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ploying their time in hunting and pol. ishing their spears and other arms.
 The prevailing native garment, for both men and women, is a long robe made of lamb skin with the wool worn inside. This is their only garment. It is held in place by a leather girdle.
 On the Chinese side of Thibet among the cave villages are a number of tribes whose only distinguishing mark is the headdress of their women.
 "One of these head arrangements consists of strip of leather ten inches long by four inches wide, placed across the back of the head. There are num- erous holes in the leather through which the hair is drawn in tiny braids; these braids are heightened by thick cords till they reach the ground, and to each tresS a smaller piece of leather is fastened
 "The foot wear of the Thibetan is very like the Indian mocassin and the men wear foxskin caps the year round.
 The houses are superior to the Chi nese house.
 As in China, their marriages are ar- ranged by a go- between, and upon the day of the final ceremony the bride, with several priests and band of maidens, approaches the home of the bridegroom.
 When very near the bride, supported by two maidens, walks falteringly with bowed head to one end of the long mat placed before his door, which then opens, the groom walks out and takes his stand opposite her, from where he casts rope about her and thus draw ing her to him proceeds to cut the rope with huge knife.
 ''The marriage ceremony is then vir- tually over. and the immense pyramidal cake of Drowned flour, borne upon a triangle of wood, and into which the priests have for days been praying all the evils incident to married life, Is brought out and thrown down to be broken in pieces and eaten by the dogs
 Then, amid the beating of drums and the music of numerous instruments, the couple, with their friends, enter the house and the marriage is concluded by feast.
 Regarding our work in Thibet the young man left in charge of the mis- sion established has succeeded in win ming the good will and confidence of the people. He has extended his labors sixty miles inland from La Brang to- ward that mysterious center. and is now in the great military center. He has been promised protection by high official, providing he does not enter the robber district
 "I have no doubt that Lassa will eventually be entered by the white man, but it will be through winning the respect and confidence of the na.- tives and proving to them that he has only their best and highest interests at heart"
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able bed is laid on top for you to ride upon.
 Tn this manner we journeyed to kalgau, a city which stands under the shadow of the great wall Since it's building kingdoms and nations have risen and decayed.
 At Kalgau we took the carts again, Journeying fourteen days beyond the great wall tG Pao Tao, and found that the Ordes Desert lay before us. For SIX months of the year no caravan will venture to cross this desolate waste
 ''To our guides we urged the neces- sity of making the journey, but no one would risk either horses or camels upon the burning sands.
 so we gathered together the horses and mules of the nearby missions, and supplying ourselves with food and water and adding to our number a muleteer and Thibetan priest, we start ed across the desert. Heat and dust at once combined to blind and suffocate us But We plodded on day after day. our heads throbbng and the blood in our veins seemingly turned to fire
 Our muleteer became so blind that he could not distinguish one animal from another; our food dried until it was scarce eatable. At the last we rode from sun to sun without a drop of water to cool our swollen tongues.
 The biscuit, which was the only food carried for our animals, had to be broken into bits with stones; 1t had become too hard for them to bite The plight of one poor brute became so pitt able from lack of water that it was mercifully killed
 Added to this misery our way was beset with packs of fierce wild dogs. In one locality the boy on guard fought them throughout the entire night, as they jumped into the inclosure where our animals were confined
 But after fourteen terrible days we arrived at Ping Lo, and in due time went on to You Jou, where Mir. Christy. who acted as my interpreter, had for three years been waiting and prepar- ing to enter Thibet
 Official permission to proceed into Thibet was at last given upon the morning of the 2d of last August. Early one day, while it was yet dark, I, with my two companions, waited before the great locked gate in the crumbIing old wall which divides Thibet from China, for the gray of dawn and the firing of a gun, the signal for the opening of the gate.
 At last the gun sounded and the guards stationed at the gate to collect money from all who entered motioned us to pass through as the gate swung back. Strange to say they demanded no tithes, as we entered Thibet
 By noon we had ridden sixty Ii. and came upon the excited owner of a car
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aVan that had just passed through the robber district. This district extends seventy miles upon the opposite side of the mountain range to be crossed in reaching La Brang.
 We were warned not to attempt to pass through this robber district. The caravan leader told me that the rob bers had cut off the right arm of one of his party; another man had been killed outright and he himself had been robbed of 600 taels.
 After listening to his terrible ad- ventures in the district both our mule teer and priest f1atly refused to accom- pany us farther by that route. We were advised to either change our course or engage party of soldiers.
 To engage soldiers appeared to me too inconsistent with our frank declar- ation that we had come among this people to teach Peace on earth and good will toward men, and also to teach our belief in higher power than mans. We therefore decided to con- tinue our journey through the robber district and not to hire any soldiers.
