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profile, because your face is not
straight"
None Of the Lawrences came over
in the Mayhower, but about a dozen
years later John Lawrence became a
resident Of Plymouth, and three broth
ers, John, William and Thomas, were
early settlers. One Of the patentees
of land on the Connecticut River. was
York City in 1872 was John Lau-
renee, who had been one Of the first
Aldermen. He was also Mayor again
in 1901; and about one hundred years
later Cornelius Laurence was Mayor
Of New York
The Lawrences were men Of ac-
ton. Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence
served with distinction in the Revolu-
ton, and SO did Elijah Lawrence, who
was one Of Washington's Life Guard.
l he Lawrences could claim relation
ship with Washington, the connection
dating back several hundred years to
James Lawrence of Ashton Hall, who
married Matilda de Washington.
Washington's half brother was named
Lawrence
AAoJCA 1dUluC1 ldWL CHCS served
through the Revolution. He was at
Bunker Hill, and near Warren when
he was shot. After a few months
service he obtained leave Of absence
and returned home to Groton to
marry his sweetheart, Susanna Par
ker, to whom he had been engaged
for two years 1t was his mother
who proposed the marriage at this
time. Susanna had better be Sans
widow than his forlorn damsel," she
said
While the marriage ceremony was
IN progress, the ire alarm bell sound
cd, summoning all soldiers to arms
whereupon the bridegroom parted
from his bride at the church door
and marched to join the troops.
The Lawrence arms are a eros,
raguled gules. Crest, out Of an East
ern crown, or, a cubit arm entwinec
by wreath Of laurel, in the hand, /;
dagger. Motto: I'm Crucc Salus.' CIR
the cross is salvation.") These wer,
the arms granted to the Crusader
Raguled, or raguly, is a term used t.
represent the rough-hewn stems Of
tree, from which the branches hav,
been rudely Topped.
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ty years a British Resident, though
the MaharaJah is nominally inde-
pendent To foster and protect their
trade, and to watch the Russians, a
British officer is stationed in Kash-
gar, about three hundred miles from
Khotan. IT is he who appoints the
AksakOls among, the HindoO mer-
chants; and it was because Of letter
from Colonel Miles, the present in
cumbent that the sleek money lender
in Khotan had met Captain Angihian
(my companion) and myself when we
rode into Khotan
A comfortable lodging was put at
our disposal, where ample and cleanly
rooms were found for spreading our
beds, and where our servants could
cook the plentiful viands furnished BY
the rich, irrigated fields Of Khotan.
Then, also, we had a suitable room
for receiving the dignifed, amiahle
Chinese Mandarin, who rules the sub
ject people in kindly paternalism.
When all Of our caravan wants had
been supplied, the Aksakol, knowing
the keen taste Of Europeans for an
tiquities, produced the precious bun
die, tied in a bit Of dirty paper, the
sand of the desert still running out
of the corners. A native Task man
had brought it in-perhaps one Of DR.
STEMS men had secreted it from the
considerable numbers of manuscripts
unearthed by that thorough-going
scientist
Chaffering for
the Manuscript
There is as yet no quotable value for
bits Of world-old paper, so we must
trade awhile in Oriental fashion be
fore | could call the precious thing
mine own The Aksakols first offer
as usual, was that the Sahib should
give anything the Sahib chose But
| had already learned to refuse this
noblesse oblige position, and insisted
upon "a more definite proposition.
Then the original owner was CON
suited, and finally a bargain was
struck at twenty rupees-about 5000
leaving both parties satisfied.
All this time of chafering permitted
me to consult Father Hendricks (once
a Dutchman, now almost an Asiatic)
as to the genuineness of the strange
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WHAT THE DIE MACHINE CAN DO

