Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1925, Page 75

‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, AUGUST 30, 1925—PART 5. Woman Explores Famous Shrines The Rambler Continues His Story Of Tibet and Escapes Discovery Of the Musical Sousa Family Climax of Repeated Efforts to Enter Forbidden Precincts Reached at Last After An Important Link in the Interesting Series of Articles Describing the Old-time Musicians Successfully Posing as Member of One of Native Tribes. of the Capital City. BY ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL. | |the feet of the Tibetan pontiff, bes- WEEK has passed since you ey cHnaies z ging his protection. The King of Eng- and 1 met on this page. To “\(i'\“"\n][}.’[“";. B g oo oo land was immediately informed, of the P SR P s ey DN DUt the m_“l“]n"““h Srentiian miracle. He, of course, shared the & ramble every week, weeks e S B e feelings of his eminent subjects and pass quick. I know the tall- B ot e aany entreated the Dalai Lama to become | domed proofreader will change “pass e i e e the patron of his kingdom and to[qulek” to “pass quickly.” There is an had endeavored to reach the Tibetan grant him his help if he was ever at-{ evil habit of sticking “ly" onto almost CaGitar b bacaise D hsdtais ot facked by enemies. The compassion-|every word that serves as adverb. | lenged than out of a real desire to visit ite, exalied lama promised graciously | Many of the best writers of English it i” ot et et e o it send him his army if the security of | who know nothing about the language d o anl daaEe 1 m;”"m ““1: nd happened to be endangered. |pelieve that a word cannot qualify an Forhidaen wround. T aneant totenitel ving on stories of that kind and | adverb unless it has “ly” for a tail. | Tvselt 1n ol pos e TJO0) { misunderstanding some facts, the de-| “[y" {s a form or contraetion of old, S rould ety have e ani 1 of| tails of which are out of my present!Teuton words meaning “like” of | 1 would realiy have felt ashamed of subject, most Tibetans are convinced | “having resemblance to,” and if it ! Bl eiE heqTinow besn SRUGHD (oken] that they have in some way become | hurts your eyes or bruises your soul | L L cre anc taien Bapkato e suzerains of Great Britain. So are|to lookPat the clause “pass quick” the | horder. having had only « supe explained to them the temporary stays | Rambler will rewrite it and say that | and brief look at the outside of at Lhasa of a British political agent. eks pass quick-like Pliuos and Kerples should:not He comes. they think, to ask respect-| The yawns and ennui of turning out ERpen. on Dovould o the top fully the orders of the Lalai Lama to{a ramble a week do not concern you -‘n the Potala I v v}sn the convey them to his British ma jesty. Your only task is to look at the head- | ootk famous large, his This ost funny, of course, but | line, which owing to editorial skill gorical monasterios in the vicinity of there is to fun of that kind a side | sometimes gives a clue as to w | jLhasa. and I would withess the ro- fraught with danger for white resl-|the story s about. Then you peep at iglous ceremonies. the races, the dents all over Asia, which only those | the pictures and find them without Pugeants of the New Year foelival who have lived long in out-of-the-way | interest because not taken in the Y Dents, e {osions are able to see clearly. pirt of the city you live in. Perhaps AR havs G et it T ] % % ¥ou give your eyes the treat of sour Rerve to ‘come to them L, the y o | A FEW davs atter my visit to e | 708 02 & Sk o0 Ay | nerve to come to them from afar, the . > “ otala I went to see the Jo S s R ‘another | first of her sex and race. It was my {Khang (the house of ‘the Lord), the | CCSLors You yawn, turn to” another | well won reward after the trials of = most sacred sanctuary of Tibet. Tt} PUEE poihie. finds it hard work 1he road and those of several years of - ) = . | was bullt to shelter an ancient image| ¢, 1urn out & story every week which unsuccessful attempts. 