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The San Francisco call., 1904-06-05
- - - CHERRIES - - -
By John Bridges

IT am very glad to see you again"
said Sewall. gently. Though In his
heart he wanted to say, 'I have want
ed to see you all these weeks"
''Yaes7" said Cherries.
YES" said sewall. as he sat down
on the ground beside her.
And then he told her how his moth
er was coming out from America, and
how she was a very great woman.
'Bigger'n thast?" said Cherries,
stretching her arms out as far as they
would 90.
''wen. no." replied sewan Hardly
that big, but mean that she Is a great
woman because she Is president OF a
lot Of societies, and she writes books
and reads papers at clubs-and all that
sort Of thing"
''Ee-us," said Cherries-and that was
as near as she ever came to saying
yes"
And now" continued sewaIl, "I
want you to meet my mother. She will
be here tomorrow. and am to give
a little tea for her at the hotel. VIII
you and the sisters Gomez
TT gives me mooch thangks, Most
Honorable Yellow Hair" said Cherries
as she bowed low and showed the most
marveiously beautiful neck, and the
unusual little curls that clustered at
the back
The next day Sewan gave the tea
at the hotel. His mother had arrived,
and Cherries and the sisters and the
Consul and his wife and a lot of other
Americans were there.
Sewall presented Cherries to the
mother. The great woman" raised
her lorgnette and regarded the little
girl critically.
Beautiful" she exclaimed. why
don't you marry her, my boy, and take
her to New York;" She spoke play
fully in English.
But what was it, that the Honor
able Great Woman was pleased to
say?" asked Cherries.
''She asked why I didn't marry you
you be my wife. you know" said
Sewall. "Wfl your And his voice
was earnest.
1T would give me mOoch thangks,"
said Cherries. Then into her cheeks
came a flush such as Sewall had seen
when he gave her the name.
So that is how Arthur Sewal1. writer
Of fiction, came to win his Japanese
bride.
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are concerned.
When the family moved to the sub
urbs Middleton determined to keep
a COW. Everything went we'll until
winter set IN. when the COW. after the
manner OF her kind. did not give the
accustomed supply Of milk. This con-
duct Of the cows Jared upon Middle
tons business instincts. He cOnsid-
cred IL pure laziness. The tousled-
headed boy whom he had hired TO
look after the COW explained that it
wasn't bad-heartedness on the part of
the COW. but a lack Of grass that was
responsible for the decrease in the
Middleton milk supply.
But she has plenty OF hay" Mid
dleton objected. And hay is just as
nourishing as grass"
1t amt so green, do" persisted the
tousled one. 'Dere's mighty few
tings so green as grass. Do there is
some" he added, rehectively.
Middleton took this last remark as
4 reflection on his own knowledge Of
farming. So he Indignantly ordered
the tousled boy 10 leave the barn. The
boy slouched sullSily away. black
wrath IN his heart.
But the boys remark had suggested
an idea TO Middleton.
Its all imagination on the part Of
that cow to think hay is not as good
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HKHG1ZER.

as grass. If she supposed she was
eating grass she would give as much
milk as before, even If her food sup
ply happened really to be hay
"She may be a credulous cow re-
plied Mrs. Middleton in doubtful tones.
But how even your flow of persuasive
words can make her believe hay is
grass is more than 1 can see"
But Mrs. AIiddleton's incredulity did
not decrease her husbands ardor in
his plan for revolutionizing dairy
farming. The next morning Middle
ton went to an optician and left an
order for an unusually large pair of
plain. green glass spectacles. In the
afternoon, gloating over his scheme
for an increased milk supply, he
marched triumphantly out to the barn.
The cow didn't seem to understand
why she should wear spectacles, as she
had never made. any complaint of fall
ing eyesight. But after little she
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About an hour later the tousled
headed boy entered the barn. The
COW was eating the hay, but she GER
tainly was a much puzzled animal.
Her eyesight showed that it was
green and it looked like grass
But it was dry and didn't
in the least taste like grass.
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3xEDyIZN o.

