Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 75

4 SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON AUGUST ,16, 1925—PART Forbidding Dokar Pass Gateway = |[Family History of the Ducketts Guards Entrance to Ancient Tibet In Several Generations Studied Woman Explorer Encounters Blizzard, Has Mirage of a Sunlit Village, and Conquers Rambler Also Gives Attention to Collateral Lines of This Family and to Association With Wandering Leopard With Spirit Devoid of‘Fear. the Development of Bladensbursg. ™ 4 UCKETTS and their collateral Mme. David-Neel is a French 3 . kin are numerous in Wash- scholar, whose repeated attempts to . ington and the country of each the forbidden city of Lhasa, : : which Washington is the in Tibet, w ily crowned with Sy i metropolis or mother-city. uceess. 1l and slight, but of 2 1 There are also several colored people ndomitable spirit, Mme. David- whose ancestors took the family name. Neel prepared for the final effort by s Sixty Ducketts are in the Washington ivi two years in g cave in the % 4 . 4 7 Directory and eight in the phone book. Himalayas, studying Sthe religion, S kR { On authority of a member of the lanzu nd customs of Tibet un: A R »- s family, the Rambler tells you that ler ttelage of a Tibetan her s 7/ % - ’ three brothers, Benjamin, Basil and | mit bsorbed the mysticism ST - e . S - b 3 S B | Baruch Duckeit, came to Maryland ople, but retained her e from England in'1640. Among the de- clarity thought. Her - A g - B scendants of Benjamin were Benjamin estrained story minimizes ¥ ¥ 1 s ; PN X ., | Mulliken and Dr. Thomas S. Duckett rrible hardships of her long » L &S *a Ve of Prince Georges County. Benjamin ney on foot and reveals the 4 ; / E £ Mulliken was married twice. His first 1osphere of ancient tradition and b / R . 2 i wife was a Miss Cross. They had ition that pervades the coun § 5 i ¢ four children, _Bi\sll T. and Baruch 2 (the latter dying in infancy), Mrs Alexander D. Hall and Mrs. William D. Duvall. ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEE i ’ x The Rambler has the following from hat i to/be B! § 3 s a member of the famil i LL that which had to be done i & “Basil T. Duckett was of brilliant wvas done—our luggage quietly R 2 eft behind, our last coolie dis nissed just five minutes ago and we stood. Yongden and I k jungle, alone, free. The intellect and was educated at home by a tutor from England. In married Miss Bugenia Hill more Manor, Prince Georges County r and took her to the home in Bladens- our situation made us a L. " 5 . . ™ . - b3 burg. He was very popular, and was e . i known for his hospitality and char ity, liberally assisting those in need “’He was ‘an ardent Southerner and . by his freedom of speech passed two __ SCHOOL FOR SON> AND DAUGHTERS OF NOBLE FAMILIES OF LHASA. s el i i | h E g “| night to walk between soldiers from for the Dokar . 18,400 feet high, | pelled several times to retrace our |suppressed but most imperative tone. | They must be the same mischievous mi Bladensburg to Washington The which forms nowadays thé border of |steps. The trails that my voung friend 1 What a nasty taste! ! ma. yin (literally no-men, a kind of | tymous Confederate spy, Belle Boyd, the self-styled lent Tibet ad marked in the day were difficult n t, eat quickly!" urges desperately | being, according to Tibetans) who play was there at the time, and he made Let us drink « cup of tea,” I said | to find by the dim light of the moon, (my young companion The nemo | tricks at night with fire and music to | ey sequaintance, of which he was E AT BLADENSBURG to Yongzden, “and then vou will start | veiled in’ mist. When at last across | (hostess) comes back to our side.” | delay us on the road. Nopw they have | very proud. He was twenty-sdve IS M on a scouting tour. We must at any | the stream we caught sizht of the! And shutting my eyes 1 hastily |taken that shape.’ vears old when he married in 1852 and | __ = = i CoEs rate reach the foot of the Kha Karpo | village we each swallowed a granule swallowed the contents of the bowl. 1 smiled at his imagination, but he|in 1859 was elected a justice of the | hbald .hz}uuw The 8 S ",A i Sfehi path without meeting anybody and be | of strychnine to act as whip on our * E x4 fras quite In earnest. lHis grandtather | Orphans’ Court in Maryiand. He died | home, years ago, comprised seversl | Tth af Septemb aged 50 years or elght ut of sight from the village hefore jtired bodies, and the early ¥ 2 & been a magician-lama, and 1 be- ; 621n his thirty- | acres, but the lang i [t M s e et T t ke helorgion s potian, 40 ‘;1.