Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1894-TWENTY PAGES, A CHIN ESE CART OON. THE CHINESE RIOTS Stories Printed to Incite the People Against Foreigners. VILE CARTOONS DISTRIBUTED How the Literati Spread False Notions Among the People. IN THE YANGTSE VALLEY (Copyrighted, 1804, by Frank G. Carpenter.) KIUKIANG, China, May 5, 1894. EE THE LONG- haired barbarians! Look at the kidmap- ers of babies! There goes a pig-goat blue-eyed devil!’ These are some of the expressions which are huried at me in Chinese in every city I visit. A tall Chinaman, in a blue silk gown and Dig spectacles, spat at me as I walked through the streets here this morning, and Wherever I stop a crowd collects and the remarks which my interpreter translates for me are by no means elegant nor polite. At Hankow I had great trouble in getting @ man to go about with me. There was a well-educated Chinaman, who spoke good English, but he said if he went the peo- ple would call him “a foretgner’s dog,” and he evidently did not want to be seen om the Street in my company. I confess I don’t Mike it. Even the babies yell at the for- eigners in some of these towns. The dogs, who will not molest a strange native, re- cornize a foreigner by his smell, and rush for him, snapping at his heels. I carry a good club and I think that this protects me to a certain extent from both dogs and men. This ts one of the most rebellious parts of China, and the Climese here are se Bind Men and the Foretzners eating Gver Their Eyes, Which They Have Stoten. far diff-rent from. those you find in rica. They are big, broad-shouldered fellows, with stronger features than the men of South China, whence our coolies come. They speak a diffrent language and are more iIndcpeadent im their actions. The better classes all over the empire hate the foreigners.and the millions which the Vice- is putting into his factories mills are spent because he rolling hopes by Lhemt to make Chima entirely inde- pendent of the rest of. the world. Where the Great Riots Begun. It was throughout this Yangtse valley that the creat riets of i801 began, aad they extended from here all over the em- pire. They rosalted im the massacre of hundrefs upon hundreds of native Chris- tians, and for a time all sorts of foreigners feared for their lives. At Wusueh one of the Englieh eustoms officers and a Metho- dist nary were killed by the mob and foreign property was burned and [oot- ed at a dozen different stations along the Fiver. Todxy an Mtense dislilee to foretgn- ers prevails among the literary and offictal classes of the empire. They lock upon us as savages and boors, and they would if they dared sweep us from the country today. It ts from them that the stovies come as to the wickedness of the Europeans. They distribute books full of all sorts of lies about the missionaries, @nd the chief cause of every riot comes ‘The Christian in Hades. from such publicatfons. Just before the Tientsin massaete a pamphlet was issued charging the foreigners with stealing Chi- mese babies and cutting them up for medi- eine, and the same stories were printed and shipped over the emptre by the million during the riots ef three years ago. At this time there were published colored prints, under the title of the “Devil's Pic- ture Gallery.” These represented in the vilest of scenes the alleged practices and institutions of the religion of the foreign- ers. I have sccured a set of these prints, and they lie before me as I write. I have also procured a translation of the Chinese characters which surround them and whtch s0 explain the pictures that the most ig- Rorant Chinaman can see just what they mean. Pronounced almost the same in Chinese and the Christfan religion ts called here the worship of the hog. Among the pictures are euis of hogs, labeled Jesus, hanging to crosses, with Chinese men women kneeling before them and other men and women going through the most obscene and licentious performances in the back- ground. One of the hogs so hung is filled with arrows, which Chinese soldfers are shooting into him, and a mandartn fs di- ‘The foretgners ate rep- pietures by goats, the words or characters representing the two being practically the same, and one of the cuts is entitled “Siaughter the Pigs and the Goats.” Some cuts represent the slaughter going on, and others incite the people to rise against the “hog séct,” as they call us. The pictures state that the n religion is a worship of lust and and goats are painted with , which in Chinese typifies this. of the paintings could not be desc much less illustrated, Im any respectable newspaper, and the whole is incendiary in the extreme. Many of the common peo- ple believe the stories. They look upon us as demons, who are possessed of witch- craft powers, and backed, as some of the publications are, by extracts from public The word for hog and Jesus are! arent documents, they receive full Stories Believed by Chinamen. In the blue books of