Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Page 2

KALI and Her Dark Temple

/—r— -v UCH u the Eng- ' 1 l • h authorities [liU I would like to abol- ■ T/l 1 lsh the appalling InIV y 11/ dlan worship of g Kali, the Goddess of Revolution, the popularity of her little shrine within easypeach of government house by year. Million of followers Journey every year from all parts of Bengal to bow before the god. And the strangest part of the whole thing Is that this worship is not confined to the more ignorant of the Hindoos, but Is participated in to an equal degree by those who have had the advantage of European residence and education. Although formerly there was a daily sacrifice of human life before Kali, since the British occupation she has had to be satisfied with goats and sheep. But even today the sight of the dally slaying of 160 of these dumb creatures before the shrine of the insatiable goddess Is one that few foreigners can stand. Kali Is known to the revolutionists of India as the Mother; she has four arms; her hands are covered with blood; in one she holds aloft a dripping sword and in the other a freshly severed head; from her neck hangs a string of beads; her feet are on the body of her husband, the god Siva. The temple of Kali Is two miles from government house. You pass at one bound from Europe to Asia, for the road suddenly assumes a tropical aspect. Cocoanut palms spring aloft out of water tanks and instead of splendid buildings you see nothing but mud huts thatched with grass. The

avenue to the temple Is a harrow Jane of dark, box-like shops filled with re llgious ware clay models of the goddess, garlands of marigold, the sacred flower, hideous colored prints of Kali and charms to keep away the evil eve. The pilgrims who come from every part of Bengal to worship at this shrine find their creature comforts in the food piled on copper dishes sweet meats and fried stuffs about which the flies swarm in hungry hordes. An evil

smelling fclace it is. No sooner do you alight from the carriage than you are beselged by ragged unkempt men who call themselves priests and seek to prove their holiness by displaying the sacred thread worn by the Brahmans. One ruffian takes possession of you only to encounter the clamor of others, but after a little argument they come to terms and the latest arrivals go in search of other prey. Along a narrow alley thronged with perspiring natives you reach the ■hrine es the elephant-headed god, Ganesh —a little cubbyhole of stone and plaster where the god reposes in red relief, garlanded with marigolds. Elbowing our way through the crowd we penetrate to the court of the temple of Kali, where men, women and children swarm like bees, ■creaming and thrusting their way to the horrible shrine. The stones are stained with pools of blood that lie near a cross-piece of wood shaped like a guillotine. It is here that the sheep and goats are slain amid revolting scenes. The heads are collected and given to the poor, but the bodies and skins belong to the pilgrims and the priest. In the shadow of the shrine — a plain stone structure —is a barrenlooking tree smeared with red paint and from the bare branches hang hundreds of little stones tied with human hair, for women who are childless worship this tree and the stones and hair are pledges of gifts if a child should be born to them. The temple Itself stands in the center —small and mean to the eye. The main entrance is closed except during the early hours of the morning, but there is a "Side door that opens Into what looks like a bottomless pit—rail dark and dreadful. Through this door presses a mob of men, women and children, eager to do pujah, or reverence, to the goddess of destruction. Only Hindoos are permitted to ascend the steps and enter the temple and others have to be content to crane their necks from the courtyard, while their priestly guides strive to press back the stream of worshippers, in order to get a passing glimpse of Kali In her house Of darkness. One catches a glimmer of crimsoin and gold through the noisome blackness of the pit that Beethes with humanity. This waa Kali dripping blood and putting

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on our notice —a gentle little creature perfectly formed and 60 years old. If Barnum had happened upon him us would not be seeking a precarious living In the temple of Kali, for no dwarf was ever a more real and graceful miniature of a man. As we pushed through the throng our guide pointed* out the shrines of another Ganesh, a Vishnu, with ten arms and legs, and a pale Buddha, whose serene composure looked strangely out of place in the midst' of this warlike and sanguinary mob of deities. Each shrine has its own Brahman attendant who holds out an itching palm to visitor and pilgrim alike. Three fakirs sat on the steps of the

