"WHAT I SAW IN TIBET." DR. SVÈN BEDIN'S STORIES OF THE GAMAS.
Dr. Sven Hedin has already been describing in Harper's Magazine" some of the wonders of Tibet from which we take the following
"I have visited and described thirty-one temples in Tibet-described the different ball
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22T» 1908.
They therefore play the same role in the opan air is the four spiritual kings in the temple.
There is not a temple in Tibet the walls these four potentates oftiu of whose outer bells are not deserated with painting of exsouted with great skill suit in screaming They are armed with clubs, swords, and
Oriental colours
important idole; and, what is quite new, hore hair is a perfect forest of red serpents, and hundreds of sketches of interiors and exteriorsahests of dame but from their sides; the object of these temples. 2000th the taily life of the lamas, their otherwise and their way into the hall of the I have collected montorial for n maat detalled being to frighten away evil spirits, who would stadies, their classor, their daily services in the temple and disturb the peace of the gods.” temples, and their fönsts.
"One of
my most remarkable experiegoss of this which was sirendy, so inl of
journey, experiences and adventures, was our wandering round the holy Kailas, or Kang Rimpoche, as the Tibetans call that mountain,
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THE MOUTH OF THR INDUS.
YUAN SHI KAL
The Times, referring to the large and valuable Sb-Kai on the gocasion of his äftieth presents given by the Empress Dowager to birthday, says:It is said that sy honour of equal distinction has never been conferred on an offcial of any rank, and in the present state of
WHERE THE GOLD COMES FROM..
How many will be able, off-baad to tell you where the gold we quarrel over daily come from, and where it goes to Not one in a hundred can do so, or even form a good guess. We may note in starting our article the wo
THE HAIDARABAD FLOODS.
· EXTENT OF DISASTER ESTIMATED,
SECUNDERABAD, October 6th. The mortality at Haidarabad in now expected to be less than at Brat estimated. Up to the
the
of their temples and halles of holies, their most other, weapons, while their faces are contorted in affairs in Chips it must be said to posses would be very short of our gold requirements 1st instant about 1,000 sorpsen had been taken the most diabolical and terrifying manner; their especial significance. Yuan Shi-Kai, now Grand I were it not for thegioid! of the Rand at the from the river and the rinne, besides a large Connoiller and President of the Ministry of present time, and that during the two year when number (said to bass any as 1,500) from the Foreign Affairs, is by his charaator and oareer the output was curtailed by the Boer War We river banks below the site, while many more still lie baried in the debris. From 15,000 the most prominent and interesting of Chinasa felt the sbrinkage in the following years,
The output of gold in greatest from the to 20,000 houses have been destroyed by the from Party in the Empire, be ha dene more than British Empire, then comes the U.S.A, Eusais, food. More than 50,000, persons are being fed statesman. The acknowledged leader of the Be- any other official, by his personal exertions and Mexico, and South Amerios, You see, there daily. The breaks in the mains are now indusnice, to
available inil localities except the "I managed to obtain permission from the of progrengthen and promote the cause fore, that many countries depend on a few for repaired and the water supply is again
and of national reorganisation in their supply of the precious metal, and it
The streets Chins, Bafora bla appointment to the Wai- not always the nation which produces the areas beyond the old bridge. authorities in Barkha to make a detour to the W-F'n he held the position of Viceroy of Chi-mach-sought for commodity which is able to are being lighted by Kitson lights in eo no north with five men and six horses,
And one night we oumped beside the spotli, the metropolitan province, in the adminis keep it when they do produce it from their own localities. For administrative purposes where the source of the Indus dows out of the tration of which he displayed a spirit of en- territory. We see Franne steadily drawing the city has been placed under Captain Gay, monutaiu, a apot called by the Tibetans Singt-lightenment and a power of practical achieve gold from London, whither It is sont from all Asistant Commissioner of Police, and the "The Hindus are convinced that Siva lives in his paradise on the top of it, and only oces-ksbape, the mouth out of which the Indus meat that exerted great and far-reaching effects parts of the Empire, probably Canada excepted, sabarba noder Mr. Gayor, Chief of the Criminal
all over the Empire. Perhaps the work that and she does not produce any of the metal. She investigation Department. The wreckige sionally do the gods descend to the banks of the comes forth."
