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TIBETAN RULER IS DRIVEN OUT Sacred City of Lhassa Occupied by 25,000 Chinese Troopes. brand Lama, With Retinue, Fleet to India Trouble Long Expected Chinese Government Determined to Dispel Buddhist Monks Who Have Ruled Tibet for Centuries, Calcutta. British India. Feb. 24, Chinese troops today entered Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, and the residence of the Dalai Lama, the supreme head of the Lamaist hierarchy, who, upon the approach of the soldiers, fled with several of his ministers into India. Serious trouble has been expected, owing to the action of the small Chi nese army, which, marching from Sze Chuen, China, subdued Eastern Tibet, levying contributions on the Lama's home and showing no respect for the monasteries. The Tibetans, resenting the dese cration of their holy places, petitioned the Chinese foreign board, praying that toe emperor of China interfere in the interest of the Buddhists. The pe tition was disregarded, the Chinese propose to make the administration of the country purely Chinese. The Dalai Lama appealed to Lord Minto, the viceroy of India, but he re fused to interfere. London, Feb. 24. The flight from Lhassa of the Dalai Lama will cause no surprise to close observers of the Chinese attitude toward the Tibetan people when he was in Pekin. It became evident then that the Chinese government had no intention of permitting him to reume his sway at Lhassa, so far as civil power was concerned, and attempts were even made to bar his passage on his return home. Following its policy of "China for the Chinese," the government determ ined to make more effective its control over the land of the Lamas. A cam paign to this end has been pushed in the border provinces for the last two years, and now China has sent an army of 25,000 anti-Buddhist troops into the capital of Tibet. This army, which was dispatched from Sze-Chuen, has been drilled by Japanese officers and is completely equipped with mountain and machine guns of German and Japanese patterns and with wireless apparatus. STRIKE RIOTS CONTINUE. Local Police Admit Defeat State Po lice Called Out. Philadelphia, Feb. 24. Police offi cials of the city today virtually ac knowledged their inability to cope with the st ike situation when a re quest as made of John C. Groome, su perintendent nf the state police, that the 200 members of his command be brought to this city for police duty. This request was made, notwith standing that Berious rioting was less frequent today than on any other day since the strike of the streetcar men began last Saturday. The state police are expected to ' reach here torn, rrow morning, and will doubtless be sent in to the Kensington district, where the State Fencibles bad such an unpleasant experience. For the first time the Rapid Transit company succeeded in running its cars until 6 o'clock on the Frankford line, which penetrates this unruly territory. At that hour all cars were returned to the barns. Four policemen guarded each car, and detectives patrolled the route all day in automobiles. Whenever a group of men fo-med detectives rushed them and even followed the ringleaders into houses until they had captured them. In spite of the vigilance of the police, many car windows were bro ken, and the company was finally obliged to use sheet iron windows in place of glass panes. Rush Line is Dispersed. Los Angeles, Feb. 24. Senator Frank P. Flint today sent a telegram to the weary ones who are still main taining the line in this city, hoping to be the first to file on the Yuma lands, informing them that the order of Sec- retary Ballinger will stand. The sec, retary's order disrupted the line and ordered all homeseekers to take their chances in a "grand rush" on the morning of March 1. Those in line maintain they will "hang on" until the last. From 210 the line has dwind led to 156. Meteor Hits Mountains San Diego, Cal., Feb. 24. From Warner's Hot Springs, about 70 miles northeast of ths city comes the report that a meteor of extraordinary size and brilliancy was seen there this after noon. It was traveling from West to East. Passing the Springs, its course led into the mountains, where it ex ploded with a deafening report and sent up a great cloud of dust. The phenomena was witnessed by several guests at the hotel. Girl Parades Long as Boy. Moorhead, Ky., Feb. 24. Miss Golds la Can trill, 17 years old, today war sent home by the school trustees afte they learned that she had been attend ing school as Sam Murray, dressed in boys' clothing. She stood second in ber class. Several months ago she earned ber living for several weeks as a "newsboy" on trains. MOB DEFIES BAYONETS. Disarms "Tin Soldiers" Genera Strike May Be Called. Philadelphia, Feb. 23. According to a statement issued today by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company, che amount of damage done today and the number of assaults committed by mobs were greater than on any prev ious day of the strike. iwo hundred and nlnety-nve cars were wrecked, making 