Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 47, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 1908 — Page 3

ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIABT T. ELLIS This Distinguish*! American Journalist Is Trarellng Around the World tor the Purposs of InTOStfgatinc tho American Foreign Missionary from a Purely Disinterested. Secular and Non-Seotarlan Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs. Across Irvdia with Peeps at Missionaries at Work - .... „

Calcutta, India.—Beautiful, dirty; aplendld, squalid; rich, miserable — such are the contrasting adjectives which one may apply to this third largest city in the British empire, seated on the banks of the Hoogli river, whose shifting currents are her best defense against an invading fleet It is a city of color, from the fat, shiny, black babu, scantily clad only in a few yards of purple cheese cloth and dazzling yellow shoes, to the pale and immaculate Briton, in top hat and frock coat. It Is a city of historic Interest; everybody goes first to see the famous Black Hole. But to all the world that is In any way Interested In missions this is remembered as the scene of the labors of William Carey, the father of mod-, ern Protestant missions, who did his lifework at Serampore, a few miles from here. In the cathedral also one sees a fine statue of Reginald Heber, the famous missionary bishop of the Church of England, and author of the most widely-kn Own missionary hymn, “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains.” Dusky “Europeans." My work deals with to-day, so I must introduce the reader instead to the most curious company of “Europeans” he has ever met, as they are gathered for worship, several hundreds of them, in the fine big church of the American Methodist mission. These dusky "Europeans”'are mostly halfcastes, Eurasians, but they dislike the latter name and are at all pains to claim identity only with their white ancestors. Thus a dark brown man, three-fourths native, will speak ostentatiously of going “home” to England, though he never saw England, and only one of his forbears for centuries past has ever been outside of India. This very pride indicates that the Eurasian has certain qualities which go' with white blood, and this self-sup-porting,, aggressive church, with refinement written on the faces of many of its members, indicates the importance of this branch of the Methodist Episcopal mission. The Methodists have been very successful throughout India in this work for Eurasians, and for the whites who have married native women, thus losing social caste. In addition, other white people who do not care for the established church services, attach themselves to these churches for Europeans. . The Really White Europeans. r If the blended brother is a problem In India needing the missionary’s attention, no less is the simon-pure white man. And I must say that, so far as I could learn, the life of the Europeans (as all Caucasians are designated east of Suez) is more wholesome and normal in India than In the far east This is doubtless due to the fact that British Influence is altogether dominant, and British ideals have followed the 4ag. The white people generally attend the established churches, just as at home, as a matter of course.. “*** For the young men—who are everywhere the crux of the social problem —I found the Y. M, C. A. doing a conspicuously successful work. In the farther east it has been a failure so far as the white men are concerned, although Its work for the natives, as these articles have reported, has been of. a high grade. Here, however, the association is “good form,” and the larger Indian cities have fine buildings, veritable gentlemen’s clubs, with Chambers for any number of men from a score to a hundred, and In general doing a sort of Christian work which deserves great praise. It would cause an American secretary to lift his eyebrows were he to see the number of men in evening clothes (including, of course, the local secretary himself) to be found of an evening in the Calcutta or Bombay association. Therein, though, is a sign of success, for that is the very crowd that the association needs to reach here. The work foi* the native Indians, conducted in separate buildings, of course, is equally notable. There are white women in the east, as well as native and half-caste women, needing the pechllar sort of hdlp which the Y. W. C. A. affords. I waß greatly struck by the hold that this organization has taken in India; there is a sanity, a careful, confident facing of actual conditions, and an effective aggressiveness about it which should place'the association very high in the rank of missionary agencies. One kort .of work open to the Y. W. C. A. is illustrated by the following incident. Every ship sailing to India from England carries young women going out to be married, and to live with fathers, brothers, or other relatives. Not always do the relatives turn up, or the bridegrooms prove available; in which case the young woman sadly needs womanly help and safe shelter. 09 the ship in Which I went to Calcutta were three such young women; one of them discovered that her uncle had gone to Japan and she was penniless, half a world from home. At the first opportunity, after learning of the efficiency of the Calcutta Young Women’s Christian association, I put the secretary Into touch with the stranded girl, but al-

