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Date 1912-09-21

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MEDICINE HAT DATL Y NEWS. 5 Time Is re wbout the house, outside or in. w b looks rou are cconomizing by putting it off. ceft s worth cf M-L Pure Paint adds value to anything it C Whether you do the job yourself or have a painter do it, MeL Myou want to be sure of a good job. Figure that M-L Paint protect and beautify the surface it covers just about twice Don't think y Be Sure You Get Jong as any other paint you can oe ge PURE PAINT buy. It will because of ARE NOW IN RARE BOOKS ARE FOUND Documents and Relics fro Prove of Value. Somewhere in what is how known as Chinese Turkestan or Sinkiang, there flourished in ancient times, about the third century, B. C., the powerful Empire of Louian, or Shen- shen. It was a Buddhist State, and as late as 629 A.D. when the Chinese Buddhist monk crossed the country on bis way to India, it was found well populated, the inhabitants being all believers in Bud But this once powerful Sj for some rea- son yet unexplained, vanished from th which was once under the jurisdiction of Lou- lan is today nothing but the barren desert of Taklamakan, absolutely un- inhabited. The disappearance of Loulan has long been a tepic of much discussion QUEST OF BURIED EMPIRE paintings which have hitherto Precious, relics ere found buried among the debris of what appeared to be ancient Buddhist temples, all Scores of feet below the surface. It Seems more than probable that the palaces and temples of Loulan were destroyed by the ohammedans who had subjugated the country. . When these documents and other relies which are on the way from Sinklang are carefully studied they will throw flood of new light upon the his- tory of Buddhism. The findings conclusively confirm the already prevalent theory that Buddhism entered China through Sinkiang. In ancient times Sinki- ang was inhabited by a race called the Ouigurs, and it was among these inhabitants that Buddhism found ready acceptance. But the Tace was destined to decay, and fin- ally perished before the onslaught of the Mohammedans. Much to the isappointment of Buddhist scholars, the Ouigur language did not survive the race. In my exploration, how- ever, I found a number of documents written im the Ouigur language, which, I trust, will prove valuable ata for the study of Buddhism as among the Buddhist scholars of Ja- pan, and Count Otam, Lord Abbot of the West Honganji Temple, at Kyoto, - anxious to find a key to the mys- tery, ordered the Rev. Zuicho Tach- fbana to proceed to Chinese Turke- stan and-explore -the-site of the 4n- cient Buddhist State. A young man of only twenty-two winters, short of stature, fragile it appearance, and almost feminine in manner, the Rev. Tachibana, we are told by the Japan- ese pressy-is nevertheless possessed of indomitable courage and unflag- ging energy. In 1908, when he was only eighteen years old, he journeyed in Inner and Outer Mongolia chiefly with a view to ascertain what would be the best route to enter Loulan. Having thus mapped out his plan of Journey he started on his second ex- - pedition in September, 1910; In an interview with the reporter of the TW (Tokio), this great traveler, who has just returned home from his journey, tells of this expedition 25 foliows: T entered Sinklang from Omsk on the Siberian Railway, and reached the desert of Taklamakan toward the end of 1910. I had with me twenty horses, fifteen cows, twenty camels and a number of sheep. As the inhabitants of Chinese Turkestan are mostly Mohammedans, and as 1 could freely converse in the Turkish language, I employed eighteen Turks uring the journey. Having reached the site of the ancient State of Lou- lan we dug the desert, hoping unearth relics of the buried peoples. Our labor was readily rewarded with rich findings, including many Budd- well as philology. Having spent three months inthe desert of Sinkiang, the Rev. Tachi- bana entered the north-western part ot Tibet, where he spent three mouths on a mountain top 15,000 feet above the sea, but he could not find anything valuable there. To- ward the end of last year the effect of the revolutionary uprisings in China proper began to be felt even in the remote countries-of Tibet and Sinkiang, and the Rev. Tachibana was forced to quit the exploration to avoid possible dangers to his life,. This journey was not untertaken in search of adventure, but as it led through what might be called Dar- kest Asis, naturally many adven- tures were encountered. From Omsk to the borders of Chinese Tur- the route ran through the Russian territority of Semipalatinsk, where the. roeds were tolerably Sood, even stage coaches having been Qyailable at intervals. Mr. Tach - bana entered Chinese Turkestan from the border town of Ngans , and traversing a rolling country, well covered with vegetation, he reached the town of Turfan at the foot of the highest mountains in the great