Bellefonte, Pe, Apel “1, 1011.
SAVAGES OF ASIA.
The Untamed Chites of Tibet Are
Idolaters and Cannibals.
MURDER IN THEIR RELIGION.
At Their Wild Ceremonies the Priests
of These Barbarians Offer Up Hu-
man Sacrifices to Their Grotesque
and Repulsive Stone Gods.
A religious festival by a savage tribe
of Asia, in which occurred a human
sacrifice and the burning of the vietim
on a funeral pyre, is described by Wi
. sented when he sprang up, rushed back
liam Jameson eid in his book. “Unex- |
plored Asia.” ‘The rites were held in a
place called Chite City.
which was reached after a hazardous
journey through the Ping mountains.
He says:
“Let me give a brief history of this
strange race,
Tzuchan,
! content.”
who for centuries have |
defied the most persistent research of |
explorers and ethnologists. Many cen-
turies ago, in the vicinity of Shanghai,
there lived a highly enlightened race |
| on the roadside in Greene county one
known: as the Chites. They were the
most fanatical and bigoted Buddhists,
so fanatical, in fact, that their turbu-
lent spirits and eager desire to sow the
seed of proselytism caused frequent
revolutionary disturbances. The gov-
ernment, #8 Its only means of salva-
tion, made war on them. For years the
Chites battled against overwhelming
odds until at last, their numbers fear
fully reduced, they gradually retired to
the west, settling here and there, only
to be ajpmi driven back. After years
of wanderings they located in the wild
mountain region of northwestern Tibet.
“For untold centuries they have held
entirely aloof from their more civilized
Chinese neighbors, and today they are
as untamed and barbarous as were
their fierce ancestors. Many of them
are savages of the worst degree: oven
cannibalism is said to be prevalent
among many of them. They acknowl
edge no allegiance to the emperor, en-
tirely ignore the authority of the man:
daring and hold no commmnication
with the outside world, Yet we have
visited their wild domain: we have
penetrated into their strongnold and
have witnessed their strange customs.
“It had been our intention to steal
into the city under cover of night, but
from our position of vantage we could
see (hat some religious demonstration
was in progress, and we did not dare
to move.
(natives) crawled out on the plain and
returned with the information that
they had discovered a considerable
cave in the hillside to the left of the
town. which would screen us from ob-
servation and at the same time permit
us to watch the movements of those
inside the walls. We had just time to
reach our place of concealment when
the leaders of the procession entered
the narrow orifice and halted while
torches were being lit to guide their
passages through the gathering gloom.
Following them pressed the unkempt
crew, until the interior of the dome
shaped cave was filled to the point of
suffocation.
“For half an hour the car torturing
strife of discord waxed louder at every
moment until a hundred devils in huo-
man form titted beneath the flare of
flickering torches,
An Anecdote of Bach.
The Duke of Saxe-Weimar once in-
vited John Sebastinn Bach, the Nestor
of German music, to attend a dinner
at the palice. Before the guests sat
down to the feast Bach was asked to
give an improvisation. The composer |
seated himself at the harpsichord and |
straightway forgot all about dinner
and everything else. He played so long
that at last the duke touched his shoul-
der and said, “We are very much
obliged, master, but we must not let
the soup get cold.”
Bach sprang to his feet and followed
the duke to the dining room without
uttering a word. But he was scarcely
to the instrument like one demented.
struck a few chords and returned to
the dining room. evidently feeling
much better. “1 beg your pardon, your
highness.” he said. “but you interrupt-
ed we in a series of chords and arpeg-
gios on the dominant seventh, and 1
could not feel at ease until they were
resolved into the tonic. It is as if you
had snatched a glass of water from
the lips of a man dying of thirst. Now
I have drunk the glass out and am |
His Turn Came.
Ben Davis defeated President Madi-
son for election to the Virginia house
of delegates after Madison had left the
White louse. Old Davis, who seldom
wore a coat, was «itting on a rail fence
|
i
morning when a young man dressed in
dapper fashion and evidently from the
city passed by.
