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: 5 " ' Mynhe i 999999T' BY ST. QEORC 9999999' CoPTr.icKT 1KB, Rc h ?. CHAPTER XVII. [Continued.] Thcv visit the Towers of Silence, enter magnificent bazars, watch the wor ehipcrs in the mosques, where the venerable monlnjee chants in a harsh voice or reads the Koran, while the devout Mussulmans bow in the direction of the setting sun, for Mecca lies thither, far away over the Persian Gulf. They see life upon the great Bhendy Bazar Bead, where porters carry loads, stately elephants are occasionally met, bullocks draw native vehicles; where stride the rich Brauxnln, the poor givalla, or cow-herder, the lordly rajah and his attendants, and the lower grades at Hindoo people, of different castes, each picking his or her way along without touching others, which faculty make* a crowd In India more endurable than In any other place on earth. All these things and others they ee. The eyes never tire watching -?* U.1 t J ik? 4 Tne nuuuiu aajeiuoHcupe umi luuua end changes before him. In no ether city on earth can this peculiar spectacle be met with in so intense a form as Bombay. Mingling with the colored robes of the natives, the white or red coats of the British soldiers remind one of a stupendous fact?that India, containing about a quarter of the population of the globe, is in reality ruled by some thirty thousand British soldiers. Truly the Hindoos are a peace-loving people. No warlike nation would thus tamely bear the yoke of the conqueror. While Sandy and the Honorable Demosthenes Tanner are thus taking in the sights, Mr. Grimes nurses a lame ankle at the hotel. This leaves Mynheer Joe to show Molly about. They have a very enjoyable afteinoon, though It is just possible they are as much wrapped up in each other as interested in the singular sights upon which they gaze. This is only ?fie same old story, with variations, that has been toid since the days of our first parents, and which will never be antiquated. Love's young dream! What an ecstasy It carries. No time in future life can compare with it. It is near the close of the day, when they are thinking of returning to the ' hotel that they arrive in front of a targe mosque. aiaiiy persons ;?re passing in and out. for worship is carried on at all hours among the Mo bammedans. \ "Let us look in," says Joe. "I think r"1t will repay you for the trouble." attention to a frowning ' ilindoo o&tr the door, but soon sees * that tlj# ^Trill not allow his compaction to- pass. This mosque is just as ^eacred as the highest at Mecca. The followers of Mohammed believe So "little i? \jomen having a soul like themselves that they deprive them of many privileges. They are deemed servants, slaves, or, if particularly beautiful, fit subjects for a harem. Thus foiled. Mynheer Joe and his fciir charge turn away, laughing. they do not seeir. to feel very badly over the matter. True, the young woman's curiosity is piqued, but there are so many things to be seen in the quaint 0? city that It need not worry one if a single door is shut in one's face. It is just at this moment that they Jbecome aware of something out of the ordinary in the air. Molly shivers. "Are we going to have a storm V I feel so very queer!" she remarks; ' while Joe looks upward in a thoughtful maimer. tv\Anf t/\n Sfr T mt'OAi f iAUW uui juu laudi.vu iit x uijovu -*m conscious of a strange sensation. Perhaps it comes from being on firm land after two weeks ami more o:r chipboard: or it may be that crowd yonder Las sometbi; * to do with it." His words draw liei attention down *he Bhendy Bazar Road. Sure enough, -ft crowd does seem to be advancing. Something in the way of excitement reigns in that quarter, and Joe. always on the alert, strains his eyes to mane out what it is all about. I "Listen!" erics Molly. She stands there like a statue, with her head poised, just as the beautiful deer might hearken in suspense when the distant blast of the huntsman's horn echoes through the forest. The breeze is light, but it ehance? to come from a favorable quarter, where the people are seen, and now they can catch voices i^'sed in deep anger, bellowing forth angry words. "Listen! Oh, Mr. Joe, it's the governor!" cries the alarmed girl at his s'de. Sure enough. Mynheer Joe has occasion to jump to that conclusion himv self, for that roar of a bull cannot possibly come from any one else. He looks closer, and discovers that two figures fly In front of the crowd, one .tall and Immense in stature, the other - rather diminutive?in short, the fugitives can be no other than Mr. Tanner and Sanuy. tyiiat sort of a mess have they gotten into now? The pursuers seem determined to wreak vengeance upon them, and it looks serious, for when once excited these Mohammedans and disciples of Vishnu are hard to con troj; ap insult to saint or god is verj apt to be followed by speedy ven iv wj er Joe. | \Z JJATHBORNE. jj beet Bon nzc's Son* Stance upoh the head of the thoughtless offender, for these Mussulmans , and idolaters are more touchy about their religion than true believers. "Come," mutters Joe, uneasily, "this looks like a serious business. If they overtake them I'm afraid murder will follow. Too