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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-1-10, Page 7TRE FIRE WORSHIPPERS. AROUND TIIE 0/114) SERIES. BEV. T,D1 TeXTT TALMAGE. • Ray, Dr, Talmage, continuing his series 'of "Rousea-the-World Seri:nous," through tlee press, obese to -day for his subject, "The Fire Worshippers," the text seleet- ea Wag Matt, 2: 1 t, "There earn° wise men from the East to Jerusalem." These wise men were the Versus, or the so-called, Piro Worshippers, and I found their descend:labs ie. India last Oetober. Their heathentem is more tolerable than any of the other falee leligiwas, and has more alleviations, and while in this "Bound -the -World" series I have already shown, you the worst forms of heathen- ism, to -day I show you the least offen- sive. The proph,et of the Parasees was Zoro- aster, of Persia, He was poet, and phil- osopher, and reformer, as well as religion- ist. His disciples thrived at first in Persia, but under Mohemenedan persecu- tioi they retreated to India, where I met them, and in addition to what I saw of them at their headquarters in Bombay, India, I had two weeks of association with one of the most learned and genial of their peeple on shipboard from Bombay to Brindisi, The Bible of the :Parsees, or fire wor- shippers, as they ars inaccurately called, is the Zend-Avesta, a colleetion of the strangest books that ever eame into my hands. 'There were originally twenty- one volumes, but Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, set :are to a palace which contained some of them, and they went into ashes and forgetfulness. But tht re are more of their sacred volumes left than most people would have patieuce to read. There are many things in the religion of the Parsees that suggest Cheistianity, and some of its doctrines are in aceord with our own religion. Zoroaster, who lived about 1400 years before Christ, was a good man, suffered persecution for his faith-, and was assassinated while wor- shipping at the altar. He announced the theory, Heis best who is pure of heart," and that there aro two great spirits in the world. , Ormuzd, the good Spixit, and A brinum, the bad. spirit, and that all that elo right are under the influence of Or- muzd, and all who do wrong are under Ahriman; that the Parsee must be born on the ground floor of the house, and, raust be buried from the ground floor: tbat the dying man must have prayers said over him and a sacred juice given* him to drink; that the good ab their de- eease go into eternal light, and the bad into eternal darkness ; that having passed out of this life the soul lingers near the eoepse three days in a Paradisaic state enjoying more than all the nations of the earth put together could enjoy; or in a Pa,nciemoniac state suffering more than all the nations of the earth could possibly suffer, but at the end of three days der parting for its final destiny; and that there will be a resurrection of the body. They are more carol ul than any other people about their ablutions, and th.ey wash zusd. wash and. wash. They pay great attention to physical health, and it IS a rare thing to see a sick Parsee. They do not smoke tobacco, for they consider that a misuse of lire. At the close of mortal life the soul appears at the Bridge Ohinvat. where an angel presides, and auestions tb.e soul about the thoughts, and, words, and deecLe of its earthly state. Nothing, however, is more intense in the Parsee Meth than the theory that the dead body is impure. A devil is supposed to take possession of the dead body. All who touch ib are unclean., and hones the strange style of obsequies. But here I must give three or fmn questions from one of th.e Parsee catechisms : Question—Who is the most fortunate man in the world? Answer—He who is the most innocent. Question—Who is the most innocent mean in the world? Answer—rie who walks in the path of God anci shuns that of the devil. Question—Which is the path of God, and which that of the devil? Answer—Virtue is the path of God, and -vice that of the devil. Question—What eonstitutes -virtue, and -what vice? Answer—Good thoughts,. good words, and good deeds constitute verthe, a,n.d evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds con- stitute vice. Question—What constitute good -thoughts good words,. and good deeds, and evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds? _Answer—Honesty, charity, and truth- fulness constitute the former; and dis- honesty, want of charity, and falsehood constitute the latter. And now the better to show you these Parsecs, I tell you of two things 1 SSW within a short time in Bombay, India. It was an afternoon of contrast. We started for Malabar Hill. on'which the wealthy classes have their embowered homes, and the Parsees their strange Temple of the Dead. As we rode along the water's edge the sun was descending the sky, and a Disciple of Zoroastee