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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1878)
40 THE WEST SHORE. October, 1878. HINDOO D0L8 ami RELIGION, The Hindoo! say thai there it one supreme i"l, DOl btlldM tllis one idea. it may, Mrhaps, bt doubted whether they have retained any part of the sys ti 111 of religion which their ancestori derived from Noah. Their priest-. tern h iiiat the supreme being created Brahma ami Vishnu, and also Siva, Ml li 1 if w bom ha hi peculiar attributes M tnlioW, temples anil preposterous fa Mrs. Brahma, Vishnu ami Siva, are reported to have visited the earth under a variety of forms, ami for v arious and puerile purposes. In many I ases, (00, ihe objects for which they had under gone these transformations, ami submit rope for binding incorrigible offenders. His other hands are open. He has a third eye in his forehead. Serpents form Ins ear-rings. His necklace Is formed of human heads. IJ II" I I.. i 1 .1 . 7 i , , . I I i I I . .Ml. insiovv reuiai k, ui.u mvri iloos are divided into two leading sects, the Voithnuvut, or worshippers of Vishnu, and the Soivyus, or followers of Siv a. Brahma has no temples, and no general worship, on account of be ing cursed by l'arvutce, the wife of Siva, for telling a lie. The sect of Vishnu, who is worshipped principally under the forms assumed in the last of his nine incarnations, is most numerous in Bengali but is not without adherents HOW OTHERS SEE US. The Hon. Stephen J. Field, Associ ate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has just completed a circuit through Oregon and Washing ton Territory. He speaks of the land as one of marvelous fertility of soil, adaptation for commerce, and one des tined to a magnificent future. He represents the trip as one that every person should take to appreciate the capacities of this most desirable portion of our domain. The scenery of the Columbia exceeds in picturesque beauty the Hudson, the Rhine, or the more romantic parts of Europe. The land abounds in magnificent forests, in I I VIIV ted to prolonged and humiliating or pamiul l.iixus, .He of the moat vicious ami at) worth klutj, and Mbh rf would oimlcmn a human Ining to contempt r n ignominious punishment. In Itvnj5.il, Brahma hi nasally aeon, ns in the tnfravia, with four face, and1 linn anus; having m h,s ,.,iids ., portion f the Yel oi Hindoo suipiurc, a mon, i rK,My, and a vessel tontaimng Hie water of ablution. Vishnu holds il Ilia light hand ., shell uacd as Itumpet.antl in the other a (JOrt ofqiiait from which irresit,.li fire fanwi w,u.n it m whirled ,, fmgeu 0K (lf Ihe left hand, tj Mf1 of dub, id in Ihe othei a lotus l-iamh. .s,v.,h.,s . one brad a trident, and in (be other a vmisc. HINDOO SUB-G0D8 Ok IDOLS, In the south of India. The Soivyus form, however, is the prevailing sect among the Tumul people." Dyking to a large extent is heing Ions "ii the Samtah Hats, VV, T. Mc- Tg!(Brt takes the lead, dyking 3j0 irrrk 'lu . is! i . .-anusti lias proved to he equal to the Swinomish Hats by equal. I then, in production-;., bushcll to il'. KCN on all dyked land. There arc twenty.four "counties in Washington Territory, containing a l"pulat,o of about Wx,, ;M1(1 u, u. taxable property for .878 i. quoted at t:'"'-'('' "' 379 per head. What other country , .. make an equal Snowing, SIVA. streams filled with fish; the soil is of unexampled fertility, the climate un surpassed for excellence. The I'uget Sound is a splendid inland sea fringed with primeval forests and rich lands, out of which may be carved desirable farms and homes. The whole land is adapted for agricultural and grazing pursuits and abounding in coal. It is a land in which there are no loungcrs.no tramps, no grumbling, no poverty, and no idleness; a land of boundless oppor tunity for remunerative labor, where industry, perseverance, economy, and toil may carve out homes of plenty and abundance. p. ' ive pound potatoes arc raised on Burnt river, Hatter county.