¢‘:”‘,vf‘, il LET us come back to Kha Karpo “hfl.é s bload of that s, :2“::“‘["““;‘:"‘;“"‘ in 28 "lm. home of the old Ducketts is in,ensburg on the land of Dr. David i | Jjourney fr the sands of > Yuman we been discussi he way in which we could “disap. ear.” as we to say, and assumi another per: Now this was at hand, we were to that very nig hat day at noon we had reached,| A dog gave a low, suppressed bark. |~ When dressing and making up was Inow alive in him. He recited a ~zung” | "< e hie marriage there were six | the ‘forest’ of Pr : y Ross; at Broad Creek on the land of with two coolies carrying our loa A single dog. in that village where & | ended we threw here and there in the | (magic formula), with the. ritustiote near_Glendale, c D o W . the small village of Londre. I dozen or more of these good buc|thickets our Chinese clothes, and at|gesture required, and, strangely|the latter being named John C. Cal:|and Baltimo i oua Lk 1n AY there starts a steep patch that joins | rather fierce animals wandered to and | dusk we started. aguin unrecogniz- | enough, the birds fiew away, shrieking [ houn Duckett, but he died at the age | ©0N¢ R aall B Dkt el ip the pilgrim track ar fro all the night. It reminded me of | able | loudly of 19 months, and a baby girl also | 4nts of Basil T. Duc e st sacred snowy range of Indiun tales relating the nightly| Wonderful became our nightly| “You see,” triumphed the young|died, Catherine Howard. T Tt 1 famous Tibetan place of pil ht of these “sons of good family”|tramp through the imme forests. |lama, “I knew it. It is not good for| “Of the four daughters, two are liv- | family ‘:_‘1";1'““‘_‘" Alexander D, Hall | Bladensburg in the Maryland statutes grimage. It was the road we intended ), in quest of the “Supreme Deliv-| We felt as if we had entered another | us to delay here.” ing, these being Miss Mary & o el Sl Ber. 'The | until 1773. That reference is in an o follow, but we hardly cast a glance | erance,” abandon t home to take |World. ~Born from fever, from the| [ smiled again. But as to the neces-iand Mrs. Alice Hill Duckeit Whalen of | home has been sold but the grave.| act for “The regulatin of the staple toward it when passing in front on the | (o the religious life of the sannyasin. Play of the moan rays between the ieity to proceed quickly I could not | Washington. Two are dead—Mrs, | home has been sold A he “old| of tobacco and for prevention of opposite bank of the river, for we pi In order, we read, to make easier for | ¢loudy and the branches or from more fcontradict. We meant to cross that|Bevens of Bladensburg, who died in | D usNetis: aie Buled: thsbe "0 frauds in his majesty’s custo * The tended to he going to collect plants in | them the “going out' of the house, the | MySterious causes, strange mirages | evening the border of the forbidden | December, 1923, and Mrs. Richard P. | ts s e | act gives a list of places at which pub- the country of the Loutze tribes, situ- | ods had luljed the men to sleep and |Fose before us. Often we saw on the |lana, Gittings. ~ The latter was born one | ¥ % lic warehouses be kept for inspection ated in a quite different direction. We | silenced the dogs.” So was it with s the glimmers of fires hidden in | * ox ok x month after her father’s death. Ben-| GO, from Washington to Bladens. | ¢ acco and under the passed on our way, walking inton-|me, and smilix I gave thanks to|the recess of the mountains. MOVINg, |,y 1o pass stands now before|jamin T. Duckett's sister, Mrs. Alex- | U3y 70 5% rn right at the World | Prince Georges county ously behind our coolies, Yong invisible friend who protected my |indistinet shadows profiled themselves T i e E : ander Hall, was universally known | o 7 d P00 A0 You e on| Prince Georges county den and T we: ng Chinese dresses r in their dim nt, peculiar y:.n.