TITE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE, 1904. SIRAKCE TE1NGS IN THIBET Boms Facte ibott the Remarkable Couitrj la Central Asia. FOREIGNERS STOPPED ON THE BORDER Cwantry CTrrt hy th Meet and I mr wfch dtU M aa AM ! la vw of England'! present campaign In Thibet anything about thla ourlous country possesses an Interest wbioh par haps was lacking before. When I went to school I know all about tha location of Thibet; could bound It on the map, etc.; but many years of aotlvs business Ufa had driven all such Informa tion about this and many other similar countries entirely out of my mind, and doubtless there are many ethers who. If suddenly asked the question, "Where Is Thibet?" would feel Inclined to give somewhat evasive. answer. WelL Thibet la In the northern part of India or, more properly speaking, Just north of India from which It Is separated by the Himalaya mountains. Thibet saw fit to entlmly disregard certain arrange ments It had made with England regarding trading privileges, which England had cured from that country, and England's protests were treated with contempt, many of Lord Curson's communications In re lation to this matter being returned un opened. Now, It does not behoove any such ootnv try as Thibet to dally In thla way with England, as Thibet baa now discovered. Finding all other means of no avail, Eng land dispatched a column under Colonel Tounghusband, which has been Quiescent during the Intensely cold. weather preva lent there in winter, but wmcn lately ad vanced, with disastrous results to the Thl belans, who opposed It and who would not disarm whan surrounded, but stub bornly held on to their arms and endeav ored to repulse the English, with the bloody result so well known. I feel somewhat qualified to write about Thibet, for, although I have not been In that country, . I have been on the border of It and looked over the fence Into Thibet, so to speak, from the Himalaya moun tains. No European traveler Is allowed to enter Thibet, and, should any European enr deavor to do so. In some way or another, the news leaks out that he Is on hla way to the pass, and he will find a Thibetan guard awaiting hla arrival, and be plainly given to understand that the climate Is not healthy for him there. The Real Raters. The country la really governed by priests or lamas, of whloh there are a great num ber, In fact, they form a large proportion of Its population. The higher priests axe Virtually rulers of the country and the Kurd Lama, or pope. Uvea In an enormous palace built on the aide ef a high cliff- like hllL While tbe lamas are actually the rulers. the nominal ruler Is kept boused In the palace and never allowed to leave it. He la selected when quite young, and a very unfortunate selection .It Is for the one elected, for he Is practically condemned to a life of Imprisonment in the palace, and not a very long life, for they never live very long, but are made away with, some other1 child Is selected and it Is given out that the spirit of the former pope has transferred Itself to the hew one, and the unfortunate new one Is domiciled In the palace to vanish similarly when the lamas think It Is the right time. The question will naturally arise, "How la all thla known if outsiders are strictly xcluded from the country T" A certain Japanese learned very much about all these matters by entering the country as , Thibetan lama, and he was ao suc cessful in personating one that he received the oblations of the people and aaw con siderable of the inside workings at the government and pries ts, He wag finally discovered, but managed to escape Just In time to prevent his life paying the forfeit of his Investigations. His Japanese fea tures aided him In doing this, for the Thib etan face la somewhat similar to the Jap anese, although it also strongly resembles the Chinese o much so that many Thib etan we saw looked almost like Chinese, and it was a very striking drcumatanoe to leave by daylight, surrounded by Hin doo natives, with their characteristic faces and costumes, and after traveling ail night to look out of the oar window on a race entirely different in facial characteristics and costume, although not la their squalid and dirty mode ef living, as evidenced by their' houses we passed. We could not go Into Thibet, but Thibet, or, rather the Thibetans, oould oorae where we were, for In going to Darjeellng, In the northern part of India, among the Hima laya mountains, we at one time were within about thirty miles of Thibet, and from the summit of the mountain, to which we went to see the sun rise and illumine Mount Everest, tbe highest mountain n the world, we oould look over Into what we knew wag Thibet, and many Thibetans have moved across the border and are living In and around Darjeeling. ,. Mm & Well Armed. The men are very muscular looking and, Unlike the natives of India, are completely encased In . clothing, which tha climate doubtless renders necessary, although many of the children wear but a single gar ment. Bometlmes the men are barefooted, and while pulling our Jlnrikisba up the mountain to our hotel there were places where the snow- had been packed late loe and these barefooted men calmly tramped vor It aa If It had been the velvety green srward which It was In summer. Stuck In a cotton scarf, or wrapping, about the waists of the