1 intended A : 2 - | of Siddharta ma as a youth be-f . pcoriners will cut out and paste in that nobody should keep me from it S " = . fore he became a Buddha. That image | (ot serap-books The- Rawhbler] < I decided that T would fivst visit the - 3 : was made in India, and it is supposed | o0 SERERE o 0 erary | ¥ \ ~Potala. As the future was uncertain 3 3 = = |that it was carried to China toward | j,qenent consider his histéric rambles B « © AR and my incognito oprecarious, pru- | 3 the first century B.C. The Chinese |y FRERE AOTTCL B0 ol "but. there : o “d“mn‘ e dence advised me to hurry my sight- | Emperor, Thaijung T'aitsung, gave it | iie ‘fellows who hold & contrary i bbbl 4111 n‘m;“w seelng tour. As I was on my way X 3 & s |as dowry to his daughter when she|giinion It is quite discouraging to % = with Yongden, T thought that it would ol = | married the Tibetan King. Srong Tsun | {ba jtambler. He was in The Star's| be safer for me either to join some | 3 s Gampo. Among the credulous Tibe- | 1= RAMbler. U8 o8 b g through pilgrims or in some other way manage 2 i . tans many legends circulate about that | e Star file of 1852 for the purpose |~ = e = e 10 enter the pdlace with a group of b o i image and its origin. Many say that|of giving you something new and|brother of John Philip Sousa, was | S and mother of John Philip | City, Post Offic M. Sousa of veople. The unquestionable authen- \ ‘ g . it is self-sprung, and it s firmly be-| froqpy. Five or six-of the other best | buried in the lot , the noted bandmaster and com- | 631 F street southeast: Mrs. A. ¢ ticity of true Tibetan companios 3 5 ‘Im\'pd that it has spoken on several| writers on the paper were there and| The Evening Star, April 28, 1892, ser, died at the family residence, | Varela of 536 Sixth street southeas would prevent doubts of mine. Unfor- | ! - = * i oceasfons their line of talk was thus: printed this notice of the death.of | 502 Seventh street southeast, vester-|and Mrs. Bower. wife of Lieut. J tunately, we did not meet d or S g ? |, On the upper story of the edifice, “Did you read the Rambler yes-|Antonio Sousa, sr.: “After prolonged | day afternoon at 5:35 o'clock. Her cK. Bower, a reti naval office: other borderland people, 1 beside the Jowo (lord) altar, in front of | tarday?" suffering Mr. Anton Sousa died at his | death was due to general debility.|who lives in Chica miready resigned to proceed with | which burn thousands of lamps. exist aw residence in this city, vesterday, of a | Mrs. Sousa was 82 years old and had Mrs. Sousa was a member «¢ Yongden alone when T noticed two | & large number of rooms that conta Neither did I : resident of this city since Protestant Episcoy b men, wearing the plain white coarse . | images of deities and of holy men “T read one of them things once ; Up to about three months ago |on G street southeast,and has alwayvs serge dress of villagers, strolling a 5 e It is a strange sight, that of the|.nd had the hives for a week.’ and came to this 4 and be- | she was more than ordinarily active | been active in the charitable work of little distance from the first gate. - £ {erowd of pilgrims perambulating si ‘They're poison oak to me. came a member of the Marine Band.|and was accustomed to a daily walk, | that parish. She visited the sick anc “Let us take these two with us,” T | - S {lently in the dark, windowless edif “Jimmie Smith read one once and|from which he was retired in 1879 | but about that time she began to fail | needy constantly and did much t ®aid to Yongden . . | between these motionless personages, [ has been a cripple ever since.” | with the rank of musician, first class. | and grew weaker until her death help them. Mrs. Sousa was espe “How could we ask them such a which many are life size. The yel-{ " “I heard that one of our oldest|He was a member of Naval Lodge,| “Mrs. Sousa was a native of Ger-|cially proud of her son John Philip. thing?” he replied. “‘Maybe they do | HOMES IN THE SOUSA BLOCK OF WASHINGTON. " p |lowish light of the butter lamps adds | subscribers started to read one of | No. 4, F. A. A. M., and of George ! many, having been born in Hesse | the famous bandmaster ir last not wish to go to the Pota ¢ to the strangeness of the spectacle.