 'The second day, as we journeyed among the mountains, 1000 feet above sea level, a turn of the path brought us without warning into an encamp- ment of robbers. The chief was in their center and over his head attend ants were holding a huge umbrella.
 There were fully forty of them. With the exception of their chief they were all brawny young fellows, naked to the Joins and fully armed, having a great Thibetan gun strapped to their back, broadsword slung across their breast, and in their hands huge spears with gleaming heads eighteen inches long. Each spear measured twenty feet. They throw them with the ac- curacy gunner sends a cannon ball.
 As the robbers caught sight of our party they formed complete and com pact circle about the sacred person of their chief and gave vent to a yell that might have come from the throats of fends instead of men. This is their cus- tom to frighten travellers. When the af- frightened turn terror~stricken to flee the robbers pursue and kill them
 Though the sight of them in war gear and the yell which greeted us was appalling, I said to George Shields, the grand young Scotch minister, who rode by my side: It's no time to be afraid now. Remember, We are in the hands of One who so far has protected us
 And checking our trembling horses we three sat confronting the robber band, defenseless save for the Invisible Arm.
 Our silent and motionless behavior seemed to paralyze the robbers Very likely in all their experience they had never seen travellers act that way be- fore.
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After brief pause we resumed our journey, pacing slowly down the path
 The Thibetan robbers stood as though stricken helpless, their hands upon their spears, gazing after us. But they made no further attempt to mo- lest us.
 This was the only time we encoun- tered them; but as we travelled along We saw outpostS on the mountain and heard them calling to each other, and also heard their magnificent horses gal loping in our direction. Their horses are the finest in all Thibet We reached La Brang, the temple center, in safety and put up at native inn.
 Tn native inn of Thibet men, horses, mules, all herd together in one ffoorless apartment, separated by an apology for partition from the other apartment reserved for the inn keeper, his family and his animals.
 We had, however, reached the land Of our hopes after passing 100 days in the saddle. We had slept for three and half months upon the ground, and had been seven months in making the journey from the Chinese coast.
 We could rent no houses to live in, but I succeeded, through persistence, in renting part of the inn and we re- arranged things more on our own plans
 ITO our intense surprise, word came that the great, living Buddha from the temple of Stag-dge would call upon me.
 He came attired in his rich robes with a company of attendant priests, a young man of prepossessing appear ance, who welcomed us most kindly through MT. Christy. Notwithstand- ing my denial of the appellation, he per sisted in styling me the Great Sacred Lama of America.
 The Buddha followed up his call by a formal invitation to visit him at his residence temple some miles from La Brang.
 We would gladly have rested in- stead, but the courtesy was not to be sighted, so on the Wednesday follow ing our arrival we made the visit and found our host waiting to receive us at the top of his temple stairs. An honor which he had never paid to the highest dignitary of his own country
 When the hour for worship came we were invited to join him in the temple. He occupies a high. throne like seat. about which kneel, upon a platform a step lower, the first lamas The second lamas are a step lower still and the common priests kneel upon the floor. The services consisted prin- cipally of worshiping the Buddha
 As we entered the temple he bade me seat myself upon the throne. and when I refused he gently pulled me down and seated himself at my side.
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fore the country was reached, pr. I.e Lacheur said:
 Our route lying through Northern China, We re-embarked for Shanghai travelling by boat 300 miles up the ang-tse- -kfang River. Three and a half days were consumed in making Luhu, our next station, and the jour ney onward to Peking was made in carts, mode of travel before which the dangers and discomforts of a sea voyage sink into utter inSignificance.
 he wheels of Chinese cart do not revolve upon the axle, but the axle itself revolves. There is a springless box above it in which your bed, an essential part of a travellers outfit. is placed. your baggage is compactly stored, and you seat yourself upon your bed in the bottom of the cart. The driver takes his position forward upon the shafts behind his lean anil nal.
 The roads are never mended and hence are full of the deepest ruts. Throughout an entire journey the trav eler Is compelled to keep a firm grip with both hands upon each side of the cart. A lapse even into momentary forgetfulness is apt to result in his being flung about like a pea in a hot pan. l learned this to my cost, for I entered Peking with one of the black est eyes have had since l was a boy.
 At Peking, composed of three or dinary cities, and the dirtiest city in all dirty China, we abandoned the carts and employed mules as a means of transportation.