This spot is holy in their eyes; piles of has attracted most attention among foreigners wins it by the balance of trade being in her now been cleared from the main road, and Manszarower to adopt the form of a white
has been the rapid creation of number of favour, as against Grant Britain, and is viow dangerous ruins demolished. More than 4,400 stones and cairns are erected there; on a stone swan and to swim across its silvery depths.
Kilas is regarded as especially hely by the platform a well-on ved idol was placed, and I divisions of troops, well drilled, equipped, of the large holdings she has in the mines Labourers are being now employed at the task. organised, and officered. Bat of at least equal worked of British territory. Every time we A. relief fund has been opened to which His of was heathen enough to take it with me. Tibetans, being repated to be the domicile of
importance has been the establishment of an buy a box of uios French plums, or saparagus, Highness the Nizim has zabyaribed one lakh
we pay for the same in Australian or South rapes. All property covered is being placed the higher gods, placed starlike beyond the
educational system, ranging from primary realms of space,
schools to a university, giving instrastion in African gold. We go to Paris and ebange & in two central losslities in the city and two in Western knowledge, and including colleges for Bank of England zote in the Boulevard des the suburbs. To keep down prices the toll tax medical; agricultural, and technical training. Italiens, and enjoy the Bois de Bolongne with and the tax on firewood have been remitted and In addition the Viceroy organised an oloient the proceeds; ore we reach London again, that arrangements have been made with the railway
immediately. It is understood that the Gover police force, cleaned and lighted the streets, nose has visited Threadneedle Street, and the authoritise to menu all true sontaining grein reformed the prisons, set up law courts.on
For the last year, the world's total gold ment of India are prepared to send additional modern basis, and laid the foundations of gold has passed to Paris, system of loosi self-government. In no other prodnation was 19,585,000 ounces, and of this mediost officers to give assistance if their services provises were the provisious of the anti-fally 11,500,000 ounces caras. From the British are required, epium deoress carried out with equal seal and Empire. India added 500,000 ounces, so that At the same time the Viceroy we had at our disposal quito 12,000,000 onnees raine of £450,000, leaving effectivene won the goodwill and esteem of the forsiga representing communit, and the opinion of the service on 7,500,000 onuses to the credit of the balans of dered by him in 1908, as Governor of Shantung, the world, of which the U.S.A, supplied quite in obroking the spread of the Boxer magis, was
Within the Empire, Africa contributed strengthened by hie opposition in 1906 to the anti-American boycott. While settings splen 7,500,000 opucra, Australia 8,600, 00 pances, did example of practical patriotism in his own provinse, Yuan Shi-Kai also threw all his India 500,000 ounces and Canada 400,00. waight on the side of the referm movement in Dory. Take Away South Africa, and Great Britain becomes a gold-producing power of Peking, Since he has held his present poste 10 secondary importance to the U.S.A. Thus do the Wai-Wa-Fa and in the Grand Council his
we see the importance to Great Britain of the African gold-Felds. She day not retain JAPAN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE the gold when it
THE BOLIET OF MOUNTAINS. "From the Kham Mountains on the extreme east, from Naktsong and Amds, from the blask tents which like spots on the hide of a panther spread out in desolale valleys of Tibet, and from Ladak in the far western mountains, thousands of pilgrims coms yearly on foot and, deeply meditating, slowly wander the four wiles round thin the holiest of all the mountains of the earth. 1, too, wandered round Kang Eimpcole by the pilgrims roule, I saw their dusky train, of all ages and sexes, men with wives and children, old people who, before they died were desirous of winning this last favour, tatlerdema- lions, out-throate who had sin to do penance for priests and somads, a perpetual multi-coloured stream of people passing along the gravel- atrowa road lending to the realms of eternal light and consolation far beyond the valley of death.
1 stood and wondered over Alexander of Macedonia, who, crossing the Indus 2,200 years ago, bad a distant notion where its souros was to be found, and I rejoiced in the conscionanose of being the first European to set foot at the
gro of the fudus. ***Not without pride. I realised I was the first whiteman to set loot on the scurse of the .ndus and Brahmaputra sluce the day Noah same out of the ark:
The geologists of the futaro will find in this part of the world a perfect Eldorado of the most magrifcent, most difficult, and most alluring problems.
