THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO. PA.
The Call of the
Cumberlands
By Charles Neville Buck
With Illustrations
from Photographs of Scenes
in the Play
(Copyright, tcij. br W. J. Watt to.)
U
CHAPTER XVI Continued.
Then, again,-silence settled on the
town, to remain for five minutes un
brokon. The sun glared mercilessly on
clay streets, now as empty as a ce n
etery. A single horno incautiously
hitched at the side of the courthouse
witched its tall Agnitist the assaults
of the Bics. Otherwise, there was no
outward sign of life. Then. CallomVs
newly organized force of ragamuffin sol
diers clattered down the street at
double time. For a moment or two
after they came Into sight only the
massed uniforms caught the eyes of
the intrenched Hollmans, and an
alarmed murmur broke from the court
bouse. They had seen no troops de
train, or pitch camp. These men had
sprung from the earth as startlingly as
Jason's crop of dragon's teeth. Hut.
when the command rounded tho shoul
der of a protecting wall to await fur
ther orders, the ragged stride of their
marching and thj all-too-obvlous beam
ing of the mountaineer proclaimed
thera native amateurs. The murmur
turned to a howl of derision and chal
lenge. They were nothing more nor
less than Souths, masquerading In the
uniforms of soldiers.
"What orders?" Inquired Callomb
briefly. Joining Samson ' the store.
"Demand surrender once more then
take the courthouse and Ja.I " w as the
short reply.
Callomb himself went forward with
the flag of truce. He shouted his mes
sage and a bearded man came to the
courthouse door.
"Tell 'em," he said without redun
dancy, "thet we're ull here. Come an'
git us."
The officer went back ar.d distribut
ed his forces under such cover as of
fered Itself about the four walls. Then
volley was fired over the I jof and In
stantly the two buildings In the public
square awoke tc a volcanic response of
rifle fire.
All day the duel bet ween the struts
and county buildings went on with
desultory intervals of quiet and wild
outbursts of muiketry. The troops
were firing as sharpshooters, and the
courthouse, too, had Its sharpshooters
When a head showed itself at a barri
caded window, a report from the out
side greeted It. Samson was every
where, bis rifle smoking and hot-barreled.
Ills life seemed protected by a
talisman. Yet most of the firing, after
the first hour, was from within. The
troops were, except for occasional pot
hots, holding their fire. There was
jicllher food nor water inslda the build-
It
"We Lays Down."
lng, nnd at last night closed and the
cordon grew tighter to prevent escape.
The Hollmans, like ruts lr a trap,
grimly held on, realizing that It was to
be a Blece. On the following morning
a detachment of "F" company arrived,
drugging two gatling guns. The Holl
mans saw them detraining, from their
lookout In the courthouse cupola, and.
realizing that the end bad comn, re
solved upon a desperate sortie. Simul
taneously every door and lower win
dow of the courthouse hurst open to
discharge a frenzied rush of men, fir
ing as they came. They meant to fl;lit
their way out and leave as many hos
tile dead as possible, in their wake
Their one chance now was to scatter
before the machine guns came Into ac
tion. They came like a flood of hu
man lava and their guns were never
silent, as they bore down on the barri
cades, where the single outnumbered
WORKING IN OCEAN'S DEPTHS
Most Remarkable Divers Are ths
Pearl Fishers of Torres, Who
Wcrk With Simple Equipment
The greatest depth recorded of
work done by a diver In a suit Is 12
feet; this depth was reached by the
Spanish rtiver. Angel Krostarbe, who
recovered S 15,000 In sliver ingots from
the wreck of the steamship Skyro o.'f
Cape Finlstcrre. The spoime divers
of the Mediterranean work at a maxi
mum of 150 feet, and the Australian
pearlers at 120 feet. The greatest
depths reached by divers without ap
paratus were by the pearl fishers
of Torres, mostly Malayans from the
smaller Islands. They go down with
the sid of a stone aud a loop In the
rope thereto attached which they
clutch with their toes, these organs
being far more prehensile than in
races normally shod. They seldom
venture to descend below 60 feet, a
depth at which they can remain for
two minutes. Tb stone enables them
to remain at the bottom while they
are sweeping the pearl oysters Into
company seemed Insufficient to hold
them. Rut the new militiamen, look
lng for reassurance not so much to
Callomb as to the granite-like face of
Samson South, rallied and rose with a
yoll to meet them on bayonet and
smoking muzzle. The rush wavered,
fell back, desperately rallied, then
broke In scattered remnants for the
Bhelter of the building.