«h‘.nl. us, ll\\'}l Impressive against a gray | 4ng admired; was of commanding ap- | sand street It i Bladensbu way Anne Town on the Patuxe No one took any special notice of us sun had already risen and we |Sounds were heard o e o a2, depression in a| pearance, had an elegance of manner, | (I SIS, of 1L NACIRENTE TRV | ¢ Upper Marlborough on the land of An Americ naturalist was at work ill climbing bravely when we| Once, walking ahead, I saw two tall | Kiga “‘”"i on Tenmes and the cyclo-| wag o splendid conversationalist, an | ;o8¢ “AS Even the name 18 vears mas Sim Lee: at Nottingham on in the vicinity. and emploved a large |heard a noise of voices above us, Men | figures proceeding in my direction. |Pean, rigid, sharp wall is sagging, as| expert horseback rider and was absor | {50, The xtrect name I ax old oe land of James Russell; on the of people. Very likely the vil- | were coming down the path. Then, racing my steps, nearly crawling |0 the il es outsireiched across the|lutely fearless; could use a gun when | g.yq grreet it was a road to Garrison's | land of Alexander Magruder: ‘at Blad thought we were to join him as | Without exchanging a single word. |0 2void the sight of the comers, I saw | rivers instead of bridges. To Know| necessary with effect. Mrs. William nding on the Eastern Branch from | Enoch Magruder; at Piscataway or g panic-stricken, Yongden and I threw | Yongden along Jn the dry bed of a|that it marks the threshold of the|Dyvall was a charming woman but Upper Marlboro and and the rest of | the land of John Hawkins Jun ving proceeded for a few | ourseives out of the path and rushed |Wigh embanked narrow stream, and |guarded region adds to the sternness|more of a domestic nature. (i Maryland between the Potomac, Pa.| The house at Blandensburg which , turning my back to my goal, I|as Scared game through the thick "‘1,’ oReSy Hc “Mr. Benfamin Duckett's second| i, cnt and the bay selonged to Dr. David Ross is stand told the coolies that I would not be | jungle, dominated by an only thought oy Sround around the pass fs most | wite was a Miss Hall of Virginla. | 520, el paved with cement|ing. ~About 50 vears ago it was able to go farther. My feet were 10 escape sight. 1 found :myself— ~.uvr:‘4| to the go and the Tibetan; There were two daughters bv this| "7, FC0 B BRVER T fead of | bought by Samuel K. Lee, a colored swollen and sore, and tramping had | Without remembering by what way I :"“‘,”I"_j,"“'r;'}”'“‘“"1“ ong the track { marriage. Martha A. and Cathavine | " cpo” carryalls, family chariots| man who came to Bladensburg from become too painful. It was not alto- | had come there—on an old stony lind There are thres Stamine stany, altars. | Howard: both are dead. Dr. Thomas| .;g"the’ stage coach. Hold your | the Pohick neighborhood in Virgin gether untrue, and the man had seen | Slip. Of Yongden there was no trace. MOES 0 1ce sianding atones and 5.8, Pucket ‘marriad- twice —two MIBB| oy oaieaut on Send street and ox and whose family took its name my feet when I had washed them in Anvhow, he had not gone far and ¥ fourth one as roof. under which offer-| Howards. sisters. They were his first | (DU single track of the Baltimore and Lees of Leesylvania on Neabsco stream. My Chinese sandals had hurt | We met soon, but we did not dare to % . ings are made to spirits cousins. There were two sons by the | o " Cr 1" 56,06 “from Hyattsville | C: Dr. David Ross died between them cruelly proceed In broad daylight. Villagers On the pass itself and following the! first wife, Marion and Mazaini—the| /1 D ro's Tonging, A little east| 1 nd 1779, for in the latter ve I chose for camp a place far below | Would be on their way to Londre and T o b riEen the uvstic flags| latter died recently. Marion i a well: | f the railroad ook to the left and you | the legislature passed an act “To er and distant from the road—a very |there tell about us. So we spent the 4 that can be scen on all the heights of | known lawyer and lives in Bladens ! see a plain and old house framed | large the powers of Ariana Ross =mall clearing surrounded by dense |first day of our journey squatting un. 3 Tibet are planted in larger numbers| burg. L in lawn, trees and sky. The house is | executrix of Dr. David Ross. de thickets, near a stream. The coolies |der the foliage. No water was than elsewhere. They look alive, bel-1 “Mrs. Bevens, one of 3 | about a hundred feet