New-York tribune., 1903-06-21

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| In the next room does" The partition dd ~
| run entirely to the ceiling. and they pushed =.
| coffin over the top Of It The other fellow vs,
buried in 1t. and got well Then. what DO "a,
think? That other chap had no money. ana rs,
wanted me to pay for his coffin because ba5
ordered itr
| Coming down the Hoogly River IN India v,
| were again face to face with death" coprnus-
Miss De Mole. There is bar in the river a,
| which a score Of steamers have been lost Tbs7
call it John and Mary Bar. because the John
and Mary was the first steamer to go down
there. In crossing the bar the matches ara
closed down. the passengers huddle on deck and
the officers go to quarters II the ship toucnes
there is about chance in hundred OF escaD.
ing death. For two endless minutes We hung,o
each other and thought Of the things We mad
done which should have been left undone Il
was wondrous study in repentance"
| There were other narrow escapes, but one can
| not expect to hear them all in one afternoon
especially if one asks for the lighter side OF TIA
| thrin-hunting trip
| On the Hong Kong Maru the steamer which
| took Miss De Mole from San Francisco to Japan,
! Wu-Ting-fang. late Chinese Minister at Wash
| ington, was fellow passenger. He was re-
sponsibIe for the poker game. the story Of which
Miss De Mole tells well.
THE Pacific Ocean is the quietest. duIIest Old
thing when it is quiet at ALL she began and ws
| lay around the decks almost bored to death until
MIR. WI suggested a poker game. a japanese
interpreter, the wife OF army officer in tia
Philippines. the returning minister, Mrs Ken
nison and myself took hands 1t was not very
big game and Mr.. WI was the Joy Of It He was
as enthusiastic as he was nervous and he bet
small hands like fury 1t took US three days to
learn that he would bluff until the hatcS gave
way on a pair of deuces- Once beat his tive
big pairs-kings and queens-with three trays
What! he cried with much excitement
Your three little ones beat these two fine big
pairs! The game-it is not built right
He would always hold post mOrtems when
he lost a hand on which he had bet. When he
won he scooped in the chips with all the Joy Of
a kid and his first pair.
Miss De Mole spent some time in Japan, which
she found a veritable trust of heavy villains
She did the tea houses and conducted picnic
parties to distant temples
zone day We visited the temple Of Dia-butsu at
Kamakura," she said. Luncheon time came
and we opened up our baskets. We forgot en-
tirely Kipling's lines which run something Ike
this:
30 stranger. when you pass this way
Be gentle where the heather kneeIs TO pray
At kamakura
.eI saw we forgot those lines and decided to
broil our steak at the base of the big idol Inc
fire was hardly started when the priests came
running out They put out the fire with water,
and you could not have found points enough on
the compass to mark the different directions
which our luncheon took under their sturdy
kicks We fed without thought as to the man
ner of fleeing. Sticks and stones swiftly thrown
followed US, and one Of the men who protected
the rear was struck several times.
I'm Hong Kong we came across the haQpiest
thing on the trip-three graveyards and a race
track all in a beautiful little valley. And they
called the place Happy Valley In Singapore We
met more wealth than elsewhere. The display
was most lavish I dined at a club night
and at the table there were ten mult-miIlion~
aires every one of them Chinese. drank from
a jeweiled cup which they said was worth
$4,000.
The natives OF India were most interesting,
and hope to return there soon to learn more Of
them. In Singapore l saw the Eastern idea OK
the new woman She wore a mans hat, Colar
and shirt and her coat was masculine cut Shs
wore boomers and from the knees down Moth
ing but two rings on her toes. She was mounted
on a diamond frame wheel and she smoked
cigarette. I risked my camera on her, and the