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.
!
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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
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TIBET IS DESPOTICALLY RULED
BY ITS PRIESTS.
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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.”