COLE'S
Cut No. I
Shows how Dustlcss Ash Cover Is used
modern method, (Patented)
NEAR POSTOFFICE.
CRIMINALS IN INDIA
WHOLE TRIBES WHOSE HEREDITARY
1 FROFESSION IS THEFT.
Robbers Burn mxl Kept So by Caste,
They Arc l'nllle anil Mn.i.st InttI
the "Prorcmion" Heir-iire Tliem to
Become Cruel nml I'ci-ociou.
Indians usually spoken of ns a land
where life and properly have become
safo under British rate. True, the
bands of thugs have bet'i) broken up,
the Tlndharee bo-des hive been sup
pressed, and the U.iasli police system
is f,pteud over the whale country, but
the criiulual tribes or castes, those
whose hereditary "profession" Is rob
bery and not him; else, remain, their
instincts strong, wanting only opportu
nity to practice their traditional call
ing, which the Indian caste system for
bids them to abandon.
These tribes are most numerous and
most wayward In the united provinces,
in which are Cawnpur and Lueknow.
the cities associated forever with the
Indian mutiny.
Half of the division is Outlh, the na
tive province Inst annexed by Britain,
many of whotfe old meu vividly re
member when every "talookdar," or
feudal chief, lived in a fortified castle
and ret lined a swarm of armed men,
who received no pay, but lived on the
Country. They were official robbers,
and their example gave free scope to
the "professional" robbers, or, as they
have always been known in India, the
criminal tribes.
. These tribes are the Sannuriahs, the
Barwars, tho Sanslahs, the Doms, the
Haburahs, the Aheriahs, the Banrtahs,
the Bhatus. Each tribe bas its own
dialect, dress and customs.
i A singular feature of Indian life. Is
that persons who would be considered
dopraved characters In a European
country and would bear the stamp of
their nature on their faces are not de
praved In their own estimation or in
that of the people at large. A casual
murderer is not ashamed of himself
nor abhorred by his neighbors, who
welcome him back among them If be
escapes tho gallows and is released
after a term In jail. The universal be
lief that all things are decreed by fat
accounts for this amazing Rtntc of
feeling. Much more, then, are men re
garded with Indifference or even re
spect whose time honored, hereditary
and natural profession Is robbery with
murder.
So the members of these tribes gi l:i
and out of the towns and villages with
out misgivings, nnd there is not n :s'g:i
In their faces or maimer to lnd::ate
that their business Is robbery and mur
der. When a gang encamps outside of a
town the Inhabitants feel uncomforta
ble nnd take' precautions, but cherNh
no ill will against the strangers. And
wheu n btiorles and murders occur al
most Immediately within a rndltn of
twenty miles they take more precau
tions, but regard the whole affair ns a
visit:'. Hon of Providence, like a flood or
a fire.
These habitual criminals are not de
praved In any senso understood by tb?
people. They simply have the mis
fortune to belong to a trade which is
unpleasant for the neighborhood like
dyer's or a tanner's.
They are well satisfied with them
selves and are as enrefrd ns other peo
ple of their respectability. They have
no unusual vices; they do not get drunk
er riotous; they are civil, courteous
' and unassuming. Cruelty and ferocity
are with them neither habits nor pleas
ures, lint simply methods of business.
During the excitemeut of a sudden
attack the people If they do not run
away will turn out and aid the police
in repelling or capturing the robbers.
But If a police Inquiry begins two or
three days after the robbers have done
their work unmolested the people will
usually do. nothing to help In tracing
them aud will even deny that they
have lost anything.
For many years past the goveruiueut
of has worked to induce these
criminal tribes to settle down to a
pcn cable and industrious life.
Bi;t progress Is very slow. Vagabond
age in bred in the bone aud marrow of
the t .Hies, aud marauding is their cho
sen occupation. From time to time men
will suddenly disappear, perpetrate
sev.M.il during dakaitis in another dis
trict, uud escape over the border into
one f the independent native slates
wbch cluster round three sides of the
nnli 'd provinces.
