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Show i j i i SOMETHINS LIKE A MIRACLE.1 Ctuntry Editor Bays He Mads Angty tA4i FLY THEIR TRADE AS OF OLD. Egyptian Water Carriers on the Nile Are Expert Climbers. Few travelers on tbe Nile have failed to note tbe native Egyptian i i water carriers who ply their trade Beoan with Its Temples end Derotees, One of i of tha College Life There Something of along the great waterway Novelty to Pharaohs. Whatever changes have die Showpieces of the Empire, American Rhodes Scholars. coma to pasa, whatever Innovations of modern methods have taken place, All travelers agree that the river lief that the great Buddha received hu (Special Correspondence.) the Egyptian water carrier remalnaaa front at Benarea, the holy city of knowledge while meditating under its The ' first contingent of American the upper cIrsz men, he seeks the he waa a thousand years ago. Tall, preaenta onet the moat extraor- branches. This great person was so Rhodes scholars bas now been at r society of his whom long of limb, agile and athletic, coal dinary eights In the world. Here in good that flowers , sprang up In hi for more than a whole academic by this time be has come to know very black, wearing nothing but his turban the early moraine the people often a footprints wherever he walked. The year. Already tbe scholars have bad well. He invites them in little groups and his breech cloth, he halls every hundred thouaand of them come to tree under which he sat for such great many experiences and gained many to his own hospitable hoard, and is passing craft. If they need a fresh bathe In the water of the sacred length of time became so impressed lmprezzlons that may be of Interest Invited In return. Thus begins that supply of water that la fit to drink Ganges. For several miles the lower, with his knowledge that Its leaves to their fellow-coun- t jolly soclubll'.ty auiong the students rynien. bank is merely a series of steps lead- still tremble on account of his wisTheir reception, on the whole, has that forms such an attractive feature ing to the water, while overhead there dom. An attempt was once made to been n friendly one. Although they of college days at Oxford. la a continuation of terraces crowded destroy this sacred reminder of the found their English cousins less dewith a conglomerate mass of temples, good man's stay on earth, but when It monstrative In their bonhomie than Athletics Enjoyed by All. palaces and ruins. When the early was cut down and burned two trees themselves, and although they thought Nearly every Oxford undergraduate sun shines on the Benares water front at once sprang up In its stead. It Is It queer at first that these cousins on goes in for some kind of sport. For It reveals the soul of India. This such traditions that cause the faithful being Introduced to a man merely said there Is such a varied list to choose horde of fanatics wallowing In the to still sprinkle milk and perfume How dyou do, with perhaps a dis- from that every one can find a sport around the roots of the sacred Bo tant nod, they soon discovered h&t to his liking; the climate is such as tree. this reserve was rather a tjlck of man- to require a great deal of exercise, ner than an Indication of unsoclablll-ty- . and It Is considered each mans boun-deDelhi Is Spectacular. duty to help maintain the athDelhi has much to claim the attenIt goes without saying that the life letic prestige of his college. In the tion of the visitor In India. Its great here is a good deal of a novelty to tower Is one of the marvels of Asia, the Americans. In tbe morning the and Its ruins are numerous enough' to undergraduate Is gently aroused by his "scout" (manservant) In tl:ue to keep the student of history busy for days. . Its lengthy, populous bazaar roller'' (roll keep a chapel or a has been the scene of many brutal call) a few minutes before 8 o'clock. butcheries, the ruthless Nadir Shah He Is under the sad necessity of having left a hundred thousand vickeeping a specified number varying tims In his path when he came to In different colleges from twenty-fou- r Peacock steal the to forty of either one or the other s Kohl Throne and the during the term If he is to receive Candidate for the Bar. noor diamond. Delhi also has a caofficial credit for having resided'' that the passing boat turns In toward the A man from Texas adventured Into term. If he pacious and striking mosc.ue where keeps the bank and before It has