THE. OREGON J SUNDAY j6URNAli.I3?ORTINIV ; : SUNDAY;: MORNING, JULY '-7J. 1S07,'
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Br John Kendrlck Bangs.
(Copyright, 17, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
. .-m ATURALLY beln' a red'rei or
44 1 I flceholder," Mid the poatmM
tar, plastering the cut In his
thumb with a 1-csnt lUmp,
"I ain't t: ":ln' any aid In thla
here question aa to whether
a hungry chipmunk really could bit tha
heart out o a bull mooae or not I'm
here to aell postage atampa and to aee
that no thlrd-claat matter goes out that
ain't lit readln' fer the young. But I
hev my opinion on the subject, which,
protected by the aacred confldenee of
theae here gatherln'a around the stove,
I don't mind aayln' la wholly faVrable
to the president o' the United States.
I don't believe the chipmunk could do
It not from the outalde, anyhow."
Them'a my aentlmenta." aald 81
Wotherapoon. "I'm a Democrat, but In
thla emergency I a tend by the admin-.
titration.
"He mlaht ha' done It from the In
aide, ' continued the poatmaater, but
not from the outalde. If that there
chaplain o' the ' Nature Fakirs' union
had jm Id that hla chipmunk had found
lull mooae lyln aaleep aomewhere
nia mourn open ana nsa run down
nroai an nmnea nim nv tha hurt.
an' then anawed nia war out uruln T
in i s-sayin dui wnai meDoe it mignt
of happened."
"What you talkln' about, Joe?" put
In the captain. "It warn't a chipmunk
an a bull mooae. It waa a woodchuck
an a carioon. n' I aay without no an-
K Jhls i
9
aire to curry faror with the prealdent
that the thing never happened, became
woodchuck ain't what they call a gae
tronomlc animlle."
"That'a a new one on me," aald 81
s Wotherapoon. "I thought gastronomy
had aomethln' to do with the moon and
the stars."
Jackass Pdetry.
"Haw-haw!" laughed the captain.
'That aaatronom.v. St. When we aee a
Jackaaa brayln' at the moon, he's got
aastrononilc longinga in hts breast, an'
la blattin' out all of the poetry he
knows. Gastronomy Is the aclence of
eatln' meat, an' woodehuclcs don't eat
nothln' but greon things, like cabbages,
an' lettuce, an' graas. I did aee one.
tryln' to eat a waterln' pot once, beln"
deluded by Its color Into thiakln1 It waa
aome new-fangled kind ' salad, bat be
g1a It up-when he'd, got through tha
paint, an' found tha thing made o tin,
.rA.ny?l?w ",nfe woodchucks don't aat
meat, its few-tUe to aay that one of
-"' "irwi ine carinou from hla bow
uu. ruoa nia throat with hla hind
legs. sj'. steadyln' htaaelf by holdln' on
to hla tall with hla forepawe. bit hla
I in WD. I WOUlAn'f hAllAM 1 ....
It ? r r naa arter-davyg from all
.... ujun m lQa worm rroro oia row
hattan down to them college boya that
cornea to the Ine-lenook anmtnar
life hldjeoue with their Co
2"nc,n". TJla and aonga about their
Bonnie lyln' over the ocean."
"I'm arlad to hear vnH ik aa vmi
dp. captain." aald the poatmaater. oom
plaeently. "Aa the repreaentatlve of
the United Statea govment In theae
P.".V" 1 ,ort 01 delicate po
sition In rerarrl to thla anlmlla laaua
I want 10 Da loyal tn th' nr.Mant an1
at the same time I hat to aarrlflp nar.
auuai inrnoinin on in airara nr nniitiAa
It's nice to know that Irreeneetlve of
pany rinauons we are united In tha
support of our peerleaa leader at
wasn
"Hold on. Jna" uM tha rafttath nnt
ting hla hand gently on the arm of tha
postmaster. "Better save all that peer
leaa leader stuff for the heat of a p'llt
Ical campaign. It goea better on the
atump than from the top of a barl o'
prune In time o' peace. 'Taint good
policy to turn on the gas afore you're
ready to light It"
"we don't see many caribou around
here theae days," aald 01 Wotherapoon,
aa a aort of relief to the situation.