Old Jake Hollman fell near the door,
and his grandson, rushing out, picked
up his fullon rifle and sent farewell
defiance from It as he, too, threw up
both arms and dropped.
Then a white flag wavered at a win
dow and, as the newly arrived troops
baited In the ctreet, the noise died sud
denly to quiet. Samson went out to
meet a man who opened the door and
said shortly:
"We lays down."
Judge Hollman, who had not parti -1-paled,
turned from the slit In his shut
tered window, through which he had
since the beginning been watching the
conflict. .
"That em'.s It!" he said, with a de
spairing shrug of his shoulders. He
picked up a magazlno pistol which lay
on his table and, carefully counting
down his chest to the fifth rib. placed
the muzzle against his breast.
CHAPTER XVll.
Hefore the mountain roads were
mired with the coming of the rains,
and while the air held Its sparkle of
autumnal zestfulness, Samson South
wrote to Wilford Horton that If he
still meant to come to the hills for his
Inspection of coal : nd timber the time
was ripo. Soon men would appear
bearing transit and chain, drawing a
lino which a railroad was to follow to
Misery and across It to the heart of
untouched forests and coal-fields. With
that wave of Innovation would come
the speculators, liesides, Samson's
fingers were Itching to be out In tho
hills with a palette and sheaf of
brushes in the society of George Les
cott For a while after the battle at Hixon
the county had lal: In a torpid paraly
sis of dread. Many fllllerate feudists
on each side "emombered the directing
and exposed figure of Samson South
seen through eddies of gun cmoke. and
believed hiru Immune from death.
With Purvy diad rid Hollman the vic
tim of his own hand, the backbone of
the murder syndicate was broken. Its
heart had ceased to beat. Those Holl
man survivors who bore the potentiali
ties for leadership had not only signed
pledges of peace, but were afraid to
break them; and the triumphant
Souths, Instead of vaunting their vic
tory, had subscribed to the doctrine of
order and declared the war over.
Souths who broke the law were as
speedily arrested as Hollmans. Their
boys were drilling as militiamen and
wonder of wonders! Inviting the
sons of the enemy to join them. Of
course, these things changed gradual
ly, but the beginnings of them were
most noticeable In the first few
months, Just as a newly painted and
renovated house Is more conspicuous
than one that bas long been respecta
ble. tollman's Mammoth Department
Store passed into new hands, and traf
fl ked only In merchandise, and the
town was open to the men and women
of Misery as well is those of Cripple
shin. These things Pamson haJ explained
In his letters lo the Lescotts and Hor
ton. Men from down below could still
find trouble In tho wink of an eye, by
seeking it, for under all transformation
the mituro " )le individual remained
mur-h the same; but, without seeking
to give offense, they could ride as se
curely through the hills as through the
streets of a policed city and meet a
readier hospitality.
And, when these things were dis
cussed and the two men prepared to
cross the Masonand Dixon line and
visit the Cumberlands, Adrienr.3
promptly and definitely announced
that she would accompany her brother.
No argument was effective to dissuade
her, and after all, Lcseott, who had
been there, saw no good reason why
she should not go with him.
At Hixon, they found that receptive
air of ferenlt- which made the history
of less than three months ago seem
paradoxical and fantastically unreal.
Only about the courthouse square
where numerous small holes In frame
walls told of fusillades, and In the in
terior of the building itself where the
woodwork was siarred and torn, and
tlte plaster freshly patched, did they
find grimly reminiscent evidence.
Samson had not met them at the
town, because he wished their first Im
pressions of his people to reach them
uninfluenced by his escort. It was a
form of the mountain pride an hon
est resolve to soften nothing, and make
no apologies. But they found arrange
ments made for horses and saddlebags,
and the girl discovered that for her
had b"en provided a mount as evenly
galted as any In her own stable.