bad! What have they been doing? Is this any work cf that rascally Russian? Never mind crying over spiit milk. The only thing to be done is to save them?but how!" That is the rub?how? Mynheer Joe has to think quickly, for the crowd surges nearer with every minute. lie has an idea which promises at least some hopes for success. If he can delay matters?keep the enemies from coming into personal contact for a little while?all may be well. "Molly!" he says quickly. "Yes. Joe," she replies. In times like these etiquette Is forgotten. "It Is your father's life that is In peril. I will be able to hold them in check for a time. Will you dare something for his sake?" "Yes, yes! Only tell me!" she gasps. "Run as fast as you can to yonder i corner; then <lov?i the street to the left until you come to the cantonment, j Tell Colonel O'Brien it is Mynheer Joe who is in danger. He will send troops on the double-quick." She turns and hits from the spot like a gleam of light. Mynheer Joe has had his attention at once occupied 1 v the rush, ranting and holding each a revolver in his hand, Sandy and the Western orator rush up. Then Mynheer Joe stands out between them and j the mob of angry Hindoos. He raises his hand, and, with the gesture of one born to command thunders out in their tongue the word: "Slop!" CIIArTER XVIII. STDEET LIFE AMONG THE HINDOOS. The natives are very much wrought up by something that has occurred. It does not take a great deal to excite a crowd of Hindoos, especially if they are engaged in worship. Any indignity to their god or the mosque wherein every object is sacred to them, whether the insult is real or fancied, will bring tbem around like a swnrni of bees, eager for tne blood of the transgressor. Mynheer Joe knows this full well, and judging from the excitable condition of the crowd, fears that his friends have been unwise in doing something. The Hindoos cease to advance. This word, spoken in their native tongue, tells them that the other is ? master. His personality is great. He checks their desire to reach out their hands and clutch their intended victims. Eager dark faces, shining out from under varicolored turbans, greet the view, some beared, others smooth. Two dozen pairs of black eyes are focused intently upon one point, and this the countenance of Mynheer Joo. lie holds them as if by some magic. They are swayed in a measure by his mind. It is the power of oue will over others. "What docs this mean?" he asks. A dozen voices endeavor to answer him. The babel is such that he cauuot understand. He waves his hand with authority. Then he selects one who seems to be more intc'ligeut than his fellows, as hij face is crowned by gray hair and beard. "Let this man tell i..e all," he says. Tliey push him forward as spokesman, a position he is eminently titled to fill. "It is plain. It is simple. We were worshiping in our temple before Vishnu. No man dares cuter there with his shoes on. Suddenly we hear a terrible noise, and these two foreign devils jump in through the window. That is a deadly Insult to our god. We burn to avenge it. We chase the Inglese here. We demand satisfaction. Vishnu will have revenge. Their blood must wipe out the insult. That is all." Murmurs of applause arise as the o!d Hindoo finishes his little speech. Mynheer Joe sees that it is as he feared. These people must be handled with gloves in all that pertains to their LCU^IUU. "Now hear me. You are fair and just. It is only right both sides should, explain. Your god was insulted. I believe it was au accident on the part of my friends, for they do not go around insulting honest worshipers. I -shall near tneir story and repeat it to you. Then we will see if this trouble may not be averted." His manner pleases them, for they reel he is an honest man. So Myn- j iieer Joe turns to his friends and begs11 Sandy to explain, which that worthy I does in an excited manner, accompanying his words with gestures. The traveler smiles, for lie sees the 1 i situation is not so bad as lie feared. , ly speaks to Demosthenes Tanner, vho rageiiy agrees to ills proposition. ;'kcn once more the friend of Gordon aces the eager, attentive crowd, and * rocccCs lo get i.io 1"; J ends out ol llii; scrape fnto which their lack of due caution has thrown them. "Listen!*' he says, sharply, and the muttering in the air ceases as if by ma sic. "It is. as I believed, an accident. My friends had no desire to disturb you in your worship, or to insult your great god Vishnu. With reverence they were looking in through a window, standing upon a platform, when one end of It gave way and precipitated them through the opening. They could not explain matters because they are unable to talk your tougue. so the best they could do was to retreat. My stout friend is particularly grieved that such a thing has occurred. Ho desires to make restitution as far as possible. Let the high priest come forward and accept a handful of rupees. That will prove their friendship." The point is well taken, ami Joe knows their weakness. Immediately a hubbub arises. Most of t lie crowd seem to be in favor of an eager acceptance. A few demur, but they are so much in the minority that they are speedily snowed