| Show SAME bothersome WEEDS posts pests to the aborigines continue to be ba an annoyance to farmers now tilling the tha soil when samuel champlain Champl aln earned the gratitude of succeeding generations generation s by keeping a journal as he sailed along the coast from the mouth of the st lawrence to cape ann lie he recorded among other things the appearance of the fields which the indian women cultivated not far from the site of the present town of gloucester mass ile he described relates a writer the hoes ased by them made from the shells of the tha horseshoe crab a creature which interested him greatly and he also told of the weeds which these women up with their primitive hoes thus saving their corn beaus beans and s i among the weeds he mentioned e especially s ally the of which he saw enough and if lie he could come back today and inspect the gardens along the massachusetts shore he would find the same name weeds flourishing in tile the same old way and holding their own against the most modern of farm implements more than that it would not be surprising pirl sing if he found fields in which the weeds had bad gained the upper hand and had smothered the planted crop whether of beans squash or corn and be could well be pardoned if he wondered that agriculture after more than BOO years was still helpless against the weeds which he had fought tin in his bis day hindmo prince and missionaries never shall I 1 forget a frank conversation which I 1 had in his palace with his highness the of baroda relates a correspondent ile he told me q ceole some of the measures which he has already introduced for the betterment of hla his subjects and of the difficulties which he be had encountered ills his admiration mi ration for things american Is so BO unqualified as to be almost naive buti but I 1 think I 1 was most of nil all impressed when he be said 1 I am thinking of calling together the missionaries and asking them to tell me their views on how we can improve the quality of the native priesthood then I 1 want to call the priests together and say to them look ook at the missionaries see tile the sacrifices they are making to help our people you ought to go out and do the same game kind of work his highness has bus already established a professorship of comparative religions in the baroda college for the express purpose of introducing the native religious leaders to other religions with a view of improving the quality of their own |
