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THE SCRANTOX TRIBUNE-MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1900.
THE DYING CENTURY
PASSED IN REVIEW
SHE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIAN
ITY IN 100 YEARS.
Great Change That Has Come In the
Theological View of the Deity.
The God of Vengeance Has Been
Deposed by the God of Love.
From tliu Chicago Tltins-llcniM,
Without question the Christian le
llglon In the Inst 1(ii) yours 1ms made Its
greatest miiti'iliil progress tn tliu ter
Jltoty of tliu fulled States. With the
phcnonicnul peopling of this great
country has come Its Chrlstlanlzlns--one
of tliu ntcist stupendous tasks ttit
upon tin- mission spirit of tliu age.
I'oi' In tlio llrst years of tho nine
teenth century In America the outlook
for Christianity was conceded ly tlio
I'lntrrh as being the ilni-ltrrt In modem
hltr-ory. Tom Paine, with his "Age of
Reason." had awakened a following.
Benjamin Frnnklln and 'I'liomas .leffcr
Bon had left a kindred luiprlnt upon
the new republic. War and Its excesses
had broken down many barriers that
hud stood for rellnenicnts and for social
morality. In 1785 Timothy Dwlght be
came president of Yalo college, and
writing of this period, Lyman Hecchcr
pays:
"Before hu camo college was In a
most ungodly state. .Most of tho stu
dents were, skeptical and rowdies were
plenty. Wtnes and llquois wcie kept
In many rooms; Intemperance, profan
ity, gambling and licentiousness wero
common. That was the day of
the infidelity of thu Tom I'alnc school,
and most of thu class before me wer;
Infidels."
I'rlncetoii, which had been closed dur
ing the revolutionary war, had only
two confessed Christians In tho school
in ITS:, and In 17H8 the rresbyterlan
general assembly for the middle states
expressed Itself In the following de
spondent utterance:
"Formidable Innovations and convul
sions in Europe threaten destruction to
morals and religion. Scenes of devas
tation and bloodshed unexampled In
the history of modern nations have
convulsed the world, and our country
Is threatened with similar calamities.
We perceive with pain and fearful ap
prehension a geni'ial dereliction of re
ligious principles and practice among
our follow citizens, a visible and pre
vailing impiety and contempt for the
laws and Institutions of religion, mid
an abounding Infidelity which In many
Instances tends to atheism Itself."
THU FIRST CAMP MEETINGS.
Hut 111 the after-light of history all
this has been seen as the period of
darkness inevitably preceding a dawn.
This dawning began with the emigra
tion from Virginia and Carolina to
Kentucky and Tennessee. In July of
lisOO, William and John MeCiee. broth
ers, one a Presbyterian and the other
u Methodist, penetrated to the woods
of Logan county. Kentucky. They
gathered a handful of settler.s together
and held a etlng In the woods. They
wrestled with the ignorano and un
belief of their hearers and several con
verts were made. News of it spread
and wagons began to come in from all
directions, until there the first camp
meeting in the Culted States was
evolved, and from it went out the spirit
that spread and grew until It became
the historic revival that shook nearly
every stale In the I'nloii. From it mo
mentiiui was gathered for the evangel
izing movement upon the Louisiana
territory at home and upon the heathen
shores ot Asia and Africa.
At the camp meetings of the great
revival period enthusiast!1 looked upon
results as those of a second Pentecost.
Out of them grew a strange, nervotu
disorder called the "Jerks." In the
main, It alllleted only the unbelieving
and In the preparation of camp
grounds young saplings were left
standing upright In order that victims
of this malady might seize hold of them
for support. As meetings progressed
mid the exhortations of the evangel
ists became more fervid, the converted
ones would be seized with an apparent
frenzy, sometimes falling upon tho
ground, crying and rullini: over and
over for hours at a time.