Sapphlra the Caribou.
ManyT" laughed the poatmaater. 1
gorry, ye don't aee none. I ain't aee
one for ao long that I don't know 'a
I'dknow 'twas a caribou if one of 'am
ahould walk in here an' aak for a plug
o' terbacker."
"They ain't been none for 10 Tears."
aald the captain, moodily. "SaDDbira
waa the last one."
SaoDhlraT" asked SI Wotheraooon.
and the poatmaater In one voice. i
"iep, aald the captain. "Sapphlra.
waa the net caribou of mine that I
used to keen out on the farm. Ha waa I
the uaefuleat animlle I aver aee. an It'
alwaya been a wonder to me that oon
elderln' their Intelligence an' e'ceptlbll-
uy 10 irainin ror tne uaerui ocevna.
tlona o' life they ain't been no aclentiflo
move to domesticate 'em."
"I never knowed re had a nat pari.
bou. Cap." said the poatmaater, with a
wink at me. "Where'd ye git hlmf
'I caught him youna un in Penob-
acot." replied the cantaln. "Lemma sea
I think it waa In th winter o' 1896
I waa up on the Penobscot loaerln'. It
waa a terrible cold winter. The anow
waa tnutty feet deep moat everywhere
an' loggln wasn't no game fer a dancin'
master, I can tell ye: but we had to
do.lt Just the same. I went ud with
Ha Woa-ley an' old Jim Wotherspoon
Bl'a uncle up at Bangor. Wogley he
disappeared after the flrst week, but
Jim an' me we stuck to It all through
the winter. I remember it waa aome
where along about the middle of Jan
uary that I waa waked up one night by
a terrlflo moanln' goin' on in the woods.
Jim heard It too, but he waa for for
gettln' it. an' goin' to eleep again. I
wasn't p'tlcularly Interested about a-et-
tln' up an' goin' out to helD nobodr
yself, seeln aa how It waa anowtn'
feather beds, an' the th'mom'ter ao low
ye could hear the mero"nr ellrkln'
against the bottom o' the glasa bub.
But I got up an' went out Just the same,
fer the voice sounded sorter like He
Woggely's, an' I thouaht mehha he'd
got a lettle 'shamed o' hlaaelf for goin'
off an' leavln us in th' lurch, an' waa
tryln' to get back, an' been overtook by
the storm. Bo, 'a I aay, I got up, an'
put on my duds an' went out with a
v aVw?5r
''ea-JeVi.w Xi H If i II
m m m m mm w m -e
w yy v
lantern callln' out: Heal O Hex! They
waan't any anawer at first an' after
lookln' around I started back, when
I waa si most frote by a blood-curdlln'
groan from the distance. Thla time
It kep' up, until I waa able to trace
it down the trail to a place where the
treea were thlcker'n usual, an' there I
found Bapphira."
"uood name, that," aald the poatmaater.
Imprisoned by Horns.
"Howd ye know . hla name waa Sap-
phlrar asked 81. He dldn t hand ye
hla vlsltin' card did he?"
"No," aald the captain, undisturbed
bv the Insinuation. "I named him
Sapphlra myself because he'd deceived
ma into thinkln' he waa Hex Wogley.
But there he waa, a prieoner. He'd
ketched his horns In the trees, an' he
couldn't get 'em loose, an' by alow de
grees the heavy snow that was fallln' j
waa covertn' him up. By the time I got 1
to him he was buried up to hia neck. An
hour more, 'n he'd been out o' sight"
"Poor feller," said tho postmaster,
aym pathetically. "Yon come along Juat
in time, aa usual, didn't you Cap?"
"Precisely," said the captain. "Just
in time, for as 1 upled him he fainted.
