Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 45, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 8 January 1908 — Page 3

rer * ON THE TRAIL OF THE ] Q AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIAM T. ELLIS This Distinguished American Journalist Is Traveling Around the World for the Purpose of Investigating the American Foreign Missionary from / a Purely Disinterested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs. Ominous Muttering Now Heard in India - - ■_! '

Calcutta, India. —It is serious ignorance of the world’s big .news to be unaware that there is at present in India a widespread sentiment of resentment, if not actual revolt, against Great Britain, which may at any time find sporadic expression in revolution. Great Britain, with the self-con-fidence of the strong, does not seem to be paying much attention to the matter, although some persons, recalling that this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the mutiny, are nervously calling public attention to certain disturbing signs. Anyone who gets as close to the natives as the missionary does—which is far closer than any other white man—knows that the foremost subject of thought and agitation among them is what they consider their wrongs at the handß of the government. They claim that they are being dealt with in high-handed and oppressive fashion; that they are denied anything approaching a proper measure of selfgovernment; that the public offices are open to them in a decreasing degree, and that, in short, India is being ruled for the welfare of Greit Britain, and not of India. The “India for the Indians” Cry. Now a fair-minded observer cannot by any means agree with all of the positions of the Indian agitators; nor can he withhold a great deal of admiration for the fairness and disinterestedness of the British officials. Nevertheless, he is bound to recognize the seriousness, not to say ominousness, of this “Swadeshi" or “India fOr the Indians” agitation. Without putting much credence in the talk of

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a national uprilgpg against the white man’s rule, "{as ofle precaution, the native troops have never been permitted to serve artillery' since the mutiny) It cannot be denied that the deep-flowing, ever-increasing and widely-manifested tide of India’s national sentiment Is worthy of most serious consideration. In every city of the empire the “Swadeshi” signs may be seen in abundance on the stores of tradesmen who have themselves to deal in India-made wares exclusively. This commercial and industrial side of the “Swadeshi” movement has a direct relation to the industrial teaching in mission schools. The native papers are full of ’’Swadeshi” task; and It Is not wholly absent from thq praiseworthy national missionary organization which Indians have organized, the object being to further the evangelization by native Christians alone, unaided by foreigners. Furthermore, one frequently runs across “Swadeshi” mass meetings; I found one under way In College square here, with hundreds of students listening eagerly to the'lmpassioned speeches. It was rather surprising that the Y. M. C. A. student leaders were able to gather a crowd, fully half as large, only 60 yards away. ", ' The oriental dearly loves intrigue and agitation; especially is this true of the Bengali “babus,” or educated Bengalis, who are foremost In the "Swadeshi” movement. The Bengali, contemptuously declares the Briton, is an idle, boastful talker, and neither a fighter nor a worker. My own inquiries developed the repeated assurance, on the part of Informed persons, that the “Swadeshi” movement has hot, to any perceptible degree, at least, extended to the villages, which contain 90 per cent, of the native population. Bearing in mind the undoubted Christian revival which Is to be found in some parts of India, and the potency of this new national movement, it is evident that mission work here is bound to take an added Interest during the next few years. Making Men of Outcasts. Whatever tends to put the stamina of manhood Into this people contributes indirectly to the missionary undertaking. For the first and last factor of Indian life is the caste system, which dooms the majority of tne people to a lot esteemed lower than that of the cow. ~4f it were not for this caste system, with its tmbridr

able divisions, no foreign power could long control this nation of three hundred millions of people. This same spirit of “karma-kismet” fate, which leads a man to dull acceptance of his lot, rather than to a cherishing of the spirit of self-improvement and ambition which the westerner, keeps back the nation from development, so that itß golden age Is in the past. The greatest need of India Is simply men. As is well known, the converts of the missionaries have been chiefly from the lowest classes —those who are below caste, in fact, the outcasts, the sweepers. Having nothing to lose by accepting Christianity, thousands of these have embraced the gospel; and they are to-day entering the Christian church in large numbers. The motives of many are doubtless mixed, but they at least afford the missionary material on which to work. The material Is not of the best, but It Is human. Here, as In all heathen lands, it is to be borne In mind that the missionary is; really after his converts’ grandchildren; no missionary known to me expects to see a completely transformed and Christianized people coins out of raw heathendom. So he bears with the short-comings of his Christians. He laboriously tries to set them on their feet, and though they fall a hundred times from the Ideals of self-respect and self-support, coming to him with the bland assurance, “You are my father ahd my mother; please help me,” he does not lose heart. For he has ever before his eyes tie spectacle of outcasts who