back of the| ceased.” The Ross family owned the helped Yongden to pitch our tent. I that slope, and we made an early | ligerent, threatening fn the falling| Duckett's S e by | building line and a clay and pebble | Ross house—a red Ve e Ly e o iR e ey : ight, like so many soldiers scaling the | was married twice. Her first husband | idt(URE e an @ Qv and Bevble) (O JOREE O ) dered one to go up on the hills to cut | that were to come : summits, ready to fight the presump-| was a cousin, Richard Hill Magruder. (0CFY BAFIE (HE Hrass: street | of Sand street—un big wood, nollogs being found around | % % %% g nl'u\n-:; lm;u would venture on !Hs dns'.’\lfl(‘:':e?‘uh':r :u“nw‘}’n::“:v: to the porch steps. On the right, a! War. In Green Hijl Cem 3 Jos ind he road of the holy ity his _death: our_ sons, Clarenci Il honey locust. bound with ivy.hkensburg nonument o When habed Eone 1 explained to | J\HREE days later, thinking our As we reach the cairn at the top a| Duckett, Walter and Lewis Magruder. | ‘211 honev, locust. bound with ivy. hCpSpuie. i a tall monument fnscribed i saimiong hor ol b traces really lost, we decided to o gust of wind welcomes us—the vio-{ Two aré now living at the home in | FXO¥S. and on the left nearer thel b lUum poss fot apot 50 1858 easily get a man among the villagers | [FaNSform ourselves into Tivetan pil lent and icy kiss of the austere coun. | Bladensburg. ceet above | SUrong. The kitchen end of th Madeline Ross died April 17. 1865, of Londre to carry o jhe villagers | grims, as we had planned. In the [try whose severe charm has kept me| “This house is on Sand street above {J"C%" 4%, "ol stork obert T. Ross died February Undevstood Gt an miniueguge. He ! depths of the forest we wore our Ti-| bewitched for so long to which I have | the, water mark and is opposite a| g, me. “Windows in the shingled roof,| 1901, Sarah Ross died November 6 pleased with good wages, e stavre | Detan robes, boots and hats, and I 3 come again. Turning our faces suc-|very old stone house once owned by, ;.4 i}e other part of the house is|1870, Mar yRoss died January fmmediately for home, Being, of coun hung earrings that changed my looks. cessively in the four directions, the | Basil T. Duckett's wife’s uncle, Dr e o > » Of course, | Then, as in another attempt of the % {zenith and the nadir, we utter the|== e | 414 with a porch across the front died October 26, 1 When the| 5. same kind 1 had cut my long plaits, - - | Buddhist wish, “May all beings be| E In other ye the Rambler told! Rambler was in that cemetery last| L2r | T lengthened my mnow too short ones happy.” and we begin to climb down. |river bent suddenly, and we confronted| ' GtACr wears, ihe Rambler told) [TEBTC, WAL I AL cemetery 185 | bu | with jet black vak hair (the yak is | A Dlfzzard descends on the summits. | village bullt on a slope. at the foot | {2, %0 7/ % and many persons who | name and death date of Maria Louisa | fhe na the long-haired Tibetan ox), and in | Black .louds roll to and fro, turn to|of Which our path turned with thei " P00 12 qine"oF these rambles, | Ross- Thompson is an uninscribed | [RO€€T B el d, | order to match that color T darkened 4 half-melted snowfall. “We make|stream. A few isolated houses could "o "0 ° oS08 S (S TS0t e ce on the marble monument and | £ f’“,“;‘fnr‘n‘,l"'j\);‘,‘f)‘r“‘I“}i\f“g‘ to meet his | my own brown hair, rubbing on a wet | { haste, endeavoring to Teach hefore | even be seen quite near to us on’the | TUNR BNQUIMEE Lo Since that time, | at that side qf the shaft is a mew ompa; e a few days, lest they | stick of Chinese ink. I finished by a n s ’ ospi- | sides of the path itsel The act of the I e e e oabout my strange way of | slight touch of a powder made with a taple. :'hpvrl» ~0|-ne( the barren. inhospl-| S50 0, ot eharted on any map, and | Tbe et o ')';1'.:{)-‘{.‘q\v‘l{.