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VOL XIII.
"THE WHITE CITY." 1
Greece was , Greece ig no more.
Temple and town
Have crumbled down »
Time is the lire that hath consumed them
all.
Statue and wall
In ruin strew the universal floor.
n.
Greece lives, but Greece no more!
Its ashes breed
The undying seed
Blown westward till, in Homo’s imperial
towers,
Athens reflowera;
fetiil westward—lo, a veiled and virgin
shore!
in.
Say not, "Greece is no more.”
Through thp clear morn
’ On light winds borne
Her white-winged soul sinks on tho New
World’s breast.
Ah! happy West—
Greece flowers anew, and all her temples
soar!
IV.
Ono bright hour, then no moro
Shall to tho skies
Thoso column# rise.
But though art’s flower shall fade, again
the seed
Onward shall speed,
Quickening tho land from lake to ocean’s
roar.
v.
Art lives, though Greece may never
From the ancient mold
As once of old
Exhalo to heaven tho Inimitable bloom;
Yet from tho tomb
Beauty walks forth to light the world for¬
ever.
—E. W. Gilder, in tho Century.
I Tho Columbian Fair Buildings at Chicago
have thus boon named by Mr. H. C. Bumicr.
THE MAN-EATER
■■MiS WILTGHT had faded
j on the hills; the great
- • - disk of tho moon was
ik y riding over the ser
rated hollows of the
@ two great forests.
mV The earth, still hot
• jfoH- vICnA with ii the dead dden day’s
bu of ^’ the ie breeze, mi drop
the
beasts of the roaring beauty of nocturnal
prey, of the firma¬
ment above a land still unsubdued by
man after thousands of years of civili¬
zation, tho ruthless fecundity, savage,
vast as tho ether, invinciblo as the
ocean, took possession of, dominated
and amazed the mind of James Mac¬
Carthy, and filled his heart with a full¬
ness of poetic grandeur. Behind him
followed a humble eon of India, Bavad
jeo, tho runner, slender, with high,
shrinking shoulders, formed from a
minimum of matter, but with a good
heod, and intelligent and gentle mouth.
Before him wont Djouna, the guide
provided by the village of Nardonares
to pilot him to tho lair of tho tigress,
tho man-eater, who had that day carried
off a laborer. As they advanced, step
by step, tho murmurs of tho night be¬
came louder and moro terrible, the
growling of the animals re-echoed over
tho plain, tho hugo bats floated athwart
the orango light
Bavadjee-drew closer to MacCarthy;
his fright was balanced by a feeling of
pride in serving the thick-set Irishman
with the belligerent eyes, with the
rough, good-natured: kind face at once irascible and
“Are we Saht#’ near?” asked James,
f At “Yes,
the entranco to a rocky defile
Dj ouno halted tremblingly. He signed
with outstretched hand : “It is there.”
Before them lay a sinuous surface,
. one of' those secluded corners of the
jungle where the full sway of natural
forces, the struggle of the instincts of
animals and plants create a splendor
and a putrefaction. The moonlight
embroidered tho fig trees, the somber
trunks, tho masses of tho foliage. It
wove a delicato lace work over tho
great bindweed, the lichens, tho castor
oil plants, over a pool that was choked
with old bark, with half-withered
rushes, with bright green water plants.
The sky seemed mado of scintillating
constellations; wild creatures of wood
and water roamed stealthily through
tho undergrowth, lay in waiting for
their prey, or fled at tho approach of
danger. In tho intervals of silence
were heard the sighings of a mysterious
rivulet which seemed to bo subterra¬
nean, and the distant plaint of jackals.
“It is there?” repeated MacCarthy.
“Do you know the exact position ?”
“One day in winter,” answered
Djouna, in a low voice, “when I went
in search after a strayed heifer—I ■
the man-eater at the mouth of her
cavern. ” In an almost inaudible voice,
and trembling in all his limbs, he
added: “She was devouring tho re¬
mains of a young woman ! Since then
Chandranahour, he who was carried
off this evening, witnessed at tho same
place a similar scene. ”
“Ah[’’ejaculatedMacCarthy. lead the “TJicn,
can yon me to very, spot?”
“I can,” answered the Hindu, with
gentle resignation.
They rounded the dense thicket and
came to a natural pathway cut by tho
Winter torrent. The moon, midway
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. JUNE 17, 1893.
from tho zenith, sent penetrating
shafts of light through tho branches.
The three men advanced lightly and
cautiously, with eyes fixed on the dark¬
ness. The fret of their clothes against
the plants, the tread of their feet on
the ground were indistinguishable
irom the sound of grazing animals and
the slight rustle of the fig leaves. A
soft, bodeful coolness emanated from
the undefined denseness of their
surroundings. Peril, like an evil
spirit, roamed around them, transfigur¬
ing the aspect of every tree they passed,
inscribing fantastic, gruesome symbols
everywhere.