under and the moulajee comes forward to receive the promised rupees, a venerable man, who resembles the priest Joe saw lu the mosque, though it cannot be the same. Mynheer Joe has been careful to keep back a portion of the truth, because he fears lest It create new trouble. At the time of the sudden disaster Sandy had been just putting the finishing touches to a picture of the ugly old idol Vishnu, and he lias managed to retain his precious notebook through all the disturbance. The humor of the crowd has changed as wonderfully as upon many a similar occasion, for there is nothing more fickle upon earth than a mob. The worshipers of old Vishnu are now eager to call the Americans their friends, though It is ail done by word or gesture. Hand-shaking is generally tabooed in India, for n man fears lest ha lose caste by touching another and have to inflict punishment on himself as a penalty. Just at this moment there bursts into view a detachment of Sepoys, headed by a British ollicer, at whose side runs brave Molly Tanner, They ..v KV??v.?v? ..? , Illinois Senate. Why. trnless you're . on you're guard he can easily bring you around to his way of thinking and make you believe black Is white." The girl turns her head away again, this time to hide her rosy cheeks; she blushes without hardly knowing why, save that there Is something in her father's aianner of speaking that seems like a sly allusion and warning to herself. Love is very sensitive, especially at that stage where the modest young woman awakens to the condition of her own heart, and the backward young man has not yet gathered courage enough to storm the citadel which he hopes to capture. As the crowd rapidly increases, with evening coming on apace, it is deemed best to leave the scene and retire. The soldiers vieht about face and head i back toward the cantonment after the four Americans have entered a palkee gharry anil started for their hotel. Mynheer Joe decides that the baron can hardly be held accountable for this affair, since no stretch of the imagination could invest him with the power to weaken the platform and hurl the two adventurous lookers-on in Venice through the window of the temple of Vishnu. As the incident has really been pro- 1 ductite of no more ill than relieving t Tanner's pocket of so many rupees, 1 which he can easily afford to offer at ' the shrine of the idol, they feel that , they can well afford to laugh over the } adventure now. I This is especially the case when, af- t tcr Joe has eloquently translated his ? speech, and told how he praised the ' beauties of Vishnu, Sandy passes his ; notebook to Molly, and her eyes fall j upon the well-executed fac-simile of j tlie hideous idol those benighted people worship. Her laughter breaks forth like rippling water, and the deep bass of the j governor joins in the tide. ( Passers-by turn and survey the shi- s gram with amazement, as though won- < uering what manner of passengers it 1 contains. ' They reach the snug little hotel as ] night is casting her mantle over Bom- j bay. A young moon nearing the halfway stage hangs high in the beaveus. proving that it will not be dark at east. v [To be Continued.] _ / 1 \ 1 I I BILL ARP. I 5 * ? w S*TtSS5iS1lS*5n?SfS?iRSSi*S*S."S^ A good lady, a neighbor and friend, bought one of my books and expressed her pleasure at its perusal, but found one fault that did not harmonize with come from the cantonment, and it is evident the colonel did not hesitate a moment when he learned that Mynber Joe was in danger. Of course, all are relieved when they see the three Americans uninjured. and mark the change in the humor of the crowd. Molly cannot understand it. and as she affectionately greets her father she asks: "What is this? One time these men seem eager to murder you, and now they act as though on the best of terms!" i Demosthenes Tanner, still blowing 1 hard from the effects of his wild run, Jerks his thumb over his shoulder and , remarks: ] "It's all owing to Mwnheer Joe. He palavered the heathen, and made them ] believe we were doing their old got! a i real favor when we tumbled into the 1 temple -through the window, after the * beastly platform gave way." , "Indeed! He seems a wonderful j man. governor," murmurs the girl, , stealing a loo!: at the object of her i thoughts who. just then, is engaged in < conversation with the British officer, < explaining the cause of the sensation. 1 "Yes, my dear child. Snch logic as 1 n?ce(.i?AC n-nnlil ovpn ?nthn?o her Hebrew feelings, for she is a Jewess. In two places she found a sportive anecdote that reflected upon some of her people, but they were too good to be suppressed, and would have been told on Gentiles as well. My respect for the Jews has been too cften expressed in my letters to be questioned. It is not mere respect, but it is wonder and admiration. I rejoice with them that the ages of persecution have passed, and that they can now worship God according to their conscience and the faith of their fathers. Their ancestors appeared at the very dawn of creation. They have bern broken up and scattered time and again, but have preserved their sacred literature and customs and religion. and have outlived every nation