Parsee, was in lovely posture and. with reverential gaze looking into the sky. He would have been said to have been worshipping the sanesas all Parsees are said to worship the fire. But the intelli- gent Parsee does not worthip the fire. He axles upoil the sun as the emblem of warrathand light of the Creator. Look- ingat a blaze of light, wh'ether on hearth i er n the eky, he can more easily bring to mind the glory of God; at least, so the i Parsees tell me. Indeed, they are the pleasantest heathen I have xneb. They treat their wives as equals, -while the Hindoes and Buddhists treat th.em as b settle, although the cattle, and sheep, and b swine are better off than most of the wo- men of India. This Parsee on the roadside on our way e to Malabar Hill was the only one of that e religion that I had oyez' seen engaged in c worship. Who knows that beyond the t light of the sun on whieh he gazes he may t catch glirapse of the ailed who is Light, e and "in *Whom there is no darknese ab all?" We passed on up through. gates into the b garden that sus:rounds the place where s the Parsees dispose 01 their dead. This n garden was given by Samshiciji Jijibleal) t and is beautiful. evith flowers of all hue, o ' and foliage of all styles of vein an.d stotch eta stettere. There is on all'sides great tl opulence of fern. and cypress. The gar- t den is one hundred feet above the level 01 u the sea. Nob far from the enbrance is e 'building where the mourners of the tune- t ral procession 0. to pray. A light is r here kept burumg yen): in and year out. fo We ascend the garden by some eight ri stone steps. The body 01 a deeeased aged a woman was being carrma in toward the h thief "Tower of Silence," There ate free h el these tower, Several of them have et elet been 'aged for a long while, Pour per- eye sons, whose business it is to do thie, earry in the copse. They are followed by two men with long beards, The Tower of Silence, to wheel). they some, eost $150,- 000, and is twenty -live feet high and 276 feat around., and without a roof, The four 'Pardee's, of the dead and the two, bearded: men some bo thndoor of the Tower, enter and leave the dead, There are three rows of places for the dead—the outer row for the men, the middle row for the women, the inside row foe the children. The life less bodies are left exposed as far clewn as the waist. As soon as the employes re- tire from the Tower of Silersce the ven- tures, now one. now two, now many, swoop upon the lifeless form. These vultures fill the air *with their disoord- ant 'voiees. We saw them in long rows on the top of the whitewashed wall of the Tower of Silence. In a few miuutes they have taken. the last particle oe flesh front the bones. They had. evident- ly seen other opportunities for them that day, and. some flew away as though sur- feited. They sometanes carry away with them parts of a body, and it is no unusual thing for the gentlemen in their country seats to have dropped into their dooryeads boue from the Tower of Silenee. In the centre of this tower is a well, into which the hones are thrown after they are bleached, The hot sun, and. the rainy season, and chareoal, do their work of disintegration ancl disiafeetion, and then there are sluicee that carry into' the sea what reeuains of the dead. The wealthy people of Malabar Hill have made strenuous efforts to have these strange towers removed as a nuisance, but they remain, and will no doubt .for ages re- main. I talked with a learned Parsee a,bout these raortuary customs. He said. "I suppose you considez. them very perneliar, but the fast is WO Parsees eevaresice the elements of nature, and. cannot consent to defile them. We reverence the fire, and therefore will not ask it to burn oen dead. We reverence the water, and. d.o not ask it to sabriserge our dead. We reverence the, earth, ancl will not ask it to bury our dead. .Ana so we let the vul- tures take them away." He confirmed me in the theory that the Parsees act on the principle that the aead aro unelean. No one must touch such a body. The carriers of this "Torah ot Silence" muse not put their hands on the form of the de- parted. Thea wear gloves, lest somehow they should be contaminated. When the bones are to be removed from the sides of the tower and put in the well at the centre, they are touched carefully by tongs. Then these people beside have very- deckled theories about the democracy of the tomb. No such thing as caste among the dead. Philosopher and boor, the afflueniqaucl the destitute must go through the same "Tower of Silence," he down side by side with other occupants, have their bodies dropped into the SO,M3(3 abyss, arid be carried out through the same camel, and float away on the saan.3 sea. No splendor of Necropolis. No sculpturing of mansoletual. No pomp of dome or obelisk. Zoroaster's teaching re- sulted in. these "Towers of Silence." He wrote, "Naked you