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FEBRUARY J7, 1906. _ \
THE SUNNY SOUTH
FIFTH TAGE
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Parsis, One of the Strongest
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By FKEDERIO J. Hahtttw
N aI1 of polyglot 1 nd'Ja
Ihpre are no more unique
class than the Parsis, who
worship fire and abandon
their dead to vultures.
These people are the de
scendants of Persian ref
ugees, and constitute the
smallest and most com
pact race in existence.
Their total number Is es
timated to be less than
100,000 and fully 85,000
of them reside In ^Bombay.
-Although more than a thousand years
have elapsed since they were a self-gov
erning: people, during which time they
have lived under the government of
many creeds, including Hindus. Moham- !
■niedans and Christians, the Parsis have j
succeeded In preserving their religion and I
their personality. They have mixed free- i
ly with their neighbors at all times, i
readily adopting whatever would promote [,
their commercial or political welfare,
but havo ateaofastly refrained from in
termarriage with other races, or front j
change in their domestic life.
The strength of Pars! character is |
shown by the fact that among all their j
women there is not a servant nor a pros- j
tltute. Of 10,000 beggars enumerated •
by the census in Bombay only s i x wero j
Parsis—five men and one woman. Apology j
was made for these on the ground, that
they wero cripples without kin. The I
men may be found in every profession
and trade, but never in a position of •
servitude. Among them there are no 1
day laborers, scavengers, barbers, lauy- '
drymen or grooms. Neither are they 1
agriculturists or soldiers. Their instincts
•are purely commercial, the explanation
being that they cannot maintain them
selves upon the wages paid to menials
or tilers of the soil. A Hindu or Mo
hammedan family of eight of ten per
sons will he content to live in a single
room, but even the poorest Parsi would
not allow himself to be crowded in this
way. As a result of pure blood and
careful living their children are much |
heavier and hardier than those of any
other race, suffering least of all from
the deadly conditions of the swarming
life of Bombay.
FOREMOST RACE OF ASIA.
The Parsis, although few In num
ber, arc a proud Jie.ople. They claim they
are the progeny of a mighty race that
ruh*d Persia centuries before the time
of Christ. They say that the splendor
and opulence of the reign of their an
cestors was unequalled by any other
nation of ancient times; the chastity of
their women an-d the valor of their
men making them easily the foremost
pace of Asia. This glorious era was
brought to an end by an invasion of
-Mussulmans
earth Ot Injuring any living thing dwell
ing on It. That the birds of prey expe
dite the destruction is better than to have
millions of Insects accomollsh it as they
do when bodies are placed in the ground.
The Parsi marriage Is a picturesque af
fair. and the stranger in Bombay is al-
tvays attracted by the showy spectacle.
While they do not countenance the mar
riage of children, according to the Hindu
custom, the betrothals are often arranged
when the principals are still children
two or three years of age. In some in
stances marriages are even covenanted
before the children are born. The details
of the (betrothal are always made by a
priest, and the wedding generally takes
place immediately after the girl has ar
rived at the age of puberty. The cere
mony invariably fakes place In the eve
ning, and for the reason mat certain
i days in the year are considered auspl-
I cions, a great many marriages may occur
at the same time. The occasion calls for
I processions, bands, a profuse display ot
flowers, and a lavish exchange of gifts.
The numerous guests always attire them
selves In their richest apparel.
TYING OF MANY KNOTS.
; The form of the ceremony is unusuai.
: TU e bride and groom sit opposite earn
i oilier with a cloth curtain between them.
L'naer this screen they clasp right hands.
) The officiating priest then proceeds to
, encircle them with a piece of cloth, the
ends of which are tied in a double knol.
i In addition to this a raw twist is wound
around them seven times, then tied in
seven knots over ttieir joined hands. Aft-
; er this the curtain i«* “U-ldenly dropped
and the pride and gromi throw rice. It
I is supposed that the one who first suc-
: ceeds in hitting the other is the most in
; love, and great inLerest is always evinced
' in this test. The ceremony is concluded
i by the recital ot' blessings.
| The .formalities observed when death
I oij'urs are also notable. A dying man
washed and dressed as prayers are
The naked little man was slowly top
pling over with the weight of sleep on
his eyes. Even while the girl was
watching, his head pillowed itself on a
rock, and the tiny fist released its grip
on the plaything snake.
