The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

the Destroyer. whom the Brahmins keep
in the temples and feed from their infancy
upon the sacred Soma, the holy moon root.
which no man may drink of and live
Moon root" cried the officer. Isn't
that what we call the deadly nightshade2'
Il know not. Oh. deliverer of com
mands, what it may be called in thy
tongue. but the plant is sacred, the drink
OF the gods and forbidden to mortal
mouths save only to the priestesses of
Kali to whom it is as meat and drink
Perchance that Rance, with whom this
dead Sahib was so taken, may be one Of
these, and may have given him death in
a kiss"
IF she has" cried the officer. "she
shall meet death at the end of a rope, If
she were the Goddess Kali herself Put
her in irons, Serang, at once"
mot So" said the Serang; who so
touches her Dies.
BY this time the cabin was filled with
passengers and officers of the ship. The
captain came out of his cabin in high
Indignation that such a thing such happen
on board the KhediVe. and ordered that
the stateroom in which the Hindoo girl
had taken refuge, should be securely
nailed up, declaring that If no one should
touch the d sorceress she should stay
there till the ship reached Alden. and then
the authorities on shore must take charge
of her, even though the whole garrison Of
Alden should die in the attempt.
The surgeon of the ship examined the
body, and pronounced that the English
man was not ony dead, but in advanced
stage of decomposition already, where
upon the corpse was hastily wrapped in a
piece of sail cloth, some big Jumps of
coal were sewed in at it's feet and it was
carried on deck. grating was rugged
over the side upon which the body was
laid covered with the British flag, the
bell was tolled for a funeral, the captain
and officers put on their full dress uni
forms, the passengers assembled, the
purser read the burial service, and at the
solemn words, I'VE therefore commit his
body to the deep, in the sure and certain
hope of a joyful resurrection" the in
board end of the grating was tilted up and
the body slid quickly down into the blue
depths of the ocean, in which it disap-
peared with bubbling flash of phosphor
escent water, in which could be discerned
the long, dark forms of several sharks,
who had been waiting evidently with the
marvellous instinct common to these
brutes, for their prey. The passengers and
crew then dispersed, and the native Sc
rang, making a deep salaam in the direc-
ton of the body. exclaimed reverenty:
May Brahma, the Creator; silva. the Dc
stroyer, and Vishnu, the Preseryer, save
his soul from Avitchir'
The next day the Khedive reached Alden.
and anchored under those awful volcanic
cliffs that frown over this little town.
with its Mohammedan burial ground in
the middle of it, and its ancient tanks
cut. it is said, in the basalt by the pa
triarch Abraham; at least, this is the ma
tive report of this wonderful work, but
more probably by one or more of the
native sovereigns who ruled in the land
during the Arabic civilization that ante
dated that of the Aryan races. The com
mandant of the British garrison at Perrin
was notified of the tragedy, a guard was
sent on board the ship, the stateroom in
which the Hindoo girl was Imprisoned
was broken open, and she was found
PROSTATE on the deck, utterly unconscious,
having evidently had recourse TO some
powerful narcotic. In this state she was
carried ashore by the soldiers in litter
improvised from a sail belonging to one Of
the boats the bearers being careful Meth
er to touch her skin nor to inhale her
breath. In due time she was conveyed to
Calcutta, and from thence forwarded in
a cage. like wild beast. TO Pashawur, to
be tried for the murder Of the English
man.
But when the eventful day arrived and
"the judges were set q. terrible show" the
defendant was found 10 have gone before
another court, whose verdlcts are infaln-
BILE and whose sentences are eternal The