Copyright 1904. by Edwin ). Webster
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is a great
believer in the infiu-
ence OF mind over
matter. But he is
doubtful how far his
theories may be ap-
piled to farming. At
least, where COWS
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became somewhat recon-
ciled to them. Middleton
kicked around some hay,
so that il would look like
grass throwa on the floor
Of the barn. Then he
went back to the house
TO explain more fully to
Mrs. Middleton the benefits
which would accrue from
his idea.
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TELL yo', gall tell yo' I'd
rather see yo' dead twice over
than jined to Abe Taylor.
Befo' 1 would see it cum about,
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spiritual guides. who do not lose an
opportunity to terrorize them. One
thing that contributes to keep these
priests in power is the fact that the
people believe them to possess god
like powers, and wonderful are the
tales travellers tell of remarkable exhi-
billions going to support this belief.
Human sacrifices are also said to be a
component part of the religion of the
but a veneer of Buddhism over a body
of savage and uncouth superstit on. AS
may be imagined, the spiritual, aes-
thetic and moral sides of the people Of
Tibet are in very primitive condition.
In the country districts the principal
occupations are agriculture and cattle
raising Labor of all sorts is very
cheap in Tibet, the men being paid but
or 3 cents day, while the women
generally receive but their board and
lodging. Where the country is not a
barren waste the principal products are
wheat, barley, peas and beans, the live
stock raised including horses, ASSES,
mules, cattle sheep and yaks. AS In
everything else. primitive methods pre-
vail. and prosperity is constantly alb
sent.
The population, which has at times
been estimated at over 100000,
whereas tenth of that figure would
probably be nearer the mark, is rap
idly on the decrease on account of the
prevalence of disease, the chief Ill be-
ing smallpox. Dirt abounds every
where, as explorers soon discover to
their great disgust. The reason for this
state of affairs is not hard to seek,
since dirt is considered sacred, and
washing Is religiously tabooed.
Religion amounts to a passion with
lamas and laymen alike, but 1t is in
many ways a religion of but formal OBJ
servance. Prayers are regarded as Of
great potency, and the lamas have de-
vlsed 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 extends
beyond the cylinder to serve for a
handle. In this praying wheel" as it
Is called, are deposited small slips of
paper on which have been written
prayers composed by the lamas. The
wheel is then reyolved rapidly, the the
DRY being that the devotees will thus
attain the felicity of Nirvana without
having to pass through many interme-
date stages of reincarnation. The
prayer wheels, it might be remarked,
also serve to wreak vengeance on an
enemy, the person injured stealing his
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29
Armstrong Hung.

Baker City, Ore, Jan. 23.-Pleasar t
Armstrong, who murdered Minnie
Ensminger near Haines, in this county
on Christmas evening, 1902, was exc
cuted in the Jail yard here. The trap
was spr lng at sos O'Clock in the
morning and the doctors pronounced
him dead in nine minutes after the
drop. His neck was broken by the
rail-. The execution was perfect as to
detail. Armstrong was brave and
maintained his iron nerve until the
last. He made an address to the
crowd.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29
TORNADO DOWN IN ALABAMA
THIRTY SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
AND HUNDREDS INJURED.
Town of Moundville Sufferered Most
Every Business House Destroyed
Swept Clean a Path a Quarter Of a
Mile Wide People Hurled Hundreds
of Feet-Town of Hull Also Hit.