.most too late, for a day later she at- ■ tempted suicide. “Behind the Curtain." High-class Hindu and Mohammedan women are kept “purdah,” that is "behind the curtain.” The precautions that are used to keep them from the gaze of all men save their families seem ridiculous to a westerner. One such woman was put into a railway compartment next to mine, with the most elaborate precautions. But when we stopped at a small station I caught a glimpse of her face through the window and —well, she would never be kidnaped for her looks! This sequestration of the women leads to all manner of evils; and the lot of the poor creatures is narrow and pitiable, Now the women missionaries are penetrating “behind the curtain,” taking with them medical healing, the schoolbook and the Bible. The Woman's Missionary Union of America Is especially diligent in this zenana work, having missions in five cities, and their range of activities Includes visitation to the homes, day schools for children, orphanages, rescue homes, a hospital and a high school and college. As I talked with two bright American girls at Allahabad, Miss Wishard and Miss Bertsch, about their work, and heard how they had rescued 23 ill-treated and widowed Brahmins during the first four months of the year (they teach 500 women a week) I could not but agree that this was a womanly work for women, affording a career such as should satisfy any college-bred girl. A Tomb for a Home. The woes of women, and especially of widows, in India fire too well known to need rehearsal here. They afford endless scope for missionary service. Thus, at Lucknow the Methodist Episcopal mission, has converted an old Mohammedan tomb into a home for homeless women. It was rather inter* esting to learn that a large part of the cares of. the charming young woman in charge is the endeavor to find husbands for as many as possible of the 50 women who come under her over-, sight every year. . In this same city of Lucknow I found another flourishing institution for women, the Isabella Thoburn college, said to be the oldest college for girls in India, having been* established in 1870. It is affiliated with the University of Allahabad, and has more requests than it can meet for graduates to fill governmental and- privat% teaching positions.. The college has won favor with high-caste natives, and its nearly 200 students represent all classes of society. I could not see that the life differed greatly from the life of American college girls. As I watched a. file of these lustrouseyed, graceful, whitfe-robed girls cross the'campus of the Presbyterian girts’ school at Allahabad, on their way to chapel, it seemed to me that the spectacle was rather more picturesque than anything an American college can boast. This building is the gift of Mr. John Wanamaker. A Christian Endeavor meeting by the girls was quite a model meeting of the American type. Christian Endeavor appears to be especially effective among the Indian churches. Even a slight association with the students here seemed to show in Their character a reflection of the charm of Miss Forman, their principal. The caliber, culture and character of some of the American women to he met on the mission field are altogether beyond the Imagining lof the public at home. New India In the Making. Among the Indian reformers there Is discernable a movement looking toward the nationalization of India’s varying creeds, which is a step essential to political unity. The national creed is iftit intended to be Christianity. The one conspicuous agency offsetting this tendency is the mission school. Up and down the length of India are schools conducted by missionaries and attended by the children of Christian converts (for the£ „are part of the machinery which must produce the next generation of native preachers), by the children of low castes, who are thus equipped to rise in the social scale and, to an increasing extent of late years, by the children of the higher castes. It is almost hopeless to attempt to enumerate these; I might specify the fine big Reid Christian college at Lucknow of the Methodist Episcopal church, situated on ground made historic by the mutiny, equipped with Imposing- buildings, attended by 500 students in dormitory, from a wide 'region of which Lucknow is the center, aqd administered to by men of ability and breadth of vision.„Both collegiate and commercial courses arSPgiven here. Early this year many Methodists from America journeyed to India to attend the jubilee of Methodist Episcopal missions at Bareilly, where 60 years ago Rev. William Butler established the work of the Methodist Episcopal church, which has now grown to a force of 5,000 workers and 200,000 native members. At this celebration, which was attended by 2,000 native Christians, 600 converts were baptized on a single day, a unique feature

