The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-05

snlmsn toward the foreign urhsl;au nus
being as nothing compared w;t5 7E S:
detestation OF the MosIem scbisno,G;la
1t would have gone hard win "
SUM who had been detected any
the frenzied Shiahs whose boni
va Hooseinl" (Oh. Hoosn; u
made Bombay echo last Fridsv.
contrariwise. the annual, of AfoS Hau
warfare record numerous in-tsn uau
of English ''in6dels" being snassS
while Shah sepoys were nerc;la..Ioo
put to death by the bigoted Snnis :,
Kabul and Kandabsr. Nor bsa ~ "
stimulating influence OF the on, .ns
tragedy itself been less undy,ns 1b."
the enmity which it's results have ~
queathed to after ages. The milits. -
history OF British indis points 10 lbs
Moharrem festival as the chosen TIM
OF headlong attacks and fests If
perhuman daring on the part ~
the fierce Moslem warri1rs Of Hin
dustan. The sun has never looked
down upon a more desperate battJs
than that " lich ragged around Arcot
on the day of Inmsu Hoosein. from
day reak till long pas; noon. 100
years ago. As each wave OF furion,
attack broke in vain against the
granite frmness of the defenders uev
thousands came rushing on TILL At
length the little handful of Eoplish.
men that held the breach had
scarcely q man left unwou1ded. and
one of the guns was being served bv
the commsndsDt himself, q sailow,
taciturn. harsh featured young book.
keeper from Madras Diekuame5
Fighting Bob" by his few associate.
but better known to history as L md
Give.
Side by side with the wild and
clamorous excitement of MosIem d.
70 ion, but 10 the strangest possible
contrast to it, stands the gloomy and
silent ritual of faith which drove
frocn Persia 200 years ago. only that
il might arise and live again beyond
the Himalays among the Parsees of
OF all the walls stranded
upon the shore of the present by the
ebbing OF the past, these descendants
OF the ancient: tire worshipsrs are the
most rem srkable. What the Jew is
to Europe the Parsee is to Asla-a
thrifty, patient, skillfnl trader wher.
ever business can be transacted and
profit made, keen and wary in push
ing any commercial ADVANTAGE to
the utmost. while often lavishly
generous in relieving the needs of his
own race with the wealth which his
superior shreWdness has Wrung from
the alien. The Ibera.ity of the
weather. Pargees has left tokens OF
sselt in every part oil India. Their
we'll furnished houses and beautiful
gardens are to be seen in every street
If ths fashionable quarter of Bombay.
& ls certainly no easy matter to res-
ize that the portly benevolent-Iooking
gentlemen who greet you in such il
sproachable English, and who have
title or nothing but their peculiar
over shaped cap to distinguish them
rom Europeans, still uphold in all its
uIIness enc of the most nideous and
superstitlous of the ancien:
world.
Such, however, ia actually the case.
up the wooded ridge of Ma
bar Hill, as you halt on the edge Of
ne winding road, in the freshness Of
arly morning, to look down upon the
ca OF dark-green foliage below, and
he distant towers OF Bombay stand
ng out sharp and clear in the GROW.
ng light over q boundless expsnsa Of
meoth bright water you suddenly sec
ling past you up the ascent a ghost
rain of white-robed figures, timing
heir march 20 a low, m0n0tonOus
Urge, half chanted and half nut
cred. Following this strang pageant,
ou pass through huge white gate.
Tay, up a steep slope, and to TIE
Dot of long flight of stone steps getin
ne hillside. But at this point you are
toppd short by two gauut, swsrtby
(native policemen in dark
military looking trocks and SCARE;
nrbsns, who plant themselves rightis
our way, and inform you in shriL
ilndustanl that this is a Psrses place
! burial and that no one is allowed
enter while the funeral rites sTs
eng performed. Meanwhile the
orpee Is born slowly up the stair, and
3 you watch it's ascent, you vajDlI
ndesver to rec ii what you have
sad or heard respecting tbs way IN
Inch the Psrsees dispose of theI
cad. All at once you begin to notice
'lth vague, half-conscious feeling
horror, thai the trees overhead are
terally black with kites, YuItures,
arrlon crows, and other rsvenOns
lras. and that these foul creatures
,em to cluster most thickly ar0aad
massive white building with huge
lndows, the upper part Of which
az ls above the wall that surmOune
le ridge. Then, in one moment
le CHASTITY truth flashes upon you
bic building is one of the bideo1'
Towers of Silence" for which india
famous, where the Psrsee dead, lsld
pom gratIngs ranged IN u circle Ike
10 spokes OF Wheel-.he outer Elng
'nlalning the bodies OF msD, the
ner those of women, and the inmoss
OSe OF Chlldren-ara devO1rPd Dl65e'