As regards the political point of view Tibet marching towards a new epoch Things looked black for a while when the Eaglich forced thair way into the country three years ago, bat of that exploit hardly su echo is to be heard today.
UNCOMPETITIVE EXPLORING.
"Often the old folks' hope is deceived, death soming to claim them before their goal it-attained. I saw one old man who had re-alou of the mime sort will some to meso not sin lussos in the capital has increased. Naturally cently terminated his earthly wanderings, and whose body lay s'ilf and cold between granite blocks by the wayside
"It took us three days to do the four miles round the mountain. Personally, I rode mont of the way, but my four men from Ladaki, who are also lambir te, wout on foot, and fulfilled to the letter an orthodox pilgrim's duties.
TRAVELLING IT PROSTRATION. "Once we passed two young lamus from Kham on the road. They did not walk, like ordinary pilgrims, but literally measured off
-the distance with their own bodion.
The Chinese have reaped all the advantages of Younghusband's missive, and a future mis- military promenade Boross the Himalayas, but war with Colna.
"For me personally the policy of the Liberal Cabinet in Loudun has been of great advantage, "For a time, indeed the authorities were kind enough to close the whole frontier of India and Tibet in order to give me a unique opportunity to collect all the valuable discover ies I bave now made.
"Unconsciously and for no conceivable reason I was protected from every sort of competition, and wust that means to an explorer in an noknown land it is impossible to tell.
the journey took twenty day they oxpected reasons, wra shut out from Tibet, while I, therefore, largely the policy of the party in the
I asked the two inmas
to gain by it, and they replied that after death they would sit in the seats of the gods of Kang Rimpoche and in their presence for eternity.
THE JAPAN:E IN KOREA
or
ona-bail.
coin
iz or
bars.
MADRAS, October 7. According to a talegram received by Govern. meat from the Resident at Haidarabad there are 100.000 people houseless and destitute. The Sheriff of Madras asking him to take the Governor in consequence bas telegraphed to the
ery steps for the organisation of a relief faud, offering a contribution of Rs. 500 towards A subscription list bas already been started, meeting of citizens is convened.
FORMOSAN TRIBES.
standard of basic knowledge vary, low. If,
comes 10 London. enough his rapid advance, strong character, and progressive views have raised opponents against
It is estimated, says a Japanese contemporary, him among the ranks of the conservative man and we can readily see that she does not darine, while, being of Chinese race, he has to do so, yet it gives her a means of moving encunster the jealousy and inspicion of the trade to the benefit of the Empire. She is a Manchas. Yuan's power and prestige are of great leaning country, and must always be in aas we learn from translation in tho Japon good omen for China's fature. There has often position to loan is gold, and receive her interest Mail, that the Seibans, or the Formosan natives, been much speculation in the past as to whether in raw material and food stuffs that her now living outside the sphere of legal adminis the Chinese Government is sincere in its profes popalation may be employed and fed. As a tration, number about 110,000. They are sions of reform. Any reply to such a question matter of fact, she could do as profitable a trade divided into 732 large and small triber, cconpy.