China, for instance, you find how the foreigners scoop out the eyes of Chinamen for medicine or to grind up to make photographic materials. The Chinese have eyes which are invariably black. They think that their eyes have dif- ferent qualities from ours, and that we are always seeking to get them. In one of these prints, which I have, two blood-thirsty villains in foreign clothes are cutting out the eyes of a dead Chinaman, while an- other foreigner is gloating over a saucer full of eyes, which he has just eaptured. The blue books of China say that the Chris- tlans shroud the dead that they may hide this scooping out of the eyes, and from my translation of “The Death-blow to Corrupt Doctrines” I copy the following: “In case of funerals the religious teach- ers of the Christian sect eject all the rela- tives and friends from the house, and the corpse is put into the coffin with closed Foreigners Scooping Out the Eyes of Dead Chinamen. doors. Both eyes are secretly taken out and the orifice sealed up with a plaster. They call this the sealing of eyes the western journey. * for extracting the eyes is Pounds of Chinese lead eight pounds of silver, and the rematn' ninety-two pounds can be sold at the orig- inal cost. But the only way to obtain sliver is by compounding the lead with eyes of a Chinaman. The eyes of foreigners are of no use for this purpose. Hence, do not take out those 8 face In a way to take lectures, which the Christians prize. =— oe in the work there is an ex- tract from the public records, showing how @ Chinese scholar cheated a missionary and = his eyes. I copy the extract ver- “In the retgm of the Emperor Wan Lie a foreigner, named Pa-Ta-Li, came into Che- Kiang and began to persuade men to join the Christiam sect, and great numbers were ensnared by hfm. Now, there was a cer- tain military undergraduate, named Wang Wen-Mu, an athlete, who, hearing that when any one who joined this sect died they secretly took out his eyes, had a desire ta test the matter. So for some days he ate nothing, and word was sent to the priest that he was about to die. The priest came, and, sure enough, he had a little knife in his hand. Coming forward, he was about to cut out Wang’s eyes, when he, springing up suddenly, beat him and drove him out of his house, and eut off hts head and de- stroyed his image of Jesus. When this affair came to be known in the capital the emperor rewarded him liberally.” Why « Mission Was Mobbed. Speaking of the medical treatment of the foreigners, these books deseribe just how the foreigners make them. I would say’ first, however, that the average Chinaman of the Interfor knows ro distinction beween German, French, English or American. Merchant and missionary are alt one to kim, and a great riot will kill the men in business as well as the preachers of the Gospel. These books, which have been cir- culated by the million all over China, state that the brains ef Caimese bables are very valuable to us, and a part of the recent riots at Wuhu were caused by two mis- sionary nuns calling some children into one of their hcuses. Their parents had an infectious disease, and the nuns wanted te protect the children from it. A relative of one of the children tried to take there away, but the children would not go, and he roused the people, telling them the nuns were going co Kill the children and use their eyes for medicine. In a short time a mob of 6,000 Infuriated Chinese was collected. The nuns were arrested and the buildings of the missionaries burned. After the riot was over a placard in Chinese was put up by the rioters inciting the people to more bloodshed. I visited the town yesterday. It is a dirty Chinese city lying on the banks of the Yangtse, and is now comparatively peaceful. The mission buildings nave been rebuilt. The placard I spoke of is quite leng, but a part of it reads as follows: “The country is betrayed and the people are ruined. Human beings are trampled down and reduced to dust. Lately the Christtans are building churches in every pertion of this city. Every convert is paid a monthly sum of $6, and it is by such means that ignorant males and females are led to enter, churches where men and wo- men congregate together without diserimi- natfon. Now women are procured from other places and are paid to abduct chil- dren, whose eyes and intestines are taken out and whose hearts and kidneys are cut off. What crimes have these little children dong that they should suffer these horrible deaths?” The proclamation then goes on to state how the children were being smug- gled¢ away and cites a number of instances of Chinese babies which have disappeared through magic of the foreigners. It staies that a year ago a woman by the name of Shen had a one-year-old child lying ia a cradle, when “it Was taken away in the twinkling of an eye, cradle and all, without leaving the slightest trace.” It speaks of underground cells where the devilish for- eigners hide the babies, and