came into the world, 3,nd naked you must go out." As I stood at the close of the day in this garden of Malabar Hill and heard the flap of the vultures' wings coming from their repast, the funeral custom of the Parsee seemed horrible beyond compare, and yet the dissolution of the human body by any mode is awful, ancl the beaks of these fowl are probably no mare repulsive than the worms of the body devouring. the sacred human. form in cemeteries. Noth- ing but the Resurrection Day can u3ado the awful woile of death, whether it now be put out of sight by cutting spade. or flying wing. Starting homeward, we soma were in the heart of the city, and saw a building all a -flash with lights and resounding with merry voices. It was a Parsee wedding-, in a blending erected espe,cially for the marriage ceremony. We came to the d.00r and proposed to go in, but at fuse were not permitted. They saw we were nob Parsees, and that we were not even natives. So very politely they halt- ed us on the door steps. The temple of nuaitals was chiefly occupied by women, their ears, and necks, and hands a -flame with jewels, or imitations of jewels. By pentomiae and gesture, as we had no use of their 'vocabulary, we told them we were strangers and curious to see by what process Parsees were married. Gradually we worked our way inside the d.00r. The building and the surroundings were il- lumined by huudreds of candles in glasses and lanterns in unique and grotesque holdings. lanterns, ran high, and laughter bubbled over, and all was gay. Then there was a sound qf an advancing band of music, but the instruments for tb.e most part were strange to our ears csna eyes. Louder and louder were the outside voices, and the wind and stringed instruments, until the procession halted at the door of the temple and the bride- groom mounted the steps. Then the music ceased, and all the voices were still. The mother of the bridegroom, with a platter loaded. with aromatics and articles of food, confronted her son and began to address him. Then she took from the platter a bottle of per- fume and sprinkled his face with the re- dolanee. All the while speaking in a droning tone, she took from the platter a, handful of rice, throwing some of it on his head, spieling some of it on his shoulder, pouring some of it on his hands. She took from the platter a cocoanut and waved lb about his head. She lifted a garland of flowers and threw it over his neck, and a bouquet of flowers and put it n his hand. }ter part of the ceremony eompleted, the band resumed its music, and through another door the bridegroom was conducted into the centre of the ending. The bride were in the roona ut there was nothing to designate her, 'Where is the bride?' I saidel4where is he bride ?a After a while she was made viclent. The bride and groom was seat - a in chairs opposite ea& other. A. white -attain was dropped between thane so hat they could not see each other. Then he attendants put their arms nsuler this urtetin took a long rope of linen and 1 sound it round the neck of the bride and he groom, in token that they were to be ound together for life, Then some silk brings were wound around the conple, ow around this ono. and now axouncl het. Then the grown them a handful rice across the curtain on the head Of he bride), and the bride responded by arowing a handful of rice ssevoss the °sw- ain on the head of the groom. There- pon the euxbain.ciroppeci and the bride's hair was removed and put beside that of ho groose. mon a priest of the Ptersee eligion arose end. raced the eouple. Bo- re tba Iseult was placed a platter of se. He beg* to acideess the young men sal woman. 1We could not, hear a ward, at we unaeOrstood hist as well as if we ad heat& Ever and steams he -omelette- I his mammy by a handful of rico, hieh he picked up hem the piattee and flung now toward the groom end now to- ward tho briio. The sermon, wentson ht - terminably, We wanted to hear the son - were told the ceremony would eat go 04 for a long while i indeed, that it wool& not eonelisee untie two o'eloele in the morning, and this was only: be- tween seven and eight in the evernna. There woaid be a recess after a -while in the eeremony, but it would, be taken up again in earnest at half -past twelve, We enjoyed weifsb we had seen, but felt Mesa pacitated for six more hours of wedding ceremony. Silently wishing the couple a happy life in math other's companionship, we pressed our way through the throng of cougratulatory Parsees. Alle 1 them seemed bright and appreeietive of the one easion. The streets outside joyously sympatized with the transactions inside. We rode on toward our hotel -wishing that merriage in all India might be as en Lich honored as in the ceremony we hed that evening witnessed at the Parsee wedding. The Hindoo -women are not so married, They are simply cursed into the eoneugal relation. Many of the girls are married at