Honors to Russian Dead

Japanese Have Converted the Field of Mukden Into a Beautiful Cemetery. A recent traveler through Manchuria gives us a picture and a description of the great cemetery which the Japanese have nearly completed and which some time ago they consecrated to the Russian dead who fell in the battles about Mukden. In their precipitate retreat the armies of the czar left thousands upon thousands of their fallen comrades unburied. After the signing of the treaty of peace the soldiers of the Mikado collected every last bone and every bit of ragged uniform and every broken weapon which the Russians had left upon the field and buried them with soldierly honors. In the center of this vast plat they inclosed by a white marble fencing a reserved space for those who had evidently been officers. Over the graves of the common soldiers iron crosses, in the Greek form, were erected and over the graves of commanders crosses of white marble. Then'as a pivot to - the converging lines they reared a terrace, and on the terrace built a mfrble temple, all at a cost of 60,000 yen. When the work was ready for dedicatory rites, they invited Russian ecclesiastics from Peking, Harbin and Vladivostok, together with such military commanders as were near, to assemble for re-

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out her gold tongue. It was a relief to turn from this hide o u s m u mmery to the c ourtyard again where children played and older pilgrims Equated and ate and wreathed t h e m s e 1 ves with yellow garlands. Among them was a dwarf whom the people urged up.

ghat amid cinders and ashes. TL face of one was grey with ashes. Another sat In the attitude of Buddha. “For many years,” whispered my guide, in awstricken tones, "this fakir has not uncrossed his legs.” Fakirs or ascetics do this sort of penance. One will hold up an arm till it withers and becomes useless-; another will stand on one leg for years and a third never rises from the ground. The faithful supply all their wants and acquire merit thereby. One of these men held his head so proud and looked, at us from . under level brows with the most beautiful eyes in the world. When one looked lower and saw the twisted and wizened legs one turned away with a shudder. He took the rupee flung to him with the most haugby air imaginable. It was evident that he was convinced of his holiness and Imagined that torture had lifted him far above the rest of human kind. To what depths the worship of Kali can descend will, be understood when it Is recalled that she was the patron goddess of the Thugs, a Hindoo sect, who devoted their lives to highway robbery. They entered Into friendly conversation with strangers on the high road and,' at a convenient moment, strangled them to death and made off with their goods. It is less than 50 years since the last of their number was hanged after a relentless war with the British authorities.

llgious service in this chapel, where, amid the assembled men of both races, the land was solemnly consecrated as a resting place for the Russian dead. We think we have not done badly when fifty years after the battle of Gettysburg we invite the surviving Confederates to meet us where they fought üb, and with their northern fellow citizens give thanks today for a united country. But, the "Japs” have bettered as well as anticipated our act. For within five years of the battle of Mukden they laid out the field as a cemetery for their conquered enemies, buried them decently, had religious rftes celebrated by priests of their own faith, and paid personal tribute to the courage and loyalty of the men they had vanquished. All this without one word of suggestion from outside.—The Advance. ,

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FEAR CREEPING RAILS

DANGER THAT GETB ON NERVES OF RAILROAD HEADS. Periods of I Manse Heat or the Steady Pounding of Long Trains Are the Causes—Frequently Result In Wrecks. A railroad track, properly ballasted, bolted and fish plated, looks like one

