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CHUMLA, THE " BRIDE
OF FLOWERS
,By Michael Gifi’crd White.
fifm???‘l‘??“f?1f1”i°‘i"sz‘s‘fi'f'f‘i'fi‘
the Kadava Kumbis in the province
of Gujarat, there once dwelt a young
girl by the name of Chumlzt Somali,
who, having arrived at the mature agé
of 12 summers, was considered by her
parents to have remained even too
long without a. husband, especially as
they had in View a most eligible party
-——a venerable rajah reputed to possess
- one lac of rupees.
Chumla was a tall, gracefully formed
5 girl, not Without decided pretensions
xto good looks, a fact which young
l Motilal, the poor village brazier, had
discovered to his cost; for on pre-
suming to address Chumla’s parents
with matrimonial intent, his advances
were received not only with scorn but
with blows. “Chumla marry such a
one, when the noble rajah had deigned
to look with favor in her direction!”
* scornfully ejaculated that young ladies’
parents. “It was more than presumpl
tion; it was an insult. Beat the fel-
low well if he dares to show his face
again.”
As to what Chumla herself thought
about a matter in which she was so
deeply concerned, that was, of course,
of no consequence. She would give her
hand first and then, as the case might
be, her heart afterwards. Such had
been the custom of her people for ages
, reaching back into the days of which
" even legends do not speak. IIcr opin-
ion was neither given nor sOught.
It was, in fact, all well ”arranged.
IN a village of the Eindoo tribe of,
i
- The rajah having made inquiry into
the purity of Chumla’s caste, which he
found to be entirely satisfactory, an-
nounced that he was quite ready to
make her his wife in the ensuing month
of May, it being an auspicious time of
the year. ' ' '
It was then that a serious obstacle
first presented itself to the Somans.
They were not rich, and feared the ex-
pense of the wedding—the fine clothes,
jewels and trinkets with which Chum-
, la must be adorned as a dowry befit-
ting her new station.
Now, for just such a. contingency as,
this the Kadava Kumbis have a custom
by which the bride-elect may be first
married either to another person upon
the distinct understanding that she
will be released or divorced immediate-
ly afterwards, or to a bouquet of flow—
ers, which, being subsequently cast
‘ into a. ditch, is presumed to die; in
either case the girl, becoming a widow
in the eyes of their law, goes forth upon
her second marriage without adorn-
ment or display.
Much disturbedtover the matter, the
. Somans sought the rajah, explaining
their difficulty, when the latter, pre-
sumably not caring about the few
ihings Chumla might bring as her
dowry, so far fell in with their views
, that he consented to her being mar-
ried first of all to a bouquet. It would
' appear that he was sufficiently jealous
of his future wife to object- to her be—
ing married, even temporarily, to an-
other man. -
Over-joyed that the rajuh had so read-
ily acquiesced in their plans, the So-
maus thereupon, with due form and
ceremony, married their daughter to a
bouquet of flowers culled from the
rajuh's garden, and which they sub—
sequently cast into a ditch at the foot
of their compound.
Now. the poor Motilal, though driven
all? with abuse and blows, had by no
means relinquished all hope of obtain-
ing the hand of Cliumla, but having ob-
served all that was going on in the
Soman household from a safe distance,
be fully comprehended that if he pur-
poscd acting further in'the matter he
must do so quickly. Then, as he watched
the casting away of the bouquet im-
‘ personating a husband for Chumla, an -~
idea as bright as the blossoms ~of the
hibiscus bush behind which he was
screening himself occurred to him.
\Vaiting patiently until the bridal
party had returned into the house, he
stealthily crept forth, and gathering up
the discarded flowers, quickly bore
them off into the jungle.
For some time Motilal searched about
in the forest until, having found a. se-
puvrpose he had in mind, he proceeded to
clear a patch of ground. Then, having
carefully trimmed off the sprigs of the
bouquet as would be likely to take root,
be. planted them in four little rows, wa-
tered them from a brook near by, and
covered them over with a trellis work of
small branches and leaves to protect
them from the rays of the sun or the
feet of any chance animals. This done,
he returned home, screening his path
as he went. ’ ‘
That night the Somans were in high
spirits, for they felt confident of the re-
marriage of their daughter to the rich
old rajah atan early date, and with lit-
tle’ expense; but their spirits were low
in comparison to those of Motilal three
days later, for in the taking root of the
majority of his plants he beheld the suc-
cess of his plan.
“She can never marry the old rajah
now,” he cried, as he danced with joy
round the patch. “She can never marry
live, and I alone know where they are.
