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AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1002.
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The whole country is Intensely folio wing the dramatic proceedings of the trial of Lawyer Patrick. No central figure in a murder trial has ever ate
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BOMBAY. Feb. U —Has Russia de-
termined upon the conquest of Thibet?
Bo an unbiassed observer, who has re-
cently returned from a tour of that
mysterious land estimates. He is an
English officer, who has traveled all
through Thibet in disguise. His name
is Major Cornell of the Royal artillery.
This man has been far past the sup-
posed impassable Lhassa, penetrating
to the confines of Turkestan on the
north, where he says signs of Russian
military activity are everywhere no-
ticeable.
"Russia doea not care a whit about
the attitude of the Afghan government
toward herself," says Major Cornell.
Whithin five years she will have a mil-
itary railroad running into Lhassa.
Thence the descent upon Indja will be
a mere bagatelle.
As for a resistance on the part of the
Thibetans it would melt like a snow
ball In a tropical atmosphere, whereas
the Afghans would resist every Inch
of advance, especially In the passes,
ss they did with the British.
There Is one thing about Thibet. ac-
cording to Major Cornehl. It is as in-
hospitable as Siberia, appearing to
have been practically clipped off that
glacial ptateau. No troops but Rus-
sians, inured to Siberian garrison life1
could stand a campaign in each a wil- I
derness There are no houses In Thi-
bat -nothing but mud hovels, outside
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mas, or Monks. and the influence of
the priests can easily be understood.
Buch a country would easily fall a
prey to an Invader and the monas-
teries would make magnificent forts.
"The only opposition to Russian ad-
vance has been effectually silenced by
recent events in Asia," says Major
Cornell. "The power which for cen-
turies has kept Thibet a sealed volume
emanated from Pekin and since the
capture of that city by the allies has
been suspended to a large extent."
The power of the Lamas over the
people is easily explained by the fact
that they are believed to be ponsessed
otgod-like powers. The Lamas culti-
vate their voices so that they have a
1 deep hollow sound to invoke awe on
I the part of the worshippers. A priest
| In the performance of his functions
I sits cross-legged on a platform some
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■loner. Identified many croups of en-
larged photographs of signatures of
W. M. Rice, mounted un’cardboard. as-
havinK been made by himseif. Much
time was taken up in arguments as te
the admissibility of all these photo-
graphs, then to numbering and letter-
ing them for identification.
Albert S. Osborn, one of the pro-
prietors of the Rochester Business In-
stitute. a teacher of writing for twen-
ty-five years and an expert.as to dis-
puted handwritings for fifteen' years,
examined with care the Swenson
checks. the Fifth Avenue Trust com-
ny checks, the letter in which Mr.
Rice asked to be cremated, the letter
whereby Mr. Rice gave all his posses-
sions to Patrick and the will of June
30. 1900. whereby Mr. Rice left nearly
all his estate to Patrick. Mr. Osborn
pronounced the signatures to these
documents forgeries. He did not utter
the word forgery, but declared that
the signatures did not correspond with
the genuine W. M. Rice signatures.
Mr. Moore objected when Mr. Os-
borhe asked Mr. Osborn whether he
could demonstrate the fraudulence of
these signatures by comparing them
with one another and not with the gen-
uine writings of Rice. Mr. Osborn said
he could do this. Recorder Goff would
not permit this question and answer to
go upon the. record. though Assistant
District Attorney Osborne argued long
and vehemrtftTV Thal all the Rice sig-
natures produced by Patrick proved
themselves forgeries. Patrick smiled
complacently when the court ruled
against his prosecutor.
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six feet high. His robe of red and yel-
low does not cover his arms, which are
left bare. In one hand he supports a
rod from the end of which is suspend-
ed a tassel of silk, white. red. yellow,
preen and blue. The suppliant ad-
vances with hands folded and placing
his head against the edge of the plat-
form above mentally and In no dila-
tory manner repeats the string of peti-
tions which he wishes to have grant-
ed.
The Lama is supposed to compre-
hend the petitions without hearing
them verbally. Touching the head of
the person with the silken tassel by
way of blessing he is at once hurried
along to make room for the next.
The chief of Lama is supposed to
have, existed for centuries and many
of the others are believed to have be-
come superior to death. There is said
to, be a hall in one of the monasterlee
where these Immortals live and from
which all the sacred writings have
come, as it takes an entire village to
house the volumes of the sacred li-
brary these beings have something to
show for their work. Everything In an
educational way emanates from this
secret chamber—works on grammar,
rhetoric, mechanics and alcheny. The-
ology and law are united in the Thi-
betan code and she number of volumes
on this subjecv/ is prodigious. The the-
Anew YORK. Feb. I-The strong-
nt point made yesterday by the pros-
eution in the trial of Albert T. Pat-
ick. accused of the murder of W. M.
Bice, was the comparison of genuine
izmatures of Rice with the signatures
g checks and other papers, and es-
reel ally those of the Rice will of 1900.
ill presented by Patrick as genuine and
Frohounced by the prosecution to be
orgeries.
JThe thing most favorable to Patrick
yas Recorder Goff’s ruling excluding
conversations over the telephone with
Rice’s valet. Jones. relating to the
tice checks presented by Patrick’s
nessenger. The recorder hela that
Inly conversations relating to Rice’s
leath were admissible.
{John H. Wallace, paying teller of
he Swenson bank, was asked to repeat
in the witness stand what Jones had
laid to him when he telephoned to
Rice’s apartment to inquire about the
5,000 check. Thi, was excluded. Mr.
Wallace identifed lit genuine letters,
hemoranda, etc., signed by W. M.
Lice. On Mr. House’s objection that
ne letter contained something which
bight prove detrimental to the defend-
Int. the recorder excluded it. Prose-
tutor Osborne said:
I "I want to show that Mr. Rice was
I vigorous old man and that he wrote
I ith strength and character instead of
II the pale, washed-out Way of the
prgeries. This letter was written Sep-
fcrober 10. The defense may say that
If he grew older his handwriting be-
pme faded and weak."
I Thereupon the letter was admitted.
I Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, health commix-
ICE SIGNATURE IN DOUBT
ALBERT T. PATRICK’S PHYSIOGNOMICAL PHASES
of the monasteries. These monkish
headquarters are the only buildings of
any architectural pretension In the
country. Thousands of monks Inhabit
them. They ar, rooted like fortresses
in the rocky sides of the mountains
and command all the table lands where
the people dwell.
The entire religious and social life
of the people is the outgrowth of these
monasteries, which they labor to sup-
port and upon which they depend al-
most exclusively for Intellectual guid-
ance. One-sixth of the people are La-
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ology is so complicated that it takes a
sixth of the populatin to construe its
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Major Cornell is responsible for the
statement that the immortals In the
secret ball are nothing but mummies,
posed on thrones before long stone
tables which have been preserved from
decay by the remarkable climate. The
dryness of the atmosphere is so re-
markable. says the traveler, that meat
positively will not decay however long
it may be kept. How Major Cornell
made this discovery about the Lamas,
he does not tell, as it is death to enter
the chamber, no living being having
entered it for centuries, food being
passed daily through heavy curtains
by veiled monks, who also bring from
the chamber the freshly written manu-
morips.
This authority further relates that
Russian emissaries have gained access
to th., monasteriee and are busy
suborning the religiose authorities to
political plans, promising to perpetuate
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