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These pagodas and heaps of debris here and there
are all that is left of four Lama monasteries and
temples, without the walls. Passing the outer
wall <>f the city, ami meeting only a few
houses, the inner and mam wall i^ reached.
This i> much better built and preserved than the
outer one, and surrounds the inner, closely-built
town, which has as a nucleus in its center tin old
imperial Manchu palace. This ha-- upon its
northern side two towers, one containing a large
bronze bell, and the other a large
drum, which once gave the time
of tin- day to the populace.
In the recent imperial procla
mation of the Emperor of Japan
it will he remembered that a
peculiar stress was laid upon a
declaration guaranteeing that
u> desecration <>r profanation of
the sacred tombs, of any kind
whatever, would lie permitted
by the Japanese invading forces
in the event of their occupation
or capture of this sacred city.
111.
O\K day when I was talrin 1 Mrs.
Thurlow out to the Pocabontas
Club," said Charles the Chauffeur,
"she asked me how I'd like to go with her on an
automobile trip to St. Louis to see the World's
Pair. I told her I was ready to take an automo
bile iri]> around the world or to the moon with
her, if she said the word. Think of
travelin' hundreds of miles along
country roads with a lady that made
your heart jump up and hit you on
the tonsils every time she looked you
in the eyes!
"1 .an see thai he's gettin' to Kan
hi me more and more every day,
and although 1 ain't anyways what
you might call conceited I'd have to
In- pretty blind not to notice that
she wants to tak< the St. Louis trip
just to have a chance to be alone with
me. It” wonderful what .1 woman
ran think of when she mikes
up her mind to give a feltow a
I to w ind in time
win her love, .■ h<- wants to
"It I'.ilict only knew ii I'm
ready to be the man i>i her brown
stone trout any t\a\ . but I must
keep on malcin' her anxious Women
want the things they're afraid they can't
get. Once when I v.iv clerkin 1 in a grocery
store there was a woman i<.mc in for a water
melon. We had a lot of good ones, l>ut she looked
at them all, and couldn't make up her mind which
one to take After awhile 1 rolled one of them out to
one side, sort of careless.
"'I don't want thai one.' she says, turnin' up her
no c it it.
"Very well, ma'am. ' says I. 'I was only puttin* it
out of the way because it's sold
"She made up her mind right smack off thai if she
couldn't have thai melon she wouldn't lake any. and
offered us ten tents extra for it.
"After that, whenever a woman come in for a melon
I'd put the poorest little one away and pretend it
was sold. They'd always want that one. and think
we done them a favor by lettin' them have it for an
extra price. It's the same with men as with
melons. Let a j^irl think she can't have you. and all
you've got to do is agree to let the children be brought
up in her church.
"So 1 must keep on for awhile yet lettin' Juliet
think I'm the melon that's laid away for somebody
else. I think I'll have to make love to Sadie, her
maid, a little just for practice and to keep Juliet
gettin' anxiouser about me.
"There's one tiling that bothers me some, though.
1 don't know how I'll ever have the nerve to give
orders to Mr. Cavendish, the butler, after I get to be
his master. That man makes me think I need quinine
every time I gel anywhere near him. I think alter
the weddin' I'll get Juliet to let me have her place
m the country. Then I'll have four or live cows on
it and send Cavendish out to take care of them, and
whenever I ain't too busy helpin' Juliet to make it
pleasant for society, I'll go out and watch him weanin"
the calves. I ain't much of a joker myself, but I can
enjoy a good thing with the best of 'em. and Cavendish
has a few comin' to him that I'm gain' to deliver.
"Well, as me and Juliet was zippin' along nice and
proper. goin' about thirty-live an hour, and the
Rambler never strainin' a bolt, out comes a flock of
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JUNE 5. 1904
This guaranty will be jealously ;m<l effectively ob
served by tin- Japanese <>n accotml ol the importance,
not i iily for sentimental and rengiooß reasons, to thr
Chinese directly and to tluin
selves indirectly (being, too,
ancestral worshipers), Mit
also f'>r mi>st powerful po-
sheep about five or six. hundred yards away, tillin'
the road from fence to fence.
"'Oh. pshaw!' says Juliet. 'Now we're .<,'"in' to lose
time, and I wanted you to make the run in thirty- ■
minutes from the park. Bertie
Flippemfike did it in thirty-four
with his new Locomoco day be
fore yesterday, and is boasting
around that it's going to be the
record for the season. We had
such a lovely <tart, too. 1
"'Don't worry about that.'
says I. *1 1 looks to me as th« mgh
there might be a good -deal of
activity in the mutton business
ri^'ht away.'
"It was still rainin' sheep
when we .... the bend nearly
half a mile up the road; bui sta h
things always make more or less
trouble. We losi about ten
minutes white I was tryin' t.« pet
the wool out of the geartn*.
Mr. C.v.-mli-K although I will say th.it Juliet
was patient about it. I felt like
fjnin' back to bump the fool of a farmer who had
drove the critters in our way; but the lady said:
"'No, Charles, never cripple anybody just for your
own satisfaction. If you have t>- run over people
when you are trying to break reconls, thai is a different
thing It's an act of Providence if they v?<-t m front
of you then, and your conscience can't wake you up
in the night to ask you bothersome questions about it.