men la a. large, most mur derous looking knife ef curved shape, with a blade about four Inches across. In the middle, and very sharp on the edge and point. This Is not only a means of de fense, but can be used In other ways, such as cutting saplings and digging. It Is en cased In a stout leather sheath and the arrylng of this weapon is universal. Even the laborers on the railroad had these hug knives fastened around them aa they Worked. They don't cost muoh and I be came the possessor of one for about $1.60. It Is true, the vendor began by asking about three times as much, but, like the natives of other parts of India, they always ask about three times what they are will lngi to sell for. The Prayer Wheel aa Aid te Piety. Tbe lamas, or priests, are usually very asoetio in appearance and have many pe culiar forms which they use In what they would term their religious exercises. It is a peculiar religion, but one which has a firm hold on the Thibetans and enables the hordes of lamas to live and thrive at the expense of the others. One of their most characteristic articles of religious use Is the prayer wheel. This Is a small brass cylinder, about four Inches In diameter aud of about the same length. Inside of the cylinder Is tightly tracked a roll, on which an enormous number of prayers have bean written, usually repetitions of tha same prayer. A pivot runs through the cylinder, working on a rather hard piece of bone, which Is attached to the handle. On the cylinder Is suspended some little weights, which fly out by centrifugal mo tion and cause the cylinder, after It has been started, to continue revolving. It Is held la the hand et the priest and wade to rpHE CLIMAX to a week of sensa tional selling The greatest dry goods bargains ever offered to the pecv pie of the west are 'capped by the two sensational offers for Saturday. Read them? Think it over! re res A Sensational , Drive in Millinery The finest, daintiest and newest imported hats for even ing, receptions, balls and operas, fresh from the box 23 per cent discount Saturday. Other hats not so new, but good in style and service, at J their former price. 5.00 A $5 hat for... A flO hat for js Etc., Etc , A lot of street hats, marked to sell and have sold . at f4, at 98c and Baby and children's duck, pique and linen hats At(o for 98c, 75c and....,..; ............... .... 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Lord."- Thibetan temple Is a small, square and rather dirty and dingy building", looKlng like a dwelling. On the outside, standing on a sort of shelf, are two or three large cylinders which contain prayers and work on the same principle an the small hand prayer wheels. The building has some grotesque and very crude ornamentation, and the ceremonies are decidedly barbarlo. The Thibetans' "Devil Dance." One of their ceremonies is what Is called the devil dance. We saw this danced in front of one . of these temajes. It Is de signed to frighten off the evil spirits and cause among them such a panlo that they depart very hurriedly for fresh fields end pastures new. Two or three men with very rude Instruments keep up a monoto nous noise, a sort of a drum being the principal Instrument. They begin slowly and finally the drum beats faster and faster, the dancers accelerating their speed to correspond. There were about nine dancers, males, some of them petng quite young. They formed tn a oirole, facing in ward and throwing up their Lands till their arms were about horisontal, began a pe culiar dance, turning their bodies round as they danced and working their arms up and down. All had the same motion, whloh finally beoame very rapid, until one after the other became exhausted and dropped out and finally only one was left and he cavorted around alone for some time until he finally dropped out Some of the dancers held In their hands devil daggers. These are small pointed brass Instruments about four Inches long, having; a peculiar handle rormea or elephants' h'nds and other designs, and a sort of three-cornered blade. The dancers held these daggers In their hsnds, and from lme to time made a lunge with them in tho klr. These lunges were figuratively punc turing the anatomy and otherwise torroent- ng the evil spirits, so they were glad to depart to where people did not have this habit of sticking bras daggers Into them. It ts necessary that tals instrument be made in Just such a form and all are made practically after the same design. ' In their services. In the temples, various other implements are used, and a kind of horn is blown by the priests, some of whloh are partially made of a human thighbone, through which the priest tlow"s. This is a rather grewsome kind of an instrument. A suitable consideration made me the pos sessor of one, which had been used for years in a Thibetan temple. It Is not difficult to acquire these relic from their temple, for there are so many priests rather poorly off, and so many tem ples, that It Is very easy for a number of trmple articles to dtsappea. and the priest goes over the border with the articles and goes back without them, but richer by sev eral rupees, and doubtless ..their religion Is not of sufficient depth to give the priest any qualms ef conscience by reason of his thus appropriating churchly thing without the sanction of the board of deacons, as It