For a mon%ent the glri s “Boston”
aversion to children drew a string in her
lip to curl it disdainfully. She pitied
the squatw mother, a slave to this little
brown brat, a slave to toil, a creature
denied the aesthetic flights of art. Then
It presently occurred to the artist that
the papoose .presented a subject for
painting such as she had rarely encoun
tered.
8he confessed mentally that the bjt of
bronze humanity looked almost pretty;
his smooth, soft skiiy was so sunny
brown, his round, little face so tinted
'with outdoor color and baby 'innocence,
Iris pose so childishly weary and aban
doned to the day's caress!
Her eyes lighted; she began to breathe
faster at the thought of hastening away
to get her box of paints, it was late
■in the Indian summer afternoon; the sun
had edged around the cliff till its rays
were beating on the huge bank of snow
above the spring.
"Lone Pine Injun,” she said. "how
long you stay here? Are you going
back to Injun camp tonight?”
“Go back tomorrow night,” said the
man. “Make uim camp here one more
night, pix um buckskin.”
the dead rattler away with a shiver of
loathing, she beheld the small chieftain
open h'is eyes and sit up, blinking.
His brown little hand went searching
for the snake as he looked up in her
face. Without even the serpent play
fellow. he felt alone indeed.
“Now, I suppose you’ll cry,” said
Beechy. somewhat harshly. “I do wish
you wouldnt’.’’
The child continued to look in her face
with a wislftii question in his eyes. He
did not cry.
She was a strong girl, both physically
and In resolution. Having conceded tiiat
the ttisk was there to perform, she took
the velvety little rascal In her arms and
started up the Till, stoutly, leaving her
paints, her Aaisel, and the luncheon lying
on the rocks to await her return.
By the time she had reached the ridge
of the spur, Beechy was ready to place
her burden down and seat herself on a
rock to breathe. She looked from the
darkening sky to the child at her feet.
He seemed like a little dumb animal, al
ways watching her face for a sign. Again
he searched about with Ills tiny' hand
for the plaything the girl had kicked
away. She saw that he missed his
grewsome consolation.
So swiftly did the storm darkness gath
er as sho strode onward with the small
Shoshone down the slope, that the girl
glanced about her In doubt of the hills
that she had thought she knew. A low
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the entire day on the morrow In which
to sketch the Indian papoose. She slow
ly turned about to depart the way she
had come.
The sun went down; the shadows that
all day long had lurked in deeps came
forth and crept along the gorge, gain
ing on the lingering light like monster
ghosts. C'anous filled witii darkness
1 said over him. When life is extinct the overflowed till the gloom engulfed the
!/dy is wrapped in cloth and deposited mighty ranges.
on a stone slab on the floor. Before j ^ length die cold moon looked over
»:ie recitation of the funeral sermon , cliff-brink down into the cove. The
which* is an oration on the transitory 1 . . . ... .
life of this world, the face of the corpse j small Shoshone chieftain IB till sat in
•is exposed to the gaze of a dog. This i tfie grass, his big. brown eyes wide open,
Style of Dress for Parsi Women.
expect from him. The Arab spokesman
neatly' turned this affront by carrying
the sack of dirt to his general, and
throwing it down before him exclaimed:
“The soil tty -i’ersia Is ours”—and they
straightway took it.
THE SYMBOL OF SUBMISSION.
The Persians fled in all directions and
suffered untold hardships by land and
sea. For several cenluries little was
heal'd of the scattered remnants of tiiis
once powerful race, and no one knows
just liow the last descendants of it
happened to locate in Bombay. It is
dren are placed on the inner one. The
center of the tower is a stone-payed pit
into which the oones of each skeleton
are thrown after the vultures have s’trip-
| ped the flesh from it, which is generally
accomplished within an hour.
The powerful heat of the tropical sun
and other atmospheric influences soon
cause these bones to crumble into dust,
which passes into tlie earlh through a
done because tlie animal is supposed
1 to be able to guide the soul of the de-
I ceased in the direction of heaven and to
I afford protection during the journey. It
I is also believed that the eyes of a dog
I have peculiar magnetic powers in de-
js|'o«vig certain impurities which sur-
I round a corpse, and that a dead body
should never lie touched by man until
] a canine lias lookPl upon It
It is further nelieved that the soul
does not leave tiiis 'world for three
day
over by friends and relatives during
I that tiirrie. the final disposition of its oc-
: iirring on the fourth day. The female
I if datives of the deceased person con-
! tinue to sit for eight or ten days on a
carpet spread upon the floor near the
I spot where the corpse rested before it
i was taken away. During this time they
| receive visits of condolence from rela-
I lives and close acquaintances.
