OCR Text |
Show THE MOKNI.VQ EXAMINEE OGDEN, UTAH, 117 YEARS OLD A Man Who Knew Lord Byron. By a Spot lal Correspondenl. Belgrade. There ie a men eiill alive who knew Lord Byron. I have Just ( acen him. , the largvst town hut one In is Servis, he II v pa a run JIT years of age, Brovin Zlkitsch, by name, the cf many of the cpoch-mahie fatherland from the of eventa inf wae firvt insurrection In lk'M, whii-beaded hy the grandfather of the King Peter of today. I made tbe Journey to Klara and have a talk spent a few days there toman. I found with this remarkable old hint In a email room of a house In a liaeic street. Is cotnoany with sereial Is peasants. With a glass of brandy fora him. he was enjoying a lively conversation with those around Ms, and on bearing inquiries fur him he ruse immediately and came forward with outstretched band. Fresh and vigorous as a stripling, ha grafted up, saying. How are you. myI children? I hope you are well, and am gUd to eee you. Then, in lha same breath, he shouted in a powerful voice which amazed me, Ileie, landlord, bring chairs, end let my guests have whai ever they wish. As we noticed that ZihiUrh drank only brandy, wo ordered a glass each and a bottle for tbe old man. While the landlord, tail as a treo and a good natured looking man, at tended na us. I studied the veteran of 117 winters whom I had come to see. I oust confess that his appearance astonished me. I had expected to And a ahrtvelled-up- , shaky old man, and Instead there stood before my eyes a vigorous, resolute figure, looking perhaps eighty years old. HIS WONDERFUL V1RILITV. "Little Father Zikitsrh was dressed in the ordinary peasant garb, and, in spits of tbs beat, ba wors a fur cap and a Jersey lined with Wool. Ha has a huge crop of white hair, wtih moustache to match, and a short beard. His teeth, are intact, his eyesight is excellent he known nothing about eyeglasses or spectacles. Ills only phyalral falling Is that he la a Hi tie deaf. His face la pale and sunken, tbe blue eyes gleaming deep la their sockets He bends forward a llttla la kin walk and leans an a stick, but walks with ease; and he assured me that altogether his house liea high, up fourteen steps, e mounts to steps several times a day without assistance. His strong, hearty voles surprises yon so firm and loud that It in audlbls a long way off. Zikltach likes to talk often and much, and la easily persuaded to sing. He loves the national songs especially and ainga them to hla children and his rhlldrana children. This wonderful old rs of a man drinks about litre of brandy a day without ever bosoming intoxicated. It Is said that in hla youth he drank about twelve litres of wine a day without any harmful con sequence. "The saying goes that the stomach can digest three, hut the head only one litre of brandy; but my head ran carry four litrea still," said the old man to me with evident pride. On the other hand he has never taken black coffee, and has never smoked. Ha told uio that he sleeps n good deni and well, taking a nap every day from two to four In the afternoon, and he la in bed at eight oclock. Immediately he waken be drinks a glass of brandy, and drinks at Intervals all day until ha goes to Nl-h- ' i k- eye-witn- ' i l !, i I t 7 u 5 A :i ; i 1 t ..1 'j. i i ,T i: three-quarte- t i 1 1 i' i . . CHIEF Or THE ROBBER BAND. i asked him to tell me hla story and give boom of hla experiences, but ha spoke ao fast. and Jumped so quickly from one thing to another that I could r, not possibly foHow him. This, fs what I learned. He was horn in the village of Karae-ntts-a. about an hour from Ktnrh. As a boy ho went to Belgrade and entered ths service of Alai Bey, a Turk, then tbe rich sat man in what la now Servian territory. In 1804, hearing that Karsgeorge, the grandfather of King Peter, had Farted an tnsarrention, he hastened to Laporo, the headquarters of the insurgents, and Joined their ranks. After the fight of Knrageorge, Zl kitsch returned to hla aattvo village, and was made chief of a robber band of sixty men who infested the environs Zikltach told am this story of Nlech of that time; It was on fit. Andrew day. We had had many encounters "with the Twrks, and our ammunition wm gone. My men were all of the opinion that nothing was left bnt surrender. I did not agree with them, sad, taking two horses. 1 loaded them with charcoal, and, disguised as a coal merchant, went to Nisch, ostonribly to sell the sbarooal, but really to get ammunition. The first Turkish sentinel I came across stopped me and woald have arras tad via bnt a stab of my dagger put an end to his Ufa, and I reached ths I city without further Interruption. scoured the ammunltiou, managed to deoelve the Turks who stopped me, and finally returned to my men in the mountains. From that day, however, things did not prosper with us, as the Tmhs worried us over every inch of ground, sad 1 disbanded my followers. "Meanwhile the old man went on, Ynanrectlmn broke out la Greece, and fa company with the leader Of the YanHocbara, 8 pel Bey, I found myself In the affected district, where I fought against tbs Greeks for years. Our successes were many, sad we beat the Greeks all aloof the line until the English eame aad drove the Turks from the country." THE how-ove- : $ - ;i ! t fi i: ; 0 I. i ft" I! 1 i 1I w ;t Hi Mi I i t ! : 4 I f .. !!: 7 t $ CURLY-HEADE- Did yon know Lord Byron at that time?" I asked. 