When she and her two companions
came out to the hotel porch to Btart,
they found-a guide waiting, who said
he was Instructed to take them as far
as the ridge, where the sheriff himself
would be waiting, and the cavalcade
a basket attached to the stono. When
the diver feels that he must come up
to breathe he releases his toes from
the becket In the rope and at once
floats to the surface. Young nnd
healthy Malayan divers working oys
ter beds below six fathoms make four
descents an hour during four hours
in the morning and the same during
four hours In the afternoon following
a four hour rest. A civilized man at
a depth of 42 feet finds such a dive in
tolerable after a single minute.
Practical Trade School Idea.
London bus elaborated the trade
school Idea to Include the work of out
fitting women with an equipment to
face life's struggle. In the six trade
schools of London, four of whic h are
under the direct control of the London
county council, and two of which are
connected with the polytechnic Insti
tutions, aided by grants from the Lon
don county council, various trades of
the traditional feminist classes, such
as dressmaking, ladles' tailoring, cor
set making, millinery, embroidery,
waistcoat making, cooking, laundry
work and upholstery, aro being taught.
struck luto the bills. Men at whose
bouses they paused to ask a dipper of
water, or to make an Inquiry, gravely
advised that tbey "bad better 'light and
stay all night." In the coloring for
ests, squirrels scampered and scurried
out of sight, and here and there on the
tall slopes they saw shy-looking chil
dren regarding them with Inquisitive
eyes.
The guide led them silently, gazing
In frank amazement, though with defer
ential politeness, at this girl In cord
uroys, w ho rode cross-saddle, and rode
so well. Yet, it was evident that he
would have preferred talking had not
diffidence restrained him. He was a
young man and rather handsome In a
shaggy, unkempt way. Across one
cheek ran a long scar still red, and
tho girl, looking Into his clear, Intelli
gent eyes, wondered what that scar
stood for. Adrlenne bad the power
of melting masculine diffidence, and
her smile as she rode at bis side, and
asked, "What Is your namet" brought
an answering smile to bis grim lips.
"Joe Hollman, ma'am," ha answered;
and the girl gave an Involuntary Btart.
The two men who caught the name
closed up the gap between the horses,
with suddenly piqued Interest
"Hollman!" exclaimed the girl.
"Then, you" She stopped and
flushed. "1 beg your pardon," she
said, quickly.
"That's all right," reassured the
man. "I know what ye're a thlnkln',
but I hain't takln' no offense. The high
sheriff sent me over. I'm one of his
deputies."
"Wero you" she paused, and added
rather timidly "were you in the court
house?" He uodi'ed. and with a brown fore
finger traced the scar on his cheek.
"SaniBon South done that thar with
his rifle-gun." he enlightened. "He's a
funny sort of feller, Is Samson South."
"How?" she asked.
'"Wall, he licked us, an' licked us so
plumb damn hard we was skeered ter
fight ag'in, an' then, 'stld of tramplin"
on us, he turned right "round, an'
made me a deputy. My brother's a
corporal In this hyar new-fangled mi
lisby. I reckon this time the peace Is
goin' ter last. Hit's a mighty funny
way ter act, but 'pears like It works all
right."
Then, at the ridge, the girl's heart
gave a sudden bound, for there at the
highest point, where the road went up
and dipped asaln. waited the mounted
figure of Samson South, and. as they
came into sight, he waved his felt hat
and rode down to meet them.
"(reetings!" he shouted. Then, as
he leaned over and took Adrienne's
hand, he added: "The Goops send you
their welcome." Hi3 smile was un
changed, but the girl noted that bis
heir had again grown long.
Finally, as the sun was setting, they
reached a roadside cabin, and the
mountaineer suld briefly to the other
men:
"You fellows ride on. I want Dren
nie to stop with me a moment We'll
Join you liiier."
Lescott nodded. He remembered the
cabin of the Widow Miller, and Hor
ton rode with him, albeit grudgingly.
Adritnne eprang lightly to the
ground, laughiugly rejecting Samson's
assistance, and came with him to the
top of a stile, from which he pointed
to the log cabin, set back In Its small
yard, wherein geese and chickens
picked industriously about In the sandy
earth.
A huge poplar and a great oak
nedded to each other at either side of
the door, and over the walls a clam
bering profusion of honeysuckle vine
contended with a mass of wild grape,
in Joint effort to hide the white chink
ing between the dark logs. From the
crude milk-benches to the sweep of
the well, every note was one of neat
ness and rustic charm. Slowly, he
said, looking straight Into her eyes:
"This Is Sally's cabin, Drennle."