exporting
it, in return receiving cotton and miles. Each tribs has its own territory and a mast naturally be something of a surmise, more by producing £45,000,000 worth of coal, and ing a region of 1,200 square ri, or 7,500 square especially since it is diffoult to any isotly in four. The cost of producing the & al will be sort of assembly hall, where they held meetings whose hands the government of the Empire lies,
Among these garage triban, the "Lying down fall length on the ground, "My friends in India were prevented by There are the two great bodier, the Grand a great as producing the gold, thus the coal for the discussion and management of their sountry than are the gold-felds of the Rand; Atalyarn are the fiercest and most obstinate of they would join their hands over their heads loyalty to their Home Government from doing Secretariat and Grand Council, and a number fields of Great Britain are of more value to the faire. and read a prayer, then make a mark on the what they would have wished to further my of Ministries aus Beards, but it would not be gold is of ag earthly use except sé an exchanges all, and consider beheading most bonourable. Bat spart from this tribe and some of the Vonumb and Tarisen near Mt. Morrison who ever their heade, and mattering prayer inte follows me on my journey. And yet it would and control of any policy or measure is derived. When it comes to be manufactured into rings zond, aris, join their hands together again plane, but I know that their keenest sympathy oney to assert from what quarter the inspiration Shen used simply as
are occasionally guilty of brutality, the majority a few steps forward to the mark, to fall full not astonish me if there were those among the No doubt the Empress Dowager in the and works of art, then it, like steel or cotton,
of the Saibany are ly nor is the length once again and repeat the entire younger generaties of Englishmen in Indis ans and expreme authority, but her aititade
all the way round the mountain, who long to distingish themselves and out to and decisions of the Performed in this manter by prostration, most strange Casintes and wiresturen, aho aegre denials are awayed by insane and Wo see, hometer, that only a small proportion
complain bitterly that they, for purely political policy of the Government at any moment is, Brede, can wander round the country free 29 ascendant at the tinie, and a step urged or
prompted from-ce-quartar ma be impeded any young wild ann.
nentralised from another. Thus the reformers may succeed is getting an excellent decree published, while their opponents will use their enorts to prevent its being carried out.
It is not surprising, therefore, that there should often be a wide gulf between the pro- fessions of the hinese Government and its performances, and the charge of insincerity so often levelled perhaps not wholly fustified. The Reform Farty really desires that its programme should be applied; but the Conservatives are no less earnest in their resolve to resist or modify the change proposed. The
by well-wishers of Bhai will be stored Power of Yusn China, because it must give added strength to the progressive the side of reform, and realising the wisdom of Dowager borself is molining more and more to breaking with old traditions, semt probable, not only from the continued issue of progressive dearses, but also from important antion taken in several directions. But the power of the Central Government in China is limited. Owing to the vast extent of the Empire, the diversity of conditions, and the established tradition of provincial, autonomy, the way in which any proposed reforms are carried out rests largely with the local officials In many places these officials are looking in the knowledge and no less than in bonit mal for the eradication training necessary for effolent administration,
They bad post a whole year on the journey trom Kham, and their home was situated several months' journey beyond Lhase. *
"One of them was to return there after having completed bis daty a pilgrim. The otter-be was barely twenty years old-wa to pass the remainder of his earthly life in dara grotto on the boy ks of the Upper Tasqgpo. Few forms of self-mortification are of such raine as this life spent in the dark; this absolute aeparation from the world, from one's folion men and the light of the sun.
"In the prayer grotto of that places little
▲ KOERAN COMPARISON.
The Karaar members of the Establishment Committee of the Oriental Development Com- pany have left. Tokyo for Kyoto, sad after a abort stay at Kyoto will continue their journey to Korea by the noluble places in the Inland
of the gold in the world is in the form of cela. therefore, the authorities carry out their inten It is estimated that there is more in trinketstions, these people might probably be taught at sad riugs than in csin. We look up at the pio, least to be. farmers. Although the lines of tare frame on the wall, and we see that it is policy taken by the authorition in dealing with covered with a layer very thin, peshape, but yet these natives differ from one another owing a layer of gold the vase on the mantel-piece their own customs and characteristics, one may carries its quote of the metal. Our watch classify them bity under two heads the chsio, the ring which won us our bonny wife, szalononery principle of foros, and its opposite. The iron wire entanglements constructed by the both represent gold taken from circulation,
the natives, ara like those used by a force sating We have, perhaps, more gold visible ouaide Japanese as a means of defence and guard against our waistcoat than we have in our purse, and some are askind enough to say that there are on the defensive in war, with an electric current hosts of such who move in good sosialy. If we capable of being passed through every wire, bave any at oor bankers, it generally belongs while on the saddles of mountains and elevated to our creditore, and we only hold it through pisos are placed field and mountain gans for the purpose of holding the Beibaos in check. our power of teoncity.