750 cars put out of service since the strike began. bix hundred and sixty-three cars were run up to nightfall, when all cars were returned to the barns. Philadelphia, Feb. 23. Three boy were shot and probably fatally injured and several received less severe wounds today in riots that followed the attempted resumption of service by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company The shooting occurred in attacks on cars in the Northeastern section. Mar ket street, the principal business thoroughfare, was the scene of the dis turbances all day. Cars were stoned and two policemen were roughly hand led by a mob of several thousannd per sons. A dozen arrests were made and the prisoners were placed in a trolley car. This was stormed by the mob and two prisoners escaped. Preparations were made by author ities to call upon the entire force of the state militia if the police tomor row were unable to cope with the sit uation. President Murphy, of the Central Labor union, still regards a general strike of all unions in the city as inevitable, although Organiser Pratt is said to oppose this move. Members of the State fencibles, an independent military organization. 200 strong, were placed on duty today, armed with loaded rifles. They were detailed in the Kensington mill district Northeast, a hotbed of sympathizers, Fifteen policemen quartered in the barn of the company at Ridge avenue and York street narrowly escaped death tonight when the entire north east corner of the building waa blown away with dynamite. The explosion occurred just as C. O. Pratt Jwas about to address a meeting of carmen at Ridge avenue and Dauphin street. CENSUS OF OCCUPATIONS. Questions Will Apply to Everybody ir the United States. Washington, Feb. 23. The "occu pation" question in the United States census population schedule to be car ried by the enumerators during the Thirteenth Decennial census, begin ning April 15 next, applies to every body living in the United States on the date mentioned, which is the "Census Day," and ail the population schedule questions relate to it only. In its printed instructions to enum orators the census bureau holds that the occupation followed by a, child or a woman is just a important, for census purposes, as the occupation of a man Therefore the enumerators are told never to take it for granted without inquiry that a woman or child old enough to work has no gainful occupa tion. It is pointed out, however, that only gainful occupation are to be reported, By this is meant any employment, work, profession or vocation by which the person working regularly earns money or its equivalent. The fact that a person has no gainful occupa tion is to be noted on the schedudle, If a person is only temporarily unem ployed on account or lack or work or sickness, or other temporary reason, the occupation which that person usual ly follows is to be reported. If a person has two occupations, the enumerator must return only the more important one that is, the one from which the person gets the more money. If that cannot be learned, then ' he is to return the one at which the person spends the more time. As an illustra tion, the enumerators are told to re turn a man as a "farmer" if he gets most of his income from farming, al though be may follow the occupation of a clergyman or preacher; but they muBt return bim as a "clergyman " if he gets more of his income from that occupation. House' of Lords Lacks Support. London, Feb. 23. The players in the game of politics threw the cards upon the table in the house of commons to day. The government is without the allies necessary to carry legislation and the prospect is that the country will be stirred up by another general election soon. Premier Asquith announced that the financial legislation would be put ahead of the proposals to curb the power of the house of lords. John E. Redmond, the Irish leader, declared flatly that the Nationalists would not support that program. De Sagan Further Titled. Paris, Feb. 23. Charles William Frederick Boson de Talleyrand-Feri-gord, fourth duke of Talleyrand and father of Prince de Sagan, who mar ried the Countess de Castellane, for merly Anna Gould, died today. The duke suffered a stroke of paralysis as the result of his experience in a char ity bazaar fire. With the duke's death Prince de Sagan succeeds to the titles of Duke de Talleyrand and Herzog zu Sagan, and becomes a Serene Highness Egypt's Premier Diet of Wound. Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 23. Boutres Pasha Chall, the Egyptian premier and minister of foreign affairs, who was shot by a student yesterday, died to day. The assassin, who is in custody, is a Nationalist, and declares be sought to avenge certain acta of the govern ment which are displeasing to the Nationalist!. BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON THE Washington, Feb. 26 with recommendations In accordance by the senate committee on finance, the bill provid' ing for the issuance of $30,000,000 certificates of indebtedness for the ben efit of the reclamation srevice will amended so as to make the government directly responsible for the payment of the certificates. As the bill now stands the certificates are made payable from the reclamation fund. The proposed amendment will autlv orize the secretary of the treasury transfer from time to time from the general fund to tba reclamation fund such amounts as may be necessary to complete the projects, providing the aggregate shall not exceed $30,000,000, He is authorized to issue certificates not to carry more than three per cent interest to reimburse the treasury for advances made. The funds thus ob tained are to be used for the comple' tion of projects already begun. Ultimately the government is to be reimbursed from the reclamation fund at the rate of 50 per cent of the re ceipts of the fund. After a conference today with Dr, W. T. Hornaday, director of the New York zoo, the senate committee on conservation of natural resources, of which Dixon, of Montana, is chairman, decided to represent to the department of commerce and labor the undesirabu ity of renewing the present lease for the slaughter of seals in Alaskan wa ters, which expires next April. According to Dr. Hornaday, the seal herd has been reduced from 4, 000,000 to 50,000 in a comparatively brief period. He expressed the opin ion that a renewal of the lease would amount to the practical extermination of the herd. He recommended closed season for ten years. Washington, Feb. 25. Representa tive Claude Kitchin of North Carolina, made a general assault on the tariff law under license of general debate on the Dostoffice appropriation bill in the house today. Telling a number of stories of starv ing children and of working men ap pealing for work in the large cities, Kitchin concluded each tale with the statement: "And all this under the Aldrich- Payne bill, which no one on the Repub lican side has the courage to defend. The administration bill to create court of commerce and amend the inter state commerce laws was ordered fav orably reported today by the senate committee on interstate commerce, which will recommend its passage practically in the form recently revis ed by Attorney General Wickersham. The attitude of the bouse committee in regard to the bill is giving the pres ident concern and today he sent for some Republican members of the com' mittee and urged them to do every thing possible to expedite its passage, even if it should be necessary to amend it, so long as the general pur poses of the act were carried out. The senate today passed Represent ative Ellis' bill authorizing the Oregon Trunk line to build a bridge across the Columbia river and the Celilo canal, to connect with the North Bank road at point opposite the mouth of the Des chutes river. This bill now lacks only the signature of the president to make it law. The secretary of the interior has decided to report favorably upon the Bourne bill amending the enlarged homestead act so as to permit patents to issue in Oregon upon proof of pro duction and cultivation1 instead- of re quiring residence. , Washington, Feb. 24. Representa tive Hawley announced today that the hearings on the Lafean apple packing bill would begin before the house com mittee on agriculture on March 9, and continue long enough to enable all wit nesses to b heard. He has notified horticultural societies in Oregon in or- er that they may send representatives to Washington to appear before the committee. A bill was introduced today in the house by representative Hawley, of Oregon, providing for the opening and settlement of the Klamath Indian res ervation of Oregon. The bill provides for the surveying of the reservation and allotment to the Indians within a year, the government to have use of some of the land for demonstration farms. A graphic picture of Alaska, with her millions in gold lying hidden be neath hundreds of feet of frozen earth, was drawn by Delegate James Wicker sham today in a statement before the house committee on territories, in sup port of a bill for the revision of Alas kan mining laws. If a resolution introduced ' today by Senator Heyturn is adopted, the senate will take up what is known among po lice officials as the "third degree." The resolution provides for appoint ment of a select committee of three to investigate the practice of administer ing what is known as the "third de gree" ordeal by the officers of the law for the purpose of extorting state ments and confessions from those charged with crime. Alaskan Bill Killed. Washington, Feb. 24. The bitter fight that has bqn made hag resulted in killing the bill by Senator Bever idge for an appointive legislative coun cil for Alaska. The fight was on the allegation that the bill was in the in terest of the Guggenheima. fit is as serted that Root's amendment to the postal savings bank bill cannot pass, opposition by Borah and others having succeeded in defeating it. The bill will pass without the Root proviso. WORK OF CONGRESS Mr. Heyburn asserted that such methods were more cruel than those of the Inquisition. They