Bavadjee and Djouna, at the inevit¬
able approach of danger, fell into a sort
of hypnosis, the source of the passive
bravery of so many Orientals, of their
gentle, obstinate resistance before
which tho Occidental has at times re¬
coiled.
With distended pupils, with thought
lulled to passivity, they walked like
somnambulists, whereas with Mac
Carthy, his will, nerves and reason
were fighting a sharp battle. In spite
of his keen realization of possibilities,
his purpose never wavered. He be¬
hoved in the strength of his arm, in
the clearness and precision of his sight;
Mid he felt all tho electric elation of
the brave man face to face with danger,
which permits of no regrets.
While liis mind vaguely dwelt on
these things in tho non-analytic ruan
uer of a man of action, ho saw Djouna
suddenly had stopped and turned ner¬
vously to him: “We are there—that
clearing behind that block of stone. ”
They stopped. James took one of
tho rifles which ho had allowed Bav¬
adjee to carry in order to assure supple¬
ness and steadiness to his arm at the
supreme moment. Silently, with
lightest stops, all three reached the
stone and knelt behind it. A fine
ground mist hovered before them and
sufficed to render them invisible. But,
in peering forv.Hfd, every detail of the
clearing could be seen, sparsely cov
ered with low plants, and lit up by a
ray of moonlight. Cautiously Mac
Cartliy raised himself nbovo the aero¬
lite, and leaned over it.
He was filled with unspeakable hor¬
ror.
Toward tho middlo of the space, ten
yards away, at tho mouth of a den,
formed by superposed blocks of stone,
he saw outlined the form of the regal
beast; there lay tho colossal tigress.
Between her huge paws was Chandran
ahonr, the laborer. Ho was not dead,
he did not seem to bo wonnded even—
at, any rate seriously. The keen sight
of the Irishman could see his eyes open
and shut at long intervals, and his
breast palpitated with the rapidity of
that of a bird caught in a snare. The
tigress watched him in an indolent
manner, like a cat with a mouse. And
like tho cat, now and again she let go
her prey, she relapsed into a posture
of negligence, of feigned inattention,
of sommolent grace.
The Irishman, with rifle ready, dared
not lire. A revulsion of fury, of pity,
for a moment rendered his hand un
suro.
Two awful minutes passed. Then
slowly, slowly, Chandranahour moved,
lie stretched out his hands and raised
himself on his elbows. Tho moonlight
irradiated his faco distorted by speech¬
less terror; tho contact with death had
stiffened his mouth, and filled his widely
distended pupils with stupor. He
turned his head toward tho tigress.
She seemed to be looking vaguely else¬
where, sleepily indifferent to the pres¬
ence of her prey. Then Chandranahour
began to draw himself along and suc¬
ceeded in gaining two yards of dis¬
tance.
MacCarthy, seeing tho livid faco of
the doomed man nearing him, took aim
with his rifle. Unluckily a movement
of Chandranahour rendered all inter¬
vention impossible at the moment; for
his heod came into tho lino of sight.
“Curse it all!” murmured James.
However, encouraged by tho contin¬
ued indifference of the man-eater, tho
Hindu began to drag himself along
more quickly. A desperates hope lit
up his eyes, but only to dio tho next
moment; ho heard tho beast move.
Suddenly she rose and made a bound.
Tho man, as in a trance, let himself fall
to tho ground, between tho great paws,
faco to faco to tho glistening teeth, the
terrible eyes.
“She is playing,” murmured Djouna,
who had gono close to MacCarthy.
“Yes,” returned tho other, “tho ac¬
cursed brute is amusing hersolf!” His
soul seemed plunged in darkness. Ho
saw looming in a lugubrious apotheosis
the beast who in our own era still dom¬
inates ancient India; who is not only
tho devourer of man, but who dares to
amuse herself with him as though he
were merely a feeble animal.
In tho intensity of tho moment, he
realized that by means of certain
subtly displaced forces, by a little more
ruse joined to tho terrifying swiftness
and tho alert muscularity of tigers, by
tho merest power of association, tho
reign of tho feline would have been
possible. At that moment there rose
in him a desperato thirst for ven¬
geance, overmastering a desire to con¬
quer the man-eater without killing her,
to torment her and insult her, to make
her feel tho supremacy of tho being
that for six years she had mado her
prey: “Be calm !” Ho forced his heart
to beat more normally, and anger no
longer clouded his eyes. Meanwhile
the tiger, with a purring sound, and
with light, nimble movements, turned
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
Chandranahour over on the ground
and reveled in the joy of domination
and of power, The poor man, huddled
together, seemed like some poor infirm
herbivore, thin, slight and defenseless
against the queen of the jungle and
the forest. She, biases, a supple, ele¬
gant, awful symol of the struggle for
existence, soon recommenced her ter¬
rible play, recoiled without haste, in a
tremor of anticipation, her movements
impelled by the contempt of the strong
for the weak.