It was in such tlmcn as these that
some stubborn, half-rowdy onlooker?
might bu seep to begin the peculiar,
.1eiky movements that wer- symptoms
of the malady. He would rush for tho
nearest sapling, seize It with both
hands and begin to revolve around It,
his head snipping forward and back
until his louu hair would snap like a
whlpciaci' ) When It was over the
giound around the tree would he
tramped as If by horses In lly-time,
while the balk would be peeled from
the tiee where the victim's hands had
encircled it In his frenzied clasp.
WAV E OF Fl'ltVli) PII'.TV.
The whole country, sso far os it v,ii
then settled, was swept by this tidal
vac of religious feiv. r. One of its
lirst results was the movement toward
theological schools Timothy Uwlglit'.t
occupancy of tla president'!) chair at
Yale was iv spur to this. Then, at
"Princeton, tin. chair of theology had
tieen revlvid. Andover sendnarj. was
established In imi and within ten
years the Huptlst, Methodist, I'leshy
teriau. I'nltHihin, Hutch Unformed
and (iernmn Reformed churches weti
supporting theological school.
In tills beginning of tin. nlnoti-nlh
century the question of separation of
church and state had mine up. Thu
ConAi,"itlon had been sllma upon tho
question, but tho ilrst amendment to
it was to make Impossible, anion?
other thing?, tho governmental estab
lishment of anv church, Many of tins
New Lnglnud slates wero aiding
churches at the beginning of tho con
tiny, but in 1M8 Connecticut brok.
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away from the alliance. Other Mates
followed more or less slowly, Massa
chusetts being the last to break thu
connrctlon in 1S'14. In the meantime,
the missionary spirit assorted Itself.
The American Board oi Commlrsion
"rs of Foreign Missions was thu llrst
of these missionary bodies, exttiM
llshpd In 1810, and embracing the Con
gregational, Tresbyterlan, Dutch Re
formed and German Reformed -.'hutch
cs. Four years later Baptist repre
sentatives from eleven states met In
Philadelphia and established a society
for foreign missionary work. Asia and
thu south sea Islands claimed llrst at
tention, and on these heathen shores
many missionaries fell victims to can
nibalism. The Jesuits 111 the now world
wrir ploneets lor Christian civiliza
tion. In Mexico and Central and South
Ameilci: doing their greatest, wurlc.
Madagascar, Africa, China and Japan
weie the later ficldf, of Protestant en
deavor, and In nil of theo countries
the woik of Christianizing 1 still go
ing on. Five missionary boards arj
working In the United States alone: .i
hundred missionaries are employed
where one was working In lSlfi, and the
moivy avii liable for th" work is count
ed by millions, of which the United
States Is contributing one-third.
FIHHT AdAlNST SLAVERY.
Hlau-ry In the United States was one
of the flist problems for the chinches.
A? early as -i)sO the Methodist churcn
had protested against tho institution
as out of harmony with a republican
form of government and against the
Christian spirit of the times. The gen
eral assembly ot tho Presbyterian
church took similar action In SZ.
Other churches followed. In 1814 the
Methodist chinch divided on tho ques
tfon, alter deliberate conference and
debate. Still, through the dlsturbei
churches opposition to slavery was
agitated, leading at last to one of tho
greatest wars of history and to the
final emancipation of 3,(100,000 slaves.
In the early '40s drunkenness was a
vice that called upon Itself tho atten
tion of the churches. It was a wide
spread evil, drink being kept In ths
houses, shops and fields of the people,
where It was dispensed ultriost Itko
water. i no cnurch moved against
liquor, and about the same time thu
Washlngtonlan movement started In
ltaltlmore. In that city six notorious
drunkards met nnd signed a covenant
to give up the use of intoxicating
liquors. This movement, resulting in
making It a reprehensible thing to
nave strong drink In the homes nnd
llelds and shops, paved the way for
the saloon. I.ie nysterleal reformation
which ran through city and country
with the Washlngtonlan movement
lifted hundreds of drunkards from th.
depths of depravity to the public plat
form, and even to the pulpit, from
which places they boasted of their for
mer shames. John Ii. Oough, as tho
great disciple of temperance, has esti
mated that of the probable COO.OOO
drunkards who professed rsnn from
this wave 450,000 went back to the for
mer depths of degradation, he blus
tering braggodcelo of reformed on"S
had begun to pall Upon tile public,
and there was nothing 111 these object
lessons to spur the converts to con
tinued abstinence.