1 in Greece till the entry of King Otho, and became acquainted with several Englishmen, quite swells but whether Lord Byron whose name I have never heard was among them I cannot tell. I can only recollect a d young, Englishman much loved hy the Greeks, whose dnath, oecirriing during the insurrection, thoy mourned deeply." This Englishman, beyond doubt, was Lord Byron the Lord Byron who. If he had lived to be as old as Sloven Zikitach, would have been alive today! Zikltooh remained in Belgrade several years, and then returned to where he continued his old trade as chief cf a robber band. Bo the year 117 found him when the Fervlan-Turklewar broke out. In ninet!s war ZlkiUoh. although then ty years old, performed very valuable service, bringing intelligence to the CoravjDder of the Servian troops, Uinn Mlrkovlch. Tic told me tbe story: Somebody was wanted to find out the strength of the Turkish army at Nisch, and, In spits of my ninety years. 1 wg ready to do it, asking for 40 dicmii in order to h able to pay tbe Turks a ransom it they caught me. early-heade- i, i 1 h over with greaae and cutch to make themselves even more hideous than nature ordained. Lhasa Itself la squalid and filthy, undrained. unpaved. Not a single bouse looks clean or cared for. The streets after rala are no) king hut pools of stagnant water, frequented by pigs and dogs searching fur refuse. The place has not changed since Hanning visited it ninety years ago. He wrote then: There ia nothing striking, nothing pleasing la Its apThe habitations are bepearance. grimed with amut and dirt. The avenues are full of dogs, some growling and gnawing bits of hide that lie about in profusion and emit a charnel bouse smell; others limping and looking livid; others ulcerated; others starved and dying and perked at by ravens; some dead and preyed npon. In short, everything seems mean and gloomy, and excites the Idea of something That la IJiaaa of today. Probably it waa the same centuries ago. LIKE TONGUES OF FIRE.. Above all this squalor the Fotala towers superbly. Its golden roofs shining In the sun like tongues of fire are a landmark for miles, and must inspire awe and veneration in the hearts of pilgrims coming from the desert parti of Tibet, Kasanflr, and Mongolia to visit the sacred city that.vuddha bai of the Serto the (tonminder-ln-Chle- f vian army. Tbe information enabled tbe Servian troops to gala a victory After tji war ths old man settled in Nisch. where he has since lived on the money he earned In his youth have enough to enable me to live respectably" he says. 'T hao never worked in my life," he shouted, witn pride. "I have never handled a plough or any other utensil. All I can wield 1 the gun and the dagger, and thank God I have earned enough by them to live comfortably now. Zlkitsch has been twice married, and has had four daughter. He is He has now a a little room on the first floor of laa house, and bis furniture an old iron bed and a chair. I asked him as 1 came away if he si ill found pleasure la his life, and As long as I have Zlkitsch said: I will live. can drink, and money He Is, perhaps, the oldest man alivo blessed. and he will not die if he eaa helpt it The secret of Romance la remotence, whether la time or space. If we could be thrown back to tbe days of Agin-cou- rt we should be enchanted at first, IN but after a week, should vote everything commonplace and dulL Falsttff, The Falace and Its Vanished Deit- y- the beery lout, would be an Impossible companion, and Prince Hal a tiresome young cub who wanted a good dressing Century of Crime. down, la travel, too, as on approaches the goal, and the country becomes Candler. Edmund by gradually familiar the husk of romance Roland must have falls off. Child IJtasa. Oct 6. The only building in been disappointed nl the Dark sadly the la all at is imposing IJmaa that Tower: filth and familiarity very soon Potaln destroyed the romance of Lhasa. that to say he would misleading It But romance atill clings to ths Pot aia as the dominated city, ths palace Its ls. it is still remote. Like Imray Impica be would Implied comparison achieved has the acred Inmate one building standing ture conveyed of possible. Divinity or no. he baa at out signally amoug others. This is least the divine power of vanishing. In not the case. the material west, as we lika to call It, The Jfotala la superbly detached. It we know how hard It ia for the la not a palm on a hill, but a hill huh blest subject to disappear. In spite It massive that is also a palace. of the confused hub