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THE CHINA MAHL

SATURDAY, AUGUST, 30, 1924.

A NEW TRAIL GOES WINDING

SCENE FROM

PISGAH RIDGE

GONYC INTO CAN

PAN GAK

Paradise of the Hikers in the "Eastern Moun-

tains of the United States —

World's Greatest Trail.

[BY NORMAN C. MeLOUD.]

FROM to a

PROM Mainy to Georgia a long, trail

hikers t des clop new possibilities for nu of-door recreation is the seenie wonderland of the eastern states.

Aish of trail is already open to travel. Completion of the system is

red by the co-operative activity of the United States Forest Servies, the

Appalachian Mountain Club and forces interested in outdour life in ely Within comparatively Anteria snort, time the entire route will extend if welcome to the vast army of nature Inzers to who hiking is the supreme Buurt

The

Vermont and through the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the route grosses Con- New York, Pennsylvania. neelieut. Maryland, and West Virginia and streiches southward to the mountain regions of Georgis, Tennessee and North Carolina.

The making of this trail represents the realization of a vision on the part of Benton MacKaye, of the American Institute of Architects. In this vision Mackaye saw the possibilities of u aplendid fontway through the maun- Ax translated by tains of the est.

exceeded all expectations and brought fulßlment closer by saveral years than the original advocates of the project had expected. The growth of the movement han been astonishing. Expansion of the ranks of the trail- makers has been spontaneous and pro- nounced, until sheer force of numbers now gives assurance of the early com- plotion of the trail.

Sentiment Is Strong. Significant evidence of the growth of public sentiment is found in the strong support of the bill brought before the Massachusetts legislature, empowering the Commissioner of Conservation to map, lay out and maintain trails. In Speaker Benjamin spansoring this bill, Loring Young, of the Massachusetts

devoted itself to the work of making House of Representatives, declared that

**Its the mounlah accessible to the lovers the state should guarantee to citizens at least a right of way of nature. Within the last half century the Club has put through severu! the American Nature Association, through the great resources given them

tate hundred miles of trails in the White he pictured this as an approach to the by nature." He argued that the state This trail is ane of the most ambis problem of

of living from a new anglean and should aid and encourage the Mountains of New Hampshire, and He full that to the people along the building of trails through, the wilder extending over into the neighbouring tions projects of the kind ever under-

areas, where nature may be found regions of Maine. These trails are a Laken, cavern an area of unusual size ragte the great pathway would offer Pud expanse. With a total-length-of-needed opportunity for the enjoyment untouched by civilization, and that the source of convenience and pleasure to

of nature at its best, with resullaut people should be urged to spend more thousands. approxinintely wa thousand miles, the

time in the apen, that they may bave a benefit to health and vigour. Ey.tem wilford opportunities for a

Realization greater appreciation of forest, moun- This was the dream. Continuous trail trip unequalled in,

meant the linking of oxisting trails into tain and stream.

extent in any part of the great trunk system on scale

Starts In Maine.

The starting point of this remark- a pathway will be in the neighbour. hool of Mount Katahdin, in Maine. Swinging through the White and Green Moontains of New Hampshire and

attempted nowhere else. The avrent- plishment of this purpose required work from Maine to co-operative Georgia. The readiness and enthusiasm with which this co-operation was given

the The first responsibility for Appalachian Trail was taken by the Club that Muyntoin Apachian pioneer in the making of mountain #fetime of pathways. Through a fifty-five years this organization bas

backbone of the Green alountain range.

MITCHELL

shire-and-links-with-tho-Long Trail of

Proceeding the Green Mountains. through the Berkshires the footway. cuts across the northeasturn corner of Connecticut to the New York boundary at a point near Pawling. Much of the trail has already been cut across New Jersey and New York to the Delaware

the Water Gap From that point path follows the range of Pennsylvania to the centre of the state, and swings thence in a southwesterly direction toward Asheville and the mountains of Tennessee and Georgia. - ·

Like A Motor Highway,

To hikers the Appalachian Trail will general o-operation, the New England have the same vaine that motorists find Trati Conference was formed, to bring in the new system of highways spread Prompted by these notable examples

together local hiking clubs and other other clubs have recently built trails

organizations and enlist them in building throughout the United States. There are many recreation seekors-to individual linke. ing the