“Good morning.” said David,
the proverbial Virginian politeness,
To this the stranger paid no atten- |
tion. In a few minutes, however, he
with
‘came to a fork in the roads and was |
| evidently
i should go. He retraced his steps to |!
in doubt which way he
. where Davis still sat on the fence and |
For half an hour our guides
"to bear coat armor.
A frenzied enthusti.
ast would leap into the air. lacerating |
himself with 2 knife, grasping the gory
strip of flesh and grinding it under his
heel. or taunting a neighbor into the
asked him with great politeness if he
could tell him which way led to Stan-
ardsville. Davis made no reply.
“Will you please tell me,” the young
man repeated. “which road | take to
get to Stanardsville®”
“You ean,” said Davis stolidly,
any d-—d road you please
Magazine.
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A Lawyer's Paradise.
Naples. under Spanish rule in the
eighteenth century. wus overrun with
lawyers. Of their profusion Joseph
Addison had this to say:
“It is Incredible how great a multi
tude of retainers to the law there are
at Naples. It is commonly =aid that
when Innocent XI. had desired the
Marquis of Campio to furnish him
with 30,000 head of swine the mar-
quis answered him that for his swine
he could pot spare them. but if his
holiness had occasion for 30.000 law-
vers he had them at his service.”
It seems to have been a golden age
for lawyers, for. as the author says,
“there are very few persons of con-
sideration who have not a cause de-
pending. for when a Neapolitan has
nothing else to do he generally shuts
himself up in his closet and falls a
tumbling over his papers to see if he
can start a lawsuit and plague his
neighbors.” —-Dietetic and Hygienic Ga-
zette.
Technically Gentlemen.
* There is only one strictly technical
definition of gentleman—a man entitled |
In the seven- !
teenth and eighteenth centuries it was |
used with this significance, and the |
secondhand bookstall hunter will oc-
casionally find “So-and-so. “gentle-
‘man, written on dusty and stained fly |
leaves. But this definition has dropped
(out, for now any one may use arms
spirit of emulation by flaunting before |
his eyes the ghastly piece of flesh. Snd-
denly from out the compact mass rose
a howl of mingled anguish and fury.
sort of platform and stretched forth
hig hand. Evidently he was a high
priest. Instantly there was silence.
The light of the torches enabled us to
see the man who had mounted the plat-
form. He was a tall, gaunt individ-
ual. All his right side was naked, and
his face was covered with gaping rents
of knife wounds, from which blood
trickled.
“A garment of coarse cloth covered
his body below thie waist. Soon we
saw five others follow him upon the
platform, which was of raised earth.
In a recess in the wall at the rear of
the platforin one could see the dis-
who chooses to pay for an arms li-
cense. The inland revenue takes your |
guinea or two guineas without inquir- |
ing as to your right to bear arms. And. |
though the heralds’ college has the |
and a solitary individual mounted a!
torted form of a gigantic image—a
stony.
tesque ugliness that one could not help
wondering how a race of people, how- |
impassive figure of such gro-
ever unenlightened, could bring them-
selves to worship an object of such re-
pulsiveness,
“At last a fearful moment was at
hand. An old man was seized and
stretched upon a sort of stone altar,
raised above the platform. He realized
his last hour had come, and he strug-
gled In fear and fury to escape from
the grasp of his captors, giving vent
to shriek after shriek until, exhausted,
he fell into a stupor. Four of the
priests held the faintly struggling
body, while from the gloom stalked
forth the sacrificial priest. his hand
holding a long knife. Once, twice,
thrice he abased himself before the
image, and then, turning round like a
beast ready to leap upon its prey, he
rushed toward the prostrate form. A
flash of light and the keen blade sank
to the hilt in the flesh of the victim.
