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THE ORDEfiL BT NRE
A Hindoo Ceremony That Puzzles
ths Uninitiated.
WALK OVER GLOWING COALS.
Participants In tho Mystifying
Spcc:&cio Play With tho Fiery tm-
I be is aa Children Play With Sand
I and Emarga Unharmed.
i 1 once witnessed a most remarkable
iordeal by lire at Delia res, India. It
won held on the grounds of a villa on
(the outskirts of the city, and among
lus were some of the most prominent
■ueu and women of odieiul and social
life ia Dritlsk India. Army and navy
officers touched elbows with French
•avauts. all more than glad to accept
an Invitation that might at least offer
(Opportunity either to catch some clew
toward solving the mystery of the In
dian lire ordeal or else catch the priest
ly performers in a nice trap at consum
mate and age long deception, success
fully worked among a superst.tloua
and overcrcdulous people like the Hin
doos.
Seats had been arranged for our par
ty out on the spacious lawn, where u
trench had been dug sixteen feet long,
•lx feet wide and four feet deep. The
lire in the trench was lighted before
moon, but the ordeal Itself was not to
come off until after sunset. The treuch
was tilled with kindling wood and logs
•nd was set allrc by the attendants,
(who kept up a blaze as hot as a blast
(furnace all day Ion.?, until the trench
Iby sunset was llMini three feet deep
'Willi a compact, glowing bed of red
bot coals.
We wore escorted to our seats at
about G:.'so, uud we wore not inclined
to question the reality of that fire from
the moment we sat down within twelve
ffeet of If. Whatever else might be
ifruud or hypnotism In this Indian tire
lordeal, we could not for a moment
doubt the realism of that scorching
dient that made our eyes smart and
Igrow bloodshot. We, who lmd' come to
iscoff and doubt, were soon realizing
that the managers of the Benares tiro
dr deal had already gained 7 b points out
of 100 In favor of their honesty and of
their power over the mighty element
of tire, that figures so largely in orien
tal philosophy as one of the three or
four primal elements of the physical
universe.
A great commotion and babel of
(.voices soon proclaimed tho coming of
the procession of priests, headed by
the arch priest Brahmapoots, carrying
a huge ludian sword, followed by tho
►two minor priests who were destined
to walk unharmed through that yard
thick fiery bed. scintillating in tho In
creasing darkness and lighting up the
dark faces of the hundreds of gaping
►Hindoos standing behind us. While
wo Europeans and Americans, always
'hypercritical and given to scientific re
•enroll, were awaiting the coming of
ithe moment when our 7b per cent of
credulitK was either to be shattered or
rounded out to the fullness of a com
pleted and abiding faith in Hindoo
control and mastery of the devouring
elemetTt of fire. our''Hindoo fellow on
lookers. on tlie other hand, wore antici
pitting the ordo:il with nil the simplic
ity of credulous children. Ours was an
almost terrifying heart tension, and we
almost wished that we were not Occi
dent:! I skeptics, always bent on doubt
liiv- things of an extraordinary nature.
The priests marched about the trench
chanting and performing mystic Incan
tations. carrying along a glass reliqu
ary. or shrine. In which was seen the
Image of the god Siva, who. In the
Hindoo religious system, is one of the
trinity and !■; worshiped as the de
stroyer. Brahma being the creator and
Vishnu the preserver of tho universe.
We i’<) not know to tills day what those
priests si! Id as they perambulated
about that fiery trench, but we do
know wh.at soon followed, for, at the
end of the Incantation, the two candi
dates for the ordeal plunged Into the
redhot coals and walked ankle deep
flu* v.ho'e length of the trench, back
ward and forward, time and time
a "it In. They played with that scintil
lating. glowing fire as children play
with the sands of Coronado beach,
kicking It with their feet and stooping
down to pick up handfuls of the glow
ing coals, tossing them In the air. to
be blown by the rising evening breeze
all over our heads and our easily lu
flnmnutble clothing. We were really
afraid. No doubt about those sparks
and live, falling coals!
When the two priests had walked up
and down alone through that fiery
trench tin-cat hod and miscorched,
then the whole Hindoo throng seemed
to suddenly catch th spirit of their
priests, and. sure of their conquest over
the power of fire, they began plunging
Into the treuch. Old men and young
children walked through that fiery fur
nace. forward and backward, and
when they had tired of this "playing
with fire" they came out ns they had
entered, not a hair or a garment
scorched, not even the soles of their
feet blistered.
Only males are allowed to go through
the lire ordeal.