PERIOD OF SCHISMS.
The prohibition period began with
loo , and various phases of it are still
In force. The Woman's Christian
temperance union came in 1S74. and
today it stands for the most sustained
and systematic siege that has been
laid by Christianity to thu strong
hold of drink.
In all of these definite moves toward
radical ends, It Is not strange that the
churches should find disapproving ele
ments within themselves. The purlo I
between ISoO and 184T. has been desig
nated as that of the schisms. The Uni
tarians of Boston led the movement.
In Ibal Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson,
pastor of tho Second church In Bos
ton, proposed certain changes In thu
administration of thu Lord's supper:
perhaps Its omission altogether. Tho
church refused the suggestions and
Emerson went to Concord, where, as
someone has said, "he might, without
sneering, teach the rest to sneer."
The "higher pantheism" was evolved,
and following this departure, the sub
ject of slavery began to divide tho
churches. In is;:? tho Presbyterians
broke from the original composite for
eign mission board and established one
of their own. Other denominations
followed, and nut of this rivalry and
competition of the creeds arose nille:l
of the spiilt that afterward evangel
ized the American "great West," fro..i
the Alleghanles to the shores of the
Pacillc.
Accomplishing all these things for
humanity, the churches of the United
States have done much for themselves.
lr. doing so they lmv proved them
selves adaptable to new conditions.
Liberality marks tho churches today,
as it never marked them before In any
age. Agencies have hen evolved that
are feeders to the ehur?hes almost be
yond the possibilities of mere pulpit
and pew.
YOPNO PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES.
London, In l?lt. evolved one of the
chief of thee in the Young Men's.
chrMlai! association. In thu United
Htatui, Huston was the llrst to take
up the iiiovem-nt In J.5M. Today there
aio 1 ..Mitt associations In North Amor
lea, having 2f(yi0fl members and build
ings and i cal estate valued at $20,000,
00i. The Young Women's Clirlrtian asso
ciation was a natural .tTVImt or thK
and was formed In 1Ssfi. ("Steal llrltahi
leads in the number ot associations,
and In membership, hut nearly a dozen
countries uro numbered m the inter
national organization, while there uro
13.000 members In America.
Tho Voting People's Society of Chlls
tlan Kndoavor was organized In 1SS1.
bv Hev. Francis K, Clark, of Portland,
Me. Denominational rumillcatloiui
have com... from thl. hut It Is cstl-
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mated that tho endeavor movement in
nil Its blanches numbers 4,rOC,000 mom.
hers In tho United States alone.
The King's Daughters, the Brother
hood of St. Andtew, tliu Luther
League, the Kpworth League, and the
Young People's Christian union are
among thoiu alllllated Institutions of
the churches.
Hut of these agencies for the spread
or church influences the Sunday school
has been icekoned as first. It began
to grow about 1S25. and Its success ha.4
caused It to be classed as "thu fore
runner of the church and one of the
distinctive characteristics of Amcrlcnn
Christianity." The International Sun
day School union is one of the great
religious Institutions it the century,
and at Its seventh convention In St
Louis In ISM Its secretary repotted a
total of 22,E(,2 Suday schools In thu
world, with an attendance of S2.50S.G8l
teachers und pupils.
HH VISION OF TKSTAMF.NTS.