“Three times did the worshipers on
the floor rise and abase themselves,
and then quickly the minor priests
seized the lifeless body and held it in
rhe air. For a moment it silhouetted
‘against the fitful glare of the fire; then
‘the flames leaped forward in cager
‘ecstasy to receive their prey.”
right to grant arms to those who can |
afford to pay the necessary fees, it |
cannot prevent people from using |
arms to which they have no right— |
London Chronicle. |
a mm
Made Her Pay Well. !
A certain queen of Hanover once
upon a time when traveling stopped at
an inp called the Golden Goose. She
remained two days to rest herself and
retinue and receive such entertain-
ment ns was needed and for the same
was charged 300 thalers. On her de-
parture the landiord besought her with
obsequious deference to favor him
with her patronage on her return.
“If you desire that, my dear man,” '
replied her majesty. “vou must not
again take me for your sign.”
Very “Respectful.”
The villagers used to make love in a
solid. stolid fashion. “I’m sure, m'm,”
said a servant to her mistress. “nobody
could have bad a resnectfuler young
man nor what Thomas has been to me,
We've been courting two years come
Martlemass, and he's never yet offered
to kiss me!"—From “Recollections of a
Yorkshire Village.” by J. S. Fletcher.
A Similarity.
“He's quite wealthy and prominent
now,” said Mrs. Starvem, “and they
say be rose from nothing.”
“Well, weil!" remarked Mr. Border.
“That's just what | rose from—at the
breakfast table this morning.”
Closing the Incident.
Pulsatilla—Your latest young man, 1
hear, has written a play or two. Has
he produced anything vet? Euphorbia
—Y-yes: the last time he called he pro-
duced a diamond ring.-- Exchange. i
The greatest HONRe Wwe can pay to
truth is to use it. —Emerson.
| vouched for as authentic:
| lands,
i srew from one of the long and arduous
| commodore said,
i
| out.’
. voice,
| guilty
Lon his knees, imploring for mercy,
\
THE PLOT ON He OLD ESSEX
Commodore Porter Got Wind of the
Conspiracy Just as 't Was Ripe, and
His Prompt and Drastic Action Cow-
ed the Crew and Saved the Ship.
There has never been a fleet mutiny
or a squadron mutiny In the United
States navy. The most notorious case
in the uaval history of this country
was the conspiracy to mutiny on the
| brig of war Somers, which was discov-
ered before it came to a head and re
stilted In the execution at sea of Philip
Spencer, midshipman, son of the then
secretary of war, and one petty officer
and oue seaman.
Another famous case was the one in
which Commodore Porter acted with
such vigor and promptitude that he
completely crushed the rebellious spirit
that had manifested itself and saved
his ship.
When Commodore Porter was in com
wand of the Essex in the early history
of our navy there was an attempted
mutiny on board. Here Is an account
of how it was suppressed which ix
“While the
Essex was lying at the Marguesas is
recraiting and refreshing her
ernises in the 'acific. Commodore Por
ter was informed through a servant of
one of the officers that a mutiny bad
been planned and was on the eve of
consummation: that it was the inten
tion of the mutineers to rise upon the
sficers, take possession of the ship and
after having remained as long as they
| found agreeable at the island to hoist
| the black flag and ‘cruise on their own
account.’
“Having satisfied himself of the truth
of the information, Commodore Porte:
ascended to the quarterdeck and
dered all the crew to be summoned «fi
Waiting until the last man had cone
from below, he informed them that
understood that s mutiny was on foot
and that he had summoned them for
the purpose of inquiring into ts truth
“hose men who are in favor of stand
Ing by the ship and her officers” said
the commodore, ‘will zo over
starboard side; those who are auninst
them will remain where they are” t'ie
crew to a man moved over to the star
board side. The ship was stil!
grave. Fixing his eyes on them stead
fly and sternly for a few moments, th
‘Robert White,
The man obeyed, standing pale
and agitated, zullt stamped on every
lineament of his countenance, in front
of his comrades,
“The commodore looked ant him =
moment, then, seizing a eutless from
the nearest rack, said in a suppressed
but in tones so deep that they
rang like a knell upon the cars of the
among the crew: ‘Villain! You
are the ringleader of this mutiny!