slackened ita 60,000 worshipers have congregated at Arkansas on a business errand. Tbe practice of rollers Instituted, no pace a long bamboo stick has been one time. Among the treasures of this town was strange to him and he was doubt, to inculcate early rising he raised and leaned against its side, and, mosque Is a red hair from the beard unacquainted with the man, a lawyer, must .arrive at a certain room and spry as a monkey, the Egyptian Is of Mohammed. Delhi will best be re- whom he had come to see. There was with a goose-quiaffix his sigpen scampering up Its side. Toes strong no he when at scene the station membered as the the reader carriage nature to a piece of paper before a by Where Buddha First Taught. as steel and supple as rubber, an eye of the great Durbar, when he present arrived, so he asked his way to the bell ceases ringing, if he has chosen as elear as crystal and a hem and filthy stream, rubbing mud their hair, King of England was proclaimed Em house of Mr. Dash, and set out to to keep chapels Instead he must be neck of prodigious strength are the and performing their crazy acts of peror of India by the most gorgeous walk. in chapel before another bell stops ringmain qualifications of this Egyptian, The directions he received were so ing, and must remain there throughever heathenism, offers the explanation of and mostly Btate ceremonial for the load he balances on his craniIndefinite that he found himself at out a service of about twenty minutes. India's prolonged wretchedness and held. um Is heavy and the hold be lms on on without of the edge the town, It should be understood that any last degradation. After rollers or chapel there is a his single stick ladder must needs A thousand different acts of Idiocy single article on the slgtis of India having come to the house he sought wait of nearly an hour before breakbe sure. are being performed If one bad but must at best be incomplete. It Is a Then be met an old colored ipan, and fast. Brekker" is served a la carte, the time to count them. One deluded continent In itself, i Hording almost as asked the way again. Mr Dash's without the cante. In the students Jesus College. ONLY PINNATED GROU8E KNOWN. Brahmin Is smearing himself with cow many contrasts and incongruities, It house, he learned, lay about a quarter sitting rooms, and to each man alone, American this the of duty performance n of mile down road. manure as a means of purification; the may safely be said, as all other contiunless he happens to be a guest or the Rhodians have certainly not proven Flock That Is Carefully Guarded on Tbe man 1 want to see Is a lawanother Is holding his nose so that no nents combined. When Hie journey host at a breakfast party, as more laggards. ' Though the report that Martha's Vineyard. Is often air can enter to defile his body while through it is completed on is almost yer, he said to the old negro. happen than not. At a breakfast they are all athletes Is exaggerated Massachusetts has In a cover down he prays; and still another is being dazed by the mass of imp ' essions re- this Mr. Dash down the road a lawIs the ttme social party prolonged after are nearly all lovers of ouldooi on Martha's Vineyard a colony of whipped with a peacock feather to corded by the w.y. There lingers the yer? the meal till 10 o'clock, or even later, they and have entered into Oxford eighty or more pinnated grouse, scienRport, I He no ever ain't his that atone for sins. It Is no wonder strident clamor of the bazaars and the lawyer by talk and smoking. Then every- athletics with great heartiness and tifically known as the tympannerhus 'that plague and pestilence are always importunate pleading of tt-- beggars; heard tell of, answered the old negro. body is supposed to do his duty by success. This Is not the place tc cuspldo. Marvelous as It may seem, You're sure? In India. The lumberbather the grotesque camel wagons and preying upon books and lectures until luncheon time enumerate their laurels at length, but these are said to be the only living The old negro scratched his head Ganges simply wades In filth. The about 1 oclock. 