closes by cali- ing upon the people to rise and drive out the barbarian thieve: What a Gonboat Did. The riots of 189 were general. They ex- tended all over the empire and proclama- tions inciting the people to drive out the foreigners were everywhere put up. Daeg were fixed upon again and again for a mas- sacre, and the Hunanfites, among other threats, said they would butcher the Chris- tians, foreign and native, and slice them into pieces, and weighing divide them among the people for a cannibal feast. These Hu- | nanites are the best soldiers of the empire. ‘They come from an immense province south of here and are the most fierce of all the Chinese. They form to a large extent the great secret society known as the Koloa Hut, and they have their organization ev- erywhere. They are especially strong at Nanking and from that point the working of the rioters seemed to be directed. There is no doubt but that the educated classes of the Chinese incite these troubles. They Say they come from the people and they cannot control them, but this ts evidently false. At Hankow the viceroy or governor of the state, who Ifves in the big capital city of Wuchang, just across the river, sald he could do nothing, and thousands of Chi- nese students who were there to attend the examinations collected on the walls of the city to watch the people massacre the for- eigners. At this time, however, an English gunboat appeared on the scene. Its com- mander sent his compliments to the gov- ernor, saying it was unfortunate that he coulf not contro! his people, for at the first outbreak he would have to shell the city. ‘The messenger then went on as follows: ‘The commander would regret this very mueh, as his guns are pointed just in the line of your exceliency’s palace, and they will probably destroy it.” It was wonder- ful how quickly Wuchang became quiet. Runners were sent out by the hundreds from the palace that night to all parts of the town, an@ one of the most rebellious cities became the most ‘ful and quiet. ‘The tracts against the books and pictures which I have described are gotten up by the scholars of the empire. Qne book ts called “Death to the Dévil's Religion,” and eight men alone subscribed the empire. Boat loads of these books were carried through the provinces near here and the pawnbrokers and booksellers aided in getting them to the people. Doggerel songs against the Christians aré written and — to the children in some of the cities, you hear thetr ertes of derision hurled at you everywhere you go. Chinese Views of Christtanity. These pictures of whieh I have already written paint not only the Christians on earth, but they show thetr fate after death. In one all the horrors of the Buddhist hell are called to bear upon them. A hog labeled Jesus is being sawed in two by two devils, and other devils are tormenting the forelgn- ers. One picture shows how the foreign books should be burned, and there is a great fire, with @ coolles bi ’ Chines reat stacks of volumes and ape w fro the fire. In the ‘back, are foreign- os — to tegnoe and ayer torment- ing them. On the ground lie ot! foreign- ers, held by Chinamen, while other celestials pour down their throats, through funnels, RG a is ie der a the burning of! books, and the Chinese racters on the margins read: “The depraved religion of the ts ited from foreign is. Its it heaven and extfrpate an- cestors. Ten ind arrows and a thous- and swords will not exptate thetr crimes. Another cartoon states that it {s hateful that the name of Jesus should descend to a thousand generations, and it describes how the believers should be treated as above, It states that all Chinese believers should be foreed to drink slops and to defile the picture of a cross ced before them. 's how children are mutilated for the making of foreign medicines, and a third contains a pictare of a nude Chinese woman tied down a chair, while two villainous-looking Englishmen ‘are cutting silees out of her for use in the manufacture of their devilish potions. Another shows a woman so tied, with her breasts cut off, and the Chinese script yrates that the foreigners catch Chinese girls and cut off their nipples and breasts. There are in alf thirty-two of these vile sheets. They are ¢ach about twice the size of a sheet of commercial note and are printed tn half a dozen differ- ent_cofors. e work ts fatriy good, from a@ Chinese standpoint, te would be ¢ very fn any European coun- T can't describe the effect such things have on the lower classes of the Chinese. They despise us as a2 nation, and they believe all such reports as these. The m{ssionaries work among then under the greatest of disadvantages and they really do a vast deal of good. No one, however, can appre- clate the awful difficulties they have to con tend with, and the lies which they have to refute at every step. If it were not for the literati and scholars they could make more headway. As ft is, I find ‘heir churches in every