The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
Nv sHE ESCAPED THE sUTTEE.
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oine of Romantic story saved
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49,. york Feb. S.-Mrs. Ramie Lairos'
- between so and So, arrived in
4 WI vi, recently from India, via Yoko-
and San Francisco, with her nus
nll''' and settled down in the Hindoo
''i-o' which has established itself near
''''''1 80 end Of West Thirty-first street
New York city.
.,,os, husband is Eurasian from
800 and a Christian, but the LADY is d
- Hindoo, who refuses to be con-
and has brought with her from
1.-Two Benares a copper statuette OF
-.7dess SILVA, which she worships
-, while her husband may be at
/ .,s,rg service in the nearest Eplscopal
4 .nr.b They tolerate each other and live
4 a;t,. topether with their three beauu-
4 ~ 7argbters. two of whom are of their
.,bers creed, while the third. the young
l. devout worshipper OF SILVA and
/ Ganeesha .,...,
/ NJ IaIros herself was a beautiful wo-
once upon time, yet it is not her
a.rsonal appearance, but her history that
/ interesting. for she was e'>out beeom-
,.- victim to the terrible suttee of her
/ costa when rescued by the man VINO att
e,Uard became her husband.
As is the custom in India, Rance Khud
nbiIe stlu toddling child, was affianced
!, tho SON of a friend and neighbor. At
The age of II. just on the eve of the chill
arsr,s marriage the youth of 13, who
mas to be the bridegroom, died, and, &C
cording to the irrevocable laws of her
oos,s she was doomed to be buried on
his funeral pyre on the banks of the sa-
or.d Piver Jumna. over from the city of
Rsrares As Lalros had much 10 do
with what followed 1t is just as Wen ne
should tell the story;
"Ir was uttle before the Sepoy mutiny
nj 1877 and J. the son of a European
s3tber was guiding a detachment of the
First Bengal Cavalry through the jungle
4 Ia Benares While concealed in the bush
waiting for sunrise, we saw the dead
vonb carried down to the waters edge
on bamboo stretcher, and judging from
the sort of crowd that had assembled we
4 we're about TO witness a suffice. The body
+ was covered over with a green silk robe
4 for ne was a high class Brahmin-and
placed on a pile of resinous sandal wood
logs Then the cloth was removed, the
bier placed on the pyre with the feet to-
wards the Jumna, six logs were laid on
II the body and all was ready for the widow
IA Cd Inv TQar wa llxa1 cln ~
Fl down the bank to play her tragic part in
a the ceremony covered with a flowing robe
of white. A Brahmn priest stood at the
head of the bOdy-the scene is before me
Tow as if it were but erday-and he
directed the proceedings in the coolest
n manner possible, Taking the rod pre-
scented ner by the Brahmin in her right
hand Rance walked three times round
the bier and waved il over her head. The
BFahmin next handed her a torch which,
though TO all appearance not lighted, con-
famed a spark of fire within. Very soon
the waving of the torch caught a current
ana Ignted. | could not see the girl s
iaee al this time, but l could see that her
loIIn shook like an aspen leaf
The Brahmin now, amid profound
silence having ordered her to apply the
'oIch, Rance advanced towards the pyre
WIN totterns steps, and in moment the
lAe was III a haze, Now came Rance s
ulle 10 sacrifice herself, to perish then
ana there in the fierce flames that were
aIeady stretching out their tongues to-
wards her flimsy robe.
she hesitated, she trembled. and bv
command of the priest two men were
ABOUT 10 throw her on the blazing funeral
p'Iei When the officer commanding the de-
o 1s'Ils' l.' young man with a soft heart