Tli word "dakaitl," bIho spelled "da
foitv,'' means robbery bv a traiur at
ORIGINAL HOT BLA5TTHE CLEAN
DUST
Cole's Original Hot Blast Is the cleanest
stove ever placed on the market. Our method
of removing ashes shown by cut No. 1, is per
fectly cleat nnd overcomes the many objections
to the asb pan used in other stoves. The elbow
draft casting with its upward slant allows the
empty coalhod to be set under the draft so that
no ashes or coals can be spilled on the floor. Our
patented dusilcsa ush cover shown by illustration
is furnished free with Nos. 122, 1!2, 182 and
196 stoves. It keeps down every particle of dust
in removing ashes, a feature that will be ap
preciated by every tidy housekeeper.
The ash pans used in other stoves are too small to
hold a full 24 hours' accumulation of ashes. They
are usually over-filled when removed, and the ashes
in the bottom of the stove are dragged out on to the
carpet, as shown by cut No. 2. You are all fam-
the
THE KEYSTONE HARDWARE
armed men, aud a dukait,' or ducoit, is
a member of such a gang.
An assault by robbers In India dif
fers from one iu Europe or America In
that it always takes place at night
lud is accompanied by a tremendous
amount of noise. The Indians are a
noisy people at all times, aud in a rob
bery with violence the robbers' object
Is to terrify their victims Into a panic;
hence whether travelers be waylaid on
it lonely rond or a wealthy man's
house be attacked In a village the as
sault Is always made suddenly, with
loud shouts and yells and In the case of
a village with beating of drums and
waving of lighted torches.
The persons attacked bellow for all
they are worth, but rarely offer resist
ance, and the general effect Is so terri
fying to tho cowardly peoplo that the
neighbors either fly or else barricade
their doors and He still till the robbers
have got at least a mile nwny with
their plunder. Even the shrieking of wo
men under torture does not put heart
into one of them, for the men of a
house that Is attacked try to bolt for
their lives If they can nnd leave the
women to the mercy of the robbers,
Who apply fire to them and torture them
In more atrocious ways to make them
tell where the valuables are kept. New
York World.
A RAZOR'S EDGE.
Results That Come From Stropping
and Lonir l."se.
Very thin is the edge of a razor blade.
Its thickness bas been estimated at
about one half millionth of nn Inch.
A writer says of this wonderfully thin
bit of steel, when seen under a power
ful microscope: "The extreme edge of
the section Is distinctly bent to one
side. This is nearly always seen In
razor edges. The actual bend repre
sents the effect of the lust stroke on
the strop which this blade has received.
Now, this bending of the metal quite
near the edw, minute ns It Is, has some
very lurgfc nt practical consequences.
If the r. ... H' lie used in such a way
that the bend Is toward tho skin there
will be a tendency for the edge Itself
to burrow downward Into the skin, In
stead of sliding easily over the surface
and merely cutting away the project
ing hairs. If, on the other hand, the
blade be applied to the face In such a
way that the bend of the edge is away
from the Bkln the edge will slide much
more smoothly, with less tendency to
cut or scratch the skin, while It will
act upon the hairs in a slightly upward
direction and thus tend t; pull them
tight while cutting. The direction of
the bend of the edge can bo regulated
by the last few strokes on the strop.
"This minute amount of bending un
dergone by the metal near the edge of
a razor blade has another practical re
sult. We all know that a piece of wire
which will quite easily stand being
bent double will be broken if It be bent
backward and forward many times.
What really takes place is that the
metal, which was strong and ductile
to begin with, Is gradually made hard
and brittle and then finally breaks off.
Now, the metal near the edge of a
razor Is being subjected to very similar
treatment. Every turn on the strop
reverses the direction of the bend near
the edge, and, although the amount of
bending, is too slight ever to bring
about actual breakage of such an
elastic metal as hardened Rteel, It Is
yet sufficient to bring about a change
in the metal which renders It less
elastic and able to stand the strain.
This Is why a razor which bas been
used long censes to cut well or to hold
a good edge.
"Now it has been discovered that
steel which has lost its proper clastic
qualities by such a process of 'fatigue,'
as It Is culled, is cnpnble of recovering
its good qualities under favorable cir
cumstances. It will recover In this
wny if left at rest, though this is a
comparatively slow process, which ex
plains the fact that a tool which has
become useless through continued use
will be ns good as ever after a prolong
ed rest. But recovery will take place
much more rapidly If the steel be
wnrmed, so that n few minutes' expo
sure to the temperature of boiling wa
ter will bring nbout recovery to nn ex
tent that would have required several
days' rest at the ordinary tempera
tures. This fact explains the nd vantage
to be derived from the familiar prac
tice of 'steaming' a razor Itofore use."