He watched ber expression, and her
lips curved up In the same sweetness
of smile that had first captivated and
helped to mold blm.
it's lovely!" she cried, with frank
delight. "It's a picture."
"Walt!" he commanded. Then, turn
ing toward the house, he sent out the
long, peculiarly mournful call of the
whlppoorwill, and, at the signal, the
door o)ened, and on the threshold
Adrionne saw a slender figure. She
had called the cabin with its shaded
dooryard a picture, but now she knew
she had been wrong. It was only a
bickground. It was the girl herself
who made nnd completed the picture.
She stood there In the wild simplicity
that artists seek vaiuly to reproduce
In posed figures. Her red calico dress
was patched, but fell in graceful lines
to her slim bare ankles, though the
first faint frosts had already fallen.
Her red-brown hair hung loose and
In masses about the oval of a face In
which the half-parted lips were dashes
of scarlet, and the eyes large violet
pools. She stood with her little chin
tilted In a half-wild attitude of recow
noiter, as a fawn might have stood.
One brown arm and hand rested on
the door frame, and, as she saw the
other woman, she colored adorably.
Adrlenne thought she had never
seen so instinctively and unaffectedly
lovely a face or figure. Then thj girl
In addition lo competent teachers
theso schools have enlisted In their
Interest advisory committees of em
ployees of the classes of workwomen
being developed by the schools, ono
result of which Is that employment
at profitable wages awaits the capable
students of thse schools. Tho voca
tional school idea is spreading and ex
tending through the civilized world,
with the result that it brightens the
prospects of youth and b"arten3 young
people with the knowledge that they
will enter upon their career with some
technical acquaintance with and some
manual dexterity In those lines of
work lu which the world stands con
stantly in need of workers.
Sengs cf Fitness.
Some women seem to have no idea
of the relative value of adjectives
or epithets. A golden haired. Huffy
thing was locking at a picture of the
wounded E.igfith soldiers In a hospital
ward. "Don't they look 'dinky' In
their cots?" she exclaimed. "Dinky!"
they might have, been prize poms
Instead of men who hud bled for their
country.
came down the steps and ran toward
them.
"Drennle," said the man, "this Is
Sally. I want you two to love each
other." For an instant, Adrlenne Les
cott stood looking at the mountain
girl, and then she opened both her
arme.
"Sally," she cried, ''you adorable
child, I do love you!"
The girl In the calico dress raised
ber face, and ber eyes were glistening.
"I'm obleeged ter ye," she faltered.
Then, with open and wondering ad
miration she stood gazing at the first
"fine lady" upon whom ber glance bad
ever fallen.
Samson went over and took Sally's
hand.
"Drennle," be said, softly, "Is there
anything the matter with her?"
Adrlenne Lescott shook her head.
"I understand," she said.
"I sent the others on," be went on
quietly, "because I-wanted that first
we three should meet alone. George
and Wilfred are going to stop at my
uncle's house, but, unless you'd rather
have It otherwise. Sally wants you
here."
"Do I stop now?" the girl asked.
Hut the man shook bis bead.
"I want you to meet my other people
first."
As they rode at a walk along the lit
tle fell red of road left to them, the man
turned gravely.
"Drennle," be began, "she waited for
me, all those years. What I was helped
to do by such splendid friends as you
and your brother and Wilfred, she was
back here trying to do for herself. I
"I Want You Two to Love Each
Other."
told you back there the night before I
left that I was afraid to let myself
question my feelings toward you. Do
you remember?"
She met his eyes, and her own eyes
were frankly smiling.
"You were very complimentary,
Samson," she told him. "I warned
you then that It was tho moon talk
lug." "No," he eald firmly, "It was not the
moon. I bave since then met that fear
and analyzed It My feeling for you Is
the best that a man can have, the hon
est worship of friendship. And," he
added, "I have analyzed your feeling
for me, too, and, thank God! I bave
that same friendship from you. Haven't
I?"
For a moment, she only nodded; but
ber eyes were bent on the road ahead
of her. The man waited In tense
silence. Then, she raised her face, and
It was a face that smiled with the
serenity of one who has wakened out
of a troubled dream.
"You will always have that, Samson,
dear," ehe assured him.
