The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-08

foot of the throne whenever they desire
audience with this autocrat OF auto
Gratis.
Carefully creeping along. we
snapped our cameras on the palace OF
Earth's Repose. The slrubbery at this
point was very thick and we succeeded
in getting within about a hundred
yards of this buildings near as we
dared 60 In the Palace of Earths
Repose' the empress holds her court
ard full sway over the imperial haren-
The building is surrounded by a pretty
flower garden and is very beautiful; IL
is buil1 on small hill and from ITS
roof the unfortunate inmates can just
see the roofs of some of the high build
ings outside the prohibited city
In that building the emperor has
over $50 concubines. Manchu maidens
are usually selected. Every three years
a grand inspection of the high Tartar
mobiles is held, and the emperor Sc
lects their faireSt daughters, who
henceforth, until the age of %, are
held gilded prisoners. If the FORUM
ate 90 captive should bear son to
her imperial master, her term behind
the high walls is for life. But when
the concubine reaches the prescribed
age, if she has had no children, she is
free to return to her parents, who, in
the meantime, she has never been per-
the harem are slaves, and it is alleged
that there are no less than 500 of these
miserable creatures within the sacred
precincts of the Kin Ching.
Duncan and l secured two very
good photographs of the Palace of
Earths Repose. a copy of which L
have given you. That picture is the
first ever taken of the buildings that
are enclosed by the two square miles
of yellow topped walls that surround
the Prohibited City and to the best
Of my knowledge, it is the only one
in existence.
But to continue. Consulting my
watch, / found that he would not have
time to take any more views that
morning; it was almost time for the
debris cart to leave the grounds. So,
carefully making our way through the
thick shrubbery and trees, we retraced
our steps and were soon at the place
where we had crawled out of the cart.
"Anxiously we waited. At last we
heard its wheels on the gravel road,
and it soon came in sight. To our
amazement, it was loaded to the top
with all sorts of refuse; there wasn't
simultaneously, Duncan and I, and
stared hopelessly one at the other. How
were we to escape?
AT last Duncan spoke. We'll, sup
pose We'll have to make the best of 1t.
Let's see if we can't find a tree that
grows near enough TO that peaked
wall to permit us to get on it; then we
will have to take chances of being seen
when we drop off on the other side. 1t
was the best we could do, so we crept
slowly and cautiously around the in
side of the yellow wall.
we had proceeded thus for perhaps
an eighth of a mile when we ran
square into the arms of four of the
most 'abject travesties upon manhood
I have ever seen. By their dull-colored
/ garments, cringing and hang-dog man
ner. we knew they were slaves. Their
actions after they discovered US we
considered remarkable; for, instead of
raising a hue and cry, one of them
raised his finger warningly, and after
+ enjoining caution, babe us follow.
The slaves led US along. a tortuous,
! and to US a tOrturOuS, path and elected
T 90 US at d small, secret entrance.
/ Why they permitted US to escape in
peace have never been able to dis
! cover. They could just as easily have
/ called the fierce Tartar guards and
/ had US >beheaded and no one would
! have been the wiser. I sometimes
/ think they were afraid of losing their
| own heads as well, for a slave more or
( less would have made no difference to
the emperor if he had the slightest
! suspicion OF. negligence or collision.
BE that as it may, our trip had
/ been a success. We had. secured two
photographs of the heretofore fnacces-
! sible and mysterious building of the
/ court of the Yellow Dragon.
ALBA SATTERTHWAITE.
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MADE 4 MISTAKE.
Road Agent Who Attempted to
Hold Up the Wrong stage.
Mexican Herald: Never d Drawer man
! than Tom Adams ever sat in a saddle or