Tien- shan range. Save for the physical obstacles he had to overcome, he found traveling in Sinking much less troublesome than in Russian Si- Deria, for once out of Russian juris diction was no long r subjected to the frequent examination of his a natives took him elth- er for a Turk or a Chinaman, and treated him quite cordially. The young priest's hardships be- hist. books and sacred statues and gan with his departure from Turfan, of her from whence he entered the Labnor region in the Taklamakan desert. In crossing this uninhabited region, he relied for his guide upon the stilt extant diary of the Chinese Budd- hist priest, Hsuen Chang, who tra- versed this country in 629 A.D., on his way to India, The Japanese ex- about a month, when his store of water began to run short. The party soon found themselves in imminent dang r of perishing from sheer foirst. The priest-explorer invoked Buddha's mercy in fervent prayer, and urged his servants to follow him, assuring them that Buddha will not turn him a deaf ear. As they trudged on they finally came to what appeared to be a river-bed, in which was found a pool of stagnant the water saved the party from total exhaustion. Further investigation proved that .this river-bed was the lower reach of the river which Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, had found. His Turkish servants, twenty in number, were of great help to. him, but while he was camping on the top of the mountain in North-western Tibet, a few of these, purloining some of the provisions and about 400 of the explorer s money, ran away, leaving the rest of the party in destitution. The mountain was 15,000 feet above the sea, and the tude naturally affected the health of the priest and his servants. The Japanese explorer was attacked by neurasthenia, while most of. his at- tenants suffered from insomnia. Again the pious priest committed himself and his party to the care.of Buddha, and after a lapse of three months on the mountain they were all enabled :to descend The Liter- ary Digest. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Will H. Vodrey, a colored man, composed the music for The Girls in Happyland. He composed all the scores for the Hurtzig Shows, and is under contract, it is said, not to pub- lsh any of the scores. While Hauptmann s native town snubbed him by refusing him its free- dom on his fiftieth birthday. England is preparing to present Mme Bern- hardt with a signed memorial on her Dirthday, Oct. 23. At the end of the present month, William H. Crane will begin his fif- fl th season on the American stage. He will continue to play The Senator Keeps House. Mary Shaw. who is now on the way to complete recovery from a recent bad fall, has written a play with Henry Irving Dodge, author of The Higher Court. Mille Dazie, the dancer, who is now in The Merry Countess, is to make her debut as an actress at a matinee performance of The Master of the House. She wishes to make a test capabilities as an actress. 1 Those Who wear that fits and that ma Pen-Angle Union Suits Do Delight 1 You will feel so comfortably clad in your first Pen-Angle Union Suit... the under- Nor has the wash-tub any terrors for t knit-to-fit and warranted-not-to-shrink un- derwear. 4 It represents the best itivest- ment in intimate garments your money can For it retains 2 the end the quality in the first-place am that is more than you can say of ordinary underwear that has been costing you the same price.-4You will be satisfied with Wear Them does not lose its sha) light atmosphere at such a high alti- jordinary laws Yemenite. Jews Now a Striking Object in Heb. rew Wor The Yemenite Jews are at this mo- ment an object of interest through- Out the Jewish world, says the erlcan Hebrew. The cry of despair that has been wrung from them by their suffering among the savage Arabs has met with response in Kx- ropean Jewrles. Yemen is. province comprising the south-western part of Arabia, se- reat trackless desert. Tradition traces the dettlement of the Jews in that country to the times of King Solomon, During the Babylonian exile also some 75,000-Jews are alleged: by tra- dition to Rave gone to seek their for- tune in Yemen. and as they did not respond to the call df Ezra to return to Palestine, the latter uttered a ban wpon them, whereupon he was. pun- shed in that he was denied burial in Palestine and to add to his dis- Brace the Yemenite Jews haye re- uittered-in the-desert region -frained-sinee-then from siving-thel children the name of Ezra All this is, however, mere fiction; the truth seems to be that the Jews settled in Yemen not earlier than in the second century of the Christian era, For the first few centuries they seem to have led a quiet and pros- Percus Hfo in friend:y intercourse with the neighboring Arabs. In their zeal for making converts, zeal. that seems to have been com- mon at that time to Jew and Chris- water. Though indeseriteblydirty, tian, they succeeded in graining for Judaism