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along the sides of the mountains above
valleys which are lost in the plains of
Bengal. The railroad was built upon a
wagon road which led up from Darjeeling.
and you can see as well as though you
were in a carriage. There are villages
here and there along the way. and the
trains stop now and then so that the pas
sengers may pick flowers and ferns.
In this railroad ride 1 came through the
torrid and temperate zones and stepped
out into a land of snow. Calcutta is in
the tropics. We rode over hot plains,
through patches of rice and bananas, into
n jungle of bamboos. banyans and other
tropical foliage. The foothills are clad
with such trees and the first ranges
eaching q mile and q half above the
plain, have magnificent forests bedded in
MOSES and ferns. The limbs of the trees
are loaded with orchids. and here and
there are tree ferns with trunks as thick
as a telegraph pole and almost as tall.
The fern leaves come out from the top
like those of a palm. AS you rise the
color of the moss on the trees changes
from green to light gray: it hangs from
the branches in clusters not unlike the
moss OF Georgia and Florida and the
green appears to be busted with silver
Higher still there are hard woods much
like those of our American mountains;
the roses bloom and there are tea plan
tations clothing the hills. Tea grows to
an elevation Of almost a mile. The trees
and hardy-grainS rise a mile higher and
it is not until three miles that the hardy
shrubs disappeaEs I am told a few flow
ers are stin found at almost four miles
above thet sea- -
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They are so great that YOU could scatter
the other mountains of the world through
them and hardly affect the size of the
chain. You could drop the Alps into
their valleys. and few miles away you
could not notice the addition. Mount
Everest is. of all land, the nearest point
toward heaven. 1t is more than double
the height of Fujiyama. the sacred noun
tain of Japan. You could put another
Pixies Peak on the top of our big noun
tain near Denver and it would not reach
as high, and the SHOWS browning Mount
Blanc are at least 10000 feet lower. II
you should ascend Mount Blanc and by
a flying machine go straight upward for
more than two miles you would not yet
reach the altitude Of Kuncilin jansa. It
is more than q mile and half higher
than Mount Mckinley, the giant OF Alas
ka, and Mount Everest. a thousand feet
above it. caps the world
I have seen all of the greatest noun
tains of the globe. AS a boy l walked
across the Alps from italy to Switzer-
land and climbed the glaciers of Mount
Blanc. Later j visited almost every part
of our Rocky mountain plateau. and dur
ing trips to Asia saw the mighty hills OF
Hawaii and the Philippines. AS news
paper correspondent / Travelled through
the Andes from Panama to Patagonia,
and it was only a year or so ago that L
was writing letters for you on the high
lands Of Africa under the shadows OF
Mount kenia and Mount kilimanjaro.
Or all the great nelSIltSs - -uEo thS
Himalayas the most difficult to describe.
Their grandeur is oppressive and their
immensely beyond human conception. And
still, they are not the most beautifui
The finest of the worlds mountains In
point of form and symmetry are Full
wanna. in eastern Japan. Mount COOK, IN
northern New Zealand; Mount Moyon, the
chief volcano of southern LuZon, and our
own Mount Tacoma. on the shores
of Puget sound. AS to glaciers,
those of the Himalayas are greater than
the ice rivers of the Alps. They surpaes
i'm size the glaciers of New Zealand, and.
I doubt not. those of Alaska as Well.
There are glaciers here which are from
thirty 10 sixty miles long. and one In
particular which is thirty-three miles In
length and thanked on either side Py
giant peaks. each more than five miles In
height These glaciers are mountains OF
ice. often as ragged and rugged as the
snow-capped peaks hanging over them.
The Himalayas might be called the
father Of India. They protect the coun-
try. and it is largely due to them that
it is able TO support one-hfth of the hu-
man race They extend like mighty
wall across Hindustan. shutting it out
from the rest of Asia. This wall is
intensely cold. and against it come the
warm winds loaded with the moisture OF
the Indian ocean. AS they strike 1t the
moisture condenses and falls down III
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point OF view By Pope Gregory XIII in
1852. but in no way improved from the
point of view Of the practical man.