Tuscaloosa, Ala, Jan PA disas-
tertrous tornado swept over Mound
vile, Ala, a town of 300 inhabitants,
/ 8 miles south of Tuscaloosa, early in
the day and as a result 81 persons
were killed and more than 100 injured.
Every business house with the excep-
ton of a small store was destroyed.
The tornado struck the city from the
southeast and moved path a quarter
of mile through the to vn.
Surgeons were rushed to Moundville
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa and
all possible was done TO alleviate the
sufferings of the injured By the
force Of the storm persons were bio wn
hundreds of feet from their beds in the
biackLess OF tine night. Through ter
ror, father, mother and three chill
dren fled from ther homes to seek ref
uge and in their excitement left a five
year old boy in bed. Today he was
pulled from beneath some timbers and
thus far it is impossible to find anv
other member of the family. Bed
ding, carpets and wearing apparel are
scattered over a distance of 10 miles
through what was forrest, but which
is now clear as if cut by the wood
mans axe.
Freight cars were torn to splinters,
the trucks from them being hurled
hundreds of feet from the track.
The depot, the hotel, warehouses,
gins, 30 homes, seven storehouses, to-
gether with their stocks, were COM
pletely destroyed. Where they stood
it is impossible to find even the pillars
upon which they rested.
Bales of cotton which were stored in
warehouses were torn to atoms, the
fragments of lint lodging in trees,
making it appear as though that Sec
ton had been visited by a snow stom.
Heavy Iron safes, the docs of which
in some cases were torn from their
hinges, were carried away by the force
of the wind.
The town of Hull, for miles north
of Moundvlls, suffered from the tor
nado. The Bates Lumber company s
planning department was completely
wrecked and the nergo fireman
crushed. Four residences and one
church were destroyed.
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refusal to treat with the mission sent
by the British to discuss the Tibetans'
nOn-observance of trade treaties. 1t
may mean the complete unwilling of
the mysteries that enshroud this Asia
tic country which has so resolutely
pursued a policy of shutting its ors
to foreigners, and has since the expul-
sion of the Jesuit missionaries early
In the nineteenth century been visited
by but scant handful of daring eX-
plcrers. OF these but four or five sue
ceeded in penetrating to the capital.
the sacred city of Lassa, where the
grand lama dreams his life away in
his nine-story palace.
The hostility of the natives is by no
means the only thing that prevents ex-
plorsrs from penetrating far into Tibet.
The country. a tableland of $4,000 to
10000 feet above sea Level, wild, noun
famous and devoid of roads, is by ma
ture fully as inhospitable as Siberia.
Outside of the mOnaSteries, or lamas-
cries, as they are called, there are no
houses, mud novels serving to accom-
modate the natives. This, however,
does not apply to Lassa itself, which,
as the few photographs obtained show,
is a well laid out city. pcturesquely To-
Gated on tile southern slope of a noun
tain. with the palace of the grand lama
towering above the other buildings.
The grand lama, or, rather. the dalai
iama-for there are two grand lamas-
Is not only the chief parsonage in Tibet
but is acknowledged as the head OF
the Buddhist church throughout Tibet,
Mongolia and China. From the little
that has been written about him 1t ap-
pears that, as a rule, the dalai lama,
who is elected when child, dies
Young, and it has been limited that the
length Of his days depends upon the
amount of trouble ne gives the gyalpo
the temporal ruler of Lassa.
The lamas dominate the country
Their influence; can be easily under,
stood when ills said that fully one
sixth of the population are numbered
IN their order. The lamaseries dot the
mountain sides like fortresses, and the
people wSuiagiy labor to support their
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For centuries Tibet has been almost
a sealed book to the rest of the world,
and the result of the expedition under
Col. Younghusband, which the British
have sent into the region. will be
watched with interest. The high
priests, or lamas, of Tibet have ever
denounced the foreigner as an incar-
mated 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 $4,000
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enemy's prayer wheel and revolving
in the wrong direction in the bell f
that this will certainly assure an I'M
happy hereafter for the luckless own
er. This alone IS sufficient to convince
the observer of the state of spiritual
degradation into which the people arr
plunged.
Tibet as at present constituted is
clearly no place for white men. nor cal
1t be said to offer many advantage
under high STATE Of civilization. II.
addition to its typographical shortcom-
lngs, of which mention has alread
been made, climate plays no small par.
in making it, undesirable for purposes
Of settlement. August, September. DC
tober and November are the only
months which can be considered dry. "
rain or snow contributing to render the
remaining months UNI leasant. Acco: d
ing TO Houbikov, the average annual
temperature is AZ degrees for morning.
81 for noon and 30 for night, a varia-
bility that to say the least, cannot be
conducive to comfort.
A not unnatural result of the condi-
items which have so effectually barred
communication between Tibet and the
outside world is the maintenance of a
very small army. 1t is said that there
are not more than 1000 soldiers in all
the dalai lamas domains, and these are
very poorly equipped and disciplined
AS a consequence robbery and outrage
are prevalent throughout Tibet. The
lamas, it should be said, control the
administration Of justice as well as the
dispensation of religious instruction
and the courts are more remarkable for
their superstition than for their law
Crude and barbaric methods prevail OF
nature that would disgrace even the
Middle Ages. Drowning, torture and
fOgglng are common penalties foi
slight offenses.
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square miles, an area equal to Ger
many, France and Italy combined, is
still unknown to the outside world. On
the maps of the world there Is no 9th
or such white patch as this In the cen
ter of Asia.
From the account of travellers Tibet
would seem to be land where religion
is supreme. The people obey their
priests with almost slavish obedience,
and accept the most marvellous 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 Younghusband's punitive ex-
petition into Tibet was undertaken in
retaliation for the grand lamas curt
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nate ones. Little or no risk need be
run if Peruna is kept in the house and
at the first appearance of any symp-
tom of cataIrh taken as directed on the
bottle
Peruna is a safeguard, is a preventa-
tive, specific, is cure for all cases of
catarrh, acute and chronic, coughs,
colds, consumptin, etc.
If you do not receive prompt and
satisfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you lis
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus
Ohio.
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HOW'S THIS7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
ny case of Catarrh that not be cured by
Isll's Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Props, Toledo o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J
honey for the past IS years and believe hin
-rfectly honorable in all business transaction;
nd financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
WALDING KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. act
ing directly on the blood and mucous surface,
Of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold b,
all druggists Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Trade Report.

