This was the sixth chapter of the immaculate life story of the Lotus-Bom Master, on how the king of Tibet took hold of his kingdom.

it was in the Year of the Ox when King Trisong Deutsen. who had reached the age of twenty, gave rise to the thought of practicing the holy Dharma, and this deep aspiration took root in him: “The former king. Songtsen Gampo, constructed many temples in this pitch-black darkness of Tibet. He had many texts of the holy Dharma translated, and he was extremely kind to Tibet. Now, I shall cause the holy Dharma to spread and flourish! I will construct a temple that will be a palace for the three jewels, a site of devotion and rcspcct for all the people. I shall build a temple to fulfill my sacred aspiration. What kind of temple should I construct?” He then decided, “I shall build a temple that resembles the four continents and Mount Sumeru, surrounded by the ring of iron mountains!”

King Trisong Deutsen laid the foundation stone in the Year of the Tiger, after having turned twenty-one. He then heard that in India, there lived a famous bodhisattva known as Master Bodhi- sattva, endowed with extremely great wisdom. The king furnished jnana Kumara, a translator who knew both Tibetan and Sanskrit, with a drey of gold dust as a gift and dispatched him with two sen-ants to invite this master to Tibet.

As an introduction, I feel that it is important you understand certain aspccts about my life, because even though my story is not about my Mormon heritage, my religious beliefs played an important role in events that happened to mc.

In 1953. I was born in the Mormon Colonics in old Mcxico. My Great­grandfather practiced polygamy, as did my Grandfather later in his life, which is how I came to be born in Mcxico. Polygamy was a principle taught and lived by Mormon Church leaders and their members at that time in the Church’s history. Mormon polygamists were persecuted and driven from their homes, until finally, many were forced to flee the country to avoid legal prosecution.

My Great-grandfather had four wives. In order to keep his families together and avoid a jail term, they joined a group of similar refugees that fled across the New Mexico/Mexico border in 1885 and settled what is now known as the Mormon Colonies.

My forefathers may have been obedient and God-fearing people. They certainly endured the most controversial, turbulent and violent times in the history of the Latter Day Saints Church, and perhaps they really believed in what they were doing.

At the least, I can say that the women they married were devoted women of faith. No matter how difficult their journeys or how sorrowful their lot; they were obedient women who believed their Prophet was a man of God.

THE FUTURE

Rivers and streams typically make up less than 5 percent of the landscape across the Great Plains. Water in the Ogallala Aquifer is an integral factor in irrigated row crop production across the Great Plains. Precipitation varies across the region. Overall, water avail­ability constrains human development and is the defining controller of ecosystem structure and function.

Multiple-use pressures, including municipal, agricultural, indus­trial, and wildlife demands, have only increased in recent years. The number and variety of stakeholders, those with a vested interest in Great Plains water issues, continue to increase. Efforts such as the three-state Cooperative Agreement among Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming are designed to reconcile the disparate priorities regarding water allocation (Cooperative Agreement, 1997). Ranchers, farmers, urban dwellers, state and federal agency representatives, and mem­bers of environmental organizations such as The Nature Conser­vancy and the National Audubon Society, are all intensely concerned with the fate of that simple, yet remarkable and absolutely essential substance—water.

Although it is unclear how the future of the Great Plains will unfold, there is no question that water issues will be at the center of decision-making. An ongoing sense of awareness and subsequent ur­gency regarding Great Plains water issues has flavored developments on the Great Plains for centuries. That is not about to change any time soon.

Hydblogical Drought as a Settlement Inhibiting Factor

Conrad T. Moore

For more than two-thirds of a century historians, geographers, and other scholars have debated the issue of why the Great Plains was passed over as a region for settlement until relatively late in the nine­teenth century.

Hut these same trees are as straight as arrows, without knots, and almost without branch.cs except nenr the top, and of enormous <i/e and height. It is from thence that the fearless eagle l«x>ks steadily at the sun, seeing beneath htm enough to glut his formidable claws. ‘Hie fish there arc fed anil laved in sparkling and pellucid waters, and are none the less delicious for the bountiful supply (of them). Thcte are such large numbers of swans that the rushes among which they arc massed might l>c taken lor lilies. The gal>bling g«x>se, the duck, the teal and the bustard are m> common there that, in order to satisfy you of it, I will only make use of the expression of one of the savages, of whom I asked Ixrforc I got there whether there was much game there. “There i< so much,’ he 8 David I) Plain

told mo. ‘that it only moves aside (long enough) to allow the boat to pass.’ Can it lx: thought that a Luid in which nature has distributed everything in so complete a manner could refuse to the hand of a careful husbandman who breaks into its fertile depths the return which is expected of it.’ “In a word, the climate is temperate, the air very pure; during the day there is a gentle wind, and at night the sky, which is always placid, diffuses sweet and cool influences, which cause us to enjoy the benignity of tranquil sleep-

A traditional story confirms l ather Hennepin’s description of the mouth of the St. Clair River. It is related that long ago during our forefather’s time (probably the early eighteenth century) the most easterly channel of the river ran from l-akc Huron through the eastern end of Canatara Park flowing in a southerly direction and erupting into the wetlands at Sarnia Bay.