The first proposal of the Netherlands
Chamber of Commerce is the equaiiZatiO
OF the length Of the months. The "Eor-
NAL month is to have thirty days. OF
tie remaining five, one is to be tackled on
TO the last month of each quarter, and the
odd day is to be New Year day, and not
to be counted day of any month. but
to be sandwiched between the 31st of De-
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continental chambers of commerce. 1t
is hoped to find way OF fixing Easter
and all other movable church festivals SO
that they shall recur every year on the
same. date; and at the same time TO do
away with all the anomalies in the pres
ent calendar, and establish what the re-
formers call a symmetrical year.
BY fixing Easter it is calculated that
business men in Europe alone will be
saved losses of several tens OF millions
of dollars. By establishing symmetri-
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A German Constructor of Rival "NOr-
mai Calendar," I'm Which Each Month
Would Have Thirty Days. and the
Odd Five Days BE Distributed Fol-
lows: -Four "Quarter Days. One at
the End Of Each Quarter and an
"iiI-Christian Day" TO BE Observed rs
n Sort OF Thanksgiving Day Through
out ChristendOn,. These Five Days
Would Not Count Either Week
Days or Days OF the Month.
ing of Easter on the first Sunday after
the Sd of April. This would give one
Easter for the part of the world which
observes the Gregorian calendar but
Easter would still fiuctuate to the extent
of a week Baron Won HeSse- Narteggs
proposal that Easter shall be fixed rs
part OF the wider normal calendar scheme
gets rid of these inconvenienccs. Easter.
he argues, should be fixed ON the eth of
April OF the reformed normal calendar.
which will be Sunday 10 the end OF
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the objection that the equinox does not
occur exactly at the same time in differ
ert longitudes, DR.. FoersteT proposes ttat
of JeIu lem. II this were strictly adj
hered 20 places in the longitude of .Ieru-
salem would in some years celebrate
Easter on the 18th of April and places
to the west of the Jerusalem meridian Oh
the 9Th of April.
Professor HOFFMAN,. the creator of the
SaXton normal calendar, urges the fix
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Tie ideal way of fixing Easter would
be to choose a particular Sunday in
this normal calendar. Easter and all
other church festivals which count from
il would then fall exactly on the same
DAYS every year, as Christmas falls In
the present calendar. But while it is not
certain that the normal calendar Will
be voted for by congress it is absolutely
certain that they will demand fixed
Easter. Suggestions. therefore. are to be
laid before it for fixing Easter without
reforming the present calendar. This
problem is complicated by religioUs-hIs
torical factors. The present way of de-
termining Easter dates from 3D. \. ID.
when the council of Nicea decided that
Easter day was the first Sunday after the
spring full moon; that is, the first full
moon after the vernal equinox. Wheh
Pope Gregory XIII appointed his calen-
Oar commission to reform the Julian
calendar he retained this movable Easter.
though Easter has nothing to DO with
vernal eauinoXes. being purely church
feast The chambers of commerce admit
that Easter should be fixed in accord
ance with Christian history. According
to Hortheim's computations. which sup
port the statements of the evangellsts ana
the early fathers, Christ was crucified
on Friday, the 18th of April, 10 A d., and
rose on the 9th of April.
The Prague congress. therefore. de-
clared that Easter day should be the first
Sunday after the 9TH of April. but the
congress had not in mind the regulariza-
ton of the whole calendar scientinc
authority, Prof. Forester of the Berlin
observatory is championing the third
Sunday after the spring equinox. To meet
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+ the majority OF
Europe's business
men get their way
and the many
modern p pc
Gregories can agree
on a system, the
Christian calendar,
which today OBJ
.ains throughout
most of the north
ern hemisphere.
from San Fran
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AS we rode through the jungle 1 looked
out for the tigers. which the trainmen tell
me are frequently seen. There are many
of them in the lowlands, and they hug
the base of the mountains. There is a
region here covered with bamboo cane and
grass; which is infested not only by tigers,
but also by buffaloes, Jears, deer and wild
hogs. The cane grows to a height of
forty feet and the grass is so high that
sitting on horseback you cannot reach the
tops of the stalks. The tigers are hunted
everywhere, but they are still so numer-
Gus that, according to the government
records, eight nine hundred persons
are killed by them every year. The
beasts do not usually attack men, but if
they once taste human blood they are
crazy for it thereafter. One tiger is
known TO have killed eighty of the ma
tives within twelve months, and another
JOS in a space of three years. One of the
agents of the Indian forestry department
tells me that about 700 tigers are killed
every year and that the government gives
a reward for every beast destroyed.
