Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-09-02
THE COW RELIGION.
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Hindostan.
..WiShing the good Of your country.
serve the kline, otherwise YOU waste
all your health. The cow should Dc
protected. see how the Stren-tl; OF
the Christian religion is increased by
means Of preachers and the diStribu-
ton of catechisms. |. too, Will pub
lish periodical called the Propagation
Of the COW religion. Those subscribers
who remit their subscriptions i'll adj
vance viii receive gratis 4 picture OF
the mother COW. with colored borders.
This is Il work for the benefit OF the
country, written by the servants OF the
COW, preached for the preservation Of
the kline. and one DESTROYS of lind
ness
The curious amalgam of old-W GRID
religion and latter-day journalism was
freely distributed at Indian railway
stations within the last few month.
says the Nineteenth Century, and is Il
strange contrast to the resolutions, Of
the recent Indian national congress.
based upon an assumed demand by the
people Of India for q representative
government of the western type
1t is only another proof of the d:-~ersn
influence at work and Of the widely
different customs prevalent i'll British
India, that while the servant OF the
cOW.and ono DESTROYS Of kinf'ncSs' i:
circulating his advertisements. the s1lr-
ViVOrS of 4 small and diminishing tribe
Of fair people on the mountains in the
kingdom of the Zamoria'' who were
described in 1872 as adoiy.rs of thei,.
kline. consider themselves aGgr.irrod DO
cause the authorities do not allow them
to beat to death with clubs as nDany
EulfHlocs as they please at Their an-
nual Slclifices one of which has y1sf
taken place
The archbishop of Goa. Aleiyo do
MenezeS. who directed the spiritual
concerns of the subjects of his most,
faithful majesty the king of | OF iug;i.
upon the STORED western coast Of
India. was told in 1900 that a race of
Christians called Todas lived fifty
leagues away from his remotest church.
ana he sent Il Jesuit father to tend
these wandering sheep, which Iather,
however, reported that he fOun,l no
Christianity i'll them. and seventy years
later the prOcurator general of the bare
footed Carmelities said: These To-
das pray TO the buffaloeS. by which they
live, and hang Il miserable LITTLE. bell
upon their neck. which is enough to
insure them alteration THOUGH the
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YET the T0daS do not slacken in their
Worship
OF this curious race. by some held to
be abori@incS of southern India, by
some to be ManichaeanS and by others
to be one of the lost tribes of Israel.
but six or seven hundred remain. scat
tered in tiny villages of ovcn-shaped
wicker houses over the breezy downs
on the Nilgili hills Whatever DC their
origin-and probably they are aborigin-
al Inhabitants of the land they live in
they worship nature i'll its lO~pHeSt
moods, and ever build on Sloping lawns
of emerald turf, by ripping rills of linn
pid water. and alongside little woods
of lex, eugenia. and rhododendron.
nesting in the folds of hills. whence Il
glorious prospect stretches of hot and
Shimmering plain below. dotted with
giant anthillS.aS they seem 10 the eve.
with silver patches Of irrigation lakes
sparkling in the sun. beyond which.
rising above q wall of f1eecy clouds,
looms in the distant another range OF
mountains as lofty and precipitous as
the Nilgiris themselves