Of the work of tho churches no one
thing of the century has had a more
vital bearing upon Christianity than
tho revision of the Old and Now Tes
taments, projected by tho convocation
of the province ot Canterbury In Feb
ruary, 1S70, Two companion were
formed, one for the revision of thu Old
Testament and tho other for tho revis
ion of the New, and work was begun
In June, 1870. Soon ufter both houses
of the convocation In England passed
a resolution Inviting American scholars
to Join In the work, nnd two companies
were formed in the United States ta
act in concert with tho British com
panies. From time to time the British
translators transmitted sections of the
llrst revision to America, the work of
which was considered and returned. In
like manner the second revisions of the
texts were sent over for scrutiny. Last
of all the revised versions wero sub
mitted. Tho whole work of the translation's
occupied about ten years und six
months. The first revision consumed
six years, the second ubout two und
one-half years, while tho rest of the
time was taken up In considerations
of the suggestions from tho American
companies. The ipyrlght of the new
scriptures were pledged to the univer
sities of Oxford und Cambridge, and It
was through these schools that funds
for the work were obtained. Tho Eng
lish companies numbered twunty-suvon
members in the beginning, but four of
them died while thu work wan In prog
ress. The work of these men was received
In various ways. Today It is doubtful
If the version of 1611 has been seriously
displaced in tho Christian world. The
critics of tho new versions were severe
In tho beginning. It was held to he a,
dangeious thing to religion for tho
masses to learn that after so many
centuries tho Christian Bible could bo
changed by men. Others who had
chosen texts of beautiful cadence and
measure from the authorized version,
were lion oi -struck at the changes
made hi the revised version changes
that lost to them all that was sacred
In the texts.
As a work of scholars for scholars
the revised versions have Interest, but
It Is significant that the International
Sunday School union sticks to the text
of the authorized version hi Its lesson
leaflets.
C.HOWTH OF THE CHUHCHES.
Church growth In the United States
has been colossal within the last 100
years. In till denominations there aie
numbered a grand total of 150,000
churches, with 22,000,000 communicants
and with property valued at $SOO,000,000.
These estimates show that of the total
population of the United States of all
ages, more than ::i per cent, are church
members. In the order of numerical
strength, the Homau Catholic church
comes llrst, followed by the Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Lutherans.
Theological and sectarian schools have
kept full pace with the growth of the
churches, and between tho Sunday
school and the sectarian school, theru
Is not a church In tho country that Is
not euueating Its future communicants
from the very groundwork of charac
ter. Measured according to its world
work, the Christian religion has made
wondrous strides, numerically and In
fluentiully. Virtually It has wiped can
nibalism from the face of the earth.
It has made Inroads Into every form
of Idol-worship. More than one-third
of the population of tho globe Is num
bered Christian, and If in nothing else
than In Its wonderful advancement of
the condition of women, this march of
Christianity across tho world's map H
tlie most significant progress of the
century. Out of Its original narrow
ness, tho church set Itself tho task of
propagating tho principles of liberty
and as It has advanced It has assumed
wide liberties unto Itself. In the new
world, the church found that the Bltiu
Laws of Connecticut were an Impos
sible clog to its progress. As It cnm
westward into thu wilderness, It began
to adapt itself to circumstances. With
the growth of civilization and with the
multiplication of Its material intric
acies It began to look with composure
upon a modllled observance of the Sab
bath. HOP OF LOVE HULKS.
Tho Inexorable Clod of veiii-'oaiic''.
with whom the rel'oimatlor. sr.iight
I the conversion of the world, gradually
! Ii.iti rrli'mi nlfj fi tit tlwt fl Ail lit lut'ii
while the camp meeting of lf.oo, with
its fanaticism and hysteria, has be
come thu Cltuutuiuiua assembly of a
score of states.
Standing tor tho reformation ofthe
world and worklne, in.itcrlnll" toward
that material and spiritual end. lhu
j church's ivfoi mation of Itself In tho
1 last 100 yv.ns has been an even great
er accomplishment, it has translaU J
tliu Bible Into 2T-0 kingtluge.-, but it has
read Into Its own observances of II
that Ond meant moru than sackcloth
and ashen for His following, it has
held to the conventional black of its
pulpits, whllo recognizing brother and
helper In the uniform, of tho Salva
tion Army, and of the Volunteers, tt
han given aid and countenance to the
Young Men's christian association as
one of Its chief ullles.and yet has been
liberal enough to open Its dears to th?
iionprofesslng associate member, real
izing that the church may touch el
bows with the world with no harm
to Itself and with possible good to th-j
world,
A thousand yearn ot government Is
completing proofs that governmental
strength lies In the blondest freedom
and llborulitv of nn educated people.