"Have I enough of It, to ask you to
do for her what you did for me? To
take her and teach ber the things she
has the right to know?"
"I'd love it," she cried. And then
she smiled, as she added: "She will
be much easier to teach. She won't
be so stupid, and one of the things I
shall teach her" she paused, and
added whimsically "will be to make
you cut your hair again."
But, just before they drew up at the
house of old Spicer South, she eald:
"I might as well make a clean breust
of It, Samson, and give my vanity the
punishment It deserves. You had me
in deep doubt'
"About what?"
"About well, about us. I wasn't
quite sure that I wanted Sally to have
you that I didn't need you myself.
I've been a shameful little cat to Wil
fred." "Hut now T" The Kentucklan broke
off.
"Now, I know that my friendship
for you and my love for him bave both
had their acid test and I am happier
than I've ever been before. ' I'm glad
we've been through It There are no
doubts ahead. I've got you both."
"About him," said Samson, thought
fully. "May I tell you something
which, although It's a thing In your
own heart, you have never quite
known?"
She nodded, and be went on.
TRIED TO "BEAN" THE HAWK
New York City Employee Flings Pa
per Weight Ineffectively at
Daring Pigeon-Eater.
There was a hunt for game yester
day atop the municipal building. Tlo
game was variously described as a
hawk and an eagle. The hunters were
a couple of score of city employees,
led by Alderman Carstalrs and Jack
Kennedy, chief clerk of the water de
partment. The "gtildo," If euch he
could be called, was Elevator Dis
patcher Peter Kearney, whose office
Is on the roof of the building, and
who has been watching the big bird
capture and devour pigeons.
"The bird Is two feet high at least,
and his wings spread four feet," said
Kearney. "He's black, but bis breast
has streaks of white on It He bas a
brown bill, with a black spot right on
the end of It."
The hunters trooped out on the roof
Just after Kearney had Informed them
tho bird had settled on a ledge 15
feet below, with a pigeon In Its mouth.
There w on a long discussion, aud final
"The thine which you call fascina
tion In me .was really Just a proxy,
Drennle. You were liking qualities la
me that were really his qualities. Just
because you had known hlra only In
gentle guise, bis finish blinded you
to bis courage. Because he could turn
'to woman tho heart of a woman,' you
failed to see that under it was the
iron and fire.' You thought you saw
those qualities In me, because 1 wore
my bark as shaggy as that scaling
hickory over there. When be was get
ting anonymous threat of death ev
ery morning he dltln't mention them
to you. He talked of teas and dances.
I know his danger was real, because
they tried to have me kill biin and
if I'd been the man they took me for,
I reckon I'd have done It. I was mad
to my marrow that night for a min
ute. I don't hold a brief for Wilfred,
but I know that you liked me first for
qualities which be has as strongly as
I and more strongly. He's a braver
man than I, bocuse, though raised to
gentle things, when you ordered blm
Into the fight ho was there. He nevei
turned back or flickered. I was raised
on raw meat and gunpowder, but he
went In without training."
The girl's ejus grew grave and
thoughtful, and for the rebt of the
way she rode In silence.
There were transformations, too, In
the house of Spicer South. Window
had been cut, and lamps adopted. It
was no longer so cruduly a pioneer
abode. While thoy waited for dinner,
a girl lightly crossed the stile, and
came up to the house. Adrlanne met
her at the door, while Samson and
Horton stood back, waiting. Suddenly,
Miss Lescott halted aud regarded the
newcomer In surprise. It was the
same girl she had seen, yet a different
girl. Her hair no longer fell In tangled
masses. Her feet were no longer bare.
Her dress, though simple, was charm
ing, and, when she spoke, her English
had dropped its half-Illiterate peculiari
ties, though the voice still held Its
bird like melody.
"Oh, Samson," cried Adrlenne, "you
two have been deceiving me! Sully,
you were making up, dressing the part
back there, and letting me patronize
you." ,
Sally's laughter broke from her
throat In a musical peal, but it still
held the note of shyness, and it was
Samson who spoke.
"I made the others ride on, and 1 got
Sally to meet you Just as she was w hen
I left her to go ICast." He spoke with
a touch of the mountaineer's over-sensitive
pride. "I wanted you first to see
my people, not as they ate going to be,
but as they were. I wanted you to
know how proud I am of them Just
that way."
