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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

rather proud Of his connection with
the old New England family Of
Weeks, and prefers to be called by
that name instead of the more famil-
lar Joseph.
Mr.. Babcock is living exponent Of
the gospel Of get there" lie is
successful business man with a de-
cided taste for politics and faculty OF
landing in any position he wants. Ask
ed if he can do anything, Babcock al
ways answers, Il reckon | can" When
the time came to elect Representa-
tives to the Fifty-fourth Congress
the Republican leaders went 10 Bah
cock and asked him if he could act
as chairman OF the campaign com
mittee, 81 reckon can, was the
answer Can you elect a Republican
House, was the next query. II
reckon can was the brief response.
How we'll be performed his duties
was shown BY Republican majority
Of some forty in the House
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

- r. EKAI KAWAGUCHI is att
present the popular hero of
D Japan, his native land He
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
Senator Clark's Legislative Hobby

Senator Clark has not been associ
ated with many important measures
of National legislation thus far, be-
cause he has not had the experience,
and, in fact, has not had long tenure
of service. But in future he will be
more prominent in National legisla-
ton through his connection with irri-
cation, which in the next few years
will have to receive consideration by
Congress.
He is the president of the National
Irrigation Congress, an organization
composed of leading citizens of all the
Western States, and whose object is to
forward the securing of government
in the reclamation of the arid lands.
Senator Clark is thoroughly familiar
with this subject, and knows from
experience how the West is being re-
claimed from the desert and made
to bear crops, that are phenomenal
n"their richness, through the fuctu-
ating influence of irrigation.
In his own State is all immense
tract of land, now comprised in the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

"tolma" (secret sword in the face
Of the bride. The secret sword is
made Of the powder Of barley mixed
with butter and water The priest will
put in it some magic powder AS soon
as he throws il, the door will open and
the fellow will slip in. Why such
custom? The bride has left her own
home and is without the protection of
any god. Most probably certain
devils will have gathered around her.
The family of the bridegroom must
prevent the entrance of the devils. The
bride will be misersbly spatterd with
barley powder
If one Of the brides party should
catch the sword in the air and hold
the fellows arm, the bridegroom must
pay fine of twenty "tangars." There
fore, the door will be opened as quickly
as possible.
The crowd will approach the brides
party and they will ask to give them
some "yeppa" (praising words), and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
Description of Uedding Customs in
the Stronghold of Buddhism

be KIND to her servants. He will mar
rate some stories by way of example,
to impress his meaning upon her mind.
And her parents will tell her the same
things, and her relatives also. The
time for her to leave her house will
approach. What she will take with
her to her new home will be according
to her rank. Some will take a piece
OF land, some only u few clothes
The girl will cry bitterly and object
to riding on horse Her parents and
friends will force her to sit on the
horse. Her principal adornment will
be the dress sent by the bridegroom,
Of course. She will wear every orna-
ment presented to her by her parents.
On her head She will place lin chen
manga, which is a covering cloth Of
green, yellow, red and white. No
body can see what sort of face she has,
naturally And ''dartel' (the flag Of
prosperity will be carried behind The
flag is made of thin silk, in length
only one foot two inches
The welcoming party from the
bridegroom will meet her on the road.
Her own party will keep the fare
well feast" along the road some three
times, one for each three or FIVE miles.
The welcoming party also will have
the same feast, from the other end.
But they will not drink much, because
they have a certain responsibility-on
the enc side, to deliver the girl safely
without any scratch on her face on
the other side, 10 receive her safely.
The feasts are usually kept in road
side eating houses, but they prefer to
hold them in the houses of their
friends They stop frequently under a
tent set for the occasion.
When the bride reaches the house,
she will find the door closed And
there will be crowd Of no small size
surrounding the house,
One man from the crowd will throw
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She will be left for the time that She
wishes, and her husband will come 10
meet her on the day appointed for her
10 leave her mothers house.
In six months or one year She will
be obliged to marry her husbands
brothers. She will marry them, how
ever many there be. Thibet is the
country OF polyandry, that is to say,
one wife and many husbands. Her
mother-in-law will superintend the
ceremony. Her husband will Slip
away for the occasion. If there is
baby, although its real father i un
known, it will be her first husbands.