city I have visited, and I have seen a ntmber of mtsston schools. points where the man who thinks that preaching the to the heat! ee is a sinecure ver much mistaken. Fok A, Carpenrt —_-+--— RUSSIA'S AKMIES OF BEGGARS. Entire Villages Whose Inhabitants Make a Livelihood Selely by Begging. From the Lendon Daily Telegraph. Mr. Geoffrey Drage in the course of @ re- port on Russia addressed to the royal com- mission on labor contributes some intercst- ing details regarding beggars in that coun- try. Thousands of men, women and chil- éren, he says, regularly set out from their homes with the object of earning their live- hood, not by work, but by begging. The “Shouvaltkt,” who have their head- quarters in the villages of Shouvalfki cnd Kin, are among the most notorfous of these beggars. They frequently travel tm troops of ten or twelve, alleging that they have been burnt out of their homes and giving a graphic account of the fire. At other times they go out singly and beg for alms, pre- tending to be deaf and dumb or insane, with Placards round their necka testifying to thefr infirmity. They travel on foot to the Don and frequently return with a cart and one if not inore horses. The district of Soudogda, which {s one of the most unfertile parts of European Rus- sia, is another headquarters of the beggar army. .\s soon as field work is over in the autumn whole villages organize themselves into artels and start out to The whole lation of the village of nin lives y means of begging. Cripples and bitud persons are in great request and flock from the surrounding country into the villages to join those members of the beggar artel who have no blind persons or cripples in their own family. As seon as the fasting season begins they return home with cheir booty, which Includes objects of the most varied description, for they never refuse any gifts. These they sell at the next fair and live during the spring and summer on their profits and on what they can steal from persons in their own neighborhood. The example of the beggars has been followed in other localities, espe- cially in the governments of Kostroma and Tver. In the latter there is a group of vil- lages where girls and women earn thetr livelihood by begging. Some of them find their profession so lucrative that many girls prefer it to marriage and remain beg- gars during the whole of their lives. The Kalouni travel with horse and cart and a number of assistants and they choose their companions from among the feeblest chit- dren cripples. Blind ehtidren are highly prized, and they frequently add to the piti- ful appearance of these children by talc their eyes out of thelr sockets. The fol- lowers of the kalounf often matm their hands and wound themselves, and if enough real cripples cannot be obtained they are manufactured by tying up one arm of leg. The kalouni seldom beg themseives, but confine their attention to the supervision of their assistants and to selling the arti- eles obtained by the latter. Sometimes their profits are cnormous. A kalouni, accom panied by two adults and four or five ehil- dren, gets from five to ten roubies a week; many take home as much as 1,000 roubles, leaving the children and crippies, through whom they have gained their wealth, to their fate. tee Baying Up Curios, From the Boston Poxt. When the curio dealers of New Orleans learned recently that Eugene Fiekt was coming to their city, they brushed up their stock, and every man who had a curfo, even of the most horrible description, prepared himself for the Chicago poet. The Chicago poet did not disappoint the doalers. No soover had he reached the town tham he be- gan his search, and it was not long before packages of every description began coming to Mrs. Field at her Buena Park home. Everything was offered him, and what struck his faney was immediately taken. Now, the only value whfch money has in Field's eyes is what it can buy him in the Way of oddities, and it doesn’t matter so much to the poet what shape these oddities take, so long as, as he says htmself, “they are just devilish odd.” Writing to a friend from New Orleans a few days ago, the author of “Little Boy Blue” says: “Say, sent me some fellef, won't you? Here are some poems. Gosh! ' My attempt to bay up all the curios fr New Orleans has hopelessly bankrupted me, and I am about to begin my walk home.” Hardly Possible. Lady Waiter—"Excuse me, DOMESTIC ANIMALS A New Section to Be Opened in the National Museum. VALUE OF INTERBREEDING ANIMALS Classes of Animals Useful to Man and Their Cultivation. PIGEONS AND CHICKENS Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. BRAND NEW FEA- ture of the National Museum 1s the sec- tion of domesticated animals to be opened to the public in a few weeks. The writer is probably the only one outside of the regular museum staff who has yet seen this new treasure house, which is kept strictly under lock and key. When ush- ered through it a few days ago a collection of