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Strange Aspects of m it. I 3 A SQUAW OF THE (Copyright, 1710. by Frank O. Carpenter.) ARJEELINO, l'JIO. (Special Cor- respondents of The Bee.) I am In the attlo of Asia, tinder the very eaves of the roof of the world. All ahout mo rls the D highest of the Himalaya moun tains, their silvery crowns shining llko dia monds under the tropical sun. At the west I can look for miles over bare granite sum mits against a ragged wall or perpetual now. It is the same at the north. The mountains rise over this wall. , Here they kiss the sky, there they pierce the opales cent clouds, and farther on stand out ragged shafts of silver against the blue. That mighty mass at the north Is Kunchln Janga, over five miles In height, and this morning I stood on Tiuer Hill and naw the un gild the summit of Mount Everest, which Is nearly six miles abovo the level cf the sea. From Tiger Hill I could count a half dosen peaks, any one of which Is higher than the topmont point of the North American continent, and several of which reach above the height of any other part of the globe. Mount Everest masures 29,200 feet, Kunchinjanga 28.170, Janu 2",301 and Gabru 24.015. And then thre are three mountains In sight of over 23,000 feet. They are higher than any peak of the Andes, and ln the same vicinity are a half dozen ethers of 22,000 and more. A mono; the Mlgrhty Himalayas. It is impossible to comprehend the im mensity of the Himalaya mountains. They are so great that you could scatter tho other mountains of the world through them and hardly affect the slse of the chain. You could drop the Alps Into their valleys, and a few miles away you could not notice the addition. Mount Everest Is, of all land, the nearest point toward heaven. It Is more than double the height of Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan You could put another Pike's Peak on the top of our big mountain near Denver and It would not reach as high, and the snows crowning Mount Blano are at least 10.000 feet lower. If you should ascend Mount Blano and by a flying machine go straight upward for more than two miles you would not yet reach the altitude of Kunchln- Janga. It Is more than a mile and a half higher than Mount McKinley, the giant of Alaska, and Mount Everest, 1.000 foet above It, caps the world. I have seen all of the greatest moun- tains of the globe. As a boy I walked across tha Alps from Italy to Swltserland and climbed the glaclera of Mount Blanc, Later I visited almost every part of our Rocky mountain plateau, and during trips to Asia saw the mighty hill, of Hawaii and the Philippines. As a newspaper cor- respondent, I traveled through the Andes rnu f miaioiua, a.nu n was only a year or so ago that I was writing Uttera for von on the hlhlnli. nf AfH.-a. ..na.r th. .h,v... r M.e vPnl. ,i Xf,,nt owTm" " Of all th great heights, I find the Him- alayas the most difficult to describe. Their grandeur la oppressive and their Immensity beyond human conception. And still, they ara not the most beautiful. The finest of ths world's mountains In point of form and symmetry ara Fujiyama, in eastern Japan; Mount Cook, In northern New Zea- . . ,. .. . , land; Mount Moyon the chief volcano of "" coma, on tho shores of Puget Sound. As to glaciers, those of ths Himalayas are greater than ths les rivers of the Alps. They surpass ln size the glaciers of New Zealand, and, I doubt not, those in Alaska as well. There are glaciers here which are from thirty to sixty miles long, and one ln particular, which Is thirty-three miles In length and flanked on either side by giant peaks, each mora than five miles In height. These glaciers are mountains of ice, often as rsggrd and rugged as the snow-capped peaks hanging over them. Above th loads. Ths Himalayas might be called ths father of India. They protect the country, and It Im larrAlv iIiia t t h in thai If I a .1.1. support one-fifth of ths human raca. They extend like a mighty wall across Hln dustan, shutting It out from the rest of Asia. This wall Is Intensely cold, and against It come ths warm' winds loaded with ths moisture of the Indian ocean. As they strike It the moisture condenses and falls down In floods, watering the great plains below. There Is no place on ths globs which has such a rainfall as ymnw iv ii,; iiwuii,,,,. not a at Darjeellng it Is more than 500 Inches a year, ana mere are omer regions wnars there ara fifty feet of ralu every twelve months. These winds keep tho greater part of ths mountalnes enveloped in clouds, and Uu adds to ths beauties of ths aceuery. Ms HIMALAYAS The Himalayas u&ve 1,000 clouds where ths Alps have one, and as you ride through them you see clouds of all kinds and shapes chasing each other over the hills. They crawl up the sides of the valleys, they climb to