The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-07-12

Tor 81 Goats Day
had always looked upon India as :
rice-eatinc country. find that grca,
number Of the people here en-: wheat
and grain. In Northwestern India
only about ten per cent Of the people
eat rice. and in the prison a. Agra !
found that the prisoners were lea
upon grain. Everywhere the mass OF
lie people seem 20 Be nnderfed and
the leancst. scragsiest specimens Of
humanity | have ever seen ! ind IN
this rich valley Of the Ganges- Where
nature has done every thing the peo-
pie are starving. and you can have no
idea Of the skin and bone men and
boys whom l see daily by the thou
sands The costume Of the people i
such that the arms and legs and often
the breasts and waists are bare There
seems 10 be nothing but skin. bones
and sinew, and the average thigh i
! not bigger than muscular American
4 biceps. There are no calves what
ever, and the joints al the knees and
ankles are extraordinarily large
Nearly every man YOU meet II he Dc
poor. has wrinkles in his belly. and al
every railroad station you find gaunt'
dark-faced. piteous. lean men. who
slap their bare stomachs 10 show thai
they are hollow and ask for backshish-
Wages are miserably low Farm
laborcrs get from six 70 eight cents ;
day and masons Get about ten cents
day. Even travellers who have <
pay the highest wages. can get goos
English-speaking servants who vii
travel with them and feed themselye'
for thirty-fhree cents day. and les
than that II taken by the month
This valley OF the Ganges has NOR
people than il can support and il
probably the most densely populate
part Of the world The people live
} villages and the average country tow
! consists Of one-story mud huts. 70
poor and illy-ventilaied for America
. pic-pens. You would not think
: having such outhouses as the res
! dences OF the majority Of this vas
2 population would make. and in lare
'. part OF India. and especially in 4
1 best part OF this Ganges country. Z
J. holdings average from two 10 thr'
y acres apiece At four 70 the fami
= this represents ham acre per perso
!, or over ]. 200 persons per square mil
r When II Is remembered that these Pc
= pie live BY agriculture il will be s.
4 that this condition i far worse IN
= that Of China or any part OF Enror
a And still the people are bright In
n are brainy. too. and you will find 4
Is SHARP business men. better
.. faces and more polite people N
~ these people Of India Their faces
81 this part OF India have much
e- same characteristics as those Of
W Anglo-Saxon. Those OF the higf
g. castes are more like those OF
~ Greeks. and see faces every 9
* which. il the skin were white.
he American might be proud 70 o.
lch They belong TO the same race &c
ca that we do. and under the same frs
- ing and Christian influences 8
ain would be strong competitors with
ned But what can man do on six cent
hiy day, or how can a man learn when
len has 10 struggle TO exist The pop
~ ton OF India is continually increasi
I've England eats the lions share OF
products Of the country. and tho'
re the people are perhaps better on IN
ore her government than they have 2
ing in the past. it is the same old story
ian her wealth going 70 the rulers
ar the people working their fe-h OF Y
? bones 10 support them. The 9
J. - ernor-General Of India who. BY
,ul- way. is the rich Marquis OF L
nds downe. gets 100000 year. Quit
hus contrast with the wages OF the ma
no. al six cents day. isn't it2-trans
Carpenter. in Boston Globe