St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1891 — Page 7

"S MILKING OF IHE COW. BY 8. W. FOSS. ~ The milk-pail used to versify a mild and mellow meter When I used to milk old Brindle in the yard, jKAnd the shining milk was sweeter unto me mid OK little Peter f Than orieatal perfumes of myrrh, frackinJ cense, and nard. ‘ The sunset flung its banners from the gilded 1 s hills above us, I And the odors of the evening seemed to drop i from every bough ; a There was peace and glad contentment, both , within us and without us, At the sweet, mellifluous milking of the cow. And, wondering like a memory from the silent past’s abysm. I smell the grateful odors cf the fragrant evening breeze, And I bend to catch the chrism of the twilight's glad baptism, , And the outstretched benediction of the . trees. The glory, of the summer night, the magic of the mountains. And the tinklings of the twilight on the farm are with me now; But through all the mingling music still I hear those falling fountains, The sweet, mellifluous milking of the cow. Still I hear the joyful rhythm of that titillating tinkle, And I smell the grateful odors of the placid, perfumed night— Odors blown from glens a-sprinkle with wildrose and periwinkle, And from lakes where lazy lilies 101 l in languer for the light. Through the vuley of the long years that is glimmer!' g behind me I peer down through the vista that connects the then and now ; With a youth’s audacious unconcern a careless boy I find me. At the sweet, mellifluous milking of the cow. •^^ankee Blade. IN A LAND OF PRAYERS. FRANK CARPENTER’S OBSERVATIONS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. A City of Mosques, Minarets, and Howling Dervishes—The Ramazan Ceremonies— All “Good” Turks Read the Koran— Mohammedan Keliefs.

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anything from sunrise to sunset. They do not drink a drop of water, and the more devout will not even st allow their spittle. The Turks are the most inveterate smokers of the world, and they like to titillate their nostrils with smoke and to gratify ithem with perfumes. During Ramazan they do not smoke during the day time and they entirely abstain ' from snuff and the use of attar of roses. This is so not only in Constantinople, but also over the whole Mohammedan world. It is 6 o’clock p. m. as I write, and 100,000,000 Mohammedan stomachs scattered from the wilds of north China to *he tropical regions of central Africa .^ e .bowlwg s with hunger. One hun- " O * *Ln I'm IPH - anxiously watching the going down of the setting sun. The moment it drops behind the we-t these millions will, grab for the food that has been prepared for them, and for the next hour or so the fasting will be turned into feasting. The nights of Constantinople are now nights of revelry. The koran does not prohibit the Turk from eating what he pleases after sunset, and the

r-L fill I ' s?s^s^Wjsl^FjTSn3pdk , i : ^i^ ~/V ngßw||||Bil Xy THE MOSQUE. people gorge themselves to make up for the fast of tiie day. .The city is lighted at nights, and crowds throng the streets. All the cases and eating houses are open, and the lemonade ];edler and the sweet-meat man are out in all their glory. The Turks are very hospitable, and during Ramazan they give many dinner parties Such as are ■wealthy enough to do without work stay up the whole night in order that they may the better sleep through the fasting hours of the morrow. It is a time for religious observance as well as pleasure. There are services at all the mosques every evening and all the men go to prayers. The mosques are illuminated and the hundreds of minarets which rise high above the somber city of Stamboul are girdled with light and between them are stretched great figures of fire, made by stringing countless lamps upon wires. Here is one composed of gigantic letters forming the Turkish word for God or “Allah.” There is one representing a cannon a hundred ieet long, and between the towers of another mosque hangs a mammoth star and crescent of fire. i There are between 200 and 300 j ’ mosques in Constantinople, and the Ra- < mazan ceremonies in these are most in- ' teresting to the stranger. I witnessed ■ them m the largest mosque of the t wornd. This was the mosque of Santa s Sophia, which was built as a Christian 1 church in the fourth century, and which i was for ages the finest Christian church i in the world. It took one hundred ar- i chitects to superintend its construction t and 10,000 masons worked upon it at J tne same time. It had doors of ivory, <