of the baptismal service being the cutting off of the tuft of hair, the lose of which means separation from Hinduism. The occasion focused the attention of the religious world upon the fact of Msthodistism’s aggressive, diversified, far-ramifying and successful work in India. Thirty-seven different languages are used by Methodist missionaries In this country. Allahabad, the university center of India, boasts another great educational institution of the western type, the Allahabad Christian college, of the Presbyterian mission. Its buildings are in quadrangle form about an immense and symmetrical banyan tree. One of the buildings is Princeton hall, a gift of Princeton alumni. An inspection of this plant Impresses a visitor with the thoroughness of the standard maintained. The principal, Rev. Dr. Arthur H. Ewing, la rightly reckoned one of India’s great educational leaders. In the big preparatory school for boys, which is a part of the institution, I had a chance to test all the classes In English, and I cannot imagine a school in the homeland emerging from this sort of ordeal more successfully. The Living Dead. At Allahabad la situated a large leper asylum, maintained jointly by the government and by the beneficent Mission to Lepers in the East. It Is managed by- Mr. Samuel Higglnbottom, of the Presbyterian mission—one of the innumerable extras that I found missionaries everywhere carrying. “Salaam, sahib,” the lepers would cry as we passed, lifting pitiful stumps of fingerless hands to their foreheads. A more desolate spectacle than a leper asylum can scarcely be imagined; yet here was to be found. In some cases, the grace of Christian resignation, with cheerfulness, which is not always present amid scenes of health and prosperity. Not all leeprs are in asylums; unnumbered thousands roam the streets at will. While attending the dally clinic of Dr. Charles R. Cook, of Lucknow, the only missionary in all India of the Reformed Episcopal church, I sat within five feet of two lepers crowded in the press. Next to one of them was a man whose family was suffering with the plague, five having died, and four being ill at the moment. Another one of the patients had, within a few days, lost a baby, a wife and four brothers, and his, father lay dangerously ill, all wijh t|e plague. One convalescent plague patient, whom the doctor had cured, was mildly rebuked by this quiet, unruffled missionary for leaving his bed too soon. A bgy smitten with the plague was brought by a mother-with dreadfilled eyes, and carefully examined by the bare hands of the doctor. This one doctor, with a single native assistant, had 61,628 cases last year, including a few In his well-kept little hospital. All classes, rich and poor, Mohammedans, Hindus and Christians,; codie for help. I counted 30 cpowdei! into the small room at one time, while outside a larger crowd of waiting patients was listening to the native preaeher. A Medaled Missionary. One of the staf tniqslons of the American board is at Ahmednagar, where Rev. Dr. Robert A, Hume Is senior missionary. Dr. Hume is less widely known as the recipient of a medal from King Edward for his famine relief work'titan as the author of “Missions from the Modern Viewpoint,” That he and his associates stand high in native esteem was evident from the constant salaams he received as we rode about the city together in a tonga, or native cart Many non-Christian natives have given largely to this mission work for Indians, and the government also contributes to the industrial school. I found all sorts of educational and Industrial enterprises under way, some of them, from a bicycle repair shop to a tract depot, being wholly or in part self-supporting. The big .church in native style, where even Hindus have been known to worship unknown gods, interested me less than the extensive Industrial establishments where oriental rugmaking, weaving, woodcarving, carpentry and brass and silver working are carried on for the market, under the direction of D. C. Churchill, of Oberlin college and the Massachusetts Institution of Technology, and J. B. Knight, of Amherst college, and an agricultural col lege—types of the nonministerial, col-lege-bred missionaries who are doing pioneer work for the orient. Mr. Churchhill has invented anew hand loom that Is within the compass of the average Indian mind and purße. Miss Emily R. Bissell and her brother, Rev. H. G. Bissell, carry on in this mission the work which their mother, who had been 54 years in India, laid down last year. While watching the arrival at the hospital here of a woman patient in a bullock cart I saw Miss Moulton comforting the weeping husband, a Christian teacher, in a manner which revealed tO,.me the beautiful devotion of the missionaries to this people. It takes devotion of an unselfish sort tp do this work, especially among the villages. One Sunday morning I sat, with Rev. Mark Keaslar, of the Agra Methodist Episcppal mission, In blistering, life-shriveling heat, in a low, dirty, malodorous dwelling on the outskirts of the city, while he told a crowd of hookah-smoking natives the gospel story and answered their interested questions; which looks romantic and picturesque from this distance; but is work to take the heart out of anybody less devoted than a missionary; and it is the work which many hundreds of missionaries are doing all over India to-day. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Vandalism on Mt, of Olives. The olive trees on the Mount o’ Olives have been destroyed by tour ists.