The gold gravitates towards the nation which Two lines of these entanglements have already energy, just an a business man finds his stock of 180 ri, or 40 miles. One of them begins at is the great-at concentration of commercial been made, their total extent being in foot over gold accumulate as he contracte him business, the coast of Giran cho (sbo prefecture) in the man or nation cannot be west, northwards and passing ganged in commercial importance in accordance through the Kusshaku district of Shiuko oho in a round-sboat way, terminates in the his operations. The u be expands the scope of the west, turing, ethweika and Nanko in with the amount of gold in their banks, but
in Taito-cho, It is stated, however; that rather by the productive enterprises in which Horishe distriots in Nanto-cho; while the other they are interested, thus Great Britain may is constructed in the vicinity of Kwanroako have a small accumulation of gold in the banks the authorities are contemplating gradual of London, yet she has such enormous reprodavancement and extension of theme lines. tive enterprisen at home and abroad that she is immensely rich. Bo sino is the U.S.A., Incapable of withstanding these cunningly her gold stere is nothing sompared with the devised obstacles, the Seibans are forced book more and more towards the interior mountain value of her cora folds, her steel works, her ranges, with the result that they have lost all cotton and coal fields, her manufactorier,
It is expected, the treasury, bat her possessions and commer. get their food by growing millet and bio plants
upon steep mountain slopes.- France may boast a greater supply of gold in their gultivated Belda and are also able to eial enterprises are not equal to those of Great now that they have no means of obtaining either
of abuses. While salaries are meintained on Britain.
Interviewed on the eve of their departure by IMMURZD FOR THREK YBAHS.
A representative of the Asahi Shimbun," they "In Linga guppa I obtained manob valuable
exprazed themselves much gratified at the information regarding this carioda austom. stone hat at the foot of a ollff-was then a lame kindnes they bad experienced from Jap mase of reseption gives to them in Japan, and at the who had already been immured for three years all classes. But they had something more to No one knew bio, no one knew whence he cams say, and coming from mon in their position, nor what his name was, and even were one to it should carry great weight, remarks the They said that the Japan know his name it was forbidden to mention i
"Japan Mail." note in Korea are radically different from before human being,
But they told me that the day he went into the Japanese with whom they come in contact The Japanese of Japan are all the grotto he was followed in most solemo pro-in Japan. cession by all the rod monks of the monastery, courtesy and kindness; the Japanven of Kores, and when all the ceremonies prescribed in the just the opposita: Not only do the latter assume hootoring demeanour, but also they freely holy books had been gone through, the narrow entrance into the grotto had been closed up take Korean property, paying only petty again,
We were standing outside it. I asked the compensation for it, and if the Kureaus complain to the police, no notice is taken of them, while if they carry the casa to, the higher oflaials they are apt to fare oven worse, 1 bin is practically what has been said by several foreign observers with the difference that these foreign critice not being familiar with the Japanere at home are disposed to take the Japanese abroad as a fair sample of the nation. it is a most un ortunate state of affairs, and certainly it can not have the approval of the Residency General for a moment.
members The Korean
of the Com- mittee express a hope that the operations the Development Company will have good effect, but it appears to us, says our contemporary, that such a remedy has enbaited for centuries, and he outside of the benefit, we and that the winning must be at best very partial. If those grie- spite of successive invasious and internal vances really exist, and the feat aan scarcely be rebellious, succeeded in.holding an Empire of altogether doubted, we imagine that the only some four hundred million people together, effective course is to spppuist's commission seems to show that it must poses may and empower it to visit the various localities excellent qualities, and suggests that sudden for the purpose of considering and adjudicating changes of form, as opposed to changes in the all complaints preferred by Koreans against spirit of the administration, may not be wholly Japanese subjects. Unquestionably something prudent, At a time of change and ferment, when new idons and principles have to be ed ought to be done.
it is fortunate that China possesses statesmen of the proved patriotism, espacity, and judg- ment of Yuan Shi-Kai,
head lama whether he winld bear un talk. *Ob no, he can neither bear nor ses he is suck night and day in profound meditation." "How do you know that he is alive." "The food [teamba) which is passed in to him once a day through an underground passage is esten up by the morning; but should we find the dish untonched one morning then we should understand that he had died,'
THE HOLY POSITION
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"A stream Bows through the case in the day- time by this means he gets water.
