The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 31, 1897 Page: 4 of 6
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By PEBOT BPB8BLL.
[Oopyrlfht, 18BG, b/ the Aathor.l
He tom and routed the satire lying
his doorway, who bad beard
nothing; bat, impelled by au uncon-
trollable feeling of apprebenaioi), Roaa
stole oat on the passage and listened.
Tben he passed on to the door of Lilian.
It stood wide open, and looking in he
saw the apartment in evident confusion.
The bed was in disorder, and evideutly
the occupant had left the room sudden-
ly. As he looked thethreatof the Brah-
man flashed into his memory, and a
cold sweat stood on his forehead. He
felt the bed. It was warm. There was
not n moment to lose. He otmld not
stay to explaiu to Knruejr, for he hoped
by following at oiico to overtake the
unhappy girl, who had in some way
been drawn forth to what he knew not.
Slipping back to bis room, ho thrust in-
to his bosom a very long bladed knife
he carried on occasions of danger, and.
scarcely thinking, but feeling only that
a crisis had come, he went out into the
night and peered into the darkness. The
bungalow stood on an eminence quite
isolated, aud thence only one beaten
path led to the village and temple. If,
as he feared, Lilian was being drawn by
some strange influence thither, he most
be close behind her, although the dark-
ne*s was too thick for him to see aught
ahead, and he hurried down the slope
with torturing thoughts in his brain
Ho had beard, us nil residents in Iudia
among the natives must hear, of the ex-
traordinary occult powers possessed and
exercised by some of the illuminated
priests, and he thrilled to think that if
Lilian were being called forth by some
occult power, then, too, his presence
might be known also. But as be hur-
ried on he grew moro cool and sudden
ly remembered what ho had quite for-
gotten— that Lilian a day or two before
had remarked to him: "Do you know,
David, lately I have had such a strange
feeling. I have actually wanted to visit
the temple and see these foolish cere-
monies again. Is it not silly? But Heel
as if I could not keep ont, I of all peo
pie." Aud she laughed in a way so nat
ural that at the tiuie he had thought
nothing of the matter.
Now, in the darkness of the niglit,
out alone in the deserted road with the
memory of that cry in his brain and the
sudden disappearance of Lilian, the
whole thing ranie back with an over-
powering force. Was it not possible, he
thought, through an overwrought brain,
excited by ov< r •, ressure aud exaltation
of the feelinps, Lilian might become so
possessed wiM the idea that she must
go to the temple that nt last the idea
had produced a somnambulistic effect
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UortUtrj to find so me inntfe of cutranre
nor inclosnres i mo the court of tffj tem-
ple, but as he now worked round the
back of this tower he found himself on
the roof of what he knew to be one of
the pillared balls, and sundry streaks
of red light that came up through crev-
ices and cranks convinced him that
some ceremony must be in progress be-
low. He crept down to the side of the
roof, the nature of tbe structure render-
ing tliis easy, and here the accumula-
tion of soil for centuries had led to the
growth of much vegetation, and in one
instance he found a deep, descending
fissure in the decaying and friable brick-
work, from the bottom of which came
a strong light He determined to en-
large this opening and descend into it
as far ns ho could, and this was by no
means difficult, so that in a short time
ho found himself wedged in the cleft
which occurred in a portion of the slop-
ing roof. Hero immediately resting on
one of the giaut grotesquely carved pil-
lars of the hall below, into which he
could seo very well, he took up a par-
ticularly awkward position.
The 6ight that now met his vision
was one that no western eyes had ever
yet rested on.
The hall was dimly lighted by many
lamps, bringing into bright relief the
many idols around of gold and silver
and brass and even iron. There could be
seen representations of Vishnu in bis
many forms, some of which Ross recog-
nized, whileothers wereentirely strange
to him. Vishnu could be gazed on here
as a fish, a bo^r, a man lion, an awful
imago of absolute ferocity, animated
bynevilish intelligence of sheer destruc-
leasou, and ho ! tm ness, as
ral region into that of
hurried on, determined to search the
whole road aud if necessary rouse the
village.