vour feet and wran themaelvesi around you. For ten minutes the mist Is so thick that you can hardly see the ears of the horse you are riding. Then all at once you burst, out into the open. A cloud has gone by and It floats up toward the snows. In my ride to Tiger hill I had clouds above and below me, and I could see the ghostly masses of vapor resting In the hollows as though taking a siesta. As the sun came up tinged them with fire, spotting the mountains with gold. At ,he Bame time there were Pnlscent clouds Bt my r,Kht and m Ieft- and clouds ovei- hend' "bove which, at the breaks, the now' P'aks could be seen. n tb Mountain Hallway, ln coming here from Calcutta I rode most of the way through the clouds. The sun wns a' ll hottest when we passed out ' the plains of the Ganges end came to the foot of the mountains. The way up was all lights and shadows. Now the sun shone, and now the ruin came down in tor- rents. We soon had c.ouds above and be- u uu .ar.ner up orun lost sight of the engine in the vapor which enveloped the train. I shall never forget that railroad. It makes one think of the toys of his boy- hood. The track Is a two-foot narrow gauge, the engine is about Un feet in length and the cars are pigmies in com- parlson with our American coaches. The way up , Is a series of corkscrew curves, xlggags and " Y's. The train goes uoui line a snake and the cars are so sma" that they loot "ke links of a chain, lne enus or which now and then seem to loucn' There are a dostn horseshoe curves evt'iy mile and you make figure 8 s several times in your drunken climb up the hill. As ou rl 'u can see the road cutting terraces on the mountains below. You hoot under a hill and come out Into a loop, ad then cross your own track by a bridge overhead. The Y system is frequently used, and there are double Y's which ele- vate you from one level to another The cars do not make more than six miles an hour. They are open and you can see out on all sides. You skirt precipices covered with green, down which you look for a thousand feet, and climb along the skies of the mountains above valleys which are lost ln the plains of Bengal The rall- road was built upon a wagon road which led up from Darjeellng, and you can see as well as though you were in a carriage. There aj-a m i. . -" u.- - , T .V . here &nd there along the .i. .Tl " " l "'P "w U,cn 80 , passengers rrmy pick flowers and A Through Jungle Lands. In this railroad ride I came through the torrid and temperate cones and stepped out into a land of snow. Calcutta Is ln iropics. vte rode over hot olalns. through patches of- rice and banan lnA a jungle of bamboos. h.v,.n. ."rVJL" . -. , , ,, tropica foliage The foothills are clad with I,rBl ranges, reaching m"e and a half above the plain have magnificent forests bedded ln mosse and ferns. The limbs of the trees are loaded with orchids, and here and there are tree ferns with trunks as thick as a telegraph lole nd Jmost as tall. The fern leaves come out rrom the top like those of a palm. As you rise the color of the moss on the trees changes from green to light gray; it hangs from the branches in clusters not unlike the moss of Georgia and Florida and the green appears to be dusted with silver. Higher still there are hard woods muclj like those of our American mountains: the roses bloom slid there ar tea plantations clw,nln' ths hills. Tea grows to an sieve- "i annoei a, miie. me trees and hardy grains rise a mile higher and lt is not until "II I"""" V! hardy "nruo" tm.,. iu lum tew iiowers are still found it almost four cnllea above the sea. Tlsrcrs of th rwtkllla. As i rods throua-h th i,,ni t out for ths tigers, which tha trainman tell me ara frequently seen Thar man of them In the lowlands, and thsy hug th bass of tha mountains There la a mirinn nepe covered with bamboo cane and grass which is Infested not only by tigers, but also by buffslos, bears, deer and wild hogs. Tha cane grows to a height of forty feet and tha grass is so high that sitting on horseback you cannot reach the tops of the stalks. Tha tigers ara hunted svery- where, but they ara still so numerous that, Man and 4 inai O O according to the government records. e or 000 persons are killed by them every yrar. The beasts do not usually attack men. but If they once taste human blood II.av n -A '.vn .- f It (1 . .I...... '1 . ' IIQAJ IUI II 111. 