that oppressed them. They have had no king nor ruler nor political head, and have been scattered among all climes and peoples, but have never lost their nationality nor mixed their blood with any other people. They have for centuries struggled against the Egyptians, Syrians and Romans, and survived them all. They were in later centuries proscribed by the Catholics of Spain, the Protestants of Norway, while their persecutors sang the songs of the Psalmists and taught the wisdom of their prophets. We rejoice that their jdeliv.erance from persecution came along with that of our own when we proclaimed religious iiberty and civil equality to all who made America their home. I have long admired that people, who have excelled In domestic virtue, in obedience to law, whose children honor and obey their parents. Rarely among them arc found convicts or criminals or drunkards or suicides, or divorced men or | women. Their names seldom appear on the dockets of the courts. And yet they are patriots when patriots are wanted. Kcsciysko had no braver troops than the Polish Jews who followed his banner, and if I bad to name the most faithful soldier I ever saw in our civil war I would name Jonas, of our town of Rome, a Jew who never shirked a duty or avoided a battle or loitered on a march. We have not forgotten how he came to time after a leng day's march from the Chicahominy to Rapidan,. and when the colonel said. "Mr. Jonas, "where is your company?'" the tired soldier came to a salute and said, "I ish der komp'ny." That Jonas was an uncle to Israel Jonas, who all Atlanta knows, and who is now prominent in New York commercial circles. , With great reverence do I recall our own Judah P. Benjamin, our secretary of war, and on whom Mr. Davi3 leaned for counsel more than upon any member of his cabinet. He wges a very great man, or he could not liave gone to England and worked his svay unaided, to the very top of the English bar, and within eight years oe appointed queen's counsel over the most learned members of the profession. I have not forgotten the perfect loveliness of ths Jewess Rebecca In Scott's story of Ivanhce. You may find jroken vows and separations and jlopements in fact and in fiction, but lot among the Jews. They Are in cvsry town and city and are more of an jxample than a menace to our people and onr institutions. Their names 1 ire found responding to every chairiy, md 1 noticed that the university found x-?c nided bv their liber ility, and I could not help wondering | tow much our Christian people would lave given to aid some great Jewish ichool or chairty. I would like to write more about .hose Hebrews, for, as St. Paul said ;o the Romans, "with them was comnitted the oracles of Go<L But I am not well today, and must defer to a nore propitious seascn. In my last letter I made a mistake hat must be corrected. I said that here were but ten months until fulius Caesar and Augustus Caesar iut in two more and named them luly and August. Somehow I have had hat impression all my mature life, ind. strange to say, I was corrected i few days ago by my good friend Sassett. a mulatto merchant of our own. who is well educated and a stulent of ancient history. He wrote me l respectful letter and said that s'uma. a Roman emperor, who reigned wo hundred and fifty years before he Caesars, put in January and Febuary for the two months, and the ?aesars only changed the names of Juintiles and Sextiles (the fifty and ixth) to July and August. So I make he correction with pleasure and give he credit to friend Gassett.?Bill Arp n Atlanta Constitution. f Bank Cashier Shot. Sherman, Tex., Special.?Ben L. rhompson, cashier of the bank at Comnerce, Texas, was shot to death on th* >ublic square of this city Wednesday ifternoon by W. E. Stone, of Texartana, Texas. The men met on the trcct and without preliminary parance drew their revolvers and opened ire. Thompson was struck by one ot he first shots and fell mortally woundid. He died a few hours later. Stent s about 22 years old an 1 is a traveling ?aiesman for a Dayton. Ohio, house. Stone surrendered. He stated that the tragedy was the rcsuit of a family difficulty. An Immigration Ag;nt Missing, Atlanta. Ga.. Special.?United States immigration Agent Milton Smiley, who lame to Atlanta some time ago, upon a secret mission, is reported as missing jince last Monday. Mr. Smiley's puroose in Atlanta was to ascertain if any Greek boys had been bonded out as slaves in this city. Government officials are working on the case. Mr.Smiley's home is in Columbus. 0. I George Edward Mills, a lawyer for Dr. R. C. Flower, was arraigned in New York on the charge of attempting to bribe Assistant District Attorney Garvan. "POOR DIGEST LANGUID [An Interesting Letter Della. <4 fANVEAU^ LJLJS Miss Delia Junveau, Globe Hotel. Ottawa known French Canadian families la Cana a Co., of Columbus, Ohio, she says "JmhI sprinrj m 1/ blood /fcned clop ached and I iclt lanpuid and tfrml all tor me. our n f rienu aavtsea m- m iru to Mate th i> 1 found It a tcojt-lerfal- clt In three ureekn I irn* Like a ne j> w via buoyant, ItffUt and h >pp'l and nrltliout liable fa mil if medicine. 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