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Cargo Boats on tho Jhelum Rivor. HERE are times ,In every man's life," ?ays Sir Robert HadenPowell In lils charm ing book, "Indian Memories," |en his wbole being cries out for a [dv spell of doing nothing In par lar, at least, nothing that matters, rhere is tills so acutely felt as In |n." And at no time, one might hs toward tlie middle of an In hot weather, says A. L. Wright In Intry J.ife. But though India In the is may, at times, become well-nigh |erable, Jndia in the hills provides >lace. such as may be enjoyed In h<*c court tries in the world. lere is something particularly fas ling about the Himalayas. Maybe their Immensity or their vast si 's ; but probably it is their infinite My that makes the greatest appeal, [there is always some new aspect discovered,.some new interest; no man can hope to live long kgh to he able to say he knows thoroughly, nor is It possible to much of them that they begin to stale. So wonder that men who first visited them as subalterns ick year after year, revisiting old fts or discovering new, aTid that have found them so attractive [even on retirement they have set (down In some~~pea<RSrur vJVilejT to their declining years. [times of peace the army officer in is usually fortunate enough to lie to get away frotti Mis regiment |the plains for at* least a part of lot weather, and with a month or at his disposal, the hills provide with an endless cholcc as to how louhl spend his leave. [ything You May Wlih Is There, few places In the world can It be july said as of the Himalayas that eater for every taste. Do you a month's sheer Idleness? Under more attractive circumstance! |t he obtained than on tJie Jheluin floating, leisurely along In a |miri doonga, or housebout? A :t climate, gorgeous scenery and filling complete for thorough lazl what could he more ideal? And |d mere loafing become monoto it enn always be varied with a gentle fish-spearing, or short may be made Into the moun which come down on either side, |ng tempting fields for exploration. Ihe average healthy young man >robably require something more |uous. .Mountaineering? One has |o read of the exploits of the llul Vorkmans to realize that the [lavas provide sufficient tests of [even for the most experienced t. Kix game shooting? Given |?'iit time, there are places beyond nlr, such as Chllas, Astore, lialls |n?l Liidakh. which are veritable ptnen's paradises. With luck the lay include both black and brown [thar, ibex, burhel, gum I, the or leopard; maybe the snow |d , and possibly the wihl sheep, Ivi*5 amnion. A shooting trip of lature is, however, rather a long prions undertaking, but even with lonths' leave or less there are [places where excellent sport ean tained. There Is, of course, the f\v in the Immediate vicinity of nr. hut, as may be imagined, tills Jen much harried and shot over, ^t 11 ?r places equally aecesslb\e, frequented, are preferable ??port Is the main object. For \ unite good shooting country ????at-hed hoth In Chnrobn state Kulu within a month's leave, [lit' 1?? more time is required to {thf upper reaches of the Suile' ilu- Hifshahr state borders < a Miiuu .vhooliitg, eh?f*ed middle of September, is rarely ^1 the \ isltor 1 ?> tl?e hills un "P?rUilly takes his leave right end ??f the hot weather. The ly:iv however, abound in stnall Probably nowhere in the pin* phensitntx found in greater hut, though in abundance, p*o<?iItijf Is often apt to prove Vi**ng, usually owing to the ??f *be forests tl*?y inhabit. ".V The same cannot be said of the chlk ore, which cun jive as line a day's sport and exercise as the keenest shl kari can hope for. The fisherman will also find himself catered for, as both In Kashmir and Kulu trout have been put out in the streams and now give excellent sport. Wonder? of the Forests. Shikar, though by 110 means the least, is however, but one of the many attractions of the hills. The botanist, naturalist or entomologist will all And plenty to occupy their time, while in few plnces is there greater scope for the artist and photographer. The for ests, too, are full of interest. (Jet the local forest officer to show you round his jungles?he is a lonely man and usually only too pleased to see a vis itor?and you may then begin to real ize what is involved in the making of * railway sleeper. You may even get some idea of what is meant by forest ry. You will see trees such as are rarely to be found at home, magnifi cent old groves of deodar, maybe from 800 to 1,000 years old, which have been spared from the ax on account of their sanctity?for the deodar Is Indeed the tree of the gods and no hill tferaple is complete without Its grove. Felling on precipitous hillsides and floating down "roaring Hill torrents provide ample ex citement for those who want It, but, perhaps, inost wonderful to the ordi nary visitor are the primitive methods of conversion. Sawing is still carried out entirely by hand, and carriage from the forest to the floating stream is nearly all done by human transport. Although wire ropeways are now be ginning to be used In places, it is still by no means uncommon to come across a sturdy hilt-woman iaimost running down a steep mountain path with two broad-gauge sleepers on her back and a baby suspended in a blanket in front. To tli*? student of folklore and anthropology the Himalayas offer a wide Held of research, particularly the liindu-iuhabited tract in the eastern Punjab. It is, however, by no means an easy matter to get the people to 'talk of their religion and customs. The hillman is a simple-minded soul, a splendid fellow when you get to know hhn, but he takes a lot of knowing. His inherent shyness and what is al most a timid distrust of strangers 1 make It next to impossible for anyone who has not lived in the hills or visit ed the same tract year after year, to get him to speak of his religious be liefs. Hut if ever you are fortunate enough to get him talking, you are taken back at once to the days of the Old Testament and And yourself living amid gods who speak and dispense Justice to their devotees, rewarding or punishing as may be necessary. You will find an explanation of every phe nomenon of nature. The hailstorm, for instance, which destroyed one man's crop while sparing his neigh bor's. is directly attributed to Kail, who, living on the hilltops, uses ice as a missile to punish anyone who of fends her. Yon will hear of witches with tongues six feet long; of evil spirits who enter into the bodies of men and cattle ftnd have to be exor cised ; of scapegoats; and even of hu man sacrifices, who before the days of British administrations were slain at the great festivals for the atonement of the sins of the community. Rut the ordinary visitor hears little of this, though, with luck, he may come upon one of the many fairs which are held throughout the Mils, generally during the rains, when the people have leisure from work In their fields. The liiliiniin is passionately attached to his native highlands, and nothing will induce him to forsake them for the plain*, which lie regards almost as a foreign eortVitry.'