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Show TMIE NOT A DANGEROUS REPTILE. (DMMDMEK (&K04L caciPcym&ATj In the Grand Dalai Lama of Thibet Great Britain has (he strangest enemy she has ever bad. Thibet lies on the sloixa of the Himalayas, and haa a total area of about 650,000 miles, square with a population of sis millions. Its capital is Lhasa (which means Gods ground), and is the metropolis of the Buddhist world. Because It is situated at a height of nearly twelve thousand feet above the .level of the sea, it Is often referred to as the roof of the world." It is the ambition of adventurous European travelers to make their way Into Lhasa, and Holve many of the mysteries which surround the sacred city, but only three have ever done so and come out alive. No living European has ever seen the Grand Lama. Only one Englishman ever got to Lhasa and came back again, and that was Thomas Manning, a great friend of Charles I,amb, in 1811. However, at various tlmeB Indians and Chinese have got there more or less in British interests, and the India Office has a special secret service in ita employment, the members of which have, at terrible risks, obtained information which has been duly , so that, though we have not seen Thibet nor its famous Grand ' Lama, we are not by any means ignorant concerning either. Lama simply means priest, and the Grand Lama is the, head of all the thousands of priests with which the The whole capital city abounds. country is divided into four sections, called lings, and a lama rules over each of them. The Grand Lama is assisted in his government by a council, consisting of a Prime Minister and nine other representatives, including a minority of laymen. Two unbans," or Chinese residents, are. the only officials statiuned in the city in n ambassadorial capacity. Though the government is nominally a theocracy entirely religious, that is the man who really makes the wheels go round in Thibet is the Prime Minister, V Gyalpo, as be la called. ; The relations existing between the Grand Lama and his Gyalpo are as j they are interesting alto- peculiars miich so, one would Imag- . gether too' ine, for the peace of mind of the former. It somehow became a tradition, which Is now regarded fcs Inviolable. that the Grand Lama shall never live long, and tradition nowaday! further fixes his departure from this world at some date between his thirteenth and fifteenth years. There Is really no physical reason why the head of the State should not live as long as any other Inhabitant of the acred city, but as the Thibetans would soon be in a state of panic and fear that the end of the world had come If he did so, tradition requires careful management, which is exercised by the Gyalpo. A point in his favor at the outset Is that it Is decreed that the manner of the Lama's death shall always be nknown, but that the fundamental cause of It shall be a mysterious dis- - vel that be should be so exactly what the Gyalpo had said he would be Then be Is taken off to the great palace. or potala, and duly installed as the new Grand Lama. There is no doubt that the Gyalpo has previous!) arranged all details concerning ins finding of this child. The people believe it to be in effect the same Grand Lama all the time merely a change of spirit from one body to another. He Is only consulted In state matters In an emergency, and then his word is the last to be said on any question. The Gyalpo holds bis office for life; any other arrangement might lead to difficulties. Though a religious potentate, the Anacondas of South America Art Com paratively Harmless. William C. Agle, who has spent many years In South America, upsets many old notions about dangerous reptiles, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. When he first went to South America he had the conventional pictures in his mind of men being crushed and swallowed by anacondas and boas. Years ago, he said, I read an account written by a naturalist of these monsters in thetr native state, coiling and uncoiling themselves like lightning, and coughing and hissing with such a roar as could be compared only to the exhaust of a powerful team engine. What Is the truth about these mysterious reptiles? I have asked nearly every native I met In the South American countries if be had ever ever seen a boa or an anaconda. Most of them had not To those who had I put the question: 'What do they look like? And the answer was always: Their 9 ft V ft. m $$ m m m & ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ...FRANK ERATO'S BREAD... ft ft ft ft ft Is superior to the Royal and Pas no ft equal In this couuty. iSf $ f pigeon-holed- ft Plowing with Buffalo. Grand Lama has many lively distrac- movement Is very, very tions, and It la Bald that one of his they are not ferocious. I met an anaconda on the upper predecessors Indulged In dissipations to a scandalous extent. Amongst the Maranon, a great black and yellow chief festivities In which he partici- snake, all colled up. I drew my re-- ' pates Is a kind of lama carnival, volver and fired at the coiL Instead which lasts for fifteen days at the of the terrible convulsions of which I beginning of each year. On the sec- had read, the coll rolled over, reond day he gives a grand banquet, and mained stationary a moment, then on the third there are sports. One of rolled back and lay as before. I fired ck these which Is called the .dance again.. The slowly in the of the gods " and which the Grand water and disappeared. 