The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-10-05
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You may talk until you're tired.
but yunlI never set Nofi
PROM thla very funny. queer old
guau.
He's knoek / kaced. double loiutet.
hanky panky mnkes
but he's happy when he whistles
this tune"
sitting iu the corner - dark
room iu an GA Chinese house la
an old vailed Chinese city. writ
ting b. the dim iiEht 81 q spufteflnE
candle ~ ia thc neck ~ ar empty
bottle. these uorda. Nhcraed cut
from = Etamauhuue come through
the window % me. mingled with
the distant call % a hugie the
nearby s4ueaiiuK ~ plga and the
sffldsnt voices 81 . haf dozen
Chlnamnn Who seem constantly on
the verge % a fight
II Ia tark and gloomy outside and
the rain daahsa against the paper
which iu this rountfY takes the
place 81 glass In the window frames
Millions. literally miiIloua. ~ fliea
aus mosquitoes burn around my
head and lt takes bat little imaElua-
tlou 60 see the blankets on the
camp bed in the CORNER moving
gently rs an entire army 81 naaa
marrh aHI eounfefmafrh over and
under then. PROM a crack between
the stones of the floor a deadly IT.
tio scorpion Bokes his hldeaua head.
but hastily vithffawa from the
light FROM the hut on the oppo-
site eide - the compound comes the
waillnR miner notes Of lapaneae
annE. sung b. une % our army n
Intrrufffsra and servants
THE LONG RIDE ENDEp
Wohare Finished eur i50 mile ride
up che Llan-tuuk peninsula and are
az last az the front To the south
- as lies the long read We have
Travelled. - the north less than ten
mites away. are the 0afpusia ~ the
Russian army. After alK months ~
waiting IN Toxic ~ have reached
the fromt If last and again ~ arc
waiting waiting Tor the great bait
tie Whirh we expect almost daily
On 1uiY gs our party 70 oiEhtssn
correspondents and artists sailed
from ahlm1u6sekl and SIN DAYS lat.
81 us landed at In =suh.tun. on the
northern shore ~ Talicuwan bay.
opposite 2he rily ~ bHiny The
next morning. Wlth the boom 20 che
big guns az Port Arthur In oaF ears
Ne started north ln pursuit ~ Gen
Oku and his victorious army Eleven
DAYS it took ~ 90 make that march
and then We settled down %
walf again.
There are eighteen % ne alto
Kcther John Fox. Jr. seribnefa
Magazine. Richard Harding Davis
Golfers Weekly. " n Lewis. New
YORK Herald Guy ~ seull New
York Globe. Franklin Clarkiu. New
YORK Evening Post. Grant Wallace.
San Francisco Bulletin. Melton
Prior. Illustrated London Sewa.
bennett Burisigh. London Teie-
Rraph. George Lynch. London
Chronicle. Capt Lionel james. Lon
don Times. Fred whiting London
Graphic. Gordon Smith. London
Morning Post. sidney smith. Ion.
don Daily Mail. lionel Pratt sgd.
ney fAHHtfalial Morning Herald
Reginald Kann. Paris Figaro. ~ v.
de- IhuEuerie Paris Petit Journal.
l. Barfiui. Milan Gtalyl Corraerc
della aarn. and myself.
An ODD CAVALCADE.
We we're a funny looking party
on the march up. scattered along
the road a. We we're. Melton Prior.
the shortest man Ia the party. was
mounted on a rnnRy white horse
full seventeen hands high. while
Grant Wallace. who boasts ak feat
SIX. rode a little donkey and was
compelled 20 take reefs In his legs
10 prevent HIS feet being scrnped
or Wallace calls his donkey Ku-
fopatkln. because 81 hia constant
desire 10 go backwards Davis rode
q large Australian horse which gave
out at the eud Of the first days
march and for which a beautiful
dove-colofed donkey was aubatltut-
ed Fox was manted on a vicious
Japanese pony. which bore the po-