seven and ten years of age, and some of them aro grandmothers at thirty. They can never go forth into the sunlight with their emcee maeoverd. They roust stay at home. All styles of mai- treatmeat are theirs. If they become Christians they become outca,sts. A. mis- sionary told me in India of aaIincloo we- ' man who became e Christian. She had nine chilaren. Hex husband was over seventy years of age. And yet ab her Christian baptism he told hex. to go, and she went out, horaelese. As long as wo- men is down, India, will be down. No elation was ever elevated except through the elevation, of woman. Parsee nun- riage is an. improvement ou Hinaoo mar- riage ; but Christian marriage is an im- provement ea Parsee marriage. A fellow -traveller in India told me he had been writiug to his home in England trying to get a law passed that no white woman could be legally married in India until she had been there six enoatas. Ad- mirable law:would that be! If a white woman saw whac married life with a Hin- deo is she would never undertake it. oir with the thick and ugly veil from wo- man's faee ! Off witb the crushing bur- dens from her shoulder ! Nothing but the Gospel of Jesus Christ will ever make life in India what it ought to be. But what an afternoon of oontrast in Bombay we experienced 1 From the Tens- ple of Sileuce to the aleraple of Hilarity ! From the vultures to the doves! From momating to laughter! From gathering shadows to .gleaming lights! From obse- quies to wedding! But how much of all s our lives is made up of such opposites op- posites. I have carried in the same eket, and read from there in the same , ur, the anew of the dead and the cer- emony oe espousals. And so the tear meats the smile, and the doe e meets the e vulture. Thus I have set before you the best of p all the religious of the heathen world, a and I have done so in order that you 0 might come to higher appreciation of the p glorious religion which. has put its bene - calm over us and over Christendom. Compare the absurdities and murnme- r ries of heathen marriages with the plain, "I will," of Christian marriage. the hancls joined in pledge "till death do you part." Compare the doctrine that the dead may s not be touched, -with as tender, as sacred. 1 as loving a kiss as is ever given, the last i kiss of lips that never again will speak to . Compare the narrow Bridge Chinvat, j US over which the departin.g Parsee soul m must tremblingly cross, to the wide open t gate of heaven through which the de- o parting Christian soul may triumphantly a enter. Compare the twenty-one books of w the Zend-Avesta of the Parsee, which w even the scholars of the earth despair of f understanding, with oux Bible. so much m of it as is necessary for our salvation in p language so plain that a "wayfaring man. e though a fool, need nor err therein." d Compare the "Tower of Silence" with its ot vultures at Bombay with the "Greenwood h of Brooklyn.," with its seulperea angels of resurrection. Ancl how yourselves in thinking. and prayer as you readize that if at the battles of Marathon and Salamis Persia, had triumphed over Greece, in- stead of Greece triumphing over Persia, Parseeism, which was the national reli- gion of .Penia, raight have covered the earth, and you and I, instead of sitting in the noonday light of our glorious Christianity, might have been groping en the depressing shadows of Parseeism, a relig.ion as inferior tosthat which is our in.spiration in life, end our hope in death, as Zoroester, of Persia. was inferior to our radia,nt and superhuman Christ, to whom be honor, and glory, and dominion, and victcry, and song, world without end. Amen, The Wage -Earners' Loss During the. Depression. A 110NOLOGUE. PARTY of bunters were T from a sueees ohm, cold and tired, Int pleased with the result thole spott, ana now .0 anxioes 000k their sup awl lend a place in ,w11 ix sleep. big fire was soon blaaittg, some vales:as cooked, after which. men stacked their guns and set the d. to wateh over them, while they eompo themselves to such tranquil situnba eomes to those who sleep on. natu balmy breast. Soon every mass g audible evidenee of being ixs the lala drIerrev)sa's a beautiful naoonlight night, a it might have been tba oceiat =flues of the hollow planet which caused men to have sughtmare and. the doge howl. Certain It was, that no sooner h all tbe huntere fallen into a deep, mire ing sleep than one by one they w aavalteaed by the long, melancholy Ito of a foxhosaal. "Shoot that dog, erica the leader of party,. raising him.self on his elbow e. Israel -ling the hemlock branches from face. "It's Flora—she's had a bad dream Said his comrecle, yawaine. But w e-vident that all the clogs held bad. drea and were disturbed, so that the men co n.ot sleep, and while some of them quiet the clogs two others strolled off in sear of the exeuse of their excitement, for th snuffed the air in