objects was to be seen which will ex- cite sufficient admiration to warrant the exceptional care expended in {ts Installa- tion. The new exhibits occupy the north- east court, which is entered from thé east halt, devoted to arts and industries and transportation and engineering. It fs a strange fact that the study of do- mesticated animals, as distinct from zoolo- sy, has never been Mlustrated in a great museum before, and it is equally singular that it should be created by the scientists of Washington, who, as a rule, would not be suspected of having opportunities to study the useful beasts, It appears that several of the officials of the Smithsonian and National Museum, who dwell in the suburbs, have applied their inborn facul- ties of research to a study of our lower cousins, while their rustic neighbors have whittled away the waning day on the back fence. The object of the new exhibit ts to impress upon the minds of our citizens, especially those from the “country round,” the value of interbreeding animals for spe- cfal purposes, giving them a variation un- der domestication. Good traits in animals must be developed by interbreeding with others of similar instincts, and unprofitable beasts must be either separated from their kind and mated with others of a higher grade or wiped out altogether. The object of the museum is to portray, by successive tableaux, the work being performed by the department of animal industry in the Ag ricultural Department, although the two have no connection In respect to their actual distribution of knowledge. The peor farreer has been always imposed upon by authors of pamphlets and periodicals recom- mending methods purposed merely to bene- fit individual corporations instead of being furnished wtth the ol ations of un- selfish science, rie als. To show the results of scientific farming, fare specimens of stuffed chickens, pigeons, dueks, geese and other fowl from all over the world, fur bearing animals, draft ani- mals, and all kinds of useful beasts, are admitted to this room, and have been stuff- ¢a@ by the taxidermists and prepared to pre- sent all the grace and glory of life. These animals are classified into three divisions: First, those useful by instinctive act; see- ond, for acts to which they are trained, and third, for their natural products. One of the best examples of instinctive useful- ness is the spider. which makes her web for her own habitation, but in it gives a binding for a bleeding wound or fine lines for the astronomer’s telescope. The cynips, the insect which stings the leaves of the Aslatie oak and produces nat gall, from which ink is manufactured, is another {i- justration of this class among the insects, whfle all of the animals which act as Scavengers, such as bustards and vultures, or jackals and other animals of the higher kingdom, also are classed among them. All draft animals and burden bearers are, of course, included among those made use- ful by training, as well as singing birds and trick animals, used as amusements, which have their values in a luxurious sense. The Chinese cormorant, which catches fish for the celestials, is also represented here, and is regarded as one of the most valuable il- lustrations of the value of training fowls to work, Among the creatures valuable for thefr natural products is to be found the greatest representation, since in this division all animals are eligible which pro- duce food and a hundred other necessities, such as wool, furs, leather, bristles, mem- branes, {vory, bone, ofl and ‘coloring matter. Mach of these classified uses are dwelt ufon scientifically, and it fs shown that by natural or accidental selection, and division by human effort, fuable traits can be cultivated In the beasts of the earth, tishes of the sea and fowls of the air. As an American institution, the museum Nas, of course, dwelt especially upon animals which can be domesticated tn our climate. The birds and fowls are found to give the most satisfactory illustration of the results of interbreeding. In the center of the eourt, the large dove cot, which attracted so much interest im the government building at the world’s fair, has been erected, and on this palatial pigeon house specimens of all Kinds of birds of that kingdom have been mounted in their natural) positions by Mr. Wood, one of the taxidermists of the mu- seum, who fortunately has given a greater part of his time to professional pigeon and chicken culture. The {dea of this arrange- mént, which would strike the common eye as a mere representation of a pigeon house with the birds hovering around it, is purely sefentitic, representing the order in which different species of pigeons have been euk tivated by cross breeding. Evolution of Pigeon Varieties. On the top of the cot is perched the wild Blue Reck pigeon, the progenitor of the pigeon family, who ts, indeed, the piainest of birds, void of beauty, either in ferm or cofor. The first variation from this