The tigers of India are magnificent but
are not equal to those of Manchuria. They
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cisco across Europe and Asia TO Yiadi-
vostok, will come to timely end next
year AT the June meeting I'm London OF
the International Congress OF Chambers
of Commerce the first subject down for
discussion is ''Unifcation and SimpIifica-
ton of the Gregorian Calendar. Estab-
lishment of Fixed Date for Easter,
The proposal is backed by numberless
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MOT Churchmen This
~ Time But High Priests
of Finance Who Want to Set
the Reckoning Right, and
They Propose to Make a
Start by Fixing the Date of
That Erratic Church Feast,
Easter, and Reckoning From
It-Commercial Congress in
London Next Month Will
Discuss Many Plans for
Reforming the Calendar, the
Best Supported of Which
Provides for Four Equal
Quarters of Ninety-one Days.
With Christmas or New Year
IS a "Dies Non"-Leap Year
Proposals to Remain Invio-
late.
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AN IN the attic or
Asia, under the
very caves CT the
roof of the world.
All about me rise
the highest of the
Himaiaya noun
tainS, their silvery
crowns shining like
diamonds under the
tropical sun. At
the west : can look
fnv miles nro- hare
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foods, watering the great plains below.
There is no place on the globe which has
such rainfall as parts of the Himalaya
mountains. Here at Darjeeling 1t is more
than 500 inches year. and there are
other regions where there are fifty feet
of rain every twelve months.
These winds keep the greater part Of
this adds to the beauties of the scenery.
The Himalayas have a thousand clouds
where the Alps have one, and as you
ride through them you see clouds of all
kinds and shapes chasing each other
over the hills. They crawl up the sides
of the valleys, they climb to your feet
and wrap themselves around you. For
ten minutes the mist is so thick that you
can hardly see the ears of the horse you
are riding. Then all at once you burst
out into the open. A cloud has gone by
and It floats up toward the SHOWS.
In my ride to Tiger Hill 1 had clouds
above and below me. and I could see the
ghOstly masses of vapor resting in the
hollOws as though taking siesta. AS
the sun came up 1t tinged them with
fire, Spotting the mountains with gold.
At the same time there were Opalescent
clouds at my right and my left, and
clouds overhead, above which. at the
breaks, the snowy peaks could be seen.
In coming here from Calcutta 1 rode
most of the way through the clouds. The
sun was at its hottest when We passed
out OF the plains of the Gauges and came
to the foot <of the mountains. The way
up was all lights and shadows. Now the
sun shene, and now the rain came down
IN torrents. We soon had clouds above
and below us. and farther up often lost
sight of the engine in the vapor which
enyeloped the train.
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To prevent the disturbance OF TINS HI ~.
mutable system, leap year day Is TO ne
treated as is New Year day. 1t shall he
inserted after the s1st of July every
fourth year, but shall not count as a ua,e
or as a day of the week. Astrononi!caiiS
the calendar will remain as coTfeci -; as ~
;s today. and to disarm feminine criticism
the leap year privilege Of female mar
riage proposals is to be left lnVioiate.
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IT OW They Made India
i i A Look at Mount Ever
est Which Caps the World
Enormous Glaciers-To Oar
jeeling by Rail-The Jungle
and Its Tigers-The Fore
fathers of Our Indians and
the Squaws of Tibet-Busi-
ness in the Himalayas-Pas-
ses Crossed by Yaks-A
Wagon Road for Lhassa.
Copyright. 1910. by Frank c. Carpenter
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
DARJEELING, 1910.
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cal year, the ordinary mortal will be
saved numberless troubles at present
solved by mnemonics such as the ancient
Thirty days hath September
and so on
He will he saved the still harder task
OF finding out on what day of the week
fall Christmas. New'Year day. kings and
other mems Birthdays. and anniversaries
Of great events.
The decision TO agitate for this simpli-
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1t Is impossible To comprehend the i'm
,uensity of the Himalaya mountains.
