Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-25

high turban in white silk. It was the Ma,
harajah of Kapurthala.
Icould but admire the fine contour of
his head and face. He has an ideally
Greek profile, the only defect, if such it
may be called, being that his exquisitely
shaped nose is a little too small. Theysat
long and talked with animation about
the improving prospects of a large attend.
ance at the fair, but of the many who
passed not n gave more than a second
glance or paused in his course. His Eng
lish is peculiar. It is a little too correct.
so to speak, that is he talks rather slowly,
with careful enunciation as if lie were read.
ing from a very precise book. II is said
that he speaks French more nuent!y than
English, and Spanish and German only
tolerably we'll.
AS I fingered rs long as possible overmy
supper and looked ut him from time to
time many whimsical thoughts rose inmy
mind about Il early impressions of far
foreign folks, especially the E;ndoos, and
certain lines struggled up in memory,
lines l often heard many years ago at q
place I used to visit once aweek. I forget
the connection but there was something
in the piece about ''only man is VILE" and
how "the heather in his blindness on
1ndia's coral strand bows down to wood
and stone" in spite of the logically con-
vincing fact that ''spicy breezes blow soft
DER Ceylon's isle" How I pitied said
heather. How I wondered if I should
ever see one. And looking at this intelli-
gent and cultured gentleman, l said to
myself: One thing is sure. The very ig-
norant in India, like their fellows in all
lands, may believe all those absurd my
thologies and tales, but nobody need tell
me that this man, witha headl like Greek
god and a form like an athlete, takes any
stock in silva and Ramsuta and India and
Camdeo and Gemesa and all that snaky
business of manifold and contorted arms
and legs in the building yonder.
Thus thinking I walked over to the
India house and found that dazzling array
of wood carving and lacquered work SO
often described and the usual gods in their
usual place, and noted that the intelligent
brown gentlemen in charge took as good
care of the gods as of their other property
and no more. And then I thought tor the
thousandth time of how I should like to
hear an intelligent and cultured heather
tell me exactly what he thinks of the gods
of his people. But that is something I
hall never know, for it is a feeling which
the man of one race can never explain to
the man of another. Let it not be forgot
ten, however, that the true Hindoos are of
the same general race as ourselves.
Though far removed from the original
seat, though mingled with the people they
conquered and with those who have con-
quered them, caste has preserved them
pure. Sanskrit is but the older brother of
English and the brown Aryan of Kapur.
thala is full cousin to the "Brahminn of
Boston.
&c
AS to all matters of race, religion and
social organization last week was and this
week will be literally crowded with dis
cussions by the various congresses. The
Art palace is headquarters for this So
called Worlds Congress auxiliary and for
some time six congresses have met daily,
the meetings ranging from ten to sixteen
each day. At the peace congress David
Dudley Field and others have contributed
papers. The dental congress has been
divided into eight sections which meet
separately and then have one general
meeting. In the congress on Africa
speeches have been delivered by M. Del
commune, Madame Reconsideration.
Sheik Sarruf, Herr Schlichter, M. Chaille-
Long, Grant Bey, Yakub Pasha and a
great many others, including missionar-
les, soldiers, explorers and men of science.
In short, it is amazing to learn how much
is already known about Africa, and quite
cheering to see how enthusiastic all these
nQnnIQ ara in fhoSr ho1Saf klok A. 1-.r-
continent will soon be developed and
Christianized.
On the first three days Of last week the
congress of trade Journals sat. on
Wednesday and Thursday the horticul-
tural congress wa in session. All the
week the American Pharmaceutical asso-
citation was in session in the city, and the
suffrage congress ended its sessions the
preceding week by organizing the Amer
lean proportional Representation league.
with William Dudley Foulke, of Indiana.
and Stoughton Cody, of Chicago, as
officers. For the next three weeks this
sort OF thing will be going on day and
night and everything will be settled, the
rise and fall Of nations, the decay of en-.
pires, the proper political relations of the
sexes, the evolution of civil government.
and oil the complicated conundrums of
theology from the advent of Adam to the
final discontinue of the devil. Chicago
is in danger Of becoming an intellectual
center.
-.
There are many things in this exposi.
ton too powerful or too technical for me.
The Machinery building almost sets me-
distracted, and both times l have been
there l observed with surprise that half Of
the few visitors were ladies'. How much
they know Of the machinery l could not
guess, for it was evidently a good deal
more than l knew. On second thouoht.
however, Gun see that women would nat,
urally admire the manifestation Of power.
and OF a verify 1t is there. That is, of
course, the noisiest department. on the