eommon bird f= im the homing pigeon, whose body takes a more graceful form and whose col- ors come out stronger and brighter, but whose head remains mueh the same shape. On the same level with the homing pigeon comes the common dove-house pigeon, and the next step finds the carrier, which is more advanced in brain power, but only slightly different in form. Then comes the tumbler, whose antics were cultivated orlg- inally by confining the birds until they be- trayed a disposition to fall over in the air in fits of nervous frenzy, not being far ad- vanced in the evolutionary line. More ad- vanced specimens are the blueths, which present a changeable coforing in different lights, considered the most beautiful mem- bers of the whole family, and the Jacobins, the most expensive. Along in this line, through gradual development, then come the most refined specimens, what the ambition of the fancier has been to breed deformittes, in order to cultivate odd forms for the at- traction of the purchaser’s curfosity. In the deformed class all kinds of queer pigeons have been secured, some pouters, with “collars” so high that sight is impos- sible, arid others with such a profuston of feathers about the feet that the birds are unabfe to walk. In this last stage are also found the fan-tafls, which present the most utiful appearance. +. He og pigeon culture Mr. Wood said: “Although the deformed birds are of most aristocratic lineage, they are the least useful. The commonest birds are the best food and propagate the fastest. “Although there are pigeon cranks all over the world, who speculate in these rare specimens, no man was ever known to get rich in the business, since it takes a life- time to breed successfully, and even then the results are mainly accidental. A pecu- Mar form appearing in the young of the plainest pigeons can be cultivated regularly, only by mating with a similar kind or in- terbreeding back to the father or mother. It is a tedious business, and nothing but the gratification of curlosity is gleaned from it.” UCulity and Beanty. Chickens, although poorer examples of classified evolution, being too widely scat- tered, are the best illustration of inter- breeding for utility. They are found useful 9 layers, fighters, for their meat or feath- “jately” you} ers: The specimens are geographically ar- without paying me your billf” | ranged, and are placed in order of lineage skipped Guest—"I? What can you about? You are surely some one else.” be thinking | similar me for| Among the rarest foreigners are the Indian. to the exhibit of the pigeons. Jungle fowl, Pit game, Silver Spangled Hamburgs and white crested Poles. A val- vable group of bantams are the features of the collection, and the original “Agitation” and “Old Lady Whitfield,” imyorted for $300 and $100, respectively, are said to be the most expensive fowls ever purchased. In regard to chickens this connoisseur of fowl! culture takes a different view. “The expense of chicken raising is merely tm their planting,” he said, “and when or- Naméentation is combined with utility, pleas- ure accompanies the labor without addi- ticnal trouble. The moth of the chicken farmer is to cultivate good layers, bad set- ters and pretty feathers.” Another inter- esting example of deformity cultivated in domesticated animals, separated since start- ing from the original families, are the zebu or sacred ox, which carries a peculiar hump on its back, a stuffed specimen of which is a central figure in the section. With this excellent showing as a nucleus, it 1s difficult to estimate the future im- mensity of the collection, if it grows as rap- idly as have the other divisions of the mu- seum, and since its scope will be contin- ually extended with that expense, it ts am ticipated that it may grow with even great- er rapidity. ‘The farmer who is in sympathy with the workings of his fellow wielders of the crook will be glad to present peculiar specimens of his stock, to be skinned and given a regular curator, being established through the contributions of various mem- bers of the museum staff, but ft will be organized on a parallel with the others, which diffuse knowledge all man- JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr. + te — SONGS OF THE IROQUOIS. The Significance of the Words a Paz- zle to Students of Indian Lore. From the Syracuse Joursal. Prof. Frederic A. Lyman addressed the Onodaga Historical Association last even- ing. Prof. Lyman has made a special study of the Indian melodies, and the result of his investigations has been the collection of # large number of different songs, which have been carefullw compared and their sig- nifteance traced. The first song which was given was one of the oldest known. It is the song which was anciently used in conection with the eating of human flesh by the savages. It ts almost forgotten now. The words are un- certain im meaning, being, as one of the Onondagas interpreted them, simply a repe- tition