Similar connecting with the muin, footways,

groups were arganized in New York whom the lure of the main-travelled

thoroughfare

appeal, Those without appe and New Jersey. The organization giving New England a netwerk of

now being extended to carry the moun- people find their real relaxation in the routes bringing mountain recreation

talu pathway into any and comfortable reach. The

into the southerly reaches byways and in "hitting the trail" for- been officially recognized by the United

of the Great Smokies. A chapter of long walks in the heart of nature. States Government through the Forest-the-Appalachian Mountain

Recent expansion of the army of hikers Club, cent importance of such toutes of wavci bas

The Famous "Long Trail."

recently organized at Asheville, NC has bech-Impressive. Every com- The Green Mountain Club is another Service. This federal agency is an

active and

exceedingly helpful parti

in doing active work in behalf of the munity now has its clubs for the organized enjoyment of the out-of-the- factor in the marking of the super-trail

away

places. Outdoor and walking from Maine to Georgia. This organizacipant in the present enterprise of knitting the trails into a comprehensive tion has beert work for twelve or

In New England the route is already clubs and bands of mountain climbers. ayalem for the greater enjoyment "of Afteen years In its home state of

continuous. Swinging down from have become accepted factors in the the sport of tramping and mountain Vermont, and has given hikers the

glitibing.

Mount Katahdin and Mount Washing-social life of almost every town and famous "Long Trail," which extends

ton, the main trail crosses New Hamp city. for a hundred and forty miles along the

FOLKS WHO DWELL ON THE

ROOF OF THE WORLD

As the first step in bringing about

Bouthern arena.

Auven

ANO

OWNERS

about

A WOMAN

OF THIBET one or more temples. The walle

A Strange Country, Newly Opened To Civiliza-of the temples are always painted rod,

tion, Where Devil Worship Prevails, and Where it is the Custom for Women

to Have Several Husbands.

[BY RENE BACHE.].

Life In The Land Of The Lamas.

and the roofs of many of them are of gold-not gilded, but covered with thin plates of the precious metal.

Thibet is rich in gold, which the natives

atives obtain by washing the gravel

of the streams. Mining for itim not. allowed, because of abellaf that" **: thereby the seeds from which the metal

But

is derived would be destroyed. nearly all of it is eventually absorbed

most

on a

KUCKS MADE DA

of

HUNTA

STOLL

gentleman,

regent; and for centuries it has been old

remarkably ignorant the custom for the regent to poison the and knowing nothing to speak of except adolescent Pope before he could reach prodigious quantities of verses from

He liked his little.". manhood, and assume authority. The the sacred books. present Grand Tame, however, broke joke, and was firmly convlaced that the away: from precedent by poisoning the earth was triangular. regent.

The people of L'ha, when once the A short time before the great war invaders had entered the town, were. began, the British government, weary very friendly, and oven gave theatrical: of frequent, disturbances along the entertainments for the amusement of northern frontier of its Asiatic domin- the strangers. All the shops seemed lons, and anxious to extend trade into to be kept by women, who in Thibet, while having no control in politicat Thibet, sent a military expedition up through pass of the Himalayas with affairs, possess much influence. They. are not veiled or secluded in any way. orders to penetrate at all costs to (save for the nuns), as in other.

L'hast and make a treaty with the Grond

Lama. After a good deal of fighting, the country was thrown open though even now nobody is allowed to enter it without permission of the British authorities...

Oriental countries.

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A few days later, the Grand Lama,. having recovered his courage, came back, and soon afterwards the wished- for treaty was algned. Since then be has been in India, spending two and a Once Part Of The Sea Floor.

half years at Darjeeling as the guest The expedition in question was led of the British Government. He has A GENTLEMAN

by Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband, sent a number of the sons of Thibetan THIBE LITAKING ZER

who managed the recent exploring and noblemen to England, to be educated, There is plenty

Its PACK of the mighty wall of the

enterprise. by the monasteries, the priestly resi adorned with frescoss of dragons and extra clothing,

mountain-climbing

trading Himalayas-whose loftiest summit

The notion commonly entertained dents of which are in reality communi- Robgoblins. On the altars Httle bowls wool, which indeed is the country's military forge Was a small army of ophibet, as already stated, te now

open to the world, and many adventurous-solentists are trying to that Thibet in a wretched, poverty-ties of ecclesiastical parasites, who do of batter burn night and day...

most valuable product commercially.

