The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-16

would never. adopt 1t now: Paying
moro attention TO the low caste people
has not blocked our way with the high
caste, for no missionaries baptize moro
"nIou CASTE CONVERTS THAN WEI
Tho Bishop did not think tho Amcri-
can Mcthodists would DO much edited
by the way tho Indian converts observ-
cd tho Sabbath. They will not steal,
bear fnlso witness, commit adultery or
swear, but they cannot grasp in Its on.
tiroty tho idca OF tho Christian Sabbath.
IIc arrived one time in avillage OF con-.
ycrts, and saw tho women sitting before
their doors, spinning They did not
think that was work. Tho mon will
ccasc their daily adyocations until they
have attended church, and upon their
return from meeting will think nothing
OF doing servilc labor. But tho con-
ycrted Indian Is u sworn enemy OF tho
deceitful booze, and in community OF
five thousand native Christians he knew
OF only two who were disciplined dur
ing tho year that ho was there. Mono
had been caught gambling, though the
natives OF India arc fond OF gunles OF
chance. Some globe trotters and some
military men had said that tho Meth
odist converts were nothing but packs
of drunkards, but these witnesses, the
Bishop said, had not been out in tho
country among tho people.
The American girls smiled in ap-
prevail when tho missionary told them
that the members Of their Sex in India,
ut least those who had been converted,
were beginning to know something OF
their natural rights, and sometimes re-
fused to marry thcmen their parents
had selected for them. The bishop
knew OF
FIFTY YOUNG GIRLS
eighteen years old, who were not mar
ricd, and didn't intend TO take a hus-
band, either, until they got ready.
Child marriage among the converts was
getting rarer every day, tho audience
was glad to hear. Tho bishop thought
it would be good thing il 500 Ameri-
can girls wcrc sent over to India to teach
the women.
1t seemed strange, in this land OF
butcher shops and green grocers, to
listen to an account OF the food with
which tho poor inhabitants stilled their
hunger. Five cents day being the nv
oragc wages, OF course it stood to reason
that there was not much chance for
luxuries. When tho native woman's
husband turns over to her his wages,
and it is about time to go to market,
she starts out with coin Of the value
OF thrcc-iourths OF q cent, divided into
sixty-four cowrics. With much trepi-
dation, lest she may be getting eXtrava-
CANT, she enters the little shop OF the
village. Here she haggles a long time
over tho purchase OF little piece OF salt
rs big as a hazel nut. or even as small
as Z grain OF wheat, salt being q great
luxury to the poor soul. A red pepper
or two and couple OF vegetables she
brings home with tho salt, and having
in her leisure moments gathered some
weeds for greens, she is ready. to cook
dinner. The rice the family has raised
is to be the piece de resistance, as it is
for all the days OF the year, and while
boiling this she puts the red pepper
and the weeds in, and the meal is soon
ready. For supper-theytake only two
meals day-tho family eats sort OF
cake made OF nillet seed.
PROSPECTS, THE VERY BRIGHTEST.
Schooling is cheap in India, and a
years education for boy costs about
fifteen dollars. Native preachers, or
pastor teachers, as they are called, come
cheap. Apretty fair one can be hired
for twenty-five or thirty dollars year,
a better grade brings fifty, and a pastor
teacher who understands English fairly
well and has to buy books, and who
subscribes to an English paper, gets as