The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-27

shooting black buck and birds on the
way. Arriving at Andy Whites,
would look the ground over, lay my
plans and destroy the elephants, devot-
ing only a single shot to each. and re-
turn home, finding there a fat bullock
Tom Lanan had sent me for destroying
the nan-eating tiger. candy White to
arrive in a few days, bringing the ele-
plants tusl1s, and q presently
The grass in my yard would be irri-
gated by means of a well. the water
drawn to the surface by a pair Of oxen
A mound would be erected on one side
Of the well, to give the oxen a down
hill pull in bringing up the water, ana
this mound. and the two earthen posts
on which the pully worked, would rer-
der the yard ugly, as is the case in every
private ground in India The water
von.d be distributed about my lawn by
means Of bitches, or by means Of tin
pipe.
Ny servants would live in dirt houses
covered with straw thatch, scattered
about my residence. These dirt houses
would be covered with coWchlps mace
into cakes by the women, ana piaceu
against the houses to dry, for fuel, as
the early settlers Of Kansas USED DuI-
falo chips for fuel. The wives ana chll-
dren of my servants would be scalteIeu
about my PREMISES the children NAKED,
and the women dressed in red, yellow,
blue or white sheets, with their races
hidden from prOfane eyes. Inese cos
tunes would not be as bright as N SIl-
entail pictures, but very dirty ana Iaoeu-
When guests came to visit me my ser
wants would expect tips, and faWn ana
almost cry for them Strange LOOKING
men would appear in front of my porcn'
and offer to entertain the guests Dy
making trees grow, or causing fa1
and snake to fight, ana IN otliet :
curious ways; the NJect pelns, u
course, tip. A servant would pre sss'Ls
my guests with flowers out OF my y9@iu
and expect pay for them. .-,a
And how warm the weather WOuIu
bet The sun would come up not So
/ morning for months. ana ousl 3 1et
/ cover everything: summer Would lds !
/ forever except cool spell. without lIoss
during December and January DAtllis
! the day. my house Would pc elsilI u
/ closed and darkened to keep IN me
! littIa- GOODNESS that came With the pre-
4 --io57e night At night, would near
nv servants coughing, for most OF tIleIl men
/ would have incipient consuhlp tloll, go y
! this coughing would keep Ine aWaz 80 q q
! 800 deal Occasionally plague "OuI y
/ 80 s,oonp my servants and carry OIL
J q LOT of them, and, owing 70 the ny
I oti19eta their bodies would be Durheu
/ Immediately. ,.,. ~, the night
+ra{1 ia see my friend, Ra1an john
80 servant would take bedding ana
/ fraVel with me. His outrt WouIo M
Guide a spirit lamp, for making lea' ~ ~
/ he would give me an carry "
| tea. cakes and fruit .,,7
favorite dish at my house Woulo
he rice and curry-rice cooked IN lhg
41s,,a1 way. and a hot curry poured
80 # don't know what curry IS
| evcer,t that it is very hot SoTnetiIlles
| If has meat in it; always Vegelaplss,
| and if is made in different ways ana
fs very good Il shall introduce the
rice and curry habit IN Atcnisoll ~ /
nv ret1Irn.) Most of my food Wouid
come from London, in tins, ana Lon
don would be three times further
aT-av than ii is from Atchison For
a month or two during the hot sea
son. would go into the mountain s,
and every two or three years "oulg
take a long journey to London, ana
ren7ain several months, to recuperate
nv servants would have many dir
! ferent religions, and do strange Jnings
in the name of religion. Their daugh-
tiers would marry at ten or twelve
that is, those that were kept. In some
nortions of India girl babies are
stranEled. IF one of my servants
should die. his widow would be ex-
pected to submit to being buried
alive. If she escaped that fate, her
life would be made miserable in some
other way.
If had garden, the servants
would pillow the ground with
( crooked stick. pulled by two oxen
Loads would be pulled on carts with
two wooden wheels; sometimes by
coolies sometimes by oxen. Occa-
sionally there would be great floods
in the river; frequently great famines
and always a great deal Of sickness
Every little field and garden patC5
would be perfectly level and sur
rounded with a low wall Of earth, tc