The others will be called uncles. They
do not live all together at one time.
They wall go to their business, leaving
one husband in the house, usually.
Some will condemn the custom as
barbarous, but they will defend it. say
ing: "Lukusonine" (the old, honorable
custom). There is nothing mightier
fhan the old custom in Thibet.
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then they will tell them to open the
door. The brides party will answer
that they will say the words when they
are shown "kata" Ga thin bit Of silk
used for wedding or a funeraD. One
OF the family will show the point OF
the kata slightly from within, and
pull it back. And if the brides party
shall catch ii, the family must pay
twenty ''tangars' as fine. Things
will be managed cleverly.
Then the brides party will say:
This door should be the entrance to
treasure house with pillars OF gold
and silver. The house has pearl
room, and a golden parlor The peo-
pie Of the house should be equal to the
gods, cherlshing all Beauty and all
Truth. 1t would be such a happiness
to enter such door and begin to lead
the most glorious life The door will
slowly open.
The mother of the bridegroom will
appear, carrying some sour milk and
che ma, which is a mixture of bar
ley powder, butter, sugar and small
potatoes, They are the things for
greeting i'll Thibet She will dis
tribute them among the bride and her
party They will put the food on
the palm Of the hand and eat slowly
| The feast will be opened Immediately,
and the priest will begin to pray to
the god Of the house and the village TO
take the bride i'll. The parents of the
bridegroom will give every one of the
party piece of "kata," which is to sig
nifty the perfect agreement of both
parties Then the bride and bride
groom will be removed to another
room But the guests will keep or
drinking, sometimes whole month.
But this is not the end Of the Thibc
tan marriage ceremony. When 4
month or two has passed, the husband
will take his wife to her old home,
land She will stay there some weeks.
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BY DR.. EKAI KAWAGUCHI.


Buddhist Priest of the Zen Sect,
Japan.)
Many page has been written on
the interesting marriage affairs of the
Thibetans, usually, am sorry to say.
at some distance from the truth. How
many persons have succeeded in enter
ing Lhasa, the forbidden city of the
world?
Let me tell you about the Thibetan
marriage from my individual observa-
ton in the mysterious capital.
The Thibetans commonly marry be-
tween the ages of twenty and twenty
five. Frequently the girls marry
younger than the boys. The mar
rage is accomplished by their parents
will, as in any other barbarous coun-
try.
The parents of manageable son
will despatch their agent to the pa
rents of some manageable girl.
Should the matter look quite possible,
the parents of the girl will hasten to
a confidential fortune-teller or to the
high priest, in order to make their
minds firm before giving a definite an
swer. The parents on both sides will
endeavor to conduct matters with the
greatest secrecy, keeping the son and
daughter beyond any suspicion.
At the proper time the parents of
the boy will quietly deliver to the
mother of the girl a number of coins
as milk money" The money is sup
posed to repay what the mother has
spent in bringing up the girl. The
amount will vary according to the sta
ton of the parties. The parents, with
the aid of a priest, will settle the date
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present the popular hero OF
- Japan, his native land He
returned thither on the Goth
of May, 1908, from Lhasa, in Tibet,
where he had lived for two years and
two months in the disguise of Chin
csc physician.
He is the latest foreign traveller who
has returned from that forbidden city.
He succeeded in an enterprise in
which scores of intrepid explorers of
all nationalities have failed, and all
that he has to tell about the unknown,
mysterious land of Thibet necessarily
possesses the charm of novelty. He
is one of the half dozen contemporary
travellers who has struck entirely new
ground
DR.. Kawaguchi's article in the Janu-
airy number of "The Century," describ-
ing his journey to Thibet, has made
great sensation. The following arti-
Gle was written by him in Japanese
and literally translated for this journal
by Yone Noguchi, Japanese residing
in New York
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Some curious tests with coal are now
being made Mt Portsmouth, the object
being to ascertain to what extent, II
any, 1t is improved by being kept for
u certain tire in salt water.