Chumla shall be my wife yet.” Then he
spent two days within himself solving
the problemvhow further to act.
Shortly a strange rumor began tacir-
culate in the village to the effect that
the flowers to which Chuinla, the aili-
anced' wife of the rajah, had been mar-
ried, were not dead at all, but had been
carried away by spirits into the jungle.
l where they had been planted and were
growing apace; and that as a conse-
quence she .was by no means alwidow.
At first both the rajah and Chumla's
parents affected to laugh at the report,
until a particular cutting left one night
at the f ormcr's door put a different.
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I
eluded spot apparently suitable to the »
anyone as long as all these husbands .
I
brought consternation into the Somali
household.
‘ It appeared that among the flowers
culled for the. bouquet out of the rajah’s
garden was the blossom of a. plant not
found it: that neighborhood, but. from
which it would seem the cutting had
been taken, until, on the plant being
' [closely examined, it was found that ii
bore no signs of a recent bereavement
Then the rajah, believing that there
might be some truth in the report, de-
termined, if possible, to set the matter
at rest by a search of the jungle in the
vicinity of the Soman bungalow, at the
same time privately making up his
mind that whether the plant were found
alive or not he would refer the whole
matter to a, Brahmin of great astrolog-
ical reputation, in order to decide if it
savored of enchautment, because in
that event nothing in all Hindustan
would induce him to marry Chumla.
You see, the rajah, like many people
elsewhere, was inclined to be supersti-
tious. .
So, accompanied by his servants, the
rajah set out to search for the flower,
but the party had not proceeded far
when, a cat in hot pursuit of a bird
sprang directly across their path.
The rajah paused for a moment, as
that was an unlucky sign—a cat cross-
ing the path in connection with matri—
mony; but at length, proceeding, they
had not gone far when a cobra glided
out from the bush and disappeared on
the opposite side in the rank vegeta-.
tion.
At this second ill omen the rajah‘halt—
ed abruptly and was debating the ad-
visability of a hasty retreat, when the
appearance of a fox a. short distance
ahead settled all doubts, and sent the
party home in great expedition.
With three such ill omens, a cat, a
snake and a fox, taken in conjunction
with the mystery concerning the flow-
ers, the rajah could not be expected to
carry out his part in the marriage with
Chumla, perhaps'no very great hard—
ship when it is considered that he had
already six other wives. So it was
promptly broken oif, with the conse-
quences falling upon the not unusual
head.
Disappointed and enraged, the whole
Soman family, parents, uncles, broth-
ers, and sisters, set to work to abuse
and beat the unfortunate Chumla.
“Unlucky creature!” they cried.
“You have disgraced us all. You are
bewitchcd; but we can, at least, beat
the devils out of you.” '
Poor Chumla’s appeals for mercy for—
tunately did not fall entirely upon un-
sympathetic ears. Young Motilal, near
by, appeared upon the scene just in
time to receive a blow intended for her.
“Why do you beat her thus?" he dc-
manded. .
“Because she is bewitchcd,” replied
one of the uncles. “She was to have
married the great rajah, but now he
will not have her on account of bad
omens. She is disgraced thereby in all'
men’s eyes, and we shall never be able
to marry her. But we suspect, rascal,
that you know something of this,” and
he thrcafeningly flourished the stick
ovcr youn" Motilalls head.
“I do know something,” boldly re-
tOrted the other. “I know it is a fact
that her flower husbands live."
“Oh, you do!" came a chorus of re-
joinders. “Where are they, then?”
“That I shall not tell you, unless—”
“Unless?”
_ “Unless she is promised to me as a
wife. Then I will kill all the flowers
and marry her. I alone know where
they are. See the proof?" and he held
up a sprig of the rajah’s plant.
“Take her, by all means," cried
Chumla’s’father, “and may she bring
for you better fortune than she has
brought us, the unlucky daughter of
evil.” .
So Motilal rooted up all of Clrumla's
husbands, and exchanged them for the
person of Chumla herself—a. bargain
which, so far as' anyone knows, he never
repented, for the youthful Hindu maid,
on this occasion at least, gave not only
her hand, but her heart—Atlanta. Con-
stitution.
A Sabbath Breaker. .-
We find in a report on Sabbath ob-
servance, just presented to the free
presbytery of Lorne by Rev. Mr. Mac-
leod, of Oban, this statement: “The
queen and royal family, it is deeply to
be deplored, have not shown a happy
example to the people in the matter of
Sabbath observance. Her majesty’s re-
cent journey to France and arrival
there on a Sabbath day must have been
a grief to every enlightened Christian
subject of her own and pernicious in its
influence over the giddy and godless
French.”—VVestminster Gazette.