When she was two yards distant she
remained motionless, and her amber
eyes closed slowly. She was the ex
pression of perfect certitude; she
already tasted the charm of this living
repast that she was resolved to moke
vory soon as she crouched there, the
sinister magnificence of triumphant
musele. Tho victim hod not relin
quishod all hope. The instinct to live
beat invincibly in him, and dominated
the conviction that all bffort was
futile. After a moment of uncertainty,
he raised himself and recommenced
his crawling flight exactly as he had
done before, that effort of agony,
terror and feeble energy. MacCarthy,
this time, was in fnll possession of all
his faculties. He allowed Chandruna
hour’s head to pass the line of vision,
and made his choiec between the
prudence of firing straight to the heart
and his eager desire to punish the
brute. The report rang out. In the
cloud of smoko James saw Chan
dranahour’seilhouot raise itself rapidly
and tho howling tigrcBB with a crushed
paw lifted in a moment of surprised
stupor.
“Courage!” leaped shouted the Irishman, as
he over the sheltering block.
Chandranahour throw himself forward;
the tigress made a short, rapid bound.
She had not timo to recommence. A
second shot rendered another paw use¬
less. Overcome, powerless, with re¬
doubled howls and gleaming jaws she
lay . tliero a mere symbol of force.
Chandranahour, sheltered behind his
protector, had, in excess of joy, lost
the use of his muscles. In a dazed
condition ho leaned against the stone
supported by Djouna. McCarthy
seized his second rifle from tho hand
of Bavadjee and took threo steps to¬
ward the tigress.
She tried to raise herself, or at least
to crawl toward tho European; she
stretched forward her monstrous head,
her dovouriug jawsin which so much hn -
man flesh had been macerated, so much
existence annihilated. Sho fell back
powerless, and James contemplated her
with a cruel, revengeful satisfaction;
it seemed to him that she now under¬
stood the power of man, that hence¬
forth she would no longer dare fear¬
lessly to seizo her prey in tho village;
that at least sho would kill hastily, ap¬
prehensively, as one kills a too dan¬
gerous enemy.
“Sahib, ” asked Bavadjee, “will you
not kill her ?”
“No; I want to make her a prisoner.
Is Chandranahour hurt?”
“No, Sahib, only a little weak.”
The rescued man came and knelt be¬
fore the European and with humility
kissed his hands, gratitude and un
speakable admiration shone in his great
black eyes.
“There, there,” said James gently.
“Will yon bo afraid to remain alone
■with mo while Bavadjee and Djouna go
to fetch cords, canvas, a stretcher and
bearers?”
‘ ‘Ah, Sahib! I feel in greater safety
near you than behind a triple wall of
bronze. ”
‘ ‘In that case, Bavadjee, you can go.
Is your rifle in order. Good. Then
go!”
The night under the clear sity, grew
cool. The firmament absorbed tho
heat; the plain was deadly cold. But
in the forest there remained a gentle
warmth, a dreamy atmosphere rendered
heavy by the carbonic exhalation of
the trees. Tho light fell like a snow of
atoms. Palo stars floated in the depths
of tho zenith, on tho imponderable
lakes of the Milky Way. MacCarthy
sat himself down against the root of a
great tree and contemplated the wound¬
ed tigress. Moments of pity came to
him, gentle shivers suggested by tho
splendor of tho night. But when ho
turned and saw Chandranahour, still
exhausted with his terrible adventure,
trembling at every growl of pain, his
anger revived, and grew to a solemn
hatred.
Four hours lator the creature was a
captive. Her body was bound with in¬
terlacing cords. A network of bamboo
formed a sort of low cage. Tho men
of the village pressed round it. She
still seemed formidable to them, with
the grandeur of a subterranean deity,
of a deity similar to tho murderous
forces, tho sinister powers of sickness
and death, of which India has made in¬
numerable gods.
They encouraged ono another ; they
wore reassured by the presence of the
European, and at tho moment 'when
tho bearers stooped to raise their bur¬
den an old man approached.