However near to the truth may have
been the conjecture of Iiuss, it is cer-
tain he was closer on Lilian's track than
be had imagined, for when more than
half way to the temple, of which one
of its corner gopnrams, or towers, was
now in view, faintly outlined against
the dark sky, his eyes, now used to the
gloom, discerned the outline of a white
dress, and lie felt sure it whs Lilian
who was gliding far before him. Ho
quickened his pace, but to his surprise
she did the same, only her motiou con-
tinued to be that of a swift gliding
along rather than walking. She wps
near the tower, ho fancied, and now as
he saw her form sweepiug on thither he
redoubled his speed and once or twice
called out. Whether it was that he had
exhausted himself in the chase or that
the horror of what seemed (o him now
the working of soniu awful, subtle,
wicked power had temporarily paralyzed
hia voice he knew not, but he was con-
scious that bis efforts to call were little
more than a whisper or a gasp, and this,
so common in nightmares, curiously
a dwarf, as Parasurama.
j ar.uod with an ax, as Kalki, with a
| sword and a winged horse, und in many
| other shapes. Before each of these idols
i burned a Final! lamp, and the multipiic-
! ity cf shadows thus created, the strange
; carvings of the pillars, and tbe utterly
inhnmi.il aspect and expression of most
of the faces, sculptured according to Eu-
ropean ideas, combined to produce a ter-
rible impression on Ross' mind, already,
so completely overstrained. But what
were the idols, fierce, frowning, sensual
and often hideously repulsive, as typical
of the worst and foulest of human pas-
sions aud propensities, compared to what
he now suw at the farther end of this
awful hall, where he beheld a recumbent
figure of Vishnu, a stalk surmounted
with the mystical lotus coming out of
his middle and over him for canopy the
bended necks and heads of four motion-
less cobras?
Ross had seen before a representation
of this god resting on Seaha, his snake
of infinity, but the more he looked at
these cobras the m ere convinced was he
that they were real snakes charmed by
some cccult jugglery into the rigidity of
scr; ents of stone. There was a kind of
leveled space at the feet of the recumbent
enough nmrlo him fancy momentarily ! idol> uud this was overlaid with flowers
that he was only dreaming and would
presently wake. The next moment h^1
smiled to himself, even in that terrible
moment, for he distinctly saw the white
figure reach and melt into the gopuram,
and when a few minutes later ho reach-
ed the gateway he found the massive
door closed and immovable, and he
pressed it with all h's might.
CHAPTER V.
What we do in moments of sudden
and overwhelming trial is usually en-
tirely unlike that which we should pnr-
pose to do could we know beforehand
what was going to happen.
When Ross reached the temple door
to find it fast, and yet was absolutely
positive that Lilian or her phantom bad
gone in by that gate, he reeled back-
ward, giddy for the moment and help-
less. Then an inspiration aud an im-
pulse came together, and he resolved
what to do. The gopuram was built on
the pyramidal principle, often acted on
in Hindoo temples, und the wear and
tear of centuries had produced many fis-
sures, wherein flourished many peepuls,
the sacred fig tree of India. One side of
the tow»jr was quite covered with the
luxuriant growth—very much, indeed,
as ivy covers an old wall in European
countries. The peepul is sacred to Vish-
nu, aud those trees were of great antiq-
uity, aud by day Rcss nad often gazed
up at some of them—a singular sight
to heathen eyes—growing literally out
of the upper portions of tbe building,
rooted deeply in mold deposited during
ages in the crevices of the decayed stone-
work.
He had been as a boy a champion
climber in his uative highlands, and he
weut up now in the darkness, feeling
bis way, determined to be doing some-
thing aud hoping to find some mode of
entrance or observation into the temple
itself.
