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Published Every Saturday.
HUNTSVILLE, • • ALABAMA.
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THE LITTLE WIFE AT HOME.
When my work la done and I'm tempted to
stray
From the scenes of my labor r"d care,
With the friends whom I meet ns 1 go up the
street,
I say to my heart: "Beware:”
For I know that many a pitfall lnrks
In the pathway of those who roam.
And- remember that, longing for my return,
My little wife's waiting at home.
When pressed to dine at the club, "I'nfen
gaged
To dine with my wife,” I say:
For a dinner of herbs were sweeter?with|her
Than a banquet with her away:
Though rich the. viands and rare the wine.
To my sense they would tasteless be
If I thought that the one 1 love best in the
world
Were anxiously watting for me.
Not all of the pleasure I find In tho haunts
Of men can pay for a sigh
Of ray darling as she vainly watches for me,
While form after form passes by;
For each one, she knows, Is seeking his
home, \
Where fond ones are waiting for him,
And she senns every face for one who comas
not,
. While her beautiful eyes grow dint.
But her eyes grow bright as she [sees ma
, come,
And she seems, as I see her stand
In the doorway waiting to welcome mo,
The fairest wife in the land:
Her face is as bright as the sunset sky
Whose tints on her brown hair fall:
Ehe is neat and sweet, in beauty complete,
The dearest womaD of all.
As I enter the house and take from the lips
\ Of my darling her welcoming kiss.
All the cares that troubled the day take
flight
From that realm which knows only bliss.
And I say to myself: ‘‘How happy the man
Who Is never tempted to roam,
Whose heart ever longs for his own fireside
Where his little wife * waiting at home"'
—A'. F. Ledger.
..THE FIRE-WORSHIPERS.
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The Strange Doctrines and Cus
toms of Zoroaster’s People.
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To His Intelligent Followers Fire is But a
Symbol of God's Nature—The Yol
. ture Test—A New Year's
Festival
1
\
Many readers of the Companion are
familiar with the fervid lines of Moore's
splendid poem called the “Fire-Wor
* shipcrs,” The farewell scene between
Haled and Hinda is one of the most af
fecting passages in the early poetry of
this century. It has been so widely read
and has produced so deep an impres
sion that there are many whose idea of
the prevalent religion of Persia is de
rived from a perusal of that poem: and
often has the question been asked me
whether there is any other religion
practiced in that country besides that
of the worship of tire.
The facts are that out of a popula
tion of nine millions, that empire now
numbers scarcely twenty-five thousand
worshipers of fire. With the excep
, tion of less than seventy-five thousand
Armenians, Jews and Nestorians, the
remainder of the Persian people are
, Mohammedans. It was soon after the
rise of Mahomet that his fanatical
_.hosts assailed the frontiers of Persia.
Yeadegird HI., who proved to be the
last of his line, was at that time sover
eign of Iran. His army was defeated
in the decisive battle of Kadesich, he
himself was slain two years later, and
the-Persians were forced to accept Ma
hommedanism or the sword.
Those who refused to abandon the
old faith of Zoroaster for that of Ma
homet were persecuted, and mostly
slain or driven from the country.
Those who tied from Persia sought
refuge in India, where they form, in
our time, an intelligent and flourishing
community, known by the name of
Parsecs, or Persians. It is amid these
struggles of an ancient race against
the domination of a new religion and
dynasty that Moore has laid the scene
of his “Fire-Worshipers.” Notwith
standing these long persecutions, which
have continued over one thousand
years, and only now are beginning to
relax and permit the Fire-Worshipers
of Persia to live there unmolested, yet
a small, steadfast band has always re
mained in that land, preserving the
faith of theikfathers and their rites and
ceremonials unchanged.
In Persia they are called Guebres.
This is simply a corruption of the Ara
bic term Kaffir, which means heretic,
an unbeliever. In time it has become
u word of contumely and scorn. Al
though so few in numbers, yet the
Guebres are a most interesting com
“■ munity, and in them we see the old
Persian stock of the days of Cyrus aud
Xerxes Unmixed with any other race;
while the religion they practice is that
which was introduced into Persia or
perfected by the famous Zoroaster, or
Zerduseht, who lived at least twenty
five centuries ago.
Zoroaster was born m toe northern
province called both then and now
Azerbaijan; this name means the re
gion of tire, and it may have been so
-called because the religion whose dis
- linetive doctrine is the worship of tire
‘had its origin there. It is only jnst to
state that intelligent Gtiebres repudiate
this doctrine. They assert that it is a
mistake to call them Fire-Worshipers.