Full fl-nrflt.
Watts Let's walk along until a car
overtakes us. Potts No. Let's walk
die other way until a car meets us. We
rrlll catch It sooner, we will go down
town just as quick, and we get more
ride for our uiouey.
PROOF
iliar with the ash pan method, and have, no doubt,
gone through the process many times of spreading
a newspaper or cloth under your stove every time
the over-filled pan is removed.
The ash pan is not only dirty, but is a great evil
in stove construction. It adds a door and joints
which can be made only temporarily air-tight by
the use of stove putty. These joints open after a
few weeks' use, rendering ash pan stoves worthless
as fire keepers. It makes them fuel-eaters rather
than fuel-savers. The ash pan and the shield for
guiding ashes into the pan, also prevent base heat.
Our method Is the only clean way. The
whisk broom, turkey wing and dust cloth
are dispensed with. There are no joints to
leak air, base heat is not retarded and Cole's Hot
Blast is the cleanest stove, the best floor heater
and the only stove in the world which can be
guaranteed to remain always air-tight.
PEOPLE OF THE STAGE.
Theatrical Lite lias Ken Joys and
Much llltternesa.
Booth, to whom Henry E. Abbey
would cheerfully have paid $1,1)00 a
ulghl for 150 consecutive nights, was
one of the most unhappy meu on the
face of God's earth. He hud buried
two wives, been through the mortifica
tion of bankruptcy nnd so fur as world
ly wealth is concerned, so far as the
Comforts of a settled home go, had yet
to make the one and secure the other.
This being the case, what you sup
pose is the fate of minor people? The
fact Is that they work hard, are under
paid, never play the pa,r,fs they prefer,
pay much, by fur the ge-uter portion of
their salaries, for stage costumes. In
variably have a gang of hangers on
who eat the bread they earn, are out of
engagements most of the time and
ninety times out of a hundred die so
poor that they are buried at the ex
pense of their fellows. Iu the first
place, It is extremely dltilcult for them
to obtain a position, and, having a
position, how few Its advantages.
They have to rehearse at lucouveuieut
times; they go out in all kinds of
weather regardless of their health or
comforts or home desires; they dress In
outlandish places, either wet, damp
and chilly or overheated. They are at
the capricious mercy of speculative
managers, and, having found by ex
perience that there Is very little sym
pathy for them, either before or behind
the footlights, they wrup themselves
iu a garment of mental Indifference to
appearances, which Is utterly misun
derstood by a cynical nnd suspicious
world.
I know of a girl who wus called to a
Sunday night rehearsal. Her father
was very ill. but the rental of their
rooms, the fees for the doctor nnd mon
ey for the drugs depended upon her at
tending to her business. It was imper
ative that she should be iu the theater
at 7:30 o'clock. Having arranged the
rojtn as women only can, having placed
upon the table by the bedside of ber
father his medicine, she kissed him
goodby and, with a loving touch, prom
ised to be back as early as possible.
You know what Sunday night rehears
als mean. They mean 1, 2, 3, 4 o'clock
the next day. That Is what this one
meant. The girl hastened home. The
caudle light had gone, the cold gray
of the early morning v us iu the room,
the father wns dend upon tho bed.
Boston Globe.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Nine-tenths of the failures intend to
do well.
If air castles were real, some people
wouldn't be satisfied.
We are always meeting people who
recall Incidents that we had hoped
they hud forgotten.
Wheu people do not enjoy doing tho
things we do, we are apt to think they
do not have a good time.
Your neighbor Is "funny." If you
throw his dog a bone, he suspects you
of trying either to poison it or to .win
Its iilieetbu from him.
It is Intei osllng for a man to look
through his old effects if for no other
rcasou than he will see that he is not
as big a fool as he used to be.
You mny hare such a fierce admira
tion for the under dog as to be unfair
to the upper dog. The upper dog Is of
ten compelled to fight to get his rights.
Atchison Globe.
Fronde' "Inaccuracy."
What competent critic today doubts
the general trustworthiness of Froude's
"History of England," In writing which
he was obliged to transcribe from
Spanish masses of papers which even
a Spaniard would have read with diffi
culty? Yet what sweeping 'charges of.