 With master who lives upon 21b cents per day for food. the Chinese mule seldom displays superabundant energy and spirit from overlooking, but he has life enough to carry a rider. A folded cloth is put over his sharp back bone, saddle, or frame made of four pieces of wood. is placed over the cloth, your satchel is then slung upon one side and your trunk attached to the other side. while your indispens-
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n EV. D. W. LIE LACHEUR has just from mis- sonary trip into the wds of Thibet given | passports by the native authorities duty through sections of the country where all authority defed. pass through the flung qualified the first time last August Dr. threatened
 
 but he succeeded at last reaching Buddha where he received the Americas
 Dr. Le Lacheur established returned this while Lacheur breadth thrilling try that Henry Savage Landor undergoing other of the country for daring
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fingers so that they can be moved at the first joint without bending the sec ond joint, as shown in figure 1. This requires a great deal of practice and pa much more readily than others: In fact some persons would never learn to do this properly. The same exercises apply to the is as rule. inc easiest of all for the thumb retains the suppleness of youth more than does any finger of the hand
 All these exercises must be constantly practiced until the hand becomes very
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Now to come down 10 shadows applied to everyday life. and more particularly as a means Of amusement. many long winter night has been pleasantly spent by the children watching the fox. rabbit, duck, etc, on the wall.'' continued the
 master shadowgraphist. Historically the work of the shadowgraphist Is first spoken of In the quaint Chinese fable of little Tsing-Tsing, the Chinese witch who enticed al! the unlucky Tie-You strip llngs into her cave by the funny shadows
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she formed with her tiny di..piel hands and ike many of the other arts finger shadows. either IS an art or as an amuse- ment, can be traced to the Chinese. and by the Chinese. lay practically dormant for years, and for nearly two thousand years not a step was taken to develop myself the credit of having done much to develop the art of shadowgraphing as an entertainment
 Nov comes the most difficult move ment ot all. and that Is to control the
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flexible. and when one has attained the ability to do these things he must still practice the exercises until a rapid move ment Is acquired. and not till then are tools for attempting the shadow of any thing which may come under the obser- vation.
 There are no particular rules to be and fingers in order to get certain results No two shadowgraphists follow exactly in the same line. One will get certain results by one method and another the
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same result by an entirely different po- sition of the hand. It Is here that the abilities of the shadowgraphist comes in and the shadows he throws tell the story in sharp outline as to whether he IS thorough artist or otherwise.
 Another important item. said Ci- vette. 'is the matter of light. For public exhibitions where one is expected to do sable. For home use. and for the chill dren's amusement only, very good light may be had by placing lighted candle
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the other lights in the room extinguished this crude plan. Still better results Anay be had from small lamp with a reflector placed in the box. Some very funny ef- fleets may be had by arranging mirrors so as to throw several shadows. The sheet on which the shadows are to appear should be about six feet from the light and the opening in the box should be just large enough to throw the light all over the sheet, but none of the rays should go past the sheet, either top, bottom or side.
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N SHADOW Is a wonderful thing N and to the small boy 1t Is some
 times @ frightful thing" said .H Clivette one evening in h!s dress ~ t A ing room at the Orpheum, ''nor
 is the little urchin alone in his
 terror, for an eclipse has mortified sntirs nations. and yet If there were no shadows there would be no night, no Plsjble stars, TO art and certainly human enjoyment would ba unknown. So much Tor shadows in the abstract,
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TN accordance with an edfct
 given by the command and or
 der of his Gracious. Exalted,
 Heaven-appointed Majesty, the
 Emperor Kwang Hsii-
 the incarnation of the Imperial
 MinistSg; N9m9n-hanE eaisa of Dar the At this time we give a Passport
 to an American Gas follows):
 This man having come distance Of g. 900 II (2000 miles, via Peking,
 Mongolia and China to Thibet:
 Should there be any injurious ; enemy who would rob or steal, you yourselves know, with your five senses, there is capital punishment, and you shall not escape righteous sentence. All should separate from an injurious heart and cleaVe to a useful heart.
 Given, written and sealed in the 23rd year of the reign of the Elm year, 7th Moon 18th day. at the court of Stay-dge- temple . May you have great happinessI
 This passport contains a drop of gold.
 The above is copy of the free trans ation by Thibetan priest of a fol lidable looking passport, one and uarter yards long and twenty-seve lches in width, inscribed in huge re nd black characters by the hand ( he living Buddha himself, bearin our imperial seals. and issued to th lev. D. w. Le Lacheur, general super ltendent of the Christian and Mis Ionary Alliance for China. Japal Iongolia and Thibet. Dr. Le Lacheu as just arrived by the Doric fro1 on his return to New Yorl This gifted traveller relates wit lvid earnestness his many experience nile journeying to a point beyond tn reat gate of Thibet, which up to las ugust was closed against mission ries. Dr. Le Lacheur was the frs ne to pass it's portals.
 Tn dwelling upon the distance to b overed after leaving the seaport be
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