The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28

commission on railroads, had gone
abroad to study railway progression,
and from the wilds of Siberia, where
he met the prince, who had been
summoned by the car to meet and
conduct the major over all the Rus
sian lines, he telegraphed Mrs Pang-
born and his daughter to meet him at
a given time in Moscow The ladies
were in Berlin at the time and met
the husband and father in the old
Russian capital at the appointed time.
The entire party, under the charge
of Prince HilkOn, went first to Rostov,
on the Sea of Azov by the Georgian
way to Tihis, and from this ancient
and interesting city to BatOum, on the
Black sea They crossed the Caspian
sea, passed through KraznovOdsk. and
at the edge of the Tekka desert their
train, due to some trff7ing accident,
was detained for a short time. The
prince and Major Pangborn passed
the time inspecting the queer looking
locomotive. The prince. tuning to
Miss Pangborn as she Joined them,
half jokingly said: 1.-THE ability of
American girls to do anything is no
longer a matter of surprise to me. I
would venture that you know how to
run locomotive, even p
"Of course replied the girl; call
the daughters Of railroad men i'm
America know how to do that"
The banter of the prince did not
l stop here AS the signal came that
all was ready the prince with de-
/ nghtful bow waved his hand toward
/ the cab and remarked to her, 'sThe
throttle awaits the charming hand of
/ its new mistress"
This was just a little more 3. an
I Miss PaugbOrn had bargafned for Duf
/ without a moments hesitation she
gathered her skirts about her and
| leaped unaided into the cab to the
great establishment and overwhelming
| admiration of a staIWart Cossack sto-
/ ker. With steady hand she pulled the
/ fever, the prince and her father
/ jumped into the cab, and for sixty
/ miles, through the heart Of Asia, the
/ American girl drove an English loco
/ motive at the rate of sixty miles an
| hour Miss Pangborn, while she knew
something of the construction of loco
| motives, had never before attempted
\ to pilot one, but with the most per-
/ fectly assumed indifference to the ex-
! plot she stepped from the cab at the
end Of the run as though the expert
ence had been one of everyday oc-
| currence for her The prince con-
] fessed himself dumfounded. and in a
/ letter to the car related the wonder
ful adventure, and it was a matter OF
| court gossip for days.
AT Merry Miss Pangborn expressed a
| wish TO visit the battlefield of Alexander
there was no way to 90 except on horse
/ back. Perhaps the American girl Included
menfs She o did TT 8es a RSF co9 m sRaf1
/ De arranged Then q servant was dis
D
7 them, beautiful Arabian animals with
arching neclxs and supple bodies treub-
/ ling with the very lust for a race. Miss
/ Pangporn commanded that her saddle be
placed on coal black horse. a king OF
I kings in his own birthrfght and when the
] man who held him whispered something
TO the prince that gentleman advised the
lady that she would probably be bettor
pleased did she choose another, as this
plack was-wel, somewhat inclined to be
headstrOng.
L can ride anything but a buclSinz
brOnchO. said Miss PangbOrn. Il never
heard of an Arabian horse trying that
held. the magnificent beast until Miss
PangbOrn was firmly seated and then. like
streak Of light, the splendid animal shot
from the group After her swept the 9th
ers, but she led them across the great
moor for miles. The thoroughbred shook
out his long tail and made his magnificent
name simmer in the sunlight as ne raced
! across the sacred ground He was too
much OF courtier to try to unseat his
show his independence at first declined
/ to obey her commands and went sweeping
| along as though she were urging to him
! to greater speed.
At last, from sheer admiration of her
{ horsemanship, he capitulated, and as the
prince and Major Pangborn came up she
| I ground, threw the bride over his head
/ and left him free. Nothing like it had
ever happened on that plain before. and
no one would have believed that the great
horse would come to his rider at her spo-
ken word And yet he did much TO the
{ awe Of the guide, who knew the animal
well
''Magnihcentl' cried the prince.
Ma nihcent. indeedi'' cried the girl
Il would give all I own to possess This
: splendid creature" And the big beast rub
shoulder. and said, as plainly IS a horse
S can. And so would I" She had tanned
] the beast and capttvated the prtncA.