Inaccuracy were long made against
him!' Writing In 1S70 to a friend, the
historian says: "I acknowledge to five
real mistakes In the whole book
twelve volumes about twenty trifling
slips, equivalent to Ts' not dotted
nnd 't's' not crossed, nnd that is all
that the utmost malignity bas discover
ed. Every one of these rascals has
made a dozen blunders of bis own
while detecting one of mine." Success
Magazine.
(eutle Thing;.
"Yes," said the teacher, "the egg rep
resents nil that Is gentlest In creation
tho cooing doves, the tuneful soug
birds aud the stately swan. Johnny,
what other gentle things are hatched
from eggs?"
"Snakes, ostriches, alligators, spar
row hawks and ettflcSj" naid Johnny.
Don't Starve Your Dlrd.
It is a common mistake to think that
pets can only be taught when hungry
and to commence a bird's training by
depriving it of breakfast, dinner or
supper Is a most unhappy beginning.
In renlity the feathered folk are just
as apt and full of fun after a comfort
able meal as before It, and to starve,
scold or otherwise ill treat the little
creature will usually render it too un
happy to learn quickly If at all. Birds
are extremely nervous beings. They
love a low, quiet voice and gentle
movements love to be talked to, coax
ed and made much of. If the pet Is a
new one nnd seems specially excitable
or timid, you will have to teach It first
of all not to fear you. Any little games
he Is to learn must be acquired nfter
wnrd. Mary Dawson in St. Nicholas.
A Singer's Lumkn.
The singer at the end of the practice
aria panted heavily.
"I sang 1!H! notes that time," he said,
"without once taking breath."
"Indeed. That must be a record."
"No. The record Is held by Courtlee
rounds, rounds sang 310 notes with
out respiration in 18118. The record
previous to that was held by Farlnelli,
with 300 notes. Norman Salmond has
sung 287 notes In this way.
"It Is wonderful what lungs trained
Ringers have. The average man could
hardly sing fifty notes without breath
ing, whereas to the singer 200 would be
nothlng."-rhlladelphln Bulletin.
Nome Means Home.
It is said that the name of Nome
was the result of an error made by
some Englishman in writing a lettor.
He evidently intended to write the
word "home," but the makers of the
maps read it Nome, and thus the name
Nome belongs to history nnd tho great
district of Alaska. Some authorities
claim that the word Nome Is a corrup
tion of the Indian phrase or word
Knoma, meaning something like "I
know It." National Magazine.
, Happiness.
If you cannot be happy In one way,
be iu another, and this facility of dis
position wants but little aid from phi
losophy, for health and good humor
are almost the whole affair. Many
run about after felicity, like nn absent
minded man hunting for his hat while
it la In his hand or on bis head.
Martyrdom.
"Sympathetic people have a
hard
time In this world."
"In what way?"
"They have to listen to other peo
ple's troubles and never get a chance
to tell their own."
The most valuable book iu the British
museum is the "Codex Alexondrlnus,"
said to be worth 300,000.
Old Timrx In New York.
Ill 1789 New York city maintained nn
o.Mlclal who would whip a servant,
!:;.:! free or slave, for the master,
charging a shilling for the Job. Tetty
title "c. were branded for life with a
"T" on the cheek. Mrs. Johanna Young
aud another woman convicted of grand
larceny were driven all over the city
in n:i open cart, then Btrlpped to the
waist aud given thirty-nine lashes
apiece in public and then banished.
"Wl ereupon," says the record, "they
west to Philadelphia."
The Tender Hearted Bntcher.
"It must have been a very tender
hearted butcher who killed this lamb,"
said the cheerful boarder, pausing In
the sawing of his chop,
"Why?" kindly asked the inquisitive
man.
"Ho must havo hesitated three or
four years before striking the fatal
blow." London Tltr.lts.
IIIh Choice.
"Are you fond of music?" asked a
stranger of tho young man nt the con
vert, who wus applauding vigorously
after a pretty girl had sung in a very
painful way.
"Not particularly," said tho young
man frankly, "but I'm exceedingly
?ond of the musician."
One Kind of Tanning.
'Top!"
"Yes, my son."
"What kind of wood do they use
most In tanning?"
"Well, when I went to school, my
boy, they used birch." Yonkers States
man. Do not borrow trouble. The Interest
Is too blgh.-Dallns Nero.
SMOKE PROOF
The feed door on this stove is guaranteed smoke
proof and does away with the escape of smoke, soot
and gas into the house. Side feed doors used on
other stoves discharge a cloud of gas and soot-lad-ened
smoke into the house and scatter scot and
ashes over the carpet when opened.