Railroad rails will actually creep forward along the ties. Solid and ponderous as they are, the steel rails are not immune from the effects of heat or the steady pounding of long trains moving over them, always in the same direction. On the railroad tracks laid down over Eads bridge this peculiar phenomenon may be observed any day in the week. Rails creep just as rapidly over this structure in January as they do in August. Many trains roar over this piece of track suspended over the Mississippi. The constant pounding of these heavy trains and heavy engines sets the track a-creeping. Ififty feet of rail a month is cut from the east end of the east-bound track and from the west end of the track over which the west-bound trains pass. The rails travel twenty-two inches every day all the year round. In about two years a given rail would wander all the way across the big bridge. It has been necessary to put in a “creeper” device on one end and “a feed rail” on the other in to keep the engines from coming down through an unexpected gap to the bridge floor. Heat has the same effect on a piece of railroad steel. It will cause it to elongate and press against the rails at either end. Once in a while there is a railroad wreck produced by Just such a happening. The hot sun pours down into a cut upon a cinder roadbed or upon the rails out somewhere in the prairie and they begin to "kink” and twist under the glare. The next train that comes along at a fiftymile an hour gait finds itself piled up in the ditch. The rails have crept until they could creep no farther and then they have tried to tie themselves into a knot. In wet weather the rails and ties on open-track show the same tendency to creep as do those on the Eads bridge tracks. Under the pounding propulsion of a heavy train they begin to slide forward, but in these cases they take the ties with them. The whole track moves for many Inches and would continue to move indefinitely if the section gang failed to come along and "true” things up again. Bridges and other structures actually grow longer under the heat of a summer sun and contract under the chill winds and frosts of winter. The Washington monument feels the sun’s rays through all its granite structure when the sun gets hottest in summer. Experiments show that it Is slightly out of plumb on every hot day. More delicate experiments show that it inclines toward the sun as that luminary moves around the horizon.

Largest Depot In Europe.

‘‘Which is the largest railway station in Europe?” is a question which every newspaper has answered numberless times for Inquisitive readers. From now till further notice the reply must be: That at Leipzig. Travelers who know the Fatherland have always classed the ‘‘Leipziger Bahnhof” as the most dingy and ugly in the country. , For ten years artists and architects put their heads together to make it the acme of beauty and convenience, and now for ten years the builder has been busy. It has a frontage of 350 yards; 26 lines of rail run into it; it will see 400 trains a day; there are 50 clocks to tell the time. The finishing touches will take till 191J5, and by that time nearly $35,000,000 will have been spent on it. —London Chronicle.

Finds $25,000, Gets $1 Reward.

For ten minutes Edward Stone, brakeman on a St. Paul accommodation train running from Chicago to Llbertyville, was the possessor of $25,000. He did not know it. At the expiration of that time Herbert Schoenberg, of Morton Grove, dashed up to him and asked if he had found an old shoe box Schoenberg had left on the train. The brakeman produced the unopened box, and was told it contained the money for starting a new Morton Grove bank, of which Schoenberg is prospective cashier. rStone was rewarded with fl. —Chicago Tribune.

For Economy in Fuel.

With a vlew to economizing fuel the Japanese government has adopted for its railroads a German type of locomotive with cylinders hut fifteen inches in diameter.

Fastest British Railroad Run.

The fastest railroad run In Great Britain la th* 44V6 miles between Darlington and York, <at an averag* speed of mile* per hour.

of the most solid structures in the world. That it would and can actually creep forward—rails, ties and all—-seems almo s t incomprehensible. Every double track railroad in the country, has to fight just such

PERIL ON RAILROAD TRACKS

Foolish Custom Responsible for the Great Bulk of Casualties Reported Yearly. . ’ In an eastern "Kentucky town k few days ago five persons, returning from church, were walking on a railroad track. They saw a train coming and stepped off of one track onto another only to be struck by an engine coming from the other direction, which they had not seen at all. One of the party was killed and all the others were injured. * Walking on railroads is extra hazardous now that so many of the roads are-operated by the double track system. It is a practice that is largely prevalent in all parts of the country and it is responsible for the great bulk of railway casualties which are recounted in the quarterly reports of the interstate commerce Commission. The number of railraod passengers killed nowadays is comparatively few. Some of the biggest roads in the United States are able to carry hundreds of thousands of passengers in the course of a year’s business without fatalities. The Increase of safety appliances has greatly reduced, the lists of accidents among railway employes, but the number of persons who are killed while walking the tracks continues to increase from year to year. The right of way of a railroad which owns the road and is not a public thoroughfare in the sense that applies to a street, a turnpike or a neighborhood road. Persons who walk on railroad right of way are trespassers and incur a needless risk. Those who trespass on the lands of an individual subject themselves tp prosecution-, but there is decidedly less hazard in such trespasses than In walking on railway tracks. It is somewhat remarkable that a practice so fraught with dafiger should be so generally persisted in both in city and in country. In cities and in villages other thoroughfares are not lacking, and the foolish and perilous custom should be abandoned. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

