The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-03-27
THE PURlTANS.

THE PURsTANs.
Tell it not in Gath Whisper it not in
Askelon During the debate in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, one day last week. On
the Sumner resolutions, member called for
the reading, BY the Clerk of the House. Of .
certain passage Of Scripture There was per-
feet silence while the solons waited for the
clerk to produce the Bible. The latter gen.
tleman seemed To be embarrassed. He
searched everywhere, bat was finally forced
to declare that there Wa no Bible there
For moment tinee of sadness seemed to
overcome the assembly, bot this gave way 10
merriment, when further search revealed the
fact that there vas not copy Of the inspired
volume in the State House. A page was
sent out to borrow one, and when he return.
ed the passage was read, and business pro-
ceeded. What would the Puritan fathers
have thought Of such IN occurrence as that :?
CHiLI.
From various standard authorities at our
command, We have gathered the following
facts about the Republic Of Chill, which
may be interesting TO the swarm Of self
sacrificing ofice--eekers who are anxious to
accompany DR.. Logan.
The population Gf Chill il over two
millions, Santiago, the location Of the Em-
basy, having $4,000. There are two
drawbacks to the country, the violent
hurricanes and the earthquakes. The
climxte seems to predisp,se the people to
apathy and Incidence. The Chilians are
not long lived people; pulmonary diseases,
affections of the heart and liver, and cpl
demic dysentary prove fatal to immense
numbers, and reduce the average Of
human life to very low figure. Chill may
with propriety be called the land Of earth
quskes. At Santiago in . meteorological
record of thirty-two months, ending in 1851,
there we're 100 earthquake shocks, the last Of
which, on April 81, 1851, destroyed many
churches and people. This devoted city has
been almost ruined by earthquakes at seven
different periods of its recent history, in
some Of which Thousands of the inhabitants
we're swallowed up. A large part Of the coil
Is sterile; part of it is too mountainous,
too cold, or thinly covered with
earth to sustain vegetation There
are deserts where rain never falls; there are
DE- nse forests; these and the districts occu-
pied by warlike Indians must be deducted
from the gross area, leaving but small re-
mainder of tilIable ground. The American
population is about twelve hundred. but our
authorities give us no information a. TO
whether the average mortality among them
was greater or less than among the sho.t
lived natives. The Chilians are usually
slender, the women having fuller
and rounder figures than the men.
They ape French dress, but no man isdress-
ed fashionab!y without the striped blanket
with hole in the centre for the head to be
pushed through, and no woman ia dressed
without shawl L;centiousness exists to an
alarming extent, and the diseases it engen-
ders are the most frightfnl in the world.
LEGITIMACY il common-one- fifth Of the
births in Santiago being of this character.
Blindness and goiire. the effect of the glare
of the sun upon the snow, and the msgne-
sian impreguation of the water used fer
drinking, are very prevalent.
This is an appropriate place, perhaps, 10
send physician and Kansas politician.
A physician is needed undoubtedly, in this
Republic, cursed as it is with inhabitants
carrying diseased lungs and livers, dysentery,
blindness and goitre, but why Danish Kan
sas politician to place having an average Of
four earthquakes month? How many
healthy Kansas Senatorial aspirants are to be
banished to Republics Of pestilence and
earthquakes, time alone can tell.