Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 25 April 1912 — Page 2
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dliss Minnie L. Houck Writes Entertainingly To the Children, of Famous Mukti Mission and Its People.
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Mukti Mission, Kedgaon, Poona Dist., India. March 8, 1912. "My Dear Children:— "Come with me for a brief visit and we will learn some interesting things about the Mukti Mission. If we catch the fast mail from Bombay, it is only a few hours' ride. As we alight from the train, we are met by an accommodating man who is waiting to take us in the large tonga cart driven by two sturdy white oxen. A five minutes' drive brings us just in front of the Mission gate. Tall, flowering trees, bushes and plants are growing in abundance by the shady path, and throughout the compound or yard. It is dry, very dry just now, for no rain has fallen since last November. Perhaps you wonder how the trees are kept so pretty and green, so I will tell you. Nothing is allowed to go to waste in Mukti, even the bath water is carried in large cannisters and poured around the trees and flowers. ''This is a little village of about about fifteen hundred souls and everyone is given something to do.
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No one is out of a job, therefore no one is idle, and this keeps them out of mischief, you see. Work begins very early. At 5 a. m., the rising bell rings, and the girls are gathered in various groups for singing and prayer. The girls repeat aloud verse after verse from the Bible,
ago, when Mukti Mission was first started and the famine children were gathered in, that not a girl could read or write and Ramabai was the only teacher. She would
group of girls playing in the mud? You wonder what they are doing. They are making sun-dried bricks. The clay is molded and cut in even rows, then left to dry in the sun. The girls build their own houses oyt of these bricks, which will last about twenty years. The main buildings, however, are built of stone, which abounds in the many hills not far distant. The stones are brought and deposited in large piles and the girls place them on their heads and soon a pile is transferred from one place to another. Some of the weaker girls work out in the fields where they can get plenty of fresh air. Mukti has
world." Yes, these little brown babies with their olive colored skin are our little brothers and sisters, and many of them learn just as quickly as any other children in the world. "Now let us have a bite to eat, for you must be hungry after your long ride. I will take you to the dining room w-here the missionaries and visitors eat. Where is the table, did you say? Oh, let us eat native fashion, only we will not eat with our fingers and sit on the floor, but the girls will serve us with knives and forks, while the low, square seats will not seem so strange when once wre get accustomed to them. Our dishes are mostly of brass, in pretty shapes and lined inside with an alloy that looks like silver. Some of the food is cooked English style, wiiile part of it is served the way the people of this country like it—very hot, with red peppers. The girls bake excellent bread of whole wheat. First they grind the wheat in stone hand-mills, fastened to the ground, and even the little children are taught to grind with very small mills. Then they put the ground wheat through a bolting machine, which Ramabai has invented. A large drove of buffalo cows, such meek looking creatures, with black hide and long, curling horns, are driven near the back yard and the girls watch while they are being milked to see that the wily milk men do not put water in their jars. The milk is very rich and the butter as white as your table cloth. "Just before we enter the printing department, we see two blind men silting, one by the large gate and the other under a
until they have them memorized. There was a time, fourteen years several" schools they live in tents which have been made in Mukti.
walk up and down the long line of tUre are printed here and the girls girls, saying a verse or perhaps only
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over 160 acres and most all of it I punishment. There is a class of is under cultivation, except about over thirty girls who are called the
sixteen acres, where the buildings stand. There are eleven large wells in Mukti, dug out of the solid rock. Several acres around each well are cultivated by means of irrigation. From two to four or even six oxen are hitched together and patiently plod away day after day, drawing the. water in large skin bags over a pulley. The girls also draw the water by means of a windlass. The wells are over thirty feet in diameter and are all open at the top. "Now let us have a peek at the kindergarten, where seven ty-flve tiny tots will give us hearty salaams of welcome. Hear them singling their pretty Marathi songs with motions. Of course, you can't understand, but neither can they understand your English, although they can sing you a few songs in your language which, I think, you will understand better than they do. The other day I heard them singing, "Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world, brown and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the
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ip and make card-board out of
it. They also make their rubber rollers for the printing presses. Is it not wonderful to see these girls just out of heathendom a few7 years ago, running an engine and doing much work in the printing offices that I suppose even girls in Free America do not do. "Do not think that all the girls in Mukti are good girls. Oh, no, there are some who do not like to mind, and then they get punished. The girls are very proud of their glossy black hair, which they coil and comb so smoothly. So sometimes their matrons cut off a few locks just above their forehead and the girls think this very severe
Phillipus class. Ramabai does not tell them how bad they have been, but she tells them that some day they will not have to be kept behind locks and bars, but she expects them to be preachers to their own people. So some of them have obtained their freedom and are doing good work. The girls are taught to be very clean and orderly. Every other day they bathe, and wash their dresses, or saries, as they are called. They sleep in long rooms, with their blankets on the floor these they roll up every morning and hang up on a rope. "Now I have given you a few mental pictures of the work and the people here. I am wondering if any of you will ever cross the big ocean and come over to visit us in person. I am sure, if you do, we will give you a hearty welcome. "Your loving friend, "MINNIE L. HOUCK."
Mrs. J. F. Addison, of New Castle, visited her mother, Mrs. Hettie Ellis, of Brandywine street, and other relatives Sunday.