FIRE IS ALWAYS BURNING,
i The parsis have many customs to
distinguish them from the other In
habitants of India. The men do not
smoke because il is forbidden In their
religion to bring fire In contact with any.
thlny which is Impure. Their love of
ly ht is shown by the manner in which
they illuminate their houses with various
kinds of brilliant lamps and elaborate
chandeliers. The fire on the altar of
series of drains. At the mouth of each
drain there is a filter of charcoal and ! their temple is never allowed to go out;
know'n that one of tlielr number visited
the kingdom being siiat- j Delhi when it was Akbar s capitol to
Ted by the plundering of Arab bands, plead the cause of his homeless people.
n numerous that successful resistance
ms impossible.
The old Parsi records tell of one odd
trident in this struggle. A deputation
!mi the victorious Arabs waited upon
Some claim that the style of head dress
adopted liy the Parsis was the result of
that visit. Akbar .promised his protec
tion if they would be submissive t,, him
in every tiling. In accepanee of this
sandston
it enters the ground. This is in accord
ance witii one of the tenets of the Zo-
roastian religion to the effect that moth
er earth must never be defiled. To the
Christian the mere thought of disposing
of the dead in sucli a manner is har
rowing. It is depressing to see the
great vultures sitting solemnly on these
silent towers waiting for their prey.
|
which purifies the fluid before j tj*ey claim tiiat it has been carried with
them on all their pilgrimages and that
it has been burning constantly for hun
dreds of years. They believe that it
took a year to create the world; that
the task was completed at six unequal
.intervals, each marked by a day of rest.
All of these supposed periods are ob
served by fasting and prayer. Before
a child is burn the mother passes
Virough the rooms of her house wdth a
oghted candle hi one hand and a cup of
water in the other, the object of this
strange proceeding being to insure that
her offspring may always have light and
I ever want for water.
The memberFof this alien race have
many good qualities which are recog
nized. .They are adepts at trade, and
many of them have become rich. One
of their most pronounced attributes is
generosity, no people In India being moro
liberal in' tlieir benefactions. Queen Vic
toria knighted one of them for the
many acts of charity which he per
forates iwitfliout discrimination as to
yolor, caste or creed. They have a free
press and show great interest in all pub
lic works. The floral fountain in Bom
bay Is the gift of a Parsi, and the beau
tiful Victoria gardens were largely sub
scribed to by prominent men of this
>#iss. On the whole India fared well
when she a tilde ted this strange clan
of refugees to her shores, for her pop
ulation numbers no more substantial
i/.izens than they have proved to be.
the Persian king and told him that In
obedianee to the commands of Allah the
dominion of Islam was to be extended
over all nations; that the Persians must
adopt the Mohammedan faith and be
come religious brothers of their con
querors; the only alternative to this de
mand being to pay tribute or continue
to fight. Although the ruler of the
Wfersians wad not in a position to eon-
linuo the struggle, he scorned the prop
osition nnd planned wlia.t he considered
a gross insult to his enemies. He caus
'd a bag of earth to be brought, and
giving this to the Arab delegation t ’I
t ie mit was all the tribute they eould
Vultures on the Tower of Silence.
condition of absolute submission the
Parsis fashioned a head dress made in
the style of a hoof as a symbol that
they were under the feet of their mas
ter?. This odd shaped hat is still worn
fly them.
There are many stories which dem
onstrate the great struggle the Parsis
have made to preserve their religion and
the means lo which t-hey were some
times put to accomplish this end. On
one occasion they were approached by
theJr masters and informed tiiat they
change their religion. Knowing
But the Parsis make a plausible de
fense of the practice.
PRACTICE IS NOT POLLUTING.
They concede that cremation would be
preferable, but It is contrary to their
religious beli'f to pollute fire with any
thing so unclean as a corpse. They as-
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DAW.
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had told this decision to Shanny Mer
rill and to Adam Knox already.