|them things and not only fell asleep meeting was two weeks ago. “Let us try.” I continued. “They g o 2 | Although the statues are of no artistic | hut fell out of the second-story win- | has been notified of i Jook just the dear, stupid fel. | | interest whatever, a special impression | dow. And he didn't wake up even ix death and will arrive in t ows whom we need LADY OF THE PROVINCE OF U (TIBET), WHOSE CAPITAL IS LHASA. |emanates from these many faces. im-| when he hit the ground v funeral se s Wednesday In a few words I instructed Yong-|— e ————— | mutably serene, from these eves whose | “I don't know how true it is, but in the chapel at «len about the part he was to play. too often at me, lest he should laugh | milliner who had made it for me. No|8aze seems turned inside instead of | Billy Brown told me that he once | gressional Cemetery, Rev. Arth * % % ¥ aloud. doubt a human being had lost if, but | 100king at external objects, and which | knew a man who read one of those | Hoe BB, Cl At last 1 reached the upper terrace, | why just at that place? Jocularly, mgy (1¢ll of a mystic method that estab- | rambles almost through.” N JUST at that time a group of work- | which is occupied by the Chinese pa- | companion said that one of my invisi- | lishes the mind in an everlasting calm.| “That reader was guilty of criminal | * % ¢ men came along, carrying huge | villon, whose elegant, glittering roof |ble friends had pulled it down from | I felt saddened at beholding the pro- | negligence. But, then, Dick Brown 3 » Band bega trunks of trees.. People threw them.| had appeared to me the day I arrived |the load of a traveler to present it to | Cession of worshipers lost in super. | never could get anything straighter o the White selves hurriedly aside to be out of |from China, announcing that the goal |me—a kingly gift indeed! I let him |Stition. who are exactly following the [ than an eyewitness. 4 | Capitol in 1854. At the their way, and Yongden took that op- | was near. Jest at will, washed the bonnet, and | path that was condemned by the very “Now, the stuff you are writing for the concert seasor portunity. to give a push in the back | After a few hours I went down, and carried it in my luggage jone to the memory of whom they pay | the paper attracts wide attention and leader, but on July 11, ©f one of the peasants. then only a pilgrim seemed to realize| A week after 1 noticed that I was|respect—"beings led "by ignorance,| it is very good, considering your limni- : i & |'Scata ' became leader: ' He “Atsil” he exclaimed politely. “I|that there was something unusual in|the only woman to wear my Loutze.|Who tramp since fathomless ages the | tations of intelligence, but the s'uff Speali e e | been fife ma r leader of the band not see you | my appearanc 1 heard him saying |kiang headgear. \We had crossed a |sorrowful road to renewed birth and|that I am putting over the city 5 | before Pons. Great ndmothers Yo harm, lama,” answered the|to his friénds, “Whence could she be|pass, and in the country we had en- | deaths ls the best copy turned out in (he and _grea ifathers of some of man. coming?” " But at once he himself|ered it looks conspicuous. People be-| The first creeping in of Westerr,|United States. When a publlsher i | the Rambl ““Where are you from?” inquired my | found the answer—*“She must be a|gan to question me about my n civilization at Lhasa 1 be seen in | who knows anything u!vr:(n‘xuo d“l“" 5 : | courting coup! A nse concerts companion, with the patronizing tone | Ladaki” (from Ladak, in western Ti-|land. The time had come for which |the shape of soldiers clad in khaki. 1I|ing gets wise to the work, tam 0“_':'1([ - Antonio Sousa ving the tror of a full-fledged denizen of the capital | bet), he concluded. the plain, well known Kham bonnet | really enjoved seeing them, headed by | the salary I draw down Vere ’ me in the b Epeaking to country folk. So we went out, having reached the | was intended. As soon as I began a_ band which played, not too badly, |look like peanut shells ) S . Siiten ‘They told the name of their village, | top of the domineering Potala and en- | wear it all questions and curiosity | English tunes, marching in a swagger. * * ¥ % g G end informed us that they had come |joyed the beautiful sight of Lhasa, its about me ended. Later 1 had a|ing way and out of time with the HE Rambler was telling you last | : g . ed o Lhasa to scll barley, had finished | temples and monasteries, Iying at our | new reason t i 1 had to|music. They are armed with old Eng. Sunday