amber, and cedar, and its altar was made of precious stones imbedded in gold and silver. It was decorated with beautiful paintings, which the Turks destroyed when thev took possession of Constantinople, and its roof has still enough mosaic to carpot an acre field. The great temples of antiquity have . been robbed to build this church. ; Within it there are four pillars of green j granite, which were taken from the i Temple of Diana at Ephesus, and there are other columns from the temple of Thebes, Athens, Rome, and Alexandria. If you will take a two-acre field and plant within it a forest of columns, roofed with a dome bigger and grander than that of the Capitol at Washington, hang thousands of lamps in the air between the door and the floor, scatter richly-carved pulpits about “thebe is no god but god.” various parts of the building, put immense fountains here and hang gigantic

Turkish inscriptions there, you may have a mazed idea of how the mosque of Santa Sopiiia looks when entering. You will wander for hours through the corridors of its columns, finding new beauties at every step. You will note that the great walls are lined with precious marbles and that the cornices and the friezes of the arches are of gilded bronze. At nfght when the thousands of lamps are lighted, when great stars of flame float in the air between the dome and the floor, when every pillar and every aclove is ablaze, and when the various galleries are walled with flame, the wonder of the mosque takes on new grandeur, which, added to the picturesqueness of the worshipers themselves, make a Ramazan night in Santa Sophia one of the greatest sights of the world. The Mohammedan prayers and method of praying is fixed by the koran and these 5,000 men all prayed in the same way. I noted their actions from the beginning to the end of each prayer. The person praying must first remove his shoes and sandals and turn his feet toward Mecca. He must bathe his hands and feet and certain other parts of his person before entering the mosque, and in the court of this mosque of Santa Sophia there is a large and beautiful fountain. Entering the mosque and standing in the right position putting his. 110 Vilen JJOtdo" UJUx v —iiufu ber of prostrations, reciting certain prayers from the koran as ho does so. If he is a faithful Mohammedan he prays five times every day and he does not care for his surroundings. At the hours of prayer Mohammedans will begin their devotions in the midst of a crowd. They will stop their business transactions, and whether in the store or in the field they will drop on their

ARRIVED in Con- 1 stantinople during ' the month of Ramazan, and I find the whole city observing the Mohammedan lent. The cookshops of Stamboul are closed during the day for lack of custom, and of the half-million Turkish men, women and children in this city not one eats

- — uivp vn men knees and pray. I remember entering a rug bazaar in Alexandria and calling upon a gray-bearded, turbaned Turk while he was engaged in his devotions. He was standing on a rug in the back of the store looking toward Mecca and mumbling the koran. He must have seen me as I entered with a party of Americans, and though he knew I' intended to buy he paid no attention to me. He continued his kneeling down au ^ rising up for fully fifteen minutes and I sat down and waited until he was through. There were many other rug establishments near by and he must have known that he stood the chance of the loss of a sale by not attending to me. This made no difference, however, to him. It would be a curious thing to see a merchant in New Tork or Chicago । stop his sales in the middle of the day , and drop on his knees and pray in the J presence of his customers. The Turks read the koran fully as much as we read the Bible. It is a common sight in going through the bazaars to see one man reading the koran to his friends, and nearly every merchant has a copy of this Mohammei an bible beside him, and yet you wil see dozens of

*AX, Oli/ 'V /?' DEKVISHES AT PRAYER. merchants reading to themselves during the intervals of trade. They take pride in having good koraus, and the korans used by the Sultan are bound in silver and beautifully illuminated. In the tombs of the Sultans where they lie in marble sarcophagi, inside of fences of silver, their korans are preserved with them, and I looked over several volumes ' of the finest of these the other day. Ibe guide in charge, whose hands are washed, will not permit a Chris'ian to touch them, but he turns the pages and ' < shows you their beauties. They are as ; fine as any of the wonderful manuscripts 1 matte by the monks of the middle ages, , and they are painted by hand upon • parchment. The Sultan probably knows i the koran by heart. The khedive of 1 van recite it from one end to the । other, and the average Mohammedan ,