His strength was tmed up, and he waa
all in. The first thing I did waa to
take out my saw an' saw off the
branches that had ketched him by the
horna, an" then I took my shovel an
dug the snow away, so'a when he come
to he'd be all rlf?ht. When I'd got
that done, seeln' that he waa pretty nearl
ly frose stiff, I built two bonfires out
o' driftwood on both sides of him.
dashed a cup n' cold wnler In his face,
an' rut his feet higher 'n his head,
which Is th" best tiling to do when
anybody faints. It restorea the clrcy
lation o' the blood. Hlmcbv he come to,
an' I Just sat there an' hrld his hoof In
my hand, an' patted him kind of affec
tionate on his neck, nn' scratched his
forehead like ye would a kitten's, an'
the first think I knowed he was purrln'
away juet like he liked It He actohally
licked my hand, an' his poor tongue was
so di v it took the skin off. so I pulled
out my flask full o' Duhsworth unfer
mented rye tonic, and dllutln' it with a
handful o' snow, poured It down hlit
throat, an' he turned over an' went to
aleep like a baby.
Gratitude of a Caribou.
"Well, air," aald the caotaln, address
ing me after a pause, "from that time
on that caribou was mine. Talk about
gratltood beln' a human virtue! Ye
needn't tell me that carlboua properly
treated ain't got It strong. When morn
ln" come an Sapphlra waked up, he
come trottln' along to where I was chop
pin' down treea, an' from that time on
ye couldn't get him to leave me; an'
useful! Oee, but he beat everything!
To begin with, when we'd got a cord o'
wood all chopped up, an' ready to be
hauled away, we didn't have to wait fer
the team. We'd Juat pile the stuff up
on Sapphlra's horns a hull cord at a
I time an' he'd scoot alone with It to
where the big aledgea and atone boats
I waa atandln' an' m it ahnar1 without
loaln a atlck. Then we'd naa them
horna to hang things on. Dinner palla,
bverooats, hata anything we'd ordi
narily hang on a tree, so that when It
come time to eat Instead of havln' to
hont up the tree where our thtnge waa
hanging we'd whistle to Sapphlra, an'
he'd come bouncln' along like a happy
achoolboy playln' he waa workln'. Ex
cept on one occasion he waa of great
help to Jim and me, an' conslderln' how
much he done for us takln' the hull sea
son through, we forgive him hla one
little departure from the paths of rec
titude. "Te ee when night come on. with
the thermom'ter regiiterln' all the cold
It could, en' pleadin' for aeven or eight
more lnchaa & degrees to git at the
real truth, Jim an' me used to let
Sapphlra come into the cabin an' sleep
on the floor 'longslde of us. An' I tell
ye he waa better 'n a atove. Tho
amount of animlle heat he give out
would ha' turned a steam radiator green
with envy, an' ye didn't have to keep
tendin' to it either. No gettln' up a 4
o'clock In the mornln' to put another log
in the atove. No goin out into the
woods after klndlln' to git things
started. No plpea freetln' one minute,
an' buatln' the next. All we had to
do waa to draw up a leetla closer to
Sapphlra an' ferglt It twasn't summer.
The only trouble was that Sapphlra was
altera hungry, an' one mornln' while
Jim an' me waa aaleep he caught sight
y the straw an' hay stlckln out of a
bole tn Jim's mattress, an' when we
woke up he'd eat up pretty nearly all
the atuffln' In Jim's bed. Jim was
Dretty mad about it at first, an' wanted
me to give him a good larrupln". an'
aort o' harped on It all day, but the
next night when Sapphlra eat my mat
tress, too, he come down off hla ro
venreful nerch an' thought It was a
pretty good Joke."
Did Chores on Farm.
"Ain't It funny how the Joke on the
other feller's altera a good one?" aald
the poatmaater.
"Yea," aald tne captain, some joaes
allera funny, an' aome ain't. Ilow-
Bomever. Sapphire stuck to us all win
ter, and by Jlngs if he didn't foller me
home when I come back, an' for three
years he atayed mere on my rami
doln' more chorea than any 10 hired
men an' a team. He'd haul the plow
for me Juat like a hoss or an ox. When
the hay waa cut he'd go out an' toss
It with them horna o' hla like he had a
dnsen pitchforks onto hla head. Him
an' me together could load four wagons
with hay while the hired men waa tam-
ln' how to load one. An' patlentl My
goodness that feller Job waa a victim
of the brain storm habit alongside o'
Sapphlra. My wife used to make him
stand out In the sun for six to ten
hours a dav with tableclothe an' sheets
a-dryin' on his horns, an' he never even
give a algn of not Ilkln' It; and when
my grandson waa born we used to
wing him In a hammock between two
o Sapphlra a antlers, ana that there
caribou would rock him to and fro for
hours, without stampln' his foot or
fivln' an impatient wriggle of hla tall,
tell ye. I'll never have another pet
like Sapphlra, caribou or dog."
