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The morning call., 1891-01-25
HINDU GIRL BABIES.
They Are Supposed to Be Curse and a
Sign of Divine Wrath.

They Are Supposed to Be Curse and a
Sign of Divine Wrath.
A Hindu baby girl is an unwelcome addi-
ton to the family; her birth is supposed to
be no blessing, but curse and sign of di-
vine wrath. Rukhmabai says that when
the newborn baby is 4 girl 1.-THE father
CRASHES his teeth and stamps his feet The
mother is Sorely disappointed, and although
her tenderness may bring Its sure wealth of
love she curses both herself and the child.
There is, moreover, 4 notion that women
who bear only girls are sinful, and this intel-
SITES the grief" Another Hindu woman
gives the same testimony. Ramaba (high
caste Hindu widow says in no country in
the world is mother so laden with care and
anxiety in anticipation of the birth Of a child
as in India. All her hope of happiness de-
ponds upon tue sex of the unborn child. A
wife who bears daughters and no SINS is
frequently put away by her husband. Hus-
bands sometimes threaten their wives that,
If the coming child is n daughter. the Offend
ing mother will be hencefourth banished
from the society of her lord and master,
new wife Will be installed in her place and
the offending wife will be made into the
servant and drudge of the household Ram
abai does not merely make general state
mepts to this effect. but gives several special
instances that have come within her own
knowledge among her own friends and ac-
ouaintance of this punishment having been
meted out to mothers who gave birth to
girls. Mothers try to avert the bad luck of
having a daughter by superstitiouS cere-
monies previous to the birth of the child.
The Contemporary Review.
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THE PARTING.

am going, dear mother. from home and from thee
From the land OF my boyhood's bright days;
from the cot where my infant form gently la I'D
Lulled TO rest by your sweetest of lays.
Though the voice Of stern duty 1t calls me away,
To land far beyond the blue sea.
Yet in fancy III live in this green ssinted isle,
Though grim oceanll divide it from me.
And whenever sweet JOY to my bosom shall come,
or in pleasures fair circle In be,
/ snail think doubiy dear of the good times of
youth,
Round that little brown hut Ger the sea.
For the mountains steep crest and the valleys
green breast,
And the places we all used to play,
And the low murmurng riIl, which with boats We
would fill,
VIII come back TO your loved one away.
While the boys and the girls shall never forget.
For in memory theyl gently be laid
And the stories and jokes will return which they
told,
On the bench meath the old chestnut shade.
Though the dark clouds OF sadness will roughly OBJ
The bright light Of ioy from my eye,
Yet the thought Of your smile viii light sorrows
DARK way
Like star in the blue-spansled sky.
Meier allow the sad tears, darling mother, to flow,
For your boy who'll be far Ger the sea,
But thinS that I'm happy ana think of You still,
Though the oceans between You and me.
And when fortunes fair hand to my lot she Will
bring
Her gold fruits with a bountifuI store.
shall sail dearest loved one for this cherished
home,
For 10 live with you there evermore
Nor shall labor or toll your hands more pain,
Nor around your sweet form their folds wrap,
For Old age shall reclne, and old age 1t shall die,
ROcSed to rest ia sweet luxury's tap.
January. 1891 JOSEPH A. McISNIs.
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TIE GATE ~ THE NORTH WALL

1ihce" It IS on Gottland's west coast, and
during the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth
centuries grew rapidly in size and import
ance. The trade OF Russia and other coun-
tries to the east Of the Baltic flowed down
tn Gull of Finland or the River Dwina to
Wisely. To meet this trade, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, there sailed to
Wisby merchants and shippers from Ger
many, Flanders, Sweden, Denmark and
England. Its merchants were constantly
shipping to or receiving goods from nearly
every part Of the known world.
During the thirteenth century WiSby was
situated upon one of the most important
lines Of the worlds traffic, and was unques-
ably the most important market on that
line. Hundreds of rich merchants moved
their business from other ports to Wisely.
