The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-14
maids with seven mops

IlS bludlbs I'VE BOdtS,
'I..s children and a wife be-
,..sr ... evening mists were chilly.
H.. .H Was builded on the mud
..ouy.a .um q green and smelly tank
and ,r... were microbes in the thin
blood Rum Buksh.
Ram H..-h went to bed on a char
poy .... .,d across the blue tepid
drain .N usc the nights were hot
and '. H,re more microbes in his
byul the rains came, and Ram
Huk.I ai'Di mid-thigh deep in
va'ur .. 0 day or two with his buff
fslu,- H, was aware OF cramp-
some g.. ..- 90 the pit Of his stomach.
"N.... .t my children" said Ram
H.,. is death" They gave
Dam ums ana capsicum, and
-.-, and cloves. and they
r.s U. "lt is enough" said
E.m 2ad he twisted himself
l, uI died and they burned
fr the wood was damn
.a.f -. OF HIM floated down the
r... Was caught in an under
cures. ., bank, and there stayed
0Ht Imam Din, the jewelle'
Hra. stream five days later he
irars ana passed away. crying
IN van ...l his gods.
bis ..v did not report his death
go .. municipality. for they desired
,o h... um Din with them. There
fore .. buried him under the
Algl 'H, courtyard secretly and
nyu-.. Twelve days later Imam Din
had m'.. .ouncction with the well Of
ue a.-. and there was typhus
lmou- .. women in the zcnana. but
300 '.. ..." anything about it-some
dIal -mr did not; and Ari Booli.
..r ..... added to the interest of
h, r....In-- by joining the funeral
process md distributing gratis the
m.rs H'-uJnt forms Of smallpox
from H..u he was just recovering.
Hs ata come al the way from Delhi
AVID .. slept on no less than fifteen
dfi'r.. rharPoys. and that was how
they -.' Oh" smallpox into Bahia
iur-ar. But Eshmith Sahib's Dhobi
picked 30 up from Art Booi when
Imam hu wife was being buried
for 30" WAS merry man. and sent
home beautiful sample among the
sunday shirts. So Eshmith Sahib
died.
H.. Vas only a link in the chain
which ouWl"d from the highest to the
lowest. The wonder was not that men
died Ike sheep. but that they did not
die like flies; for their lives and their
surroundings, their deaths were part
II "a huge conspiracy against cleanli.
ness And the people loved to have Il
so. They huddled together in frowsy
clusters while Death moved his way
tnr"u-h them Till the scvthe blunted
.-a.u-' the unresistinG flesh and he
Dad Zoo Let a new one. They died by
'"v'r tens Of thousands in a month:
they decd 10y cholera, "A thousand in a
Week they died of smallpox. scores in
'.' m..u..a. and by dysentery by tens
10 % i.#.o. and when all other deaths
failed they laid them down and died
nscaU-, their hands were too weak to
held ur to life.
To aud fro stamped the English
man. w.u Is cverlastingly at war with
'le -C..w. # things. You shall not
DIE D.. sud. and he decreed that there
should '. uu more famines. He poured
-ra.u down their throats, and when
I'D failed .. went down into the strife
and DICED with them, swearing and toll
n-. ..I working till the last. lie
i0u-. '.a famine and put it To flight.
TH.U wiped his forehead and at
Aoa-. ..' prStilencc that walketh in
The a.|.muSS. Deaths sCythe swept
Zoo and r., around and about him, but
ho 0... planted his feet more firmly
30 tae H.y Of lt, and fought off Death
villa '"- whip. Live, you rutiian"'
said '.' En-lishman to Ram Buksh as
0e Poodle through the reeking village.
'J'u1. said Ram Buksh, "it is as 1t
Was nh, days of our fathers" Then
stand lack while l alter it," said the
En-l.-Nwlu, and by force and cunning
and brutal disregard of vested in
''g'~'- III" strove to keep Ram Buksh
'IN" Clean your mohullas, pay for
clean water keep your streets swept
ana -." That your food is sound, or
lI make Your life a burden to you"
said '., Englishman. Sometimes he
'"d. Nut more often Ram Buksh went
H0Wn Hl tho Englishman regarded
'tch death as a personal insult.
'S....r there" said the Govern
m"u' H India. you're twisting his
TAIL lu mustn't do that. The spread
~ education forbids, and Ram Buksh
is AN .'',IIigont voter. Let him work
"u' .- own salvation"
Him. said the Englishman with
DIS .0i IN "a hidden; collectively
YOU always We're a fool. Here, Ram
H3fs. .." Sirkar says you are 10 do
al 'a'. things for yourself"
"J"a.H says Ram Buksh, and fell
'' Ir..Nng microbes with renewed
Ngor
CURIOSITY enough. it wa, in the
centre Z enlistment that he prose-
N.'" experiments most energet-
.".'. I'VE education had been spread,
.' ISL ...ly that it could not disguise
Ntn .-H'S natural instincts He
created n African village and said it
WAS lh Of thc universe, and all
"' r' t all the roads failed to
NV m that he was not the most