were not only barbarous, he said, but were in direct conflict with American court instruc tions under which an officer ia prohib , A. - J Z 1 II. ..... . uea irom taiKing witn his prisoner on the subject of the charge against him Washington, Feb. 23. Senator War ren today introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to sell sur plus water of the government reclama tion projects to individuals, corpora tions or aasoc ations operating' under the Carey act and authorizing the sec retary to co-operate with persons, cor porations, irrigating districts or Carey act associations in the construction of contemplated reservoirs, which will impound the water in excess of the needs oi puDic lands within the pro posed irrigation project. Senators who have been heretofore unfriendly to the bill to raise addi tional money to hasten completion of government irrigation projects are now suggesting that the hill be amend ed to authorize $50,000,000 instead of $30,000,000 worth of certificates of in debtedness. Commenting on this new situation Senator Borah said: "Of course we would like to have $50,000,' vuii, and ii we nna we can get it, we will take up this new proposal, but the thing that is disturbing friends of the measure now is whether or not this proposed raise may not have the effect of killing the bill after it gets to the house. We do not know what we will do regarding this proposition until the situation can be canvassed in the house." The senate commerce committee has adopted amendments to the river and harbor bill as follows : Siuslaw river, $213,000, conditioned upon co-opera tion by the Port of Siuslaw ; Coquille river, increase from $27,840 to $50,000 and $6,000 annually for maintenance: Clatskanie river, increase from $500 to $5,000. Survey of the Oregon slough in the Columbia opposite Vancouver, is also ordered. Washington, Feb. 22. Representa tive Hawley today introduced a bill au thorizing the opening of the surplus lands in Klamath reservation after the completion of allotments to Klamath and Modoc Indians. As soon as the allotments are completed, a commis sion consisting of one resident of Ore gon, one representative or the Interior department and one member of the Klamath tribe are to be appointed at $10 a day to classify and appraiBe the surplus lands, dividing them into agri cultural, timber, grazing and mineral lands, the classification to be complet ed in eight months. The bouse naval committee today voted a tentative approval of Secretary Meyer's plan of reorganization, which will give the secretary the power to put bis plan into practice for one year, Several hours again were devoted by the senate committee on interstate commerce today to listening to Attor ney General Wickersham expound his views concerning amendments to the interstate commerce law. It had been expected that he would complete his explanation of the ad ministration railroad bill today in time to permit a report to the senate. Members or the committee were so much interested in what he had to say that they invited him to come back to morrow. It is expected that the bill will be reported late in the week. In the opinion of Chairman Knapp, oi the Interstate Commerce commis sion and of his associates on that body, domestic freights are freer from unjust discrimination and more satisfactory in general than they ever were before, Washington, Feb. 21. Senator Aid- rich said today that if permitted to do so he would undertake to run the gov ernment of the United States for $300,000,000 a year less than It now costs. He was not presenting a formal pro posal, but was making a speech in the benate on the question of creating a commission to reform the business methods of the government. He said the methods were obsolete and involved the annual loss of at least $100,000,000. At his instance the bill was so amended as to provide that the commission should be composed en tirely of members of congress five senators and five representatives. Mr. Aldrich spoke in reply to Sena tor Dolliver, who opposed the bill on the ground that it would create suspi cion in the minds of the public as to the methods of conducting the govern ment's business. Mr. Dolliver said he feared the com mission would accomplish no good, but much evil. He regarded the bill as a proposal to enter upon a "blanket dis paragement of the government." He declared the commission wolud cost not less than $300.000., and he said he thought there were too many commit tees already. The administration ship subsidy bill reached the house today through the filing of the report of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries, which had favorably acted upon it. The minority was granted ten days in which to report against the bill. Jones Drops Whitman Fight. Washington, Feb. 23. The original Jones bill, proposing to transfer the Walla Walla military reservation to Whitman college has been abandoned, the military committee being unwil ling to report it. In its stead. Sena tor Jones ia now asking the committee to fix the price on lands