‘gd\\’::]}]‘:lfi:-‘x TR b a bl Sesditicn. sud Cuiue sione 1 IED;::Z:LL;‘;“]]‘:lml,\‘lux':-xu( cocoa and crushed wooden AR R T But darkness comes early. We miss | none of the people of the country from | {2050 §{." (e was “An act for | one of the few traditions the Ramblor was to carry there a letter and a par- | oy Hdeed, “ibat swaie vy, wos e = {tie path winding betwéen Tand! Sithe | J¥hom tver had( Sta¥esy goF Inlosmm: laying ou erec a town on| believes, that Gen. Ross, British com cel, and from there he could return | 2ther strange. But suppliers of the. = R e z and find ourselves slipping helplessly | tion before pe ehitecture | the south side the Eastern Branch mander., and his staff ate a meal in i b Mpact roadat €Lurn | gtrical folk from whom I could have | we stayed ther ouched among the ' with crumbling stones under our feet. | told a word about it. Its architecture Patomae River in Prince Georges | the Ross house before the beginning l:;’:j": {(’]—‘l‘n;,:fit‘;‘ road without ‘U““"F‘,rthluinwi better preparations have not stone and the Vl..u’. »h.;\}‘.\»\\il}-:l)'ll)\: | It becomes dangerous to proceed in |looked p-»mx{luri P“e dl‘l‘ ";'l :;'lf*:'j"":i county near a place called Garrison's | of the battle of Bladensburg. August The packet contained a few clothes, | L, 0Pened branches in the Tibetan |the intermittent glare of a fire at the | that way, with a speed that we cannot | try houses and farms, but villas and |y . 4ins " The following is an extract | 25. 1814. There is also another story p y W clothes, | wijqs, foot of a distant huge perpendicular|control So, having succeeded in|miniature palaces, surrounded by | (ANCRE. veral in-| that several English soldlers died of a gift to the poor, and was addressed . ShouiiCEien g Vi 2uocesded. Ao e g D from the act: “Whereas eral in- | that s z N s di g sitito L just told about Chinese |rock. stopping, we fixed our mountain sticks | Small vet stately looking parks. habitants of Prince Geor county | Wounds in the Ross house and were to a missionary whom I had never dye. I may perhaps re-| Early morning, at the time when | pefore us in the ground so as to get a| The strange town was bathed in a | E%lS OF G wince Cieorees as-| buried in the garden. That story w. seen and who most likely had never|iste a comic adventure about it. | Tibetan travelers start for the day’s|point of support. Clinging to each |pale, golden light. No sound of hu-| oY JBel Petion 1o this general as § o o K ambler about 1898 be an 11 lv:tdrvl’:fn;ne }xlm it was the way t0| Now and then I revived the color of | march, we listened attentively, trying | other for safety, our loads still on our | Man voices. No animals’ noises Wwere | nvenient place for a town at the|man who said he had it from his - e S ;uj",-f ‘_"{“’; Went|my hair. rubbing the ink stick on it, | to detect sounds of human Voices or | hacks, we remained squatting. theee|heard in it. But now and then & faidt, | 0,9 of Eastern Branch of the Po-| father who lived in Bladensburg in v cket and beliey. | 2nd during that work my fingers got | the noise of animals. ~But the forest lunder the snow, which fell from 8 |silvery jingling struck our ears. We | pead of Bastern Branch of the Po | faihe ;‘n"‘:)“fi‘”;;‘” ::)"‘"" pocket ’”;‘! d"‘,"“"nheir share of dye. It did not matter | remained silent. I was more puzzled io'clock in the evening till 2 o'clock the | Were amazed. Were we in Tibet, or | jOmAcK on the south side of said e sent on some errand In the kel (much, for the personality of an old than ever, and to gratify my curiosity | next morning. Then a melancholy | had we reached fairyland? or nmeada place called Garcison’s| BLADENSBURG fs associated with | could not be o to the hood and would be with me befare | PeEBATY mother that T had assumed |1 went a long way out of the trail to |last quarter of moon rose between thy % % oK K Landing, and prayed that 60 acres of N William | H0od or A rearion O nighttall | required to be as dirty as possible, and | the big rock. __|clouds and we proceeded down to the e ania ot e e imin Lo tHere Haidiont and eractl E amous men illiam s S ! i 2 I used to rub frequently my hands on| It was surrounded by thorny bushes | wooded zone cop! Z 5 . into a town | Wirt was born in an inn which his| ¢ Varc ot aftex l"‘_}r":‘m"]"jm\"‘“g' said @ few days|ine smoky bottom of our marmite to|and a few dead trees. No suitable | ' It was still S > e, e — Se it therefore enacted by the|father kept in Bladensburg, but the|ward in Indian: where he caitea ol g b g "3?»-'"5n“3313{‘r"‘-"“”-’ the color of those of the coun. |place for a camp could be found “i‘f‘:"lnf“«]r @ stream 1o vefresh ourselves g it Posts was impru. | Right Honorable, the Lord Proprietary | site of the building Is not Known, or | the Central Catl aind then r northern side and the other on the | URaneTean (O | et in a vil.