New York;. G. Dun & Co.'s Week
ly Review of Trade says:
Weather conditions have furnished
the chief influence in the trade situa-
ton.
Wholesale trade is fairly active,
travelling statesmen sending in about
average orders, and jobbing trade is
normal. Manufacturing plants are
more active, with little change in quo
tations, and the outlook for spring
trade is considered favorable. Collec-
lions are somewhat more prompt.
Leading staples have risen to new
maximum prices for the crop year
Iron and steel plants that resumed at
the turn of the year have obtained
sufficient business to continue operat-
ing, and thus far the adjustment of
wages has not produced the threaten
ed strike.
Increased activity and strength is
reported in the domestic hide market
Failures numbered 35S in the Unit.
ed States, against 265 last year, and
S3 in Canada, compared with q year
ago.
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lGSCOZL

Mrs Col r. Gresham Treasurer Daughters the Cnderacy
dent erndn Village
Hernden, Fairfax Co, Va:
The feruna Medicine Co.. Columbus Ohio Va
of
with
despaired of well
noticed your and the splendid testimonials given by
improving
ait six bottles
Peruna
Mrs. Col. E..
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A man in Tonopah, New, has built
a house of beer bottles because lum-
Der was too expensive, and it took TO-
900 bottles to build the house. The
man may be said to be living in the at
mosphere of the past.
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acquire some chronic all
ment from which they will
never recover.
Unless you take the neces-
sary precautions, the chances
are that you (who read this)
will be one of the unfOrtu-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29

Piqua, Ohio, Jan. "a The Maimi
river rose three and one half feet dur
ing the night and that section of the
ctiv pnown as Roseville is completely
inundated. Hundreds of families have
been driven from their homes.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29
TIE OHIO RIVERS ON RAMPAGE
Property Loss Will Reach Hundreds
of Thousands of Dollars.

Lora.n, Ohio, Jan. "a. The loss to
property in the flood district in this
city is placed at fully $500, 900, with
the probability of the amount being
above rather than below that sum.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29
A PLAIN TALK
On Plain Subject in Plain Lam
guage.

The coming winter will cause at least
one-half of the women to have catarrh,
colds, coughs, pneumonia or consump-
ton. Thousands of women will lose
their lives and tens of thousands will
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29

Not Quite as Bad as Reported
Madge-They say your mother takes
In washing?
Marge-No such thing; she hasn't
come to that yet. She only goes out
washing.-Boston Transcript
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GAINESVILLE, Obi, Jan. 24.-The Lick
ing and Muskingum rivers are rising
rapidly. Roseville and Crooksville.
in the southern part of the country
are partially submerged.
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Glass houses of a very substantial
kind can now be built. Silesian glass
makers are turning out glass bricks
for all sorts of building purposes.
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Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing syrup the best remedy to use
for their children during teething period.
An optimist is man who boasts of
his hard luck.
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IN A FORBIDDEN LAND
TIBET is DESPOTICALLY RULED
BY ITS PRIESTS.

Grand Lamas Who Practically Own
All the Property in the Country-A
Queer Code Of Penances-Praying by
Mechanism.
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Don't think a girl always comes from
an old family because she looks it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-02
SUICIDE FROM BRIDGE.
Drug Trade Club BoObkeeper Jumps
from the williamsburg.

Joseph I. Rice. an expert accountant VINO
had been employed for some years as a ooo@-
keeper for the Drug Trade Club. at No. IOO
Willam-st Manhattan, and lived at NO 4Uo
Putnan-ave.. Brooklyn. with his wife ana three
children. killed himself by jumping from the
foot path Of the Williamsburg Bridge near the
Brooklyn tower yesterday afternoon. He laEd-
ed on a Pile of stones in a wood yard. at South
Fifth-st. and was killed instantly. Hail the
bones in his body were broken.
on an order card of Rice's grocer, found in
mis- pocket. this was written:
Mrs Rice knows nothing of all my trouble ex-
cept the Fowler matter.
Another card read:
My name is J. L. Rice. In case of accident
notify Fred r. Anderson, No $40 cambridge
st.
Mr.. Anderson ard Jokn Anderson. a lawyer,
living at No 515 Bainbridge-st.. were brothers.
in-law Of Rice. The lawyer said last night that
Mr.. Rice had been working hard recently, and
il had broken down his health. He could give
no other reason for the suicide, and thought the
troubles referred to on the postal card were
largely imaginary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-02
TRAIN ALMOST IN RIVER.
SeUerdl Badly Hart at NOrTr'ch
TO1cn, Conn.

Norwich, Conn. Aug. IA train on the ZEN
tral Vermont Railroad. coming toward tins CITY,
consisting of d combination baggage silN
smoker. and two coaches. was wrecked IN Nor
witch Town. two miles above this city, late TINS
afternoon. and several persons were injured al
though probably no fatalities viii result faai
it not been for a sturdy telegraph poie' a par
or all Of the train would have rolled down 'iis
embankment Of fifteen feet into the hdI''0
River which runs parallel with the IaeN'
Just how the accident happened Is not KNOWN
but G. L. Alger, the engineer is OF the opiiiFo''
that something on the engine caused it to leave
the rails.
Two men are now in the Norwich hospildi'
and it is not known whether or not 'he't III
iuries will prove fatal. The two coaches Deililu
the smoker and baggage car left the tracA' OU'
did not toppIe over and consequently large
number of women and children in them escaped
injury. All the passengers in these cars were
badly shaken.