Never yet has any scientific theory
explained the power of the Siva wor
shipers over fire. We ourselves were
absolutely convinced that trickery was
not to be considered as an explanation
of what we had witnessed.—l.os Ange
les Times.
A Caddie’s Cadenza.
Lady Golfer (to would be caddie)—
Tint what do you know about the
game? Gan you make a teo. for in
stance? The Would Be Caddie—Can I
m <>.-e— Why. In my young days, lidy,
1 used ter do It that well they called
mem the tor.caddy.—Loudon Sketch.
Wasn’t Sure.
“Remember," said the lawyer, “you
have undertaken to toll nothing but
the truth."
“I’ll do my best.” answered the ex
pert witness, “but I won’t know how
far I have succeeded until I’m through
with the cross examination.”—Wash
ington Star.
The Doubt.
Borrows—By the way, Knox, did 1
leave my umbrella at your office yes
terday? Knox—You left an umbrella,
but I don’t know whether it was yours
or not.—Exchange.
ODD WAYS OF FOETS.
Tennyoon, Artistically Fastidious, Was
a Personal Sloven.
There la a sort of Idea in the public
mind that the poet is what scientists
call a ••fixed genius,” that every poet
is the exact counterpart of every other
poet. There is probably no class of
men In the world—if class it can be
called whose members differ more
widely in personality.
Pope, for instance, was a miser
Drydeu, Sedley, Rochester and Shelley
seemed to have no use for money and
“splashed it about Ln the most Insane
fashion. Shakespeare was a keen man
of bn: : ; Ills 1 m:itemporaries. Mar
love an 1 Massinger, did not leave
enor.'-h to have their bodies decently
buried.
Coming down to modern times, Ten
nyson was artistically the most deli
cate and fastidious of men. A mis
placed comma, an epithet which was
not Hie perfection of expression, gave
him nights of insomnia.
Yet he was perhaps the most utterly
careless man of his generation regard
ing his personal appearance. Had he
not benn carefully watched by Ids de
voted wife/he would have been quite
content to wear a suit of clothes until
it dropped off him bit by bit in obedi
ence to the law of gravitation.
A great admirer of Tennyson once
described bis first mooting with the
great poet.
It occurred at a roadside public
house In the Isle of Wight. The late
laureate was seated by the kitchen
fire, with a short black clay pipe be
tween Ida lips, burning grease spots
out o." r, pair of check trousers with
the point of a redhot poker.
It was probably Tennvson’s “faculty
of.silence” which helped him to secure
the friendship of the greatest talker—
In both senses of the phrase— o? bis
generation. Thomas Carlyle.
Carlyle had occasional fits of silence,
and lie and Tennyson would sit on on
positc shies of the hearth for six hours
at a stretch without exchanging as
many words.
At the cvniration of snr>h a period
of silent intercommunication Carlyle
would knock tlic ashes out cf his last
n'pe and remark with e-cry symptom
of the keenest intellectual satisfaction.
“Aye. Alf-eil, mon, we’ve had a glori
ous nlohC”
Tennvson’s great and friendly rival.
Ttrowning. was ns different from him
in his personal peculiarities as he was
in point of genius.
He always looked as if he had just
been turned out of a bandbox. Ten
nyson was one of the most silent of
men. Browning one of the most ebul
lient and loquacious. Tennyson was
pessimistic and somewhat morose.
Browning was always bursting with
optimism and expnnsiveness.—Chicago
Inter Ocean. •
ANCIENT ARMIES.
Ten thousand horse and 100,000 foot
fell on the futal field of Issus.
The army of Artaxerxes before the
battle of Ounaxa amounted to about
1,200.000.
An army of Cambyses, 50.000 strong,
was burled in the desert sands of Afri
ca by a south wind.
A short time after the taking of Ba
bylon the forces of Cyrus consisted of
GOO.(XX) foot. 120,000 horse and 2.000
chariots armed with scythes.
Ninas, the Assyrian king, about 220
B. C.. led against the Bactrlana his
army, consisting of 1,700.000 foot sol
diers. 200.000 horse and *IO.OOO chariots
armed with scythes.
When Xerxes arrived at Thermop
ylae his land and sea forces amounted
to 2.(541,010. exclusive of servants, ou
lmchs. women, sutlers, etc.. In all num
bering 5,283.220. So say Herodotus.
Plutarch and Isocrates.
Why Paper Cui3.