‘Ihis is what, as a radical empiricist, I say to the charge that the objective rcfcrcncc which is so flagrant a character of our experiences involves a chasm and a mortal leap. A positively conjunctive transition involves neither chasm nor leap. Being the very original of what we mean by continuity, it makes a continuum wherever it appears. Objec­tive reference is an incident of the fact that so much of our experience comes as an insufficient and consists of process and transition. Our fields of cxpcricncc have no more definite boundaries than have our fields of view. Both are fringed forever by a more that continuously develops, and that continuously supersedes them as life proceeds. ‘Ihe relations, gener­ally speaking, arc as real here as the terms arc, and the only complaint of the transccndcntalist’s with which I could at all sympathize would be his chargc that, by first making knowledge to consist in external rela­tions as I have done, and by then confessing that nine-tenths of the time these arc not actually but only virtually there, I have knocked the solid bottom out of the whole business, and palmed off a subst itute of knowl­edge for the genuine thing. Only the admission, such a critic might say, that our ideas arc self-transcendent and ‘true’ already; in advance of the experiences that arc to terminate them, can bring solidity back to knowledge in a world like this, in which transitions and terminations arc only by exception fulfilled.

Scorpions are found in the warmer regions of both worlds, inhabiting neither the arctic nor even the tem­perate regions. Those of Europe arfc scarcely more than an inch long, while in India they are sometime* five inches. The tail is moveable in every direction, and the scorpion usually carries it raised above its body, bent in an arch over its head.

The bite of the scorpion, according to Redi and Maupertuis, is not always poisonous, though it occa­sionally is so. The full ertect of the venom seems only to be felt when the powers of the animal have not been for a long time exerted. The European species are scarcely in any instance capable of inflicting a fatal wound. The remedies are oil and warm sudoritics. It was usual to order oil in which scorpions had been suffocated; but the addition of the insect is an idle re­finement. Emollient cataplasms are said to be also useful; but, as the bite is seldom dangerous, many re~ raedies have obtained an unmerited credit.

The scorpion devours its own young, and even its. companions; but its favourite food is flies, and par­ticularly spiders. The female is verv prolific, pro-, ducing from forty to seventy yeuag ones, which* ar$ born alive. The females are larger than the males j but the sexual organs have not yet been discovered. They are supposed to be placed between the dentelated laminae.

EPISTLE TO THE READER.

ing is not st tbis tine without mmer-buftders, whose mighty de­signs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration erf posterity; but every one must net hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an age that preduoes such masters, as the great Huygemus, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some others of that strain; it is ambition enough to be employed as an undeitJabourer iu clearing the ground a little, and removing

- -    some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge; which cer­

tainly had been very much more advanced in the world, if the eu- deavonrs of ingenious and industrious men had not been much cum* bered with die learned, but frivolous, use of uncouth, affected, or unintelligible terms introduced into the sciences, and there made an art of, to that degree, that philosophy, which is nothing but the true knowledge of things, was thought unfit, or incapable, to be brought into well-bred company, and peiite conversation.

It then comes out below the orbit, and Is dif­fused upon the face, particularly upon the nose, the tipper lip, and cheek. See Trigeminy

MAYS is a kind of Indian wheat. See Cerralia.

MEA TUS, (from meo, to pass), a duct, passage, or any open canal. The auditory passage is the meatus auditorius; the Eustachian tube meatus a palato ad au- rrm; the urethra meatus nrinarins; the ducts which convey the bile from the gall-bladder to the duodenum the meatus c^stici.

Mra’tus audito’rius exthrnus is the external passage to the ear, beginning at the hollow of the outer ear, and ending at the drum. It was formerly a uame for the Eustachian tube. See Auricula.

Mra’tus r^’cus. See Tuba Eustachiana.

MECAPA’TLI. The American name for one of the species of sarsaparilla.

ME’CCHA, Bals. See Balsamum.

MECHOACA’NA A’LBA, (from Mcchoachan, a province in Mexico, whcnce it was brought). Rhabar- barum album, convolvulus Americanus, jalapa alba, bryonia alba Peruviana, mechoacan. It is the root of an American species of convolvulus, chiefly brought from a province in Mexico; but its flower has not been so ac­curately described as to enable us to ascertain strictly to what genus it belongs. In the later works of Lin­naeus it has been referred to the genus convolvulus, with the trivial name of mechoacana, but with no pecu­liar precision. It is cut into thin transverse slices, like 1 jalap ; but is larger, whiter, and softer. This root was first brought into Europe in 1524, as a mild cathartic, which having but little taste or smell, was thought not to offend the stomach ; but the common jalap hath su­perseded its we. The phytolacca dccandna Lin. Sp. PI. 030, furnishes the Canadian mechoacana. See Raii Historia ; Tourneforf s Materia Medica.

Before we proceed to consider the medical properties of milk, we shall describe more particularly the milk of different animals, viz. that of the cow, the human female, the ass, the goat, the sheep, and the mare.

The general appearance of cow’s milk is well known, and to this standard we shall refer the taste and more obvious properties of other milks. It is differently flavoured, however, according to the age and the food of the animal. When near the time of calving, it is more of an animal nature than at a future period ; and the milk of farrow cows is, at first, saline. The alliaceous and the umbelliferous plants, horse mint, cabbages, and turnips, give it their peculiar flavour. The leaves of maize are said to render it mild and saccharine ; the po- tatoe plant insipid. The Alderney, Alpine, and Sardinian cows give a very rich milk : those of the north and of Catalonia an aqueous blue milk. Tessier observed some milk, which w as white when drawn, soon became blue ; a change attributed to their eating the isatis (woad). Dr. Garden found, that the milk was blue after the cows had eaten of tliis plant; and it is usually