Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — The Pathan. [ARTICLE]

The Pathan.

All The Yea* Round. Fee. mere brutality aud roughness the people of Afghanistan have up rivals in the woMd. Though they may be the most pious of Moslemj they discriminate among the injunctions of the Prophet. To exterminate the Infidel is a duty weloomed with enthusiasm, but the command to bathe is quietly ignored. It may be regarded as an invasion of private life not to be tolerated by any independent Pathan. Accordingly, he does not wash his lace in a month, his body never. His great hmd has never known the comb. His clothing of felt or sheepskin is generations old. No savage half human, is so dirty, none so shameless In .vice. Ij °°king on those ferocious giants, one must shudder to think of their forefathers' part in history. Imagine their {onrush upon the delicate people of India, kke a swooping of fetid vultures In *agine the sack of Delhi by these brutes. I have seen the worst savages of every continent, and I aver that there are none so hideous as the Pathan. In his eye, Urge but his marked featurtran&set mouth, the gentle feelings of humanity not ? trace of expression. The child scowls and strikes; the man has no thought but of plunder and blood.. His laugh is ready enough a hoarse rude guffaw, which shows the biaek fangs through his unkempt beard: but no one ever saw the Affehan peasant smile. : ' l