Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PROF. GIST GEE WRITS FROM INDIA (Continued from page one) hea y. lie was dodging back and forth between the vehicles on tht street as if he were just walking along without anything on him at all You can see four men with a piant resting on their heads almost running lown the street; also yesterday I sat six men with some big case of somnt kind, almost taking the whole road on their heads and they were trotting along most unconcernedly. The amount of employment her( would startle America. 'Thousandh of coolies sitting idly by the roadside squatting rather than sitting, and hundreds of beggars along the fre quented ways calling out piteousl, for some aid to get a bit of food. I do not think I have ever seen st much deformity iii all my life. Met women and children with their limbs twisted in nll kinds of shapes, with all kinds of hideous diseases, small pox very common on all sides, even more common than in China. Gen eral Wood has called attention to the fact, that he saw no beggars ini the Philippine Islands and I noticed this also. The people there seem to be solf respecting and rarely beg. Pos sibly nature is a little better to them in providing food and they are not so thickly settled there as they are here, never the less the fact that there are no beggars cannot fail to impress one as he travels in the Philippines. The people there seem to be a little more advanced that here, too. America has done this for them in the short twenty-three years that she haus had charge there. One of the In dian said to me the other day that England had been three hundred years in India and had only exploited the place for her own good and had not thought of the good of the peo ple here at all. lie called attention to the rapid strides made in the P. I. and the slow rate of progress here in India. lie said this was the reason for the present unrest as well as the way in which things wer-e going in Egypt, Turkey and the Near East. The situation here is serious and the non1) co-operators are liable to break out at. any ioimsent into actual blood she:l all over the country even as they are already doing in many plhces in the country. The refusal to pay taxes-strikes right at the heart of matters and the government will have to use decisive repressive measures and when they begin to do this then the trouble will come. Ghandi-isn (non-violent, non co-operation by all the people) is taking hold of the peo ple as a religious creed almost now and woe be tide the country if they begin to put the matter into effect all at once over the whole country. The Indians are beginning to look upon the fact that the Government is not taking actual control by force now as a sign that they are afraid and consequently they are willing to go even further than before in carrying READY When you step out i sp)y returning bird-frieni as though all nature is Makes you feel like.< There' nouse dela) now and pick your whole new styles--all backed w Young Men's Suits Single-breasted models, $18.OO, Men's Conservative (did values at Ne(we(st ideas ~~in Plai $3.95, $4.35, This~ Stole is IIeadIq o 'Donn out their plans. Many of them court prison anr look upon it as means to a purer life and also as a sacrifice for the salvation of their country. Some may even be so poor that they take this means for a living, for they are fed while in prison. They may have to conie to China's former status in this matter and make the prisoner feed himself. It is fine to be in the midst of such conditions, but of course they have a decided effect upon my busi ness right now, but will make for a larger one eventually, for the Indians are going to boycott the Government schools and will finally begin to build their own and this will mean that they will have to equip them and our representatives are Indians so they should get the business. 'T'his is a strange country, sure enough. Just yesterday Dr. Lee, with whom I am staying these last two or three days in Calcutta in order to try to get glimpse of the mission work here as I am passing through the country, told me of an experience he had just had with the jungle crows 'which are so numerous here that they are a continual nuisance. ie has false teeth and was washing them in his bath room, he put them (own, turned his back for a few moments, but did not leave the room, and when he returned, they were gone. Ie knew at once that the rascally crows had done it and soon one of the girls came in with the broken set of teeth that had been dropped by the bird and his suspicion was verified. Mrs. Lee, not to be outdone, then said that she had just had another unusual ex perience with the crows. She was putting up the groceries which the cook had bought and found that a bag containing six eggs was missing. She happened to look across to the porch Just outside and saw the bag torn and two of the eggs still intact after the crow had departed. I have heard all kinds of tales about the tricks that the crows played on people but these are the equals of any of a them that I have heard to date. h'lie Indians are great thieves alsao and we are always warned never to leave any thing out from under lock and key. So far I have not lost anything that I know of but I am not bragging and touch wood to keep it this way. The conveyances here are also most interesting. They have a big ricksha which will carry two and this is pull ed just like those ini Japatn and China. The burden seems too heavy for much sp'eed and the Indians do not run like the