*nd having learned to love the hiiis oneself, one can well understand his attachment, for the call of rhe llltiiaiavns is well-nigh Ir resistible Appropriate Shelter. "My but'dy complained of being dog tlrei*.'* "What did he do?" - MWM)t to rest In a pup tent.'* MANY FAIRIES IN GREEN ISLE ld?a That thf Qnomti Have Ui? ?pp??r?<| la DtcUitd to U* Ailoyethei t.rioncou* There fiiil tiPc faille* in Ireland. de clares i ?,?- I '1st it folklore. \\ 11 i I' 11 ?x plains by sNyliiy: To many, perluip*. Oils statement wUI It** really new*,/ Of cvurse, anyone who lius never taken any Interest in 11?*? matter ??t all knows that ill (lit' d?.\s none l.y there were plenty of them from out* end of the green |*le to tlit* other? are. not their <?ld haunts, the thorn hushes, their mill*, fort*. coves and sontcrrulnes Still to be found In cvfry corr.er of Ireland Jnst ?* they have existed) *ince I line out of mind? Bttt Jt lots lo-cn the general h^llef1 lhat tin* fairies themselves long ago. lu one fashion or another, hud for saken or been driven from their se cret pLaces, tli^ last lu't 11.1 l>i'i Itg placed at a* modern a period us the middle of the nineteenth reutury the night of the I>1k wind; In fact when they w?'i> nil supposed !u have heou , blown Into the sea with the fftfpUQn of a few that landed in Scotland. , The error of that belief, however. I lias been scientifically ascertained In a scries of invest if at Ions pursued ^by MIm Kiixaheth Andrews. F. U. A'. !.. for a decade or ao, "Thf belief I* general," Mis* An drews s&ya, that the** little people wf re at one time very numerous throughout the country, hut have now disappeared from many of their for mer haunts. At Rallyiiahltich I wan told they had heenv hlowu away .V). years ago by ? great storm, and the caretaker at Killevy jytld they had gone to Scot Intnl. They are, however. supposed still to inhabit the more re niote parts of the country, and the old people have many stories of fairy vis itors and of what happened in their own youth and In the tin their fathers and grandfathers." WAS PIONEER IN WlftELESS Jam?# Bowman Lindsay, Scottish En gineer, Haa Not Been Given the Credit He Deserves. Little is heard about .Tames Bqwman Llhdsay, and much about wireless te legraphy, yet the career of the one and the history of the other are insepara ble, says the Christian Science Moni tor. Upwards of sixty years ago Bow man Lindsay operated a system across the River Tay, a distance of one and a half miles, Just above the bridge the construction of which ranks as one of the most notable feats in engineering. Mis efforts failed to attract attention at the time, however, becuuse of his retiring disposition, but the history of electrical research records few namea more deserving of respect than his. He was a pioneer in the application of electricity for beating and lighting purposes and bespoke a great future for It. " . ? ? Apropos of Bowman Lindsay, as he was familiarly known, it Is interesting to note that his energies were not wholly directed to the advancement of the mechanical arts. He was a lin guist and as such started out to trans late the Bible Into many different lan guages. Seven years' labor was ex pended on the task, und the work was far from being finished when it had to be abandoned. The Bible, in incom plete form, may still be seen in the Albert institute, Dundee, Scotland. It lies open in a. glass case and shows that the method employed was to di vide the book into the requisite num ber of columns and in each column' place the words in English und their equivalent in each languuge into which they were translated. Dangerous Counterfeit. The most expert moans of counter feiting American greenbacks has been discovered by the state police In the AdlrOndacks lumber camps, where $20, $50 and $100 notes were being dupli cated. Banking exports have pro nounced them the most clever counter felts In existence. The information now in the hands of the state police is to be turned over to the United States department of jus tlce. 'J?he secret of the device is a ma chine which is capable of splitting the thin note paper on which American notes are engraved and permitting the face and back of the note to be stripped .from each other. Waxed pa per is then laid over cach half of the note and a solution applied to trans fer enough of the original ink to the waxed paper to make an exact dupli cate of the note. The waxed sections to which the ink has been transferred are then pasted to the opposite half of the good note and in this way two bank notes exactly alike are produced. Malines Carillons Busy. The carillons of Malines have naver been heard so much and to such splen did effect as of late. The truth Is that Malines has undertaken to get together h sufficient sum of money with which to present to St. Quentin a new carll lofi, the German* having seized the hells of the French town. So every carillon of Malines has been ringing mid pealing. There have been carillon concert*, one of the performers on the bells of the cathedral of St. Kornhaut being the bell ringer of St. Quentiji hlmffetf. The hymn which he played embodied the motifs of the "Marseil laise" and the 'Brabanconne. All Busy. "What* your wife doing?" . 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