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ROM their mountain
| fastnesses thousands
upon thousands of Tib
i et's Buddhist inonks are
| now looking down
J toward matrimony. Such
. a wholesale marrying
I and giving in marriage
as the land of the lama
1B about to undergo would be hard
to parallel.
Every here and there throughout
this country of mysteries is stuck a
Buddhist monastery, some of them
with 2,000 to 3.000 occupants. Foun
tain-heads of the Buddhist faith are
these men. Ascetic, esoteric and ail
such terms may be applied to them.
Abstract reasoning is their forte.
Most of their time is given over to
the contemplation of things and
thoughts infinitely higher than this
earth—that is, if tradition is to ba
believed.
Probably a good many of them are
old reprobates; but of that there is
little positive testimony. What la
undoubted, how
ever, is that
they are the
head and fore
frontof the Bud
dhist religion,
which holds
sway over mil
lions upon mil
lions of yellow
men In the far
east: the Chi
nese, the Japa
nese and the
Indians.
Now the prac
tical Chinese
are going to
drive these men
out of the mon
asteries and
marry them off,
whether or no
Th o usands
of brides will
IJL required. Wedded bliss is to be
obligatory. There is to be no respite,
no choice between the ascetic joys of
bachelorhood and the loving arms of
yellow brides. When the Chinese do
a thing they do it thoroughly.
Having called the dalai lama an
"ungrateful reprobate" and driven him
into India, the Chinese government
promptly announced that it wrtuld
make short shrift of his followers.
This is in pursuance of a scheme of
China to take actual, as well as nomi
nal, charge of the Tibetan govern
ment. Practically all the government
there has resided in the monks, who
are numerous, powerful and have al
most a monopoly in the brains of the
nation. Most of the people are an
ignorant, licentious lot, so that the
>.lests are all-powerful.
Now, everyone knows that it is no
easy task to destroy the power of a
body of men such as this at one fell
swoop. Even when robbed of their
temporal authority, their indirect in
fluence will be as great or even great
er than before.
Trust the Chinese, though, to find
a way. With "their ways that are pe
culiar," they generally arrive at re
sults.
This instance possesses both nov
elty and effectiveness. Marry off the
priesthood and Its power is gone.
Each yellow bride, no doubt the as
tute celestials reason, will convert a
scheming, mischievous monk into a
happy man of family, with plenty to
do to provide provender for hungry
yellow mouths
All through the plan there is to be
found wisdom In large chunks. Here
tofore these men have lived in splen
did Isolation. Tibet Is pretty well up
in the air. anyway, In ing mostly a
plateau about 15,000 feet above sea
level. Much above that tower Its
highest pinnacles and it is In these
that the monasteries are perched. Ver
itable mountain forts they are, to
which tin- populace has for untold
ages looked up with awe and rever
ence, as befitted the contemplation of
those prime myotics of the lluddhitit
church.
At one fell swoop tin se uionks, old
Hiul y in:' tit- to be robbed of their
awe and mysticism As plain, ordi
nary heads of families (hey will ap
peal to their former followers as mere
ly married men. All their craft, it Is
to l»» presumed, will be required to
keep their wives 111 ordt>r and the
Chitn'se go* • rttnx'iit will therefore
havtj a largi Job taken off Its hands
by the.i prioiitnably lovely yellow
bi Id' t
This, however, Is as little a laugh
tii K matter for the hundred* of mil
lions <t yt-llow men In the far east
a.t It is for the uionks who are being
plui>K< d into the marital state Mince
the origin of the Buddhist religion,
which giv t back to the age of fable,
there inn bt < u no such momentous
k*|H>eui»«
This tti> tibial lama who was *e*|
hiking about his buaiue * from the
"saii't lit" Ol I .ha t was know u as
thu liuddht t flO|ii When he re*, bed
India women hetame l<)*lerical to
kiss hi* holy Inutis and he had intake
the lop ttoofs of hotels so that none
le*a holy Kntld sleep abote him
If ibe ''hltu «e are to he h> lie tod, be
Is Irreligious and «M iipai«il «ud the
tortus* like HMUWUiry a here he held
forth was a ho«he»l at vice and revolt
Ne>enh«k*ss. be wk« the head of ibe
ttmidiitat « ti4t< h. tu whh II the t hi
nese themselves owe many of their
cardinal beliefs, and his influence was
felt throughout the eastern world.
Who he is or whence he came none
knows. Often these dalai lamas have
been chosen and have ruled when
mere children, so that they have had
literally no personality outside of the
church.
There is another, known as the
tashi lama, who has co-ordinate au
thority and takes command when the
dalai is off the job. This functionary
is a young man whom England has
patronized and who, a few years ago,
acted as inspector of monasteries.
It is possible he may be elevated
to supreme power, but if so, the
chances are he will be a figurehead.
