The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-07-04
Letters from the Old World,
BY MISS JENNIE A. NELSON.

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Last home mail brought me many
letters. Now that my letters COM
direct, and not through % Centrt
St., N. Y, get them regularly
Be sure you send by southampton
England, or they may go by Sar
Francisco.
I had no idea of your publishing
my letters. 1 know all my triend'
are interested in them, and will moi
criticize them, but 1 shrink from
having them exposed to the cold
criticism of a cold public, for 1 fec
sure they have no literary merit.
l write them so hurriedly and often
have not time to read them over
but if they meet with the kindness
in the big world the writer has al
ways met, 1 will not fear to trust
them to it, and only pray they may
be used for some good In this great
cause.
I do not say much about the aoorh
and the difficulties in our way. ]
know of nothing that will illustrate
it so well as a story in the "High-
land News" you sent me, of an old
negro preacher, who said, "What-
ever de Lord tells me in His blessed
book to do, rs gwine to do it. If
he tells me to jump through stone
'oau. rs gwine to jump at it, and de
goin' through belongs to dc Lord" "
Now much of our work here is like
Jumping at stone acall, but the GO
ing through belongs to the Lord,
and we are commanded to keep
Jumping at it, and it is beginning to
shake.
We have had q visit from another
Philadelphia gentleman, rich old
bachelor cousin of Mr.. WoodsiGel,
who is travelling all round and all
over the world. He left home in
January, 1871, and does not expect
to be home for 2 or 3 years yet.
The morning be left l had the
school sing some American songs l
have taught them. He was so
pleased he gave US so rupees (s25)
for a Fourth of July treat. We
then sang the "Star Spangled Ban
ner," which he cheered most heart
lily. As the girls passed out be
shook hands with them and told
them "good-by." One beautiful lit
tie girl from Cashmere took him by
surprise, for as she passed him she
clasped his knees and cIung to him
most tenaciously. He took her in
his arms, saying, "this is case of
love at first sight" She threw her
arms round his neck and kissed
him over and over. l suppose this
is the tenderest incident of his long
journey. He set the child down
with a piece of money in her hand.
1 am getting on we'll in Hindoo-
stance. Have read and translated
through the 28th chapter of Mat
thew. I enjoy reading the Tesla
ment in this language and in this
Oriental country very much. 1t is
clothed with new meaning.
Z am teaching my Munshi En-
glish. He was reading one day in
the History of England about the
Tournaments" where it speaks of
the knights being brought into the
lists on their pranciRg chargers. His
only idea of charger was connect
ed with the "head of John the Bap-
tist," so he thought the knights
were brought in on plates! He is
so anxious to learn English that l
take great interest in teaching him
One evening last week l was at
our Zanans's. The women were so
interested 10 my clothing, and asked
to see my watch. I opened it and
showed them the works. After
looking at it intently for a while,
one of them said, "You white peo.
pie can do everything except bring
the dead to Htey"
We have had most delicious straw.
berries for some time. The peaches
will soon be ripe, and the a0heat is
already cut. 1t is cut with sickles
and bound into large sheaves. How
plainly l can see Joseph and his
brethren" in the field, "binding
sheaves." 1 see women cleaning
and the picture of "Ruth" is before
me. l have not met "Boaz" yet
The wheat is carried from the field
on the heads of men and women, O,
on OK carts. II is trodden out by
oxen, and cleaned in this way: One
man holds a vessel filled with it at
high as he can, and slowly pours il
out. As it falls, man fans it with
o large strdO fan, the exact article
mentioned in Mathew ill.,, 18th,
"whose fan is in his hand" 1 will
send you one of these wheat fan:
when l send a box home. Th,
wheat is sent to market On COWS
oxen, donkeys, goats and sheep
, When 1 was in the mountains
met large droves of sheep and goat
with little sacks of grain on them
t going over the mountains. AS
met them thought how we'll they
= answered the purpose of .reigh
cars.
D 1 will tell you about "Mela" il
a India. This is a kind of Fair, con
p nected with some religious ceremo