The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08
I'M MANY PLACES THERE HAS
BEEN NO ADVANCE OVER
THE TIME OF MOSES.
Secluded Countries Still Travel by
Oxen and by Other Means as
Slow as Centuries Ago.

NEW YORK, June S.-When Adam
got outside of Eden, he probably felt
the wanderlust in his veins, and IN
/ course of time he and his sons and his
sons sons probably began inventing
contrivances which might enable them
| to travel with more speed and facility
and les of the labor imposed upon the
! bro: cf Ne father of the race. They
made beasts of burden of the beasts of
the field.
However in this day of lightning
quick specd the benighted folk of many
| countries can travel no more swiftly
than the children of Israel when they
sped hot-foot before the sWarthy
Egyptians. and their method of carry
ing burdens is no more advanced than
the bearers who carried bunch OF
grapes hanging from pole supported
from their shoulders, from the luxur-
liant valley of Eschol.
For instance, take that means OF
conveyance known in India, as the pal
XII.
Now. of course, India is slow ma
ton. ths brown skinned natives be-
lieving that it takes a man some TO-
OGO incarnatons to get through with
his earthly pilgrimage. With a religion
! ic
son to suppose the Hindoos are per-
fectly satisfied with travelling in ve-
hicle such as this.
| The palki is a box-like compart-
ment. with a door at the side. From
ecah end extends a pole which rests
upon the shoulders of one or more car
riers Inside the palki is made comfort
able with cushions, and the opening of
the sliding door is shaded by curtains.
The palki will accommodate two per-
sons, or one person with baggage 1t
is used to a great extent in central In
| dia Of late the introduction of trolley
cars in the larger cities has caused a
decrease in the popularity of this We
hicle. Trolley cars go faster.
No Danger From Speed.
! Since the British governments re-
! gime in the land Of Buddha these con-
trivances have been licensed 1t is
somewhat funny to observe a light
opd Iioapco ,,,1p1he,. on aacb pa1Ixj AS
though there were danger of the car
riers exceeding a speed rate! Now,
you could probably cover hun
dred milcs in AN automobile in three
hours. And this at comfort, with
brsezes tanning your face. In the palki,
supposing the carriers neither rested
not ate, you might cover the distance
! in about 33 or So hours. And this
would be going sons in India. Yet
| good folk who ride autos will complain
of the smell Of gasoline, or even of the
chauffeur's breath!
Even more leisurely than this is
! the method of travelling in Madeira.
Madeira, you know, is where they
Madeira wine obviously does not come
from Madeira. The speed of convey
ances there is sometimes less than
that Il good pedestrian such as Ed
ward Payson Weston could make on
a slow day,
The vehicle is a covered continuance,
with wicker seats, resting on two run
ners, similar to those of q sled Even
in this vehicle there is an evidence
of tendency to improvement, for it
rests, strangely, on springs. One can
travel just as fast as two oxen can go
and in Madeira oxen travel more
slowly than in cooler chimes.
Even the Hindoos of the 10000 in
carnations have progressed ahead of
the Madeirans, whose vehicle goes
back to tbs 18th century In India, as
a particular Difference to the fair sex,
! some one devised centuries ago the ma :
!. tive cart, which is draped on all sides
with curtains
To draw this vehicle they hitch up
two native oxen or zebus; that eat
little and live long. Back in the 18th
Or 18th century some native genius,
whose name is lost to fame, conceived
this vehicle. 1t has been used ever
since. Some one has said the Hindoos
are not progressive. At least they pro-
gress no faster than the zebus will let
! them.
One will notice a popularity of the
wheels in these native carts, the
; spokes running from one side to the
other of the rim without entering the
; axle as in the ordinary wheel. The
, reason for the draped cart is that the
/ good Mahommedans in India believe
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