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Eugene Weekly Guard EUGENE OREGON. All things are easy to the earnest. Burden bearing brings blessing shar ing. There is Just as much (lunger In the riches you desire as In those you pos sess. Preachers and political leaders are sometimes slow to distinguish the dif ference between lip service and heart •ervlce. It may be a good plan to elect our heroes by popular vote and provide that none of them shall serve a longer than four year term. Gold Is said to have been discovered in Greenland. It Is rather a pity that these discoveries cannot be made In some place which Is comfortable for residence purposes. A scientist tells us that the planet Jupiter aim six floors and a basement, but the most persuasive real estate agent will not succeed in getting us to go and live there unless it has an ele vator. Here’s Mr. Carnegie extolling the blessings of poverty again. And Job Hedges says the laird of Skibo might have been enjoying these blessings now If he had taken common stock Instead of bonds. The boy problem is a mighty one. One-half of the orators ate complain ing because there are not boys enougli and the other half are not able to agree as to what shall be done with the boys that we have. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Is to have a desk ill his father’s office, where he will start In the railroad business “as a clerk.” It Isn’t expected that he will be docked for being late or taking a day off now and then. Robert Goelet is being sued for $10,- 000 for running bls automobile over a man in Boston. Some of the heiresses will wonder why the victim should not consider It an honor to have been run over by the brother-ln law of a duke. There really is no limit to the prac- tlcal In educatlon. Here is a Boston supervisor arguing for teaching the school children more fairy tales. Yet consider the extent to which the conn try Is already overrun with promoters capable of writing the most alluring prospectuses. Twenty new varieties of fish were discovered hist summer In the w'l'e.a about Alaska by an expedition from the United States Fish Commission. The boy with the bent pin and the an gleworm does not care. To him a fish Is a fish, by whatever scientific name It uuiy be cnlhsl. Fire is the greatest of architects Cities would make but mean progress without an occasional conflagration. Men will hold on to a ramshackle prop erty till It rots. Whole sections of cities are disfigured by decaying struc tures. Along conio« the tire; eyesores disappear nnd In their places rise soliti ■Lructures In keeping with Hie age. In the resurvey which has Just been completed of the celebrated Mason and Dixon’s Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, some of thu original boundary stones were found in place. Others were doing duty In (he neigh borhood ns door step« or ovens; one served as a curbstone, and two had been used hi building a church m ar the National Pike. Tim arbitrary line which they marked has played a more Important part in the history of this continent than many a natural bomni ary of far more Imposing appearance. off bathing entirely. He frankly con fesses that he conquered the "bath habit” two years ago. “Pneumonia, colds, and a hundred other Ills result from the foolish habit of washing the body," said l’rofessor John Dill liob- I ertson In an address at the annual ' meeting of the Chicago Eclectic and Surgical Society. As the professor is a doctor one naturally expects him to I supply physiological or scientific rea- i sons for bls theory, and ln this we are i not disappointed. It is his contention that heat and moisture are necessary I to the growth of bacteria on the skin. I As these conditions are supplied by bathing, it follows that Instead of stopping the collection of bacteria upon the skin bathing actually faclll- | tates their growth. Moreover, the hot bath, says Dr. Robertson, draws the blood to the skin, the same as alcohol does, leaving the Internal organs with out their necessary smount of nourish ment. To support ills views the doc tor called attention to the fact that the city gets Its brain and brawn large ly from the country, where the farmer boy does not take a bath during the entire winter. He swims, It Is true. In summer, when he gets a chance, but his skin Is not rubbed with a rough towel, ansi hence the “natural scales of the skin” are not removed, One does not m ed to join Dr. Robert- son's anti-bath crusade to recognize the necessity for the exercise of com mon sense, prudence and caution In taking cold baths or hot baths. That cold baths under Improper conditions have caused many a case of pneumo nia Is simply a matter of medical rec ord. But this Is a poor argument against the bathing habit. There has been a vast deal of dis cussion of late, most of It with a tinge of surprise, about the frequency with which those who are guilty of crimes of all sorts, from the pettiest to the most