one of the most powerful Yemenite kings, Dhu Nuwas, who Was very zealous In the cause of the mew faith he had adopted. It was only with the rise and spread of Is- lam that the persecution of the Jews began, The Yemenite Jews do not differ much physically from the Arabs, whom they resemble in the coloring of the eyes and the hair and in the measurement of the head. This fact has led many anthropologists to the conclusion that the Yemenite Jews are no more than Arabs who had adopted Judaism at an early date. This resemblance may simply go to Prove that the Yemenite Jews are racially purer than their European brethren, and tence resemble more their Semitic kinsmen. ARABS PERSECUTE INTERESTING RACE However that may be, the Jews of Yemen can easily be distinguished from the Arubs by external charac- teristics, uuch as dress and jong side locks As for their intellectual stan- dard, they tower above their oppres- sore, the Arabs. Their peculiarity of dress has been imposed upon them, as they are pot allowed wear, ex- copt on Saturdays any clothing in- dicating equality with the Moslems. Nor are they allowed to ride on donkeys, and, to a certain extent, they are forbidden to trade, These re jeudns have thrown the Jews of- Yemen into the various sedentary trades, with a few exceptions engag- ed in business and agriculture; they are the workmen and artificers of the country goldsmiths, ilack smiths, carpenters, tanners, tailors, shoemakers, etc. the saving grace of the Yemenite Jews, protecting them against total extermination at the hands of the savage Arab, for the latter, unskill- ed in handicrafts ashe s, can sim- ply not get along without the Jew, who mends his wife's trinkets and Jewelry, repairs his gun and fixes his agricultural implements. With all this the life and property ofthe Jewsare hardly safe, but are always exposed to the fancies of the mob, and the arbitrariness of the law. The Jews ltve in separate smal, dark houses,, which look like caves, or, rather, lke graves, having holes for win- dows which can hardly admit any. light, for fear of thieves at night, and robbers, that is to say the na- tive population, in the day time. There is no legal justice for them; and they are compelled to do some of the meanest public work which the Arab thinks below his dignity to do. Even the Jewish representative, the one responsible to the officials for th community, is not spared, but is subjected to all kinds of indignity, plus blows and torture. Hence no rich Jew is willing to serve in the capacity of Jewish representative, but poor Jew is generally hired for this purpose, i. e, to be the scape goat of the community. In order to escape all this suffer- ing and arbitrariness the Yemenite Jews had recourse to the feudal sye- tem of vassalage, the one employed in the mediaeval ages. They would put themselves under;the protection of some powerful Arab, a chieftain perhaps, whom they would repay with some service for the tenure of his protection. The result of this once having got the power over the Jew, would force the latter into state of serfdom. SOME SCIENTISTS ARE IN ACCORD WITH SCHAEFER Sir Oliver Lodge Thinks it Possible to Create Life in Laboratory. SHOULD NOT EFFECT FAITH OB IDEALISTIC BELIEF jd Take Hundred Million Years To Evolve Form of Eynthetic Human As was to be expected, the state- ments and arguments put forward at the inaugural meeting this year at Dundee of the British Association by. Prof. Schaefer, the new president of the association, have already started controversy which promises to be. prolonged, animated and bitter. Prof. Schaefet s presidential ad- dress bad been looked forward to with more interest than that of any other president of the British asso- elation in many years, says a cable to the New York Times. It was x- pected that he would announce some Sensational new discoveries in the field of biological research, and though these expectations were r al- ized only im part, the radical char- acter of the theories he presented was in itself sufficiently remarkable to make his address a memorable one. Among thogs who discussed his address was Sir Oliver Lodge, who, as most people know, besides being lone of Britain's leading scientists, has devoted a great amount of at- tention to psychical research, and de- clares openly that this bran h pf knowledge is being absurdly neglec- ted by the majority of scientists. Sir Oliver sal Ihave in my works suggested that possibly living material would be artificially obtained In the labor- atory some day. Though it has not yet been done, a good many experi- ments are being made. It does not follow that the nature Jot Hife will be muc stood even when a li is artificially put together. The thing which by Interaction with matter confers on it what we know as vit- ality will still in all probability elude us, It does not appear to be a form of energy, but certainly is a guiding Principle utilizing the forces known to chemistry and physics