Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-07-04
The Cobra

parrot at once prefer one human being,
and reject another? Sometimes it may
happen that this bird will go to a perfect
stranger, and suddenly turn on it's we'll
known owner if he attempts to touch it.
Dogs exercise this mysterious prefer
cnce or aversion in very marked degree.
Natural philosophers assume that these
preferences and aversions are the result of
certain occult skin OF flesh odors, Of which
we ourselves have no knowledge.
All animate nature seems to be submit.
ted to these mysterious doctrines. which
are far beyond the ken of man.
Helios Dolah Babrodoor, commonly call
ed Hel1os, was Parsee-one Of those few
remaining of the old caste of sun-worship-
ers, who recognize the Divine love in the
life-giving power If the sun, and who
der y revelation of all kinds.
They are now only to be found in
! Hindostan, where the natives are pretty
equally divided into Mussulmans AID
| Hindoos.
Helios hated the Mussulmans, aud de-
! voted himself to reducing their powers in
! India.
| Rich. intellectual and pure, he was
great power in Hindostan, and, in 1857,
gave valuable information to the East In
dla Company, such IS naturally helped to
overthrow the native Mussulman power
in North India.
! From that time to the hour in which
the crash came, he never ceased to oppose
the Musselman cause in India.
! It was even said that he had given
valuable information to the Russians con-
corning military affairs in Turkey, and
an anticipation of the war upon the great
Mohammedan power which has now
broken out.
Three years since, Helios reached En-
gland, evidently the bearer of important
intelligence for he was received at the
India Office whenever he presented him.
self there.
i, When the winter, however, approached
he found that he could not bear the En-
glish climate. But his work evidently
| not being done, he did not return to In
dia, but drifted to Nice, where his great
god, the sun, plays at summer time, while
| in the distance the snow covered Maritime
! Alps may be seen, white in the midst OF
winter.
! Here he took some rooms at the very
! top of q hotel. He was humble mind
FED man, who hated display and loved
quiet.
| He was solitary enough under the tiles.
A hotel servant, going into Helios's
bedroom one morning while the occupier
was out, was astonished to find man
evidently an East Indian by his COM
p1exion, seated near the stove, the iron
! pipe OF which passed out on: to the roof
I Aol]o NH ho ho In
waiting for the sahib's return.
Told that the gentleman would not be
back until night, he took his leave very
humbly
I; IT was after he had gone that the man
| servant noticed that the door of the small
cylinder iron stove which warmed the
room when there happened to be cool
day, had been broken sharp off, and re-
moved from the room.
He did not associate this danger with
the visitor. He assumed that careless
servant had snapped the cast-iron door of
the stove. &c.,
That night one of the bed room bells
was rung softly several times, and until
the night porter gave the alarm.
During the winter at Nice, most of the
visitors resident in the hotels are invalids;
and, therefore, a cabin the middle Of the
night is very common. '>' 4.
! The properly appointed person accer
tanned that the bill was that OF. the ROOM
occupied by NJ Helios, the Parsee
lie never fastened his d ,or. -
'Monsicur!' ''' 10 ,''''
i" "Bring a plate Of milk, for Heavens
sakel" -
IlAIono;o,ri,,
'Some milk, fer Heavens sake, in
platel 1t is. a matterOf life or DEATH
!. Walters in these winter hotels are &C
customed to very etrage requests, and,
therefore, the man, with civil affrma-
tive.went down stairs, soon returned with
the plate Of milk, and entered the room,
bearing light. -. &C.,.
l. .."Set it down on my breast" said, the
Parsee, in q low voice. ,.,. ill.,. ... ii,
The wondering man did as he was
! Hidden. - - H. 80;
1t was only after he had done 81 that
he saw q small brown snake coiled upon
4 tie Patsee's left arm. "a -. =: ~ ''
IN horrid eyes were fixed upon: his
beating jugular artery. ''' ~, ~. '''.
The waiter, paralyzcd, could not move
The strange attraction for milk which