atrocious, ar»» found, when dis covered at all, to be little past boyhood in years. Certain occurrences In Chi cago have furnished fresh emphasis. All sorts of reasons for it have been suggested, and to make a list of them appeals curiously to one’s sense of hu mor. Koine Queer speculators have found a cause in smoking cigarettes. Others attribute most youthful crimes to reading novels of the “dime” varie ty. Others find all the Inspiration In saloons, some In pool rooms ami some find It In the promiscuous association of schools. On the heels of this come those who Insist It Is because youths do not have enough of school. Some point to vicious home Influences and others to no home Influences nt all. Some ar»» sure It Is ali due to the lr- rellgion of the day, others that It Is part of youth’s rebellion against being forced to work, and still others that It Is a fruit of idleness, of not work enough to “keep out of mischief’’ This proneness to deal with symptoms and call them causes would be funny If It were not saddening. All these things are effects of a deeper, earlier cause, just as the crimes are effects. ‘The truth seems to be that modern society, ill this country at least, has lost re spect for th»» principle of authority. Obedience to »»stablished law ought to be the first lesson the child learns. Somehow, for some reason, it is not taught any more. The parent of to day thinks th»» child must be governed. If at all, by reason and love. So In» may be, when once the habit is formed Until then it would bo no more absurd to treat the baby’s colic with philos ophic comment on the folly of crying. Mere passion or foolishness, not firm, cool, unshrinking authority, Is th»» homo practice. I he chi <1 learns no les son of obedience there. He learns no more In school, and when he drops, a practiced anarchist In lawless habit. Into the general world of men the first fact he observ«»s Is the ramshackl»» ad ministration of tin» law. “Do as you please" Is tin» creed, and the ingenuity of lawyers, th»» perfunctory habits and delays of courts, the Ind terminate sen <«»uce and other similar causes l»»ad th» youth to think that punishment wrong doing has died out of th»» w< This is a belter reason than cigar ettes or novels or idleness. According to advices from the Trens urv Department tlie government mill ii . Philadelphia will cease to grind out pennies for a time, there being now a surplusage of tills kind of currency In the country. During tlie last live years 3j«*o.000,393 pennies have ...... .. ■hipped from tlie Philadelphia mint, which ls the only one tliat coins tlie 1-cent pieces, to various parts of the country. Between July 1. 11102, and June 1, 1903, MUkMl.OOO cents were coined. If thl» five yenr output were collected 111 a heap It would make a sizable stage mountain at least. customs relut ion ire mui liey pre- lon. Ar- I i ke n re “The Strike of a Grand Duchess" would lie an appropriate title for the story of n recent episode In the career of the bride of the Grand Duke of Baxe-Weimar. When she went home to the palace In Weimar, after marry ing the Grand Duke, she proposed to refurnish her apartment« In modern style, but the conservative old women of the court objected on the ground that the furniture which hiul pleased the ducheaees for two hundred years ought not to be removed. Her bus band agreed with the old women. Then she wished to say what she was to have for dinner. The old women thought that It was beneath the dig nity of a grand duchess to interest herself In wliat went on in the kitch en, anil the Grand Duke thought so, too. After several more Ineffectual at tempts to be mistress In her own house, she took the train for Hwltser- land. Her husband followed, but could not persuade her to return home till he hail promised to get rid of the old women and to let her have her own way in the house. If the Grand Duke had been an American husband he would have capitulated in the first Ilrentlrii China. The retiring postmaster of tlie Brit ish House of Commons tells a story of ills early experiences of |x>stiil work, a good many years ago. It was a l.on don office, and a customer came in nnd handed a letter over the counter to (lie young woman who was serving st* mp«. * After rending the address, she said It would be tlvepelice. “But I have never paid more than twopence halfqienny liefere." object- ed the customer. "Is It overweight?" No, it was not overweight, said the clerk, but all letters to China wi ITC flvepence, and as this was addressed to Dresden------ ! Au<t No He llld Not Nay It. Mr. Elder—There Is something I want to say to you. Bessie er that is. Ml»» Kuteley. Mis« Kuteley ('all me Beaaie if you wish. Mr. Elder Oh. may I? Miss Kuteley Of course: all old g> n tlemeu call me Bessie Philadelphia Ledger. place. Of course It is all guesswork as to bow many Urnes a man should take a bath and what kind of a bath he should take. It doubtless depends on tile tnan. hi« constitution, hfs temper ament, his work, and the climate In which he live«. The best the doctors can do, therefore. Is to give generall- zalions for the "average man.” As there 1« no "average man." the gener alization«. therefore, have small value. But here we have a college professor wba contend» that we »hould leave Hottest Place on Earth. The hottest place on enrth Is Boh reltn, on an Island In the Persian Gulf, which has a mean annual temperature of Pit degrees. ! I After a woman gets ou the shadi ■Ide of 40 »he speak* of herself sin' her female friends as "us girls.’’ estimated at over 30.000,006, IÍN A FORBIDDEN land I ! been whereas a teutfl of that figure would •+ TIBET IS DESPOTICALLY RULED BY ITS PRIESTS. UH 7Z •> 4* 4* -4 ¡Í Grand Lama* Who Practically Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects Physical Training in the Schools. BOUT the best thing that has yet been hit upon in connection with the public schools is the care that is being bestowed on the physical condition of the children. In the larger cities of the United States and to some extent In Canada children are being examined for physical de fects, and appropilate measures are being taken to remedy these as far as possible. If nothing more was done than to promote the habit of deep breathing that would be a hygienic reform of the first importance, We doubt if anything could be done by public authority that would contribute more to the health and happiness of the community. Until human beings are placed in full posses sion of their physical faculties and In full enjoyment of their natural functions, they do not know how good a place the world is. With more of genuine good health in the world, more of something approaching physical per fection, there would lie less craving for artificial enjoy ments and probably less craving for wealth. If the schools will. In addition to making the children practice deep breathing, cultivate their speaking voices and teach them to walk well, the effect In a few years will be marvelous.— Montreal Star. The law of Life. AOK of work does turn men Into tramps, but it does not keep them tramps. The man and the job cannot always keep apart unless the man so wishes. The proof Is the fact that thou sands of men have been tramps and are no longer. And these men did not owe their es cape from trampbood to anything that anybody did for them. They owed It entirely to themselves. Taking Ids life through, tho average tramp Is such be cause he wishes to be—because he falls into the delusion that it is easier to beg and steal than to work, One of those economic lulls known as hard times” may have set him to tramping. But. when this lull was over he did not remain a tramp unless he wished to. The individual human life, like the electric current. For centuries Tibet lias been almost a sealed book to the rest of the world, and the result of the expedition under Col. Youngbusband, which the British have sent Into the region, will be watched with interesL The high priests, or lumas, of Tibet have ever denounced the foreigner as an incar nated devil, and they preach that so long as Tibet remains Isolated from the rest of the universe, so long shall she be great. A few missionaries and ex plorers have wandered across the cor ners of this great tableland, clambered up some of its snow-clad mountains, and visited a few of Its stone cities: yet the greater part of Its 650,000 Evolution of Industrial Methods. A MOUNTED LAMA. square miles, an area equal to many, France and Italy combined, Is stlli unknown to the outside world. On the maps of the world there is no otb- er such white patch as this In the cen- ter of Asia. From the account of travelers Tibet would seem to be a laud where religion is supreme. The people obey their priests with almost slavish obedience, and accept the most marvelous teach ings with utter credulity. The lamas possess most of the wealth of the coun try, and consequently they have rea son to fear the foreigner and the in trusion of the explorer. Colonel Younghusbaud's punitive ex pedition into Tibet was undertaken in retaliation for the grand lama's curt Anglo-American Arbitration. SOME of the United States newspapers sug gest the desirability of an arbitration treaty between Britain and that country, similar to that recently made between Britain and France. Everything that looks in the direction of lessen ing the danger of war, and establishing the pacific plan of settling international disputes by fair argumentation before a competent and Impartial tri bunal. Instead of by "the stern arbitrament of the sword," should have the support of all right-thinking men. The tendency shown among the nations to discuss such peace ful methods, and in some cases to adopt them. Is a sign of the times for which we ought to be thankful. It Is an evi dence of the development of the Christian consciousness which, when It reaches its full development, will tolerati war no more. It may seem a far cry yet to the day when “the kindly earth shall slumber, iapt in utdversal law." bu It is coming. By all means the two great English-speaking nations should show a good lead In this direction.