a few days ago young man with
love for making bets stepped into
design-cutting plant.
I'll bet you dinner" he said to
friend who had charge Of the die-cut-
ting machines, that you can't repro
duce that on steel with one Of your
machines and make it one-quarter the
size it is now" He picked up
bronze campaign medal about two
inches i'll diameter The medal was
one Of many varieties seen at the time
Of the last Presidential campaign. 1t
contained etched and in relief around
the outer border the busts and heads
Of all the Presidents Of the United
States, In the center was the en-
graved representation Of the bust OF
President Mckinley.
The medal was fastened on the ma
chine, the wheels were set revolving
and in about eight hours Of actual
grinding the medal had been repro
duced on a steel die less than one
eighth Of an inch in diameter. 1t was
so small that the design on it could
not be distinguished without the aid
Of a powerful microscope; but under
the lense the heads and expressions on
the faces were seen to be perfect re
productions Of the designs on the
original medal
All the big silverware manufactur-
ers now make their designs BY these
machines A set Of toilet articles
richly backed with silver decorations
in high relief gets its beauty from the
freedom with which the designer is al
lowed to work by reason Of the die
machines. Hand mirror backs, match
safes, silver pen knife handles and a
great variety Of other relief-stamped
silverware is made from a die turned
out by machinery
A remarkable story is told about the
work Of the die machine in bringing
the bronze and metal reliefs Of the
Seal Of New York State tip to its
present high standard Of beauty, grace
and art A young man who was en-
ployed as travelling salesman for 4
large sflverware concern came in from
the road one day, kicking strenuously
about some Of the designs in his sam,
pie case
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bits Of paper which lay before me.
The good missionary has lived in Cen
trail Asia for many years. He was ia
miliar with all that had been taken out
by Sven Hedin and Stein, and with all
the other antiquarian odds and ends sold
to the British or Russian officials at
kashgar for the benefit Of their re
Spectlve governments. AS there is no
European within three hundred miles
Of KhOtan, it was most fortunate that
Father Hendricks had consented to
journey with us thus far Thank God,
he did not share in the trials which
came later when we had painfully
climbed the Kuen Lun range to
Tibet's cold and tragic heights:
1t may seem strange that even in
Khotan one must be on guard against
forgery in ancient manuscripts Yet
DR.. Stein, by close cross-questioning,
forced confession from a clever ma
tive, who for several years, and until
1901, fed the AksakOls, and through
them the great museums IN London
and St. Petersburg, with mysterious
bits Of yellow paper over which the
wise men vainly studied They were
particularly puzzled, and, at last, made
suspicious by the fact that a number
Of different alphabets, all unknown,
were represented in these cabalistic
writings Now, alphabets are generally
less numerous than languages, and
when DR.. Stein, fresh from his own
personal unearthings, saw that the
genuine manuscript showed no letters
similar to those that had been COM
ing from this industrious forger, he
was able to confound him and turn
him over to the mandarin for punish
ment.
The true manuscripts are hard
enough for the photographs, since
they seem to contain, in separate
pieces, three distinct languages-one
is Sanskrit, one a language simply
called Central Asian, and Prof Hoe
rule, to whom I showed the bundle
bought by me, says third language.
not yet deciphered, also appears in
some Of the fragments
Whether all the leaves in the manu-
script as handed to me had been taken
from the same site, Father Hendricks
could not learn Those in Sanskrit
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are almost wholly Buddhist sacred
literature, and they constitute the bulk
OF the whole Their approximate date
IS $50 A. D. The other fragments
have not yet been studied sufficiently
to fix date
Prof. Hoerule, in the short after
noon which we spent together at Ok
ford, was able to determine only this
as 10 the non-5acred, non-Sanskrit
p1eces-that they seemed to contain a
contract for agricultural materials
hope some Of our scholars may be in
terested to probe deeper D1 Hoerulc
was good enough to say that he would
be glad to Correspond with any one
desiring the aid Of his work. which
stands almost alone in this field. AS
it is not probable that other examples
Of these finds will be seen in this
country for some time, | have placed
these temporarily in the Smithsonian
Institute, with request that they be
made available, as far as possible, to
any tnquiring Photograph.
In the ruins known as the Niya
River Site, DR. Stein found wooden
tablets covered with what is known
as Indian Kharosthi writing. Con-
corning this find, Dr. Stein says;
Deserted Many
Centuries Ago
There is ample evidence to show
that this remarkable site must have
been deserted already within the first
few centuries Of our era. Apart from
the Kharcsthi writings Of the tablets
and the leather documents, there is the
eloquent testimony of the coins. The
very numerous finds, extending over
the whole area, include only copper
pieces Of the Chinese Han dynasty,
whose reign came to close in A. D.
22o The use Of wood as the only
writing material apart from leather
IS also a proof Of great antiquity.
The use Of paper for writing purposes
is attcsted in Chinese Turkestan from
at least the fourth century, A. D., on
wards, yet among all the ruined
houses and ancient rubbish heaps not
the smallest scrap Of paper was dis
covered"
Sven Hedin also found site in
which the wooden tablets were numer-
Gus, and the evidence generally point
ed to destruction about $50 A. D.
AS said above, the date suggested
by my Sanskrit leaves is much later
say A. d. 7so-and DR. Stein gives ap-
proximately the same date Of destruc-
ton for some Of the sites examined
by him. The older ruins are, gener-
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BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON.
.HE name Lawrence goes back
u tie hen;nrir,ct- of t1,inos