Like all James, from the Tasbi Lama down-of ward, the recluse must die in a sitting position:a Bat as he is alone and will probably become pense ess before the actual moment of death, & small wooden frame is introduced into the cave at the same time as himself into which ha an areep as soon as he feels death approaching This will prevent him from falling forwards or or to noe side, and he will be found in the same holy position in wbich Buddha is depicted in all the thonsands upon thousands of portraits of him we find sositerad throughout the temples of Tibet.
"In another temple, like Linga, absolutely doknown by Europeans, a lama had lived immured in this sauer for sixty-nine years l "On leaving Shigatse we were followed by an escort of Chinese and Tibetana. The former carried with them - portable temple with su altar table for the gods and a narrow tably for dishes, lamps, and case-burners.
The interior of their
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SHIPPING NEWS.
LATEST STEAMRE MOVEMENTS, - The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan arrived Yokohama at 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st inst, and leares again at 3 p.m. same day for Kobe where she is due to arrive at 3 p.m. on
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very decorative with temple tent was willy Thursday the 22nd ivet,
its golden gode gleaming through the hams of smoke the lamps shaded by steam. And in the evening they sang, the voices accompanied by drums and cymbala
RELIGIOUS RESPONSIBILITIAE.
The str, Denbighshire left Singapore on morning the 21st inst, and is dus here on or about Wednesday the 28th inst, at morning.
THE NEW E. E LINER.
The new turbine steamer Chayo marts, 15,500 "Into the Tibetan's life is woven a mocarion tons, has recently most successfully as 15,500 Forglops cratice-When he rides past a leabor full speed steam trials
at Nagasaki. Al of sacrificial stones he adds a stone to it when though the contract speed in 16 sasis, which
Bessary for life), that they will before long the present inadequate sale and the oarrency Thus we find that the young man whore, ammunition, or ralt (which is absolutely remains in its chaotic condition, the univermal labours in a London or Berlin offos, and draws abandon their obstinacy and pledge allegiance
to the Sovereign Power. practice of "squeesing" the public revenues may two-and-a half sovereigns a week, will for persons! profit is not likely to dinsppear perhaps, at the end of the year amass more But in the provinces there are also ever-growing gold than the young man in the gold mines of Anetralia or South fries. And the French. indications of a new spirit of enlightenment and devotion to the national welfare. It is dificult grower of strawberries may, at the end of the to say what massare of success is likely to season, find he has more gold to his oredit than attend the attempt now being made to establish the Mexican miner.
form of local self-government, as-a-pre- The fact that paration for the Constitution of which so much has been heard.
the present system of Chinese government
the
THE RAJPUTS.
FEARFUL ECZEMA:
SKIN IN RIBBONS
Arms wore Perfectly Raw-Desper
ate with Terrible. Irritation" and. Almost Crazed by Lack of Sleep- All Efforts at Cure Failed Until
MATRON OF HOSPITAL RECOMMENDED CUTICURA
"Four years ago eczema, broke out om my hands and arise and I became 10.
bad that I
able even to dreas my- well and I dared not put my handa in water. Of course I went to see a dootor, but be held out very slight hope of re covery. I persevered with the treatment he recommended, but
without any good re- salt. At last I called on another dog- tor, but he failed also to bring me any benefit. I was suffering terribly then, and I thought I should go out of my mind, an I could neither sleep nor rest, night or day. The skin was all hanging In ribbons, and the arms looked u like raw beefsteak, while the irritation was so terrible that I got desperate sometimes and felt I would like to worstch my arms to pieces. I went to three other doctors, and then I attended the Hospital, but no one seemed to be able to conquer the dissaan, and I was on the very brink of despair when I was advised by the matron of another hospital to give Outicura Hemedies erial: I put some Cuticura Ointment on the sores, and then I had the best night's rest i had had for many a long day, I continued the applications and also used Cutlours Boap and Cuticur Resolvent Pills. I seemed to improve all the time, and before I had used up one box of Cutlers Oiistment I could do things in the house which I had not been able to do for four years. By the time two boxes of Cutours Ointowak had been used I was completely cared and my arms and hands, which had been all laceration and blood, were cor ered by a beautiful new skin. Now they are in as sound condition as ever. I have paid pounds upon pounds for doo Loring all for nothing, and now I-cansay the Cuticura Remedies are worth_thele weight in gold, Ms. Jane Lee, Rores Villa, Blackpool, Eng., Oct. 31, 1907.** Bend to nearest depot for free Chill- sura Book on Treatment of Skin Diseasen. – Cuteurs Remedies are sold throughout the world. Passion depots London zatia Towba
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
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BLUEJACKET DI GRACED.