—Th< Christian Guardian. Tho accompanying Illustration looks as much like a corkscrew as it dot's a fork, hut the combination makes a very excellent arrangement for kitchen service, it is particularly designed for turning and lilting large pieces of meat during the process of cooking, The fork consists of the usual handle, wit It a tube or sleeve fitted therein, the tines mounted on the outer end of the tube, and a rod passing through the tube and hamlie and carrying at one end the spiral ■crew, and the other eml secured by a nut to cause (lie screw to revolve with the handle. In operation the tines are driven into the meat to the proper distance, ami the handle Is then turned to cause the spiral screw to engage or twist Into the meat, giving a Arm and reliable connection between the fork and the meat, To remove the fork, release the screw by turning the handle in the reverse direction. The advantages of the fork nre apparent, for with it a piece of meat or a fowl of any size can l>e handled with great ease without fear of tearing the meat or of dropping the same. FISHES THAT FLY FOR LIFE. Mechanism. E believe that Industry among human beings is destined to pass through three phases—the phases of competition, of organization, of emu lation. Civilization has spent thousands of years in the competitive system. Out of a hundred busi ness men ninety-nine have failed—one hundred business enterprises have landed ninety-nine men with broken hearts, broken hopes, and one man with money In his pocket and a broken digestion. Competition encouraged the merchant to sell adulterated goods, bogus goods, worthless goods. It encouraged him to pay his employes as little as he could In order to com pete with others who hired employes, and to charge his cus tomers as much as be could. The competitive system is now dying a slow death. Already the system of organization has arrived, and the trusts represent this system. It Ls crude and selfish, It takes for a few big organized pirates the enormous sums that used to be distributed among a great many little competitive pirates. But organization, even under trust management, ls a step In the right direction. The trust that ls combining the nation's Industries Into a few companies paves the way certainly and surely for national ownership. When one man, or half a dozen men, shall own all the railroads, there will be an Interference by the people sooner or later. When one man, or a few men, shall own all the steel mills, all the coal mines and all the oil wells, all the street car ljnes—there will be interference by the people sooner or later. When it ls clearly proved that one man, or a few men, can run the business of the nation, that the much vaunted competition Is not the life of trade but an Indication of savagery, then the people will say to the one man, or the few men, “We, the people, will own the business of the people, and not you, an individual.”—New York Journal. A HANDY CORKSCREW FORK Interesting Scenes While Vnjtrlng In the Gulf of Mesicn. Queer Code of Penance«—Praying by seeks the line of least resistance. All men are prone to take the line in life on which they can travel with least effort. Man, like other animals. Is naturally averse to exertion not compelled by Immediate necessity. In other words, man is naturally lazy unless bls foresight teaches him and bls will Impels him to be industrious. The habitual tramp is such because he lacks the will to be otherwise. Sentimental philanthropists may be chal lenged to produce a single tramp who, if bls story were truly known, could not be proved to have thrown away, because it required of him harder work than be was willing to do, opportunity after opportunity to escape from his condition. Civilization does not produce the habitual tramp or sturdy beggar. He exists in civilization because It Is too falsely humane to compel him to work or starve, as sav agery does. And It la a perversion of philanthropy to hold that the tramp, or any other human being. Is entitled to any place In civilization other tnan what his will to work can achieve. Work is the law of life.