1 must at least proclaim that they won representatives of this species in the In deep thought. Then a gleam of river reeks with sewer refuse and evseven out of nine events In the freshentire world. remembrance lighted his eye. ery sort of offal. I saw a dead dog Afternoon In Open Air. man sports, and that many of theli Natural history museums, taxiderNow, I thinks of It boss, he said, float between a worshiper's legs, but The afternoon until 4 or 6 oclock number have gained distinction foi mists and students of nature have pears like I do recollect he ran for Is the zealous barbarian was too much out whether the of doors, spent themselves In rowing a sport with been them for years, until lawyer one time. Washington Post. pursuing engrossed In meditating upon the 108 sport be rowing, football, hockey, which they first became acquainted at now specimens are said to be worth manifestations of Shiva to notice the Oxford. cricket, lacrosse, golf, tennis, polo, Th Rain. from $100 to $200 each. Reanywhere garcass or to bother about it If he hunting, running, riding, cycling, or I woke In the night and thought I heard did. cently a bill was passed In the legis-lstur- e walking. The Oxford under- Examinations. But 'two another music, twaa tha aoft merely putting a 'close time on these In the scheme of Instruction at Ox- birds until graduate feels that he cannot exist rain falling: 19J1. The Sweat of the Gods. 4 It trlpp-r- with lilting whispers from tha unless he exercises In the open air ford everything depends upon examIn front of the ghat several corpses wnrra skies of Spring, The penalty for killing a pinnated in' About courses afternoon. the In of inations. those everystudy 4:3p And It sang me a Bong ilka tha songs floated In the water a yard from or having one in one's possesyou used to sing. body goes somewhere for tea, wheth- leading to the degrees of B. A. and grouseIs where a score of devout believers sion $100. Hitherto the fine was s to It room er be at a M. courses A. are and mid-hothese pursued 'Twas the of night, and tha were mechanically which was not enough to disrepeating their $20, onibers In the lira or a tea the room, college, public by the vast majority of the students formula of adoration to the rising sun. Were cold as your folded hands, and dead home of a friend. The little college two examinations are required, called courage hunting for museum specias your desire. At the well supposed to be filled with But my heart waa warm with memory. tea parties usually last till about 6 officially the first and second public mens. Vishnus perspiration is the greatest Dr. Field, chairman of the MassaIt heard the rain. a free hour between examinations. These two examinaAnd dreamed It waabeating your luring tips that oclock, leaving congestion of pilgrims and the most to tions may be taken either In a pass chusetts Fish and Game Association, This time and called to me again. dinner. hour that sweat disgusting sights. The or socially, accord- school (the term school meaning says: "The pinnated grouse formerof the divinity is in reality nothing Night and the rain and the dead, ashen spentto studiously the inclination of each Indi- course of study) or an honor school, ly roamed all over the country from ember. ing but black, foul ooze from the river, These are for me for me that muit reDinner Is served In hall vidual. or one In each. Tbe work In the pass Maine to Virginia and east of the Allemade more nauseous and deadly by member; e chapel-llkwhere The embers end the rain and the night the schools Is much easier than that in gheny mountains. building large, decaying donations of butter, milk and In ahadnwa set. It is a most delicious food bird, but of the the the honor schools, and seems intended appearance itself, place These are for you for you who can sweets. Tbe insane zealots drink this manner of serving, and the queer table for the benefit of those who wish to It has been hunted to the vanishing polluted slime and carry the. offensive customs all seak of the past and Its procure a degree with as little trouble point The flock at Marthas Vineyard Never come tha rain and the wet winds stuff home with them to bathe their traditions. After dinner coffee to as possible. A pass degree, however, is the only one In the world. I Intend ightng. Idols In. But I must awake, though deep in slumIn served the rooms of those who confers little glory upon a student, so to put a man specially in charge to ber lying. Every crowd is fringed with begging It. desire Then the student to pre- that all ambitious aspirants for the protect it from specimen hunters.". voice aoft and 'tie your Thinking again, devotees a worthless lot of hyposweet and clear. Sumaree Temple at Benarea. for the evening, which he B. A. and M. A. take It in one of Springfield Republican. pared