'have been' made over into noble men and women by the power of the Christian religion. How Sons Excel Fathers. Undoubtedly the missionaries are transforming their people. One of the Methodist missionaries at Lucknow pointed out to me a young man belonging to tiiefr church, the youngest of three sons, whose father never earned njhre thin eight rupees a month in his life. All the boys are products of the Methodist school. One of them is secretary to the governor, and all are in government employ, winning their places in competitive examination; and the salary of the most poorly paid is 150 rupees a month, or 19 times that of his father. This is the sort of thing that is being accomplished all Over India. The schools of India are the crowning glory of mission work; they are the mills of which manhood and womanhood is the finished product. Os a few of them I shall speak more In detail next week, In my final article upon India. They are a distinct and powerful contribution to the forces which are creating a modern national consciousness in India. One phase of missions to which the government contributes its support, financial and otherWlse. lS the Industrial Bchool work. The Indian is proverbially unprogressive and uninventive; the mission schools are teaching the manual arts and in modern fashion, so that new enterprises for the winning of the livelihood are being created and revived. For the Christians, be it understood, are practically a caste by themselves in most places. They are cast off by their families, friends and co-religion-ists; and it is necessary that some means of livelihood, not dependent upon neighborhood favor, be j taught them. Thus Industrial training has a most practical relation to missionary success; since not all, nor, in these days of great ingathering, a very large percentage of the native Christians can be employed by the missionaries in any capacity. The social leverage which is exerted by female education in a land where women are kept “behind the curtain,”- is almost incomprehensible to one accustomed to the liberty of the west, and to the equality of the sexes. The missionaries have far-sightedly set to work to make the very springs of India society Christian. ~ ft-- ■*- -;--J

Physical hardships are more numerous for missionaries in India than for those in any oriental land. I came to India in the hot season; some missionaries were cruel enough to gloat over this fact, for most travelers see India'only in its delightful k'eool” season, and then wonder why anybody should complain of the climate. The missionaries have my sympathy; pie who work as they do in a temperature ranging up to 150 degrees are not out for a pleasant time. Trying to accompany them on their rounds nearly finished me; hereafter I prefer to read about their labors in a book. Accustomed though the American be to the plague M an occasional horror which merely peeps in at one of our seaports, It is not congenial to go ranging about the native quarters of cities where the deaths from plague number more than 200 a day. Yet there lies the missionary’s lot, and he will explain that very few white persons die from plague, although cholera exacts a heavy toll. Nobody seems to know just what the plague Is; - even the natives have come to a hazy realization of the fact that It Is transmitted by some sort of dirt germ. Therefore, during plague season, many natives may be seen wearing shoes and sandals, to avoid cuts on their feet through which the plague might enter. Snakes are a real peril In India, some 50,000 persons dying annually from snake bite. A certain missionary upon whom I called had a native nurse for each of his two little children; perhaps he thought I looked as if I regarded this as a missionary extravagance, for he explained that they dare not trust a child outdoors for a minute alone because of the danger from snakes. Altogether, missionary work in India is not an Edoenlc experience—especially since at some place the missionaries labor for years without a convert. One British veteran has had only three converts In 15 years. At Benares the three strong missions average only two or three accessions a year. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) REAL ESTATE MAN’B~~DREAM. Buys Last Lot on Most Crowded Bpot on Earth, But Collateral. about the phenomenal '-testate in the crowded parts' 6T Manhattan island,” said the real estate man, “I bad a dream last night of a place where land Was so valuable that it made land here seem like acreage property. “This place was on an isthmus between the two hemispheres, a narrow strip of land that was tfie most crowded Bpot on earth. Tjiere was Just one street along througtf thls'lsthmus, and jpCreation that passed ffib one hem-' •isphere to the other had |b“ pass along this thoroughfare. • "Sure, this was a place to do.business, If itere ever was .one, •graclouß Were Wig/V, ,##<Mmt lot Jpat; isthmus thoroughfare, just ope a sttn- stuck up; Ttyr.. Sate; to ,an Estate. Inqiilre -of. “And of course,'''l sort of saunters into the office indicated bn the-sign right away, and I says to the man 'there: - , “What are you asking for that lot dowik,thes!> at 22?” And he says: dollars a front foot* “ ‘How much Is there of it?’ I asked him, and he says: . - “ ‘Seventy feet,’ and I says; “Well, I’ll take If Just like that, because T knew It was a bargain; never’d been offered at that price In the world, I knew, except to close an estate, and the only wonder to me was that somebody hadn’t snapped it up before I came along. “So I bought the only vacant lot on the great itsthmus thoroughfare, and the man said he’d have the papers made out right away and I could drop in at 9 o’clock the next morning and pay the money and he’d hand over the deed; and then I went out and stood on the sidewalk and saw those wonderful multitudes of all the peoples of the earth, passing in those’’ amazing processions; crowds that made the people passing on Broadway and Fifth avenue, New York, seem like the lines of stragglers working their . way out’ along to some county fair; and then I goes down to that vacant lot at 22, my lot, and stands there and sees ’em go by from there, and pats myself on the back and says to myself: “ Well, son, thank goodness, you’ve finally hit up on something that you’re going to make something on; large money.’. “And I was congratulating myself like that, watching the people go by, when all of a sudden It struck me that 24 hours was a pretty short time for me to raise $70,000,000 in. with me a good ways from home; for this was a cash sale, you understand, cash on delivery of the deed, and I knew perfectly well that I’d find a string of men waiting in the office in the morning, any one of them ready to this bargain if I wasn’t there with the money, and I suppose it must have been worrying over how I was going to get the $70,000,000 together in that time that woke me up.”—New York Sun. * > - • The cattle industry of the state of Tamlipas is coming to the front. One stockman and commission man alone, Bartolo Rodriguez, shipped 48,000 head last year to Cuba and Yucatan, which amounted to $1,500,000. He has a fine ranch near the City of Tampico called Monte Alto, with 300 head of cows and bulls, costing about SSOO a head, Imported frdm the United states and Switzerland. CaTefui estimate made by the shippers so tht north Os Tampico places the total .number of cattle and horses in tha area at 2.oQo.QQo.—Mexican. Herald. J