were. The Thibetan tomb ax very curious lookJ lng things, consisting of an arched, oval struoture, surrounded by a masonry. fence or wall about four feet high, that extends all around the oval about three feet from it, with a plastered walk Inside the wall, and around the oval, The whole thing ts plastered over and whitewashed, having the appearance of an elongated Esquimaux hut A number of poles stick up from the wall and these have long strip of muslin about six Inches wide, and on these strips are painted In their characters some Incan tation which, a they flap In the wind, keep off the evil spirits and allow the de ceased to rest In peace. The tomb which I saw was on a hill, entirely separate from any other structure. The above will give some idea of the characteristic of this very peculiar peo ple the English government has to deal with. Strong physically, stolid, steeped in a superstition that Is (heir religion, prac tloajly uncivilised, as we regard civiliza tion, this is the foe that England has now to combat for there can be no turning back on England' part now, and there can doubtless be but one termination. The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb will be Inside of the lion, and Eng land will have the controlling Influence. But England maintains her ascendency over the peoples of India and other coun tries by utilising their religion of super stltlon to her advantage and treating it with respect Instead of endeavoring to root It out which would be an impossibility, and ao the native goes on in his idolatry, a he ha always dooe, and England thrive. I use the term idolatry advised ry, for al though many of the Oriental religion ar of great beauty and meaning to those high up in their lore, I feel convinced that the million of the common people know noth ing of any high spiritual truths, but u perstltlously go through certain forms, suoh a their father have done before for age. PenUnlae Beauty la a Scarce Article. The Thibetan women would not be re garded by a connoisseur a thing of beauty. Their face are usually ooarse featured and are often stained and colored In a manner not unlike those of the 'orth American squaw. They are, however, very erect and strong and can walk oft with a very heavy load with the greatest ease. A very singular thing la that many of them wear moccasins, like our Indians, these meooaslna coming three or four Inches above the ankle, so that they some what resemble boots. They wear a great deal of jewelry, their earring being Im mense things; o largo, in fact that while they are attached to the ear their weight is supported by a wire or cord that goes around the top of the head. Their finger ring are many, and earrings, finger rings and necklace ar largely made of tbe turquoise matrix. These women, in many case, when thy were met In the street would point to their sarongs and otherwise indicate that they were not averse to parting with them for a consideration. In fact, they were very persistent in urging the purchase of ear ring, necklaces or finger ring they war wearing. This is about as near as we ever came to a forbidden country that we oould net have entered If we had wanted to and had the wherewithal to conciliate the rail roads. Brooklyn Dagle. CHIPS OF THE OLD BLOCKS Bamei of Famou Warriors Still Perpet uated on th Armj Boll. ANOTHER ULYSSES S. GRANT THERE Sherman Represented by st Namesake, Sheridan and Miles by Sons Sons of Confederates Also) tn the Reamlar Bank. For year ora of the name of our many heroes, dead and living, have been retained by their descendants - on the long roll of the army, and from tbe make-up of It today the fact may be perpetuated. Cue of the ranking general olllcers in the serv ice said the other day that the mere rela tion of these names In the service ha most beneficial effect In that the name alone was a constant reminder of faithful and distinguished service, of gallantry la action, of esprit de corps, eto. ' In nearly every arm of tbe service, in nearly every regiment of cavalry or In fantry one may see a name which ha helped to make American history brilliant That history repeat itself remains to be seen, but there Is no doubt that all of the on stand ready to repeat, deed of valor aa glorious as those of their famous fathers. Perhaps the most prominent Of these sons Is Frederick Dent Grant bow a brigadier general and commanding the big Depart ment of the Lakes, with headquarter at Chicago. Fred Grant aa he la familiarly known, was born tn Missouri his father being stationed at St Loul In 1S50, Just after hi return from gallant service on the Mexican frontier, especially at Chapultepeo. The present General Grant is also a West Pointer and wa at the military academy from lsea to 1S71, when he was appointed a second lieutenant of cavalry and assigned to the Fourth regiment Five years after he was appointed a first lieutenant In the same regiment but mean while he held the rank of lieutenant colonel, being aide-de-camp to Lieutenant General Sheridan from March 17, 1873, to June 1, 1881. In October of that year h resigned from the regular service. (The He-enter the Army. The outbreak of the war with Spain found him colonel of the Fourteenth New York Infantry, and this evidently wa the topping stone for his re-entry into the regular army, for twenty-five day after ward he