Have you ever cut yourself with a
piece of paper? The edge of a piece of
glazed paper looks much like that of a
knife under the microscope. Of course
the little teeth have not the strength
of steel, but If the edge of the paper is
drawn swiftly over the finger without
much pressure that peculiar property of
matter called Inertia comes Into play,
and the tender teeth will cut the flesh
before they are broken. The same prop
erty it Is which allows a candle to be
shot through a one inch plank or per
mits a bullet to pass through a pane
of glass without shattering it, leaving
only a clean, round hole.—C. H. Claudy
in St. Nicholas.
Lincoln and a Suit of Clothes.
On one occasion a judge was ill and,
l>eing unable to sit in a case, delegated
Liueoln to hear the matter. The ac
count of a guardian was in question.
He had paid S2S for a suit of clothes
for his ward and Justified it on the
ground that it was a necessary ex
pense. Lincoln held against the guard
ian on the ground that it was an ex
travagant expenditure and in passing
on tho case stated that he had never in
his life owned a suit of clothes that
I —-~t eoc
Religious liberty was granted to the
Huguenots in France in 1502 and was
followed by the massacre of Bt Bar
tholomew in 1572.
WOMEN OF HOLLAND. 1
Dutcn Feminine Costumes Are Coo
Complex For Words.
The women’s costume is a trifle too
complex for verbal description, as
feminine belongings usually are, but
the white lace cap which covers the
head from eyebrows to nape of neck
and from ear to ear, curving out in
rounded wings on each side of her
cheeks, is always a conspicuous and
inevitable portion of a woman’s attire.
It may possibly be that on Sunday
this rap is a trifle whiter or stlffer or
daintier than on week days, but the
difference is not very apparent.
The ladies assure us there is a vast
difference in the quality of the net and
Ike amount of handiwork employed,
but the leus made no special note of
that. In shape and outline the camera
finds great distinction between these
caps and those of Katwyk or Markon
or Bois le Due, but between Sunday
and Monday eap3 in Volendam it re
cords none whatever. Fpr the rest of
the costume feminine Holland asks
above all things apparently a very flat,
narrow chest surmounting enormous
hips, and Volendam is no exception
to this fashion rule. The invariable
black “best waist” of the elder women
i.; usually brightened by a square yoke
cf lighter color and material, and the
dark apron or overskirt is topped by
six inches or more of gay plaid or
bright colored band worn over an un
derskirt of dull blue striped or black
material and uncountable petticoats.
About the throat a collar formed of
many rows of heavy dark red coral
Leads is fastened by huge silver clasps,
miff the number of rows, the size aud
quality of the beads are matters for
feminine pride. Long hair is not the
glory of women in Holland, save per
haps at Marken. It is usually hidden
and at Volendam is cut quite close and
entirely covered by a tight fitting thick
black silk cap concealed beneath the
snowy white lace. The younger girls,
from the tiniest toddler to the young
meisje, old enough to wed, wear dress
es and caps the exact counterpart of
their grave mothers, no less full of
skirt or narrow of chest, but much
gayer in color. A group of tiny maid
ens in a stiff breeze on the dike resem
bles uotliing more than a swarm of
butterflies.—Florence Craig Albrecht in
Scribner’s.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
No small noise sounds as bad as that
made by squeaky shoes.
Lift any little woman’s thumb and
you will find a man under it.
How few people are as polite to their
friends as they are to strangers!
People seem to begrudge a preacher
everything he gets except his vacation.
The child that is ruled by love and
the child that has its own way live at
the same house.
If you were a mind reader you would
learn a lot of unpleasant things which
now you can only surmise. ,
The man who prides himself on being
a “great observer of little things” can
usually be relied upon for a few un
pleasant remarks.
Soon after a boy ceases to credit his
father with being the smartest man on
earth he Imagines his father should
consult him on all doubtful issues.—
Atchison Globe.
Inflection.
The wife of an army officer at a
western post recently had occasion to
visit a small neighboring town to do
some shopping at what is called the
general store. She was much enter
tained by the variety and antiquity of
the stock of goods, and as she passed
out her eyes were attracted by a pile
of mottoes, elaborately lettered and or
nately framed, the upper one being the
Scriptural passage, “Walk In love.”
As she paused the clerk, a dapper
young man of more affability than ad
vantages, stepped forward with the
remark: “Them are the latest things In
mottoes. This top one is swell to put
over a young lady’s door—‘Walk in,
love.’ ”—Llppineott’s.
The Outdoor Boy.