Twenty-one tons Of coal taken from,
the same heap were first divided into
three parts, two of which contained ten
tons each and one one ton. One Of the
ten-ton lots was next divided into five
parts, each containing two tons, and
these after being placed in five per-
forated boxes We're sunk in the sea.
The other ten-ton lot Is also to be d.
vided into five parts, each containing
two tons, but instead of being sunk
in the sea. there are to be kept on land
and will be covered with tarpaulin.
The one-ton lot was burned few days
ago, and thorough test is now being
made of Its qualities MS shown by COM
bustion.
III twelve months the coal in one of
the submerged boxes and also that In
one of the boxes which have been kept
on land will be burned, and the result
will be compared with that which was
obtained when the one ton was burned
n few days ago. In this way the scien-
fists and the naval authorities of Eng
land are confident that some new
and important facts can be learned in
regard to the qualities Of coal.
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phosphorescent tunnels and stations
are now suggested for insuring public
safety in the Paris tube. A company
has offered to paint luminous bands OH
the walls. on exit doors, etc, which
would obviate all danger from the sud-
den extinguishing of the electric, Pc
troleum or other lamps in case of fire
or any other accident. The phosphor.
essence is produced by n coating of cal
cum monosulphide, obtained by mix
ing sulphur and oyster shells, or cal
cined cuttlefish bones, and therefore
costing very little. Besides lighting
tunnels and stations sufficiently for
emergencies, the phosphorescent paint
could be used for inscriptions by en-
craving the latter on glass and filling
the lines of the letters with the cal
cium monosulphide. Thus indications
as This way out" would become lu-
minous in the event of failure Of the
ordinary lights. The paint remains
phosphorescent for n considerable time
as oxidation. transforming the sub
stance into non-luminous sulphate of
lime, only sets in very gradually
Pittsburg Press.
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OZARK MOUNTAINS.
Said to He the Most Ancient Of HiIls on
All Mother Earth.

All Mother Earth.
Men are speaking in wondering
words of Jura, IT the grandeur of Ev-
crest. of the awe inspiring cnnons of
the West. of the Andes and the Alps;
but no man has ever looked upon a
scene more incitive to thought and pro-
found meditative Imagination than the
rugged hills of the lower Ozarks. He
who climbs the Jura stands upon a
peak of the modern world, but the
man who stands upon the highlands
of Ozark County looks upon land so
old that the brain becomes weary in
attempting to measure Its age, though
measurement be made in ep0chs-not
in thousands Of years.
The Himalaya Mountains have dur
ing some thousands or millions of
years. poured their deposits Into that
body of water which we know as the
China Sea. and by filling the basin of
that sea have deposited so much al
luvium that the Empire of China,
with its untold population. now occu-
pies the space over which the water
once flowed unrestrained. Look to
your maps and note how large the low
lands of China are; conjecture the
depth of the alluvial deposit in these
lowlands. and then comprehend, IL you
can. the ages during which the Hlma-
laya Mountains have been busy filling
up the basin Of the sen and by wash
of the tides and overflow of the rivers
building the land of China as we know
1t to-day.
The brain wearIes Of the effort We
are incapable of comprehending such
almost infinite time. and yet We do
know that the mountains of Asia are
the youngest mountain ranges on
earth, and that the lowlands of China
belong to the last days.
We may grasp suggestion of fncts
by comparisons sometimes. If the
Himalayas are the youngest, the
Oznrks are the eldest of all mountain
ranges. and between the dates which
gave them birth the Rocky Mountains
the Appalachians. the Apennines, the
Alps, the Andes. the Nevadas. the Cir
cassians. the Caucasus. the great
mountains ranges OF Australia and AT
RIGA had birth. Yet these were not
reared suddenly by some continent Gre
ating explosion. but slowly, surely,
tenderly. as it becomes mother earth
to develop her giant children.
Thus. by analysis, we arrive at the
age OF the Ozarks. yet fail to compre.
bend. for we cannot measure their
ancient height nor picture the stormy
world. We can simply imagine
huge ball hung in space rapidly re-
vOlving envelOped in clouds, the rain
in censeless torrents descending and
the wide ocean rolling free and I'M
broken, save where the Ozarks breast
ed the waves and turned the tide back
upon herself.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crnt.