1. Clll' i. VV I L L 1 J. . I )g known to have killed elshty of the natives within twelve month, and another 10g m a pnce of tnree years. One of thtf agents of the Indian forestry department tells me that about 2.000 tigers are killed every year and that the government gives a reward for. every b?ast destroyed, The tigers of India are magnificent, but are not eq.ial to those of Manchuria. They arc ( found In the mountains as ''igh as two miles, but even that, elevation doca not cause the fur to grow so lona 83 ,he eold "Inters of north China and olB""". "nd the best klns come from tne latter locality. The mule tigers or the Himalayas weigh up to about E00 pounds each, and the females to about 100 fuiunds less. Many are caught here and shipped to the oologlcal gardens of the world's On the Installment IMon. hi incvv uai.i til, oi orannn City, Mo., who saved for five years In order to marry and yi provldf a home for Miss Mary Kiiii Ivan anchev, a Hungarian girl, sold her on the Installment plan to ...-iii.r.iia, m. hum huh- chev came to this country six weeks ago, nnr hitr n-iun It. u ; i rt , Ba,U" (o wed him. but she repu- dialed this agreement. She left Granite City several days ago with George Shirokl, who paid Balthin $33 none of the party suspected that there was Mary Arnold Crocker ai.d that her address down and signed an agreement to pay $5 any serious purpose ln tho young man's was SC4 West One Hundred and Seventy monthly until a total of JS5 was paid. attitude. First street. New York City. Balthiz. the disappointed, Insisted for After three days Mrs. Adams nnd Mrs. Lewlsohn removed the band ring from hours in demanding $150 for his rights to I.lnn, with their children, set sail for the bride's finger and, while the jus'.icc was the girl, but Shirokl would not go that Japan and the east. Tho ship had not performing the ceremony, the couple smiled ..... . ... uaiiius oasea nis aemuna upon tne ract he had gone to tho expense of furnishing house for the girl, and that he has no use for the furniture. While the two would-be-trldcgrooms were haggllng over the price, the girl was near by. welting to know which she was to wed. Wher. hr purchase price was settled she walked meekly to a marriage license bu reau, did her part toward getting the license- and then followed the successful bidder to a priest, where they were mar ried. Wireless Proposals, less proposal Is the lut The wireless proposal Is the latest wrinkle In matters matrimonial. It has been tested and found not wanting by no less a person man miss x.ouise uayiora, aaugnter or Mrs. Charles Adams of Ktnllworth, reports the Chicago Record Herald. That wireless telegraphy may be used for a -tenderer purpose than summoning help to a disabled ship became known when the engagement of Miss Gaylord to Walter F. Dlllngham of Honolulu was an- Walter F. Dlllngham of Honolulu was an- "unced. Ths bars announcement did not ,nolud the great feature of the romance DU friends of the young vdman added tha de,""- whllh huw that this engagement coull nt have taken place In any other -e,llury. iur r. i.,iiihb,uiu yruinmm w" cc'P,ed ,n ai""nt Honolulu, whlls Mlss Uaylord was miles am ay ln mldocean. They had known each other threo days Can a man legally marry his own wife? only. Lewlsohn, with his wife walked Into tha Last September Mrs. Adams, who Is tha county clerk's office and asked for a mar wife of Dr. Charles Adams and a sister riaga license. Lewlsohn said that he was John J. Mitchell, president of tha 111- TTTR OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAT Nature Noted on the '.i li'i'v 1 If.- m LOOP OTT.THE HIMALAYA 1TABBOW great cities, some of them so fierce that they will jump at you If you come near their cages, wounding themselves against the bars. I):irjc-!lntt. I am wfll situated here In Uarjeellng. This is a slimmer resort for the UritisJi of the Indian lowlands, and k ln excellent hotels, fine residences and numerous furn ished villas which ate let out for the season. There are also hospitals and sana tarlums. There nevr-rr-i stores, and the whole Is a little slice of Eagalml in the heart of the Himalayas. The building are roofed with (.alviiulzed iront but there Btv many pretty cutta;es and bungalows. There are several churches, nubile Hardens and also a military camp situated cnitsldc the town. Aiming the finest homes in the place is that of the lieutenant governor of Bengal, who is here ahout four month every car. One of the sights of liarjceling is 1 lie Curious and Romantic Capers Inols Trust and Savings hunk, left for a inp round uie gnioc, accompanied ny ner two children. Miss Louise ami Hurry IJuy lord. ln the parly wi re hImi Mrs. VV. li. Linn and her two du o,;litt. i h. M ihel und Doiothy Linn. The putty reached Honolulu In October . , i.. . .. ... mm reiuuineu out inreo nays, wnue iney were there Mr. Dillingham, who is a Harvard graduate and the son of a mis- slonary, wus noticeably attentive to Miss Uaylord. They were much together, but .. . .... .. . . . . . . "," "y ." ine operator, wno was engageu in receiving wlrele. messages from tho shore, took down the meist surprising telegram it had ever been his lot to transmit. Th'8 message was addressed to Miss Oay- ,ord "1 was signed by Mr. Dillingham, It