Another point: In feeding coal into aside feed
door it has to be thrown into the stove, which
usually results in scattering much of it over the
floor. With our cleanly smoke proof feed door
the coal is poured into the stove even to the dust
in the bottom of the hod without a particle being
spilled on the floor.
This clean and economical stove burns the gases
which often escape into the rooms with other
stoves. The annoyance and dirt from kindling
new fires is dispensed with, as the rooms are heat
ed up for two or three hours each morning with
the fuel put in the night before and the Fire Is
Never Out. COLE'S ORIGINAL HOT
BLAST is the cleanest stove made and will more
than save its cost in fuel each winter.
COMPANY
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A.
DANGER IN HIGH SPEEDS.
The Farce Developed by Swiftly
Moving- Automobiles.
Danger to drivers of automobiles
grows rapidly greater with each new
burst of speed. A correspondent of
the Sclentitlc American develops the
theme as follows: "The danger in all
cases Increases as the square of the
speed. Take three machines of the
lame make, one going five miles an
hour, ono twenty miles nn hour nnd
one forty miles an hour. The second
has stored up In It, due to its rapidity
of motion, sixteen times as much
energy as the first, and if it leaves the
road and runs Into au obstacle, such
as a tree, n stone wall or a ditch. It
will strike with slxteeu times as great
force. Iu going around a curve or
turning a comer it Is sixteen times as
likely to upset, skid Into tho ditch or
strip a tire. Wheu the power Is shut
off and the brakes applied it will go
slxteeu times as far before It can be
brought to a stop. If it comes upon a
pedestrian suddenly the latter will have
to exert sixteen times as much energy
to get out of the way in time and if
struck will be struck with sixteen times
the force. The third machine will be
sixty-four times as likely to get Into
trouble In going around a curve as the
first.
"An object going five miles an hour
is moving with the same speed as It
would have attained In falling ten
inches. In moving ten miles an hour
it Is going as fast as though It had
fallen three and a half feet. Twenty
miles an hour is generally considered
a very conservative speed. Now, twen
ty miles an hour Is the same speed
that would be obtained were the ma
chine to fall thirteen feet through the
air, thirty miles an hour Is equivalent
to a fall of thirty feet, forty miles au
hour to a fall of fifty-two feet, sixty
miles an hour to a fall of 120 feet and
120 miles an hour to a fall of 480 feet.
"A person struck by an automobile
going twenty-five miles on hour re
ceives the same jar as though he him
self had fallen from a height of twenty
one feet, or, say, from a second story
window; by one going forty miles nu
hour, as though he bad fallen fifty
two feet, or, say, from the top of a lofty
tree; by one going 120 miles an bour, as
though he himself had fallen from the
top of the Washington monument."
BUYING VOTES.
When BrlMsh' Electors lint Uolden
News From the Moon.
Votes have been purchased shame
lessly and oil a huge scale In British
elections. An arrangement was once
made in the borough of Wendover by
which two candidates were to be eloct
ed after a distribution of 0,000 ($30,
000) among the voters. The account
reads: "This belug settled, a gentleman
was employed to go down, when he
was i met according to previous ap
pointment by the electors nbout a mile
from the town. ie electors asked
the stranger where he came from. He
replied. 'From the moon.' They then
ntil.ed, 'What news from tho moon?'
I'.i answered that he bad brought from
tiic;:ce G,0Ui) to be distributed among
them. The electors, being thus satis
tied with the golden news from the
irtoon, chose the candidates and receiv
ed their reward."
At Ulndou a mau dressed fantastic
ally as the dancing Flinch called at the
houses of the voters and left behind
him sums of 5 to 10 guineas ($25
to $50). Another device was to collect
the citizens at the inns and hand them
their reward through' a hole In the
door. For these offenses the house of
commons passed a resolution that Hln
don should be disfranchised, but so lax
were the morals of the time the close
of the eighteenth century that the res
olution was never acted upon.
A .?raln In isrrf) t!io "man In the moon"
turned up In Wakefield. He went
about openly distributing money and
did not appear to be In the least
ashamed of bis occupation. At Dub
lin In 1S08 a bole In the wall served
the purpose of a distributing center for
five pound notes, while ut Shaftes
bury an aldtl'inan paid through a bole
iu the door of his olllce a sum of 20
gulneaB ($100) to each elector. Chicago
News.