How He Manages Her.
“How is it that ydur wife is so tract—
0
' able ‘3”
complexion upon the" -matter and,
“Why, I told her when we were mar-
ried that she coulddq just exactly as”
she pleased, and so of course she finds
no pleasure in doingit.";Chicago host
”View
will".
STEEL WAGON TRACK.
The One Tested by the Minnesota Ex-
periment Station ll Not an Un-
qualified Success.
MM
The steel track at the Minnesota. ex-
periment station is a. portion of the
track prepared by the office of road in-‘
quiry of the department of agriculture
for the \Omaha exposition last year. The
steel rails, a, are eight inches wide, wit-11
one-half inch flange, e, at the outer
edge, and 30 feet long. They are made
of channel steel, and to the channel
steQI are bolted L-shaped strips of steel,
b, which extend outward. There are 110‘
timbers used. The channel, 0, should
be filled with cement before laying.
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(«on 775
CROSS SECTION OF STEEL TRACK.
This gives a base for each rail to rest
upon a little over a foot wide. The rails
are tied together every eight or ten feet
by means-of bars or cross ties, d, which
are bolted to the bottoms of the rails.
This road has been tried but little. It
was laid only a month or so before the
ground froze last- fall. The first experi-
ment of trying it with dirt or gravel
surfacing material showed that it was
not a success, as the wheels of the
wagon would run off the track and cut
into the gravel or dirt. The edges of the
rails being smooth, [the wheels would
not come back onto the track readily.
Broken stone and cobble stones were
then used and helped to return the
wheels to the track, these stones being
laid both inside and 6utside of each rail,
as shown at g.
The steel would probably cost $2,500
per mile. It would work much, better
with macadam between'the tracks and
for a foot or two on either side. This
would bring the cost up to the cost of
macadam. It may be that the rails can
be made in some different form that
will hold the wheels on the track, and so
constructed that the wheels will easily
come back on to the track when in a
rut beside the rails, though it is quite
likely that stone will be necessary to-ac-
complish this last. —— Orange Judd
Farmer.
WHAT AILED THE SAW.
An Old Story Applied to Road om.
‘ cials \Vho Know Nothing About
Their Business.
Several townships in the vicinity of
Laconia, N. IL, are said to be dissatis—
fied with the new system of maintain-
ing the highways and wish to go back
to the old highway district system.
The Laconia Democrat says the new
system is all right and adds: “Some of
the towns near here are loud in their de-
nunciations 0f the present law, but
come to investigate it is either a case
where no money is raised or like the
man and the saw. A carpenter went to
a professional saw-filer with a hand
saw 1'0 be fixed; the professional joint-
czl, set it and filed it. In a short time the
carpenter came back and said he: ‘This
saw don‘t go right.‘ The old filer jointa
ed it again and filed it as well as he
could. The next morning the carpenter
came back with the saw, and in the
same language: ‘This saw don’t. go
right.’ The professional took it, put on
his glasses and sawed off several pieces
of timber and it out true and very nice«
ly. Hehanded it back to the man and
said he: ‘The trouble is not so much
,with the saw as the durned fool that
runs it.’ therc the law does not work
right it is not the fault of the lawbut
the men that run it; a thousand times
rather shift officers than vote to go
back."
Trump and Millionaire.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, 0., in a re
cent article takes the ground that the
idle tramp and the idle millionaire
should each contribute to the welfare
of the country. He thinks that the
capitalist should invest some of his
money in road building and the idle
Vagabond should. contribute Some of
his time and strength. These services,
in his opinion, would be as patriotic
and as worthy of the love of men as to
risk one‘s lift} ,i,9.l35lt$l?-.._._ ..
It the Won-law“ nix-dress.
. A French naturalist asserts that if
the world should become birdless man
could not inhabit it after nine years’
time, in spite of all the sprays and poi-
sous that could be manufactured for
the destruction of insects. The bugs
and slugs would simply cut up our or-
shards and crops.
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People who have reached an advanced a e
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When Vinol ii. taken. this is easily done
because of its digestive promoting qualities.
The stomach will be enabled with the least
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FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
grains at 9.36, 11:40 a. m., 1.11,‘3.04, 4.07,
o.33,6.41,8.11,10.20 p. m. Express trains
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9.58, 10.35, 11.35. (local) 3.. m. 12.47
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FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST--
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