That evening, the four of them
walked together over to the cabin of
the Widow Miller. At the stile, Ad
rlenne Lescott 'turned to the girl and
said:
"I suppose this place is pre-empted.
I'm going to take Wilfred down there
by the creek, aud leave you two alone."
Sally protested with mountain bos
pltullty, but even utider the moon she
ouce more colored adorably.
Adrlenne turned up the collar of her
sweater around her throat, and, when
she and the man who had waited, stood
leaning on the rail of the footbridge,
she laid a hand on his arm.
"Has the water flowed by my mill,
Wilfred?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" Hie voice
trembled.
"Will you nave anything to ask me
when Christmas comes?"
"If I can wait thut long, Dreuule,"
he told her.
"Don't wait, dear," she suddenly ex
claimed, turning toward him, and
raising eyes that held his answer
.ABk me now!"
But ttie question w hich he asked wa
one that his lips smothered as be
pressed them against her own.
Back where the poplar threw III
sooty shadow on the road, two flguree
sat close together on the top of a
Btile, talking happily In whispers. A
girl raised her face, and the moou
shone on the deepness of her eyes, ai
her lips curved In a trembling smile.
"You've come back,' Samson," she
said In a low voice, "but, If I'd known
how lovely she was, I'd have given up
hoping. I don't Bee what mude you
come."
Her voice dropped again into the
tender cadence of dialect.
"I couldn't live withouten ye, Sam
son. I JeBt couldn't do hit." Would hi
remember when she had said that be
fore?
"I reckon, Sally," he promptly told
her, "I couldn't live withouten you,
neither." Then, he added, fervently,
"I'm plumb dead shore I couldn't"
THE END.
Modern Method.
' Apropos of an elderly Chicago bank
er, whoso wife had threatened to- dl
vorce him on account of bis affection
for, a beautiful stenographer of seven
teen years, George Ade said:
"A tragedy, this, of a not uncommon
kjnd, a tragedy due to our modern
business methods. The grand old
merchant prince of the past used tc
take his pen In hand. Today', It seems
he takes his typewriter on hli knee."
ly Frank Halllday tied a paper weight
to a long string, and tried to "bean"
the hawk.
The weight fell pretty close to the
hawk's head, nnd It soared up, taking
refuge In tho folds of Civic Virtue'i
bronze skirt. New York World.
Wanted Quick Settlement.
The humors of that type of law-yet
who Is known as the "ambulance
chaser" aro not lost vpon Hepresenta
tlve Howard of Georgia, who, by the
way,' has not even sympathy for ths
type. He recounts the story of an
elderly negro who was run over by a
wagon. A sympathetic attorney
rushed to the hospital nnd offered to
handle, the case on a contingent fea
"Go 'way f'um me, white man," said
the old dnrky, feebly.
"But I want to help you," said thi
lawyer.
The old man showed a gleam of In
terest . "Does yoa?" he eald.
The lawyer nodded.
"Den," said the victim, "you go out
an' find de man dat run into me anl
bus' his bald wide openl"
ODD TIBETAN DEVILS
LAMAS DRAW FRIGHTFUL PIC
TURES OF THE FIENDS.
All Misfortunes, Individual and Nat
ural, Are Ascribed to Them May,
However, Be Fought and Killed
With Swords.
F. N. Nicholas, reporting to the
Geographical society on lamasery life
In Tibet, says:
Fantastic nnd absurd as lamalsm Is,
there is. with one exception, nothing
in Cbo that Is Immoral or repugnant
to western ethics. That one excep
tion is the belief In the "Dre" or
devils. Somewhere In the lowest bell.
Sangee has chained the chief devil,
whose name Is Sn-nln-tze or Sa tln-tze
(not very far from Satan). Dctures
of this fiend are In every temple. They
are made as horrible and revolting
as Tibetan Ingenuity will permit Al
though Sa tin Ue Is a prisoner, he hae
under bis control legions of lesser
devils whoBe business It Is to harass
humanity.