ruler has a much better knowledge of his bible than have our presidents or the kings of Europe of the scriptures. The churches of the Mohammedans, known as mosques, are the finest buildings of the East, and they rank among the great architectural structures of the world. There is a mosque in Cairo which covers more than an acre which is made entirely of alabaster, most of which is as beautifully veined and as transparent as Mexican onyx. The floor of this mosque is carpeted with elegant Turkish rugs, and I attended it one night when the khedive was among its worshippers. Ji is one of the most beautiful mosques in the world, and it is a fair representative of a great Mohammedan place of worship. There are different sects among the Mohammedans, but they are more liberal in their treatment of each other than are the Christians. In this alabaster mosque a half-dozen different sects were worshipping, and in one part of it the dancing dervishes were whirling through their religious gymnastics. These men and boys had dark yellow faces, worn thin by fasting. They were dressed in long white skirts, fastened in at the waist with black belts, and on their heads were high sugar-loaf hats. Oue of them played the flute, another the tambourine, and the ethers after kissing the hem of the robe of the chief, held out their arms and began to whirl slowly around to the music. As they continued to whirl one of them sang verses from the koran, and at intervals there were prayers by the chief. After the prayers were over the whirling became more rapid until they at last went around at the rate of sixty revolutions a minute. At this time their skirts stood out like those of a ballet dancer, they became red in the face, and I noted that one of the boys fell to the ground and was carried off in a lit. The howling dervishes are even more horrible,

and there is a great society of them at Constantinople. I cannot describe their religious gymnastics, but they work themselves into a frenzy, and in the in.erior of Turkey whore they are away from the restraint of western civilization they often take knives and cut themselves and each other in their religicus ecstacy. They often go into epileptic fits and foam at, the mouth, and they are as dirty a set of long-haired heathens as you will find in the world. They are, however, the cranks of Mohammedanism and are not a fair sample of the Mohammedan world. The Mohammedans believe in God and the prophets. They look upon Christ as a great prophet and believe that Mohammed and Christ will act together as the judges of all mankind at the last. day. One of the minarets of the noted mosque at Damascus was built in memory of Christ, and Damascus is one of the fanatical of Mohammedan cities. They look upon Adam as a pattern of human perfection and they believe that the Garden of Eden was originally located in Hea eu. XVbien Eve seduced Adam in eating the apple our parents were cast out of the Garden of Eden and fell to the earth. Adam landed on a mountain in Ceylon and Eve dropped down near Mecca. Adam for his sin spent 200 sears in looking for Eve, and at last he : lu. URIMUII consider Abrakam a great profit. He is cal! d in the koran the friend of God. I hey call Moses the speaker of God, and they have, all told, 121,000 prophets. The greatest of these are Adam, Abraham, Jesus, and Mohammed. The koran includes charity and brotherly love. It prohibits lending money at interest, and it fixes the ronml Imvn nf

~ ** «Ava mt- general laws oi the Mohammedan world. It inculcates belief in a future state, in the heaven of which each devout believer shall have four beautiful and ever young maidens to v ait upon him and to administer to his wants. It is in manv of its chapters so much like the Bible that it is believed that Mohammed got a large pait of its teachings from the scriptues and from the Jews with whom he was acquainted. — I rank G. Carpenter, Is Greenland An Llan-c Engineer Robert E. Peary, of the I nited States Navy, proposes to solve this question. He has secured leave of absence for eighteen months, with this object in view. Mr. Peary proposes to starton his expedition from St. Johns, Newfoundland, about May 1. His idea । is to go North as far as a whaling steamer will carry him and then strike for the North Pole on foot across Greenland. “I sail travel on foot,” he said to aninterviewer, as I did four vears ago, walking at night when the sun glares the least, and sleeping in the day. The sleeping bags, in which one mav rest comfortably, are big pouches of waterproof sealskin lined with reind/er skin and provided with a flan to mill over

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