The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-14


ed Universities, and he made speeches
and talked Of Hindu social reform l.
English ladies In evening dress, TIL an
London cried. This is the most IaS-
Cinatiug man We have ever met at am
ner since cloths were first laid Waen
he returned TO India there was a haze
OF glory, for the NiCeToy himself made
a special visit TO confer upon the Naha-
Taiah the Grand Cross Of the star of
india all diamonds diamonds apd r., H.
the same Ger mony while the
cannon doomed, purun Dass was made
knight Commander OF the order Of the
Indian Empire. 50 that his name stood
Sir Purun Doss, * &. J. r.
That evening az dinner I'm the big
Niceresa of his olden tent he stood up
breast and, replying 70 the toast OF his
masters health, made speech few
Englishmen could have surpassed.
Next month when the city had returned
% its sunbaked quiet he did a thing no
Englishman would have dreamed doing
for, so Tar as the worlds affairs went.
he died. The leWcled order Of his knight
hood went back 10 the Indian govern
menI and new Prime Minister was
appointed to che charge Of affairs, and
great game Il General Post began in
all the subOTd nate APPOINTMENTS. The
priests knew what had happened and
the people guessed, but India s the one
place In the world where a man can do
as ne pieases and nobody asks why; and
the fact that DeYan Sir Purun Daes X
&. J. e.. had resigned position. palace
and power. and taken up the beg ling
bow and ochre- COlOTed dress of a Sunny
asi or holy man. was considered nothing
extraordinary. lie had been as the Old
Law recommends, twenty years youth
twenty years fightcr-thOush he had
never carried a weapon in his lifc-and
twenty years head Of a household. He
had used his wealth and his power Tor
what he knew both to be worth; he had
taken honor when II came his way; he had
seen men and cities far and near and
men and cities had stood up and honored
him Now he would let all these things
20 as a man drops the cloak ne no long
or needs.
BEHIND him as he walked through the
city gates an antelope skin and brass
handled crutch under his arm, and a
bcgging-bowl Of polished bron COCO de
mer in his hand barefoot, alone. with
ewes cast on the ground-bchind him
they We're fixing salutes from the basti-
ohS IN honor OF his happy successor. Pu-
run Dass smiled. Al that life was end
ed; and he bore IL no more ill VIII or
good viii than a man bears 10 q coiorless
cream OF the night. he was a sunnyasi
"a houteiess wondering mendicant, de-
pending on his neighbors for his daily
bread. and so long as there is morsel
10 divide M India neither priest nor beg
gar starVes. lie had never in his life tast-
ed meat. and very seldom eaten even fish
n NV ltbhttA Nplt WONl1 nave fONtIth
his personal expenses for food through
any one OF the many years I'm which he
was absolute master of millions of mon
ey. Even when he was being lionized In
london he had held before him his
dream OF peace and quiet-the long, white
dusty Indian road printed all over with
bare feet, the incessant slow-moving
traffic, and the sharp smelling wood
smoke curling up under the fig-trees in
the twilight. where the wayfarers sat
al that evening meal.
When the time came TO make that
dream true the Prime Minister took the
proper steps. and In three days you
might more easily have found bubble
In the trough OF the big Atlantic seas
than Purun bass among the rowing. gath
ering, separating millions OF India. At
night his antelope skin was spread where
the darkness overlook him-sometfmes In
? sunnyasi monastery by the roadside;
sometimes by mud pillar Shrine of
Skala Pr. where the Jogis, who are am
bthsr misty division of holy men. would
receive him ~ they DO men who know