| e P e toell had been deco- with a cup of hot tea dent. ' Prudence demanded delay of | PY and with the advice and consent of |at least it has never been satisfacto: | moved (o W . where he : e & L , one day I had begged in a rated long, long any 4 | s e e -| his lordship's governor and of the|rily identified to the Rambler. If you| studied law. ing admitted gouthern one, I never happened to|lage, reciting pravers at the doors et—-with the image of Padmasamb-|here, for we had distinctly seen when ;‘""10“"‘:“":“‘l’;“g“s“;{;"‘L’;:""‘ifi;h"(':"m, upper and lower houses of assembly |are well read, vou know of William | to practice he became assoeiated wit e |according to the custom of needy pil-|hava and a few mystic formulas. But | descending to the river two elongated | tFi0US e ta) awmors the Th s| and the authority of the same, that| Wirt. He was an eminent lawyer and | his son as at oy in protectic ’ grims. A good jousewife alled |now they had nearly disappeared un-|forms of beasts with phosphorescent | MIOTe We retreated a & o| Mr. James Edmunson, Mr. Osborn | President Jefferson appointed him one | and sale of the latt entions. His ONGDEN had gone scouting. Time | Yongden and me inSide to eat, and |der the moss. OF fire, embers, ashes |eves that crossed the. tracke, - pan |@nd the rocks i nauatel Sprigs, Mr. William Maudit, Mr.|of the counsel in the prosecution of | publications e tt or the elapsed. Now it was dark. I re.|poured in our bowls curd and tsampa |or charred wood there was no trace. |thers or leopards th mouth pnll‘h&’fii ryulr_flrlsl. sank on | Thomas Gaunt, jr., and Mr. Thomas | Aaron Tar Prosinens Monisa s | Grock . St s mained seated near the fire, which 1|(flour made with roasted barley). The| I noticed a long, narrow crevice be-| But we were exhausted. and chers|the moss ihtle, ell osieep, feverish.| warren shall be and are hereby ap-|appointed him Attorney General of the | in Five Acts' \ington 1879) did not dare to let blaze, fearing that | Custom is to use one's fingers to mix [tween the ground and the rock, and |was no certainty of finding wagee|FaVIng a little ain the fan.| Pointed commissioners for Prince | United States and he held that office | lington. and Potrid oo it might be seen from afar and tell of | them. forgetting all about the|at that place the stone seemed black- fagain sqon. So, trusting the animals mf"t“’: "{:‘]'l’;“f“f;e“}:;: araln the fan | Georges county and are hereby author- | under the administration of President | thenon the presence of some one in that|hair and ink business, to which I had |ened by smoke ill, 1 thought it|\ould let us alone, we ate a meal and = | ized and empowered as well as to buy | John Quincy Adams. He was a can The same encyclopedia jungle. | attended a few hours before, I dipped rather its natural coloring. Nev-|warmed ourselves. compelled ‘o croes an Inhabited place | ;nq purchase 60 acres of land at the | didate for. the Presidency in 1832 on | sketoh of James Vvond Rosmea sor The tea, in our only marmite, was |my fingers in my bowls and began to| ertheless, Yongden and I roamed more | "During that tline we heard noises| % the desire to look for ways to| piicdaforesaid where It shall appear | the. antiMasonie. ionse, James Harris Rogers, who lives i humming in the embers. The rising |knead the flour. {than an hour all around to see if we|under the trees, and we had no doubt [2V0ld it brought us before sunset on| ;" them or the major part of them|maker of Pennsylvania, bel Hyattsville. He was born at Frankli moon_ tinged with bluish and russet| But what is this? It becomes black, | could discover the entrance of a cave | that some beasts were roaming anaus | the trail at the place where we had | ¢ ne most convenient for a town, a% | eamdidate for vie Dot ot Tenn., in 1857, and appointed electr hues the melancholy bottom of the|dirty streaks appear and grow wider |that could be situated under the rock. |in the vicini However, fatigue | 5t00d In the morning. : to survey and lay out or cause the| Another prominent man associated|cian of the United States Capitol § deep valley. Around me