"But what became of him. captain?"
I asked. "I ahould like to Bee him."
"So ahould I," sighed the captain.
"But I never will nor you, either. He's
gone forever."
The captain brushed the back of his
hand roughly over his eyes.
"No, sir, ne'a gone forever." he con
tinued huskily. "Ye see, the trolley
come through the next year, an' I, like
a dern fool, gave 'em a right o' way
along the back o' my pasture. They
told me the track would attract all the
Ughtnln' on my place, an' my barn an'
house would thereby escape beln' struck,
so I give It to 'em, an' about alx months!
fftir..uleT 15 I fl11, M gepehtr
took It Into hla head one-day to go down
an' lnveat gate It. How enV t d2 ,
It I don't know, but ha waa foolish.
wire" 0 Mm horn c"ttMJ,
death r 1 Wld" "XnA WM h
Slid Off Like a Troflej. '''""
"Not a bit of If aald the eaptaln.
"Te couldn't kill old Bapphira with',
nothln' like eeleotrlolty. He was too
trong for that. What did happen waa)
wuaa. The minute hla horns got hooked
on tha ' wire the power carried htm
awlngin' down the road at a mil a
minute. He knew aomethln' queer bad
happened the minute he got goin', an'
he tried to braoe hlaaelf on the ralla.
He put hla off hoofs on one rail and hla
nigh hoofs on tha other, an' the first
thing he knowed ha was scootln' off
down tha track, elidln' along, an' belUr.
in' with wrath, Ilka a streak of greased
thunder."
"You don't mean to say " I began
excitedly. ' '
"I mean to say that the last wa seen
n' Sapphlra," said tha captain grim I v,
"he waa atreakln' along them tracks Ilka
a trolley car exoeedln tha speed limit,
like he and them had been lied, an' his
horna hooked on tha wire, an' no war
this side o' Kennebunk or turnln' tha
power off. You might's wall her tried
to catch a telegram as gat aholt of him,
an' after chastn' along for aa hour try
In' to ketch up I quit."
"And you never heard of hint again?
I orled. .
"Yes," said the captain. Ther was
an account In a Boston paper ot how
what they called a Trolley Caribou had
been seen scootln' through Salem, $9
miles away, that afternoon, but when
I got there and aaked about It I couldn't
git no satisfaction. Even the editor of
the paper that printed the atory of tha
Trolley Caribou said he thought It waa
a lie, an' was goin' to bounce the feller
that wrote It as a Nature Fakir."
The captain rose up and bade us all
a sorrowful good night.
"I aay, SI," aald the poatmaater after
the captain had gone, "I'll give ye a
stamp If ye'll writ to your uncle Jim
and aak him if that ever happened."
"I ain't got his addreas." said Si. -
"What! Don't aou know where your!
own uncla ljve af 1 .demanded the poet-J
master. ' I
"Not now," aald El. "He'e dead."
"That's a common habit amongst tha
captain'a witnesses," growled tha post
master. "I hope I don't never aee noth
ln' ex-tryordlnary along; with him."
Missions Are Worth While on Ceylon's Spicy Isle
Br William T. Ellla
Vp7ti(ht, 1907, bf Joupb B. Bowler)
aOLOMBO. Ceylon. Reginald Heber
(hns taught more people than have
the gengraphlea that there Is auch
V a place aa Ceylon, and he haa de
terminer! their Impression of it
For everybody knows hla hymn, "From
Greenland's Icy Mountalne," which runs
"What though the eplcy breeaes
Blow aoft o'er Ceylon'a Isle,
Where every proepect pleaaea,
And only man la vile."