Nearly every faith built its own house of
worship AT this prosperous port Seventeen
great churches, some Of them nearly 200
feet in length, and three monGsterieS were
erected. wall of stone 80 feet high and
nearly 2l2 miles long was built around the
city. FOTty-eiEnt stone towers were built
above this, and from tower to tower along
the walls passed armed sentries by day and
night
Wisby was the London and Cortland the
England of the North. The records tell
that 1900 merchants carried on business
within the walls. Many Of them became
SO well to do that they had their houses COW
cred with copper ana the window frames
with gold. But the pace was TOO fast to
last. IL 1861 AtteTdag, King Of Denmark,
became so envOus of the city's riches that
he sent over an army. and not only took
possession but killed nearly 2000 of Wisby's
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4 Wisely STREET

before left his food haf-tasted on his plate
not even at the country hotel. He had
never before found il a task to close his eyes
at nieht-not even when he had been sick
with fever.
AS for her. she looked upon him with
favor; she would take his hand as they
walked along the beach, and when the
water spread further than she expected on
the sand, she would cry, Look out, Harry
DEAR" or the like.
He presumed be ought to be happy-there
was no T, aSon why he should not be; others
in his position would have been.
All, yes; it was well enough-until the 5
O'clock. express from New York came in.
Then she would be dressed in something
wonderful in blue and gold, or in gray and
black, or in pink and white; and she would
sit upon the broId piaZZas of the hotel and
chat and gossip with the men. OF course
when lie came up, she treated him civllY,
decently. and he had no fault to fnd-no
fault, that is, in order. Yet he asked him
self sometimes if she was treating him as
one individual or as species
Eth bien! One day, fourteen Saratoga
trunks were loaded on the blue express
wagons at the side door. A good many of
the trunks belonged to her. She was going
away.
lie sat idly in an L of the piazza with his
patent-leathered feet on the railing.
She came to him. She was dressed for
travel in tail0r-cut gown with plaitings of
Indian cloth on the front of the waist, and
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then lifted up in bunch and covered over
Wlti panama or piece of phrynum leaf.
9ulVers full of the arrows showed us that
the weapons were considered by their own
trs 10 DC dangerous, for those so smeared
Were tied together, head downward. and
apart from the others.
let the wounds made by these slen der
HlroWS were mere punctureS, such as might
nave been made by finely pointed butchers
skeWerS, and being exceedingly ignorant of
the enect, we coDtented ourselves with
Swinging them with warm water and dress
lng tlleil with bandages. In some instances
anectlohate men sucked their comrades
wounds, TO make sure that nothing of the
substance should be left to irritate them.
In no instance was this method of any
avail.
a plgmy queen, or rather pigmy chiefs
Wlle, VINO had become attached To n MEM
ger OF our expedition pointed out an arum
as the source whence the forest natives eX-
tracted their poison.
Among the pigmies there are two distinct
types, differing widely from one another.
one Is clear, light bronze in color the
ether IS much darker, almost black. The
former is distinguished by an open look-the
eyes are tar apart, large, protuberant and of
brilliant, flashing, limpid black, remind
ing one OF the eyes of gazelles; the skin on
the lace of youth has the sheen of old yell
low ivory. that on the body is of sober
llght brown. The darker race are diStn-
suIsueu LOT great prognatny OF Jaw, taper
ing at the chin almost to a point; the eyes
are deeply set and close together; the nasal
bridge greatly sunk. They have narrow,
retreating foreheads, projecting lips, the
skin OF the body is rough, and the fell is
very marked. But both are specially dis
tinguished for their small, delicate hands,
taper htgers. and narrow, highly arched
feet.
The pigmies are courageous and prompt tC
defend their families; they know how to Sc
| lect beautiful sylvan camps; they can fine
their way to any quarter Of the compass:
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UNWEDED SOLONS,

Congressman Who VIII Submit to No
Feminine DictatiOn.
There will be quite number of bachelors
in the next House of Representatives. The
State of Virginia alone will have three single
men in her delegation. Two of them-Posey
G. Lester and James a. Buchanan-are men,
bers of tho present House, and George d.
Wise, who was unseated last summer, but
who comes back, is the other bachelor in
this delegation. Just why these gifted and
eligible gentlemen have preferred to remain
single is entirely their own affair; but should
any one or all of them be captured during
the next few years by fair charmers there
would be three good husbands for as many
waiting maidens or widows. says the WASH
ington Post.
Mr. Lester is hard-shell Baptist preach
er, and has tied the knot for many couples.
but has so far escaped any entang Cling aili-
ances of the matrimonial sort himself. He
is the editor of lions Advocate, a prosper
GUS paper that is the organ Of his faith. Mr..