it, direction that :sated some speeial disturbing. power. T men who started out walleecl till th. came to a clearing on whieh a sheet :stood. There was no light in the plaee nothing to show that it was occupied but some instinct led them toward The door was unfastened and they open it with a push, when a strange sou reached. them and startled them into investiga,tien^c eveird, monotonous ba ing or chantin,g, like the voice of 03 prayeag. Cautiously feeling their lie they entered the place. It consisted two small rooms, and following the sou they found under a hea,p of rubbish the further one a very siek old, man, w was far past recognizing either friend fu°3't was he who was talking, at tem rapidly and. incoherently—talking of h. )a,st life, which, whatever ha.a been tie cause that hacl reduced him to his pease tate, had evidently been a simple an sincere one. The 'two men forgot their desire fc leer. in the approaching shadow of dea,ti and by turns kept the last watch, an with forethought for th.e living, -wro ]own the strange. monologue which here presented: "Itis cold. Winter has come again, an aro living and suffering yet. Why ot God merciful? Why does he let d.eat ass me, the wretched, and forsaken on nd seud him to the happy and arospe us, to whom life is a perpetual clrea,m o 'easter° ? Once I was happy, too. It wa ong age, wh.en the days were too shor or the joys that filled them when. so ow and, age seemed mockeiies of th issia,gbiation, like the stories they te hiletr•en. to frighten. them into b ing- good. Oh, how long it i nice I climbed. the tree tee watch th ight in Marie's window, and threw boy sh kisses to her shadow on the curtain And when I was her accepted lover, wha oy to -walk with her to church, to sia,s y rivals in her company:, and to hear i he solemn panses 'of music and the banal. 1 marriage cried. between Ransom War nd Marie Scott, and feel that everyon as looking': at us, and would soon b ishing us joy! It is almost too mac or the human heart to bear—such nee exits of delicious love, when our hear alpitated with bliss and our han.cls clasp d together like those of innocent chil ren, conveyed to each the thrill of th her's delight. Has heaven any greate appin.ess than. this ? "Hark! What is that? A dog howls in the cold moonlight; I have heard it often before, and it is said to predict mis- fortune. but that cannot be meant for me. It would in.aeed. be strange if calamity had anything in reserve for such an. outcast. I am old, and have neither food nor Ere nor can these be called clothes that are the rags of charity, worn when the burn- ing sun of July warmed my feeble limbs. This roof is not mine, but even the dog howling yonder would not share it with me—he.shims the rat -infested haunt of tramps and outcasts. None ars so wretch- ed on this cold night as to seek entrance here. Ha! Who are you? a•Vhat wo- man comes here to meek me in my wretchedness! Yes, a woman, young, beautiful—go ! go! there is something in your face that reminds me of her—oh, God,. I am going mad. Who speaks? Matte? Oh, no. She is dead—has been buried these many years in the little home graveyard with a white stone at her head on which I could only record. half her virtues—it was too small. What? You sa,y she is not dead! lea, ha, you are pleased to jest with me. If you are Marie, tell me our child's name. 'Rosie?' You are right, but if you are Marie, why are riot your dear arms about ray neck., and your head on my bosom—that is how Marie died, and went from me whom she loved, to heaven, where they loved. her. sful well s •of nty per, Ix to and We' os Red • tat re's aN'a 1 Qf inc the to ad sh- ere wl the nd his Its me, aid. ed ch ey cli- he ey V it. ecl nd lk- 15 of nd in ho or OS is io ut tr 1 te is is 5, r- 1 r- 11 e- nt 5. te Tne present real distress of the -wean- earner during the business depression, great as it may be, has not been out of all prop -tion to that of other periods nor so extensive as to make us despair either of his own future or that of the country. Tbe vast majority of laboring people in the varied industries of Massachusetts, as well as in her manufactures, are neither going to the almshouse nor losing the greater part of their usual income as yet. The eheapest labor suffers most where the margin between income and necessary cost of living is smallest. and ignorance is content to live slovenly and from hand to month. Yet even in the lowest paid industry of the State—in the cotton mills, where a lower class of operatives are found, ancl the great majority are women and children, and more than two froth a family are usually at work—the average annnal earnings in 1898 were $848.60 for each individual. Then, in the matter of employment, the picture is not altogether a dark one. Por in the month of great idletees—in Septerribexe--there -were 22 per cent. of those at work in April—the best month of that year—out