Chinese. Then there are two com mon types of carriages. They may be drawn by one or two horses and they are classified as first second or third class according to the condition in which they are kept. The prices also vary with the class and they are hired by the hour or by the day. They are very reasonable. The first type is like this (drawn) and there are twO m1eni oi it. The driver type is like this (drawni) and there are two men on it. The driver sits up in front and a second man sits behind in a small seat with the hay for the horse. When ever a stop is made, he coies forward opens the door and while they wait they feed the horse a few bites of 1 SFOR SI mnder blue skies these sunlit dis hopping cheerfully in the1 isking, "Are you ready for Sp: iiscarding your heavy winter e ring another dlay. Not when y Spring outfit from comp~lete ith our guarantee of satisfacti, Tweeds, Cassi mers, Fancy XV very Stylish and~ Reasonably y $21.00, $23.50, 2 Suits ill fabrics that will withe 15.00 '" $30.00 's and~ Fancy Cassimers, 10 "$10.00 VIlen's Oxfords n stitched or perftorated styles $4.75, $5.50, Iarters for IDependable Merch; all Dry Go Sumter. S. C. grass. The other type of carriage is closed entirely and has a flat top with a low railing around it and you can pile baggage galore up on this and carry it anywhere. It is the type used by the better class women and they get into these close the doors tight and you know that they are almost smothered, but it is custom and they have to submit even if they think enough to resent the hardship. Having lived this way all of their lives, possibly it never occurs to them that this is unreasonable and an im position. Yesterday afternoon, I took a twelve or fourteen mile drive into the country with Mr. and Mrs. Lee as they went out t, inspect a piece of land which they were buying. The country is decidedly tropical with the various kinds of palms, banana, wild date, sugar (late, bettlenut (which most of the Indians chew, as they do in the Philippine Island, and spit red all over the streets-it is said to be good for digestion and also a means of cleaning the teeth-such explana tions are also offered for tobacco, etc. I believe) cocoa nut, papaya trees, the peculiar peepul tree- this makes its way into the walls of houses and gradually grows larger until it tears the walls to pieces, and the roads for miles were lined with mango trees all in bloom and the odors were heavy on the evening air as we came back late in the evening. Little evidences of cultivation were present here and there but with all kind of fruit around why work ? The jack fruit is found all along the road too, it grows right out from the trunk and gets to he real large at times. The village houses were made of mud on an ele vated floor in order to be above the water during the sainy season. The mud walls were thick in places, yet times other houses were made of a lattice work of bamboo covered with mud or with palm leaves woven into the walls. The roofs were in most rases made of straw thatch with now and then a roof covered with light tiles. Some of the homes of Ithe wealthier classes were made of brick And had flat roofs. In every instance Df this kind there is a small square tower on the top of the house at About its middle which is the place where the house idols are kept and they sometimes go upon this to pray. The villages are not clean nor are well kept in any way. The gardens Are nothing more than jungles with few fruit trees planted about in them and no system or order are' pre served nor is any care taken even of the trees, that bear the fruit. The jungles are all around the villages oming right up to them on all sides and there is no wonder that in places where there are tigers and panthers that they sometimes come in and take iway the young animals and some limes even the children. There are wo ladies here in the home now who ome from Assam and they were tell ng about the panthers coming into heir yards taking away the chickens egularly. They often see them. The ungles are tangles of vegetation of il kinds and the taller trees or palms hat are in them are often climbed by he large vines that are so common Spring mornings, and >udding trees, it seems ring? lothes quick as you can. ou can come here right assortments of lively mf. orstedis in Sport and Iriced at 25.00 tand( hard wear, splen specially pricedC( at 6.50, $8.50 mdIise at a falir price. ods Co. W4 ,}. fi:, ?',:o - !Y IAP' AAma p Y! A It's Almc All Manning and up! Good times al better every day Get in line--fl; Look up! Buc Get Into A -Get the prospe suit gives you-g( is assured by the style and quality o HERE IS FASHIONABLENI $22.50, $25.4 The Spring shadow-stripe grays-t gray patterns featuring a silver pin-st snap--The new Spring note! Club checks, grays, pin-stripe blues, effects. The sports models, too- with vert pleats-patch pockets--2, 3 or 4 Many Suits at $35.00-or you can;{ depends on how fine a Suit you want. Oxford Shoes --._-$5.00 to $12.50 John B. Stetson Hats. Easter Straw Hats $2.50 to $5.00 Easter Ties, Silk and Knit 50c to $2.00. Joseph M, Isaac Hamberger Nobby Clothes 16 So. Main Street. If you can't come rir in the tropics and all kinds of and has no cereni epiphyst grow all over the trees. This was a very small growth forms at times an almost im- fires wcrc going penetrable mass of green, and now, time. In the por dust covered vegetation. I have hit like building, a r the dry cool season in India, as I had sick and probabi planned to do, and (lust is over every- their