The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-07-10

coat at his desk later in the day. He
is polite TO the 7 and a gentleman 70
the bone. He is sympathctic 10 "
poor Americans from the edge Of tho
world. A tailor objected strcnuously
to putting hip pockets in trousers but
at last consented with the remark,
"Oh! I forgot that you Americans still
live where you have to carry pistols.'
read an editorial in an English
magazine which spoke Of "the parts
Of America where English is still
spoken" An English doctor question
ed my going TO America. as should
not go to place where there was not
q pathological laboratory. The Eng
lishman is little inclined to say with
the Oriental and with few Ameri-
cans, III it has been done this way
for years, it is proved to be the best
way" | may surprise some Of you to
know that English law in India still
permits q man to collect interest ut
the rate Of 10 per cent per month or
even higher and sends the poor debtor
to Jail il he cannot pay it. l fought
through a law suit for poor black
servant; his crime (?) had been to
sign a note with fellow servant,
whose mother was sick and starving
over in India, for Rupees twenty
($666). At an interest Of 10 per cent
per month the note soon increased to
an amount which these men could not
pay out Of their wages Of Rs Is per
month. employed a lawyer and did
everything in my power, but the law
was all against me and in spite Of all
that ] could do, my man, one Of the
best black men that | ever knew. was
sentenced to Jail for six months by
English law.
l have in my folder clipping from
q current English newspaper in India
advertising for bids for the privilege
of collecting certain taxes. The man
who bids the highest gets the privilege
Of collecting all that he can and re-
tains for himself all that he can collect
over. | think | have read Of such a
system in very old book that l
possess.
The engineer of this boat spends
{ large proportion of his time playing
bridge in the smoking room and leaves
the engines to the assistants. None OF
the passengers were surprised when
suddenly something went wrong with
the propeller shaft. Something had
worked loose, naturally. And for "a
hours in mid-Pacific the engine was
not able to start and IL is now only
able to run slowly. |, with my own
eyes, saw the chief engineer down In
the engine room about two hours after
the accident, in his dress suit smoking
cigarettes. Fortunately the sea was
as calm as lake and still is. Do not
know what would have happened II
there had been a storm.
We have had two wireless calls for
aid, one from boat on fire and one
from a boat which had lost pro
peller. We turned around and steam
ed toward one Of thep all night but in
the morning had word that our help
was not needed.
Our visit to japan was most inter-
esting. was so i'll that we would
not have stopped in Japan but for the
fact that Mrs. BIS sister is there. We
had hard trip but good one. re-
mained at Tokyo while Mrs. b. went
north to Sendai and visited her sister
We have a great habit of making the
best of things, and it is great to have
good partner. She sat up three
nights out of four in a japanese sleep
err. and had only "a hours with her
sister. Hard enough, but we had
great many experiences and saw
much which we could not have seen
if she had been less brave, and now
neither Of us would have missed the
experiences for anything Three years
ago in Glacier Park she endured all
kinds of hardship5 for two weeks or
walking and camping, but 1t was the
most enjoyable two weeks OF our
lives. ! tell you it is great to have
good partner. And since ! have been
sick she has taken all Of the respon-
sibility and has handled II so well that
| feel as If there was not much need
Of me.
She says that do not write much
like a sick man. Well have not lost
courage for a minute; how could l
with a partner like that, am not very
sick now but just have this disease
which keeps we dragging along and
only able to just do very little. l
improved much in China, but do not
get well. If | can only regain my
La.Ith I ,pilI nat he gorrv for any,