Buchanan is the handsomest man, perhaps,
OF the three, and his colleague and intimate
friend, Farmer" Edmunds of the Virginia
delegation, says that it is shame for so
GOOD man to go to waste as a bachelor,
ana he intends to marry him off before the
end OF another year, if it can be done
The delegation from West Virginia in ths
next House will also include a bachelor
member in the person of John o. Pendle-
take unto himself betteT-half before the
itty-sec0nd Congress assemblies. Like
Bachelor Wise of the Old Dominion, Bache-
Ior PendletOn was unseated by Speaker
Reeds Congress, and he comes back to the
place from which lie was ousted. Mr.. Pen
dleton is younger than any of the gentlemen
named above.
Perry Belmont was perhaps the star BACH
elor in the Fiftieth Congress, ana was never
known TO play the devoted to any fair one in
Washington. He had plenty of nancy ana
seemed TO prefer to lead the life of a single
man.
John NJ. Glover came to Congress from
St Louis as a bachelor, but married q
wealthy young lady of Washington before
the end of his Congressional career
For many years the women of Wyoming
have had the privilege of voting, ana Mrs.
Carey, the wife Of the SenatOr-elect from that
new State, has always been a. Democrat in
her way of thinking, AMI it is said that her
husband is the only Republican that she
voted for. When Mr.. Carey was first a can
didate for Territorial Delegate OF Wyoming
to the House of Representatives tie present
Mrs. Ca ey is said to have voted against
him, and even after their marital engage
ment she could not give up her politics, but
voted the straight Democratic ticket. Since
her marriage she is reported to have
scratched the regular ticket Just enough -
get in the name of her husband. Sc no
doubt rejoices that he has been chosen to
represent the new State in the upper branch
of Congress, but some of her friends de-
clare that she is still an ardent Democrat
and probably rejOiced greatly at the recent
Democratic victories.
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am back in California;;
Here to stay until die.
have seen the olden Eastland,
And no more from here I'll fly.
Ihave seen the olden homestead;
But, alas! twas no more home;
Not the home left in boyhood
WIFE hopeful heart to roam.
Gone the mother. gone the father.
Who besought me to remain
Whilst gayly spoke of riches,
Never dreaming of their pain.
And the sister and the brother,
Little paymates of that day.
Now have children to employ them,
And themselves are growing gray.
And the friends hoped would greet me
With exuberant delight
Most are gone. and those remaining
Seem to think l have no right
To demand a friendly greeting
Or lay claim on olden ties,
For they all have formed new friendships;
I'm stranger in their eyes.
Whilst I toiled and strove for riches,
Dreaming ever of return
Ofreturn To that old homestead,
For whose joys my heart would yearn,
but pictured il as ever
In my bOyhood days it seemed;
forgot that time wrought changes,
Never of such changes dreamed.
There was mother, there was father
There the little girl aud boy,
There the orchard, there the streamlet-
Each remembrance gave me Joy.
In my fancy time stood passive;
Friends and scenes stood changeess there
For my love was true and youthful.
II could never age from care.
But alasi old Time was faithful
And wrought changes all too fast,
And found that scenes aud loved ones
Were but mem'ries OF the past
That dreamed of what was feetIng
Hoped for what could never be;
Toiled with fOndest hopes OF seeing
What never more could see.
So I'm back in California,
Here to stay until l die,
And replace my hopeful musings
With a sad remembrance Sigh.
have seen the olden Eastland,
But to me It's home no more,
SO I'll rest me in cOntentmeut
On Pacifc's golden shore.
nuary, 1891 WIN.
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men. From that day the city began
decline. The invasion of Russia by
Mungolian hordes cut off the Oriental trade,
AMI the discovery of a new route to India
diverted the commerce from that direction.
81 It went until the present finds Wisely but
q fishing village. OF its seventeen churches
only one, the Cathedral OF St. Maria is in
use to-day. Ten others are standing but in
ruins. One of the most beautiful is ST.
Catharina, the clOisier church of the Fran
ciscan monks. 1t is basilica 40 feet long,
and was built in the middle Of the thirteenth
century. Between the nave and the aisles
stand twelve pillars, six on either side. The
roof OF the church has fallen in, but the six
pointed arches which supported it remain.
Two other interesting churches are St.
Lars and ST. Drotten. They were built in
the twelfth century by tw, sisters, the ira
dllOns say. They were wealthy, but could
not agree, so each had her own church. The
walls Of ST. Las ara seven feet thick, and
have passages in them running around the
entire church. Each church has massive
square tower. which doubtless at one time
was used as 4 fortress. The tower of St.