of John Philip Sousa. He 3 * 3 4 Marine Bar i tin cer their business and thought only to en- | feet like a white, red and gold carpet | cross high pas: weiers and [ lish guns that are still up to date in|told yvou when and under what cir-| s i , monies and jior themselves a little in the big city |spread in the valley snow, when the blizzard raged avound | Most parts of central Asia. and even | cymstances John Philip's father and % - Antonio S I ced eab before leaving on the morro The two count en were delighted Then the poor fur-lined honnet | possess a few picces of mountain artil- { mother, Antonio and Elizabeth, came 3 . h 3 netmaking ir little wooden house “You are going to meet—ithia is a | They profusely thanked the good ept my head and ears warin and pro-|lery that are carried on muleback. | to Washington, where they lived in 3 o & | he built facing I street, next his hor vespectful way of speaking of a visit |and offered him a few copper coins as | tected me against frost and wine They are immensely proud of them, | the southeast section, and he told vou ¢ 1 z ‘"B | on the southeast cor Seventh 1o a holy place)—the Potala,” sald|a token of gratitide and reverence. | ) A ind air the short, fat, toad-like weap-| that John Philip was born November 6 3 J o : 1 and E southeast ‘Yongden, as if he knew it certainly. “All {s well,” said Yongden as we'J BT us come back to Lhasa. In|©NS at any time and out of time, as if | 1354, in the brick house now No. 636 : 1 | along he taught The men confessed they did not in- | went away ‘I have prevented them 14 5 they were pet dogs. One of them |G street southeast The ambler i 4 | John's progress stend to do so. They had met it on|from drinking and they have served |ine Dalaj Lama does mot habitually | JUISt Killing several men, but the uc-{could rewrite all he told vou last [ leasing to him several other occasions. Then Yong- |us well.” | Gwell there. e goes there at the | cident did not lessen the admiration | Sunday, and, although it would seem i : | his father to plas den. talking with the authority of one | He put the coins in the hands of a{{inia of certain festivals, but his true |04t the Lhasa pas (people of Lhasa) | brand-new to you, he has so many 3 2. e jon the violin he of the monks of the Potala, told them | blind beggar, and a third one rejoiced. | ofdonce is situated outside the town | ¥¢ f0r those which remain. In that | Sousa facts in his note-book that he 3 s g s ¢ |John Esputa 3 5 mbout the religious merits that such a But it seems to me that far away |y . park called Norbuling (the jewel | blessed country occurrences of that | will not take any more space in tell- @3 g ¥ . - west corner ‘of ghth and E south Visit produced, and that New Year |volces are raised and I hear faintly | {.nd and. by extension. the jewel K74 4re even sometimes believed to be | ing vou what he wrote about last | - TESIGe & w\_n\t, = block east of the Sousa home. was the proper time to perform meri- | their questions: “What about that | 1ica or quarter). p jauspicious. In this connection I can | Sunday ¢ | e i SeveR Lt S antier the torlous deeds. Rather than loitering |bonnet? Why do you ‘nearly believe' |V Gonia Houses are scattered in that |48 @ fact which happened during| There is a granite monument in b - 3 little John was not a marvel on the 4n the street and drinking spirits in|that it has been given to You by . The rooms of one of them are L B Congressional _Cemetery inscribed [ 3 | l\xwhnh:n]r!vrvr(' nd 1 his prac the public houses, they ought to pay |friends belonging to another world” | furnished according to different civies “Antonlo Sousa, born September 22, A s ‘}kr, (vn‘w; £ that Pro yeverence to the Potala shrines. Why have vou not told about it be-|or ar Jeast what Tibetans beliove to IT is the custom during the first | R34 died April 27, 1882 "'“_;“d‘_f"(; [ ST o mede Assuming an air of profound com-|fore?” I beg to be excused. Fourteen | p. different tyles, One room they onth of the vear to cast lots ana | EiZabeth, born May 20, 1826,° died 5 e Clhotigs b IO eRTn et e passion and kindness. he added that years of adventures cannot he related | oy English ro another Indian, | to look in many ways for omens re. | AUSUSt 23. 1908." A number of other AY . 