The church Is accepting the prlnclplo
to Itself, and1 In that future "federation
of the world" In government will h-j
found the federation of tlio chi.rch,
pronouncing Its benediction upon tho
universal brotherhood of man.
Satisfactory Settlement.
Pittsburg, Feb. 4. The rpttlcmoiit of
tho mining rata at Ml cents a ton for the
year beginning April 1. gives general
satisfaction In the Pittsburg district. It
Is the highest iccclvid by th coal miners
In this section since the spring of ISM,
when tho price was I cents a butlicl or
ubout Sl.yr. u t(
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CAGUAS MAMMOTH CAVE.
Puerto Rico Boasts a Natural Won
der, Second to None.
From tlio San Juan Now..
How many people In this island know
that there aro large caves here, pos
sibly as lai-Re as the Mammoth eavo
In the United States-.' Several parties
of Americans have visited the biff cave
near O.suas. owned by Senor Nunez.
All have been deeply interested, and
some Intend to return for further ex
ploration. The neRio suldes who havo
lived near them all their lives do not
know tlm full extent of the laiRost
caverns, so adventurts-omo tourists
have another Held of Interest.
A recent visitor to the cave gives
the following description:
"We have rUTUen in a carriage by
way of the military road, which, i
you have never seen tho like, might
be called a truly wonderful piece of
road engineering. It winds along the
stile of steep hills, the road only helm;
a ledge about lifteen feet wide, cut In
the side of the hill. No protection Is
furnished on the op'.-n aide, and a timid
person looking down a thousand feet
or so from the carriage seat often feels
that If he tied a string around Ills
throat that his heart would be on the
upper sld of tho knot. As It wind
buck and forth, llrst on one hill, then
on another, you can sometimes sec
pirt of the highway you traveled on
an hour before only apparently a mile
or so from you. Arriving at Paguus;
about noon, we s-topped at a road
hoits-e. recommended by our driver as
Itrst-eliiss. Judging by the meal, his
tip from the hotel was about the slz?
of his recommendations. Alter eating
various unknown compounds following
the llsli served with scales still on. we
wound up with fruit and coffee. This
latter never teaches the Etates like
you get it ln'ie, for it Is toasted in
ugar belled to an extract diluted with
hot water and served boiling hot. We
.stayed owr night and, surprising to
say, we found It so cool toward morn
ing that a blanket pioved very com
fortable. The following morning found
us. still aslei'i). but not long, for all
were anxious for the day's ventures
In store. Tin- guides were nn hand
early: we hail our horses, the little
Porto means, about eleven hands high,
ready, and oon were on our way out
of th town. The road was very good
between ( 'aguas and Aguas Iluenas,
though not us lino as the military
hlgliwa. From Aguas Iluenas to the
main cavern It Is only about a mil'.',
but after traveling tn every dlnctlo'i
for ati hour or more you wonder If
twenty times that distance has not
been covered.
"You first climb a beautiful s!opt
so steep that your saddle slips down
near the horse's tall. The scenery
would be beautiful If you would dare
take your eyes away fioin tho tivtek
to which your horse seems to stick like
11 tly on u tilted piece of gluss. The
few level places are worn lit parallel
ridges by the short-stepping horses,
walking In each other's tracks, making
the road n series of ridges und soft
mudholcs, not to be compared with
anything ever seen before.
Tho magnificent scenery Is not like
any I've ever seen. In the Hoeky
mountains you see Just such roughness
and liiggcduess, but here all is clothed
In brilliant green. Fiom the edge of
the tilckllng stream In the valley to
the highest mountain top, everything
is green. Hero nnd there were the lit
tle thatched cottages crowning a small
hill, making It resemble a straw hat,
Tho ground Is laid out In rectangular
pieces, cultivated by hand where It U
too steep to use a plow. From hero
can bo seen every variety of troplcnl
plants tho palms, most bcuutlful In
the mia mroRE.
