Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-04

The grove is literally alive with mon
keys of all sizes, of all capacities for
mischief. 1t is TO me an inexhausti-
BILE source of amusement to watch
them but especially at such times as
these they assume the dimensions OF
a nuisance. As my boy was cooking
my food under a tree Just now, an
old monkey wac perched on branch
hid behind the trunk waiting his
chance. Had not the boy been some
what Of monkey himself, matched
GINNING against cunning might now
instead OF writing this been lamenting
the loss of my dinner. The grove is
surrounded BY wheat fields. About
twenty all but naked small boys patrol
the edges Of the wheat fields with
strings and round mud marbles hard
as stone with which they admonish
the too adventurous monkey that it
is high time he was withdrawing TO
the top branch of the nearest mango
tree.
The village at which we are now en-
camped contains about $500 people
Is of whom are Christians. The
larger portion of our people belong TO
the lower or scavenger class. 1t so
happens that the Christians here all
come from this class. No one who
has never lived in India can form any
conception of the scorn, contempt with
which the ssbhaugis or sweeper is re-
garded by the higher classes. To
them the word describes thing ut
terly mean and worthless. A high
caste man would not call his mortal
enemy by such name 1t is among
these despised down-troddeD people
that we are DIT present doing our best
work, and we come in for u liberal
share of the venom heaped on these
people. We teach them and touch
them and so are in the eyes of the
high castles little better than they.
More than once on entering the vii.
lage / have been met by the best PEG
pie of the place and invited to their
houses to rest and have some milk and
talk with them. They have treated
me like king. Nothing can exceed
the good breeding of a cultivated Hin
du or Mohamedan gentleman They
are the very embodiment of all that is
polite and courteous. On taking leave
they have followed me until they saw
me turn into the sweeper quarters
and then with disgust unutterable
have turned and fed away. Many
times have felt the modification of
this reversal Of their opinions, SO
keenly that have had to instantly
lift my heart to Him en- whose errands
/ was going and in whose footsteps l
was humbly trying to follow, TO pre-
vent myself from fleeing Jonah like
from a hard duty. A missionary
must absolutely give up selfish pride
or it will soon end his mission
airy career. He must be willing to let
his ears burn and Jingle, and with
unsuffied soul go calmly about his
works amid insult and SANDER.
One has little difficulty on entering
a village, even for the first time, to
find out where the Christians live.
Eyes and nose both combine to give
evidence OF their presence. BY COM
mon consent all the filth and off scour-
ing Of the village is dumped near the
sweepers quarters; then. too, the pres
ence Of hogs is sure sign that you
are on the right path. No one in In
dia keeps swine save the sweeper
classes.
But in spite Of this fact it is no un-
common thing to find that the clean
est, neatest and best kept houses in
the whole village are those of our
Christians. Not long ago / was in a
village where the only person in the
entire village who could read and
write was sweeper Christian boy.
The naughty twice born Brahmans
and the proud descendent of the old
Moghal conquerors had to come to
this lowest Of the low castles to get
their post cards sent.
The country through which we have
been itinerating is just on the borders
Of a wolf infested territory. To the
west of US wolves abound in great
numbers. We saw the holes in the
hard ground at the edge of ravine,
Of a dozen or more of them but we
saw no wolves. But more general
and more harmful pest now is that Of
rats. The wheatfields in these parts
are Literally over run with them, and
they are making great havoc with the
ripening harvest. Cultivators are at
their wits end. Should it SO happen
that the black plague should get a
foothold in THESE parts the rats would
spread it far and wide and defy the
energetic efforts Of the Government to
stamp 1t out. The warm season is