The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
letters from the Old World.
BY MISS JENNIE A. NELSON.
b.. No. VIII.
DEHRA DooN, NORTHERN INDIA, /


II in answer to the many prayer
which | feel have been offered fc
me in the prayer meetings, tn
sanctuary and at the family altar
{; of dear old Hillsboro, evrry stree
l. of which stands out before my min
o as dearly as it &c clearly pictured
Q In my hurried accounts Of my jour
ney all references TO home I'm,
r friends have been crowded out--in
ldeed have not dared to trust my
, self upon that subject rery far.
> L write now to you, to inform yoI
of the death of little Katherine, tn,
child your Sunday School has beer
supporting. 1 mentioned in my
former letter that / had called tt
see her at Sehranpore. She only
lived few days after saw her
Mrs. Kelso, the Missionary Lady a
that station, writes Nov. 80:
al called to see her before break
fast this morning; found her very
uneasy, complaining of her hands
and feet aching. At first she die
not appear conscious. I spoke to he
and she answered me in English.
then asked her if she knew she wa;
dying, and if she loved Jesus. II
both my questions Igot heartS
yes! In about three-quarters of ar
hour she was dead. Her last words
to her mother were about her per
feet happiness. Yesterday she ask
ed her mother to read to her the
l4th chapter of John. Her mother
feels the blow very deeply, but il
must have been glorious change
for the poor little sufferer, and J
hope in time the mother will bless
God for the hard lesson"
Mr.. Heron says she was one o.
the most obedient, gentle, lovely
little girls he ever had in his school
and so the Sunday School may see
their efforts have not been in vain
and 1 feel sure that every little boy
and girl in the school will feel hap
py TO think they were permitted tC
support this dear child, and will
cheerfully continue to give for the
new child we will assign to you.
Some OF these little ones are about
the size of the children in the In
FAINT room. They are very bright
and some of them very pretty
They have straight, black hair, and
very soft, dark eyes, and after they
have been in the school a year they
become almost white, as they are
not exposed to the sun. The Indiar
sunshine is very powerful. Ever
at this season we wear the "lSoLdr
tOpi," and carry umbrellas when il
the sun, although we have fires ant
wear heavy clothing.
1 wish you could see the nict
girls there are here now, and how
lady.like and respectful they are
Some of them have been here many
years, and but for their style o
dress and their dark faces, seen
like schoolgirls at home. Most o
them are children of the nativ'
Christians, and most of them marry
native Christians as soon as they ar
old enough. A poor fellow cam,
from Lodiana to see one of the girl
in the Orphanage, and thought ht
must have a pair of shoes on tn,
occasion. Not being accustomed tt
wearing them, he was quite lam
when he got here, and Mr.. HerroI
mended his heels with postag
stamps in the absence of court plas
ter! He is soon to be rewarded TO
his pains by carrying off his prize
l saw her outfit yesterday-thre
very pretty chintz dresses, one @
white, as the bridal dress, and som
very nice "chudderS"-the Ioos
flowing cloth they all wear over tn
head and thrown around over tn
left shoulder. She has bed and bed
ding, some articles of furniture, an,
10 Rupees, which is equal to fiv
dollars, all given her by the Mission
So they are literally cared for q
children. They are not allowed t
marry except into Christian fam
lies.
One day this week Mr.. and Nj!
Woodside invited us all TO Picni,
The party consisted of Mr.. and Mr.
Heron, Mrs. Myers, Miss Craig
! Mr.. Woodside's family, (too nume
Gus to mention, and Mrs. w. weigh
, almost 300) Mrs. DIR. Campbell
g (wife of one of our deceased Mis-
ionaries) and myself. We drov
through the Government Tea Gal
dens. These are very beautifu
z covering 600 acres. The Tea
green all the year. The bloom
white, and looks very much lik
, the Mock Orange at home. Th
different fields are separated b
hedges of roses and cactus, and mi
ny large ferns grow up among then
These rose hedges are all throug
the city, and are now in full bloor
+ "a very large one just in front {
n the house, from which 1 gatht
o flowers every day.
"a But to return to the Picnic. W
went to place called Idp-hash-aO0
or "God's Drop" We wake
o down steep bank into deep r;
It vine, through which runs a sma
stream of the clearest water, Th