It was a far cry. according to Beechy.
front aesthetic Boston to the crude
camp in the California timber; and
Beechy knew, for she had cried nearly
all the distance returning. bne had
gone anvay from the saw-mill a home’.y,
sensible girl—a woman-jeweled in the
rough; she haa, returned homely, art-
smitten, roughly cut. Hiram, Shanny,
and Adant had been a trifle more than
she could bear.
Beechy was not an artist. She was
a very angry girl, ivlio had been spoiled
by too much Boston.
As she climbed the gulch, the girl was
unconsciously permitting her spirit and
mood to reamaigamate with the deep,
omnipresent tone of nature which
breathed from these great mother moun
tains Thus she came to the brown-
grass cove where the mated Shoshone
labored with the buckskins.
The chief and Ills squaw looked up
and nodded to the girl as she stood sur
veying tlie striking scene.
“Hullo, Done Pine Injun!” said.
Beechy. She remembered to have, seen
the man in the mining town across the
summit before her father moved atway
to the lumber-camp to the westward.
"Hullo, Done Pine girl!’’
“You fix btu-ksin?" said Beechy.
“Heap pix um,” agreed the Indian.
■"Where Is the Injnto camp?”
The toiler waved his hand comprehen
sively towards the summit.
Beechy looked at the small papoose.
Then, thought Beechy, she could have rumble of thunder seemed to press the
gloom down closer to the mountains.
Beechy grew uneasy.
Almost racing down the sandy decliv
ity. the girl felt herself growing angry
again at the whole proceeding, impa
tient that the child should have involved
her in this unwelcome labor.
Por a moment she failed to observe
that the sand and rocks under foot were
flipping dawn at every step site took.
But soon such a local avalanche was
moving towards the base that she found
herself unable to halt. 'Pebbles first,
then fist-sized stones, and finally bowl
ders were rolling madly down before her
in a herd. In the semi-darkness of the
storm they seemed alive and uncanny.
I borough ly alarmed, Beechy struggled
against her downward momentum. Ev
ery movement contributed to her invol
untary race. To add to her growing con
cern, she realized that she had never
before encountered this gravel declivity;
therefore she was certainly off her prop
er course.
Clinging frantically to the baby Sho
shone. the girl abandoned herself to a
headlong plunge towards the cavernous
ravine below. This place she gained
before the rain became a torrent.
Beneath a group of trees she finally
darted, throwing herself upon the dry
mould of pine needles in a state of tem
porary exhaustion. The little brown pa
poose had fallen fast asleep.
Tlie storm was sharp but brief. The
hills were alive with sand-sluicing rivu
lets racing to the base, but the shower
had actually gone by the time the drops
came trickling through the thirsty foli
age of the pines.
With her charge once more in her arms.
Beechy issued forth at length and re
sumed her journey. The clouds still con
tinued to pile up blue-black masses in
the sky; the ranges were dark and the
summits lost In wreaths of mist.
Resting frequently, climbing not so rap
idly, the girl continued upward for some
thing more than an hour. Then she
■paused to looak about.
The ihllls were unfamiliar, the world
oddly silent, lifeless, and deserted.
“Something queer,” site mused; "that
slope over yonder is the only one that
seems to be right at all.”
She thought she should have been
above Done Pine by flhJs and almost in
touch with the old Indian cariVp. Skirt
ing tlie rise, she labored ahead for yet
another hour or more, till she came to
the hill she had noted. Its features
then were foreign to every remembrance,
while still another rounded shoulder
lured her onward and up.
More slowly and with fading hope, she
continued the climb. Her arms ached,
■her shoe was grinding on her heel. Sud
denly she halted.
“Why.” she cried aloud, "I’m lost?**
“Nit no!” she cried again; and stirred
by fear, she hastened here and there,
up and down, over and across the hills,
wildly and in a fever, hour in and hour
out, striving now to find anything fa
miliar which should lead her home or
to anything she knew. The afternoon
was worn away. The daylight failed.
The brief twilight retreated to tlie high
est peaks, and the darkness of night
descended on the desperate girl and the
child. Utterly fagged, broken in spirit,
she sank with a moan to the inhospitable
earth. In sheer self-defense she folded
the wondering child to her breast for
warmth, and sat with her back to a
tree, bitterly inveighing against the hour
she had gone to the gorge.