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Nervous Prosperity Is a Disease. ERELY being prosperous makes many persons nervous. Women, having duties which, if not fewer, are less compulsory, than those of men, are peculiarly subject to this complaint. Their physical strength is less, their nervous systems are more complicated. Secretary Root regrets the decrease of country life on the ground that cities make a nervous race, different from the cool old stock which has been the basis of our civilization. Mr. Root thinks that nearness to the soil Is a necessary con (lition of strong nerves. The American climate, In the Northern States, Is exciting. Many who cannot sleep tn the United States are less troubled with Insomnia abroad. When cable cars, with gongs and crowds, railways over head. packed streets, automobiles, telephones, telegrams, messenger boys, and the general machinery of baste are added, nervous tension becomes extreme. Sometimes It takes the form of a passion fur late hours, aud might be called Somnophobla. The Somnophoblac ls so keyed up that he shrinks from the relaxation of sleep, or any other quietness. The love of excitement ls often as disinte grating as the love of drink. “Be not hurried away by excitement,” says Epictetus, “but say, ‘Semblance, wait for me a little. Let me see wliat you are and what you repre sent.'” Many of our occupations would hardly stand the test of Epictetus. Emerson made the same point as Mr. Root, when he said that Nature’s comment Is, "Why so hot, little man?” As women are more responsible, just now, than men, for increasing nervosity, one of our prob- lems is to make natural activities attractive to them—not work enough to exhaust thorn, but enough to keep them from being as restless as a fly under an exhausted re- <'elver. . Pleasures, diversion«, ¿re never sufP ‘lent to form a life. Responsibility Is ls necessary to freedom. Thackeray, laughing at the strivings of Werther, had bls heroine, at the end of the poem, go on cutting bread and butter. Caudide, after examining all possible worlds, decided that the real tiling was to cultlvale a garden.—Collier's Weekly. 1 Own All the Property in the Country—A I probably be nearer the mark, is rap idly on the decrease on account of the prevalence of disease, the chief ill be- i Ing smallpox. Dirt abounds every where, as explorers soon discover to | their great disgust. The reason for this I state of affairs ls not hard to seek, since dirt Is considered sacred, and . washing ls religiously tabooed. Religion amounts to a passion with lamas and laymen alike, but It Is In many ways a religion of but formal ob servance. Prayers are regarded as of great potency, aud the lamas have de vised an ingenious method of saying a great many prayers in a short space of time. A small, hollow cylinder is fixed on an axle, one end of which exteuda beyond the cylinder to serve for a handle. In this "praying wheel.” as It ls called, are deposited small slips of paper on which have been written prayers composed by the lamas. The wheel ls then revolved rapidly, the the ory being that the devotees will thus attain the felicity of Nirvana without having to pass through many interme diate stages of reincarnation. The prayer wheels. It might be remarked, also serve to wreak vengeance on an enemy, the person Injured stealing his enemy's prayeT wheel and revolving It In the wrong direction In the belief that this will certainly assure an un happy hereafter for the luckless own er. This alone ls sufficient to convince the observer of the state of spiritual degradation Into which the people are plunged. Tibet as at present constituted ls clearly no place for white men, nor can it be said to offer many advantages under a high state of civilization. In addition to its topographical shortcom ings, of which mention has already been made, climate plays no small part In making It undesirable for purposes of settlement. August, September, Oc tober and November are the only months which can be considered “dry,” rain or snow contributing to render tho remaining months unpleasant. Accord ing to Zoublkov, the average annual temperature ls 42 degrees for morning, 67 for noon and 50 for night, a varia bility that, to say the least, cannot bo conducive to comfort. A not unnatural result of the condi tions which have so effectually barred communication between Tibet and the outside world is the maintenance of a very small army. It Is said that there not follow wlien the Hying fish spread their wings and soared In the air for a while. “It ts remarkable what distances these delicate members can go on their poorly trained wings. 1 have seen them fly as far as two city blocks. They are interesting little fellows, anil they al ways draw the attention of the tourist and the stranger in Gulf waters.” "Watching the flying tlsh in the Gulf of Mexico 1» one of the favorite pas times of persons who make the voyage across tlie Gulf for the first time." said an observant man. “and the habit is not su uninteresting one. for there ls much to tie learned. much that Is new and attractive to the stranger. There A WOMAN’S LOFTY CLIMB. ls something particularly fascinating »limit the flying fisti in the Gulf of How Mr.. Workman Got to the Top of a 2*2..XO«-Foot Peek. Mexlcix Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, "During the trip recently we ran daughter of former Gov. Andrew D. Into groat schools of them between here and Vera Cruz and It was dlffi Bullock, of Massachusetts. Is known as cult not to believe at times that they the world's greatest mountaiu climber were «Imply making sport of the big and explorer. Word comes from India