Railroads Fifty Years. Ago.

A curious relic of railroad operation fifty years ago, down in Tennessee and Georgia, is exhibited in the following extracts from the rules then in force. Each engineman will keep a watch which must be regulated by the time of his conductor at the commencement of each trip, and will always have In his possesion the / current schedule book. Should any stock be killed which may be likely to endanger the safety of the next train passing, the engineman will stop his train until the track is cleared. As a general rule when trains meat between stations, the train nearest the turn-out will run back. Any dispute as to which train has to retire is to be determined at once by the conductors, without any interference on the part of the enginemen. This rule is required to be varied in favor of the heaviest loaded engine or the worst grades. If they meet near the center, In case of backing, a man must be placed on the lookout, so that any danger to the rearmost part of the train may be seen and the engineman at once receive notioe. The backing must be done cautiously.—Railroad Man’s Magazine.

Girl Ran Locomotive.

"I dare you to run this engine,” said William Pagenhart, an engineer employed by the contractors doubletracking a division of an eastern railroad, to Miss Ethel Seiple, a telephone girl. “You can’t dare me,” was the prompt reply the engineer reoeived, and without further ceremony the young woman jumped into the cab, threw open the throttle and the engine started down the tracks. The contractors had laid their own tracks from Wapwallopen to a point where a trestle is built. Miss Seiple sent the engine down the half-mile at high speed and brought it to a stop at the termination of the track. She handled the engine in a way that surprised the engineer, who was permitted to ride as a passenger.

Watch for "Kinked” Ralls.

Most engineers run with care on a hot day. They are expecting “kinked" rails at any minute. The engineer with a good eye can spot a kinky and twisted rail in time to at least cut down‘his speed. It will be easy to see on a stretch of straight track, for It will bow up like a hoop in some instances. If he fails to see it until almost upon it he shuts his eyes and hopes that all his string of cars, engine Included, will take it on the run. If he is lucky enough to get over it without being derailed he reports it from the first telegraph station. The next man might ndt be so lucky.

Began as Train Dispatchers.

The legitimate ambition of every agent at a country station is to become a |yaln dispatcher. ®H(f perceives that snch a position is the avenue to all sorts of desirable places. He learns that the men above him have been dispatchers—W. C. Brown of the New York Central, F. C. Underwood and J. C. Stuart of the Erie, Q* W. 1 Stevens of the Chesapeake and Ohio, Marvin Hughltt and W. A. Gardner of the Chicago and Northwestern, I. G. Rawn of the Illinois Central* W. A. Garrett of the Seaboard Air Line and a host of others.

Veteran Locomotive at Work.

A locomotive that originally waa built In 1847 has been reconstructed and given light work to do by an English railroad.

