of thanks therefor. In & discussion whieh followed the reading Sir Henry Howorth paid a weil~ieserved tribute to Mr. Kockhill’s learning and his knowledge of Thibet. All the country tarongh which he had passed, said Sir Henry, was full of roman- tic interest; it was the iazd of the Prester John | of Marco Polo, and was aiso the acene of that | extraordinary immigration of Kalmuck people, | Who. forced out of Russia under the pressure of the tax gathérer, had, after wandering thousands of miles, settled in the Kokonor re- gions. It was these same people, he said, who saved the throne of the Grand ‘Lama, and he knew from Mr. Rockhill himself that the charm- ing accounts given by the Abbe Hue consti- tuted not only the picturesque writings they knew them to be, bus w so true and zeeu- Tate. Capt. Bower, wito was present at the time, satd that Mr. Rockiuil’s task had been much: more difficult than his own, as he had not the fame facilities tor making preparations on Erith grounds that he (Capt. Bower) had bad. It was also announced on this occasion that Mr. Rockhill was trauslaging and annotating a valu- table paper the googtanbieal ‘society fea pos- wested ior some yenrs which had come to them from an Indian who had gone into tne coun- try from the British indiau side on the south, COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSECS. In the conrze of his travels Mr. Rockhill has accumulated a large and valuable collection of curios, a part of which, iike a traly public- spirited citizen, he bzs donated ty the govern- ment. ‘fhe Natioual Museum alrendy contains two of his exhibits and will du 800n as they cau be arranged for exhibition. In i kuown s 2.) the discovery of the eas! 2-covered central Asian plateau whi sorae 600 miles west of ths route followed by Mr. Kockhill, the Pami but is in the section ed call “Naktsang’* mes, though apparent rg Tang” or n and so i proached. On Juis secondsthe iast provisions | Were eaten and from that dale to the seventh | the party ed solely upon tea. On the latter day a smail cacampinent of Thibetans was reached ana liitie food purchased. ‘The next day a valley was entered dotted over with tents. IN THE LH’asa counrRy. It was the pasture lands of the Namru Thibe- tans and Lh’usa governed country. ‘The head man refused to give the party food uniess Mr. Rock)uill agreed to await the arriyal of the head chief, who would decide whether he should jlowed to proceed south or be sent back to the north, After six days’ discussion with the chief and several ofticizls from Lh’asa a com- | promise was effected and Mr. Rockhill and his | three Chinamen, with an escort of ten Thib: tan soldiers, started eastward to reach the fron- tier post of Nagcnnk’a on the high road from { Kokonor to Lh'asa. ! After ten days’ hard riding through mud and | in the rain the high road was reached and the escort turned back, but Mr. Rockhill had not | gone many miles when he fell fn with a caravan going to Lh’asa from Kumbum and was recognized by some of the members who bad scen him on his former visits to famous lamaser. FR “They were aghast at the meeting so near Nagehuka, said Mr. Rockhill. “If. we arrived 1 | Mr. Gladstone says one of tine cases of his contributions now to be seen at the museum is what is probably the best collection in this country, if not in the work of Thibetan religious emblems and articies of worship taken from the temples of that coun- try, ‘The articles are of great intrinsic value, many of them being of pure geld. ‘The other case contains articles composed of porcelain metals and stanes used for personal udorament by the Ihibetaus, —— BY A MAJORITY oF 43. { The Home Rule Bill Passes Its Second Reading tn Pariiament. The Irish home rale bill passed its second reading in the house of commons last night by a vote of 317 to 344, and will go to committee, ‘The division was taken on strict party lines. Every nationalist member voted with the majority. The dissident liberals, to a man, went with the opposition. Baifour and Glad- stone crossed argumenistive swords. The Walworth diviaon of his mind at the last moment and went into the lobby with the ministerialisis, AS Mr. Gladstone returned from the lobby liberals and nationalists rose, cheered and waved their hats. John Hedmond shouted, the signal for more cheers and hat waring. ‘There was another demonstration when Mr. Gladstone left the house. Crowds had gath- ered outside the building, and as the prime minister rode away he was followed by their cheers; The of Wales, who had been present debate, remained until the result of Pope j stantly | by the guarded by deputy sheriffs and sergeants-at- with the state militia sarrounding the tol, Mrs. Johns remained on the floor with m. and at 2 o’cieck 12 the morning, after re- ther peated calls, she addreseed the imprisoned members, ms sing an eloquent speech in favor of maintaining their rigtts, constitutional gov- ernment and the laws of the state. On the morning previous, when Speaker Donglass,with sledge hammer in’ hand, afier facing Winches- ters and revolvers in the bands of populist were guarding the entrance to representa- wn the doors Mrs. Johns was the first to congratulate him and his eixty- six followers. As ther entered ehe waved them 4 welcome and cheered Speaker Dougiass as he called the “constitutional house of representa- ves to order. WORK OF ans. LEASE, While Mrs. Johns was doing effective work among the republican members of the house her earnest and enthusiastic co-worker, Mra. Mary E. Lease, was comping with the populiste in the senate. She remained at her post con- and when the senate reached a vote on the constitutional amendment resolution every one of the staid old farmer senators recorded his vote for the measure. Thus these two women of radically different Political views worked for the one object, quietly. determinedly and successfully, and today ‘full and free suffrage for the women of Kansas is only a few years distant. HEADQUARTERS 600N TO BE OPENED. Within the next fortnight equal suffrage headquarters will be opened in Topeka, with Mrs. Johns in charge. A campaign ench as no stato in the Union ever experienced will be made, and with the assistance that will be given ‘ational Equal Suffrage Association the man who can withstand the pressure and vote against the adoption of the amendment will be | worthy a place in the museums of the country. THE PLAN OF caxtParox, Inan interview with Mps, Johns sho said that the national association will send every peaker at its command to Kansas, Miss Wil- lard and Miss Anthony will come hore and take personal supervision of the work and will call to