The ascent was much more easy than
be expected, and as lie mounted up be
found tbe masonry more ruinous than
it bad appeared to bo from below in the
daytime. Some of tbe stone* seemed to
crumble beneath his hands and knees,
and he proceeded with tbe greatest care
to avoid knocking dowu some of tbe
grotesque carvings which the exposure
to tbe atmosphere for centuries had in
places reduced to an extremely brittle
and friable condition.
It was Dervous work for Ross, who
had to cautiously feel his way, although
his eyes, now focuscd to the compara-
tive darkness, oould make out much in
outline of tbe building about bim.
Ross, in climbing tbe gopuram, had
originally intended, by dropping down
inside, to find, entrance from tba inte-
While Ross Ftill gazed fascinated and
breathless a slipht sound struck his ear,
tbe sibilant rustle of slight drapery
sweeping over a stone perforce, aud be
kiw coming out lrom the black shadow
of some of the distant columns a Brah-
man, his breast smeared with sacred
ashes, leading by the hand a drooping
figure, in which ho recognized Lilian.
Ross had never seen a somnambulist,
but he felt sure that this unhappy girl
who now allowed herself to be guided
right up the flower strewn couch at the
feet of the fearful idol representing
Vishnu, beneath th" horrible canopy of
cobra heads, was under the influence of
some drng or magnetic influence which
rendered her for the time a helpless au-
tomaton in the hands of the subtle Brah-
man, in whom, as he came more under
the light of the hanging lamps, he rec-
ognized Prohrada. Ross divined all by
a flash of intuition. The revengeful and
greedy priest had somehow drawn Lili-
an to t'«e temple and was now about to
marry her to Vishnu, and doubtless
trusted to his own devilish art to induce
his victim to become a convert r.ad
bring to the temple her fortune. Ross
had once heard of something of the kind,
but had laughed at the thing as impos-
sible. His breath came in pants; his
heart felt chill as he reflected on hie
present impotence to interfere.
He saw, as a man in a dream, tbe
Brahman very gently lay his victim,
who appeared absolutely insensible to
all around her, on tbe floral couch and
then he marked her forehead lightly
with the trident sign of the god at
whose feet she now reclined.
Then Prohrada rose and looked up at
the idol and the row of motionless ser-
pent heads, and a smile spread over bis
face which, had Ross possessed firearms,
would certainly have been bis last
Then, glancing once more at his victim,
be swept out of the hall with lofty crest
and haughty stride, and Ross distinctly
heard tbe slam of a heavy door. The
ball was closed then, and now he re-
membered that it was tbe custom in tbe
morning to anoint tbe idols and to ut-
ter certain mantrams, or prayerp, find
not till then did the god enter into the
idol, which until this ceremony had
been performed was but a senseless
image, eveu to the Hindoo oonoeptiou.
Ross bad come away in such basto
that he bad not taken up bis watch, and
be was therefore ignorant of tbe time
and oould only guess how much might
yet be bis own. What could, what
should, he do? That white draped figure
lay as lifeless on tbe floral couch as tbe
grim idol itself, while there was not a
movement to be seen in the swful row
of cobra heads which farmed that awful
getrlftsd far ibs tiwwa into tfc»
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rigicnty or stone. What could Be done?
Ross thought for a moment at enlarging
tbe crevice and dropping from tbe pillar.
Bat, if h<» did, wbat could be tben ef-
fect? Clearly be oould not ascend with
Lilian, and tben if she woke and re-
gained her senses he feared she might
go mad from the awfnl shock. And bow
could they escape from the hall, and
then how did he know what spy holes
might not exist for some lurking priests
to seo what waa going on inside? No,
no; that would not do. It was yet dark.
Tho best thing clearly for Ross was to
climb back tbe way he had come, run
back to the bungalow and ronso tip some
of their native employees and "rush"
the temple. That wn3 the way he put it
to himself. Ho wasted no time, but was
in an incredibly short timo racing back
to the bungalow, maturing his plans as
ho went. It vras not quito dark, to his
great joy, unci.on arriving ho roused
up Karuey and told him in a few words
all he hart rcca.