They say that fire is to them not an ob
ject of worship, but only a symbol of
the' beneficent Oromasd, or good God,
«-who is clear and radiant and pure.
' like the glow of the rising sun or the
flames of tire, and that it is through
the symbol that they adore the good
Spirit. .
This may be true of the more intelli
gent followers of the doctrines of Zoro
aster, but there is no doubt that the
ignorant classes believe that light and
tire are real emanations of God, and
worship them as such. Fire is held by
them so sacred that they will never
smoke tobacco, and for- that reason it
is not by them considered courteous to
use the weed in the presence of a host
or guest who is a Gucbre. In every
household of the Guebres tire kindled
from the sacred flame at the new vear
is kept burning the entire year. That
is the purpose they follow, but wheth
(g they always succeed in preventing
the fire from being extinguished. !•
doubtful.
The Guebres have many peculiar
doctrines and customs. One of these
is the use of yellow in their garb; an
other concerns the theory of immor
tality. They maintain that there are
two principlos, the good and the evil,
which they call Oromusdao and Ahri
masdao. The ancient Greeks corrupt
ed these names to Ormusd and Abriman.
These two principles, or influences,
light for the mastery through the ages,
seeking to win possession' of the soul
of man.
When a Guebre dies at Teheran, his
corpse is taken to the lonely cemetery
live miles south of the city, situated on
a lone rocky eminence that overlooks
the vast plains quivering w’ith mirage.
It resembles a white watch-tower, be
ing built in the shape of a i-ound hill
fort It is white, and has no apparent
way of entrance. The walls are built
of cargel, or mud smeared with plaster
that preserves it from the weather.
Winding slowly over the plain and up the
barren height, the procession of mourn
ers, outcasts in a land they once ruled,
bear the dead to his last resting-place.
A hole is made in the wall of the cem
etery, through which the corpse i;
taken to its grave.
Strange to say, the grave is not dug
in the earth. The surface of the
ground within this unroofed inclosure
is divided by raised lines of brick into
numerous oblong cells of uniform size,
much like the parterres of a garden.
The corpse is laid in one of these,
dressed, and left there exposed to the
elements. Vultures aud buzzards
hover over the cemetery in flocks; they
know full well what is taking place in
the desolate spot. Then the mourners
retire to a little distance up the hill
side to watch the birds of prey swoop
down to devour the dead. They have
a reason for thus keenly observing, for
they believe that the destiny of the de
parted soul is revealed by the acts ol
the birds. If they devour the right
eve first, the soul is in Heaven; but ii
the left eve is first attacked, then the
mourners go away sorrowful, for sad
is the doom of their departed friend.
But theGuebres have other and more
cheerful customs than this. Their new
year is called the No Rooz, or New
Day. It comes at the time when the
sun crosses the line in March. Their
traditions state that this festival was
ordained by their great legendary King
Shah Iemsheed. Although most of the
Persians are now Mohammedans, yet
they all accept the period for the com
mencement of the new year established
in their country long ages before the
camel-driver of the desert sent his
armies to force them to his creed: and
thus, at the No Rooz. Guebres and Mus
sulmen alike rejoice. The latter pre
tend that they celebrate the occasion
because it is the birth anniversary of
their Prophet, but this is a mere flimsy
excuse, concocted in order to show
their disdain for the Guebres. But in
a hundred ways the Persians show that
in their celebration of this annual fes
tival they are following the traditions
of their fire-worshiping ancestors.
Nowhere is the new year celebrated
with more mysticism and pomp and
universal rejoicing than in Persia. For
weeks before it arrives the people begin
their preparations for the occasion.
Every one seeks to raise money to pur
chase the new suit of clothes lie is
expected to wear at the time, and the
confectionery and provisions for the
ten days of feasting, as during that
period the shops are mostly closed.
So important is it to be properly pre
pared for the No Rooz, that articles ol
price that are family heirlooms are
often sacrificed in order to provide the
needed money. When the new moon
of that month appears, devout Persians
look to the east, then, covering the
face with their hands, they are slowly
turned until, on withdrawing the hands,
the gleaming sickle of the new moon is
seen directly in front. Perhaps our
superstition about discovering the new
moon over the right shoulder is sug
gested bv this Persian custom. The
eve before No Rooz is also the occasion
j for a curious ceremony, evidently sng
| gested by the mystical meaning the
Guebres attach to fire and light. The
common people leap over heaps ol
burning brushwood laid in rows. It is
possible the heathenish custom o)
“passing children through the tire”
may be a form of this ceremony.
