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HEATHcN FESTIVAL IN mil OFF

VIVIDLY DESCRIBED BY MISS MINNIE HOUCK, WHO WENT THERE AS A MISSION­

ARY LAST YEAR.

HUNDRED THOUSAND ATTEND

Traveled in Ox-Carts With Roadway Crowded With Pilgrims Going to Attend the Annual

Event—Worship of Idols By the Heathen.

The following letter from Miss Minnie Houek, who went last year as a missionary to India, will be read with interest by Hancock county people: "Do you wonder what a mela is? It is a heathen festival. They are very common in India. Thousands of people attend them and worship their gods. This 'mela' (pronounced mayla) which we attended took place the first week in April and lasted several days. By actual government count it has often been attended by 400,000 people. "Six miles from Fyzabad is the town of Ajodhya through which flows the Gogra River the Hindus call this a sacred river and from all over India pilgrims come to bathe in the river, thinking by this to wash away their sins. They also worship in the many idol temples in Ajodhya. This is said to be the birthplace of the idol Rama. "We wanted to visit this mela, knowing that wo would have many opportunities of talking with the people and telling them of the true God whom we worship. We decided to go and take with us several Indian Christians who had been saved from just such a life of heathendom. "When Pandit a llamabai was a little girl she spent a year with her parents at Ajodhya worshipping at the idol shrines. Then when she heard of the true God and believed in Him, she at once began to show the people the true way of salvation. She gathered about her the thousands of orphans whom she has trained and educated in the right way. Now these same young people are preaching the Gospel to their own people, and the workers who went with us to the mela were .a few from among that number. "Wc stark-d from Fyzabad about p. m.. to avoid the intense heat of the mid-day sun. Our tonga cart with its thick cover, was large "enough to accommodate a tent, and provisions for the journey. It was •drawn by two sturdy oxen, which were frequently reminded of their •slow gait by a sharp goad in the hands of the driver, but it made little impression on them, for they seldom went out of a walk, so we had plenty of time to watch the crowds of pilgrims who were all going to Ajodhya some were in ox carts, some were on horse back, very many were walking and carrying their sandals in their hands, a few others on elephants and camels. Most of them carried buckets and often stopped to rest under the many large trees by a wayside well, where they used their buckets for drawing water, for their caste will not permit them ft) drink from a bucket owned by another caste. "We saw many monkeys along the road, the people also worship these they never hurt or kill a monkey, for they think that the departed spirit of their dead ancestors might, be in the monkey. I have not yet learned whether they accept the Darwinian theory about the monkey or not. "There were numerous shops like open stalls, where they sold sweet meats, fruits, vegetables and many kinds of trinkets. The people are very fond of adornment, and I have been told they would actually do without something to eat in order to save up a few pice with which to buy bangles or rings to wear in their ears, nose, arms, ankles and toes. I saw a little boy so loaded with bracelets and anklets that they seemed to be quite a burden to him in walking. "The street sprinklers which we saw were quite unlike those in

America. Some men carried lirg leather pouches, the dried skins which still bore the. shape of the animal. These they filled with water and sprinkled the road, some carrying large earthen water pots and a few had iron cylinders which the men pushed. Labor is so cheap in India that the men and women do the work which in many other places is done by beasts of burden. "At last we have reached the river and such crowds meet our view. The Gogra river is scarcely a mile ^vide now, so we cross on a bridge

