The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

States consul from Tien Tsin or himself
20 TO Tien Tsin TO be married. We chose
the latter method and started from Tung-
chou on a bright day in the early part
of June. Ii was in the evening when we
weighed anchor. which we did by un-
hooking the anchor from the shore, the
ladies Of the party in one boat and the
gentlemen in another. The wind was not
quite fair, and so our bOatmen concluded
TO row rather than hoist the sails We
Travelled until about 10 clock. when We
dropped the anchor by hooking ourselves
20 the bank out IN the open country. The
next morning the wind was blowing so
strong as 10 make it almost impossible
70 travel. but We insisted upon moving
and offered extra money for extra work.
About 10 o'clock, however, the wind was
so strong as 10 make it impossible for US
90 round particularly sharp curve, and
We were blown against the bank. where
We remained three days and nights, the
WIND blowing a gale and the air filled
with clouds Of dust so that we could not
see a distance of 100 feet. We shut our
boat up tight and concluded to wait for
the storm TO pass over. All day it blew,
and, the boats being full of cracks and
holes, lie dust and dirt sifted in on us
from eV cry side. We went to bed, and
IN the morning when we awoke we could
not open our eyes; the eyelids were. glued
together with mud. l cannot tell now
my wife looked, put 1 know 1 was the
most unattractive bridegroom that ever
looked into a mirror. We arrived at Tlen
ISM AIN ever dlLEE IOuT Gays ana were
properly married in the presence of the
consul
We went to Korea on our wedding
trip, landing at ChemultpO the day the
japanese landed their first troops. We
remained at ChemultpC two weeks and
then went to Seoul where we stayed two
weeks. when we were asked TO leave by
the secretary of the legation, the pres
ent minister, Dr. Allen. We left there
az sunset. and at O'Clock the next morn
Ing the Japanese took the Korean king
prisoner. We took passage on a river
boat which was so crowded that we had
nowhere to sleep but upon the hurricane
deck. and when we arrived at ChemultpO
We discovered that the steamers had all
been taken off to be used as transports,
50 mat We could not return to lien Tsln.
After two weeks, however, Captain
Rodgers Of IT. NJ. s. Archer offered to
take MS TO Che Foo, and after two weeks
here We returned to Tien Tsin.
Sailing in Road Beds and Corn Fields.
Now came the trip back TO PelKin We
4Itd boat and started about 3 o'clock
M Jhe afternoon, with a fair wind. We
pushed OF pulled ourselves with boat
hooks up through the maze of barges
anu boats until we mad passed through
-e second bridge-Of-bOats, when we
LAs-ed our sail and started on what
toMlSeG 30 be the first pleasant sail OF
.I honeymoon. Soon we discovered that
~. Whole country was flooded and Just
Ism the bgarmen left the river course
e-l turned off on a branch which had
i-St---s- q deep stream in an old road bed.
--1 E-lese have saying that An old
.,e- Will become a river and an old wom-
co. d llatler-in-law," and we found the
r-S. -aL Of the proverb to be literally
4.,sr passing away from the main
~. - u tle river for a little distance we
an u- whole country was Hooded,
no J, was not long until we were sail
NJ. trough = cOrnfield. As the sun
M. Gown in the west the moon came
r- ~ NE east, and we continued 20 sail.
r -'t.N .u fdith, for We mad no COM
6 do ajl nearly midnight when we
7tp-- anchor, still in a corndeld, the
tfs Et'.A Went 70 bed, my wife went INTO
i-.o ..al and l stripped and plunged
h.. Oh. "a'-r, the first and only time
~- ever taken a swim in a cornneld.
t- next morning the wind continued
vs-1-- "- continued our SAIL the
gradually becoming ShallOwer as
o-rs--.fl--l IJng Chou, and we confined
CD lH our old rOad-bed
ST. i-e third day out l saw what
r-s-.aat me at the time as a rather re-
ha5 80 Si-nt. An old man and his son
s.r. '. our In q boat trying TO harvest
vs, 'l Their corn, and were on their
f-',.-- iie with "A boat load. They came
ca DO from a side road. and as they
OH ..' our larger road-stream tne
Dim With rope around his BODY
f.r.... lllt stream dllt SFFetttt
v6sSS towing the boat with him, and
gsrf . u, got 20 the opposite side. he
grr.."- t.ue TO pull his boat up the
of liza w hen we entered the main bed
tvair. l-g' river We were within about
var4 niles of Tung Chou, in other
s.yf- N' ndd sailed across lots about
C,-- --l miles. or following the
r.,e- '. The river JOS miles, for by the
I'm 81 Is TO miles from Tien Tsin 10
.rr always necessary for people liv-
rar+ .An ID get AN annual snip
So go stores from San Francisco,
r-rI- except at greatly advanced
r.- - and as our stores were ar
10 T-. -S'i ID. We had taken them with as
h0rr--- 'u1u. When we arrived here,
Tho III We discovered that because OF
war inaus and the CEinese-JaDanese
war5 .',.s and even wheel-barrOw men
We Isr. '9hlhg outrageous prices, and so
bo3f goI boy with the stores or the
ggf tt---o we sent a man from PelSin 10
De- i'.,-,II,, agreeing with him for so much
der,ii -eH weight Without going into
fo1It.;dlled account Of all the delays Diff
STATE - mo dSgraVatiOns. we viii only
10 trs, r..al II took that man two weeks
WhleT .b1lJ our few stOreS-abOut three
Pet.r IoW lOadS-frOm Tung Chou 10
trip 60 . Instance of fifteen miles. This
rs, US so and four days time, and
ers5 -liS end of travel that the Box
fgbtir-,I me conservative Chinese are
Affer7 LOT al the present time.
Sary a. Such a description il is unDeceS-
viii w. comment on the difficulties that
ge.ar.I' -LI ont European or American
GgB,,-- VINO undertakes to transport an
-'On lien Tsin TO Pekin during