3 . | ey oNeL pn el &8 they had been brought in his w n six articles, and what T have Writ- | nother, again, the Chinese room, and | garding the prosperits or il Tnck ther | ent customers were Between pra 2 spite of the splendor of the Potala interments have heen made in that PRI the Tosanos Tobs ees 10 ci a 7 : : i ot $60 three children were vears old, and the little sto he was willlng to lead them around the | ten is only a part, a very small part |15 on {he flai roof of the bUding |1 (0 come 1o (e vate. m.(.,_,ny‘i‘,:ri,,,l'f‘h‘.,'l."?\;,UD‘ remains had boen Tat Tt s et shrines and to tell them the names |indeed. of what I have to say. AnY-liiand the gilded ornaments called |to the person of the Dalal bay hoved! fromyanatber cemetery.| jIn Rambler 1 ©nd storles of the deities. That was, | how, I will briefly relate the Story of | zvaitsen, emblematic of power and| One Of the omens iu obtalmed in a | ToMOVed \ | victory, the courtiers of the Dalai|rather strange way. Three ton 6 8 nd 76 ee ch! e H i hen of course, a wonderful opportunity. | that bonnet. which has been of N e e B iy e two simpletons 1 eiv - success wre | were buried there. In ) L1891, ; X The faces of the two simpletons were | Lielp in my sucees Lama repeat to satiety hefore him ok anafiin oas off dicihe o | Loopuriedtiere h November 2L Rambler lacks the beaming, and they followed the lama, * x % “All these various rooms—English is shut K ahatiant e . 5 4 i b i i y D90 SYATALS S0ONIS-SRMERAN 8 A cock, a goat and sband of Elizabeth Sousa, sister of N again. You have some othe rejolcing and thankful. Like all Ti WING to reasons too long to ex-| (hinese, Indian, and so on—are under se beasts bear, hung around the .“y‘,‘;’{,’,‘ln-v‘xl.:‘ D e poria ttare >~ 3 whose conscience t betans, they. were very religlous. plain here, 1 started from China the Tibetan roof, where stand the Ti-|necks, charms which have heen blessed | 1y Mag, 1892 Antonio Sousa, & X At ottt ower sminded without a hat. T had rolled ap old red | betan gyaltsen, and so, also, Tibet is | by the Dalai Lama. A number of men — ~ : 5 Eilce . Stiie menct oo ehind them. full of confidence. I|girdle around my heud to iniitate the |above all nations and you are the high- | must fire at the tents, and if ane of | : 1 vicious, knack of telling the sar chimbed the long flight of steps and!kind of turban which is worn by some |est among all rulers the animals is wounded or killad it |people of rank surrounded by attend- story a number o or oftener xeached an upper gate. The three|women of the Loutzekiang, the coun T have been told that the Tibetan|means that calamities are u\\'anm;:\p holding Chinese lanterns, high » ™ a John went to scth the Wallac men walked in first, strong in the su-|try from which I passed to the part of | clerical king smilés and takes pleasure | and its ruler. In that case the {ecclesiastics with clerical followers, the 3 and was a bright in reading erlority of the male. I was to follow | Tibet in revolt against China. We had |in these flatteries. One may doubt |monks of the three grest monasteries i representative of the Nepal Mahara writing, arithmetic, geograpl \umbly. But a boy, a 10 or 12 year |already tramped for about one month. | that he takes them seriously. He has | S alden and Dépung. must as-land many others, clergy, nobility, > history.” (I find that I have S et arahotk and fat, | when one evening in a forest we found heen twice in exile—first in China and |semble and during 20 days read the | wealthy traders and their women folk, a line in my notes) John v ace, nose and large |an old fur-lined bonnet like those worn | then in India, and must have learned |sacred scriptures and perfor several | all dressed ¢ best, laughing, all e R - } 10/ schodl at. secondary sc ars, looking like a gnome in a cleri- | by the women of Khau. - Tibetan trav- | there many things about the world |ceremonies to counteract the M o | oL dressed in their best, laughing N T oaaAom of e B | Darssindt e B Shercol cal robe twice too large for his size, |eicrs consider it bad luek to pick up Tibet. But if the ruler is per-|of the deities. st g w5e g public. He leaves a widow and seven | to this country with her parents in|His teacher there was * k * ¥ children. The funerll will occur Fri- | 1846 and resided in Brooklyn, N. Y..