The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-06-25
From Tuesdays Daily.

Bearing the race tint of the Hindoo
sun upon his Caucasian features, Fe-
roT Mody. a travelling salesman who
deals in tea, was visitor at the Helm
rich this morning. who was readily
noticeable among the other guests. lie
is a full blooded scion OF that race,
but the English that he speaks Is very
good indeed. He showed I'm his CON
versatiOn that he was man of more
education than the average American.
Il speak English. French. Spanish.
japanese. Mohammedan. Sanskrit, 70
rOastrian. Hindustani Oorder. Chinese
and other tongues" said Mr.. Mody to
q Free Press representative lie took
a piece OF paper and wrote his name
and address in several Of the different
languages. Some read from right to left
and other from left to right. and some
I'm column from the top down. They
looked like specimens of different
shorthand systems.
Here In my Bible" said he, taking
n small book from his grip. II have
caride this since 1872. II belonged to
my grandfather. but have had il re-
bound. This we call the KhCrdeh-
Avasta. Ii is written In Zoroastrian
and il Ia the Bible OF the Zoroastrian
religion. Some pople say that we wor-
ship the sun and fire. We do no such
thing. but we worship God through the
sun and fire. We regard the sun, fire
and water as the hottest things.
Observes Religion BY Self.
I'm all the seven years nave trav-
eled i'm America. ! have not met an
ether Xoroastrian in this country. So
Keep by Bible. and observe my re-
ligion by myself. have met some
other people OF my country i'm Chicago
but they are Hindus. They are there
to study. can meet them and talk
with them. but they are of differ
ent caste from myself. I belong to the
Parsi caste, whose religion is the
Horoastrian. The two ether great
castles are the Mohammedan and the
Hindu. the latter being OF the Brah-
man religion. or course these great
castles are subdivided.
The Parsis do not eat meat. but In
my travels find ! have tn eat Il. You
see In my business ] have to board
where ] can. and ! must eat what
there Is.
Visits India Every Two Years.
i nave been going back from
America to India every two years and
staying about three months at my
home In Bombay. But ] have not been
back for two years. do not like to go
back. for ! might be required to serve
in the army as Great Britain is at
war. My wife came over with me when
/ tn
from England on the Lusitania. I have
two children living in Bombay, a girl
OF fifteen and boy of ten. My wife Is
living ut Council Bluffs. Iowa.
You ask whether the people of In
dia like the British government. They
do not. Americans do not understand
the conditions. The English keep the
poor down. They do not furnish them
with free schools. where the English
language can be learned. A child must
! pay three dollars a month I'm such
| schools. Now. the poor laborers have
tn work for about ten cents a day. So
you can see how impossible Il is for
poor laborer to get his children
taught In the English schools. A train
guard-you call them conductors I'm
this country-gets a salary OF SIS a
| week.
Don't Like English Rule. '
Our princes are extremely wealthy.
They stand In with the British gov
eminent. But there is no chance for
The Door and little chance for the mid
die classes. No. We do not like the way
the English rule us.
You have n great and splendid
country here. the best In the world.
There Is no other place where a man
| mas chance as he has I'm America.
i have travelled over much OF the
world. ! have been In Germany. China
and Japan. In my return trips to India