As the hour approaches for the .sun
to cross the line, the Shah assembles in
the great audience-chamber of the
palace, witli the high spiritual and
temporal dignitaries of the Kingdom.
Money is distributed to all for good
luck on the commencement of the new
! yeai*. At the moment the astrologers
announce the No Rooz. the Shah
gravely exclaims, “Mambarek bashed!"
—“May it be propitious to 3011!” A
sacred song of rejoicing is then sung
| by a mollah, or priest: after this each
! courtier, according to liis rank, others
his obeisance to the Shall, and receives
from the royal hand a present.—S. 0.
W. Benjamin, in Youth's Companion
Welsh Degeneracy.
Jn the cast-iron times we live in il
is refreshing to learn that the romantic
practice of serenading still maintains
in the principality. The modern Welsh
lover, however, when he would sum
mon liis mistress to her chamber-lattice
by night, strikes not the guitar
but the window itself with stones
j brought for the purpose. Some times,
too, the wrong person is awakened,
and then the lover must take his chance
of being taken for a burglar and re
ceiving a charge of shot as he retreats.
A reception of this kind was the other
day the unlucky fate of a gallant when
he was paying his midnight addresses
to his Dulcinea, who happened to be a
maid servant. Only thirty shots lodged
in his person: but his subsequent con
duct betrayed sad evidence of Welsh
degeneracy. Instead of eating the
leek and trying his luck some other
evening, when his silent endurance of
past discomfort would have rendered
him a hero in the eyes of the fair, he
meanly sought the aid of the law. But,
happily for the cause of true chivalry,
he lost' his ease: and he certainly de
serves to lose the lady, too.—St. James
Gazette.
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j —A granite state of General Hailed
has been erected in Golden Gate Part
Sau Francisco.
BUZZARD DEN.
A West Virginia Cavern Which Harbors a
Fierce, Sheep-Eating Serpent.
[Milton (W. Va.) Special .1
There is a place on Big Two Mile creek,
about three and a half miles east of this
place, known as “The Buzzard Den.” It
is a large cave in the point of a ridge
which extends down between two
branches to the rock gorge which incases
the creek for nearly its whole length. This
cave is entered by a small doorway, which
extends down an inclined plane for abont
twenty feet, there opening into a large
rugged room, which has not been explored.
On last Sunday morning as Melsear
Braley, a young man of about twenty
year.s, was passing that place en route to
his brother’s, about a mile below on the
creek, he heard a sheep bleating piteously
us If in great distress. Upon going nearer
he found the bleating proceeded from the
mouth of tho cavern. He approached near
er the place, when, upon suddenly turning
tho corner of a huge bowlder, he beheld a
Bight which sent his blood in an arctic
flood up his back and standing his hair cn
end. He beheld tho head of a huge ser
pent protruding from tho entrance of the
cavern with tho hind quarters of a sheep
in his mouth, swallowing it gradually,
while the sheep was emitting its mournful
sound. Brnloy, being a brave young lad,
thought to relieve the sheep, so hurrying
up the hill above the cavern be rolled a
huge bowlder down upon the monster.
This maddened him tosuch an extent that
ho let the sheep go with a terrific snort,
which could be beard a half mile, and
rushed from the cave liko a huge tree. It
was about forty feat long, with large
black and yellow stripes running length
wise of its body. The head and neck were
black and sleek, and the tail for several
feet from the end was of a dull brown
color. Tho sudden appearance of the
monster so frightened the lad that he
rushed for home at a 2:-10 gait, where he
soon arrived out of breath, and told
his experience, whereupon bis father,
elder brother and brother-in-law’, together
with two or three neighbors who had been
summoned, armed with all the fire-arms
that could be had, started for the cavern
prepared to make an invasion of the ene
my’s country.
Upon arriving at the place nothing
could be seen of the snake or the sheep, but
upon approaching the mouth of the cavern
a sickening stench met them, such as that
coming from a maddened snake, and its
fierce blowings and hissings could be
heard. They could do nothing with him,
so had to return to their homes. A search
will be organized to hunt up the monster.
No one knows w’here he came fretn, as this
is his first appearance. The country for
several mile3 around is heavily wooded,
and he may have been around for some
time. It is to be hoped he will soon be
killed.
When a Man Weighs Most.
[Chicago Tribune.]