Bui 1 could never feel just right again if I let you turn
back on purpose to run over a person A human being
is a human being, even though he couldn't tell the
difference between a condenser and a spark switch.'
"It was no use to hurry after
we'd got started again, for we couldn't
break Bertie's record that
trip, anyway; so Juliet
wanted to turn off and ■„">
around by the Camelback
road A «en of the club
people had tried it. l>ut
none of them ever got up
the hill.
'" ' If an automobile can
go up there,' she says,
lookin' at me with
the love hangin'
right out of her l>ij^.
munificent eyes. '1
know you i an make
the Rutnbler do it,
Charles '
"So we switched When 1 LoohedUpMy
oil. and alter whiz- Head Was on li«.-r L..p
zin down a long
Stretch for about three miles, without hardly a
swerve, except once when we run over a colt, we come
to the hill that had Stopped them all. It was nearly
Straight Up and down, or at least it looked that way
from oil a piece. When you got to it it wasn't quite
so bad, although it was about as steep as the roof of
a barn. I started for it full speed, and we'd got about
halt -way up when Juliet give a scream.
"A team of horses without any driver was comin'
down toward us, rinunu' away. She probably wouldn't
Tht- Cily Ci.lt at T-.it-.iKKi. r
litkal motives. It necessarily must be of the ■/• t
importance to Japan to maintain the be 1
most friendly relations with the Imperial i ,c
Government while the present great stru^l. 1
the Russian Government is going on.
The occupation sndpiol .n
of .Mukden will secure < >c ,
moral support as lon -,
Chinese neutrality is matnt 1.
and would facilitate ao
ante for the future wh
no doubt contemplated jr
Japan, in case of Japai
■access.
While Mukden is ha: i!
any strategic or military
portame. yet on the othtr
II possession and that of ;
While Mikilen is I
y strati-ijn- or mifil
rtaa cr, yet on the otb
possession an<l tha"
UNDO! tni.^ht prevent a I
of neutrality against the nats
in possession, which louM rta
ily retaliate against China
desecrating, and profaning her
Holy of Holies.
of minded it so much if there had been a man
in the wagon. But it always seems t ■■• :• ■ .
such a waste to get in mix-ups where then
no people to be smashed.
"I don't s'pose man than i>ne man ■
of a million would ol got along in a case like that will
out loan' his bead, though I never Eke to boa I i'
myself But there's one thing to always mnetl
never lei a hone know you're afraid ol him. That - .
lesson I got from my Uncle John when I was a fc v 1
bein' a blacksmith. He could shoe horses that w
kick other people through the roof, because he'd v... .
risjht up and show em' has confidence bygrabbin' 'ena I i
the legs before they had a chance to make up the
minds whether they wanted him to or nor.
"I remember there was a man by the name of
Rooks had a horse he called Gypsy, because he goi
him in a trade from the Gypsies, That horse had k
ed an anvil through a window in one shop where tl
tried to shoe him and another rime he picked a bta
smith np and flung hhn out the door, where he Ei
a top buggy that was goin' past with the Com
Judge in it. When they took htm to Uncle John he •
started in to let the brute know he ha I mci his ma I
by loolrin' hhn in the eve. Gypsy I"ok<d back kind >f
thoughtful for a minute or so, and then seemed t
><■<• h<.w it was ;'tid wiggled his ear- soil ol friendh
S< > Uncle John goi the tools nd stooped over to catc
hold ol a leg, when a'l ol a sudden the horse grabKc
hhn between the shoulders, broke the hitchm' strai
and after kickhT a hnle througa the bellows, started ->•■
"He run around the meethV house a few ■
with Uncle John yelfin' foj help, and then rtt d
toward home. Hut he must ol goi tired, for he
threw Uncle John through the side ol Hen Sisson's
corn-crib, after goin' about a mik and a half, and
they found hhn there, with hardly anything the
matter, except one rib broke. Uncle John claimed
the trutiMe happened because he goi a cinder in his
eye the day fore and wasn't in shape to give the
horse the n-^ht kind of .i look.
"So I kept right iTp the hill, and the runaway
team comra' like a South Dakota widow on her
way back to dear old New- York. Juliet hadn't time
to give more than the
one little squeal before
it was all over: an. I
don't know exactly how
it happened myself;
but when I looked up
my head was
on her 1a p .
and she was 4
brushin' m y
hair back with
one of her soft
little hands.
The Humbler
was tipped
over on one side, and the
Iran was scattered in about a
dozen parts farther down the hill.
"I pose the trouble was that
the horses didn't happen to
notice my expression. j
"We had to walk the rest of the way to the cW _^
bat it wasn't far. and it was worth a lot to see thi^B
kind look on Juliet's face and hear what she said ■
about me bavin' the blood of a true sportsman in me I
■"That's one thing winch always discouraged me I
with poor, dear Alfred.' she said. speakhV about her M
dead husband "You couldn't have made a real ■
sportsman out of him any more than you could m..ke M
a Bring machine out ol a pair of suspended "' ■