The Carlisle independent., 1909-10-28
Ewss wells, Letter.


 Er.ss wells Letter.
 Her letter to Arkansas, which in .lu3es a program of he reception tan dored he1 u Eikarabad, follows:
 Vika1abad, Decean, India,
 September Il, 1909 My Deal Friends.
 We reached Bombay early on tn morning of the 26sb of July. bus a. he docks were full. thers was a 2ood 6eal of delay about landing and if was hearlY noon before We set foot on land. PIbaps you think that we Wera not glad to leave the sea and ihe ship We had been 23 days with out once going ashore and when we did get on land Miss Doseh felt as much land-siek as she had felt sea-sick After leaving the ship this is very common. It is miserable feeling for | you walk the street S ems to reel and if you sie tie room seems to rock back and forth as the ship had done.
 Bombay $ the second largest city in India, having a po~u'ation of 982.o0o It is a very beautiful place. exc spt ii. the crowded native section. Il boasts of the most Deau iful railway station n the world and it has many other fine buildings. Being on the coast the air is most and when the fierce heat ot q tropical sun is added one has a sul try heat almost unbearable and very dangerous.
 Miss Smonds, my colleague in the work at Vikarabad, met us in Bom hay, and right 2 ad I was to see her She looked much worn by the heavy burdens she had heen carving, but has stood the strain of the work remark ably we'll We were able to gst our luggage cleared through the oustoms and leave the next afternoon, viz. Tuesday It was hard to Far. from Mss Davis and lave her to make ar SOD mile railway journey alone in a strange land. but t had to be so. She reported later that she reached Luck now without any unpleasant experi enses.
 She Describes Scenery.
 By staring in the afternoon we got 10 see the wonderful scenery as we crossed the Western Chats, the name ppligG to the low mountain r;s ge along the west coast of India. After we lad travelled an hour or so. the train began to climb and we were kept busy running from one side of the compartment to the other in older not Q miss anything of the gsaHdeur The hills were covered with trees and shrubs in every shade of green while valleys were terraced into ce felds From the very summits of the mour tains streams of water issued and pitched haedlong down the sides ir cascades, or as a roaring river, or when hindered in She way by rocks, as swift whirlpool One wa erfall was miniature Niagara with its spray rising Ike thick mist. If was the best possible time to see the Chats, for the rains had been failing for some time swelling the mounta streams into torrents and reviving all the yegeta tion. Finally we came to the reversing station. They say that when the rail road was laid they surmounted every obstacle. crossed every ravine, and either climbed or tunnelled every hill (wa counted 30 tunnels en roatel until thev came to this place. where it seemed impossible to go any further. Then they conceived the idea of turn, ing around and going farther up the sama hill, where they found way out of the difficulty Always heretofore have traveled the road at night and I little dltamed of what beautiIul sights I was missing.
 she Finds Americans
 We reached Poona about dark and stepped there to eat dinner with the Vickcrvs who came to India from Scranton Pa, last wear. Poona is a large military station and our chur, ! is represented there by church for English speaking people, 2 srool for English and Eurasiap girls. an orphan- age for Eurasian children conducted on faith principles. a native girls school run in the same way oy re- markable native woman, and some evangelisiic work among the native people.
 Continuing eur journey that night we reached Vikarabad the next after noon and found all the missionaries, assistants and many of tie Biblewomen 1 and native preachers at the station to i welcome us. The ox-eart in which we were to ride was gaily festo9ned and | the oxen wore neektles Of bflgm buht | ing. When we Heared the house we | could see the school girls lined on both sides of the driveway which leads | from the road 10 the house. As soon as I got out of tie cart they all crowd i ed around and each one had to have q 1 kiss. There were nearlv 60 of them An | arch had been erected over tine front entrance bearing words of welcome in oriental eooring.
 ! Thor told us to be ready for some thing or other at 6 o'clock that even ing and vixen we came ont on the ve- randa there was a great crowd gath cred around chair which lad been balanced on two long bamboo poles. They insisted that l must sit in the chair and after finding that protesta- lion avaiiod nothing, took my seat.