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DR.. Van Dyke, of Princeton. who
thinks that boys enter college too old,
also wishes that law might be passed
compelling new books to be printed
on paper warranted not to last more
than ten years. We have been looking
through our library of modern litera-
ture, gathered during the past dozen
years or so, and we incline - the opin-
ion that DR.. Van Dyke needn't worry
much about the law. The bookmak-
ers are taking care of his peccadillo
in their own efecti-e way. and what
the book makers fail to do is ably ac-
compllshed by the literary ability of
the author. DR.. Van Dyke, by the
way, is an author himself. 1t is said
that authors usually look back with
horror on their first efforts. Possibly,
after all, he Is speaking twice for him
self and once for the rest of us. 1t
certainly would be cheaper to have
books rot and crumble just as soon as
one becomes famous, instead OF being
obliged. to buy them up ut the extor-
tionate prices that are demanded for
first editions.
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The great evil in the sponge business
at the present time is the loading of
sponges. SheepswOol spOnges are
nearly all loaded. while occasionally
lots of yellow and grass spOnges are
also adulterated in this way. The
loading is done for the purpose of in
crcasing the weight Of the sponge.
Rock salt. glucose, molnsses, lead.
gravel, sand and stones are the sub
stances generally used. Most OF the
warehouses have wntertiglA bins in
which glucose or molusses. sand and
rock salt are mixed together in water.
According as more or less weight is
desired, the quantity Of certain of the
ingredients is increased or decreased.
The spOnges are thoroughly soaked in
this preparation, and are then run
through an ordinary clothes wringer,
or laid ON an inclined rack and allowed
to drain into the bin. Some years ago
the loading of sponges was quite COM
mon, and became such an evil In the
trade that an agreement was made by
the dealers that loading would be
abandoned. This agreement was lived
up to until within the last two or three
years, when certain dealers resumed
the practice. As the loading enabled
the buyers to pay more for their
sponges and still not increase the price
to their customers, the buyers who
had not taken 1t up We're compelled
to do so In sclf-defense. Most buyers
would gladly abandon the loading If
the agreement was made unanimous.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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win which the proposition is welcomed
since the Introduction OF the BrownlOw
bill in Congress. have not only been
highly gratifying to the friends of the
measure. but surprising and astonish-
ing to its opponents, writes Colonel ].
b. killebrew. The truth is the great
body of the farmers of the land are
slow. in demanding what they are
justly entitled to. Had the same
necessity as the want of good-roads
among farmers existed in relation to
the manufacturing. mining or COM
mercial interests of the country, such
a necessity would have long since been
recognized and met by adequate APP
preparations from Congress. The tillers
of the soil do not work in concert for
their own advancement. BY the CEN
sus of 1900 the whole number of people
above the age of ten years engaged
in gainful occupations in the United
States was 20,074,117. OF this number
IL, 1881 16j were engaged in agricultur-
al pursuits. No other specified occupa-
ton employs so many. The manu-
featuring and mechanical pursuits en-
ploy 7.OS5, 392 persons; trade and trans
portation. 4.766.964. and professional
service, 1858, 739. And yet the farmers
of the country, that contribute more
to Its permanent prosperity than all
other classes combined. have the email
est amount of consideration in the
matter of congressional appropriations.
In all the history of the past legisla-
tion of the country but few efforts
have been made to equalizc the bene-
fits of congressional appropriations.
Until the rural mail routes were es-
tablished a citizen living in the country
rarely received direct benefits from the
money expended by the general govern
ment. except that for the agricultural
department.
The commerce of the county felt
the exuberation of fresh and lusty life
and vigor from the improvement of
the rivers and harbors. but this ex-
uberance would have been vastly in
creased and half the money appropri-
ated for rivers and harbors been ap-
piled in aid of the Improvement and
maintenance of the public roads, the
very foundation of commerce.
1t must not be imagined that anyone
proposes that the government shall
enter upon the work OF building public
highways without the cooperation of
the State. county or other political
subdivision. The policy IF the govern
ment should be to help those communi-
ties that help themselves; to stimulate
action md enterprise rather than to
repress 1t by appropriating money to
those communities that do nothing for
Observation-Disclosures Topics.