T is one thing to preach
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their way, to tho plamtaln groves,
everything being so restful and delight
ful to the eye. After a rest we again
started, our patch leading along a ridge
from which you try to guess how near
you can miss slipping, and you are
willing to wager odds on the dangerous
side. Further the narrow path was
bordf-ed by coffee plants, just In
bloom, nnd sweet as a pretty summer
girl. A little ahead ot us could be
seen a bunch of bananas hanging over
the road, as If to save the trouble ot
dismounting to cut when ready for
market. Orange trees offered their
own special attractions, so new to thoso
fresh from the north countries; in
fact, to enumerate each separate
beauty presented to our gazo would re
quire more of your time than descrip
tion could cover.
"The mysterious regions which we
were to enter were at the foot of a lime
stone hill In a narrow gorge, which
seems in danger of being choked by
falling bowlders loosened by the terrific
storms which nre frequent during tho
rainy spell. Here were enormous ferns
with the curled, budded, unfurled
smaller ones, resembling those found In
Cuban swamps. Ureat roots swung
In bare lengths, though some werw
covered with glossy leaved vines and
climbing plants strange to even our
botanical professor.
"Before entering we arranged our
lights and torches. The native guides
made theirs of dried banana leaves,
rolled and filled with some kind of
gum or pitch. We also had a bicycle
lamp and a couple of dark lanterns.
On entering the cavo you are rather
disappointed, for the roof is only six
teen or twenty feet In height and
everything Is wet and dripping, sim
ilar to smaller lime caves seen in sonv.'
parts of the Fnltid f-'tates. As wo
advanccl further the stalactites re
treated fui titer above us, and Instead
of being mossy become cleaner and
white marble colored. It' you have
never experienced the sensation of
hearing a few thousand bats over
head, you can have no idea of the rush
ing sound of the countless winks we
heard. Sometimes in (lying too low
they would nearly extlnvulsh a toich.
or striking any one suddenly In tho
face, make a nvtn drop back with a
hotrible grunt, causing at the samj
time ejaculations not made for print.
Tho soft little bodies seem to crush
lnto-a bunch of fur-coveted meat that
the boldest need have horror of.
"Wo examined two or three miles of
tho underground surface, peering Into
chambers, calling up echoes, throwing
stones Into unfathomed depths, listen
ing as they bounded fiom ledge to
ledge, until the nolso ceuses only be
cuuse too distant to be heard. Our
guides told of other chambers further
on, which would take too long for us
to reuch nt tho time. They also amused
und horrified some of the party by
catching some of the hideous land
crabs, which seem to abound in great
numbers.
"After live hours of walking, crawl
ing nnd climbing among the grim sta
lactites we emerged fiom the cavern
in n different route, It being too great
a dlstanco to go back to the llrst en
trance. "Itegainlng our horses, we again fol
lowed tho tortuous back track to Aguas
Iluenas, only too glad to urrlvu at our
destination an hour later,
"If a good road were built to this
point and a largo hotel erected, It
would soon become an attraction to
the globe ttotter, who Is ever looking
for new scenes and ndventures,
"Tho trip to the caves, counting
Bights seen while Journeying thero and
back. Is worth a trip from Europe. It
Is Instructing and niuusing. and will
furnish more fuel for ambitious story
tellers than can be bad In doublo tlw
time spent elsewhere." 1
THE BIQ STOKE.
Monday Bargains.and still another to present them.
is well to remember that we
as it is on Mondays. We invite
nt tirnrpnr Prime tvr Fnh.
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cash.