According to the experiments carried
cut by the Belgian savant Quetelet a man
attains his maximum weight towards his
40th year, and begins to lose it sensibly to
wards )ii» GOth year. A woman, however,
does not attain her maximum weight until
her 50th yea r. The age at which people at
tain their maximum weight and the weight
itself differ in the different classes of so
ciety. In the affluent classes the average
maximum weight is 172 pounds, and is at
tained iit 50 years of age. In the artisan
c-ass it is 154 pounds, attained at 40.
Amongst farm laborers it is 171 pounds,
attained at 60. In the general classes it is
164 pounds, and is reached between forty
and 50 years of age.
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The Pike's Peak of the Senate.
[Washington Letter.!
The late Senator Pike had a seat with
Senators Manderson and Palmer in a short
row of desks in the rear of the regular
tiers of scats, and the jolly Senator Palmer
always referred to the locality as “Pike's
Peak.” A tenderfoot correspondent one
day wrote a sketch of him as “Senator
Pickerell,” and the pun on his name, al
though unintentional on the part of the
man who made il, seemed to amuse him as
much as it did the other Senators.
In Strict t hronologlcal'^rtler.
[St, Paul Herald.]
“What pretty children you have,” said
the new minister to the proud mother of
three little ones. “Ah. my little dear.”
said he. as he took a girl of live on his
lap. “are you the oldest of the family?”
“No, ma'am.” responded the little miss,
with the usual accuracy of childhood, “my
pa's older'n me.”
-.-« • m--■
United States Senator Blackbttrn says
Red Star Cough Cure is safe and reliable.
Price twenty-five cents a bottle
“WncN two pugilists step into the ring
what kind of a musical composition are
they going to perform?” inquired one tray**
eling man of another. “Give it up.” “A
knock turn,” was the reply.
■i ■» • ♦--—
—I have heard with interest that ha
thimble of plain sewing was invented
in the year of 16*4 by a gallant young
Dutch goldsmith of Amsterdam, who
devised the “thumb bell”—for this was
its original name—in order to protect
his sweetheart's thumb tops when she
was engaged with a needle and cotton.
There are thumb thimbles still, and
sailors. I believe, always wear them
The “thumb bell" has, as a rule, how
ever, become a “linger bell:" but in
shape only little change has taken
place in it sinee the loving Hans placed
the first thimble on the thumb of his
lady love.—London Figaro.
-- A Aw
— A new aciress goes upon the cir
cuit wearing 405 diamonds -■> emer
alds. 19 rubies, 14 sapphires, 4 lapis
lazuiLs - oat's eyes and 1 large tur
quoise. After such evidence of emi
nence as this, it would be rash thing
for any one to affirm that this actress
is not head and shoulders above all
pther ladies in her profession. — Chicago
Journal. _^
—It is estimated that the matter
ejected in tiie recent volcanic eruption
in New Zealand amounts to 5,00»\00".
000 cubic yards, weighing6.0CXUHXMXO
tons—not *juit3 a cubic mile, but it
would take more than the National
debt of England to excavate it. It
would take a good workman 1,000,*KK)
years to shovel it into carts, but it was
all done in four hours!
—I. B. Wells, of Red Bluff, Cal., cut
down a sound oak, and four feet irom
the butt, in a little cavitv in the heart
of the tree, were rive small and healthy
frogs. They were a little off in color,
but all right.—.So;* Francisco Ckro t- I
idc.
We would be pleased to know of a man
cr woman who has never had headache or
been subject to constipation. As these
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Can anybody tell why popular subscrip
tions are so very unpopular.—Boston Tran*
script.
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A “calico wrapper”—Dry-goods clerk.
—Xational Meekly.
Weat can be more disagreeable, more
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son who is troubled with catarrh, and has
to keep coughing and clearing his or her
throat of the mucus which drops into it!
Such persons are always to be pitied ii' they
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A tacht is always for sail.—Merchant
Traveler.
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A motto for young lovers—Se-fa ana no
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Bronchitis is cured by frequent small
doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
When is butter like Irish children? When
it is made into little pats.—X. Y. Telegram.
Complexional Defects are eradicated, not
hidden, by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s
Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown,oOc.
A cat-boat is always dangerous when it
squalls.—Lowell Citizen.
ft’ afflicted with Sore Eyes rise Dr. Isaac
Thompson’s EyeWater. Druggists sell it 25c.
A tug is the only thing that has its tows
behind.—St. Paul Herald.
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According to tbe best authorities, originates In a
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by the decomposition of tbe gelatinous and albu
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John Lewis, Torringtou, Conu.
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