THE name Lawrence goes back
to the beginning Of things.
J. AS Apollo was the god of
poets, the laurel or laurea
Apollinaris, which was sacred to him
and sprang from a shoot sent from
heaven, was the wreath with which
to crown a poet, who became the poet
laureate. Was the first to bear the
name Laurens, Laurence or Lawrence,
the successor Of Apollo. the poet lau-
reate? Or was he resident of that
ancient Italian city Laurentium?
The first of the name of whom
there is any authentic record was St
Laurence, or Laurentius, who suffered
martyrdom by being broiled on d
gridiron, August 10, 258.
The first Of the name in England
was Laurence the Monk, who became
Archbishop Of Canterbury. So worth
lily did founders Of the family bear
the name that the hero of one Crusade
was Robert Laurens of Ashton Hall.
who was knighted for his valor and
given arms, a cross raguly.
Another worthy" was Sir Henry
Lawrence, Viceroy Of India, zone Of
the noblest men of all time to whose
memory statue was erected in St.
Paufs Cathedral His brother, Lord
John Lawrence, who succeeded him
as Viceroy, also gave his life to ad-
vancing the interest of Great Britain
in the East His success in diplomatic
life he attributed to advice given by
his mother: Don't be too ready to
speak your mind"
Lord John had a grim humor and
often expressed himself with Spartan
observation-disclosures, perhaps, from
his ancestor, John Knox, the Scottish
reformer. To some one who asked
him whether there had been much
Aogging at his school, he replied:
Il was fogged every day except
one, and then | was hogged twice"
With equal brevity Edward Law
renee, the preacher, expressed himseli
when asked how he intended to sup
port his family, he having lost his
living at the time Charles |. was be.
headed eve must all live on Mat
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-12
RIDER HAGGARD'S
NEW REPUTATION

Rider Haggard is now winning a
new reputation in England as a lead
ing authority on the British agricul-
tural problem. He has devoted him
self for years to the task Of finding
out why the country people are drift
ing to the towns and what measures
should be taken to arrest that drift.
He has been travelling through the
highways and byways of no fewer
than twenty-seven English counties,
cross-questioning on the subject
everybody whom he has met-laborer,
farmer, squire, parsOn and tradesman.
The result of his inquiries is amaz-
ing, and his articles on the subject are
causing almost feeling Of consterna-
ton throughout Great Britain.
Parts of England are becoming as
lonesome as the veldts Of South AT
rica," he says. THE villages are be-
ing deserted at an ever increasing
speed. The yeoman class has been
virtually wiped out. The laborers are
focking to the towns in thousands,
every year shows more land laid down
to grass, and the country receives
fve-sixths of its food from abroad.
All the farms and other agricultural
enterprises are paralyzed by lack OF
labor Only the dullards, the vicious
and the wastrels stay upon the land.
because they are untitled for any
other life What little labor there is
to be had is incredibly inefficient" "
Here are some of the opinions gath
cred by Mr.. Haggard during his trav-
els from farmers and other experts:
Unless something unforeseen oc-
ours, farming must come to an end
throughout England for lack oi
labor"
"All the young men are turning
from the land. No one who is fit fo1
anything stops on it nowadays"
The present race of stalwart la.
borer is fast dying OUT
"The next five years will leave Us
without a man"
"When the old men die, and only
the 'wasters' are left. what is to hap
pen? The land is going to tn,
devil"
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behind, to be folded in the warm
bosom Of the sand while the centuries
moved on. These we now cherish as
mementoeS of that drama, intimate To
each one Of us-the drama Of human
life and death.
The photograph marked No. I l. of
a fragment of a leaf from a volume
Of Buddhistic sacred literature. The
full length Of the page must have
been about twelve inches. as is shown
Dy placing the various fragments to-
gether. he circular hole shown was
at about three inches from the end.
and cord to hold the pages i'll order
passed through it.
NO. IS another fragment similar to
No. 7, and No. is a wider leaf than
those two No. 4 shows writing which
IS not in Sanskrit; it is in some TN
known tongue. These fragments Are
probably the oldest known examples
Of paper manuscript.
No. 3 is photograph Of wood carv-
ing probably twelve centuries old. and
No S shows some clay figures found
IN the sand-buried cities.
Mr., Oscar T. Crosby, to whom be-
longs the distinction Of first bringing
to America fragments OF manuscriDts
from the ancient, sand-buried cities
II the Iaklamakan desert Of Chinese
Turkestan, is a resident Of Washing
ton, d. O.
Mr.. Crosby and Captain Anginian.
his companion, are the only white
men who have ever penetrated into
northwestern Tibet, and their exDlo-
ratlons have placed towns, mountains
and rivers on what was formerly
blank space on the map. Mr.. Crosby
was the first white man to visit the
Central Asian city Of Khotan.
But Mr. Crosby's explorations have
not been confined to Central Asia
He was the first American to cross
the Abyssinian plateau to the Nile
country, and he added much TO the
worlds geographical knowledge Of
that region. He has also added geo
graphical accuracy to the maps Of
Somallland and the Soudan. In Alaska
and Mexico, too, he has made extend
ed explorations. He is a graduate Of
West Point, having entered from Mis-
slssslppi, but he gave tip all army COM
mission to become an electrical en-
gineer
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Turkish Cossacks.

