Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — Indifferent to Smallpox. [ARTICLE]

Indifferent to Smallpox.

While traveling in India, says a writer, my attendant came to my room one morning with my early coffee and toast. “Master got medicine?” he asked. “No,” was the reply. “Why, Sammy?” “My wife got smallpox, sahib.” He said it in a most cool, indifferent manner, as if the fact that his wife having the smallpox was the most commonplace thing in the world. That morning’s lunch went to feed the hundreds bf Bengal crows and kites that hover around the hotel. If a man never knew how to swear before going to India he will soon learn after a week’s experience with Hindoo servants. “There’s nothing like that.” “Yes there is,” responded the other. “A drink of cool well water from the old oaken bucket that hangs in my father’s well.” Woodworth went back to the printing office, sat down at a desk and began to write, and in the course of the afternoon finished the song. The music is by Klallmark, and the melody is that written for “Araby’s Daughter.” Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the only States which cling to the annual election of their Governors.;