all was st |on the milky meal. Oh. I see! The|We did not find any. metimes overpowers prudence, and | ,, Where had gone the graceful villas, | ima 1 be Surveved or Inid out, i | with Biadensomme : 1877, holding that office until 1883, He lence and solitude - What had | dve on my fingers comes off. What| During the time we were busy a few | Yongden fell asicep. I decided. to|the little dignified palaces and the fhe hest and most convenient manner | binkney. Knowr better as was the inventor of the secret tele I dared to dream? . In what |is to be done? | blackbirds alighted on the branches|\atch, but my eyes were heavy and|SURnY gardens 4 into 60 lots to be erected into a town.” | Pinkney. In the Spring of 1836 |phone, for which patent he received mad adventure was I fo throw my-| Yongden, who just cast a glance on |und appeared to follow our doings with | closed in Spite of my efforte. The forest was empty, 8 #evere 1and- | “"Fyrther along the act gives the| Willlam Pinkney, a_young minister, | $80,000: also of the national improved self? { me, sees the catastrophe. Comic as it |« mocking interest, moving their heads ey scape of dark trees extended before| pame of the proposed town as Blad-| 26 vears old—was called to the par. | telephone and the pan-electric syster 1 remembered previous journeys in, is, the situation is nevertheless seri-|and uttering laughing-like chirps p us, and a cold breeze murmuring amid enshurg_but sticks to the site “south |ishes of St. Matthew and Zion, in | comprising 1 Tibet, hardships endured, dangers|ous. It could provoke embarra | Their noise was unpleasant and Yong-{J WAS dozing when the sound of a |the branches took the place of the| of the E: | The town was not laid out after refusing a chaplaincy in the [morphs. He devised what is calied that I had confronted, hours when |questions—lead to the discovery of my | den was irritated low sniff awakened me. At a few | harmonious jingle. i | thereof.” identity. “These little black fellows,” he told|steps from the place where we were| “We have dreamed,” I said to YOng-, on that site but on the other side of | N: The minister’s territory cover- | ‘visual synchronism’ and is the in death had come so near me i It was that and still worse (hal] “Eat quick!” orders Yongden in a|me, “do not seem to be naturs lying the same animal with glimmer- |den. “We did not see anvthing this|the stream. In an old brewing|ed the northern part of = Prince|ventor of the Rogers system of |ing eyves we had seen on our way | morning. All that happened while We | ground southeast of the closely settled | Georges County and the southern|sea wireless communication, u children, five daughters and one son, TER the creation of Bladensburg —named for Thomas Bladen proprietary governor, 1742-1747—the Rambler has not found a reference to two stories high, with a shingle roof | 1383, Maria Louisa Ross Thompson convinced that the man who had gone to cut the wood would remain to at- tend me. The latter was told exactly the same thing when he came with the wood on’s Cyclopedia istry. Aft Protestant eame past anklin, Tenn., and while in churches. He was artisan of t served i Confeder: night when we halted | somewhat reluctant to stay | ey seemed to be. tents on electric motors stern Branch near the forks | Prince Georges and Montgomery Coun- | lights. telegraphs, telephones and tele was_awaiting me. . and_what would be the 12 Would I tri. down ‘was looking at us, and now I |Wwere asleep. part of Bladensburg are ~several|part of Montgomery. It extended |the United States and the a umph, reach Lhasa laughing at | could see its spotted coat. “‘Dreamed!” exclaimed the lama. 1 auduit tombstones and one of them|from Bladensburg northwest toward |late war. He is one of Ame: those who close the roads of Tibet? I did not awake Yongden. I have|will show you -how we have dreamt. ds: “In memory of Williaml| Rockville, north to Laurel and Me-| Would 1 be stopped on my way more than once met with wild beasts, | This morning when you were looking or wo I fail and meet death at g and know that they seldom attack |at the miraculous town I have drawn the bottom of a precipice, hit by the & men unless provoked or wounded.