DrOtten is 81 by 4j feet on the ground; it
SEES to a height of 100 feet ami its walls
are 81 feet in thickness.
Another church is the Church Of the Holy
Ghost, built abOu. the year 1850. 1t is COM
posed of an octagonal tower Joined on to an
oblong rectangular choir. The tower is di
vided into two stories. Each story looks out
upon the choir through spacious arched
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MONDAY, and served as guiding lights TO
Storm-t0sSed mariners.
About the town tbesstreets are narrow
and crooked and paved with rough stones.
Some OF the houses OF the OLD merchants are
still standing. They are narrow and lofty.
stand for the most part with gable ends to-
ward the street, and the front of the peaked
roof is built up like double flight of steps
that meet on top. Sometimes yaulted
passageway is thrown across the narrow
street from house TO house, like the Bridge
OF Signs" These old houses, by their size
and spacious apartments, indicate the opu-
lence of the builders. They have vaulted
ceilings, supported by massive stone pillars,
marble seats in the receSses of the windows,
and across the cellar floor flows to this day
a stream of living water, which, by little
dams, was transformed into a succession of
fish ponds. The roofs are still covered with
the ancient monk and nun tiles.
Near the center OF the city stands an in
teresting wooden house of later period,
the Burmeister House, built by merchant
of that name in 1868 A spacious saloon in
the second story is painted all over-walls,
ceiling and beams-with scenes, many OF
them from the Bible but some from the art
lists own fancy.
The land wall, which incloses the city on
three sides, FROM the ruins of Wisborg round
to the tower Games" is 2400 yards long,
and the sea-wall 1870 yards. In 1889 the
land-wall was strengthened, it being raised
thirty feet and doubled in thickness. At
intervals are built high towers These pro-
ject outside the wall. Most of them are
square on the ground. but above present
five sides of an octagon to the foe. the
square corners being sliced off into indie
pendent faces. The whole side toward the
town is oDen. These towers are 60 to 20
feet high, and are divided into four or five
stories. Each story is pierced with narrow
embrasures for arrows. The tops of the
towers are battlemented, and on their upper
floors or roofs catapults were placed in posi-
ton. The towers are of unequal size; that
next the north gate toward the sea is thirteen
feet broad by sixteen feet deep in the inside,
and its side walls are seven feet thick The
powder tower is thirty-four feet square on
towers were built bartizans or saddle tow
ers, as the Goltlanders expressly call them.
These small, low structures are not built up
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The morn and MONDAY fade, the eve goes by,
The night Of life comes and ends the day,
Then souls pass hence iato eternity,
And mortal bodies minge with the clay.
Twas morn and 10 I saw a little maid,
A fair wee thing of scarcely summers three
Chasing the brghtwinged butterflies she played
And clapped her tiny hands in childish gIee.
Twas noon and ioI saw youthful bride.
And fair was She in spotiess Wilderness cad,
Bright were her eyes with love she could not hide.
Her face o'erspread with smiles so sweet and glad
Twas eve, and 10 saw widow kneel
Beside grave and "Pity me, God"
She cried, and then | saw the sad tears steal
Adown her cheeks and fall upon the sod.
Twas night and lol l empty case,
The gem it held methinks shall shine on high
When tears wiped away from every face
And death Is swallowed up in victory.
The morn aud MONDAY fade the eve goes by,
The night of life comes and ends the day;
Then souls pass hence into eternity
And mortal bodies mingle with the clay.
January, 1891 HALLY.
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through the primeval forest; the untenanted
woods have no terror for them; they are
powerful against the elephant and leopard.
more cunning than the chimpanzee: their
craft enables them TO trap the shy lemur or
the knowing parrot. Neither bird nor beast
can escape them.
Every now and then we hear of Europeans
falling victims to the fury of elephants or
the ferocity Of the buffaloes. Gamble KEYS
was gored to pieces by buffalo at Lukoleia,
Captain Deane was battered to death BY an
elephant, ana Hon. Guy Dawnay fell a VIC
tim to buffalo bull. In almost every expe
dition l have lost one or two valuable Fan
zibaris; yet they were all armed with
perfect breech-loaders. The comparatively
defenseless manakins, with equal courage
but far greater craft, would destroy these
animals without danger to themselves, and
proceed about the operation with less tremor
and concern. 1t is by their arts as hunters
and trappers that they are able to defy star
walton in the hungry shades of the eternal
forest.