was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers, which commission he held until he again entered the permanent es tablishment in February, lf'l- In a few month he will have reached the grade of major general, and It I pussllng to many whether he will before his compulsory re tirement in lxli reach the top of the mili tary ladder, aa did hi Illustrious father. TheC name Of Ulysses S. Grant Is being perpetuated In the army by bis grandson, who 1 Ulywe 8. id and who 1 the son of General Fred D. Grant This, the young eat of all the Grants now In the service, Is a lieutenant of engineers and was a "star" graduate at West Jolnt in 19u3, which gave him fels OWA slulkitt U h Ux ra of service he desired to enter. It I a Strang coincidence that patriotism should follow both father and son so strongly all through llfe for each was born on a na tional holiday, the father on May SO and the son on- July 4. Two Sheridan Illumine the roll of offi cers Michael V.,' a brother of the gallant "Little Phil," and now on the retired list as a brigadier general, and then comes tbe son and namesake, Philip Henry', who re sembles hi brave father, not only in phy sique, but in force of character. ' Toung Sheridan 1 now a lieutenant' of the Fifth cavalry and is with his troop at Fort Huachuca. He 1 also a West Pointer. The names of Sherman and Miles are now combined In the American army by Cadet Sherman Miles,' now a member of the corps of cadets at West Point He Is the son of General Nelson A. Miles, and get his Christian name from the ma ternal side of the family his mother being a daughter of Judge Sherman, who was a brothery of John and Tecumaeh Sherman. Navy Name in Uie Army. One arm of the service ha been mad famou by a Schley, and the other arm la now represented by that admiral's son, Captain Thomas Franklin Schley, who is with hi regiment, the Twenty-third In fantry, In the Philippines. Captain Schley has been In the army for twenty years seven of which was as an enlUted man In the signal corps, while all of his service aa a commissioned offloer ha been with the Twenty-third Infantry sine 18Si. The present ranking officer of the army, Adas K. Chaffee, chief ef staff, with rank , of lieutenant general, ha a eon and name sake in the third class at West Point While the father of the foregoing fought on the Union side In the civil war, there are many whose father fought for the Confederacy, and among these the most prominent are the Lees. There ar three representatives of thl 'distinguished Vir ginia family now in the army, father and two sons. Fltchugh Lee needs no In troduction to student of American history. Born, like all the Lees, In Virginia, h sntered West Point In 1863, and upon hi graduation in 186 wa assigned to the Sec ond cavalry. When war was declared In 1861, he resigned hi regular army commis sion and fought with the Confederacy as a major general from Ul to 1865. Tho Maine disaster and the outbreak of tbe war with Spain found him our United States consul at Havana. On hla recall to Washington he wa at once made a general officer of volunteer and served as such for three years. By the aot of February t 1901, he was made a brigadier general In the regular army and ras Im mediately retired. Fftshngh Lee's Son. General Lee' son and namesake, Flts- hugh, Jr., is also a cavalry officer, being a first lieutenant of the Twelfth regiment but will In a very short time be made a captain. During the war with Spain he served as a first lieutenant of engineers (volunteers), and upon his honorable dis charge wa commissioned a second lieu tenant of Infantry, but aa ail the Lee ax horsemen, he was transferred to the First oavalry, and after two years' servlo with that regiment was promoted and assigned to hi present organisation. His brother, George Mason Lee, began his volunteer service as a lieutenant In the Thirty -ninth volunteers, and has seen ser vice In the Philippine. Upon the muster out of that regiment he entered the regular service aa a second lieutenant of the Sev enth cavalry, and after two year of duty wa promoted to first lieutenant in his present reglnient th Fourth cavalry. The on and namesake of another noted Confederate army leader Is James Long street, Jr., another cavalry officer and now a first lieutenant of the Thirteenth regi ment v Again, there Is th SOS And namesake of that famous Confederate general, George E. -Pickett. Toung Pickett is a major In the pay department W must not forget the Wheelers "Fight lng Joe" and hi son and namesake. While the father Is now on th retired list aa a brigadier genera, Jee Wheeler, Jr., is now a captain of ooast artillery, but at present an assistant Instructor f ordnance and gunnery at the Military academy. The young officer ha had a brilliant career and ha seen good service In the Philippines. Washington Post Homeseelcera Rates f North Dakota. , Every Tuesday until October 2S the Chi cago Great Western railway will sell round . trip ticket to point In th above named tat at a great reduction from the usuaj far. For further Information apply to Geo. F. Thomas, general agent, UU Far nam street. Cm aha. Nee. scr (its r-rx-- r-ir ohm i J The Gate sswrtr-sjvr?i '.JT1tf h. trwfTv ID To strength Is through Ghirardelli'a Qround Chocolate ceeren IfTi " fl H til imMJrnmmWZZM Gives you zest for work or The perfect Drink for every dsy.