London, October 1st- “The court mortix) on the-bluejacket of the oruiser Gibraltar who destroyed gun sights fas sentenced him to two years' hard labour and to be dismissed the service.
THE BOOK WAR.
London, October Lat. King Edward has commended the issue of chasp edition at the price of six shillings of Queen Victoria's Letters to be published by Murrays and The Times in conjunction. This marks the end of the book war.
NEW ZEALAND NAVAL DEFENCE. London, October 1kt. The New Zealand House of Representatives has read a third time a bill for increasing the £100,000 per annum. Colony's subsidy for the Navy from £40,000
JOCKEY CLUB-STAKES.
London, October 1st. The result of the race for the Jockey Club Btakes in: 1 Siberia, 2 Primer, 3 Royal Realm. The race was won by four lengths, and two lengths toparatait seoond and third. Ten horms startel.
Betting at atert: 4 to 1 Biberis, 7 to 4- Primer, 20 to 1 Royal Besim
OBITUARY.
London, October 6th. The death has taken place of Lord Herries.
BABY AS RECONCILER.
The arrival of a little baby boy has again brought about a perfect family reconciliation. Two years ago Vir. Bristow Draper married Queenie Sanford, chorus girl playing in Sain His Before the British Association Mr. W Bernard's "Bich Mr. Huggenheimer,"
chusetts, and one of the wealthiest manufacturors him It is quite true that the search for gold and Crooks read a paper on the Rajputs and father, who is Lieutenant-Governor of Massa precious metals lends the venturesome people Mahrattan, which was mainly devoted to
to work as an ordinary labourer in a Tecment to open up new parts of the world to civilisation, consideration of the views recently enunciated in that state, disowned him, and compelled
ootten pill, Notwithstanding that he was and insiden ally benefit the world at large, but by Sir H. Risley on the origin of those races.
sccustomed to live the life of a social butterfly, and have every whim gratified, he showed his Mr. Creoke said that the former had been of gold is not a more lucrative occupation, in classed by Sir B. Eisley, or the evidence of aggregate, than growing potatoes or runner anthropometry, as "Indo-Aryans." But his
factory bands as one of themselves, and living with his wife is a humble cottage. When, beans. Take for example, the gold mines of the torical and other evidence pointed to the grit by donning overalia, sociating with this ethniesl unit, the Rajputs formed a statur Band, the profits from them, in comparison conclusion that, so far from being a distinct with the capital invested, would not by any
group, compounded from varied elemente, month ago, the Lieutenant-Governor heard commercial undertaking in any city in Europe, or with the returns exhibited by the winner of central ranges of bills many Hajputs were carious to see it that be invited his son and fortune through the tilling of the soil of oven
vidian," races. This fact was familiar to family sest at Hopedale, Massachusetts. Täs all ethnologists. More important and novel Lieutenant-Governor met them at the station, Canada would be, from an independenos sud ultimate access point of view, head and should-was the evidence from epigraphy recently grested the young father and mother with
home himself took charge of the baby.. ers better off then a gold hunter anywhere in discovered, which showed that many of the the greatest cordiality," and during the drive the world.The Cosmopolitan Financier.
nivans comparo in dividend results with a good the Ganges valley and along the of the advent of a grandson, he became Bo
justed to cantury-old conditions and traditione, Great Britain. Certainly a man on a form in promoted from the indigenous, so-called "Dra-daughter-in-law and the infant to visit the:
MARVELLOUS NEW, MOTOR-BOAT.
BFED OF 37 MILES AN HOUR.
Rajputs in the Panjab and Rajpetana were sprung from Boythian and Han invaders.