NO BLESSING FOR HER. Disappointed Youngster Dlscrftnlnstsd In His Prayer. For several weeks, little Ralph had enjoyed the use of a Shetland pony, the property of a horse dealer who was a friend of the family. But much to Ralph's sorrow, there came a day recently when the pony was sold, apd the delightful horseback rides came to a sudden end. The purchaser, as Ralph found out by inquiry, was a little girl of about his own mature age of five. Ever since his acquaintance with the pony' began, Ralph had included him in his bedtime prayer, and “God bless the pony,” was an earnest nightly petition. The first evening after the sale of the pony, Ralph hesitated when he reached his pet’s place in the prayer. Then, after a moment’s thought, he continued: "Please, God, bless the pony just the same; but, God, don’t you bless the little girl what’s got the pony.” GENEALOGICAL.

The Bull-Pup—l suppose this Is what they call a family tree. Hopeless Case. Evangelist Torrey, who prides himself upon the number of his converts, met one hardened sinner In Chicago whom he failed to convert. The minister had been preaching to a tent full of people. He had described the vices of the rich, and had pointed Biblical analogies at their luxuries. One man In the back of the tent had seemed to be much interested. He leaned forward td catch every word. Torrey, taking the interest to' mean approaching conversion, redoubled his efforts. “The road to hell Is lined with vintage, wine, beautiful women and fine automobiles!” he exclaimed. With a sigh as of relief, the man in the back of the tent arose. "Oh, death, where is thy sting?” he .said. Something New Under the Sun. A lady in Illinois sent us 12c a year ago for our remarkable eolieetion of vegetable and flower seeds and sold $37.76 worth therefrtnn, or made 314%. That’s new. Just send this notice with 12c and receive the most original seed and plant catalog published.andnL' . lpkg. “Quick Quick” Carr0t........! .10 4 pkg. Earliest Ripe Cahbaget*,*..... 40 1 pkg. Earliest Emerald Cueudifcer. ? 45 1 pkg. M OoSse Market Lettuce .. . .15 1 pkg. Early Dinner Onion. , u.- .10 1 pkg.’Strawberry 1 pkg. Thirteen Day Radish 10 1,000 kernels gloriously beautiful flower 5eed........... 45 Total SI.OO Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bu. of nCrafck vegetables and thousands of .brilliant flowers and all is mailed to you,, POSTPAID FOB 12C, or if you send 16c, we will add a package of Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. John A. Salzer Seed Cos., La Crosse, Wis. K. & W. Just the Trouble. Editor—Did you get out of that magistrate an answer to the charge that he sends far too few cases to court? Reporter—No, sir. He was noncommittal. Easy Money for men and who will give whole or spare time selling our Family Health Tablets, Liniment and Salve. No experience necessary. Big profits. Exdnsive territory. Vosena Company, 1170 15th St., Washington, D. C. Italy Haa Largest Churches. Italy owns the world’s three largest churches—SL Peter’s, Rome; The Duomo, Milan; and St Paul’s at Rome. A suggestion for 1908: Take Garfield Tea to establish and maintain a normal action of the digestive organs, to purify the blood, cleanse the system and to bring Geoa Health. The greatest Is be who is most true to the principle of duty.—Channing. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAY& PAZO OINTMENT la guaranteed to care any ease of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles In sto 14 days or money refunded. Me. Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and wisdom.—Bovee. Smokers have to call for Lewis’ Single Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. It’s easy to swear off—and Just as easy to fall off a little later. Mrs. Window’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Brains can make money, but money make brains.