BUY OF BEIT BIOTS goYmam police use clubs and MANY ARE HURT. RED FLAGS CAUSE ROWS Wives and Daughters of the East Bide Tenements Take Active y ' Part In the Fighting. New York. —Incipient riots broke but on the East side Sunday as a result of the tension between the landlords and the striking tenants, and before the disorders were quelled by the police, reserves, which were called from several precincts, many combatants were Injured and five were arrested. The police used their clubs freely, but there was no way to obtain the number of injured, as they were hurried away and cared for by friends. The disorders were general throughout the affected district The most serious trouble occurred on East Eleventh street, where a landlord, who had been unable to collect rent ordered his tenants to remove the American and socialistic flags with which the strikers had decorated the tenements. The landlord waß hooted and jeered by the tenants and other strikers, who were holding a mass meeting in the house, and he called the police. The striking tenants resented the appearance-of the officers and in the clash that followed the reserves used their night sticks vigorously. Five protesting tenants, somewhat battered,' were arrested. The offending decorations wore removed. Hardly had order been restored at this point when the police reserves were hurried to East Twelfth street, where striking tenants were making & demonstration against a landlord who had objected to th.e flying of red flags over his property. The crowd failed to obey the police order to disperse and was set upon with night sticks. One woman, it is reported, was rendered inserisible during the fight, in which wives and daughters, as well as fathers and sons, participated. •TWO HUSBANDS SLAY WIVES. Each Murderer Then Attempts to End His Own Life. / Ludington, Mich. —Crazed by Jealousy, Leonard Brown, of Grand Rapids, came here from his home Sunday, drove six • miles into the country to the farm of Robert Johnson, where his wife was staying, and shot the woman, wounding her fjo that she died * in a few hours.' • . j then fifed,two pullets Into body, 4nd tried to ootnmU suicide, fiVj,ng three,shots into his head, aafp of thep will prove ffttfA 'however, and Johnson - recover from his JjjJgfijßLfttto bad not lived with his flftfe K?r two year 8, acquMid Johnson of baking' up Chester Bmjtht v isurj' wife Sunday arid' tempted to commit suicide. Smith his wife had been separated for some time. Sunday morning the husband forced an entrance to the, house occupied by his wife and her sister. After securing a carving knife Smith stole to the room occupied by the two women and plunged the weapon into his wife’s heart, killing her instantly. He left the house and going to his father’s residence, several blocks away, told him of the crime he had committed. The startling information unnerved the father and before he could regain his composure the son attempted to kill himself by gashing his throat and abdomen, The physl- • clans say that Smith will recover. He charged his wife with Infidelity. MUNCIE’S STRIKE IS BROKEN. Cars Run on All Lines, Almost Without Molestation. Muncie, Ind.—The backbone of Muncle’s mob element is broken. Cars Were run Sunday from early morning until dusk over all lines and, with the exception of a little scattering stone throwing on the outskirts, the cars were unmolested, notwithstanding they were manned by Imported strikebreakers and unguarded as far as deputy sheriffs or troops were concerned. Two Killed In Rail Collision. " Dubuque, la—Two persons were -drilled and one perhaps fatally injured Sunday in a collision between a passenger train off the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and a freight train on the" Chicago, Great Western railroad in East Dubuque. Break Through Ice and Drown. New York.—The first day of ice skating in this vicinity was marked by th'e drowning of two boys and a man wbio tried to save them at Jamaica, L. 1., Sunday. Petti bone and Moyer Free. Boise, Idaho—The end of the prosecution of the men charged with the murder of ex-Gov. Steunenberg, with the exception of the cases of Harry Orchard and Jack Simpkins, came Saturday with the acquittal of George A. Petti bone. Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was formally released Saturday and. will return with Pettlbone to Denver. The case of Orchard, the self-confessed assassin of. Steunenberg, Is in the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Vanduyn of Canyon county.

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