of work, leavinr, 78 per cent, still employed at a time when, besides the depression lei business, vaca- tion, repairs awl other shrtilar special causes (tom hissed to keep many mills idle. Aix] I think many will be surprised when they Wan that the average number of persons at work in all those industries taken. together, it the last three menthe 01 1898, directly after the monthiot ex- treme dleness, were seven -eighths the lumber having emplo,yrnexit m the last and mosb prosperous quarter of 1802. In other words, thegreat body of wage-earn- ers of. Kassachusetts were kopt ab work when the depression was most severe, earning in the eotesse of the year nine - ten ths of what they got the year before. he Tfollowing are , the 'Master dates to the ensi of else cenlasey t March 25, 1805; April 14, 1896 ; April e, 1807' April 18, 1808 ; April 19,1809 ; le, 1900, An 'eminent Boston eleetrieinn delacres the '00releriela poplar "tree to, be rattan's lie) thing rod, 7 "I must wait? I know now that you are Marie, but Marie glorified. I cannot tell how you came here, or why I ara no longer colcl or in pain, but, before I. for- get a,nd my trouble of the head comes back, let me tell you of our child. I brought her up, Marie, as you directed— was Maher a,nd /nether to her, said. the prayers an.d the litenies, and told her about you, and she grew up fair as a lily, but headstrong, a,ncl laughed at me about praying and prating, and. I sent her away to school, and—she never came back. You know ? 'Who told you, Marie? Did you hear me whisper it through the flowers on your grave? What is that? She will come ba,ek ? Oh, no, she is too happy in her new life. She choose be- tween. her old eather and his poverty and the rieh man and his wealth. I saw hese eel:erica Listen,darling. I travelled fax' th.e distant City where she live], and went to her fine home and saw the rooms lighted for a gay feast, and she was there among beautiful women and splendid men ; but thought meybe she would be glad to see her old father, and I told the ibis servant at the door who I was; and he went, to her and she would not hear him. X heard her say, 'Mose the door— you cannot teak to all the heggai.s and ire -posters who have a story to tell,' and she went off and joined the dancers, I felt something break in my -breast, and Iny head has been queer smee, for lb was a great Mow. I thought my Irate nose laved me 'when she wotela always go to her firsb slurs:bets e with her oicl tather's arm for &pillow, If she had gone as you went, Malley I could heve borne it, but shesold her birbluaght ler a mess of pote tege, "It is very ecild,ege,ia and Marie /Me gone, The dog hotels and the meori ehines dear in the blue sky like a sentinel eye, ever looking on the earthaneithout eteotlona Intve slept and deeameet that Marie ems hemaand that,' tolseher about Rose, and then she said with a divine elliao that she knew I Is there hope, thee.. for tho tchua that aleaied her ele. father ? Why, the Savior of inenevies poor, eua had. not where to lay his head. That dog • again. , he old and Waite, tooathat he deseerates the night with his eomplaiat L ,\visiltittn!oerInhaTea ,tolioeualteoeolostoofhaelcoaxpriaigieEte! Bose repented: and is elle canning to ale? I Iniew it. She loved her old father if he was poor-ace:sad there be a better reason for toying him? Perhaps Marie hae tom her that I was and alone. "Oh, pod, it is happiness that kills, and not misery. My head is turaine; round and roond. Is it Rose who Sits side me, or Marie? It is Rose, and she has taken me to hex grand home. How &to it all is—how rich the people meet, be who live here Am I to stay, or is this a dream like the other ? Mariel Then it is not Rose, anni this is one of the many mansions we used to read about to- gether, and—there—shall—be—nc—oight —them— and—they—need —no— cane las ---nei ther—light—of—the—e,u n . Why ie.—is—heaven, Marie!" He died at daybreak, and the SWO strangers who had received his last con- fidences saw him quietly laid to resb un- der the shadow of the hemlocks. They never klISW Mors of his history, and hut fax the strange instinets of their dugs, could not have given him the rites of even that woodlaud burial. Awl the sec- ret of his poverby and the record of his life rest -with him irs his hillside grave. Perhaps Rose may sea a brief aecomit his passing—or was she only the chimera, of a flighty brain? Who knows! ItIONIKEY IN TELE JUAN. _ Babies Show Signs of Descent or Ascent Prom a Simian Ancestry. 