of traffic and inwalla, its terrace and bastions stretch tricate network of communications. Yet the to crest, the from plain upwards here la Lhasa, a city of dreamy repose, as If the great bluff rock were merely a Ing has escaped, been spirited Into the at there atone planted a fouadatloa tha air, and nobody is any the wiser. la dwells nod. Tba Divinity Divinity's we paraded the city yesterday When the at the palace, and underneath, made a complete circuit off the Poke or two, humanity distance of a furlong was no one, not even the la. There ts Is huddled abjectly In squalid, so unimaginative follower, humblest is The proportion houses that he did not look np from time to that which exists between God and time at the frowning cliff and thw-saman. sightless windows that concealed If on approached within a league the unknown. Those bidden corridors of Lhasa, saw the glittering domes of and hsva been for centuries, passages without back turned and the Putala, and are, perfect, at this very moment, entering tbe precincts, one might still the ecenes of nnatural piety and crime. enchanted shining an city, Imagine it THOU SHALT NOT KILL." with turqmfies and gold. But, having One la dispelled. entered, the Illusion Within the precincts of Lhasa the had exmight think devout Buddhist of life in any form la sacrilege. taking to preserve cluded strangers la order first law waa: Thou abalt the myth of the city's beauty and Buddha's sacred by place not kill: and Ilf is held so mystery aad wealth, or that ths hla devout followers that they are was eonarioualy neglected and defaced rarefunl not to kill the smallest Insect, an as to offer ao allurements to hereone et this palace, where dwells the diwomen as the repulsive tics, just the Bodhis at the Beets la the streets smear themselves vine incarnation of -' un-res- L halt-ruine- d SQUALID LHASA ' arout-hegrim- ed nd OCTOBER 10, Lambeth Palace road. He looks np at the Fotala and says, The old bloke wed got 1m; we to crime than the moet dpne a bunk.om Wish then." get Eumight mediaeval castle of bead of the Buddhist church, must have witnessed more .Girders and la stigstions blood-staine- d EDMUND CANDLER. rope. Since tbe assumption of temporal INVITATIONS BENT FORTH. power by the fifth Grand Lama in tbe middle of the seventeenth century, the whole history of the Portland, Ore., Oct g The Lewis hierarchy has been a record ot bloodshed and and Clarke exposition today sent forth Intrigue. The fifth Grand Lama, the its Invitation a to the nations of the first to receive the title of Dalai, waa a world to partietjiate in the World's fair most unscrupulous ruler, who secured of the West Invitations snd communications were the temporal power by inciting the He then es- forwarded to the representatives of 88 Mongols the kingship. tablished as hla reward the kingship. nations now at Be Louis The nations He then established bis claim to the invited include alt tha great powers of the world, and there ia every reason to godhead by tampering with Buddhist believe that a' majority of them will incarnasixth The writ. and history is action was executed by the Chinese on be represented.- The invitation a memorandum detailing account of hla profligacy. The sev- companied bythe and scope of the exposition enth waa deposed by the Chinese as the plan the and part which the prominent the of Regent privy to the murdrr is taking in States United government whom of After the death of the eighth, Pacific Coast and American this I can learn nothing, it would seem that tba tables were turned, It would seem that the tables were turned, the ORDERED. INVESTIGATION systematically murdered their seventh the of crime charge, and the Victoria, B. C.. Oct I. An investl Dalai Lama was visited upon four sucis to be held by the Dominion gation tenth cessive incarnations. Tbe ninth, government into the reasons for the eleventh, and twelfth all died p reins kiss of two anchors and a chain cabin turely, assassinated, it is believed, by valued at $5,000 from the Dominion their regents. government steamer Quadra through, SANCTIFIED MURDER. is alleged, sheer carelessness; also it malmsey-buttThere are no legends of reasons for summary dismissal of the assecret smotherings and hired Officer Barnes of the same Chief sassins. The children disappeared; after 17 years service, on the steamer, they were absorbed into the universal essence; they were literally too good to live. Their regents and protectors, monks only 1ms sacred than themselves, provided that the spirit In its yearning for the next state should not be long detained in Its mortal huak. No questions were asked. How could the devout trace the coming and go- lugs of the divine Avaloklta, the Lord !I of Mercy and Judgment, who erdains into what heaven or hell, demon, god. hero, mollusc, or ape their spirit must t enter, according to their sins? go, when we retched Lhasa the other day, and heard that the thirteenth incarnation had fled, no one waa surA