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they sit day after day, making rope from the fibers of the aloe plant. They make all the rope used in Mukti, the harness is also made of rope. When the missionaries go out touring in the neighboring heathen village, where they have start-
Now I am sure you will be interested in watching those 180 girls set type. They are from ten years of age and upward. Tons of litera-
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a line or two, then the girls would rathi type. Then there are over repeat it after her. Many of these forty girls in the book binding and girls are here teachers now. The press department. They take all girls go to school half a day and the scraps of paper, boil it into a work half a day. Do you see that
English, Greek, Hebrew and Ma-
GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 25. 1912
Elmer Hudson, of Maxwell, Had Accident in This City Sunday Afternoon Auto WTas Demolished—No One Hurt
An automobile driven by Elmer Hudson, of Maxwell, in which his family was riding with him, was struck by a T. H. I. & E. Traction car at Franklin street, this city, on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The automobile was owned by J. F. Gant, of Maxwell, who operates a bakery and it was used to deliver the bakery products.
When struck by the car in this city the front trucks, were demolished and it was otherwise damaged. Luckily none of those in the machine were injured. The automobile was brought to the Kinder garage in this city for repairs.
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Mrs. V. H. Finnell entertained on Sunday, honoring the birthday of her husband. At the noon hour a bounteous dinner was served. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Barnard, of near Eden Mrs. Lee Justice and daughter, Cleo, of Dayton, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moncrief and daughter, Haster Lea, and Miss Ethel Finnell, of New Castle Russell Hatfield, of Indianapolis Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Finnell and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Morris and children, Charles and Elizabeth, of this city.
Mrs. Mary Weaver and daughter, of Greentown, are visiting her brothers, M. L., 0. L. and James Wright. She is the daughter of the late Newton Wright and had not visited her relatives here for nine years.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trees and children, Marion and Elizabeth, spent Sunday with Mr. Trees' father, J. W. Fisk, on R. R. 8.
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Obituary.
Life is full of joy and sadness, pleasure and pain. It is full of possibilities for a preparation for the world to come.
Man, with his finite vision, cannot understand the omnipotent way of God.
Sometimes He reaches down in the home and takes the dearest jewel, then again, it is the one in the full strength of years. Sometimes it is the father then again, the mother or the child, but it is always the dearly beloved whose absence leaves a void in the home and heart that God alone can fill.
Lewis C. Burk, son of Elisha and Anna T. Burk, was born in Fayette county, Indiana, March 9, 1856, and departed this life April 4, 1912, age 56 years and 25 days.
His early life was spent on his father's farm. February 27, 1879, he wTas united in marriage to Mary Isabel le Morrow and soon moved to Hancock county on the farm where he resided at the time of his death. To this union were born six children—three of whom have preceded the father to the realms beyond.
He leaves a lpving and' faithful wife, three sons—Barton, Elisha and Ward, together with four sisters, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
Lewis was a kind and sacrificing father, always ready to help his children and make their welfare his first consideration. Not only was he ready to help his children, but to his neighbors and friends he was ever ready to give a helping hand and accommodate in every way he could.
His Creed was the olden Rule and his motto was to live up to the best he knew.
There will come many days when his counsel will be missed and many a time of need when his shoulders cannot east the burdens. But though he will be sadly missed, in the home and community, yet may we not emulate his virtues, and by his sudden and sad departure be reminded to be ready "for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not."
After the toil is over, And the mists have cleared away, Will we understand it better
On the Judgment Day?
Will the hearts that are breaking With their loads of pain Receive the balm of Gilead
To make them whole again?
Will the friends who've left us And journeyed on before Be waiting with joyous welcome
To greet us on that shore?
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Do you ever feel just on the verge of an irritable outburst when the pleasantest word from your dearest friend or the most trivial thing causes you to explode?—That's a 'nerve storm." It. may pass in a minute, but in that minute the damage is done and you pay the penalty in sorrowful regret and in qualms of conscience through long days, possibly years, after, and perhaps others suffer with you.
Nearly every family has felt the temporary or permanently destructive effects of "nerve storms.' They approach without sign or warning and leave in their wake a trail of unhappiness which often can never be mended and which you would willingly suffer the greatest sacrifices to avoid—and yet with sheer recklessness you go on over-stim-ulating your nerves and preparing the next "nerve storm."
Nothing happens without cause, not even "nerve storms" have their origin in over-stimulation of the nerves.
If you are addicted to the use of any poisonous drug that has a direct and powerful action on the nerve centers, like caffeine and thein contained in coffee, tea, chocolate and cocoa—that's the cause. "Nerve storms" are usually caused by coffee.
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James Kiger, formerly of t! 11 city, who was hurt in the traction car wreck west of Fortville recently, is in a serious condition from a nervous breakdown. He was about recovered from his injuries and went back on the road two weeks ago, but was forced to give up work again, because of his nervous condition.
Mp. and Mrs. Earl Lynam, of Lewisville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore Sunday.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the undersigned has been, by the Judge of the Hancock Circuit Court, appointed Administrator of the Estate of Mary Fort, late of Hancock County, Indiana., deceased.
Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JOSEPH O. FORT, Cook & Cook, Administrator.
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ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the undersigned has been, by the Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court, appointed Administratrix of the Estate of William A. Martin, late of Hancock County, Indiana, deceased.
Said estate is supposed to be solvent. MARY E. MARTIN,
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