|a sungpo (magic sign) on a rock with bullet of a robber or fever taking me That nocturnal meeting reminded me | the iron end of my staff, so that gods Infai s o M e of another one which 1 had in broad |or demons could not oppose our Prog- of the wilds? Who knew? - daylight several years ago with a su- | ress. I shall find it again.” And he But T did not allow gloomy thoughts to overpower my mind. Whatever | might be the future, I would not| shrink from it | op here “Do not proceed far- | were the commands of a hand. of politicians to explorers, Ori- entalist schol missionaries, savants | of all kinds. What right had they to do it? . . . Many travelers who! meant to_wander through Tibet and | to reach Lhasa had been their heads | when stopped in their way and accept- ed failure. I had taken the challenge by m oath on the “iron bridge.” I would show what a woman can do. * ok K ¥ YONGDEN was coming back. To| void the village he said there was | only one way—to cross the stream and | then follow a trail that was winding | along it. It was rather a long way, and still we could not escape passing Detween a few houses near the bridge on a tributary of the Mekong River, at the end of which began the steep path on the slope of the Kha Karpo range. We started in haste, for it was al- ady late, anl we had to tramp far that night. Was my load heavy on my shoulders? Were its rough straps tting my flesh? Yes, certainly. I velt it later on, but at that moment I was mot aware of it. I knocked my- 1f against sharp rocks. I tore my hands among thorny bushes, dead to all sensation, stiffened, hypnotized by the will to succeed During several hours we roamed in the valley, missing the road, com- TIBETAN PILGRIMS, perb tiger. “Little thing,” I murmured, looking at the graceful animal, “I have seen at close range a much bigger prince of the jungle than you. Go to sleep and be happy.” I doubt that the “little thing” un- derstood me. Anyhow, after a few minutes, its curiosity satisfled, it went leisurely away. We could not allow ourselves a longer rest. The day had broken and it was time to find a hiding place away from the trail to spend the day. 1 awakened Yongden and we went. We had just started a few minutes when, with his stick, the young man | pointed out something under the trees. “There they are,” he said. The pair of spoted fellows were truly there. They turned their heads toward us, looked at us for a little while, then went their way along the stream when we climbed the path. As we were going up the aspect of the forest changed. It was much less dense. The sun that had risen lighted the undergrowth, and through open- ings in the foliage we could see the opposite bank of the river. We no- ticed with astonishment that it seemed to be cultivated, but cultivated in a fanciful way, more according to the fashion of gardens and parks than to that of common fields. It was a glorious morning, and we enjoyed our walk so much that we continued long after the hour when we used to take shelter far out of the way of travelers who might pass. The looked on a flat stone at the foot of a fir tree. “There it is!" he triumphed. “Look I saw the roughly drawn sungpo. It silenced me for a moment. “My son,” I said, proceeding for- ward, “this world itself is but a dream, and 80— “I know,” interrupted my compan- fon. “Nevertheless, the sungpo and the ngaks (magic words) that I have uttered when drawing it have dis. pelled the mirage. It was c_(‘r[nln\y again the work of some who wished to delay us."” “Yes, like the blackbirds,” I con- tinued, laughing, *“and maybe the small leopards, too.” “Like the birds, yes,” affirmed my son, decidedly vexed; “as for the leop. ards I do not know. They looked hon- lost beasts. Anyhow, we will soon be out of these Kha Karpo forests and confront true villages instead of dreamland ones, and true men. Offi- clals, soldlers and others instead of mi ma yin. Let us see, then, if we can manage our business with them as cleverly as I have done with the folks of other worlds.” “Have no fear about it,” I answered seriously. “To that I will attend.” “How will yqu do?” he asked. “I will make them dream and see illusions,” I sald seriously, “just as mi ma yin did to us.” And so really did I a few days later when_circumstances brought us be- fore Tibetan officials. (Copyright, 1078.) DUCKETT HOUSE.