1.0 see the enonleey se the man you. her only to study the faces, bodies and habits of babies, Such is the theme of an article coatributecl by Mr. S. S. Buckman to the new number of the Nineteenth Centeu7. The actions of children are, indeed, he says, like "ancient enonuments of prehis- toric times. The human. infant is art in- teresting object of scientific. research, and even a cross baby should be cainly con- templated. by the philosophic mind." Here are a dozen of the num.erous illustra- tions which Mr. Buckman gives to show FLINTS TO FARM BUYERS TH THousAND AND ONE, THINGS TO BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. The External Appearance of the Dente- otead—The Roads and the Proximity to in selecting a farm, especianY thlee owner intends to reside upon it, .thera itzeam reulaurtsthingsauato oaaci b:nacQnesriaearled aside f notnWoth, eolatohelaysrht hho eue :not takeinitd)soti fon tol thev ec oo n: itra 11; and, Total:3r adaptability to the proposed purpOsen, but also its nearness to market, the state of the roads over which his produce will have to be drawn, perhaps in early spring or late fall, the condition of the fences, buildings and the natural drain- age. All these go far toward making a desirable or undesirable purchase, for a farm is a piece of property of which one cannot dispose whenever he may choose, Once bought, it ia much. more easily soId again if it is a desirable piece of ' land. lix addition to these, if the farm is to be the purehaser's residence, he will take into consideration its distance from school and cintreteprivileges, For a family of snaall children, it is very desirable to have the schoolhouse with. in a mile at most. This feature alone woulchlae worth hundreds of dollars in tlae value of a farm to some buyers: Muddy roads and bad weather are onn- avoidableonvennoletoh ora the eh rtioonohseis ooftohoeyear, and ie desirable. • While the dwelling house and other buildings are important matters in a farm home, do not forget that a door; yard shaded with trees cannot be sup- plied to order as they can. Be sure that at least a few trees are ready to furnish the ever welcome shade about the house in summer. However carefully planted and. tended, they will require years of growth before they afford much shade. A farmhouse with shade trees of good growth in the front yardis a more desir- able residencethan one left to the scorch- ing rays of a summer sun. It is a com- how survivals of our simian, ancestry mon saying that one can bny a farm with, may be found by any nursery philose- suitable buildings on it cheaper than the pher : land could be bought, and the buildings 1. Monkeys are snub-nosed (simian). added. This may be true, but remember So are babies. no money can give shade trees within a. year or two. It is much pleasanter to. have a porous soil in the dooryard than one which holds water like a sponge. A good orchard is worth a great deal to a. farm. As with shade trees, they may be set out, but it takes ten years at least for an apple tree to attain bearing age. No one can afford to wait ten years for apples. It is better to buy a farm with even a few apple trees than without any. A. farm on which there is no waste, and is to be preferred to one of which a portion is untillable. River flats oi. ow borders of any smaller stream are zsually • wet and fit only for pasture Marsh grass and rushes are the best of heir productions, and the pasturage von is not equal, acre for acre, to good u tpland. Such a stream is excellent in ime of drotrth to supply water for the took, but it makes a good deal of waste and which might better be under culti- 2. Babies have pouch-like ;cheeks. T judge from ecclesiastical monuments this elaaracteristic, is ' supposed to h speeially angelic. It is really monkey like. Baby cheeks are the vestage cheek pouches, possessed for storing away food as in Cercopithecus, a monkey in which this habit of storing may be ob- served at the Zoological Gardens, if visit- ors feed it. 8. At the base of the Viartobral colamn babies have a deep circular depression. This is the mark of the monkey's tail. 4. Babies (as Dr. Louis Robinson has shown), have superior arm power and very short legs. So ha,ve monkeys. 5. Babies in catchinebhold. of anything don't use their thumbs, but cease) it be- tween the fingers 'and pahre This is the action of monkeys in going from bough to bough. 6. .A. baby can move any of its toes in- dependently, and it can. move them one from another so as to make a 'V between any of them. As it grows older it loses this po-wer and also the power of turning its ankle; but that it has such poever over its muscles when young points to ancestors who used their feet more than than their hands as organs for picking up small objects; and who relied on their arms and hands for supporting their bodies, 7. Babies go to sleep on their stomach with their limbs curled up under them— e survival from ouafonrefooted ancestors. 8. Babies are rockedeto sleep, an iraita- • tions of the swaying etcaand fro • the branches where our monkey, ancestees lived. Even car seeseeeryi detties, 'Lel la - by Baby on the.Tiegefreope) point bEialiJd the arboreal age. „, . 9. The stair-clirgeilialinefoleba,bees (like the tree -climbing (propensities of boys) points back to an aboreal • 10. The fruit -stealing instinct is.a sur- vival from monkeydom. 