of this reser vation and authorize the sale to Whit man cpllege, at a price which they de termine to be reasonable. This prepo sition is up to the War department. chasm or KlSSIHOr. tltdlcnloaa Cnatom Thrive Despite the Warning- of Scientist. Once more the warning goes out that kissing Is dangerous. This time it Is voiced by Miss Ellen M. La Motte, the ranking officer in Dr. Bos ley's corps of fair and accomplished nurses. The contact of lip and Hp, says Miss La Motte, affords an Ideal opportunity for the voyaging of patho genic organisms. Most of these germs, when they enter the body at all, do so by way of the mouth. Of such sort are the germs of' diphtheria, tubercu losis, meningitis, influenza, the simple cold and all the familiar juvenile plagues. Therefpre, it is thoughtless and often cruel to kiss, and sometimes suicidal to be kissed. Thus speak.3 science, and its man date should be observed as to babies and by invalids, the Baltimore Sun says. But the great majority of folks, no doubt, will keep on kissing. We have often wondered at the enormous .popularity of the exercise. Why do people kiss? The act Itself is ridicu lous as a spectacle and unsatisfying as an amusement. Its eole physical accompaniment is a feeling of suffoca tion, and on the psychic side it is fre quently embarrassing, particularly if an unsuspected audience reveals itself, say, by satiric whoops and catcalls. It has none of the charm of other pleasures, such as solfeggio, eating and automobillng, for example. Kiss ing will neither build up the anaemic nor soothe the neurasthenic. But still It thrives, and no Jeremladi on its perils will ever work Its aboli tion. The man who makes a practice of kissing the fair sex is a man at tracted rather than repelled by dan ger. He knows that every kiss he steals is full of fearful hazards. The girl herself may black his eye, stab him with a hatpln,or call for the po lice, and then again she may choose to regard his idle favor as an offer of marriage, and accept him before he can escape. Yet again, her father oi brothers, detecting him with his arm around her neck and his eyes gazing into her forehead, may rush in and hail him as a relative, touching him for small loans, calling him by hie first name and seizing offensively upon all the other familiarities which rela- tlves-in-law affect Finally, the mother of the girl may knit him pulse-warm ers and send him amateur remedies for hia rheumatism and red nose, and her little sisters may giggle every time they see him. No; it is impossible to scare the seasoned kissing man with sinister talk of microscopic reptiles. He is used to larger game, and he loves dan ger. It is his pleasure to dart out into space upon a gossamer strand, blown by strong winds, and with the fathomless abyss of matrimony yawn ing beneath him. In such grisly perils he joys. Fathers Will Be Fathers. A Kansas man complains that since a is daughter has taken music lessons, which he paid for, she Insists upon playing only classical stuff. When he comes home tired and asks for a little tune, he gets nothing but musical gym nastics. The whole feminine part of the community, he thinks, is In a con spiracy to uplift him, and he doesn't want to be uplifted. It is just like father to make a com' plaint like that. Father never did take kindly to culture. He sits disconsolate In the draughty kitchen, while daugh ter's Browning Circle meets In the front room. It is mother's Idea entirely that he put on an uncomfortable collar in the evening and heard a missionary lee ture on Borneo. Father's taste for mu sic stops short at Suwanee River, and he knows almost nothing about the minor poets and the pre-Raphaelites. His art ideas are derived from the illustrated Sunday supplement; he will not sit in a Louis XVI chair and he cares not a whit for the pottery of the ancient Chaldeans. Shirt sleeves and carpet slippers are his conception of correct evening dress for gentlemen. There is little hope that anything permanent can ever be done for father. When the millennium comes he will still be found reading the newspapers, smoking up the window curtains, Im peding progress and paying the rent Success Magazine. A. Barking Do Sometimes Dltea A Western Pennsylvania tax collet tor, though afflicted with stuttering, is an old gentleman of uniformly good temper, which apparently no combina tion of circumstance can ruffle. One morning he was asked into the "set-Un-room" by the lady answering his knock, and was immediately beset by a barking dog. "Don't mind. Tip," said the lady. "he's only fooling he won't bite you." He w-w-wo-won't, w-w-wo-won't he," said the old gentleman trium phantly, "h-h-he's b-b-bi-biting me n-now." Success Magazine. Slllltarr Tactics. So far as history gives us any In formation on the subject, the father of tactics," in the military sense, was the great Theban General Epaminon das, who at the famous battle of Leuctra, B. C. 31, fought between the Thebans and Spartans, for the first time introduced the scientific mode of fighting. Prior to that tjme