I-amalBt devils do not tempt men as
the Christian devil docs. Temptation,
according to the lamas, Is merely the
result of a man turning his back on
Sangee. The devil ot Tibet Injure,
molest and destroy mankind. All the
misfortunes of life are the work of the
"Dre sickness." Business, misfortune
and calamities, both Individual and
national, are caused by devils. They
are not only "personal," but also ram
pant and omnipresent Almost every
lama has seen a devil and bas had a
personal encounter with him. Devils
hate lnmas because of their piety, and
tako especial delight In attacking
them. Devils are greatly afraid of
guns. During the devotional exer
cises a Tibetan rifle wns fired three
times every day to scare the devils.
They may be fought and killed with
swords. More than one lama bas
told me how lie has sluln a devil.
My only unpleasant experiences In
tho lamnsery have resulted from the
belief In devils.
Sudenye suddenly ran amuck one
afternoon. He stripped himself to
the waist, drew his sword and shout
ed that devils were fighting against
Cho. ' The Kenpo and I were com
pelled to sit on Sudenye' chest for
nearly nn hour before be returned to
a normal state. I promptly discharged
hlra and sent him to Ta Chlen Lo.
The direct cause of the outbreak was
his secret smoking of opium In cele
brating New Year's day, but bis hal
lucinations and his peculiar manner
are traceable, I believe, to the morbid
talk of the lamas about devils and
Incarnations and Ma-ha-ga. and all the
rest of It.
My other servant. Ylchl, walked In
his Bleep one night and fell down
stairs. On the following evening,
when Kenpo dropped In for a little
chat around the hopen, Tlchl turned
to him as to a father confessor and
told him how a devil had gripped
him by the thront and then had
hurled him downstairs. The Kenpo
looked worried and said that the Dre
were evidently at their old tricks
again and were hovering about the
lamasery. He advised me to fire my
rifle three times. I did so, and this
greatly reassured the Kenpo and
Ylchl.
later Ylchl described to me the
devil's appearance. It was precisely
the same as the horrid picture of the
Sa tln-tze that Is pasted on the wall
of the residence of the Living Buddha.
Ylchl had looked' and shuddered at
the picture so often that It had at
last developed Into a nlghtmnre.
Lamasery life Is almost certain to
get on the nerves of any man who
takes It too seriously. If the average
American believed as lamas do and
lived their sort of life, be would be
a candidate for a lunatic asylum with
in six mouths.
Success of Typhoid Inoculation.
Sir Frederick Treves, presiding at
the Society of Arts on the occasion of
Doctor Sandwith's Chadwick lecture
on "War and Disease," was able to
bear witness to the remarkable sani
tary conditions under which the pres
ent wnr is being waged. Particu
larly did he Indorse tho value of Inoc
ulation for typhoid, by which means
that gteat danger to armies In the
field has been practically eliminated
Sir Frederick was, In fact, able to state
that not a single Inoculated man hsd
iled of typhoid In the I'rltlsh expedi
tionary force, and that there had only
been 212 cases of typhoid, with 22
deaths. When we remember the ex
tent to which typhoid prevailed In our
armies during the Boer wnr, whe'n the
conditions were probably Infinitely
less provocative of that disease than
those which must necessarily prevail
in prolonged trench fighting, It will be
recognized that Sir Frederick's claim
thnt the existing sanitary arrange
ments are unprecedented Is Justified.
London Outlook.
Cedent From Beets.
It !hs been discovered In France
thnt a. excellent cement Is one of
the byproducts of tho manufacture of
beet susar. The scum thnt forms when
the beets are boiled, and which has
heretofore been thrown away, con
sists largely of jnrbnnnte of lime nnd
water, nnd from 70.001 tons of beets
trea'ed 4,000 tons of carbonate lime is
obtained; to this 1,100 tons of clay
Is added, the resulting product belnjr,
3.1 C2 tons of excellent cement. Tho
scum Is pumped Into large tanks,
where It Is allowed to dry partially.
Finely divided clny Is then mixed with
It; the mlxtu.-e Is thoroughly amal
gamated by beaters for an hour and
burned In a rotary kiln. The clinker
lsathen removed and pulverized Into
cement.
The Poetry of Woman.
Mnn Is like disconnected and un
couth prose, without harmony or
beauty. That Is why poets hnve al
ways compared women with song, po
etry, flower and river, but have never
thought of comparing man with any
of these. Woman, l!k most beauti
ful things In nature. Is conncted, well
developed and well restrained. The
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