turn at the t thing. The leaves of the trees and Calcutta, India. even the houses are covered with dust in spite of all that one can do to keep - them clean. NOTICE 01 As we were coming back, we pass edl a place from which a goodl deal of smoke was coming and I asked the Iwllapyt reason for it. It was a burning goat bt o lrn where the dead are burned. This was 1t hyo a .just a pond andl had no connectionA.MfoLter with the sacredl river Ganges, exceptmiirto oft that some of the Ganges water hadtlanevot,(e been p~ut into the pond and therefore J it beame a sacred place and dead peo- il ple have been burned here for ages.M As we ap~proached I was struck by S.C the size of the large ash and charcoal covered area andl the dlepth of this ac cumulation must have beeni at least A MNSI four. or five feet and it must repre sent the burning of thousands of Prun oa b~odies. Two bodies were nearing thehaulg ofP last stages of burning as I wvent up.pulc utino Groups of men squatting around were frcsa h waiting until the burning could be .I.Tnaei finished and then they would take the o rdyte1t ashes and scatter them on the water a 1ocokA of the pond andI the spirit of the dead snlpoetf man would pass5 on to the future 3,0 ponsl wvorld as his ashes passed out into bseso es the water. On one of the piles of craot5tt burning wvood I saw the skull and the fde 0bse charredl remains oif the limbs of the15og,38~gs man and they were poking the fire to 3yalns o make it burn hotter that this might snTatr l also be burned into ashes. We asked tohrewgn whose body this was antd they pointedlo,1bgy to two small boys who were squattingllos pow t with the rest and said that it was Mln lw that of their father. They seemed PoIs~dea al together unconcerned andl were asimoig aci expressionless as children could well Hr'~s ona be. Nearby was another body even 3Friie ~sr further burned than this one and eanostl, only small portions of the body could litl,1ogn he made out.kihn fuitr While standing there we heard bos9lrem dolwn the st reet. a short distance thelo f'prnaef (ries calling to the godls as four menan 1Frd(oip came bearing another corpse on a tc( fproa st retche'r borne on the ir sh ouklers. 'The stretcher was madec of two ham boo poles5 anmd had a cloth stretched '~ between them. As they came up those StncioS wVho wvere sit tinig aroundl at the ghat .ioined with them in their cry and they hastened right on down to the wvater 's edge andl lowered the body and plac ed it so that th hw ead touched the water of the jaondi. 'This was to symbolizeB y the puorificat ion of the hotly for the Gainges wVat er purifien~ everything itWilsr touchies. Thei: pr'oceed ing wvould next gvnwtI he to i i a trench in the ashes and ar- swtloth rangi.e the pyre. 'This wouldl be done teisneo by jiin tg the wood up ini a stack long lotOfc enouigh to place the body upjon, then Iesn placing thle bodi~y upon this and then puttting wood uipon the body. Then bittLer' from which the watIer has all beent boi ledl is poured u pon the whole P 0 O andt~ a firec is stted. The butter is u td ist as we wvoub'l use kerosene, - simitly I, lightihe.tire, tametpld St Easter Clarendon dressing 'e here-and getting ' your. colors! k up! Dress up! Easter Suit rity-effect that our t the economy that genuine excellent ur suits possess. SS AND REASONABLENESS )0 to $30.00 i e light green mixtures and the light ripe with lighf blue over-plaid. Dash shadow-stripes and all manner of new the very fashionable half belt and in -button fronts. So straight up the line to $45.00-It all Anything you want in Men's and Boys' Furnishings. Boys' Knee Suits with 2 pair Pants $7.50 to $12.50. Chandler Spiro-Michael Co. Suits SUMTER, S. C. ig us up 294 or write. onial meaning. This place and yet three Farmers Exchange ;here at the same h around a temple aosque, were others UREBRED dying awaiting from Prize winning stock at $2.00 i.per fifteen. Mr.. I. W. Cole, Tur ............- FOR SALE-4 blooded Jersey Cows 'DISCHARGE with young calves. Several beef cattle, 500 bushels of corn on ear., the Judge of Pro-veBen nlRnigVve on County on the Ba ed .B prs umr 1922, at 11 o'clock tn .C of Discharge as Ad-w Estate -c S. M.AND-So20hot vihg 3ased.frm4 to 0pofll..o..Dik .Haynesworth,___________ _____ Administrator. l'RSL-ot iaYr os Al pril 10, 1922. te n oecr~ et .J A~TOR'S SALE WNE OECT G-0gl wrder of JT. M. Wind- onMGalwyWio. bbate, I will sell at j S l19 lIy let Ba the highest b~idde~r esidlence of the late Se,$.0prhse. '...Cr Summerton, S. C., httMnni. (lday of April, 1922 IF DWhtSpnsPeus .the following per- fo sla feptpun. 1.M - wit: a Spot.orlS.( cotton seed, 10 about 1200 bushels ~SL-bu 0bseso s of hay, oats and 190Cl)oto sed f ain' of sweet potatoes,BnkAout1bshleay i milk cows, 1 calf, Smsna 10 e ns~las se, 6 n'iles, 1 Ford- 20bse CuanYm lis t e w ane Ilarrow, 2 prbse.G .M~ihWl ,I one-horse wag- sn .C :rain drill1, 5 D)ixie ocks, 1 three-horse two-horse MolineG. uu D dI bridle, 1 Ibarrow, . I rake, 4 V shape Lcne Cotton plantres, __ >utors, 1 lot of mis- ''am trs 10 tons of coal, I ot of householdl andl ,270 volumes of EE s20 small rugs, ICaeulExmnd acts, 1 pistol, 1 gun GassFteBoe , andnany other ar- Lne ulctd lia C. T1indal, Stsato urned AdninJistrator. Farmers2, 92. U MExchangeC L' ue PUREClicREmareordsyameg f eiv ou rm rize wini stholc [at $2.0 teii~j~oi~ or sall ille , S.'h hosC. o nt aet I le muth tle b O tksAIL)tE- e loe. Sd Jee Cow rde fO I~ an I wipythe ostg calves. Svr be cattlei 500 busheon largern'inrear, D. A.nMURPHY. 1133sOnUnnin, A S.C