His partner, at f.r*t incrcdnloos, was
convinced presently. Imt ho flatly refus-
ed to take viol ant measures. What!
Desecrate a temr k ! And then, no doubt,
the raw a l.i v.ould take care that Lilian
should not lo found. Uh, no, that waa
far too risky a thing. Besides, if they
proved wrcng they might raise tho vil-
lage against thciu, end if they were
right probably the same thing would
happen
Ross lest patirnce. He slapped the
Coward's fs.ee and would have kicked
him, but Obarl.s Kariicy decamped, ter-
rified at his partn( r's-looks. Ro.-s then
called up himself all the Christianized
natives r.nd employees of the plantation
and explained the awful position of their
young mistress. They felt and appreci-
ated the situation infinitely more than
Charles Karney could, eveir had he had
a week to reflect, and, being hastily
armed by Ross, ho at the head of this
impromptu levy went down to tbe tem-
ple at tho double. Ho hoped by this ex-
traordinary promptitude to take tho
Brahmans by eurprise, to induce a panic
and to effect a rcscue by a coup de main.
The plan wa3 well conceived and the ex-
ecution was brilliant. On arriving be-
fore tbo grpuram pate Ross knocked,
or rather thundered, at it, determined
to blow it down with a small bag of
powder if no one came. To his amaze-
ment, after some delay it was opened,
and ly Prohrada himself. He put on a
haughty and defiant air at the sight of
tho gleamring arms of the little company
pressing around Ross and asked what
this outrage meant "It means," said
Ross sternly, "that you must give up
instantly and uninjured the Mem Sahib
Karney. Sho was to be found," be add-
ed, "in the hall of idols at the foot of
Vishnu."
Prohrada heard him to the end with
a 6 arc as tin look, and it was impossible
to tell from his demeanor how startled
he was at the exactitude cf Ross' infor-
mation, who finished by saying, "Re-
fuso and you will be ruined, and your
temple too."
The Brahman paused for breath for
two or three seconds and looked intent
ly on the ground. Then lio raised his
head proudly. "You shall see," he said
haughtily, "how you wrong us. Wait
here a minute." Ross signed to his fol
lowers, and all crowded in, while the
Brahman, without deigning to look be
hind him, immediately disappeared.
Ross felt somew.'iat uncertain what to
da He did not wish to involve himself
and his followers in an attack on the
temple if he could possibly help it, al-
though to the Brahman his attitude had
been one of the utmost resolution. But
a minute or so passed ere they saw Proli
rada returning, leading Lilian by the
hand. She was still evidently insensible.
A few of the flowers that clung still to
her skirts showed that she had been
raised from the couch by the idol. Her
eyes were closed, and she moved stiffly
in obediencc to the priest's guiding
hands, as an automaton might be ex-
pected to do. The trident mark of Visb
uu was on l.er forehead still.
"SeeP'sa i the Brahman. "The mem
sahib bears Vishnu's mark. She strayed
into our ten pie, entered the hall of idols
and lay down :.t the foot of Vishnu.
What could we do? If you must have
her, tal:o* her." Aud his eves added as
bis tcr: slopped abrupt ly, '"Take my
dono< j c.r.j v.iili her too."
R vs did ;:ot rhoose to argue or in-
q-jir-- into details. Lilian was his at
lust, and, closing round, they gently
bore her, still in a somnambulistic con-
dition, to the bungalow.
It was a long while before Lilian
could be made to understand all that
had happened, and it was plain that
her nervous system was terribly shaken.
She shuddered at the sight of a native
and trembled at hearing the native lan-
trua.'je. She was haunted with a fearful
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idea cf being again irresistibly impelled
to enter a Hindoo t emple and became
utterly incapable of continuing her mis-
sionary work.