“There you lie, man-eater, reduced
at last to impotence; there yon lie,
broken and captive! A man has van¬
quished you ! You will now learn tho
supremacy of our race, you will howl
behind the bars of a cage, and little
children will mock at your fury. You
will go from village to village, from
tho top of a wagon you will pass the
jungle and the forest, whoso delight/s
you will never moro taste! Your life
shall be a profound humiliation because
you have profaned the nobility of aur
brothers, iind because you have played
with their glories!” The creature
cowered, weakened by suffering, and
the Hindus thought that, in he*j ob¬
scure substance, in hid, harrow, fero¬
cious brain, she recognized the
supremacy of Man. —From tho French,
in Independent.
a s*.
_ ——
Strange Customs in Borneo.
Charles Hose, during his recent
i? nrne y up Northwestern the little known Baram
llver * n Borneo, made
! son ?° interesting discoveries among tho
n!l tives. Early in hisjourney he spent
■
I night, in a native house, and it was
I nut until next morning that he discov
i j <;re '^'■'liieli .fl at he the had head not of noticed liis bed the a large night box bo
! inquiry, which lie proved to be a coffin. On
was informed that it con¬
tained the mortal remains of the chief’s
wife. Ho found that it was tho custom
of these people to keep a corpse in the
house for three months before bury¬
ing it.
When the body is removed to tho
hardwood mausoleum prepared for it,
everybody sends one or moro cigar¬
ettes made of native tobacco to their
dead relatives in Hades. These cigar¬
ettes are placed on the top of tho coffin
and around it. If tho deceased person
is a man, his weapons, tools, and a
small quantity of rice, together with
his cooking pot, are put in tho tomb,
so that he may continuo his daily pur¬
suits in tho other world. If the body
is that of a woman, a large sun hat, a
little hoc used for cultivating the paddy
fields, her beads, earrings, and other
finery are buried with her body, so that
she may not be found wanting on her
arrival in tho other world.
The brass or copper earrings are es¬
pecially important, and weigh some¬
times as much as two pounds each. The
lobe of tho ears are pierced when a
child js about eight months old, and
earrings weighing t.wo or three ounces
are hung in them. This weight grad¬
ually drags down the ear lobe to a
great length. Weights aro added
yearly as the child grows, and by tho
time she reaches maturity tho ears
reach her breast. Mr. Hose says he
saw girls put their heads through these
car lobes.
Tho Sibop tribe, further up tho
river, are skilful in tho use of the blow
pipe, and with this weapon they kill
numbers of monkeys, from which tho
Bezoar stones are obtained. Those
stones are highly prized by the Chinese,
who aro glad to purchaso them at a
high price. They use them as medi¬
cine for all kinds of ailments. Tho
stones are said to be found in the in¬
testines and in the gall bladder of tho
monkey. They are of various sizes,
usually flat and oval, and the largest
stones, about tho size of a hen’s egg,
bring from $20 to $25.
Further up tho river Mr. Hose’s
party wished to catch some fish, but
they had no tackle. An ingenious
Dyak produced a piece of thread which
ho tied on the end of a stick, and with
a small piece of brass xviro which he
bent into a hook it began to look as if
ho meant business. Tho party then
searched for worms, but found none.
The Dyak, however, was not to be de¬
feated so easily. Sitting down on, a
stone ho took out his knife and cut
small pieces off the solo of his foot,
with which he baited the hook, and be¬
fore long ho landed a fish which prob¬
ably was unable to resist so tempting a
bait. All the party made similar
hooks and applied to their Dyak friend
for bait, which ho cheerfully supplied.
—New York Sun.
Walled Cities In Asia.
Tho first glimpse wo got of an East¬
ern walled city unfolds at onco memo¬
ries of our childhood days, which have
perhaps never boon awakened since,
and the pictures of our childish books,
which impressed themselves so vividly
upon our minds, are reproduced in the
bright colors of old, when we are
brought face to face with the quaint
battlements and tho dark gateways,
with the accessories of bright, burning
sunshine and turbaned figures and
processions of camels and tho listless
calm of tho tropical land. Such old
cities aro still to bo seen in India,
still walled in tho old fashion and still
peopled by tho figures of the Biblical
picture book.
Close aldn to them are those walled
towns standing on the canals of mid
China, passing through which, say at
the close of day, when every tower and
every roof stands out clearly cut
against tho brilliant western sky and
we aro challenged by a grotesque
figure, armed with a spear and proba¬
bly wearing armor, the illusion is
complete, and for the moment wo find
it hard to realize that we are traveling
at tho end of tho Nineteenth Century.
Even in much changed Japan there
are old cities which still retain their
walls of tho ago of feudalism, and in
the very heart of the capital tho im¬
perial palace is surrounded by tho
same quaint fortifications which in old
troublous times made it an imperium
in imperio, although tho walls are
crumbling and the gates aro never
shut, and the moats have been aban¬
doned to tho lotus and to carp of mon
trous size and fabulous age,—Chicago
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