of the phrase, “I am walking, really practiced when one of the officers lesgue dies. Runners are sent out several tribes, and the ehiefs gather place of the deceased, and there takes were rendered by Prof. Lyman. The Indian musical system, Prof. L; said, was not based, as far as he could see, on a scaie, as is the case with our own, but rather on a system of harmonics. Thetr songs seldom overstep a single octave. There are many peculiar features of the fro- quois music which are different from the musie of the western Indians. One notice able feature is the ending of a song with @ sudden sherp exclamation on @ rising key. ‘The musical instruments of the Indians ate Principally the rattles, made in different ing of the white dog. Each oné of these festivals has its special signification and its special ceremonies of dance and song. One familiar with the general character of the Indian melodies can tell from the cadence and form of the song what they are vsed for without knowing a single wo! Sometimes. in the thanksgiving ceremozies, the Indians use a series of songs with short speeches of thanks between each melody. In these they thank the earth for abundance, the sum and moon for their light, the Great Spirit for its kindness, the officers of the tribe for their well-carrted authority, and so on. Sometimes one can find a song where the main part is carried on by one person in sole style, with a re- frain from the crowd at the end of each part. Sometimes several members of the tribe get together a day or two before a festival and compose songs which are sung SS before their people at the ecere- monial. Just as the thanksgiving songs and others bave each their special eadence and style, so have also the war songs. They are, as one might expect, livelier and more viva- cious. The war danee of the Iroquois is said to be imported by them from the Sioux ration, but the songs are probably their own. It is very difficult to attach any meaning to the words of the Iroquois war songs. It seems as though they were in seme forgotten t .» whose words have ongue, been kept by the Indiane, while the meaning |) has been lost. The songs themselves are fast being forgotten by the Indians, — eee. An Easy Shirking. From Harper's Bazar. It is a fact patent and common that offen very fond and attentive parents of young children develop into very cold and un- sympathetic companions to grown-up sons and daughters. They romped with and fondled thetr babies, but have neither heart nor interest fer the grown-up babies’ aims and pursuits. As the child grows older, and his physical wants have been fully met and his physically nature matured, the parent’s sense of responsibility gradually ceases. He feels no longer accountable for this man’s or woman's deeds of misdeeds, and settles into a seMish disregard of what he cannot help. Ft Is an exsy way of shirking réspeti- sibility. It,is seen tod often fo be regarded as unusual. Yet it is at this age that young people need friends, confidants and advisers, quite as much as Wher they were younger. If they do not find sympathizing hearts at home they will go somewhere else to find them. The questions that are propounded, the problems that are poured tnto the mati and Into the sympathies of public men and women editors, and every one who has the slightest claim to notice, attest thts fact. The child you think thoughtless or ¢old questions and stadies out many matters it his mind. When he comes to that point that he needs a listener or an adviser he goes to some one—not you. By some heaven- sent chance he may speak fo “some one” who will point out the up road, and show him how to start there. But it may mot be so, amd no parent with any feeling of re- sponsibility at all can afford to chances. Parents repet confidence IM many ways— by laziness; by a feeling of Inabitity to put a right view of Hfe imto language which a young person can grasp; by shrinking from he unpleasantness of unaccbstomet topics, accompanied by ah easy but futile hope that instinct, or something else, will teach the young man or woman What le or she needs to know. Unfortunately, however, tnstinct and chance are not the best guides for young people at critical periods of thetr lives. The age at which we make our most glaring and far-reaching mistakes is the griorant age. And the darent who sénd$ out young sons and danehters Into the world as lambs tnto the midst of wolves, without giving them the benefit of the experience his own mis- takes and trials have taught him, must feet self-condemned when the lambs come home shorn, when the young men and women spond years of struggle and pain retrieving the blunders from which a little more can- dor and confidence might have saved them. We must all live better and learn to live higher because of our mistakes, yet the wish to save our children from the same er- tors we made ourselves is a legitimate one. 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