NEW THEORY OF SUNSTROKE. These foreigners were a brachycephalic people and the failure of craniometry to detect this
A writer in Indian Public Health saggetas THE JEWELS OF THE GAEKWAR. strain in the present population might be due
either lo insuficient investigation or to the new theory for sau stroke which has at leas impossibility of classifying wized races on the the merit of originality. He suggests that Of all the Princes of India, Hindu and basis of skull form. Next, Mr. Crooke thought certain electric waves or currents pass through Remarkable experiment have been undeahomedon, not, he has gems: that on com: it clearly proved that there was no bistorical the stem. These, if not insulated, will do no on the Wolfgang Lake, near Ischi, with a
The presence in these serious mischief may be done. The native of all motor boat constructed on an entirely pare with those of the Gaekwar of Baroda. justification for the assumed Soythian entry harm, but when, as in the case of Europeants
jewel treasures, is a carpet said to be about down as Coorg, Austrian officer, Von Korwin, who has already yards square, composed of ropes of rubies, regions of a brachycepkelic strain, whatever this country wearing neither shoes mor
origin
oculd not new principle. The invention is that of an Perhaps the most remarkable of the Gack war's into the Denean and Southern India as far wearing thick boots, the surrent is intercopted, be headgear, offers no opposition to the page of established works near Paris.
bost is 12ft, long, with beam filiamonds, pearls, woven into a pattern of might be
did no-coustitute statie the "he passes a mans atons he vever forgets to leave would put her in the front rank of Pacific liners, and is fitted with a 12 b.p. motor. The chief; exquisite Bau dermag been the Mabrattythian or Han invasion. The the electric waves, and so escapes ill effects.
estimated value of suit. They were status group.
or indigenous
Speaking of married life, in an address at runs over the measured distance-about 3 instead of running into the water, as usual, £860,000,-and it is the product of three years' the Foly mountains ha does not bend, knots was 206 8 knots an hour. The speed horizontally, dips down at an angle of 15 work of skilled artists and jewel setters. This basis being the "Dravidian
carpet was intended as a cover of Mahomed's Kunhi tribe. The higher classes owing to combined with a peculiar arrangement cofin st Mecos bui, for some reason, could not their rica in social importance had asserted and Harrogate. Father Vaughan told a droll story.
by obtained the right of connubium with the
"Did you over know any ons perfect?" asked and when he is loading up bie yak la mumbles of the fastest run was 21+1 knols. The Tenyo | degroom.
maru, a sister ship, developed a mean speed of "The spiritual meaning and the object of all! 20-608 knots on her official trials, the highest of the boat's keel; enables the vessel almost to be sent there. Since then it has been kept by Rajputs, Mr. Crooks concluded by saggeaang minister of his congregation, "Did you ever
speod attained being 20905 knots, so that the
was exhibited by him in the Art Exhibition at that the influence of environment and serual read of any man or woman who was perfect? diyo mark's performanos was slightly better: kim over the water instead of running through the Gaekwax as amet valued possession and it The result is that it travole at an enormous
"Did over hear of any one who was par The time occupied by the Chigo-mart in stop speed. It is stated that a speed of 50 kilometres. Delbi in 1803. Still more costly is one of the selection has been to some extent overlooked in
Geekyar's dismond necklaces which is said to recent discussions on the.ethnology of India, here was no reply. Then he exclaimed ping from full speed ahead was 3 minutes 42 (37 miles) per hour hasiboon attained. seconds and she completed round taru. in fre
be worth well over £2,000,000, and which, one and that these cases might possibly explain foot ? Yes, baret, forth a lady to the can easily imagine, in the most magnifosnt the uniformity which characterised the physical pow; from all accounts my husband's first
character of the peoply of the Punjab.
wife was perfect" (Laughter.) minuter, the vessel keeping steady when turning at full speed.
ita prayers in his favour, when he passes one of
flat and touch the ground with his forshond,
his eternal' on mane padme hum.
these flagpolos, stone heaps, etc, is resily to keep the powers of evil at bay, to render the journey over a high pass lucky, to protect the traveller orcsaing a river from drowning, to keep the evil spirits of the air from your daalling, and in the deserta to protect the wayfarer frcan obbers and attack by wolves,
The French Government has already placed orders for 62 of those vessels for as on Colonial
rivern.
in the world.
in due to a 1
its
Again,
THE PERFECT WIFE.