REV. TROUTMAN SENDS BEST WISHES FOR PE RU NA Rev. George A. E. Troutman, 'i “My Wife and I Are Strong Rev. Geo. A. E. Troutmsn, Mt. jßl’ s. 'll Washington, Mo., writes: “My wife _|| and I are strong believers In Peruna. IS k jPSP I with peculiar spasmodic affection of and for a few minutes I would be un able to speak audibly, and my breath would be greatly interfered Svitb. I would be obliged to gasp for breath. “I finally concluded that it was some catarrhal affection which probably excited the spasm. It interfered with my vocation as a preacher, attacking me 11 1 had heard so much about Peruna as a catarrh remedy that I determined to trv it. After taking two bottles, my trouble has disappeared. I feel sure? that Peruna has greatly benefitted me.” Rev. P. E. Swaustrom, Swedish Baptist Pastor, Box 328, Grantsburg, Wis., ■ writes that from the use of Peruna he ' is perfectly well, entirely cured of chronic diarrhea and catarrh.

I was cured ‘of a bad case of catarrh when nothing else that I tried had any effpet. My wife was cured from a nevere case ot la grippe, and we feel that the least we can do is to gratefully acknowledge the merit of Peruna. “My wife joins me in sending best wishes for your success.” Throat Trouble. Rev. H. W. Tate, 930 Lincoln Avenue, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, writes:

t Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1908. I •'KIVt 29.D9£ &9f.00 on Horses. Cottle. Hom and ftailrry" ‘ - SenF Free f NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER L THE SCIENTIFIC AND MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT, .f-—M II Capsicum-Vaseline. ll ffa" af ™ A I B. P EXTRACT OF THE CAYENNE |i PEPPER, PLANT TAKEN I HI \ DIRECTLY IN VASEUNE |jggg!„ 11 ~ DON'T WAIT TILL THE PAIN COMES—KEEP A TUBE HANDY - A QUICK. SURE, SAFE AND ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN.—PRICE 15c. -IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES MADE OF PURE TIN-AT ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN POSTAGE STAMPS. A substitute- for and superior to mustard or arty other plaster, and will not ’ blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of the article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve Headache and Sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counterirritant known, also as an external remedy forpaitos in the chest and stomach and all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household and for children. Once used'no.family will be without it. Many people say “it is the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation of vaseline unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine’. Sand year address and wo wilt mall our Vasallna Booklet deeorlblng our preparations wh|ch will Interest you. 17 State SL CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. New York City aj..u^,’pwL l jniitjl!!. Cmnot Be EqualMAt

HAVE TOD MONET TO LOANf We can set 7on 7 per cent. In Seattle, one of the most progressive cities In the United Htates, and no expense to you. We make only first-class loans. If interested, write ns for our referencesand further particulars. VirtueYerkes Company, Heston Block, Seattle, Wash. n ITHIITO Wilm >. Coltui, Patent Attorfw£l I KM I V ney, Wrehington, D. 0. Advice I bl I hll I w free. Arms low. Highest ref.

Peruna in Tablet Form. For two years Dr. Hartman and jtia assistants have incessantly labored to create Peruna in tablet form, and their strenuous labors have just been crownedwith success. People who object to liquid medicines can now secure Peruna Tablets, which represent the medicinal ingredients Os Peruua. Each tablet is equivalent to one average dose of Peruna,

Your ride taeeeDcT&vs IUDKS make fine, warm robes. We are the ofdest bouse doing this kind of work. Atm responsible, and know bow. Write forprleea. THE WORTHING A ALGER CO-.Hlllsdato, Mioh. A. N. Kr—A (1908—4) 2214.