Endless Expense.
"How about these dukes?" inquired
Mr. Struckile. "Are they purty expen
sive?" "You bet they are," answered Mr.
Nurlch, who had bought one. "And
you want to remember this, Hiram.
Tho first cost Is the smallest item."
Washington Herald,
STOVE
Cut No. 2
Shows the dirty ash pan method.
A GIGANTIC GAMBLE.
Every Step cf t!j I'cnrl Fishery At
tended by Fickle Fortune.
The world's t;:o.it gigantic gamble,
preg'.itintly fruitful with chance in all
variations and shadings, is unquestion
ably the Ceylon pearl fishery. Com
pared with it any state lottery pales to
Insignificance. From the taking of the
Orst oyster to the draining of the last
vatful of "matter" every step Is at
tended by tickle fortune, aud never is
the Interest of the people of Portugal
or of Mexico keener over a (.'.rawing of
a lottery, the tickets of which may
have been sold at the very thresholds
of the cuthtdrul, than is that of the
natives of Ceylon and southern India
over tho dully results of a Manar fish-,
evy.
Each bivalve is n lottery ticket. It
mny contain a gem worthy of place In
a monarch's crown, or be a seed pearl
with a mercantile value of only a few
rupees. Terhaps one oyster In a hun
dred contains a pearl, and not more
than one pearl In a hundred, bo it
known, lm: a value of Importance.
Nature furnishes the sea, pearling
banks, oysters and all therein contain
ed. The Ceyloa atiniinl.itiv.tijn con
ducts the undertaking and for Its trou
ble nnd trifling outlay exacts" a "rake
off" of two-thirds of all that may bo
won from the deep. And mere man,
the brown or black diver, receives for
his daring and enterprise one oyster
In every three that he I rlngs from tho
ocean's depths, and his earnings must
be shared with boat owner, sailors, at
tendants nnd assistants almost without
number.
For size of . "rake-off" there Is no
game of hnznrrt In the world offering
a parallel. The Ceylon government
nwl to exact three out of every four
oysf-ri brw-ht In. the current tribute
of two out of threp having become op
erative only a few years since. Fred
eric O. Tenfleld In Cetit'irv.
THE MANTO.
A Garment Thnt All Chilean Women
Wear to Chnrrh.
The Chilean women's most fetching
garment, wrap, or what you will, is
the matito. It is of some kind of
fine black material and Is worn thrown
over the head. Sometimes a flap of it
Is drawn tightly across the forehead.
After being thrown over tho head the
nianto, by some means which I have
a.: y?t been unable to (.i.scern. Is cinch
ed in close about the r.eck.
This cinching In at the neck makes
a kind of hood around tho face, and
this hood is very skillfully manipulat
ed by . some of the women to cover up
moles and other defects and to con
ceal the fact thnt their hair has not
been carefully combed.
From the shoulders the manto falls
down in front to the toes and behind
to the heels. It Is held together In
front partly by pins and partly by the
hands of the wearer. It Is usually, but
not always, worn over the street cos
tume. The wearing of mnntos by nil wom
en, no matter of what class, on attend
ing church Is obligatory. This provid
ing for a uniform costume Is quite rea
sonable and is designed to eliminate
such things as our Enster bonnet com
petitions and allow the mind to for
sake earthly and devote Itself to things
spiritual.
It also swells the attendance on
many occasions, for some of the ladles,
when they arise too late to have time
to dress for early morning mass, mere
ly throw on their mnntos over their
robes do nult and, with the addition of
such head and foot trimming as Is
necessary to give the impression of
being fully dreswd, trip demurely off
to church, to all outward seeming a?
though they bad spent hours Instead of
minutes before their glasses. Los An
geles Times.
Greek Unr'nl Custom.
It Is the custom In certain purts of;
Greece to carry bodies to the grave lui
coffins which allow the face to be;
visible. The fashion is Bald to havej
originated when the Turks dominated;
the laud. At that time arms and am-j
munition were licins constantly distrlb-l
uted to the Greek populace In a way!
which baffled the Turkish officials un-j
til n coffin which was being escorted:
by an apparently mourning procession
was found to contain not a body, but
weapons. An order was then promul
gated that bodies were to be borne to
the grave only ou open litters or in
coffins without lids.