prised. Yet the wonder remains. great prince, a god to thousands of men, has been removed from his palace snd capital, no one knows whither A ruler has disappeared or when. who travel with every appanage of state, inspiring swa in his prostrata servants, whose movements, one would think, were watched and talked about more than any sovereign's on earth. Yet fear, or loyalty, or ignorance keep every subject tongue-tieWe have spies and Informers every-wher- e and there are men in Lhasa who would do much to please the new conquerors of Tibet. There are also witless men who have eyes and ears, bnt, It seems, no tongue. But ao far neither avarice nor has betrayed anything. For ail we know the Dalai Lama may be till in hla palace in some hidden chamber In the rock, or maybe he has never left hla customary apartments, and. atill performs hla dally offices in the Potala. confident that there at least hla sanctity la Inviolable by unbelievers. The British .Tommy In the meanwhile parade the street aa indifferent as if they were the New Cut or s s, MU had ventured to pro ground that he unaesmanlik condutest against the ct the' Quadra's commander recent: when the ship waa run upon roci, at Duncan Bay and seriously injure ground Officer, Mr. Pope. YELLOW PERIL" RIDICULOUS. London, Oct, 8. Viscount Hayash the Japanese minister to Great Britaii la an interview published in the Weekthe Jspsne.-lossely Review, denies around Port Arthur and aaj that ih there U good season to think will sou remainder of the Russian fleet Poi of The end sortie. r.k Arthur be declares, will then be nea The war hitherto has done Japs marvelous good. Her foreign trade better than ever before and there now not the slightest anxiety on i! subject of raising a big loan. Tbe idc of the Yellow Peril' ia ridiculous Fif trade and fair play to all will be o peace cry when we are done shoutir banzai. We believe the only way ; bettering ourselves Is the opening of the Far East to European capl' and enterprises." s CLARK BELLS PAPER. Butte, Mont. Oct. 8. In the moruii) tbe Great Falls Tribune will annoum editorially that it has been sold to V 1L A. Conrad of this city by Senator Clark of this city. ' ( Any Laundry can wash and and return it. Ire for era youp ,in Some laundries do this Ing and Ironing better thanT re and return the good! l'V promptly. This Is eat of the better k" of laundries In fact there are none li u M in thla community. Our washing la don M " tills principles. Our Ironing lo dono on w. world's beet machinery. Our delivery la dona by petant men who appreciate tha value of promptness. In every department w ante perfect work. If were net getting your we'd like to have rial wc guarantor to please yosl. aek for no pay, at Ogden Steam Laundry, 437 25th Street, 'Thon OGDEN Kam-enltx- juent riiizvui lari fo tent oi been I and no hoxm ivast to get GOI Abli records ties uni of thel the am Once avetem filtutio It law, a hand is opei seemed wise mi final which ' 1 liamilt ut UTAH. tl haps try ev( were tl divided school! the vlti ter min and tb the Coi Whet which tbe goli heeds t ilton. n great n time an lem as aa the i ink mot men eg right giving I ty-po- found 1 power eta con control itoppo the Gns troyed To eel erd, wh the rial wortf l mean Uened o d. a mana scribed There the gale gldered 0) It It ea (3) ()Th mare b tha of value tml. In Itself wo (4) Th dealy c at would try'i ex trass in stantly li K the hi , avia e - co policy o( wonMeo i? Whflgtr WUlBtr Let Wal bed. ' : disguised myself as a hunchback and feigned deafness, but I wts stopped by a patrol and taken to the guardhouse. There I told them that two horse had been stoles from me, and that 1 was on ths look out for them; and in order to divert suspicion I asked them to help me to find thorn did so, and, accompanied by twu They solil'ii-rs- , i was able to see all the Turk-ltroops and make a detailed report MONDAY MOUSING, T2 may fine many, ? reached Ia hla $nat mod o that MV tha Bans other gn reference AE HIGHLY APPRECIATE THE PATRONAGE WE ARE RECEIVI NG AND ARE STRIVING TO INCREASE IT. AND TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION TRACTIVE PRESENTS THAT WILL REMIND YOU THAT VOUR WELFARE IS OURfi, WE WILL GIVE ANUMBEROF USEFUL ANP T ' AT- - the Dean Th mi the great) Kinleri Blaine. there stal Mr. Room lowed the Mr. Park) recy amrn Ih mot tfndge Pai he eulogli Blaine anc esbjcct of What la thoae raw tacted m trifle be Bt ill of i It prot This Couch Will Be Given with Each' $100 Purchase XMdtrlne pel the This Bed given with a $75 Purchase This Swepcr given with a $25 Purchase Thla Wall Pocket with a $10 purchase JEWEL For every dollar paid a us until Christmas we give one ticket entitling the holder to one chance to draw the Jewel Range to be given away Christmas. ASK FOR YOUR TICKETS. Ogden furniture The Installment House Thla Chair will be glvea with each $50 Purchase, You Can Buy on easy Payments, Your Credit Is Good ' Carpet Company, Hyrum Pingree, Mgr. f |