Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-14
Foot Washing.
Soldiers of the Cross Washing Each Others
 Feet in the South.

Soldiers of the Cross Washing Each Others
 Feet in the South.
 LFrom the St. Louis Republican
 F'You never saw Q foot washing ?" said the Rev. Joseph Bowen a Baptist minister from Tennessee to a reporter Then you could not have travelled much in the backwoods sections of the South and West remember seeing one at Randolph, Tenn. ,Ein June, 1877. Randolph is in Tippon county on the Miss issippi bluffs. I had to stay there over Sun day, and learning that there was meeting at Salem church, six miles away, I borrowed horse and rode to the place The church. built of logs, with the cracks daubed. sat back about 100 yards from the road in the middle of grove. Inside the seats were al- ready well filled, and every head in the church turned as I entered I shrank into corner and took seat as quickly as possible In front there were few benches made of un- vanished poplar, but the supply falling short the demand had been met by blanks laid on boxes. On one of these sat down next to a portly lady dressed in a cotton gown with broad yellow checks. The minister had we'll earned his reputation of being powerful ex horter,' as found when he commenced his sermon. AS he warmed to his work he walked rapidly from side to side of the pull pit, stopping occasionally, as in a laundering voice he warned his unconverted hearers that they were hanging over hell fire by single hair,' to deal resounding blows to the Bible 
 concluded he took long crash towel and girded it around his waist. At the side of the pulpit was bucket of water and 6 'nog- gin.' If you don't happen to know what a noggin is may explain that it is a small tub size larger than piggin- This one had been constructed by saving whiskey keg in half. When the preacher commenced pour ing the water into it an old gentleman in the amen corner commenced pulling off his bro- gans and rolling up the bottom of his trou- sers.
 "sWill some brother raise 8 hymn?' asked the minister, and the brother, who now had his shoes of and was engaged with lis home knit cotton socks, raised one 4 am g eoldier of the cross, and as the congregation joined he put both feet in the noggin, which had been sent before him. The preacher squatted down in front of him, rubbed his hands around over the feet and up and down his shins half way to the knee. When the broth CT thought they were washed enough, he held them up out of the water, and the parson wiped them on the crash towel. Then the parson sat down, and having pulled off his shoes, had his feet washed by the brother to whom he had just ministered. All who wished to join in the ceremony had taken possession of the front seats-the mourner's benches. Among those who had gone up had been the portly sister by whom sat. The noggiu came to her next and she washed the feet of the sister next to her. having her own washed in
 
 had been bathed, the water in the noggin was emptied out the back door and fresh supply brought in from the well near the church. The noggin passed around from brother to brother and from sister to sister for an hour, and in that time saw more varieties of feet than have ever seen before or since.''
 Catching Sharks in inc Arctic Seas.
 [Lieut. schwatka, in Forset and ::stream
 Those old piscatorial pirates, the sharks, often invade the Arctic no doubt tempted by the carcasses of the whales seals and wal ruses left to rot by white men engaged in their pursuit. Natives angling from their skin canoes in deep water occasionally catch sluggish shark who has engulfed the bait, but there is no cse pulling against such mountain of flesh and relying upon sheer strength to bring him up; and this the Innuit Izaak Walton fully knows, and overcomes his strength by sagacity. At every brisk pull by MT. Shark, showing him to be irri- tated, the line is lowered to appease him, but cautiously hauled in again almost immedi- ately, the shark slowly rising to this strategic manipulation, until like finny fool he rests upon the surface of the water merely by the aid of the weakest fishing line, when with long knife the fisherman dexterously dispatches him by well-directed thrust through the spinal cord. From their we'll known voracity in warmer climes it seems singular indeed that they do not oftener attack the native fishermen in their little skin canoes, but there is not a recorded or known instance of such attacks even the west shore of Greenland, where they are most numerous, and where the natives catch large numbers of them-from 10000 to 2O,- 900 year, according to Dr: Rink, Danish Inspector of this coast for long number of years. The most usual method of catching these fish can hardly be said to be fishing at all Near hole in the ice a lighted torch is placed, and two natives stand on opposite sides of the hole with two sharp hand hooks like deck hands. of steamer at the end of chute waiting for merchandise, until the shark turns his nose out, when he is treated in about the same business like manner as he is hauled on the ice, where their carcasses often accumulate by hundreds. as this shark fishery when once commenced is generally carried on through the whole winter. The cartilaginous bones are the favorite parts for food, as the raw frozen fish seems to have depressing effect when long continued, and to it is attributed the dog disease of the North when fed to them, and which every few years carries of so many of these useful animals