The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-20

their usual fashion. A huge, ugly thing
he was with enormous eyes, painted black
with broad white rim around them
Then another god Twas brought and hoisted
up in the same way, but to lower divi-
sion, aud so on till all were full. The
crowd meanwhile kept throwing garlands
and donations to the Brahmns; dirty,
common looking men, with nothing what
ever to distinguish them from the common
man, except the white Brahminical thread
over their shoulders. When the gods
we're all iu their places, two large wooden
horses were brought out, one blue and
the other white, each with thick tail
sticking up at an angle Of ninety degrees.
These gay steeds were fastened to the car,
and Brahmin stood upon the back of
each, holding by rope. ....
At this time the scene was eXtraordina.
ry. Close by the side of the car was a
large native house, broken and crumhlipg
like most native houses. Through iron
bars in front of this house some women
were peerng, and on the roof there were
more women of the the zcnana, with an
old crone keeping watch and guard over
them. On the other side Of the road was
Juggernaut temple, crowded with wo-
men. The road itself was quite impassa-
BILE for the crowds Of people, whose oily
bodies and dirty ways did not improve the
favor of the heated atmosphere. Fur as
the eye could reach this throng extended
and when thousand gongs were set beat
ing and the Brahmins called upon the peo-
pie, thrill of wild excitement ran through
the enormous living mass. The ropes
were fixed and multitudes rushed to them,
eager for the honor of pulling their deity
along
On the car itself there could scarcely
have been less than two hundred men.-
Perhaps there we're 1,DG0 pulling on the
ropes, but they pulled for a long time iu
vain. The Car had been in one place for
a whole year, and had made deep hole
for itself by its great weight. Again and
again the Brahmins shouted and gesticula,
ted, laughing among themselves. At last
the rnob happened to pull together instead
of one after the other, and the huge mass
moved forward a'few yards, groauing as if
it had been living creature. 1t stopped,
and for few minutes the crowd stood in
almost perfect silence. Then the Brah.
Minis gave the signal, and this time it
crushed out a life with every revolution OF
its hideous wheels, covered as they were
with human flesh and gore.
H. 4, ..oo1 ! L.,
possessed with fit of delirium. They
fought and struggled with each other to
get near the car, which had stopped as il
by magic. They stopped down and peer
ed beneath its wheels, and rose with scared
faces to tell their friends of the sight.
made my way to the back of the car, and
there saw upon the ground very old wo-
man, all wrinkled aud puckercd up, with
scarcely lineament of her face recognize.
able for blood and dust. Her right foot
was hanging by thread, the wheels had
passed over the centre of her nearly naked
body, and faint culver of anguish ran
through her frame as she seemed to strug
gle to rise.
Not one in the crowd offered to move
her, or raise her miserable head from the
ground, but they stood looking on with
vacant stares, while Brahmins from TIT
car gazed down with as much unconcerr
as could well be written upon a human
countenance. The crowd cried that there
were more under the car, and when
looked beneath it seemed as if the wheels
were choked with dusky bodies. Two o,
three chockeydars here made tteir ap
pearancc and compelled the crowd to move
back Upon getting closer to the whecls
saw that one of them was half over the
body OF u man and that it had crushed GU
his bowels, and fastened itself like som,
Unsuitable monster in his blood. Close by
him there lay auother man crushed t.
death he Was but heap of manglec
flesh.
The Brahmins still looked down from
the cars upon these poor wretches will
perfect uncuncern, and were even signal
iziug for the crowd to pull again but thu
few policemen present made them drag
the car back, SO that the bodies could b.
got out from between the wheels. The
mob cried out "Apse, apse )" that they
did it of their own accord F.; and indeed
there was no appearance of an accident
Their bodies were far under tue car, wher,
they could scarcely have got unless they
had laid themselves down in front. l saw
two other men lying there when the CO.
first stopped, but they got up and walked
away. The three bodies were placed to
gether, and the car was dragged On by thu
people once more. l did not stay to SCI
whether its track was made in fresh blood
The Politeness of the Arabs
1t is considered mark of good breeding