Jump overboard!” The man dropped.
tes Mie
ne tin
sien
Sis
ing that Lie could not swim. ‘Then
drown. you scoundrel!’ said the com
modore. springing toward him to cut
him down ‘Overboard instantly?
And the man jumped over the side of
the ship. He then turned to the trem
bling crew and addressed them
much feeling. the rears standing upon
his bronzed cheek as he spoke [ie
asked them what he had done thar Lis
ship should be disgraced by a mutiny
He asked whether he had ever dis
honored the flag, whether he had cver
treated them with other than kindness,
whether they had ever been wanting
for anything to their comfort that dis
cipline and the rules of the service
would allow and that it was in his
power to give,
“At the close of his address he said;
‘Men, before 1 came on deck 1 laid »
train to the magazine. and 1 would
have blown all on board into eternity
before my ship should have been dis
graced by a successful mutiny. |
never would have survived the dis.
honor of my ship Go to your duty’
The men were much affected by the
commodore’s address and immediately
returned to their duty. showing every
sign of contrition.
“But mark the sequel of this mutiny
and let those who, in the calm se
curity of their firesides, are so severe
upon the course of conduct pursued by
officers in such critical situations see
how much innocent blood would have
been saved if White had been cut
down instantly or hanged at the yard
arm. As he went overboard he sue
ceeded in reaching a canoe floating at
n little distance and paddled ashore
Some few months afterward, when
Lieutenant Gamble of the marines
was at the islands. in charge of one of
| the large prizes. short handed and in
| distress. this same White,
{
i
at the head
of a party of natives, attacked the
ship. killed two of the officers and o
| number of men. and it wis with grea
| difficulty that she was prevented from
| falling into their hands ™-—-New
i Post.
Tightly Tied.
“That man's woney is ail tied np”
“Poor fellow: Can't get nt it, ohi™
“Oh, yer. All he has to dois to gutie
his money bag.’ Judge.
with.
York |
. ORIGIN OF AN EXPRESSION.
“If This Court Knows Herself, and
She Thinks She Do.”
We frequently the expression,
“If the court itself, and it
thinks it does” few persons are
hear
Kuows
ant
aware of the origin thereof.
The individua! who gave birth to it
wis i Pike county Missourian named
Blackburn, who flourished in the west
ny years ago. Blackburn ran away
from home when he was a mere boy
and sought his fortune in the west,
where lie grew to manhood as an In.
disn fghter, hunter, trapper and
monutain guide. Although not an ed-
vented man, he was possessed of great
acumen, to which was united a keen
wit. When gold was discovered in
California, Blackburn was one of the
first to proceed thither. ‘The miners
as a sort of joke elected him alealde,
an office that combined the duties of
mayor and justice of ihe peace. The
{first ense coming before the new al-
| valde was that of a gambler who while
{drunk had ridden his horse over a
{ young Mexican woman. She was seri.
ously injured.
The trial took place in the largest
cabin In the neighborhood. The gam-
! ler, who was rich, had retained able
counsel to defend him. Alcade Black-
burn called the young woman to the
witness stand. She told a straight-
forward, honest story. When she had
finished the alealde peremptorily end-
ed the trial. The attorney for the de-
| fendant protested vigorously, but the
| mlealde disposed of his protest thus:
| “If this court knows herself, and she
. thinks she do, 1 fine you $500 damages
' and assess upon you the cost of puttin’
| this young woman in good condition.”
i When asked what he meant by
{ “good condition” the alcalde replied
that the gambler must pay the doctor's
bills and all other costs of the young
woman's sickness. Exchange.
"Very “Lucky.
“1 don't get what 1 deserve for my
jokes,” wailed the humorist.
“You're lucky.” sympathized
friend.—Toledo Diade
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