Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18

explained who I was, and how had just
come through the heart Of his kingdom
all the way from the Persian gulf. He
seemed as much interested as any boy at
that age could possibly be. He mas a
good, and. In way, clever, race, ai''
while he demeaned himself right royalty,
I am sure he would have liked to get out
for a game of marbles or become boy
scout If he could have had the freedom;
When the audience was oyer We bowed
ourselves out backward. From Wnere L
commenced to bow to where I was told to
stop seemed to me at the moment to ne
as far as 1t is from Rames hotei W
Johnston's Pier. l never knew that tnere
is SO much back-bending to DOW De-
fore"
Later he wrote: Il am still in Teheran
waiting for my passport for Terkestah.
My new plan is to go there and keep OH
into Tibet until stopped. This is an eH-
perience but few have ever had IL is
great fun this going over the wllds OF
strange lands The truth is I am happy
all over when get away on on the plains
somewhere on a horse, with a gun, ana
expect something to happen. / have never
heard description of paradise that equals
it. 1t Is all so interesting. Daily meet
noted people such as princes, ministers.
generals and now and then professor
like Jackson of Columbia University, New
York. who is following the trail of Alex
ander the Great. 1t is rather dim, ]
should think, after the recent torrential
rains.
On Border of Tibet.
After passing from Persia through the
whole length of Turkestan Mr.. Du Bots
reached the Tibetan border. where he was
told that a passport from Picking would
be necessary before he would be allowed
to proceed. This would require two
months. and so he returned by a new
IN jItSf iy1 Witness
the uprising at the capital, in which a
number of people were slain. among them
two chieftains to whom he had letters OF
Introduction. He wrote Of this last visit
to Teheran:
The whole city is in tumult and riot
ing and murder are rife. OF eight promi-
nent persons to whom l had letters all
have been warned that they will be killed
here The situation is desperate and
politics is at the bottom Of it all. There
are two rival parties. the reaction
airy and the liberals The former are
backed by the priests and mullahs
1.-The liberals have worked with the con-
servatives. who have just gone out of
power. and as they now fear that the
conservatives are becoming reactiOnary.
the leaders are being threatened with
death. and several have been killed. The
principal mullah was killed. also the min
lister of posts. and 1 am we'll acquainted
with two others who. I feel certain. are
doomed. fThey were a1terWard Killed
in Teheran)
Indifferent to Fate.
Il warned them of their fate. but they
seemed brave and indifferent All the ba-
Zaars were closed and hundreds of null
labs and merchants assembled in theo-
logical school and insisted that they
would not open a bazaar until the assas-
sins had been captured and the muja-
beds, a disorganized soldier band, had
been disarmed.
AT this point the Russia nofficials noti-
fed the merchants and mullahs that ii
business was not resumed by 10 O'Clock
the next day Russian soldiers would enter
the city and take charge of affairs. This
was enough. The bazaars were opened,
and as the chance of any immediate trOu-
BILE or uprising was not great, l set out
on my long journey home with collec-
ton of me mories with which 1 will have
no trouble in getting through the Gus
toms house at New York. On the whole.
it looks as though England would have
to restore order in the south of Persia. as
the feuds among the wild tribe smen of
the mountainous districts and the plains
are~ violent. and practically nothing can
pass over the great caravan route with
out meeting bands of robbers who loot
and kill The local authorities seem de-
moralized and helpless to prevent it. Per-
STA could be made rich and productive
land. but there is no hope for 1t under the
present deplOrable conditions