the uni versal rule was for the opposing armies to face each other and fight It out by sheer brute force and bulldog tenacity without any particular re gard for scientific principles. New York American. Many a man would feel like a fish out of water if by any chance ha should manage to get out of debt AS OBSCUBE BETEFACTOa. William Henry Dalllntrer Fitted to itank With Great Sclentlats. Many men receive extended obituary notice who deserve It far less than Aid a modest and unpretentious Meth odist minister who died in England a few days ago. The name of William Henry Dalllnger has not been greatly trumpeted about, but it was borne by a man who Is entitled to be ranked among those scientists of the past gen ration who contributed materially and much toward the ascertainment of truth, and especially of that truth which Is of greatest fascination and importance the origin and nature of life, the New York Tribune says. Dalllnger became especially interest ed In this subject about forty yeara ago, when the old controversy over spontaneous generation was revived, with Bastian and Tyndall as opposing protagonists. While he stood in the background his researches and observations were of inestimable advantage to Tyndall, and, indeed, to all scientists, both In the dli'ect result of his laboratory work and also in the great impetus which he gave to the improvement of microscopic lenses. His painstaking investigations, which extended through, many years, confirmed in the most con vincing manner the conclusions of Pas teur and Tyndall that spontaneous generation was a myth and that all life must come from pre-existing life. It was Pasteur's demonstration of that fact which inspired and enabled Lister to establish antiseptic surgery. From the reaffirmation of it by Tyn dall and equally by Dalllnger, has pro ceeded our whole system of antibac terial sanitation and therapeutics. And every triumph of mosquito netting over yellow fever and malaria, of the water boiler and filter over cholera and typhoid, and of the rat trap over bubonic plague proclaims the vast benefits to the human race which have accrued from the painstaking labors of these searchers after truth. NOT TO BE MENDED. Charles Dickens once wrote to a friend, "I have distinguished myself in two respects lately. I took a young lady, unknown, down to dinner4, and talked to her about the Bishop of Dur ham's nepotism In the matter of Mr. Cheese. I found she was Mrs. Cheese. And expatiated to the member for Marylebone, thinking him to be an Irish member, on the contemptible character of the Marylebone constitu tion, and the Marylebone representa tive." Two such mishaps in one evening were enough to reduce the most bril liant talker to the condition of the three inside passengers of a London bound coach, who beguiled" the tedium of the Journey from Southampton by discussing the demerits of William Cob bett, until one of the party went so far as to assert that the object of their denunciation was a domestic tyrant, given to beating his wife. Much to his dismay, the solitary woman passenger, who had hitherto sat a silent listener, remarked: "Pardon me, sir, a kinder husban.l and father never breathed; and I ought to know, for I am William obbett'a wife." Mr. Giles of Virginia and . Judge Duval of Maryland, members of Con gress during Washington's administra tion, boarded at the house of a Mrs. Gibbon, whose daughters were well on In years, and remarkable for talkative ness. When Jefferson became President, Duval was Comptroller of the Treas ury, arid Giles a Senator. Meeting on day in Washington, they fell to chat ting over old times, and the Senator asked the Comptroller If he knew what had become of "that cackling old maid, Jenny Gibbon." She Is Mrs. Duval, sir," was the un expected reply. Giles did not attempt to mend mat ters, as a certain Mr. Tuberville un wisely did. Happening to observe to a fellow guest that the lady who had sat at his right hand at dinner was the ugliest woman he had ever beheld, the person addressed expressed his re gret that he should think his wife so ill-looking.. I have made a mistake," said the tha horrified Tuberville. "I meant 'ady who sat on my left." "Well, sir, she Is my sister." This brought the frank avowal; "It can't be helped, sir; for if what you say De true, i conress i never saw such an ugly family In the course of my lire. The Habit of Socialism. "An arctic explorer must expect tc be cut off from communication with. the world." Yes. They seem to get so much In the habit of that sort ot thing that they can't stop even after they return to civilization." Washington Star. Prayer. If you believe In prayer, don't pray- to be delivered from your enemies; pray that you may never hear what your friends say about you behind vour back. Atchison Globe. We have noticed that when we go hunting, people around the lake say: "It's too bad you were not here yester 4a yl; ducks were thick yesterday." He's a poor lawyer the will for the deed. who mistakes And when a cigar Is called a the reason la obvious. "weed"