That Is a trifle hard on Ceylon, but
It has forever marked this island aa
Identified with Christian missions. And
thev are here, not so apparent, remaps
as the pleasing prospects for thla la a
singularly beautiful land, hut still easily
discern hie to s seeking eye. The first
signs of Christianity In this land of
palm, spices and tea are the lofty
church splrea of Colombo, the next the
etlver crosses aoout tne necas or ae
diving boya.
The Diving Boys of Colombo.
As the ocean liner approaches her
moorings she Is surrounded by a fleet
t home-made canoes containing native
hoys, crying: "Dive! Dive! Ten cents!
All right! All right! Dive! Dive!"
'JVnd wonderful little ar.iphiblous animals
ung coin clear to the bottom of the
rT indulging ma rigni unoer water
fnrTaesslon or it. Given opportunity,
one or tne lustrous-eyea urcninB wun
the sun-bleached hair will dive 30 feet
from the shin b rail in pursuit of a coin
,ong after the passengera have wearied
of the amusement the boya will atlll
surround the ahip with their crlea and
teir ort-reneatea song, i a-ra-ra-Doom-de-ay,"
until the traveler la quite ready
to aasent to tho hymnwrltera declara
tion that the Singhalese are "vile."
These boya are mostly Roman Catho
lics, as are nine tenths of the Christiana
in the island. So effective haa mission
work been that Christians are always in
cluded by the natives In any enumera
tion of the religions of Ceylon. Ten per
cent of the Island's population of 3.600,
000 people la Chriatlan. The prevailing
faiths are In thla numerical order:
Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan and
Christian. Except for the croases and
dcapulars (the natives do not wear
clothes enough to conceal their scapu
lars) the ChrlstianB may not be known
fcy any outward token. In the case of
men, they commonly wear long hair and
tne como on iop or tneir heads, wnlcn
gives them a Mephlatophellan appear
ance; the poorer people are naked to the
waist or wear only a breech-clout.
The same Is true of the tuddhists.
The Hindus are Tamils from India, and
are smeared on face and body with vari
ous sect marks in ashes. The Tamil
rlngswomen wear nose rings, bracelets,
finger rings, anklets and toe rings. The
jUahommedan men wear turbans or fes
raps and their women, at least of the
better class, go veiled.
The Singhalese are a fine-looking, but
nomewhat feminine people. With good
featurea, an erect carriage and lithe,
well-formed bodies, shining in the aun.
these aoft-eyed men look like philoao
nhers: it is distinctly a shock to find
that practically everyone you meet Is
either quick to Deg a gratuity or skillful
jn cheating you. The children, veritable
tiacg cneruDB, run arter your carria-,
touching their foreheads -"id crying.
io mommer, got no popner. rieaae
fer. penny." It is not walling men.
ancy: the persistent little beggara are
11 the wlule trying to smile the money
it of your pockets. But the spirit of
ervllJty seems fireneral; self-respecting
JnuepenaeuuD ia a quality cmeiiy nuiuuie
)for Its absence. '
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T.M.CA'aS.OF.CEYLo.
A False Tooth Worshiped.
This Is a center of Buddhism. It is
to Kandy. the ancient , capital, that
Buddhists make pilgrimages from all
pvar the island, and alga from India.
Our Buddhist guide naively Informed us
that "All the world comes to Kandy
every full moon." For at Kandy la the
famous shrine containing Buddha's
tooth. The tooth that Is annually dis
played Is bogus, the original having
been taken away and destroyed by the
Portuguese, although the temple at
tendants deny this. Said one of them:
"Of course this is the real tooth, else
why would millions of people worship
It?'1 This reasoning satisfied him, as
It did the other devout worshipers whom
I saw at the shrine of the tooth. In
this temple there is a rather startling
representation, in a series of pictures in
colors, of future punishments; it was
surprising to find that a warm destiny
awalta llara; my experience with Budd
hists had led me to believe that there
must be a special merit attaohed to
lying. In the temple area sacred rabbits
were reverently considered; for was not
the great Buddha once a rabbit? I saw
men worshiping the aacred bo tree, under
which Buddha sat and meditated. One
of the pictures In the temple waa de
scribed as the "Buddha Christ, the
Buddha who Is coming again," show
ing by the phraseology the Influence
that Christlcnlty has bad upon Bud
dhism. Here in Ceylon Buddhism is
aggressive and mo4erf,..adapting Chrla-
tian metnoas. j nus it employs street
preaching, Sunday schools. Young Men's
Buddhist associations and tract distri
bution. - -
The Bo Tree and Cricket Match.