11. Children are fond. of picking at any- thing, loose—because- mon.keys pick off the bark from trees in order to search fer insects. 12. Children are very fond of rolling. This points to the time when our ancest- ors had hairy bodies tenanted by para- sites, and allayed the ir, itation by roll- ing. The Responeibility of -Voters. Our civilization is now in the throes of a monster struggle -which threatens the very foundation of the government, and the danger of defeat lies in our beirtgans- led, cheated and deluded by apathy and insensibility, from which we must arouse with alacrity if our comatry is to be say ed from anarchy and destraetion. 'Noth- ing now can save the country from the desolating curse of alcoholic poisoning but a moral and political revolution, which must come soon. Patriotism, in- spired by high and noble desires for our country's welfare, justly demands the vigorous policy of prohibition, . The tea oration. and legal protection given to the, malignant xrioral cancer e/ alcoholic c n show the Government's base betrayal of the people's interests; this is seen in'the vile us e made of the sovereign power dole gated to the Government for tbe protee- tion of life and health of its citizens. 'This power is now being ignominiously used and prostituted by the Government to encourage its worst enemies in, destroy ing the virtue axed property, even the very lives, of the people. Certainly, no moral turpitude or injary 09a1 egeal this for enormity, and. the] e is no treason so dangerous as this subserviency of the Government to the liquor traelic, ie worse than acquiescence in. the mime and injury, se. even being aecessory to it ; it is actual particepatiou in the diabolical work ot entiestg people to their destruc- iors. • And who but the voters are most re- sponsible for this This is the sal•im portant question before the country, and ie cannot be marsh longer ignored or evade oet, Moral prineiples mast be applied to the machinery of polibies in government,, and the people most be made to reenze their own duplicity, as well as the treachery of the liquor frateraity, it is their votes that make the Governmeelt, therefore all the responsibility • rests on the 'voters, 1 r vation. A swamp or swale may be cleared up, if there is an outlet for drainage, and often makes the choicest land when so at aated. A beautiful farm home is within the reach of many a family who think that because they have nab plenty of money to spend in beautifying it, they cannot have it, Fixing up and keeping everything tidy about the place, fences in good repair and free from bushes, shade trees scat- tered about, a well -kept lawn, barns in good repair, whether they are expensive or net, aIl these cost nothing but a little time, atad add more to a farm home than most owners realize. One who rides' about the country, where he is 'anacquainted, can judge pretty closely of the ability of the farmers by the ap- pearance of their farms. If one wants to sell, the more attractive his forth is the raore readily can a buyer be found. In buying a farm, as in buying anything else, the best may be the cheapest in the end. A few dollars more on an acre may put the purchaser in possession of a farm more desirable in every way. In that case, the best is certainly the cheap- est. No one ought to buy a farm that is to be his home without giving the ma1. ter sufficient thought and personal oh, servation of all its various conditions.— E. R. Flint, in Anaerican Agriculturist. Underground London. It gives an impressive idea of what subterranean. London is fast becoming to learn that on emergina from the river the new City of Waterloo line will, in its passage up Queen Victoria street,run for a part of the way under the low level main sewer, Which, in its turn, runs along beneath the district under- ground railway. So that at this point the city we shall have, first, a busy maia thoroughfare, below that a steam railway, then a huge metropolitan sewer, then an electric railway,eeaching its terminus at a depth of about sixty- three feet below the streets, and here it will communicate with another line— the Central London--whioh will lie at a depth Of eighty feet. —London News. Zebras Broken to Harness. A zebra driven in London wottld create an excitenient, but there is no reason why this aninial should notmake. its appearance ; neatly harnessed in brown, and drawing a smart tart, it wonld not look nusightly. That these animals are now need in Africa is well known, and ina recent iesue of thelPiela someone in South Africa edvertisee teams of fine zebras broken to laarnest. —London Court Soto:nal Tri 'Pevent Salt Eton llardentrag During the warm 'weather aalt ia apt to got hard, making it inconvenient fen table use, To remedy thie mix two de- sert spoonfuls of corrotarob thoronghly With 4 box of salt,