Hour after hour of the keen autumn
night was heralded aloft by the mighty
his hand again clutching the lifeless
snake for companionship. He stared
across the narrow arena at a huge pyra
mid of .snow, standing like an Indian’s
caintipoodie, beneath the now empt,y sear
•In the solid wall. It was such a sileni
eampoodie. It was such a white, frozen
'wigwam. The water of the spring had
trickled out from beneath the mass, but
the door It had made was very low ami
consequi ally a body Is watched j small. There were ttv 0 Shoshones in
the gretCT, white camp, their work in
their hands, but they never came out.
The little, cold papoose waited and
watched.
The day was balmy warm again, tlie
ardent suit was even sucking up the
mist from tlie hills and valleys to roll
Into clouds, when Beechy Daw came
climbing up the gorge, box of paints
and bundled easel in hand. From time
to time, as slie reached an eminence, slie
halted and turned about to scan the
path she had come. If Hiram Thole had
really started to follow, as she lielteved
he had, she had foiled him completely.
He might watch, if lie pleased, to catch
her iTfiurning; it would be a long day
of waiting she would give him.
U’,p the final stairway of spilt bowl-
dcra she went like a chamois. The old
Sierra exhilarafTon was again upon her.
Not even to herself would the girl ad
mit how intensely she loved the moun
tains; it was foo much like conceding a
point against Boston.
She was panting when she reached the
brim of the cove. With an amateur
artist’s concern as to whether the model
had moved, she looked for the little
papoose. There he was. asleep, exactly
as she had seen him the iprevious after
noon.
F • lnomenT >he girl was so eager to
beg that she knelt upon the ground
ana mt at her strapped easel and box
before she looked af anything else about
tlie place. She remembered the working
Indians at Inst, as If It were merely a
matter of duty. She looked up, to nod
them, a morning's salutation.
Winking her eyes nnd brushing back a
wisp of hair from her face she stood
tyr>. a puzzled expression on her brow.
She stared at the silent heap of snow
steadily. As gradually as the moonlight
had crept down the wall, a look of pale
ness and dread crept from her chin to
her mouth and up to her eyes. Her gaze
slowly returriefi to the brown papoose,
asleep In the grass. She started for
ward, Jnd stoped. Then, with a creep
ing feeling of terror, she slowly ap
proached the monument of snow. She
presently realized, however, that Red
Wolf amd CaVnipany were pa*rt all human
assistance. Her thought came back to
tit* child again. She thought of the Ilt-
tcreature’s possible hunger.
She experienced a feeling of annoyance.
It would certainly be harsh to go down
to the mill and send some one else to
carry down the child; yet—the child had 4
no right to Hlrust itself upon her care.
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Reluctantly her stubborn mind admitted' I procession of the stars.
him up. Whither to turn, which of the
hills to clamber now. where all of them
towered to stern austerity, her mind
refused to suggest.
"I must climb to a height and look
about.” Beechy toid herself courageous
ly. She cradled the small papoose, and
toiled in pain to a summit.
AH that day—a day of matchless
beauty, but soulless—she labored pa
tiently onward, here, there, anywhere
that beckoned with the mocking prom
ise of hope and resemblance.
She was weak by noon, defithlj^ wear;w
hv the time the sun began! to hear its
western throne. Now and again she
drank at a spring, wet the baby’s lips,
and batlied her hands and face. She
gathered and ate of the manzanita’s lit
tle red berries. They were dry, sweet
big with seeds; her head began to ache
and throb from their powerful effect.
The Indian child made never a sound.
Afraid to cry, incapable of speech, it
gazed in dumb appeal in the face of the
girl with those tireless eyes of animat
eloquence and beauty.
At the end of the sun’s ruddy paint
ing in the west Beechy had staggered to
one more hill, to look with hopeless eyes
on the endless stretch of mountains.
How much they seemed like the hard,
swollen muscles of pitiless giant earth:
As she gazed to the west and slowly
turned to the south, as she sat in hope
less weariness on a rook, she suddenly
started and uttered a low, eager cry,
half a moan, half a shout. S'he arose,
and, shielding her eyes with her hand,
peered long and breathlessly down
athwart the hills.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
that the child’s condition demanded a bit
of humanity.
“I supposo the least I can do is to
take you home to the Injuns,” said the
girl, frowning upon a tendril of feeling
in her bosom; and, kicking the body of
Stiff, and staggering with the aches
and pangs of her whole body. Beechy
arose with the dawn. The Indian child
was awake, gazing in dumb awe ui»jn
the face he found above his own.
Her arms were sore when she lifted
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