Ask tha driver of a Colombo ghari
to take you to aee a banyan tree and
he will drive you to tha Young Men's
Christian association grounds, where a
large and beautiful specimen of tha fa
mous tree shades tho imposing red brick
building which represents America's in
terest in the , young men of JoloratD.
On the other side of the; front of the
building la a sacred too tree, which Im
parts sanoUty to tha alts, ia tha ayea ot
. -a- w .
the Buddhists.
the association
The original location of
buildtnsr. riven bv the
city, took In thla bo tree, but aa It could
not be cut down without a riot, the
building waa finally erected between the
bo and the banyan treea
Better proof of the worth of the as
sociation than these environments, in
the eyes of the foreign community, at
least, la the fact that ita dusky mem
bers make such a good showing In
athletics. It waa my fortune to see
the T. M. C. A. team defeat the proud
English cricketers, on the latter's own
grounds, to the music of 147 to 62.
The Englishman Is a good sportsman
and the victory waa greeted with
cheers from the clubhouse. The whole
altuatlon Is extraordinary, conaldering
the white man's attitude toward the
native races, and it la a fine tribute to
the association. As throwing light on
the old charge that native Christians
are thieves and liars, and the least de
sirable employes, I waa informed that
the crack bowler on the association
team Is the only native clerk em-
filoyed In the government stores who
s permitted to go and come as he
pleases, without Inspection at the
door.
A Polyglot Institution.
The vigor and popularity of the as
sociation in Ceylon are attested by the
iaci mat mere are in Drancnes scat'
tered over tha island, with 1,260 mem
bers, of whom SSO are members of stu
dent associations comprising Burghers
(aa the half-casters, or Eurasians, are
called here), Europeans, Singhalese
and Tamila Rellfloualv. these ara itt.
vlded Into Par sees, Mohammedana.
Buddhists. Hindus and Christians. Tn
one of the small branches four man
lodge; one of these la a Canadian. Otli I linnrnt Mai trial
a Burgher, oaa fcUflgla a&4 qo young Women's Christian AjsoolaUon
Tamil. Altogether, the association pro
vides residences for 22 men. A strong
Doay or leading European residents di
rect the work, and there are many Eu
ropeans in the membership, but these
are such principally from altruistic mo
tives; the membership that enjoys the
privileges of the association la clearly
native. I found the reading-room and
restaurant and gameroom being well
patronized. The distinctively religious
work Is well developed, 14 weekly
classes for Bible ptudy being main
tained. A young Canadian, Mr. C. A.
Adams, of Mapill university. Is the sec
retary In charge of the V, M. C. A. work
throughout the Islands.
Young Women's Mission Work.
It is somewhat noteworthy that in
this old and famous mission field so
prominent a place should be occupied
by those modern organizations, the
Young Men's Christian Association and
the Young Women's Christian Assocla
tion. Of the latter there are 13
branches in. Ceylon, Miss Campbell of
Kandy, an English young woman, be
ing general secretary. A young woman
from Iowa, who was for some time sec
retary of the Y. W. C. A. at German
town, Pennsylvania, Miss M. F. Cross,
la In .charge of the association in Co
lombo. In a charming palm-shaded
bungalow a home is provided for young
women, and a social and religious center
maintained. While more than a little
social work is done among young wom
en, the success of the religious depart
ment has overshadowed all else. - Four
teen weekly Bible olasses for young
women. 12 in. English, one In Singha
lese and one In Portuguese, are main
tained in Colombo 'Slone. The refined.
atmosphere of the
work commends
ner.
peculiar man
Dusky Salvation Army Lassies.