China has decided to wipe out the
Buddhists' power and both England
and Russia have promised to keep
hands off. Therefore it is probable
that the changes now being brought
FATHER'S JAR OF GOLD COINS
The finding of nearly $2,000 in shi
nini? ROM coins, hidden away in a hole
In the cellar Moor of their dead fa
ther's home south of this city, came
as a pleasant surprise to the children
of D. H. Disbro. who died a few weeks
ago, a Union City (Mich.) dispatch to
the New York Herald says. The dis
closure came about in this way:
They, with the members of their
own families —for they are all men
and women grown—were invited to
eat dinner ut the old Disbro home
stead by their stepmother, who has
been such for nearly a quarter of a
century. After a bountiful meal the
elder Mrs. Disbro invited the guests
to accompany her to the cellar. Then,
in their presence, she raised a small
stone from the floor and took from a
hol> beneath a j?lass Jar, In which
could be seen many gold coins. Pour
ing them out Into h«-r lap. she di
vided the precious store into nine
equal parts and presented each of the
children a share, for there are just
nine of the children In the Disbro fam
ily
Kxplanations followed and It wan
found that when the llrst Mrs Disbro
SOME CAUSTIC RETORTS
An •xcee4ta|ly 'ugly man, say*
Juuit, HUH onea In tb<i luoaque. uakln*
paidon tit Alluh fur til* »ln», writes
riiurli-s JnbnMon In Marinr* W»»«-kIy.
()n«> who mi rhcurd bin |>ray«r Mid to
hiu, "Wh«refor«, oh, frltJiul, would*
tb»U < bittt bell of Mtcfe tt couutMMnce?
Art tbou reluctant tu burn u|i a lucu
liku that?" One# again. ibu nlnry wri
te t**llit u* that a n'rliln per#ou v»Mb
a b»il«uu» ixixi wua ttfiin on a tluid
wooing a woman I»«•,»«•! ibiiiK lilituwlf
tu bur, ami trying tu maku an at trac
tive picture, bi> MUIU. "I atu it man de
void of liahtiu <* au>i frivolity and I
am |>utl< nt in bearing uittlutluaa!"
"Ayw!" i-uld tb« woman, "wt »t tlMnj
not f>ail»nt In k***arlit«f of a miction*
tbou badnt uev»r «n4wrwt tby uo»«t
it: to y<-ar»!" Alt of wbicll
|< uiuru witty tban kind llurtlly I«M
attar** i» tin* uett talo Itablul, »• at"
toM, uum t-auM tutu tl»*» i>r«»«-ncu ui
tb" letui--d • -illl'll ot Itagdad, tb» good
lUtuuml IU» U4 UIMI ul tb« vl*Wsr»
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910.
about will mark
an epoch in the
history of the
yellow race.
Rarely, if ever,
has a religion
been subordina
ted and a subor
dinate govern
ment effaced with
such neatness
and dispatch as
China has shown.
In fact, not even
a shortage of
brides could stay
the conquering
hand, for in some
regions of Tibet
polyandry is still
practised and
several disturb-
ers might be parceled out to one lady.
It might be remarked that, in regions
where the wives rule they have shown
themselves amply capable of keeping
several husbands in order.
In ail the world there exists no
such mysterious, picturesque and nu
merous assemblage of so-called monks
as are concentrated in Lhasa. Mod
erate estimates have placed their
numbers at 11,000; but the observa
tion of those western intruders allow
for many thousand more.
They are of all varieties, represent
ing every vagary which genuine fa
natic zeal can devise for the humilia
tion of the flesh. Some crawl on their
stomachs their entire lives and occa
sionally processions of them have the
appearance of a huge serpent.
Yet even this is greatly outdone. In
one monastery you may see the abbot,
attended by his acolyte, tap on one of
many stone slabs. Slowly it slides
away and there, within the black
chasm the aperture reveals, you may
discern the wasted form and perhaps
a glimpse of the pallid face of one of
the men who are undergoing the liv
ing death of permanent self-entomb
ment.
The whole religious system seems
to center about devil-worship. At the
New Year festival the lamas dance to
scare away all the demons that rend
Ihe human world and they manage
to make themselves up so demonia
cally that he must be a nervy devil
indeed who doesn't chase himself at
sight of them.
died 25 years ngo Mr. Disbro found in
her pocketbook several hundred dol
lars in gold eoin, with the written re
quest to Mr. Disbro that he add to the
store as he felt able and some day
present the whole to thoir children.
He faithfully followed the request,
with the result that there was mora
than $2,000 when he died.
He confided the secret to Ills second
wife and after his death she carried
out his wishes and divided the money
among bis children. As she had been
amply provided for in Mr. Dlsbro's
will she refused any portion of tho
hoard, but the children insisted upon
her accepting a few of the coins as a
token of their esteem.
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"Don't yutt ever believe it," said the
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OuINM,
"I h» iT," aald Mm OltfcMlle, "that
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"Nou don't way," r*-|»l»«-*l th« ho»i*ia
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attd ("Id liliit to itiovo on; "I alnaya
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