Russia is not the only country
whose battles are fought by Cossacks.
Turkey too, has her share Of these
fighters, and, as with Russia, they are
her best and most cruel soldiers.
In Turkey they are called CHR
kasses. Their outrages on the Chris
tian peasants of Bulgaria, when
brought to light by the American war
correspondent, MacGahan, caused the
Russo Turkish War. Since then they
have not been so much in evidence,
being used in Turkeys Asiatic' prov
inces.
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Journeys, others have been found by
DR.. NJ A. Stein Of the Indian Educa-
tional Service His admirable work
at a number Of points around the
modern city of Khotan, together with
the pathological research of Dr. Hoe
rule, now at Oxford, may be taken
as the basis Of a special body of
learning which we shall call the arch
aeology of the sand-buried cities of
Iurkestan.
1t has been my good fortune to OBJ
tain bundle Of the paper manuscripts
taken from one of these towns. The
Hindoo Aksakol in Khotan brought
it to me while I was outhtting for a
journey up to the Tibetan plateau
IN September, 1908. The term Aksakol
means 'graybeard," but the various
Hindoos who had received this title
Of dignity in Turkestan were gener-
ally middle-aged men, active traders
nominated to represent the body of
merchants Of their own nationality in
each Of the big towns of Chinese
Turkestan. Thus in Khotan there was
an Andijani Aksakol, as we'll as my
Hindoo friend
ne former was native OF RuS-
sian Turkestan, whose merchants
have immcmorially trafficked across
the Alai Mountains with their race
kindred in Chinese territory
The Hindoos, travelling over the
Karakamur Himalayas, have likewise
maintained for many centuries trade
relations with the same region, and
thence even to China proper, far to
the East. Their route is long and in
credibly difficult-nuch Of it at alti-
tudes exceeding 1900 feet, but the
rude mountains offer nothing better.
This trade originates in Kashmir,
NH re tLnrn hnr hnn., e.. - 1onr4 4h:-
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A Strange Accident.

