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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-04

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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-04

What's the row over on the next
street. Only wooden wedding "
OGDEN Wedding Yes; "a couple of
Poles getting married. Princeton Tiger.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-04

Tom Are YOU on tie water wagon
now Dick NO; but my mip Kan Is"
Town Topics.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-04
WOMEN'S WOES.

Much 81 vomeD's daily zoe is due 20
IA kidney trouble. Sick
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-04
Most or the Ailments Peculiar TO tn,
Female Sex are Due 10 Catarrh
OF the Pelvic Organs.

MY conviction, supported by !
experience, is that PerLna is q valu-
able preparation for all catarrhal
affections. have taken one bottle
of Peruna myself and just feel fine.
shall continue to take it" -Rachael
]. Kemball, M. D.
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See here, he said to the head Of
the house, this is supposed to be \
reproduction of the Seal of New York
State He held up a silver disk
about four inches in diameter. mount
ed IN a dark stained wood frame. 1T
doesn't look enough like a seal to be
called one. Look at these lines-stiff
cramped, ugly. | can't sell pudgv de-
signs like that"
We'll, what are we going to do?n
asked the head of the house.
Do: replied the salesman. "Whv.
make the die by the reducing machine,
Get the seal made in a large bronze
casting and reduce it to a small die
on the machine.
They did it. They have been doing
It ever since. Other houses took u0
the idea Gradually the cramped. stiff
designs began to disappear from the
market They had to Nobody would
buy them. Thus the Seal of the State
OF New York as it now appears in the
majority Of metal decorations Is one
OF the best executed and handsomest
seals Of any State in the Union.
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Sarafof's Turkish Friends.

The De Wet of Macedonia is Boris
Sarafoff. He is the hero of countless
stories Of daring escapes, punishment
of Turkish outrages and desperate
fights. Each story illustrates the de-
pravity Of Turkish character.
But from England comes one story
that rather offsets some of the others.
A friend Of Sarafoff in London re
ceived a letter from him some time
ago in which he tells of one of his
escapes wherein he was aided bv A
Turk, and which likewise shows thar
many Mohammedans are in secret
sympathy with the Macedonian cause.
The Turks had me cut off from the
mountains, says the letter, and to
have gone the other way would have
meant encountering the bashi bazouks.
| saw the light of a house and. took
my chances with it. A Turk opened
the door and gave me entrance He
invited me to eat with his family. The
bashi bazouks came and demanded ad-
mittance.
This man is Turk and my
friend said my host, and, apparently
satisfied, the bashi bazouks went
away
Il spent the night there, and next
morning early bade the Turk and his
family good-by. | felt certain he
really thought me a Turk, until, at
parting, he reached out his hand and
said;
'Good-by, Boris Sarafof."
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PAPER MANUSCRIPTS So Old That
Only the Profoundest Students Of Antique
Writing Can Read Them

ally speaking, further from Khotan,
further from the snow-cappcd noun
talns than the later examples.
The discoveries thus far made in
dlcate, therefore, that during a pc
Rod Of about four hundred years
there was a progressive diminishment
OF the habitable area. 1t is ever shrink
ing toward the sources Of the streams,
which find it ever more difficult to
FIX a constant course across the wind
swept sands. Thus we see the desert
as destroyer--the desert as preserver,
but as pre5ervcr only Of the empty
husks Of that life which for a season
was permitted to flourish
These fatal movements, however,
were not cataclysmic. There IS no
reason to suppose that our forgotten
brethren Of the destroyed oases were
smothered instantly as were those Of
Pompeii or Martinique There was
time to starve through many years,
perhaps, until, hopeless, they aban-
donod home and farm to seek some
friendlier spot where they might
meanly support their diminished num-
ber5.
Some unconsidered triAes they left
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ty years a British Resident, though
the Maharajah is nominally indie
pendent. To foster and protect their
trade, and to watch the Russians, d
Brush 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 a letter
from Colonel Miles, the present in
cumbent. that the sleek money lender
in Khotan had met Captain Angihian
(nly 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 dignified, aniahle
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 Aksakors 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 chaffering permitted
me to consult Father Hendricks (once
a Dutchman, now almost an Asiatic)
as to the genuineness of the strange
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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 flx 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-sacred, non-Sanskrit
pleces-that they seemed to contain
contract for agricultural materials.
hope some of our scholars NAV be in
terested to probe deeper Dr. 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, l have placed
these temporarily in the Smithsonian
Institute, with request that they be
made available, as far as possible, to
any inquiring 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 Kharosthi 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 a 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 a site in
which the wooden tablets were nuner-
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-
Oroximately 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.