crites who have made all kinds of preSighing to my aoul tha aonga that I no hto books, playwith more shall perhaps spends hear. eight final honor schools" llterae to state continue pass., elephants posterous vows but who spend most Ing Grain of Dust. Los Angeles Times. or perhaps hnmanlores, at the natural mathematics, theater, bridge, ing of their holy time In soliciting alms. and gaudy nautch girls shuffle their some at diversions other of .the many science, jurisprudence, modern history. The census shows that there are sensuous dance In the dusty streets Jewels Highly Prized. One remembers the sleek, lazy cattle 6,000,000 religious mendicants in Inwho cerhave possess jewels People dia. As I went up the steps by the complacently zwltching flies In the tain t rinkets which they regard with shade of mud and the the the funeral tempies, almost' superstitions affection. Sarah burning ghat the smoke of piles were mounting upward and the hovels of the poor people who do not Bernhardt pins her faith to a necklamentations of mourners were min- fare so well. Lastly, there to the lace nf old nuggets, a gift from the Englishman, masCalifornia miners, and the duchess of gled with the chant of priests. At one place where tbe fire bad done its work ter of the land and guardian of the Orleais to a set of sapphires which a pious ghoul was siftiirfc the ashes In people's destiny he may be working belonged to Marie Antoinette. The a sieve In the hope of finding bits of out the salvation of his subjects, but aappblre to the queens favorite stone. Jewelry from tbe corpse that had just he reems always to be playing tennis She 'rears as a broach one of great been destroyed. lie was as absorbed nn.1 taking his ease. Los Angeles size, given to her by the late duke of in his work as a Klondike miner pan- T1 res. Coburg. But old Egyptian Jewels are considered the most potent guardians ning for gold. It would require days Senator George's Nephew. for the visitor to see all the temples in of fortune. Mrs. St. John Brodrick ' Benares, for there are thousands of Magnified 606 times, the grain of Floyd Hemingway, from the Delta owns Egyptian gems of priceless value. powder to found to contain debris of country, who to nephew of former Mrs. Clarence Mackay bas a weird Senator Jameg Z. George, is in Chi- caraellan necklace which bung once many kinds. cago buying goods for hto country upon the neck of a daughter of the Wild Board Runs Amuck. mercantile establishment, says the Pharaohs. Mrs. George Keppel wears Wild boar are always a trial during Chicago American. Mr. Hemmlngway a pendant of emeralds, the most beau-tifu- l hard weather in the forest districts of was the senators secretary at the In the world. France. About thirty of them have time of the debate on tbe repealing been killed in the Tarbes district durNo Holiday for Her. clanse of the Sherman Mil In congress twelve years ago. The senator then ing the fortnight; tbe other day a People have different ideas as to was so much occupied with matters what constitutes a holiday or a vacapowerful boar absolutely wrecked the local fair at Arreau. of state that he gave little attention tion. Mrs. Pettis had her own firmly Somehow it strayed among tbe to hto family. One day hto nephew fixed opinion on the subject. I dont count Thanksgiving or stalls, and Its uneasiness at the surwalked Into his committee room and announced that he would not be back Christmas or Washingtons birthday roundings soon became a furious or any of those holidays, sbe said, for a week or ao. panic. Tbe beast rushed wildly at Wbata that?" exclaimed hto tnde, frankly, to an old friend one day. random, hither and thither, knocking and the statement waa repeated. What I count a holiday to when Ezra people down, scattering the fair booths and tbelr contents in all directions, You see I got married this morn- and Jim and Bob and Llphlet go off and before It got clear of the place ing." Mr. Hemmingway went on, and up to the wood lot with their dinner, It had completely wrecked the fair. I waa shocked when I discovered your and I know they won't be back till Then It plunged into the river to absence from the ceremony. You got night I'm not one to deny that men folks swim across, but was pursued by a an Invitation you know. Pembroke College. crowd armed with revolvers, pitch-fork- s "You married! thundered the have their good points, but how any a can call Is a and hatchets and was overpowin when Oriental brief. Woman