of boats, but in the rainy season it is over four miles wide and ftie people cross in steamboats. "The sun has dropped in the western horizon, and soon it is dark for there is little twilight in Oriental lands. We pitch our tent and encamp on the opposite side of the river. The toll gates are closed for the night and now all is quiet. How strange it seems. Truly we are strangers in a strange land, but as we look away to the sky above the same friendly stars meet our gaze —but such countless numbers. The brilliancy and beauty of the heavens in the far cast can scarcely be described. The atmosphere is clear and such countless numbers of stars are visible. "The people who have come to worship have brought with them only a few articles of clothing to change in bathing, and those who have 110 covering under which to sleep lie here and there upon the ground with only the starry canopy above. The chowkidars, or watehmen, are stationed at intervals to call out their signals during the night wratches. "The Hindus are very devout. Early in the morning before the sun is up they are ready to bailie in the stream before eating their food. Wc were aroused by the babel of voices all about us, so not wishing to be outdone in spiritual devotion by the heathen about u§, we were up early, too, and went to the river bank to watch the vast crowd of people come and go. "Let me give you a little mental picture of what we saw. It is now 6 o'clock, the sun is just rising and as its bright rays light up the idol temples just across the river, the bridge of boats is literally crowded with people, both coming and going some have already bathed and are on their wTay homeward, others in ever increasing numbers are going across the bridge, and the gay clothing of both men and women only enhance the natural coloring of the scene. On both sides of the river for some distance, the people are bathing and even drinking of the river water thus they hope to get forgiveness of their sins. Be it said, however, to the credit of the Hindus, they most always bathe and scour their teeth before eating food, but I could see no virtue in bathing in such a stream, where the dead bodies of many who have died of the plague have been thrown. "Flowers are also used in their worship. They first offer them to the idols in the temples, then bring them and cast thern upon the r'iTvr. We told some of the people that we thought it was yry wrong to take the beautiful (lowers which God had made and oiler them to the idols. 'Wear the rivers brink, and for some distance up the road sit the sadhus, or holy men. Their faces are covered with ashes, their long lair is done up in an immense roll on top of their heads, and only a loin cloth wrapped about their bodies. They do not beg, but the people think it is their duty to give them money or grains of various kinds, and these are thrown upon a large cloth placed in front of the men. As wc walked up the road I saw one man with his body covered with yellow paint and about him on either side were four small fires burning. Here he remained all through the heat of the day, and no doubt the people thought him quite holy. The Hindus' idea of salvation is not through the atoning blood of Jesus, as we believe, but by doing penance, giving alms, taking long pilgrimages, performing funeral ceremonies for the dead and also by inflicting upon themselves all kinds of torture. "We had many opportunities of talking with the people as they gathered about our tent. We sang them Christian songs in their own language and told them of a wonderful book called the Bible, which would tell them the true way of salvation. Our Indian Christians sold several hundreds of Bibles. We did not give them away, for we knew they would appreciate far more that which would cost them a little, if only a few pice. "The Gogra river is the dividing line of Busti District, in which there are two or three million people and not a missionary. We know that these Bibles would be carried in many homes where there would be no one, only the Book, to teach them of the better way. "All day long, and for two succeeding days, the people were passing on the road. As we stood and watched them we felt a tender love and compassion creep into our hearts for they were as sheep not having any shepherd. They are going back to their homes, many of them never having heard of the

Christian's God going back with the same hopeless, helpless expression on their faces, with no light to brighten their pathway ./* "We shall never forget diit first visit to a mela. We have not been able to describe even the half of

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, L«ll

A Welcome Change

Smoke curling up from the farmhouse chimney as the men are coming in from the fields, gives a pretty suggestion of a good supper and a comfortable home. But it also means a hot, tired woman, working hard over a blazing fire.

it, but perhaps you have gained a faint idea of how some people live on the other side of the world. May it also bring to you an earnest desire to send the light to darkened hearts who are tired of the old paths and are eager to learn of a better way. "Sincerely yours, "Minnie L. Houek."

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TO E FLAG DAT

June 14th Set Apart as Day to Honor Stars and Stripes—To Teach Patriotism to the Young.

Circulars are being sent out asking for a general observance of Flag Day, on June 111,11, by the National Flag Association. The appeal sent out to the people of the nation is in part as follows: "All American citizens are again earnestly invited to join in the public recognition of the birthday of the emblem of our nationality. In many'of the states, pursuant to law, the public schools, and also voluntarily in private schools, exercises will be conducted in celebration of Flag Day. Let us extend this practice. Teach the story of the tlag, what it represents, and have the young people pledge their fealty and loyalty to it. "On the 14th day of June, 1777, Congress enacted: 'That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white and that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.' The number of the stripes having been increased by the admission of new states, the possibilities of the nation's future development dawned upon the fathers, the original thirteen stripes were unchangeably restored by act of Congress on April 4, 1818, when it was enacted: That from and after the fourth day of July, next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field, and that on the admission of a new state into the union one star be added to the union of the flag and such addition take effect on the Fourth of

July next, succeeding such admission.' "Since the struggle of 1861-1865 the flag has become the symbol of a mighty nation. It has been carried to the utmost part of the earth, carrying liberty wherever it has been thrown to the breeze. "The Stars and Stripes, within the recent past, have come to possess new beauty for friendly eyes and new terror for the foes of liberty."