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shall never forget that railroad. 1t
makes one think of the toys of his boy
hood. The track is a two-foOt narrow
gauge. the engine is about ten feet in
length and the cars are pigmies in COM
parison with our American coaches
The way up is series of corkscrew
curves. zigzags and VS.. The train goes
about like a snake and the cars are so
small that they look like the links OF a
chain, the ends Of which now and then
seem to touch There are dozen horse
shoe curves every mile and you make fig
urc SIS several times in your drunken
climb up the hill. AS you rise you can
see the road cutting terraces on the
mountains below. You shoot under a hill
and come out into a loop. and then cross
your own track by a bridge overhead.
The system is frequently used. and
there are double Us which elevate you
from one level to another.
The cars do not make more than six
miles an hour. They are open and You
can see out on all sides You skirt prec-
ipices covered with green, down which you
look for thousand feet, and climb
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN April 2S /
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cember and the LIST of January. The Eng
lish amendment to this is that the date
less day shall be Christmas day, as
Christmas is a general holiday. and this
would not break the symmetry of the sys-
tenn. Each quarter of the year would
thns contain ninety-one days the first and
second months having thirty days and the
last month thirty-one.
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The German foreign office is at present
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
Our Big
Cafe

one of tho finest. German
home cooking speciality.
Best music obtainable. Serv-
ice unexcelled. Prices moder-
ate. Come--bring your friends.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
HairdreSSing and Manicuring

in perfect sham
sail
in nails?
here will do for Just
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
our Roof
Garden

A delightful place, high above
and overlooking the city,
where every convenience for
n restful hour is yours
palms, swings and easy chairs.
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She is survived by father, mother,
sister and brother. The funeral was
held this afternoon at 1880 O'Clock
from the Turnbull undertaking par
Tors. Rev. ]. w. Hindley officiated.
Burial took place at Greenwood.
Evelyn N. Baker, nine months old
baby of Mrs. Cbristiania Baker,
died yesterday as her mother was
bringing her to a Spokane hospital
from her home in Hillyard. The flu
neral services were held this after
noon at o'clock from the Hillyard
branch of the New England under
taking parlors. Rev. Elsworthy Of
ficiated and the burial took place in
the Masonic cemetery, north of
Hillyard.
Funeral services for Edna Ed
wards, who died January 10 at GIT
Third avenue, were held this after
noon at 2 o'clock from Smith and
Co.'S chapel. Burial took place at
Greenwood.
Funeral services for James Will
son, who died in Jail January IL,
were held at 1 80 o'clock this after
noon from Buchanan's undertaking
parlors. The interment was at
Greenwood.
John r. Graham, Is year old son
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Graham, died
Saturday at his home, 2421 College
avenue. Funeral services were
held this afternoon at o'clock
from the family residence and bur-
ial took place at Paramount.
Mrs. Louise Laubenstein, age IS
years, died Saturday night at her
home, 0220 Mill street. She has
been resident of Spokane for 20
years and is survived by a, husband,
George P. Laubenstein, and son,
w. X. Laubenstein. No funeral ar
engagements have been made.
James G. McConahey, aged 81
years, died Friday at his home
near Hillyard. He was a former
switchman and the funeral will be
held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
from the Methodist Episcopal
church in Hillyard under the au-
spices of the switchmen's union.
Burial will take place at the Ma
sonic cemetery near Hillyard. Rev.
Elsworthy will officiate. He is sur
vived by a wife and several chill
dren.
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Theatrical
GOOD WEEK AT
THE ORPHEUM

Hogan in Society,"" as presented
by Bert Leslie, an able comedian
Fand his company of good support, is
the favorite attraction on the ex-
/ eellent bill of vaudeville at the
/ Qrpheum theater this week. Leslie,
appearing as Hogan, is there with
the whole vocabulary of slang.
After this come Thorne and Garlic
ton, as the "Soubrette and the
Yap'; Charles Kenna, as a street
fakir; the Sisters Mcconnell, dane
ing comedians, and the Marvellous
Hiltons," in pleasing exhibition
of cycling; all of them adding mer-
riment to the bill and keeping the
spirits of the interested audiences
up to the highest pitch. LaVeen
Gross & Co., in Roman Sports and
Pastimes," copyright if you please,
have a very spectacular dem
monstration of ancient Roman ath-
letics and physical culture using
for the act, which is in four scenes,
scenes from ancient Rome and cos
tunes like those of the old days
Perhaps the most novel number on
the bill is that in which Miss EN-
ma Francis introduces the char
acteristic tumbling of her Arabian
boys. Moving pictures are good.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-17
At the Washington

There was a smack of newness
to the trick sin the headliner, "Thc
Den of Mystery" at the Washing
ton last night. Lawrence Crane,
the Irish wizard, and his company,
completely captivated the large
audience at the local playhouse
with his unexplainable feats and
stunts. The number deserves its
place at the head of the list.