vessel that was plowing through the that she has broken her first high rec blue water« of the Gulf. They would ord of 21.0U0 feet tw ice tn one day dur daii across the bow of the »hip. «'urn- Ing her exploration« this season of the per thl* way and that, «ml «eemed to HI ma lavas. These giant mountains climbed by be In a playful mood all the while. They looked like animated «prays, her are two «now peaks looming high mere flash«« «ml »plashes of water, above the Chogo laxingma glacier and now taking this form, now that, now bordering the distant province of lluu- ■hooting along with the course of the za-Nagye. Starting at 3 a. m.. August 12, by ■hip; now bounding out from the ve« | ■el’s »Ide. and «11 the while apparently | moonlight from the highest camp, at conscious of the fact that tueu and 19,353 feet and ascending over the women were watching them. They j sharpest of mow slants, the party, con aeetneil to take somewhat of pleasure j slating of Dr. and Mrs. Workman and from the enjoyment of the human be- 1 the three noted Italian guides, J. l’eti- Ing«. But. of cour»e. they were busy gax. C. Savoie and L. Petlgax, climbed with other problem«. It was not a steadily until long after daylight and pleasant business either. It was « at 7 a. m. this indomitable American matter of life and death with them I woman climber stood on top of her first They were being pursued by their ene peak of the day. 21,77V feet high. After half an hour’s halt for acien- mies The only way they could escape was by leaving the water for a while tlfle observations and photography the The enemy has not learned this little party descended this mountain a short trick of flying, and consequently could) distance, and traversing a long snow arete, ascended a still higher peak which lay beyond, and at 10 a. nt. in cloudless weather, Mm Workman s< ored her greatest record, and stood at 22,.’>68 feet above sea level. The heights of these mountains have been computed with the utmost scien tific accuracy. On the day of the as- cent hypsometric and mercurial barom- etcr readings were taken on the sum- mlts themselves. and also by a govern- nietit official at the lower station of Bkardu. The climbing of these Himalayan mountains was not accomplished by camping on grass or rocks to 19.000 feet, as In the Andes, but by continued difficult snow bivouacs, made at 16,000 18,400 and 19,355 feet. Two nights were passed at this lat ter Immense altitude, where two-thlrds of tile eighteen Ceolli«. who carried the high camp equipment, were pros trated by mountain sickness. Dr. and Mrs. Workman and guides, although they slept little and suffered somewhat from mountain lassitude, were not Hl. and were able to carry out their fifteen hours’ climb the next day with com plete success. These were the most notable climbs of the expedition in 19(13. but tieside« those, three large glaciers have been explored and surveyed and .’our first ascents and traverses of snow passes from 18X100 to 18,000 f<et in height ac complished. This season's work, add ed to that of 1902, when many peaks and the great Chogo Loongma glacier wore first ascended, combine to make the two greatest high climbing expedi tions yet carried out lit the Himalayas. Several hundred magnificent photo graphs were taken during the summer. —Boston Herald. One WOman Obe«*. He (after the wedding)—Um—my love, these bills are piling up at a fear ful rate; but. of course, my angel, with your large income, you are w illing and no doubt anxious to help me pay them? She—I? Why. my dear. 1 haven't a cent. "Wha--------- ?" "On my second marriage all my money went to my late busband's rel atives.” "Eh? Wha—why didn't you aay so?" “You particularly requested me nev er to mention my late husband—in your presence.” Conldn’t Font Him. "My ledger »hows that I aid a busi ness of more than $20.000 last year." said the grocer who was trying to sell out "Yes." rejoined the prospective pur chaser. "but what does your pocket book show 7" GRAND LAMA S PALACE—LASSA. refusal to treat with the mission sent are not more than 4,000 soldiers in all by the British to discuss the Tibetans' the dalal lama’s domains, and these are nog-observance of trade treaties. It very poorly equipped and disciplined. may mean the complete unveiling of As a consequence robbery and outrage the mysteries that enshroud this Asia are prevalent throughout Tibet The tic country which has so resolutely lamas. It should be said, control the pursued a policy of shutting Its d- ors administration of Justice as well as the to foreigners, and has since the expul dispensation of religious instruction, sion of the Jesuit missionaries early and the courts are more remarkable for in the nineteenth century been visited their superstition than for their law. by but a scant handful of daring ex Crude and barbaric methods prevail of plorers. Of these but four or five suc a nature that would disgrace even the ceeded In penetrating to the capital, Middle