Ross dissolved his partnership with
Karney. and, having persuaded Lilian
to give him the right to protect her
night and day, they were married, and
it did net require much further persua-
rion on the part of Moss to induce his
wife to leave India and iicr brother, for
whom wbe felt the same contempt as her
husband. Lilian could not explain how
he was irresistibly impelled to walk in
!ier flecp into the temple, but it waa
loug before she could banish from her
uaeutal vision the cobralike eyes of Proh-
rada, the Brahman, and, truth to tell,
naturally human as he was, Ross could
not resist uttering an exclamation of
profound satisfaction when, a few years
later, he read in a newspaper that Proh-
rada had been igiiominiously hanged for
bis share in one of the fell massacres cf
the Indian mutiny.
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THE STATE of TEXAS.
FactB and figures to the think-
ing man convey a better idea of a
country than word painting can,
so we give some solid facts for
those who may want to know
something about the empire state.
Population in 18«0. . 2,235,523
ketiuiatod population low 3,000,000
xnr. In square miles 274,360
lyOtigtli lu miles 835
Ereadth In alles 750
Settled id 1645
iuoependbccc declared 1886
Admitted into the anion 1845
ari a in acres 174,586,S41>
icroe In tlmDered landc 48,000,000
aciob In mineral land 20,000,000
A.cro« ofpubllc school lands 50,000,000
Bales of cotton raised, 1S90 2,000,000
Bushels of corn raised, 1380 £6,500,001
Rushals of oats raised, 1890 11,750,000
Bushels of wheat raised, 1S90 C.OOO.OtX
Miles of railway 10,10".
llead of lire stock 15.000,001
Pounds of wool raised 2»,000,00c
raxvbie values {734,009,001
Vaiue form products IS5,000,00<.
Value lire stock 166,000,001
Value einorted stock 11,000,OOt
Value exported bides 6,000,Oct
Value exported wool 4,000,00t
Value free school fund, etc 150,000,000
State university fund 14,000,000
Valaeo* railway* SOO.OOO.'KW
Business transacted, 1890 300,000,000
PrMic school expense. 18K) 2,500,000
Cos. of capitol Duildlsff 4,000,000
Number ot counties in Texas 24t
Annual taxes collected 4,000,000
Increased manufactures, 1890 0,000,000
Average amount In treasury 1.600,000
HER FEOPLE.
Texas is a cosmopolitan state,
but native Americans predomin-
ate. The negro population of the
6tate is small compared to other
southern states and the "race
problem'T cuts no figure here. The
state is settled largely with immi-
grants from different parte of the
Union, those from the southern
and western states predominating.
LAWS,
The laws of Texas are made for
her own people and are the most
liberal, equitable and just any-
where.
HOMESTEAD LAWH
Are the most liberal, and her col-
lection laws the most lenient to be
found in any state in the Union.
These laws not only provide
against misfortune, but give the
family a guarantee against waste
fuljextravagance and bad manage
ment on the part of the husband.
The following extracts from the
state constitution will give an idea
of the protection which the state
throws around a family:
"Art. 17, Sec. 49. The legisla-
ture shall have power, and it shall
be its duty, to protect by law from
forced sale a certain portion of the
personal property of all heads of
families, and also of unmarried
adults, male and female.
TAXATION
Is light, our state ad valoruin tax
is now 20 cents on the $100, and
our state school tax is 18 cents
on the $100. County taxes do not
often reach 50 cents on the §100.
LAND.
Improved lands are worth from
#10 to $50 per acre.
Our lands "produce a greater va-
riety of crops than can be found in
almost any other county. They
have the rare advantage of bring-
ing both wheat and cotton crops—
something not found in many
places.
EOAD8.
Good roads reach into every sec-
tion of the county and substantial
bridges span all streams.
EDUCATION.
We have ninety public schools
in the county ontside the city of
Gainesville—eighty-six white and
four colored. These schools run
on an average of six month each
year.