0i Lama never falls to witness-cons- ists These snakes can easily he domesof a long cable of leathern thongs be- ticated. Some men ran upon an an-- ! ing stretched from one of the pinna- aconda in the woods near the rubber tiir cles of the palace to the ground far camp. They threw a fish net over It below, and down this steep slope two and brought It to camp, where they and let it go. It crawled away Into the men, lying on their chests, spreading their arms out as If they river, but came back often and were swimming, slide with the speed crawled around the yard so much that of an arrow. Occasionally they are they got tired of looking at It. So i killed in the process. they put it in a box and sent it to On the thirteenth day of the second Iquitos. We measured it; It was just month of the year the Grand tama 24 feet 6 Inches Jong." undergoes a kind of annual vindication. A poor Thibetan Is hired to play Wanted Change. the part of a demon. He is dressed The Rev. S. P. Cadman of Brooklyn in weird fashion, and his face is painted in a mottle of black and white. tells this story of a young matron of He is met by a representative of the his congregation who is earnest In her Grand Lama, and the- two engage In endeavor to instill religious ideas into what Is supposed to be theological the childish mind of her daughter. As argument, in which the Grand Lamas s prayer this little one was taught to U man scores heavily. lisp a stanza of the hymn Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me, Hies Thy llitle Iamb Through the darkness be Thou near me, Keep me safe till morning light And among the rhymes of the nursery was one about a little man who had a little pig, which was neither very little, nor yet very big. When It came time for the evening devotions one night the small girl said to her mother: "Mamma, don't let's say that one Let's about the little lamb New say the one about the little pig. m Clothing, Dry eW-cfc- AS CHEAP AS ANY CATALOGUE IN THE COUNTRY. ' Mail and Telephone Orders Filled the Same Day as Re TELEPPONES 24 TRY US. I 25 ceived. - GET THE HABIT AND TRADE AT STEINMAIN a t i a ft i Microbes in Old Furniture. Fear of microbea seems to have spread to the possessors of old furniture. which during a long life and un- Thibetan Traveling Merchant and Wife. fr he definitely indicated, giving at the same time an exact description of the boy. They go in search of him. and mar- - ! j , Thcn they agree to decide all questions In dispute by resort to dice, and the Grand Lama has never be?n known to lose, because the dice are always loaded. It would he an appal-liromen If he did, and it has to he The effectually guarded against demon, in his discomfiture, is marched off amidst execrations and blows, and never lives long afterwards. The sooner he dies, the better is the omen for Lhasa. known experiences may have collected the germs of disease. Recently a cautious lady in London who had been studying the medical warnings Inherited a Sheraton table. She would not admit it to her house, but sent It off to a cabinet maker's with orders that an exart replica be made, the original table being offered In payment. If this lady's craze for new and innocuous furniture spreads, there should be good times In store for the cabinetmakers, as well as for collectors who prefer the risk of microbes to the certainty of shoddy. Lady's Frog Farm. Not the least curious of businesses in which women are engaged is that entered upon by Miss Mona Sheldon of Friendship, New Jersey, who has started a frog farm upon a twenty-acr- e patch of swamp. Her frogs are, of course, of the edible variety, whose hind legs are beloved of the gourmet, nd they find in cosmopolitan America a ready sale. Miss Sheldon is said Take time for recreation or you will to make a clear $2,500 a year out of work yourself out of a job. her reptilian GENTS' FURNISHINGS. HATS AND SHOES CALL GOLDEN O' A1 e. GBTE GASH STORE. u Minns' Clothing Rnpplln, Koch Overalls, Jam pars. Bouts, Ovanhlrte, Etc. Main Strest, Mercur, A. vs Jnt Wm. BILLINGS, Prop. SWENSON CO., Next Door to the Mercur Drug Co. received und ura now displaying a bunnUfol lias o o o o o o g i Fall and Winter Millinery Goods, Also Ladies Coats. Jackets. Furs, Skirts and Waists Ths abort art the fall atylea. We fcavs no old aioek left over from lout. g siuck-in-trad- j For the Cheapest Line of Good York Times. " ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft Goods & Shoes to-nig-ht ease which does not affiict other persons. Here is the flyalo's chance. When, in his opinio:, the psychologi cal momert ha Tri-0-- ' i cha-iof Grand Lamas, he announces to the people that the spirit has passol from the one upon whom It had retn:l for the part few years, ard w'10 was now no more, and that it h'ul descended upon a little child, whom they would find In a locality In the rity which ft ! Don't forget to give us your orders for FURNITURE CARPETS. BLANKETS, QUILTS, Eic-Our SHOE line is complete X GENTC foSt&oKxMP GROCERIES AND FARM PRODUCE UTS AMD UT LIVE," to oar motla. SI 3 |