and all the of nature for ends which appear to lie outside the known lanes of the physical world At present the whole subject Seems in the region of speculation rather than that of demonstrable fact, but very interesting experiments are going on, and ft fg quite possible eee that some day an important discov- ery will be announced, Shouldn't Affect Faith Such a result, Sir Oliver added, ought not to have a deleterious re- sult on faith or idealistic belief, These material bases of life had certainly been produced somehow, and it was only reasonable to expect that science would some day learn some- thing of the process, and that human Ingenuity must be able to bring things together-in such a way that the process would repeat itself. It Was likely that what bad once. gone on in any portion of the universe must in some portion be going on today. : myself, he said, employ the word VITALITY to signify the in- teraction of life and matter, and keep the word life Itself for the some- thing which so interacts. Prof. Scha- e term LIFE in the place of vitality, though Prof. Schaefer admits the system, however, was that the Arab tions to the uttermost anid learn much in so doling, they will not touch the Heart Of ths gfe PFODISHS thn He deeper than the pbysical plane Over the ultimate problem and causes: -be lett wonder ing still. It pointed out that Prof. Schuet- er supports: the view brought for- ward by Herbert Spencer, but since discarded by most sclontsts, ' that crystals with suitable food can re- produce themselves. Traces Man s Pedigree. At the session of the British Asso- elation Prof. Hlliott Smith, of Man- vhester University, traced in detall the pedigree of man and the gradual emergency of human traits from the habits of man s ape-like ancestors, ample vid nce for drawing up a pedigree for man as far back as a million years or 80 The steady development of the brain must give-a fundamental reason for man s ascent from the ape, the an- ceator of which was a small land- grubbing insectivorous anims , whose Sense of smell was more serviceable than all its other senses, and which took-to life in. the trees, becoming a squirrel-like creature. This step marked the birth of the primates, 1. . the highest order of animals, includ- og man, apes and monkeys, and the - lent Block 20, Lots 47 to 50. Price 950 a pair, Terms, Block 17, Lots 47 and 48. Price 1150. Terms. Block 30, Lote 1 to 4 Price S775 a pair. Tterms. Herald Block 11, 100 feet, for: 1900, Cousing and Sissons Block 29, Lots 2 to 90. Price 875. Terma, Altawana Block 6, Lots 3 to a1. Price. 1250, Terms. Riverside 40 lots in Blocks 6 and 7 for 15,000. Terms, Toronto St, Snap Block 65, Lot 13. Price 1- Satistied customers, Lstings wanted in all parts of the. city, E.D. Bennett Co. definite branching off from other mammals of the line of man s ances- try. The squirrel-like creature gra dually developed Into an ape, with more higlly developed senses and greater muscitlar action and skilled movements. A mechanism was evolved -which-regulated its muscular actions and brought its sum total off consclousness to bear on the per- formance of a given act. Thus were developed the germs of all physical greatness which in the million Years or so that followed cul- minated in the human mind. The gradual development of the brain, Prof. Smith went on, resulted in the power to anti ggate the conse- quence of actions, The attl- tude became the normal aj and free to for useftigurposes, such as-ifsing wea- pons in the shape of sticks and stones. The realization of his abil- ity to defend himself on the ground would naturally have led to the in- telligent ape to forsake the narrow life of the forest and roam at large in search of more abundant and at- tractive food, and variety of scene and social habits were adopted as a means of protection, there being eafety In numbers. Legs were. de- veloped, for without fleetness of foot there would have been no escape from threatened danger. When We Became Upright. The erect attitude became fixed, jand these upright creatures emerged from their ancestral forests in troops, armed with sticks and stones, and with the rudiments of all pow- ers that enable them to conquer the world. The greatest exposure to danger which these sem -human cre- atures must have had with definite enemies no less than the forces. of nature, provided factors which rap- idly weeded out those unfitted for the new conditions, and by natural selection made real men of the sur- vivors. Growth in intelligence and in pow- ers of discrimination no doubt led to the dawning of a definite aesthetic sense, which, operating through se- lections between the sexes, brought about gradual refinement of features, added grace to the general build of the body, and. demolished the greater part of the hairy covering. Difter- ences in the forms of the male and female arose which are not found i the apes. Gestures of the hands came into use, and then the ape-man learned