"Sec. 50.—The homestead of a
family shall be and is hereby pro-
tected from forced sale for pay-
ment of all debts except for the
purchase of money, the taxes due
thereon, or for work and material
used in constructing improve
ments thereon, and in this last
case only when the work and ma-
terial are contracted for in writ-
tang, with the consent of the wife
given in the same manner as is
required in making a sale and
conveyance of the homestead; nor
shall the owner, if a married man,
sell the homestead without the
consent of the wife given in such
manner as may be prescribed by
law
"No mortgage trust, deed or
other lien on the homestead shall
ever be valid, except for the pur-
chase money thereof, improve-
ments made thereon as hereinbe-
fore provided, whether such mort-
gage or trust deed or other lien
shall have been ereated by the hus-
band alone or together with his
wife; and all pretended sales of
the homestead involving any con-
dition ol defeasance shall be; void.
"Sec. 51.The homestead nat in a
town or city, shall consist of not
more than 200 acres ol land, which
may be in one or more parcels,
with the improvements thereon;
the homestead in a city, town or
village shall oonsist of a lot or
lots not to exceed in value $5000
at the time of their designation as
a homestead withont reference to
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cooke county.
Cooke is one of the northern tier
of counties and is separated from
the beautiful Indian Territory on
the north by Red river.
It is a splendid farming section
and is also well adapted to stock-
raising.
The soil of
equally divided black waxey, san-
dy and red sandy. About one-
half the county is timber and the
balance prairie with streams run-
ning through it, on which can be
found excellent timber aud water
Ked river borders tne county on
he north for sixty miles.
Elm fork of the Trinity, Clear
oreek and other streams How
through it.
The county has an area of 933
square miles, equal to 597,120
acres.
It had in 1890 a population of
'24,602.
It now has a population of per-
haps 30,000.
railroad*.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad runs through the county
from east to west and the great
Santa Fe system runs through
fron north to south.
A road is surveyed and will soon
be built from Gainesville north-
east to the coal mines at McAles
ter, I. T.
GAINESVILLE,
The county site, is located on tht
Elm fork of the Trinity, six inilee
south of Red river. It has a popu-
lation of about 10,000, and is a
busy, hustling, growing place. It
has eleven churches, six splendid
brick school houses, two good
flouring mills, an ice factory, an
iron foundry, the shops of the
Sjfcnta Fe railroad, a cotton com-
press, a broom factory, soap fac-
tory, cotton seed oil mills,
pressed brick works turning
ont splendid brick, four
newspapers, three banks with a
capital and surplus of $650,000,
and various other enterprises.
It is a live place and men with
money or muscle can do no better
than to cast their lots here.
THE WAGES
of the laboring man, whether mar-
ried or not, are as sacred its the
household. j
Section 28 of Art. 16 of the con-
stitution reads: "No current
wages for personal service shall
ever lie subject to garnishment."
The statutes exempt the follow-
ing personal property from forced
sale:
"All household and kitchen fur-
niture. All implements of hue
i bandry. All tools, apparatus and
the county is about books belonging to any trade o:
profession. The family library
and all family portraits and pic-
tures. Five milk cows and their
calves. Two yoke of work oxen,
with necessary yokes and chains.
Two horses and one wagjn. One
carriage or buggy. One gun.
Twenty head of sheep. All sad-
dles, bridles and harness necessary
for use of the family. All pro-
visions and forage on hand for
home consumption, and all current
wages for pers >ual services
To all single persons are re-
served: "All wearing appaiel, all
tools, apparatus and books be-
longing to any trade or profession
One horse, saddle and bridle. All
current Mages for personal ser-
vices."
Wherever the people's homes
are safe there will patriots be
found. Hence tramps and beggara
are not so common among us as io
other countries.
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The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 31, 1897, newspaper, January 31, 1897; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth503276/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.