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Rdy thC
this morning U.,nt.j
eight o'clock. J1
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3,000 Yards of
the very best quality
Brown Calicoes
of patterns
worth 6c
yards to a buyer.)
desirable and dependable qualities at prices which will soon find new owners for
them. Ready at eight o'clock with no limit whatever to the r J
quantities you may buy. Every piece is marked and ticketed 1 C YQ
with the number of yards and the price. The assortment will I
in the morning so come then if you
c Monday for Children's 12k Stockings
Less than half price, and only made possible to you through an immense
purchase. Strictly fast black dye, full regular made, finished with French
heel. All sizes, beginning at 5 and up to &. No hosiery bargain ever
offered here or in any other store can compare with this one.
No more than four pairs to a buyer none to dealers.
for Fine Embroideries
On Monday morning at 8 o'clock we will place on sale a very special lot ot
Fine Cambric Kdgings and Insertings all in SIX YARD LENGTHS just
as they came to us from the manufacturers, being the "left-overs" from
full lengths.
Long's Sons
PEOPLE IN NORTH CHINA.
Wild Tribe of Russians Located in
Mongolia.
From the Pall Mull Gazette.
Faraway to the north of the Desert of
Gobi, where the Salan range splits the
tributary waters of tho rising Yenisei
and the Chinese empire melts Into
Russian Siberia, right at the topmost
corner of Mongolia, lies the terrkory
of the little known Slyots. Three hun
dred years ago, when the palc-fnrcd
Russians broke Into Siberia, the Si.vols
fled before them. They alone woul 1
not bend tho knee to Hustsa. South
ward they fled over the Saianskl pass
es Into the kingdom of the dragon,
donned the pigtail and became Chi
nese, dispossessing In their hurry a
tine race of people.
The Slyots of today are divided Into
two classes with diverse condjtlctis.
Those of the north, lnhabltl.u: the
slopes of the Salun, are hunten. wor
shippers of devils, eating m-it and
even carrion. Those of the rmi'.li.who
dwell upon the plains, are her I rs ot
horses nnd cattle, Buddhists bv re
ligion, men of cleanly habits, eating
only milk nnd millet seed.
So wild and desolate Is the region of
thu Slyots that even the government
maps are utterly wrong about It. Riv
ers nre omitted, misplaced and trans
posed: errors of seventy to a hundred
miles are common. Kver. the Intrepid
JrJovalsky, who passed through I'll
assutat, Kobdo and I'lirga, did not
turn aside Into tills great northern
waste. A strange face Is never seen
there, and life goes by queer ancestral
customs.
The Slyots live In round "karals, or
tents, built of movable lattice, with a
felt-covered conical lop. Inside Is a
net hexagonal arrangement of boxes or
cupboards, wherein the stores ate kept.
Very scornful are they of the barbar
ous Hurbcts, their nearest neighbors,
who have no boxes In their tents, an 1
are otherwise uncivilized. "What
manner of boors aio these'.'" asked a
Siyot, on coming to a Turbet encamp
ment; "they tether their horses to
their tents. Instead of erecting a horse
stick! They deserve to have their
tents pulled about their ears." ICven
loss complimentary werp his remarks
upon the Turbet women, who wear
blue smocks Instead of the gay green
knickers of his own girls, and do not
plait .their hair.
The religious customs of tho Slyn.s
tire not their least Interesting feature,
Everywhere, on tho banks of rivers or
at the top of a difficult pass, aro stones
or sticks adorned with little rags.
Sometimes wisps of horse hair are at
tached to them. These are "god
sticks" and nre an offering to tlio de
mon of the place for averting the dan
gers of crossing. Whenever a Slyot
acted as mountain guide or forded a
river ho expressed his. gratitude for
safety by adding a quota to the "god
stick," or at least by placing upon a
calm one stone for each of tho party
saved. Should a Siyot fall lit und
smallpox Is very prevalent among
them he calls In a medicine man to
drlvo away the devil. The medlclno
man Is dressed In a long red robe,
udorned with imitation snakes, brass
ornaments and llnery. Heating a drum
he yells all night In the chamber of
the sick man, turning and twirling
upon, his heels.