read: "Will you be my wife?" Miss Gaylord thotight is over a bit after the shock had subsided, and then sent the one word: "Yes." Mr. Dillingham explaineel contritely enough afterward that he hadn't himself known how hard ha was hit until the ship had weighed anchor, and ha couldn't wait fo1' the post. Mrs. Adams, with her two children, now is In 1'srls. On May Z the wedding wlll take place at Villa Fletra, Florence, Italy, the bonis of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Acton, the latter being a sister of Mrs. Adams, $ Married Forty-Four Times, Ludwig Lewlsohn of Newark, N. J., a German professor and writer, born In Ber- German professor and writer, born In Ber- n thirty years ago, claims the unique otstinctlon of being married to his wife jn every state In tha union except New Tork. He has Just sdded New Jersey to the list, ins nupuai anot Deing tiea ior mi forty-fourth time. This raises tha question: eager to et a csrtificata which would add 8, 1910. tr j- - -.i -: . - - at r v -v. GATJQT: o a a bazar filled with traders and patronized by the natives for miles around. Sunday is the market day, and at this time the town is thronged with Himalayans. Traders come here from Thibet, and there are Nepalese. l.epchus and Bhotlyans. There are natives from Sikkim and the slopes of Mount Everest. as well as laborers from the 200 tea plantations nearby. Macolar Mountain Maidens. I find these natives most Interesting. Kspeciaily the women. You have heard of the strength of the girls of Tibet, where the wife bosses the household, even though ;h has three or four husbands. From what I see here I judge the statement Is true. These girls could handle file average American husband and rest between rounds. I found a score. at the depot when 1 arrived and hired one to carry my trunk to the hotel. The way was pteep, but she agreed to take it up the hill for 5 cents, of Cupid this Hat? to the list. When he told the official that he was stopping temporarily in the Washington hotel, the clerk directed lilm to the office of a J n tite of the peuce, and the German again r. routed the story of his marriages. "The laws of New Yoik aie very pecu- n , , . . imr ana i simn some uuy nave tne Ktioi tied there," said l.ewisohn. "I feel thut I am not violating any law; what harm Is there in lt?" The bride said her maiden name was n r..A.. nA a c V. n n.... .j if ll ....... nn"c Srtiurl to a Divorce. Announcement comes from Northampton, Mass., that Mrs. Helen M. Cook Walters of i'htnirn nni Thenrinr Addis P.vi mnn were married there on April 1 by the Hev. Dr. John Breaker, thus adding another chapter to a romance exploited at some legnih re- eer.tlv In the New York courts, where Mrs. Walters obtained a Judgment of 13,000 In her suit for $50,000 for alleged breach 0f promise against Mr. Ryerson. The trial of the suit, beginning last xi. ..h t k.,llai, frih mnnv t,.ir lottpra f ..... ,h - ,.,,. hroker. Hut thev did not feasa him. He said he nieant eVery word of them, and was will- in Hnv .m t mirrv. the tilalntlff. He said that the reason he had not done so was because he decided that on his In- come he could not properly support her. Tho fair plaintiff was equally as candid, and said she still loved the defendant. All during the trial It was expected that the trial would suddenly terminate In a wed- ding, but the young woman refused to wed at that time. ,, March a verdict was returned In her favor for V,0U0. Ryerson had thirty days In which to pay, but a few days later, ac- coraini xo miraorau mwiin, iiiiiuhb lawyer, Ryerson's father paid ths Judg ment ln full. Mr. Ryerson's sareuts said at their horns In New Brunswick today that the broker was in New York and expressed surprise when told that hs had married Mrs. Walters. Roof of THE HIMALAYAS' liftVlfGlAClEIlS THERIY-THRILIL XHLE& LOKG . - if- s f ' . " t .. s .. - v - Br V ( .r" k it., I1IK 'H0T7NT EVEREST and tote(j lt there on lier Dack- The WOmen are the drays of Darjeellng. and the road carts as well. They carry the dirt for re- pairing the streets, digging It out of the hills with pickaxes and shoveling it Into great baskets fastened by a strap over the forehead to the backs of these human drays. Each basket holds two or threo often marries four brothers and sometimes bushels, and. well filled, will weight more has them all to support. than 100 pounds. The girl stands with the ' ? basket on her hack while loading, and she Business In th Himalayas, may, perhaps, have a baby In her arms. I wish I could take you Into their Imznrs These women carry great weights, and I and show you how business Is dono In am told that one has been known to tako midst of the Himalaya mountains. a cottage piano on Tier back twelve miles can hear the people bargaining long before up the mountain. I doubted this for a