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SPECIAL FINDING OF LAW AND FACTS

Special Judge L. V. Eubank Holds

No Fraud in Appointment of

Gas Company Receiver.

Special Judge Lewis V. Eubank rendered his finding of the facts and conclusions of law in the Citizens' Gas Company receiver case, of this city Friday.

The case has been in the courts for three years or more. When the gas began to give out a resolution was adopted by the directors to manufacture and furnish artificial gas and an assessment was made on each share of stock of $25 for this purpose. No subscription was paid, or only a small part of it, and the oilicers had a receiver appointed before Special Judge George Wr. Galvin, who later held that the stockholders could not come in and defend.

The stockholders appealed to.the Supreme Court, where it was held that they could defend against the appointment of a receiver. A charge of fraud in securing the appointment of the receiver was made in the defense of the stockholders, and Lewis V. Eubank was appointed special judge. In his special finding of facts and conclusions of law, he held that there wras no fraud in the receiver appointment. His finding is quite lengthy, and reviews the entire procedure from the time of the first resolution to manufacture artificial gas.

After stating his finding of facts, Judge Eubank stated his conclusions of law as foliowrs: 1. That the court had jurisdiction of this suit as it was brought to obtain the appointment of a receiver and had jurisdiction to appoint the receiver at the time the receiver, Christian Kirkpatrick, was appointed herein, on June 15, 1907. 2. That no fraud wras practiced procure the appointment of said receiver. 3. That the appointment of said receiver was valid and lawful.

That no sufficient cause has been shown for setting aside the appointment of said receiver. 5. That the intervening petitioners, Edmund P. Thayer et al. are not entitled to recover anything on their intervening petition herein. 6. That the purchase of real estate, made by the directors of the Citizens' Gas, Oil and Water Company of Greenfield, Indiana, on its behalf, on April 18, 1907, was valid apd was within their power and authority as such directors. 7. That cross-complainants, Ed mund P. Thayer et al. are not en titled to recover anything as against Charles E. Kinder et al. and defendants to said cross-complaint. 8. That the defendants named as such in the intervening petition of Edmund P. Thayer et al, are entitled to recover their costs from said intervening petitioners. 9. That the defendants named as such in the cross-complaint of the cross complainants, Edmund P.

Thayer et al are entitled to recover their costs l'rom said cross-com-plainants.

In Three Weeks After Tree Blooms Grafted Branch Bears Fruit.

John Wray brought some fine ripe cherries to the Reporter odice today. He does not know the variety or name of the cherry, but he purchased the tree of a New York Nursery many years ago. The tree is very large. The most interesting feature about the tree is that the cherries are ripe and ready to be picked in three weeks from the time the tree is in bloom. Mr. Wray has grafted a branch from this tree into a plum tree which is full of cherries this year.

Mr. Wray has some small seeding peach trees from four to five feet high, which have nice peaches on them. Mr. Wrray says the June cherries are falling off. Mr. Wray thinks he will have 100 bushels of peaches this year and he thinks they may reach 150 bushels.

.Mrs. Cora Holiday Able to Be Removed From the Brunei* Sanitarium.

Mrs. Cora Holiday, who was shot twice a week ago by her husband, John Holiday, has recovered sufficiently to be removed from the sanitarium of Dr. C. K. Bruner in this city to her home near Maple Valley. While one bullet pierced her neck and another both arms, Mrs. Holiday recovered rapidly from the first, and it is thought she will be entirely out of danger from the wounds in a few days.

UNBIDDEN VISITORS ARE A NUISANCE.

Owen Griffith, who lives just north of Philadelphia, and whose farm lies on both sides of Sugar creek, including the Griffith "Swimming Hole," has been greatly annoyed and damaged by fishermen and swimmers. Last Thursday a crowd visited his farm and pulled out a gate post which was three feet in the ground in order that they might drive into the pasture. This gate is on the highway and the pulling of the post and leaving the gate open made it possible for lis stock to go into the highway and stray away.