Like, and yet unlike, home are the
native Salvation Army lasses, in the fa
miliar red waist and wearing the nickel
shield badge, whom one meets in Cey
Ion. They do not, however, wear the
hideous poke bonnet, but, like all na
tive women here, go bareheaded. In
traveling into the interior one flnda
them at almost every station offering,
with the melting smiles that make all
Singhalese women attractive, a sub
scription book. In lieu of the "War Cry."
The report Is that very good work is
done by the Salvation Army among the
lower classes of natives: thev make an
Impression upon the higher castes.
Caste obtains here, as in India, and
is a barrier in religious work. The
schools do more than a little to over
come It. while these articles are con
fined to American and Canadian mis
sions, the excellent work done by the
many British societies Is met with at
every turn. Most of the missions that
dot Ceylon are British; it is to their
praise that there ia verv little criticism
of missions here, and moat of that is
a mere echo of the prejudice against
missions which exists tn the world of
travel. The educational side of mis
sionary service has been emphasised;
there is less need for medical missions
than In some other lands. This is a
British crown colony, and the govern
ment maintains a system of medical
dispensaries, these being, by the way,
a development of medical missions. The
only two missionary hospltala in Cey
lon are maintained by the American
board at Jaffna.
Breaking Down Caste Lines.
It is claimed that "India's coral
strand", is really at Jaffna, northern
Ceylon,' where tha; coral formation is
extensive. 4 Probably that had nothing
to do with tha planting at Jaffna, 0
ond oldest mission. Thla mission, the
only strictly American one on the la
land, waa established in 1828, and it
haa maintained a successful existence
ever alnce. In truth, ao soundly ee
tabllshed and reputable has Christianity
become that one of the missionaries
oomplalned to me that the church mem
bers are in danger of becoming worldly,
Juat like church members at home!
The oldest mission school for girls
is at Jaffna, having been In continuous
existence since 1823. It now hss 200
girls in dormitory. The students are
chiefly high-caste natives, aa are most
of the Christians, and recently a nota
ble victory haa been won by the mis
slonaries In requiring the hlgh-caate
pupils to associate closely, on a basis
of equality In all things, with a number
of low-caste students who have been
admitted. In the school there are no
cHte lines whatever. Despite this fact,
and despite the fact that the school Is
strongly Christian In character, nine
tenths of its pupils becoming members
of the church, high-caste, heathen Hindu
parents continue to send their daugh
ters, paying a higher tuition than else
where. Jaffna 'district has a Proteatant pop
ulation of 4,499, of whom half belong
to the American mission, the other be
ing divided among several English
missions. There are 27.1 g 1 Roman
Catholics in 1,2S square mllea. The
whole population is 800,851. The Amer
ican mission, when all Its workers are
In tha field, fis a force of 14 missions-
- -v
rles, 18 churches, 10 ordained pastors,
23 unordalned catechlsts, ii Bible
women, 6 higher educational Institu
tions, 128 lower schools and 1 Industrial
school.
Missouri Editor's Troubles.
From the St Louis Bepublic
"Some people ara under tha tmpres
slon that a country newspaper office
carries a stock of every known article
said J. P. Campbell, editor of tha Pros
pect News, at Doniphan, Missouri. 1 '
manage to have people drop into my
place every little while under the im
pression that I run a general merchan
dise store.
"The girls that set my type have a,
habit of hanging their hata In tha win
dow, and not long ago two country wo
men dropped In.
"Ia there anything wa can -do for
you?" asked one of my girls.
" Yes, ma'am.' replied the country
woman, 'we would like to know the
price of that hat In the window with
the red cherries.' It was necessary to
explain that we did not run a millinery
atore. V
"The other day, however, the limtv
waa reached when a farmer cams walk
ing into the office and back to the me
chanical department.
" 'Want to buy some axle grease f
said the countryman to me.' '
'"Why, this is a newsuaDer offlcs."
said I. T
" 'Well, who'd a'knowd It?" replied 1
the farmer. 'I thought thla was a hard,
ware atore when I saw that , there
stove,' and he pointed to the press.
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