The rock-perched palate at L'hasa 5,000 soldiers, and, for purposes of stations have been established to no work, all labour in the temple settio- rench, though so far in vain-lies stricken, and inhospitable land is by

sindy and observation, severni acientists facilitate a commerce by which it, In that strange country it is not great plateau which has been called the no means correct. Much of it is in an

ments being performed by lay brothers deemed proper, that a god should appear in which the Grand Lama dwells, called among them a bug-hunter, a botanist, exchanges its wool and other products #roof of the word. It is the country excellent state of cultivation, sprinkled

in publia inadequately clad, and hence the Potala, might easily be converted and geologist accompanied the for the tax of India and merchandise Quaint Marriage Custom. with thriving, villages, and inhabited by Thibet.

Pred from all parts of the globe.". Great known as

Among Thibetans of the poorer agri- the images in the temples are dressed into a formidable stronghold. It is

an invasion. Look at a map of Asia, and you will people who enjoy all the essentials of

cultural class prevails, the curious in clothes specially made for them by large group of buildings, the golden

One thing they came scrose was a Britain maintains slegation at Lhasa, of which roof

day; have rites are of polyandry, see how vast in the area of that strange reasonable comfort. They are rather

which allows one the nuns

The religions,

pany.

plenipoten You will note the wall of felly people, and particularly fond of practice

employed fuch country.

glitter as to be seen from a bed of fosall oysters rather sur with a resident minister woman to have two or more husbanda, fantastic, the apparatus mountains, highest-on the earth, which a joke.

Thibet's most serious drawback is

The husbands, however, are always including rotaries composed of disks great distance The Grand Lama, one prising discovery in region so tiary. There is, indeed, practically an rates it from the warm regions to superates

an established brothers. The object of the arrange of bone cut from herdan akulls, drums should understand, is the Buddhist elevated But it seams that once upon alllance betwon England and Thibet, South; ard in a measure you will its religion, It has

constructed of 'human call-caps cover Pope Incidentally, he is the incarna Ume Thibet was part of the floor of the security of the latter being guar- understand how and why Thibet, with a church which sucks up most of the sent is to economize the family's ro civilization far more ancient than that wealth of the country. The faith is a sources Not being able to afford the ed with human akin, and trumpeth top of a powerful divinity the fleshly sea which washed around the bases anteed by British pledge of Europs, has remained through ages degraded form of Buddhism, amount-luxury-of-a-wife aplace, two or more-made from the thighones of virgins, tenement in which resides the god of the Himalayas ridge that was

hermita

land. Until very ing practically to

brothers go shares in one. It saves The trumpets and drums as supposed Avalokiteshwara, the calet protector slowly being uplifted. That enormous. Through Thibet runs one great river, demanworship, and

massive in the world, la; declared by north of it-the course of which expense. I foreigner was perforated to fit li

first to possem high efficiency for the wear of mankind gather range, though the highest and most miles norths is about fifty

has recently been mapped for the business the priesthood to the

CAT AROMA ABeing under yown of celibacy, theologists to be relatively modern,

Avaliable source, fight, by Incantations

other The Tibetan-gods-ure many-and- Tad. one of the magical capital, L'hasa, is one Its

the myriads of devils various, some of them, as represented means, most porturesque towns in the world, which but for their pious efforts would by their images, being rather horrible: located in a beautiful and well-ent let the land with inconceivable evil. These images, together, with stayed are num paintings (the latter extremely weird), tivated valley, on the banks of a river; and huddled about the base of a stoop bered by hundreds of thousands and are the sale industrial product of the hill on which is built, the huge stone dwall, thousands of them together, in monasteries. They stand in Impres palace of the Grand Lams, the political monastic settlements, which are, anraiva, rows behind, the altare in the rounded by Nigh Walls and gathered temples, the interiors of which are zuler of Tibet.

the

enter it

1

The priests, or

of

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The Grand Lama. A God,

The vast plateau, which politically he dies, the god departs from his body When at length the British army enormous water power, which ten beard the name of Thibet is so clevated and passes into the of lame Thibetan came near to Lass, the Grand, Lama future day will surely be developed for that its climate teceedingly, cold baby To determine which haby, has took fright and ran away, temporarily electrical transportation and for indus The latter spceived Colonel the erstwhile harmit land into a coun You and would find ourselves far thus been honoured is the business of handing over, his powers to tube trial enterprises that will transforma from comfortable there in the winter the high priest While the infant la ordinate time, for no fires the used for heating, growing up, the administrative stairs Younghusband and homears politely, civilised man up-to-date modern

Abem content to put on of the country are managed by a and proved to be a ganial, benevolent patterns the natives 1