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CIVILIZED MAN
And THE PIGMY.
Henry M. Stanley Again Writes About
the Little African People.
They Have Small Bodies But Have Large and
Active Brains-some Stirring Stories
About the Little Men.

The most frequent question put to me
since my return from Africa has been
is the pl9my real human being?" An
other Is. rs the pigmy capable of reason
mgr And another is, do you think he
can argue nationally about what he sees, or,
In other words. has he any mind at all pr
writes Henry NJ. Stanley in January Serb
ner' And whenever l hear such questions
l mentally say: Truly, see no difference
between the civilized man and the pigmyv'
FOR II the latter could but speak his thoughts
IN dialect familiar to me, there is not the
sIlghtest doubt that he would have asked
me, Can the civilized man reason like US
men of the forest?"
feople must relieve their minds of the
Darwlnan theory, avoid coupling man with
the ape, and Danish all thoughts of the ficti-
sious, smail-brained progentor supposed to
De existing somewhere on land uHub-
merged since the eocene PERIOD for there
Is no positive evidence as yet that man was
otherwise than he is to-day, viz: abiped en-
dowed with mind. Think of troglydytes,
pile-Vlllages, bog-men. riverdrift-men, cave
men, men Of the stone, bronze, iron or steel
ages, down to the highly cultured Bostonian
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1.-THE GOLDEN GATE"

mirage grand is the sunset sea,
Whose azure depths stretch far away,
Where inlets blue and dreamy streams
Indeut that mystic shore. where CLEANS
Deep yestures OF departing day.
And memories old come back to me
From isles of gold in the sunset sea.
Would one the past live over-aye-again,
As lives the lights in the warm sunset fires,
That all those burning stretches then would stain
With burning thoughts-lOw sounds OF lutes and
Tyres.
Like waves that sobbing. die with throbs OF pain
Athwart that shore beyond the iurd glow,
hear voice. see a face again
Her iips-her breath-Oh God! as long ago!
And gazing on beyond the vanished years
A phantom mermaid rises from the sea.
Her eyes-the deepening sunset CLEANS. Her tears
Soft rains, that Latte the Isles of memory.
Snow m fountains grid the sunset
Their slopes. like Furnished beryl, CLEAN,
While scintlllating tints and hues
Ger sea and isles 4 blush suffuse.
And twilight falls the while dream,
But memory gulles and beckons me
To ashen isles in the sunset sea. II. w. MOVES.
January, 1891.
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opening so that service going on in the
choir could be seen and heard equally well
in both stories of the tower. The vaulted
ceiling of the lower story is supported by
the center is an eight-sided aperture, seven
feet in diameter. piercing the ceiling and
communicating with the second story. In
the upper story are four round pillars sup
porting vault and arches slightly pointed.
The arches below are round. II is claimed
there is no such church architecture else
where in the world.
Not far away is St Nicholas, the mon
astery church of the Dominicans. IL was
built about the year 1910. IL is a basilica
90 leet broad and 1879 feet long. High up on
the west gable end are two window-like de-
presslouS; The tale Is still tod that in the
iihe OF Wlsby's magnificence two huge car
buucles adorned the western facade NJ ST
Nicholas. one being placed in the center of
each window. At night these carbuncIes
shone with the brightness Of the sun at
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CHILD LIE.
JEWELS.

Times silvery casket could disclose
Full many gem OF worth, that's gllttering there
As brightly shining in repOse
AS In Its life-Oit but a gr IN despair.
Times glittering jewels could unfold
Full many meteor flash that's mirrored there;
What clay its ardent hsat could hold?
Whose breath was sienced by its spirits power.
Beside these treasured gems a shade
Unworthy ripple troubling times great sea,
DImmtng the light these gems have made
Ambitions wiles and fashions luxury.
IT'S not alone from hlstory's page
Time CLEANS these gems of human Industry;
Howe'er obscure in life the sage
The poets earnest work will treasured be;
And in this way-each joy he gives
Doth steal some thought OF sorrows ministry:
Bidding the heart, that llyhtened lives,
go! share with some the JOY that's given thee"
II in one joy lay three-score SMILES
What do you think his llfe's effect would be
Upon nations lfe?-who thus beguiles
Is worth our love, our highest eulogy.
January 2, 1891 GEORGE MARTIN