Age«. Drowning, torture and the sacred city of Lassa. where the flogging are common penalties for grand lama dreams his life away In slight offenses. his nine-story palace. The hostility of the natives ls by no Audacious Morgan. means the only thing that prevents ex An old Washington gentleman tells a plorers from penetrating far into Tibet. story which he overheard President The country, a tableland of 15,000 to Lincoln repeat. During one of tho 20,000 feet above sea level, wild, moun busy reception hours, when the Presi tainous nnd devoid of roads, ls by na dent was talking first to one, then to ture fully as Inhospitable as Siberia. another of the many who filled the Outside of the monasteries, or lamas room in the White House, a gentleman eries, as they are called, there are no asked if any news had been received houses, mud hovels serving to accom from John Morgan, whose Confederate modate the natives. This, however, cavalry were raiding Kentucky and does not apply to Lassa Itself, which, Ohio. as the few photographs obtained show, "We’ll catch them some of these ls a well laid out city, picturesquely lo days," replied Lincoln. “I admire him, cated on the southern slope of a moun for he is a bold operator. He always tain. with the palace of the grand lama goes after the mall trains in order to towering above the other buildings. get information from Washington. On The grand lama. or. rather, the dalal his last raid he opened some mail bags lama—for there nre two grand lamas— and took possession of the official cor ls not only the.chief personage in Tibet, respondence. but is acknowledged as the head of “One letter was from the War De the Buddhist church throughout Tibet, partment to a lieutenant In Grant’s Mongolia and China. From the little army; It contained a captain’s commis that lias been written about him it ap sion for him. Right under the slgna- pears that, as a rule, the dalal lama, ture of A. Lincoln the audacious Mor- who ls elected when a child, dies gan wrote, ‘Approved. John Morgan,’ young, anil it has been hinted that the and sent the communication on its length of his days depends upon the way. So there is one officer in our amount of trouble he gives the gyalpo, army whose commission bears my the temporal ruler of Lawn. signature with the approval of that The lamas dominate the country. daredevil raider.” Their Influence can be easily under First Artificial Teeth. stood when It Is said that fully one- It is certain that the ancients bad sixth of the population are numbered In their order. The lamaseries dot the some acquaintance with the dental art, mountain sides like fortresses, and the yet it Is difficult to determine by whom people willingly labor to support their i artificial teeth were Introduced. Her spiritual guides, who do not lose an odotus. In his accounts of the ancient opportunity to terrorize them. One i Egyptians, mentions a "dentist for the thing that contributes to keep these ' teeth." The British Museum contains priests In power is the fact that the Interestlug dental Instruments discov people believe them to possess god- i ered among the ruins of Pompeii (de like powers, nnd wonderful are the stroyed A. D. 7th; and Galen in the lales travelers tell of remarkable exhi second century describes the operation bitions going to support this belief. of drawing teeth with a forceps. Belz- Human sacrifices are also said to be a zoul establishes the fact that the an component part of the religion of the cients were acquainted with the art. country, which is described as being for he found artificial teeth In their catacombs nnd tombs. It Is generally but a veneer of Buddhism over a body of savage and uncouth superstition. As accepted, however, in modern dentistry may be Imagined, tho spiritual, aes that Albucasls first taught the true art thetic «nd moral «Ides of the people of of making teeth, at the end of the Tibet nre In a very primitive condition. thirteenth century, and in his work. “Al in the country districts the principal Tarif." he gives drawings of several dental instruments then In use. occupations nre agriculture and cattle raising Labor of all sorts Is very Hl« Alters d Usefulne««. cheap In Tibet, the men being paid but The scorching chauffeur lost control 2 or 3 cents a day. while the women of his machine, which dashed through generally receive but their board ami the wall of a writing-fluid factory and lodging. Where the country Is not n precipitated him into a vat of finished barren waste the principal products are product wheat, barley, peas and beans, the live "Well." he muttered, as he crawled stock raised including horses, asm«, out. ”1 may be badly damaged, but mules, cattle, shop and yaks. As In I’m still Indispensable to a well-order everything else, primitive methods pre ed office desk." vail. and prosperity Is constantly ab "How so?" asked the stirgeon. sent “Because I’m a first-class inky ra The population, which has at times cer.”