Henry Carver and Alice Taylor
met the expectations of all, and
"The Levinos" provoked high mlrtn
with a new feature.
Lambert and Williams, CONVEX
sationalists and songsters. were
also classy, as was Abbie Mitchell
in her phenomenal soprano solos.
The bill is one of the best that has
been presented at the Washington.
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. WEATHER CONDITIONS .
q q . . . . = = . 9 . = q - Q

Moderately low pressure, with cen
ter near Western Kansas, covers
the country between the Rockies
and the eastern part of the Missis-
sippi valley. From the Rockies to
the Pacific, and from the Missis-
sippi valley to the Atlantic, moder-
ately high pressure prevails, with
crests respectively over Nevada
and near the middle Atlantic coast.
Within the last "a hours precipita-
ton has been general from along
the Pacific coast to the Rockies
and from the upper Mississippi val
ley to New York. Temperatures
generally are moderate for the sea-
son, and about normal in the Pac-
ific states. Conditions this morn
ing are somewhat unsettled, but
give a probability of fair weather
tonight and Tuesday in this vicin-
ity.
Chas. Stewart,
Local Forecaster.
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CIT NEWS
YIN BRIEF ~

Hog prices have reached a
height hitherto unknown in the
Palouse country. One farmer has
just disposed of choice bunch in
the Portland market for 1920 a
hundred.
The chamber of commerce ex
cursion for California will leave
over the o. r. & N. at s O'Clock
! tonight. About $50 are expected
| to go from here and so more will
board the special at Walla Walla
| The destination is Los Angeles
| which will be reached January "a
Many side trips are planned.
The second battalion of the
Twenty-fifth infantry began target
practice at Fort Wright today and
will hold the rifle range during the
entire week. Each man fires &c
shots at a range of 200 to SOC
PAGES.
c. M. Fassett, nominated for
president OF the chamber Of com
merce, and l.. G. Monroe, the sec
rotary, will leave the last Of the
present week for Del Monte, Cal.
to attend the meeting of the asso-
ciated chambers of commerce OF
the Pacific coast.
Bank cIearings last week show.
ed a gain of 81 per cent over the
same week last year. /.
The Mandc cafe on Front avenue
near Division was Quilted and the
Mandic hotel badly damaged by
smoke and water in a fire that oc.
Cured at l o'clock this morning
The loss is placed at $500. The
fire is believed to have started in
bundle of mattresses in the
basement.
Professor Max Hoffman, the
noted spiritualist lecturer, address
ed the Golden Rule Spiritualist So
ciety at Apollo hall last night. The
subject of building temple for
spiritualism came up at the meet
ing.
Election and installation of Of
ficers will be held by the Spokane
Grocers' association tomorrow
night at the chamber of commerce
assembly room. The following
nominations have been made:
President, A. w. Bower; first vice
president, M. A. Doyle; second vice
president, E. X X. Allen; secre-
tary, e. N. Cory; treasurer, Chris
tan Andersen; trustees, U. G..
Allen, S. B. Crandell, T. e. West
lake, S. A. Bishop, J. S. Yakey, w.
l.. McEachran, Edward Jeklin and
c. A. Nickum.
John S. Delaney, special agent
of the Great Northern and former
Spokane policeman, is recovering
rapidly from an operation for ap-
pendicitis, performed at the Sa-
cred Heart hospital.
Members of Spokane council,
Knights of Columbus, will attend
in a body next Monday night the
performance of Sweet Innisfall-
en-" to the given by the Irish actor
tenor, Bernard Daily. Mr.. Daily is
q member of the order.
Mining men say the fall of snow
in the Occur d'Alenes is away be-
low the normal and that there is
danger of not being enough water
to operate the mines in the late
spring and early summer.
Students of the Northwestern
business college to the number of
$50 attended the services last night
at First Baptist church. DR. Kra-
mer, the pastor, preached on the
subject, playing the Fool" The
congregation whistled in unison, Il
Need Thee Every Hour"