to employ a greater yariety of sounds than his gorflla-like and other an- cesiors. Th time the sounds deliber- word- Soul to denote something sep- arate, higher and distinct. Some of the controversy which may result from the address, will in all proba- bility, be due to some confusion re- suiting from a, misunderstanding in the use of terms. Bishop Welldon, former headmas- ter of Harrow, said It seems to me that science. in all ite depart- ments, great though its achievements have been, has stood and still stands Daffled at the door of creation. I am afraid the key to the great problem still remains and 6 likely to remain in the hands of Providence. There is nothing in Prof. Schaefer's address which ought to excite the slightest opposition or uneasiness in the mind of any Christian. Lankester s Opinion. Sir Edward Ray Lankester, an ex- President of the British Association, said: Prof, Schaefer cast no bomb- shell into the ranks of men of science. Those who are engaged in Tesearch are in complete agreement with him. Opposition can only come from metaphysical philosophers. The Public should read Schaefer's vision timate production of life Compand by the chemist The vofu ttonsus bureau, tion of a synthetic human is a hun- dred million years in front of us. There-is one point in Prof, Schaef- er s address on which I go further than he did, probably with a view to avoiding prejudiced discussion. He does not identify what is called life with what Is called soul. I do. I regard the one as the logical outcome of the other. I am prepared to hold that what Is meant by the soul ae veloped is a part of life, but this con- ceptlon in md Way lessens the im- ately emitted by his fellows became associated with different meanings, and this became new method of communication, The: high develop- ment of the brain mechanism for dis- criminating speech played a great part in making man. from the ape, The knowledge acquired by each in- dividual became the property of the community owing to the power. of speech and was handed down to the children. I am inclined to look upon the orang, chimpanzee and gorilla not as ancestral forms of man, was Prof. Smith's interesting conclusion, but as more unenterprising members man s family, who were unable to maintain the bigh level of brain de- velopment: of the feeble-bodied . hu- man being, but saved themselves from extinction by acquisition of great strength and a certain degree of specialization of structure. Feeb- ler man was able to overcome his. renemies and maintain himself in the struggle and wit and his superior adaptability to yarying circumstan- cen the advarice bulletin just issued by the in 1909,-the United States had 268,491 manufacturing. es- tablishments which gave employment during the year to an average of 7,678,578 per ons, of whom 6,615,046 were wage earners. These manufac - turing establishments. paid 4,365,- 613,000 in salaries and wages, and turned otir products to the value of 20,672,052,000 to produce which ma- terials costing 12,141,791 were con- sumed. The International Spinners Union According to on manufactures portaice (of what we: call soul. Prof, jiirey* Diobapson sald: Though we push such explana g has expended more t'an 15,000 in strike and lockout benefits the past 397 Toronto St Phone 265. Houses for sale. construction in High School Annex, Block 25; one on Ot- tawa St, finished, Block 83; One on Highland St, finished. Have several good lots .on which I can bulld: a house ac- cording to your own design. oe teliminary plans supplied Nee: See me for your alterations or job work of any kind. Will ere It prompt attention. REPRE PPR rr eiek R. B. Taylor s Transfer and Heary Draying. Supt auontion te alt Seder. Piano Moving with Plane Van a Speelality. Pareels Delirerea: PHONE NO. 349, E. M. CAWKER, Phm. B. Druggist stock of Toilet Articles Drug , Proprietary Medi- cines, etc. sing of Physicians Pre- a eect? 204 South Rv. St. Phone 75. PHONE NO. 8. Your patronago solicited. And our drivers will caii for gnd return the goods. House Mover SAND FOR SALE EXCAVATING HEAVY TEAMING CONGRETE WORK. J.J. LAIT 16 MONTHEAL STREET Phone 260, CITY OF MEDICINE HAT - TAKE NOTICE that the Voters List of the City of Medicine Hat has now been prepared, a copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk and may be inspected at any time during office hours, A Court of Revision will be held on Monday, November 4th, 1912, at 8 o'clock p. m. and-ai appHeations for amendments to safd Voters List must be made on or before October 25th, 1912, H. BAKER, City Clerk. 57-6 E. Bartlett. B.a.sc Municipal Engineer, Dominion and Alberta Land Surveyor Industrial Spur Railways, Water Supplies, Sewage, Irrigatic. Plans, Etc. Building. Phone Sept. ist, 1912. Room 14, Imperial Bank Medicine Hat year, 50 ft. 4 50 ft. i 100 ft. 6 lota Block Block 150 ft. Fully x Steamer: Two an ger BOATS HA Four Comp and T Some. ide new . 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