Mr. Griffith has been annoyed a reat deal by this class of visitors and has determined to endure it no longer. In the future all persons caught fishing or swimming along the creek on his farm without his permission will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He desires everybody to take notice because he intends to do just what he says he will.

Deafness Cannot Be Cure& by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition. hearing will be destroyed forever nine casea out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.

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GOOD FLOW OF GAS OUT OF WATER WELL.

Muncie, Ind., May 26.—While Israel Ketterman was working about a water well on his farm, east of here, he was surprised to see a stream of water shoot several feet high from the well, and on investigation found that it has turned into a natural gas well. He is making preparations to have the gas piped into his home and to the farm buildings to be used as fuel and for illumination. It is believed that in some way the gas from an abandoned oil or gas well near has connected with the water well.

THE DEATH ROLL.

Caleb Jeffers, age 57 years, died Thursday afternoon at his home, northwest of Gem. Funeral Sunday.

Robert Swords, age 72, died on Thursday evening at 10:30 o'clock at his homo north of the city on the /Frank Boots farm. Funeral Sunday, Oak S. Morrison, undertaker.

Robert McConnell, northvVest of the city, was painfully burned with hot linseed oil. He was soaking his buggy wheels in the scalding oil when it upset, splashing over his face, neck and arms. While his burns are painful, it is thought they will not prove dangerous. Dr. Milo Gibbs was called and dressed his injuries.

"Dr. Miles' Nervine Completely Cured Our Little Boy of Fits."

A family can suffer no greater affliction than to have a child subject to fits or epilepsy. Many a father or mother would give their all to restore such a child to health. "I am heartily glad to tell you of our little boy who was completely cured of fits. He commenced having them at IO years of age and had them for four years. I tried three doctors and one specialist but all of them said he could not be cured, but Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine and Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills made a comptete cure. He is now hale, hearty and gay. It has been three years since he had the last spell.

I shall give Dr. Miles' medicines

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F. M. BOGUE, Windfall, Ind.

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AILEEN SOLD ONCE TOE

Rush County Pacer Will Be Feature

of New England Tracks.

The great little Indiana-bred mare, Aileen Wilson, 2:02V, will henceforth be a feature of the free-for-alls on the New England halfmile tracks, having been sold by J. W. Coakley, of Boston, Mass., to Walter Seymour, of Providence, R. I., says the Western Horseman. The daughter of Arrowwood first gained

fame

while

fain

on the Grand Circuit

in the stable of Dick Wilson,

the Hoosier trainer, now manager of the racing stable owned by Cap-

C. P. McCan. proprietor of the Tip Top Ranch, Hood River, Ore.

Ford Automobiles.

O. H. Monger & Son delivered a Ford touring car today to Mrs. Seudder and Julia Baker at Wilkinson. The ladies are sisters and have purchased the car in partnership. The car is No. 55.35i. The oldest Ford in Hancock county is No. 1125, owned by Elwood Barnard. Frank Boots has the next, it is 5115. More than 50,000 cars have been built and sold by the Ford company since the Boots car was sold. Superintendent Frank Larrabee has a Ford which he has driven 5,200 miles and has never had a puncture. The tires still retain the original air which was in them when he purchased the machine, two years ago. The Ford company started out to build 30,000 cars this year, and they have already built 24,000. d&w

Horse News.

Charles Wood, of Fountaintown, was at the Rising Sun Stock Farm last week and bred his great brood mare, Clara H., by Henry F., to Richard Earle, dam by Commander, and she is the dam of three trotters, all with records better than 2:20, including Mary C., the well known mare owned by C. E. Kinder, of this city, who raced her extensively through the western circuit, winning over $2,300, and later sold her to eastern parties at Lacky's sate for $1,775. Mr. Wood has been placed at the head of the sale department of the Maywood Stock Farm on account of his superior knowledge of the horse, and in speaking of Richard Earle Mr. Wood said: "Not only is he a rich-bred horse, but he is a model of perfection."

George Baker fell from a car on East Main street Thursday evening while he was attempting to alight. He fell onto the pavement and fractured his elbow. Dr. Milo Gibbs was called and looked after his injuries.

THIN MILK

How can the baby grow strong if the nursing mother is pale and delicate?

Scott's Emulsion

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