The Coconino sun., 1925-05-08

/ wood is furnished for the burning of
bodies 1t was better furnished and
we did not notice any hopeless, help
less sick lying around the place wait
ing their turn to pass out and be Gre
mated. 1t is said that some are
strangled to death by dashing water
in their faces to hurry along and ter
inmate the tuffering. Probably not
so much the suffering as that the at
tendants may finish the job on the
wood pile and collect the fee.
The Parsees have a more spectacu-
lar way of disposing of their dead. /
don't know where they got the idea
possibly in Wall street, but the kind
and loving friends of the deceased
bring the body to the Clover of ST.
lence,". located on Malabar Hill, we'll
within the city limits. There, after
the priests have completed their part
of the ceremony, the body is placed
out in the open where vultures swarm
to pick the bones clean within a half
hour. That's their religious way of
disposing of the bodies of the dead Of
their caste. The flesh of the body
goes to the birds of the air. The bones
are collected and burned.
The bodies of women are burned at
one place, those of the men at an
other point, and children at another
within this enclosure. 1t is said the
vultures are so wise they seem to
scent body coming and know the
right place to go while the body Is
being brought in and gather in large
al fiCrbfinor aY11 In ho
first at the awful feast.
When you think of the different
castles, even down to the caste known
as "untouchables," about 40 in all, one
shouldn't be too severe on England's
rule in India. If the shadow of an
Huntouchable" falls upon one of the
upper caste, he is contaminated.
1t is possible you may think | am
"spoofin'," but the hard facts are that
castles don't mix in this country,
Luckily for British rule that they can
not get together, otherwise another
story would soon be written of India
Some other countries are more liberal
in their views, and for that we feel
greatly obliged, not to say grateful.
There are christian churches here
but rather negligible. As DR.. Bull
says, the native religion is not solu-
BILE. CDR. Bull don't sound or act like
his name. He's a special friend from
Connecticut, who thinks Billy Bryan
has the largest batch of mlsinforma-
tion on evolution now extant on this
earth).
This, of course, is more or less Of
a rehash in a general way, because
from Calcutta to Singapore, to Cey-
lon, to Bombay is India and there is
a general sameness with only few
individual differences or high lights
here and there.
The local resident says the rainy
season here begins about June IL and
repeats until October /; at other times
it rarely rains. I'm just throwing
this in so the sheep and cattlemen
won't be disappointed. They don't
mention grazing conditions. The
grass looked alright and often ami
mails were seen biting at it.
Ok drivers show they are human
for many carry bundle of hay on
the ox-bow, hanging where the ami
mails can nibble the hay as they pid-
die along. Even drivers of the little
one-horse bussess carry bundle of
hay in the back end of the vehicle
that they may feed the brute now and
then at stops. 1t used to be long
time between meals with the old-time
hack-drivers before the auto came
into general use in American cities.
The horse got fed last and no high
class vehicle carried a bundle of hay
on its back end.