Some time ago man fell dead in
crowded street Of San Francisco The
hospital surgeons were astonished to
find that he had died Of what appear
ed to be bullet wound in his temple
4 hundred people who witnessed the
accident were ready to testify that no
frearm had been discharged at the
time
An examination exposed small
pebble in the mans brain. For a
long time the case was a mystery,
until an ingenious detective solved ii
with an explanation which he proved
by experiment.
The wheels Of heavy draw had
jammed the pebble against the steel
rails Of the car track, and then dis
charged it UP into the air with such
terrific force that it crashed into the
brain Of the passer-by as if it had been
bullet
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AN AMERICAN Travellers Interesting
Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert Of
Chinese Turkestan
By OSCAR T. CROSBY

~ EAD twelve hundred years ago
are they who wrote the
- strange characters and fash
ioned the strange clay heads
whose images you see on this page.
Forgotten are the societies to which
those dead belonged. Buried in the
desert sands are the cities in which
those societies dwelt Choked and
obiterated are the streams which gave
TO those cities the water Of life. Can
the busy, noisy present spare a mo-
ment to hear the story Of the silent
past?
In 1866 Sven Hedin discovered
ruins Of ancient dwellings in the TAX
lamakan desert of Eastern Cor Chi
nese) Turkestan. These ruins are in
no sense impressive from the archi-
tect's point of view, being quite SINH
lar to the ordinary Turkestan dwell
ing OF to-day-plaster or adobe
around wooden frames. But histori-
cally they are Of prime interest For
testimony is thus given that civiliza-
ton once existed in regions which are
now quite unlnhabltable because they
are completely without water AS the
distance Of the ruins from present
water courses is too great to justify
the supposition of irrigation bitches
stretching from the one to the other,
we are forced to conclude that the
same great sand movements which de-
stroyed the towns must have resulted
in a shifting Of the stream beds which
were once the source of life.
The Work of
Dr.. NJ. A. Stein
In addition to the sites discovered
bv Sven Hedin in the several great
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thew w." he said.
Sir Thomas Lawrence raised the
character of British art in the esti-
nation Of all Europe After Reynolds
death he was portrait painter to King
George.
His genius was manifested at an
early age, and his father, who was
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Some Straight Tips.

Some of the straight tips we get in
this world couldn't be told from the
straightness that is proverbially sup
posed to belong to u gunstock.
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True Bravery.

Il didn't know that you had the
ability to write poetry
II haven't, but | have 4 great deal
Of courage"
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always anxious to show off the in
fant prodigy, used to ask callers
whether they would like to have the
boy recite from the poets or paint
their portraits. With the frankness
Of youth the young artist told one of
his sitters that he must paint her in
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.
The Prohibition Candidates for
President and Vice-President to
Be Notified July ~. ~

Chicago, July 9.-Dr. Silas c. Swal-
low, the prohibition candidate for pres
ideRt, will receive official notification
of his nomination in Indianapolis, Ind,
on Friday evening, July %. The meet
ing will take place in Tomlinson hall
where DR.. Swallow was nominated. A.
G. Wolfenbarger, of Lincoln, Neb., the
permanent chairman of the conven-
ton, will deliver the notification adj
dress. The notification committee con-
sists Of one member from each state
and territory. Mr.. Wolfenbarger acts
as chairman. On the afternoon of that
day there will be a meeting of the ma
tional executive committee for the pur-
pose of a conference with the candi-
dates and for elaboration as to differ
en$ phases of the campaign. 1t is ex-
pected that the vice-presidential can
didate, Hon. George w. Carroll, OF
Beaumont, Tex, will receive his notifi-
cation at the same time from Homer
l.. Castle, of Pittsburg, temporary
chairman of the convention and chair
man of the committee to notify the
vice-presidential candidate.
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ard as firmly and irrevocably estab-
lished, and shall act accordingly If the
action.1f the convention of to-day shall
be ratified by the people. AS the plat
form is silensQn the subject, my views
should be made known to the conven-
ton, and, if it is found to be unsat-
isfactory to the majority, / request you
to decline the nomination for me at
once, SO that another may be Qominat-
ed before adjournment.
(signed.) "A. B. PARKER"
The telegram caused a great deal Of
comment, and threatened, for a time
to undo the work of the convention.
1t was finally decided TO send the fol-
lowing response to the telegram,
though not until considerable opposi-
ton, largely from MIR. Bryan and his
adherents had been swept aside:
1.-THE platform adopted by this con-
vention is silent on the question Of the
monetary standard bureau it is not re-
garded by us as a possible issue in this
campaign, and only campaign issues
were mentioned in the platform.
Therefore there Is nothing in the views
expressed by you in the telegram just
received which would preclude a mar
entertaining them from accepting a
nomination on said platform"
The vote on sending The proposed re-
ply to Judge Parker was: Ayes, TIA:
noes, 191.