you get to tho p'ace. Every trade draws a time, but not now. Their mighty should- crowd and the people shout out their views ers. strong bodies and great calves and as lo the goods and the prices, ankles are such that I verily believe they The market covers several acres. It ; could move mountains. I saw one plodding filled with traders seated on the grounl up the hills thH morning, carrying a has- with their wares plied about them. Here ket of cordwood, two of which would have the women are selling smearcase, as ws been a good load for a mule. call lt out In Ohio, They have great crocks Or of snow white curds, which they serve out SunatTM of the Himalayas. to their customers in 'boxes or leaves. Fur These Himalaya girls look like our In- tner on Hr8 men wth chickens and pigs, dlsns. They have the same copper com- and at tne rght Is tho open-air butcher, plexlons. the same high cheek bones, semi- wh(J wlll kul a ahoep upon oracr anj gv flat noses and long, strullit black hair. yfm a cnop ,,ot (rom lno olni Tnere are If you will kep In mind the prettiest Tibotans wlM, prayCr wheels, with which squaw you have ever seen you may have you can make 8omothlnff IlK8 tcn prayers a a fair type erf the native belle of Darjecl- mnute The wlie08 are hoxea tho Blze of Ing. You must add ahout two pounus or Jewelry to each ounce of flesh and make the eyew of the squaw brighter and her il look more Intelligent. These mountain girls are loaded with Jewel"".-. The poorest of them has earrings and anklets of silver, and the beauty who took my trunk to the hotel as so Winded with chains, coins Bnd other ornaments that she Jingled as she li'imtml im the bill. I see women Who have strings of silver coins ns big as M-cent pieces hung to their necks bo that they cover tho bunt, and there are many who wear aold anklets and leglets, bracelets an earrings. They also wear ornnments of glass and turquoise. The furquolso Is one of the cheapest of the seml-preclons stones of the Himalayas, lt Is round in Tibet and brouaht over the mountains for sale. Some of the e-nrrings are four or five Inches long and so heavy that they pull down the lobe-. They also wear circlets of coral, amber or Jsde about their heads and have belts with gold or silver clasps. The woman Is the savings bank of the family, and when a new deposit Is made It Is In the shape of a gold or silver ornament ror ner. i Jionaois. The men of the Himalayas are like our Indians, only not so. tall. They remind one of tha Mongols and other natives nlong the borders of Siberia, leadiui; to the belief that the American aborigines came from mo nuiuiByu tnu went uui w, u nnv America across Beting strait. Among the . t tribes near here are th v eriicuna aim Bhotlyans, both considerably shorter than our western Indian. The Leycfia women wear their hair braided In tails which hang down their backs, end the Bhotlyans paint their faces with brown varnish am D the World i- X" CAPS THE "WOTIID" wear balls of coral and turquoise . hid as marbles on strings round their hi-Hri. The men of both tribes look fierce. They carry curved knives in their belts, and when drunk carve up fine another. They are said to bo bullies and wife beaters, and the woman has to fight for her rights. Shu a pint cup or smaller and about twice as deep. They are of copper or brass, and have Tibetan characters stamped In the metal. Inside each box Is a roll of the prayers most efficient In the Buddhist re ligion. Tho box is pierced by a wire stuck through the center and this la fastened to a handle about a foot long. By a twist of the handle the box rolls round the wlra and at every roll the prayers within are supposed to go up to Buddha and to wipe away the sins of the owner. There ara many Buddhist priests in the market, somo of them lamas who have come down fiom Tibet. They are mostly beggars who bellow for alms, I understand mat in trane rieiwo n India and the tribes on the other side nf ti,,t Himalayas is Increasing. The recent expeditions into Tibet have opened oni markets, and a considerable business is ,i,,Ilfi t Dard-rlliie. Tho Tibetans B1.nd ,iown musk, skins, tea, salt and W"lf- wrl UH pOMi,.Sj caltlo and sheep. 'l(r,' tuk(! ,)ark sugar dried fruits cotton goods (f al, khus un(1 aBO vory mBO madder and llquois. Much of tho trade Is carried on by Mohammedans. So far there Is no wagon road between Darjeellng and Lhassa. The goods are car ried over tho mountains on yaks or ponies or on the backs of women and men. The most of them come by the Jeiap paNH, which Is less than three miles In hiitiht, and Is open all the year round, lt is only about five days' march from here to the paa ana once mrougn it Tibet can n I am told that .a wagon road Is being 1'ianneq to go over mat rout.apnu . Tibet will become open to al. J-llANh. u. uiiit.Mtti. . mm