d ELEANO LEAF ny YIN.
.H HE name Lawrence goes back
to the beginning Of things.
i AS Apollo was the god Of
poets, the laurel or laurea
Apollinaris, which was sacred to him
and sprang from shoot sent from
heaven, was the wreath with which
to crown 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 a 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 va1or and
given arms, 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.
Pauls 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
fogging at his school, he replied:
Il was fogged every day except
one, and then l was Aogged twice"
With equal brevity Edward Law
renee, the preacher, expressed himself
when asked how he intended to sup
port his family, he having lost his
living at the time Charles |. was be-
headed. 'We must all live on Mat
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bits Of paper which lay before me.
/ he 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
Iibet's cold and tragic heights:
1t may seem strange that even in
Khotan one must be on guard against
forgery in ancient manuscripts. Yet
DIR. Stein, by close cross-questioning,
forced confession from 4 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 f0rger, 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 | showed the bundle
bought by me, says a 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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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 a feeling Of consterna-
ton throughout Great Britain.
Parts of England are becoming as
lonesome as the veldts of South Af-
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
10 grass, anu lHe 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 of
labor"
"All the young men are turning
from the land. No one who is fit for
anything stops on it nowadays"
The present race of stalwart la
borer is fast dying out"
"The next five years will leave US
without man
"When the old men die, and only
the 'wasters' are left. what is to hap
pen? The land is going to the
devil"
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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
ind that he had died of what appear
ed to be bullet wound in his temple
A hundred people who witnessed the
accident were ready to testify that no
firearm had been discharged at the
time
An examination exposed a small
pebble in the mans brain. For a
long time the case was a mystery,
until an ingenious detective solved it
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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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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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
Henry Lawrence. The Mayor of New
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
lhe 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.
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
-AoJOA CdIluSI LdWIenC 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
Tor 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 tire alarm bell sound
ed, 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 cross
raguled gules. Crest, out of an East
ern crown, or, cubit arm entwined
by wreath Of laurel, in the hand, .
dagger. Motto: TN Cruce Salus." ("Ir
the cross is salvation') These were
the arms granted to the Crusader
Raguled, or raguly is term used tc
represent the rough-hewn stems of q
tree, from which the branches have
! been rudely Topped.
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WHAT THE DIE MACHINE CAN Do

a few days ago a young man with
a love for making bets stepped into
a 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 in 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 em-
ployed as travelling salesman for a
large s1lverware concern came in from
the road one day, kicking strenuously
about some Of the designs in his sam
] pie case
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Journeys, others have been found by
DR.. NJ A. Stein of the Indian Educa-
tlonal 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
Turkestan.
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 | was Quitting 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 mlddle-aged men, active traders
nominated to represent the body of
merchants of their own nationality in
each Of the big town: of Chinese
Turkestan. Thus in Khotan there was
an Andijani Aksakol, as we'll as my
Hindoo friend.
he former was a native of Rus
sian Turkestan, whose merchants
have immemorially 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-much of it at alti-
tudes exceeding 1900 feet, but the
rude mountains offer nothing better.
This trade originates in Kashmir,
,1,bAra +ba-o Lo. 49,. t.. - 1o..4 4L;-
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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.
ne photograph marked No. I i of
a fragment of leaf from a volume
OF Buddhlstic sacred literature. The
tull length of the page must have
been about twelve inches, as is shown
by placing the various fragments to
gether. he circular hole shown was
at about three inches from the end.
and a cord to hold the pages in order
passed through it.
No. is another fragment similar to
NO. I, 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. 8 is photograph Of wood carv-
ing probably twelve centuries old. and
No. 5 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 nanuscTintS
from the ancient, sand-buried cities
N the Taklamakan desert of Chinese
Iurkestan, is a resident Of Washing
ton, D. c -
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.. Crosbys 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-
s1sslppi, but he gave up an army com
mission to become an electrical en-
glneer
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AN AMERICAN Travellers Interesting
Discoveries in the Tal1lamakan 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
obliterated 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-
teCts point of view, being quite SINH
lar to the ordinary Turkestan dwell
ing OF Oday-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 uninhabitable 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