Finally ho falls exhausted In a pot
of trance, biting his lips so that blood
Is spread upon his face. Then he
considered to bo In the very act of
exorcism. Vaccination, lately Intro
duced by tho Russians and tho Tar
tars, Is said to be Interfering with thi
business of tho medlclno man. The
custom'of devll-drlvliig seems to exist
only among the northern Slyots, who
live upon tho mountains. Southward
JONAS LONQ'S SONS.
always live up to
Big Store
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After
an unusually
busy January in the
Domestic Store we find our
selves in possession of a vast accu
mulation of short lengths so today,
Monday, we begin our
Annual
Remnant Sale
Ginghams,
Calicoes.
Percales,
rUislins,
Linens
Consisting of hundreds of trnnA lenoth: in
can. M. and
up.
tho people are strict adherents of
Buddha, and It Is common among them
to see the long, yellow-robed or red
robed I.amas. They arc exceedingly
superstitious nnd willingly pay large
presents to the priests for fancied
privileges. A Lama bus ii vlslm, un.l
j announces that A will die within three
nays. A gathers together his posses
sions, never doubting of the fact, but
before he dies Intrusts his servant
with a bribe to be conveyed to the La
ma, also through tho medium of a
servant. The Lama protests against
bothering the god with so trumpery a
mntter as the life of A, but being
persuaded to do so, gets him respite
for three years. At the end of this
time the procedure takes place again.
A rich man. on dying, will dispatch
his servant for many miles with gifts
to the nearest Lama, to Inquire after
the future of his soul and know where
and In what form ho will appear on
earth. And the Lama accepts the gift
and tells blm.
The Slyots are secretive, and pre
fer to communicate nothing. Ask how
many they number In a village and
the ier will be "Every day some
die and some 'aie born: how. then,
shall It be told'.'" To those who have
lived long nniong them, however, they
will expand upon many sacred sub
jects. They will even show the rmtch
dreaded caves of the ainicnt race they
dispossessed, situated 'JHO vetsts south,
west of the Junction of the Kel-kein
anil Kha-keeni, sources of the Yenisei,
Russians who have Instioetod these
duellings report vast tlnds of elk hoiK',
ch.iiconl and even of brass Imple
ments. Hut lew know certainly about
them, for if tlie Lamas heard of it It
would go hard in tines and damnation
for the luckless Siyot who betrayel
the secret of his race.
MAN WHO DEFENDED GUITEATT.
From the Emporia (Juliette.
A party of Indiana fishermen just re
turned from n trip among the remote
and unfrequented lakes of northern In
diana, ran across a little cabin oecupiMl
by Attornej Seovlll .the lawyer wao
defended (J. .1. (lultcau In bis trial for
the assassination of President OarfleM.
The humble cottigu In v. hi-h Scot ill
was found Is situated near the banks
of Mud Lake, where ho lives tho jif
of the most rigid recluse, neither seeing
nor being seen. His simple wants aia
r.'.ipplled by the merchants of the near
cut town. Ho puts in his time, nobody
knows how, as his unkempt and un
couth figure Is seldom seen outside the
walks of the little low cottage, half hid
den by the growth of twining vines unit
underbrush.
From an able, affable and Influential
barrister, Seovlll has grown Into a taci
turn, morose, unapproachable hermit,
desiring no communication with th
world In which ho wis such a conspicu
ous figure as only counsel for his. rela
tive eighteen yeais ago. Kcovll feeN
that he Is still shunned and despised by
everybody for his ;inrt in trying o
pave the neck of Cuitemi on the ground
of hcrlditnry lin.it I' though he con
tends that he dll nothing more than
his duty. The los of his wife nrd
other misfortunes that seemed to pur
sue him with a relentless hand added
to his melancholy nnd confirmed him
In his determination to abandon tin
world and pend the remainder of hU
days in seclusion.
For several years Scovll has led thu
life of a hermit, spending his tlmo at
the most secluded spots he could find.
He still contends that Qulteau wni
mentally irresponsible for his act In
killing the president, nnd points to the
record of tho family, a number of
whom have both Li-furo ami lnco the
tragedy been conilncd in madhouses.
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