|gson and in 1865 Miss i stopped me. e was acting there as|hat that has fallen on the ground.|haps aware of his true situation, it 18 | The venr i DalsthaCohon delon on heue re orh ey S Te year Ty | YONGDEN ana 1 went with the|day at 3 pm. from Christ Church, [until her marriage to Mr.' S Hitlo Tk & pricoifor oo r ity | 2 at Third and A streets ! . 1t the tents, instead bring them misfortune, they think.ito whom most extraordinary stories 3 the al number. headgear not being allowed inside the |On the other hand, to find a boot, no | are told ahout the ness of the | English, Chinese and Tibetan guns Potala matter how worn out it is, is a good | Dalai Lama and the pe n in which fwere ‘used. Gne of the lutter bapet What a calamity! 1 had on | ari ani he stands before Great Britain. Very {and the man who had fired it wae | voungsters might have done, the fun that to these bonnets the Potala was | yongden. who-wa ihead, lifted | likely the Court of Lhasa spread severely wounded and died the next |of being there. When at last the time forbidden ground. as it was< to mysel )« W s pilg 1 L hsura P 1 order o e s 1€ B o s e e vl i i il L R S ,'\'J e 4 {came to go back to our hovel we no-f The Ivening Star. August 24, 1908, | cert Band: George W. Sousa, a_re- | (et (her o i ookl = e ) mine a4 long time, ever|threw it on side of o ravine along | prestige of the Dals wi. to which e et thabiho. to A tigan Mt} S E e Stars 2 - 1 > W. So L re- | ahou ¥ B atle &ince it had been sent to me—TI nearly |which we were:proceeding. The bon.|its own is bound en after that pr ."',',;’;’.L:" it | ticed on our way that the streets which e S e Vo D Rl L, Hnelcian, Boly g at Newport | acheol and T hope ) hilks Ahigrelof s ¥ e Thley s vhich g he | : A L 2 olonge . was | 5 path of Mrs. o Sousa: s. | News, Va.; onio Sousa of 617 {gp 00" I ) S which Rove s heliove—by some frignds from an in-| net did not go far down, nor did It | 1 will venture to relate ope of these |considered as most anspiious i 1hs | ought to have been well lighted by the Elizaboth Sousa. widow of Antonio | G street Sogtheact, an employe of the W s Sett iy oy isil orld. to provide me with 4 | tauch the grot It flew a little like |stories, as it is a rather amusing one. |accident which brought the death of | full moon wers growing darker and : much enjoy. 1 find that T have nes. ’:":‘1 usefu] piece of disguise. It shel-|a bird if I may use that| At the time when the Dalai Lama man added greatly to the confi- {darker. Wheat meant that? We are k¢ 7 |r<‘)n~d to get for vou the names o ;‘ s 1'“& v;."(‘ 51” T } ore p - word ‘.,-‘ o “mk ‘uf ;‘w-v‘lhwn\ was in ;nrl;n rw[ happened to »T the | de nce ot the ‘Tibstans regarding the | (ectotalers,. and could mot have the 4 ‘h'&'\l’é;y'."fl-”‘,"( ‘x g ;:h ?( Vg:rv;h.\'\ ected against detection wher t e that had fallen down went tojguest of the vicerov. Once, being|welfare of the lama king. The un:|same reason as mest of the Lhasa pas 1866 and 1870 teachers n my heac At now e D Wan Lol Brespsof icenoy. Once, ek [yeln . . - | same reason a; Lhasa pi SSHEn s 187 taocticos énere gn my head Wh Cira) peoalr |take It with a_strange bremonitors |seated with him and many’ distin: | fortinate’ commoner. thew thodent: | had st eqemak 1o bave. the SIERt ob were William W, McCathran, precer gl b kel hrown | feeling that, ugly-looking, dirty and|guished guests in a large drawing|had been taken by some angry demon | scured. Reaching & square, we Rarkos Roys. Fra Myan shade. The Chinese ink 1 used as dye | worn out as it was, the bonnet would | room, he stretched his two arms, and, |4 1 substitute for the more ,,.‘u,',‘,ur: H\"I“(l e m.‘T; .‘\h::zdu\\ ||lv & R ’:T;mrks Roys. Frances Elvans, Ad i had been worn hefore 1 reached | he of great use to me, indeed that it |behold! on h of his palms, turned |existence of the ruler the moon.. Tt was the Besinning ‘ol | Thompeon L 'I d!m\-‘: E Lhasa, and in my present dwelling, | had been sent to me upward, appeared one of the hills of | A very famous festival takes place | air orlinee, and soon we hoard a nofse i, Josephine Bird, Symphror doorkeeper, and he ordered me rudely | aven if it is their own. That hat will | not the same with the common folk, | shots were fired Navy AYands anasthe e ina willhol Thes fecrard mored 6 b d, and e R, oe ey aftes b B duct and punctuality. Somehow to take off my fu 1 honnet, suc r-li net, such erowd, running, jostling and push-} s o lorarily placed in vault. Mr.