Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-05-26

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Now the captain had for several days
been taking heavy fallsn out of his
compatriot and was delighted to take
one more. He answered that pure
English was found only in Dublin,
Ireland and Inverness, Scotland. The
man at my left subsidized for the time
being. Revenge came for us all dir
ectly aud effectively the night before
we reached Bombay. During dinner
some joker sent note to the obstre-
porous individual informed him that it
was always customary at the last din
ner on board for the man who sat OPP
posite the captain, to make little
speech and propose the health of the
commanding officer. All innocent
and guiltless he did the stunt, the sad
part was that many had left the dining
cabin so they lost the fun. The cap
tain played his part well. After DIM
ner our friend journeyed to the smok-
ing room where several who were IN
the game had gathered. He spoke up,
''I say theah don'tyer know didn't
know 1t was my place to propose the
toast" Now there was Lord Jetland
who because of his rank should have
done the honors. (They are great IN
England for recognizing the frank
est" person at all functions.) Well,
each man in turn expressed surprise
that he who had travelled so vastly
should be ignorant Of one of the A. b.
@. functions of all P. q y.
steamers. The one sad thing is that
the idiot is probably conscious that
one more social honor has been thrust
upon him owing to his propinquity to
greatness. Well, you get all sorts
along the line and after all, time
would drag were there not occasion
ally someone to be the 'goat." In
cidents Of the Journey were scarce.
We had a merry race with whale one
day. He was about seventy five feet
away from our port side and for fully
twenty minutes he kept up our pace
tho we we're going sixteen knots an
hour. Various estimates ranging
from twenty-five to forty feet were
given of his length-that is my first
story I believe. The one pastime
aboard the boat was cricket. shall
not attempt to describe the great
English national game, one feature
rather amused me, whenever man
is ''bowled out'', all the opposing
team stop and clap their hands. [
thought in my ignorance that they
we're "patting themselves on the
back" but was informed that it was
paying compliment to the batter.
Imagine a red-hot basel ball game and
at every put out, all hands giving a
sort of a Chautauqua salute to the
batter!
At nine o'clock Friday morning
March Is, we dropped anchor in
Bombay harbor. Our English cousins
had been warning us that
we should find it "jolly" hot
there. What was our surprise to find
that during the entire visit, we did
not suffer from the heat. Of course we
had to keep out of the direct rays of
the sun during the midday and al
ways wore our cork helmets or
'Topis"- we got on very COM
fortably.
We visited Mr.. and Mrs. Hunsberg-
er seminary class mates of mine who
are in charge of Mission school in
Byculla, a district of BombayY They
have about three hundred orphans Or
famine boys and girls under their
charge. We had a splendid oppor-
tunity to study the mission problem
at first hand. These children are be-
ing taught trades and manual training
as well as the common branches of
learning. The Christian teaching is
practical not theoretical. They are
taught the meaning of Christian
character. When you know that the
average native of India considers it a
disgrace to work and if he has any
religion, he doesn't connect it with
character,-then you may understand
how vital this work is. The mission
schools generally thruout India have
a higher standing under government
than do the native institutions be-
cause Of the product turned out.
Just q word Of the religions of
India. shall not attempt to give an
exhaustive resume of each, but con-
tent myself with giving the names of
the five leading religions. They are
the Hindu which is more or less in
digenous. In theory it's basic belief
in vague, mysterious, impersonal
spirit. They have sacred books in
which there are many beautiful things,
but the sacred books are not current
among the people. We generally