Let the boy learn to hit the bright
spot with a rifle, and if war comes he
can hit the button on the coat of an
enemy the first shot and does not have
to be taught to shoot over again after
he enlists. If he is familiar with guns,
boats, water and the wild woods, he
will be handy anywhere, and you can't
lose him. Any boy who has got a fa
ther who won’t do the right thing by
him and give him a chance to love the
woods and the water and the free,
clean air that God serves free, when
you get far enough away from man’s
city can come along with me some
time, and I will show him how to have
the time of his life.—Outer’s Book.
He’ll Get the Girl.
Tommy Rattles was turned down
when he asked Elsie’s father for his
consent. The old man said that Tom
my was a good boy, but lacked per
sistency.
What Is Tommy going to do about
it?
He goes to the old man and asks him
for his daughter three evenings every
week.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tax P (a c*v<?rs Notice*
2nd Round. Will be at the following
named places on dates given below, forth*
purpose of receiving State and County tax
returns.
TANARUS, B. Bell’s Store April 22 in forenoon.
Kinard’s store, Apr 22nd in the afternoon.
Elgin, Hammond’s store, April 22nd iii
the forenoon.
Indian Spgs, Apr. 23rd in the afternoon.
Cork, April 24th in the forenoon.
Flovilla, “ “ “ afternoon.
Dodsons store apr 25 forenoon.
Stark, April 25th in the afternoon.
Worthville, Apri 1 26 in the forenoon.
Fincherville. “ “ afternoon.
Jenkinsdburg, “ 29th all day.
In Jackson every Saturday till books
close . G. E. Mc.Michael,
Tax Receiver.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE
FOR JACKSON.
Local lAssengor trains pass th >
Depot, at the times mentioned below.
NORTH BOUND.
No 17 6 41 A
No .7 9 :57A. M
No. 15 2:82P. M,
No. 9 8:48 ••
SOUTHBOUND.
No 18 9 58 P M.
No. 16 7:38 A. M
No. 8 3:08 P. M
No 10 8:08 ‘
SEMI-MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP/
Partnerships Between Cities and Com
panies Are Bad.
Whenever in these days an electric
light company is unfortunate enough to
have a street lighting contract expire
in a city where the municipal owner
ship of the street lighting plant has
been agitated there sometimes comes
forth out of the chaos of ideas as i >
how the municipal ownership busbies?
should be handled some proposition
from a private company which pur
ports to have the welfare of the city
rather than any private gain at heart.
This company, with great love for
the commonwealth, either real or as
sumed, usually comes forward with a
proposition for a kind of “semi-munici
pal ownership,” the company to per
form the work of lighting the city for,
a number of years at a good round
sum and at the end of the contract the
lighting plant to be turned over to
the city free of cost and payment for
the plant to be made out of the regular
monthly payments of the city for its
lighting, such monthly payments being
Invariably a good round sum per lamp.
Now, such propositions as this may be
made in good faith by a company of
public spirited but misguided citizens
who really wish to serve the city, and
there are usually some respectable
names connected with an enterprise of
this kind when it is launched. How
ever, there is usually an African some
where in the woodpile or at least a
strong possibility that there will be one
before the game is through.
It seems remarkable that any munic
ipality in this day and generation can
be deluded into the belief that any
such scheme of semi-municipal owner
ship can compare for a minute with a
good, straight, short contract at rea
sonable rates with a corporation al
ready ln the lighting field. After all, a
redeeming feature to this scheme is
that at the end of a term of years it is
fairly certain to bring home forcibly to
a municipality the depreciation due to
advance ln the art as well as the de
preciation caused by wear and tear.—
Electrical World.
ITS INFLUENCE ON BRIBERY.
Municipal Ownership Would Mfrfy
but Not Abolish It.
One of the truest statements made
by advocates of municipal ownership
is that it would put an end to bribery
of city officials by public service cor
porations. It certainly would wher
ever that is practiced. But it wouldn’t
put an end to bribeable officials, and
unless the city should manufacture its
own engines, machinery, street cars,
electric lamps and other supplies the
quality and price of these would be
largely regulated by such officials.
Every one who is familiar with the
school trade knows that orders for
school books and supplies are in many,
cities obtainable only by crossing the
palms of members of school boards
with a liberal supply of gold and that
a change of textbooks is
ordered merely because of these itch
ing palms.
Municipal ownership will not change
human nature, and venal officials can
hold up manufacturing companies just
as easily and profitably as they can
lighting and traction companies. Did*
it ever occur to you that a corporation
isn’t anxious to get rid of its money,
that way? But when it comes to a
holdup almost any one will give up
the “long green” to “public servants”
who are zealous, not for the public
welfare, -but for their private purse, i
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