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LIGHT AS A REMEDIAL AGENT.
why tho Isolation of Tuberculosis IL
Unnecessary.


why the Isolation of ruberculosis Is
Unnecessary.
In DIR. G. F. SLrady's Judgment isola-
ton of tuberculosis patients Is not nee
essary or desirable. providing ordinary
care In methods of life is exercised and
the destruction of the sputum is at
tended to.
cit is as easy for those of sinai!
means to care for their cOnsumptives
as for any one else" said DIR. Shrady.
unless they are too crowded and are
obliged to live in holes to which the
light and air cannot have free access.
There are tenements. though, In every
big city in this country, and many
smaller ones. TOO, l am sorry to say,
over the doors of which might well be
inscribed. All We who enter here leave
hope behind 1t is the desire of tho
medical profession TO educate the peo.
pie, the city and the State to do away
with these.
Light Is one OF the most remarkable
of all the remedial agents at hand for
the treatment Of this class of diseases.
Finsen. the Scandinavian, has shown
plished in the treatment of lupus with
those invisible rays which are termed
ultraviolet.
Lupus is not common in Americn.
though well known and dreaded OF
the other side of the Atlantic. 1t is IL
form of tuberculosis, not Of the lungs.
but of the surface, anu Finsen de
stroys it by subjccting his patients 10
the purely chemical rays. His rays
have not been made to penetrate deep
ly enough as yet. however, to be eff
cacious in tuberculosis of the lungs.
Just how much progress car be
made with similar treatments no one
kuowsas yet In London and Paris. in
Berlin and Vienna. in Copenhagen and
New York, investigators are studying
the effect of the blue light and the ul-
tra-violet rays under varying circum-
stances. They are also experimenting
with various lenses and other media
through which to pass the light.
There have been many experiments
with the X-rays in fighting cancer. but
these have not been successful, except
in superficial cases. Even then the
TuyS nave uOI betu VI
II any, more benefit than the plan of
scraping out the bed of the ulcer and
using caustics.
1.-The knife still remains the last re.
sort for well-developed cancer. Even
1t fails when the disease is OF such long
standing as to ALLOW thorough distri-
button of the disease through the sys.
TEN.
''rhere is promise in the immense ac-
tivity now being displayed in the bac-
research. While 1t has not
led to the discovery of remedies in a
great number of Instances. it has laid
bare the causes of several disorders
to which the flesh is heir. In this way
1t has led the profession closer and
closer to the plan of assisting nature
in building up the power Of resistance
and the adoption of the simplest treat
ment possible."-New York News.
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Brigadier-General Frederick Funs-
ton, commanding the Department of
the Columbia, recommends in his an
nual report the abolition Of the dress
chapeau and epaulets for general Of
ficers. The former is hideous, the
latter heavy and gaudy," says Gener-
nj Funston. The tendency throughout
the military establishment is toward
less fancy and less ornate dressing, in
service and dress uniforms, and the
time Is not far distant when the Won
derful sartorinl creations once used
to hide the soldiers nakedness will
live only In secret societies and old
prints.
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The detection of the direction OF u
sound by the sense of hearing is, like
the rapid focusing OF the eye on OBJ
Jects at different distances. one of
those instructive operations which are
continually done without any con-
scious method.
Sound waves traverse the air ms rip
pies stir the water, and the ear. by
experience, acquires some slight pow
er In detecting the direction in one
case. as the eye does with far greater
accuracy in the other. Usually we
unconsciously receive assistance from
other senses as well. Often we fall
to locate Mt once some hidden source
of sound. such as singing bird, and
then our instructive ingenuity displays
itself
The intensity of sound is, of course.
by no means 80 grent behind a scree;:
as in front OF 1t. and every one carries
with him the screen of his own head,
which may prevent particular sound
from being heard so well by one ear
as by the other. II. then. the head ia
turned until the inequality disappears.
and both ears hear equally well, we
know that we must be directly facing
or turned from the source of sound.
and our previous rough idea Of Its
whereabouts generally prompts US to
face It,