their aid every man and woman of intuence who can secure votes to the amendment. ‘They will expend $15,000 in ‘The Woman’s Repu! organized during the pas: six months by Mra. Johns and her co-workers, will be a strong fac- tor in this contest, Already there are over 100 of these leagues organized among the women of the staie in the various towns and cities and the membership is growing very fast. MRS. LAURA af. JomNS. The overwhelming republican victories throughout the state at the receut municipal elections are due largely to tie work of there leagues. ‘The fact the! the women generally voted the republican ticket has very materially changed sentiment among republicans, and politicians who have heretofore op} equal suffrage and those wino have regarded the ex- periment as a dangerous one for the republican Party are now willing to remain silent and will not fight the amendment. Whether the women generally voted the re- publican ticket from choice or whether it was prearranged by the leaders to disarm their ponents and tie their hands is a question. either event the result is very satisfactory, the leadors believe they sve the have made them slaves failing and complete freedom and liberty near at hand. ORGANIZING THE POPULISTS. ‘While ail this work is going on in the repub- lican ranks a thorough organization is being effected in the populist camp. Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Kansas Joan of Arc, is directing the fight.’ She is a very suave politician. Early in the year she secured from Gov. Le’ ‘the board of appointment of president of the state charities, it i f fr i i Hi organization. They possessed « special attrac: tion for the wives of the farmers | “women folks” in the country, These occasions provided a welcome relief eternal drudgery of housework and viting monotony, The Inxary of « now and then and neighbors heartily enifet This motive cannot be fully apprehended by Persons who are unfamiliar with the lonely life jofwomen in the rural districts of Kansas. It was ineviible, at least in the early sett of the « habitations abould be each other, and the country is not yet sufficiently populated to | bring the peopie very clowe together. Add to | this condition of isolation the Iack of variety jin the Kansas landscape, even in the flash of the year,and the desolate character of the | Prospect in the winter season, and the depress- ing environments of the Kansas women ontaide of the towns may be partially appreciated. Aay avenue of escape from this dishearten- | ing and hamdram condition would in the ne- | tare of the caso be eagerly utilized by the women, and they found adosirable outlet in the nics and “rallies” which the Farmers’ Al- ce popularized. They are the best fruits | stor allot the organization. The incidental | Smelioration which the people's party has oar- Tied into the livesof the Kansas women will atone toa large degree for the economical and political vagaries which it ix disposed to eu- courage. 1. has introduced into their narrow experience an element of interest and of cheer which widens their range of vision and lifts them somewhat above the duil plane of domes- tie care. The same feminine instinct which is responsi~ ple largely for the expansion of the populist movement will tend to strengthen the senti- Ment in favor of female suffrage. The fact that the women have made the people » party wil cause the great majority of farmers to vote for the amendment. ‘compove two-thirds of the voting population of the state, and if ther generally favor equal suffrage--an4 they will—the problem will be solved, and, in the burning Innguage of Mrs. Lease, “the women of Kansas will be free.” aniline Those Southrons Can Play Ball. From the Boston Courter. ‘The Harvards donned their crimson shirts And started for the South; A snuie itumined every eve, And wreathed each manly mouth. “We'll give these long-naired Southerners, (nt themselves «aid give these corn~ A point or two on ball. Dominion state » the Oj ES And grent Jack Highlands took the Dall Harvards euuled Dk how fast. and mn be piled. when these men with crimson shirts up the wat, “What fou we Tum ate going to havet ui make a run But longer grew each Northern face Ag inpings came and went, each eornsfed Southern heart sched sweet anu race content. { Sonthernera cracks Was dane, had stood their groum@— ‘The score was one and one. ‘Then northward turned thosezmen in red, siguing one and all, From Texas Siftings. ‘The arrogance of capital was never more | fally illustrated than by what happened a few days ago. One of the wealthiest of New York merchants was much startled by @ man with 8 pallid face rashing into his office and saying breathlessly: “One of your teams ran. away.” “Mother of Moses! Are any of the horses burt?” “No, none of them.” _The capitalist breathed a sigh of relief and asked: suppose the wagon is fatally wrecked, Let mo know the worst! Don't keep me in this oguay - The wagon and horses are all right, bat the driver is killed. “Hb leaves a widow and nine small children.” “Well. then, why do you try to scare ® man out of his senses? From the way you talked I was afraid some accident had happened.” ——e. Deer and Iron Horse Racing. From the Bangor News. Passengers on the up train over the Bangor and Piscataquis division of the Bangor and Aroostook railroad witnessed an exciting race between adeer and the train last Thursday morning. When jast beyond Shirley, andon the level, where the train was making fully thirty miles an hour. a big deer came in sight in a wood road just behind tue hindermost car. Tt was. buck with lofty head and trim limbs. He came along ata rapid gait, overtook the train, and for amiie and a half kept even pace With the engine, sometimes coming within forty yards of the cars, Finally the train crossed the Wood road, which had run parailel to the track, and the buck made broak for the deep snow and went out of sight behind some bushes. It ds believed that dogs were chusing the deer #0 that he did not dare to turn back, and so fal- lowed the train to escape his pursuers, ———_+e-__ Only « Copy, After AN. Joe Howard in New York Recorder. An uninformed reader would infer thet the P. T. Barnum, engineered a midget wedding, which might perhaps bo called an event ia low life, in the hitherto sacred that same churchly edifice. the example, followed by Mrs. Bradley-Martin, of ixsuing invitations to bled on the streets. Tom Warren, his bride, escarted Nutt and Minnie Warren, ceremonials in Grace Church in the early six- ties ard those in the same edifice in the early nineties. 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