The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-30
THR cow RELIGION.
A Curious Survival OF an Old-Time
Faith,
From the Nineteenth Century.

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From the Nineteenth Century
Wishing the good OF your country,
serve the Kline, Otherwise you waste all
your wealth. The Cow should be protected.
Soc how the strength of the Christian re-
liRion is increased by means Of preachers
and the distribution Of catechisms! |, TOO.
will publish g periodical called the Fropd-
gator OF the C0l0 Religion. Those sub
scribers who remit their subscriptions in ad-
vance will receive gratis a picture Of the
mother COW, with colored borders. This is
IA work for the benefit of tue country, writ
ten by a servant Of the Cow, preached for
the preservation of the Kline, and one de-
sirous of kindness"
The curious amalgam of old world religion
and OF latter day journalism was freely dis
tributed at Indian railway stations within
the last few months, and is a strange con-
trass TO the resolutions to the recent Indian
national congress, based upon an assumed
deman1 OF the people OF India for repre-
sentative government Of the western type.
1t is only an other proof of the diverse in
flueoces at work and of the widely different
customs prevalent in British india, that
while 1.-THE servant Of the Cow, and one de-
sirous of kindness" is circulating his ad-
vertisements, the survivors of small and
diminishing 'tribes of rather fair people on
the mountains in the kingdom of the
HuO W6C6 kOiG as
adorers OF their kline, consider themselves
aggrieved because the authorities do not
allow them to beat to death with clubs as
many buffaloes as they please at their an
nual funeral sacrifices, one of which has
just taken place.
The archbishop of Goa. AIeixo de Meme
yes, who directed the spiritual concerns of
the subjects of his most faithful majesty
the King Of Portugal upon the storied
western coast of India, was told in 1900
that race of Christians called Todas lived
fifty leagues away from his remotest
church, and he sent Jesuit father to tend
these wandering sheep, which father, how
ever, reported that he found no Christianity
in them. and seventy years later the pro
curator general OF the barefooted Carmel
ties said: These Todas pray to the buffa-
loes by which they live. aud hang a
miserable little bell upon their necks, which
is enough to insure them alteration. Though
the buffaloes are very often killed by tigers,
yet the Todss do not slacken in their wor-
ship"
OF this curious race, by some held to be
aborigines of Southern India, by some to be
Manich@ans. and by others to be one of the
lost tribes of Israel, but 800 or 700 remain,
scattered in tiny villages of oven-shaped
wicker houses over the breezy downs of the
Nilgiri bills. Whatever be their origin
and probably they are aboriginal inhabit-
ants of the land they live in-they worship
nature in it's lovellest moods and ever build
on sloping lawns Of emerald turf, by rip
ping rills Of limpid water, aud alongside
little woods of lex, eugenia and rhododen-
dron, nesting in the folds OF hills, whence
glorious prospect stretches Of hot and SHIN
mering plain below, dotted with giant ant
hills, as they seem to the eye, with silver
patches of irrigation lakes sparkling in the
sun, beyong which, rising above a wall Of
heecy clouds, looms in the distant view an
other range Of mountains as lofty and pre-
cipitous as the Nilgiris themselves.