|ton. Mr. Sousa died 16 years ago.|Rambler gets the impression that John ing like everybody else, enjoying, as|Sousa was the father of J. P. Sousa. | Mrs. Sousa is survived by four sons | o "ot Srone in his studies. . When leader ‘of the Marine Band, who is |and two daughters, John Philip Sousa, 330 37T RIWS 0 LS Stedies. Vhe now making a tour of the West with | £ r Jeader of ithe United \States | Gy tiand puctaality it seerns to arpie a new band.” rine Band and now of Sousa's Con- | gy 4 e e iiin Swith cracks v through i hors conld peep at any time. | b heen able to darkey it anew no longer matched the jet black yuk ids that T wore, and these had gradually Jost a large part until they had beco duced to the size ¢ t i They were all right. however, 1 the bennet on. They s - fore heai enough to repre hair dress of some dol now that I had Jittle toad and take knew that ! locked funn «lown who he clrcus of the world. [ JOWEVER. escar lly“» id my bo 1 dress. ws 1 was ordered jo, and rejoined yy companions. Yongden had lin gered a little, waiting for me. At the tirst glance, tricken with te or, he opened a routh and hardly sup- pressed an exclamation “What have yvou done?” he said in di Who took your bonnet |wa, s “T am not allowed to proceed with §t on." I answered hurriedly You lock ke demon.” he con. tvinued, trembling. “I never saw such & face In my life. Evervbody will stare at you. A little more and T should have ried. 1 derived some comfort from the utmost indifference of the two vil- Jagers, who did not mnything wrong or peculiar in my ap- pearance, and listened eagerly to their guide, who related to them stories about gods, holy men and Dalai Lam: of yore. Others joined them, com smenting on the profound learning of the kind lama. I followed with the growd, jostling along the corridors, rteep staircases and narrow shrine oors, and none of them looked at my extraordinary head. T was tie only one to feel it, d T bezun v the Sun myself. As for Yonzic Hittle peassured pow, he did not dare Lo look | Yongden did not t all appreciate | our find and did not see anything won- derful in it | “Some pilgrim.” he said, “put it on the top of the load he carried on his back and it has fallen down. 1. of course, did not go so far as to | think that a goddess had been the | | Lhasa. On one hand one could see the Potala, on the other the great medical college of Chok bu ri (the tent-shaped hil). At the sight of such a wonder the Englishmen were struck with awe and reverence, and all of them, with the viceroy at their head, fell on their knees and bowed down at HOUSES OF THE POORER PEOPLE OF LHASA. THE WALLS ARE BUILT WITH HORNS AND BONES OF SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS, -| marched past the dazzling butter edi- euach vear at Lhasa on the evening of {the full moon of the first month, | Light wooden structures of a large size are entirely covered with orna ments and images of gods, men and animals, all n ie in butter, dyed in different colors. These frail structures | are called tormas. In front of each of | them many bu r lamps burn on a S| altar, That nocturnal feast is nt to entertain the gods, just ps on the roofs of ples. I very much emjoyed that part c the Year merriments. As soon as | darkness had come and the lamps be. { ®an to be lighted Yongden and I went to the Pa Kor. A dense crowd was jthere, waiting for the Dalai Lama, | Who was'to go around to inspect the {tormas. T had more than once s en | big Tibetan gatherings, but I went | through them with servants and other {attendants, who made a way for me. This was my first experience of being :bart of the erowd mysel A group of sturdy gian cowmen lad in sheepskin, holding each other, n for joy in the deepest of the rong, their big fists belaboring the s of those whom bad luck had wced on thefr way. Policemen, irmed with long sticks and whips, | | growing more and more excited as the | oo the Dalai Lama’s coming ap- proached, used their weapons indis- criminately against anybody. Then |some more policemen appeared, fol- jlowed by soldiers, the knocking, beat- ing, boxing increased, some women screamed. others laughed. At last there remained along the walls of the | bouses that confranted the tormas only a few rows of people, more tight- | ly pressed against each other than tinned sardines. The whole Lhasa garrison was un- der arms. Infantry and cavalry !fices, lighted up by thousands of amps. In a sedan chair covered with ellow brocade the Dalai Lama passed n his turn. For a long time after he bad gone private processions passed—! of béeating drums and cauldron that the good people made to frighten the gon which was trying to swallow the nocturnal luminary. The eclipse was total. I observed it during the night, and it was the most interesting one that 1 had ever witnessed. “This is still better than the curtain of sand before the Potala the day of our arrival,” said Yongden jocularl “Now our gods are screening the moo so that we could not be seen too dis- tinetly. 1 think you had better ask them to stop there their kind protec- tion of our incogn they might come to put out the sun! Whatever may have been the pro- on with which I was favored, the | day came again when the safety of my incognito was endangered and I had to defend it in my own way. 1 was looking in the market when policeman stopped next me and «d at me intently. He did not but observed me with deep at- tention. Why? Maybe he only won- dered from what part of Tibet I might be, but it was better to foresee the worst. A new battle was to be fought and I started it, by heart beating rather quickly, but brave, as usual. I chose among the things for sale an_aluminum saucepan, and I began to bargain over it with that ridiculous obstinacy shown by the people of the half-wild tribes of the borderland. I offered an absurd price and talked nonsense in a loud voice, hardly stop- ping to-breathe. People around the open-air shops began to laugh, to ex- change jokes about me. - The cowmen and women of the northern solitudes are a habitual subjeet of mockery for the more civilized Lhasa pas. '‘Ah!” said the merchant, half laugh- ingly, half irritated by my continuous twaddle, “you are a true dokpa, there can be no doubt about it.” And all présent ridiculed the stupid woman who knew nothing beside her cattle and the grass of the desert. The policeman had gone, ' amused like everybody else. (Copyright, 1925.) | Lusby and Kate Morphy. Perhaps al | these knew John Sousa, and several o | them must have had a hand in “shap }ing the plastic mind of youth,” bend { ing the twig as the tree should grow | and all ths fA John Philip got in his teens he | hung to the violin and began | blow the trombone with a zeal th | unnerved neighbors on 1t nex square. When he was 15 years old he | enlisted in the Marine Band and pl ed the trombone. Some of his admirers {in the Southeast say that as a trom jbone playver John was a disappoint ment to his fathe One of his old friends on the Nuavy Yard looked at | the Rambler with sad eves, wagged { his head dolefully and said Johr s about the worst trombone player }l have heard.” Years ago the Ram | bler wrote this, "here seems to have ! been resentement in the neighborhood against John's trombone. Some of the neighbors said that John was run ning down the price of real estate in that part of Washington John seemed to realize, and his friends urged him to the realization thz# he never would become President eplaying the trombone, and he be came more dutiful to his violin. In addition to his lessons with Prof. Johr Esputa. he took up the study of ha mony with a Mr. Benkert of George town, and, by the way, the Rambler must get some information of that celebrated old teacher for use in this set of stori ‘When John was young quite handsome and very pper he left the M ine Band and Washington for a place as a violin player in o Philadelphia theater orchestra. Soon me the leader of that orches Next, he moved to New York as an orchestra leader and a little later “went on the road” with Offen bach’s Orchestra, a famous band. Of course, I mean to tell you when and how John became leader of the Marine Band. sand composed® “The Queen of Hearts,” which was put on at Albaugh's in April. 1886, 1 ou will h:i)'e to wait until nex