RECIPES FOR CANAPES

VARIED ABBORTMENT THAT SHOULD BUIT ALL PALATES. Chicken, of Course, Always the Most Popular, Though Anchovy, Caviar and Mayonnalao Are Ail Delicious—Mode With Hash. Chicken Canapes. —Fry round Blicea of white bread, or toast them delicately, and then top each with a little minced chicken and sauted mushrooms, seasoning delicately with salt, cayenne and butter. Set in the oven for five minuted and serve hot. The drumsticks of a large roast chicken and six mushrooms would make half a dozen of these delectable bites. If the chicken is dry, mix it with a little fresh cream or olive oil. Cold Anchovy Canapes. Pound anchovies to a smooth paste with.a | little butter and season with cayenne and lemon juice. ‘Spread, the paste on. thin strips of hard toast about two inches wide, then sprinkle them with hard boiled egg, chopped-almost to a powder. These are delicious supper bites. Caviar Canapes.—Mix caviar to a cream with lemon juice and spread on thin strips of buttered toast. Sprinkle the bread In even rows with chopped hard boiled egg and minced onion, . adding a dust of salt and cayenne. Another way Is put a ring of onion on the bread and then drop a slice or two of .hard boiled eggjnside. Mayonnaise Canapes.—Spread rounds of fried bread very thinly with anchovj? Paste and then cover with mayonnaise, to which have been added chopped caper|, olives and onion. Serve cold, and garnish the dish with cress. Hash Canapes.—Put a little ham or tongue with beef or mutton and chop almost to a paste. Add one tomato and a green pepper and season highly with cayenne; only heat the mixture thoroughly in butter if all the Ingredients have hitherto been cooked, and serve on slices of hot buttered toast. Remember that any appetizing edible In the house may always be added to a meat hash, fish excepted. Ham Canapes.—Rub chopped ham to a smooth paste, moistening it with cream or melted butter. Spread the paste on small rounds of fried bread, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and cayenne or paprika, and brown in the oven. Liver Canapes.—Saute thinly sliced calf’s liver In butter, not cooking It too much; season with salt and black pepper. Then fry a little thinly-sliced bacon. Put the liver, cut In narrow strips, on two-inch strips of buttered toast, then cross them with smaller strips of bacon. Add a small lump of butter to each canape, and put them In the oven for this to melt Ornament the platter with watercress.

Making Cream Puffs.

Put two ounces of butter into fc saucepan, add half a pint of- water, bring to boiling point, add quickly half a pint of sifted flour, a pinch of salt, and one teaspoonful of sugar; stir well with a wooden-spoon until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan; remove from the fire, allow to cool, but not become cold; add four eggs, beating each one thoroughly in. Put away in a cool plaoe for one' hour. Put the mixture into a forcing bag with a plain tube and force on to a baking tin into small rounds; brush over with beaten egg and bake in a hot oven for half an.hour. When cold split open on one side and All them with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored to taste. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the top.

Vegetable Sausage.

Three carrots, four onions, two parsnips, one half pint split red lentils, two eggs, one-half pound bread crumbs, sago, parsley, garlic, salt and pepper. Boil the vegetables and mash fine; cook the lentils until soft; pound them well; add to the mashed vegetables, together with a little boiled sago, chopped parsley, a small portion of finely chopped garlic, salt and pepper; mix the eggs and bread crumbs; add a portion to the other ingredients; make up into pieces about the size of ordinary sausages; roll in egg and bread crumbs; fry in boiling oil until brown.

Stuffed Ham.

Select a freshly cured ham and have bone removed. Fill cavity with stuffing made of bread crumbs, tie up securely and inclose ham in a paste of flour and water to keep juice from escaping.. Tie in a pudding bag or cloth, have ready a pot of boiling water and let ham boll slowly about two hours. When boiled sufficiently, remove the crust, pare skin off carefully, so as not to Injure the shape of the ham, put It in a roasting pan, sprinkle with bread crumbs, set in moderate oven to roast

Pineapple Sandwich.

One enp of pineapple, juice and: pulp, three-fourths of a cup of sugar. Juice of half a lemon, lady flhgers; cook the pineapple, sugar and lemon juice until thick, let It cool, spread upon the lady fingers or sponge cake. Press together in pairs.

Dates and Ginger Sandwich.

Chop the dates and preserved ginger, moisten with sirup from the glflger jar and a lictle lemon juice; cook with a little water or not, to a smooth paste; cool; when cold spread the mixture upon thinly sliced bread and, cut In diamond shapes.