py. Such, holiday possible. Then typical it. studios, he remembered English Mlsalsairplan. and softened. "Well, run along and they're in the house', calling for food day at Oxford. hnu;ppe. and literature and accord- ered and killed before It could clear tbe water. London Daily Globe. have a good time. But be sure to get by looks wben they aren't by words, to College hoaplt&lity at Oxford has ing to the knowledge and ability dist Youth's Companion. no equal anywhere else in the world played in the final examination they back by next Monday. You married? beyond me! Golden Temple, Benarea. I feel sure, unless possibly at Cam- receive first, second, third, or fourth Pipe a Veritable Heirloom. Hump! No telling what you'll be doJames E. Trickey of Wert Warren, Company Manners. and ing next: you've been smoking a lot bridge. It begins for the callow honors. To those who acquit themthem. They contain monkey That was Mr. and Mrs. Nifeeter fresher with tbe receipt of invita- selves with unusual eclat a double Mass., to the owner of a meerschaum anakes and cows. and every conceiv- of cigarettes lately. we had here for lunch Intle. tions for breakfast, luncheon, or tea first is given, while those deemed pipe which has been In hto family able kind of Image. Tbe entire city Didn't you recognize them? asked The upper class men very conscienof Prize Career unworthy of fourth honors fall wholly more than sixty years. Mr. Trickey to merely a carnival of Idolatry. Is It Beauty. take this way of introducing without the pale and are denied an received it from his father forty-fiv- e Mlsa Emma Newkirk of Santo Mon- the tody of the house. at ail strange that misery to the handtiously No, ma'am, I didn't replied the new men to their college asso- honor degree. years ago. maiden of a race that lends. Itself to ica. whose friends boast that she once Katie. In first a New York won a ciates, so that nearly every freshman prize such abominations? e Uses Methods. "Why you used to work for them receives during hto first term more Discovers Twenty-Fiv- e Comets. beauty show, to now In the Northwest short weeks ago? two Wilson H. of Embden, Maine, to P. Dr. R. only William can director most where Invitations she has than of he not Brooks, accept, Territory, only Buddha and the Bo Tree. I know it; but they eat so different st Geneva. evidently a farmer of the old school. of them coming from men whom he the Smith Observatory Tbe sacred Bo tree of India M re- mrrled a rich man, bnt haz been when home that I didn't get does not know even they're N. he flail, who discovered Y., first comet Using an a of the school director as the district circled sight. Buddhists by During garded by all devout on to who tliey was!" Yonkers hto second term, as he to not usually of the year, ha now twenty-fiv- e threshed out eighteen bushels of oat dismost hallowed object In existence. that covers several hundred square Statesman in four hours. gnected tc letnrn these favors of coveries to his credit. Their dtvo.kio I? prompted by the be milei. of King Fdwsrd'c domintonu ias Famed Holy City ) In-dI- . Woman See Reason. "I am not afraid of. any of tbfse men who come into tha office to itck: me, but I have alwaye fought ahy of an Irate woman, declared a country editor yesterday who had come to town to confer with some of the local politicians. While I know of several fellowa who hare been put to rout by women I have so far escaped whole and never came near but one licking by a womShe waa from a an, lie continued. little town down tbe river whom I bad written up wben the married a bigamist. She arrived In town with a big blacksnake whip and a temper worked up to a white beat. She nnnminced she was there to whip me to within an Inch of my life. I tried to reason with her, but of no avail. She grew more angry each minute. "Finally I said, watching that whip all the time, Now don't you see If you whip mo you will just get Into a bigger scandal? I certainly will get even with you by writing up the story of how you did It.' I had saved my life. The woman thought a minute and then started for the door. Well, I guess 1 have given you a good piece of my mind anyway,' she declared aB she left. For once my wit had saved me from either running or striking back at a woman, which I do not think a gentleman should do. Chicago Chronicle. Students at Old Oxford a Ox-fo- lellow-freshme- n - d world-famou- time-honore- d ll . follow-student'- ur foi-ge- pom-pous- , to-da- Old-Tim- |