1905-1906 



IV 



WHERRY'S days in Manila, thus protracted into April, 

 allowed him to receive some home mail. Sister Grace, 

 out of Chicago, informed him: "I have kept account of all 

 the money you have sent." Whereafter she admonished: 

 "Don't bring me anything . . . we have to save." John asked 

 from Champaign: "Have you some fond heart in Manila, or 

 among the heathen, or in Chicago?" Wherry might have 

 answered that his hopes lay in Baltimore and Cincinnati; but 

 did not. His father wrote him about a diphtheria-like disease 

 that had broken out in Ludhiana and transmitted articles on 

 sleeping sickness in the Congo and East India's work against 

 rabies. Late in January, Wherry's mother could still write: 

 "I often think how nice it would be if we should hear that you 

 were coming to India. Yet, again, I think what a lot of money 

 it would cost." Reporting on things present, she continued: 



Nellie, Lillie & Margaret are invited to the Rajah's to a birth- 

 day party. They are to be his guests for four days in the palace. 

 The party is on the occasion of their baby's first birthday. 

 He is a young man with 2 Hindu wives and one English. She 

 is the daughter of a barber and her mother was a rope walker. 

 It is her baby's birthday. They poisoned her first child, though 

 it never could have been the heir according to English law. 

 It is feared this one will meet with the same fate. I am rather 

 afraid for the girls to go but they are anxious to see the sights. 



To a letter of the father (February 1, 1905) she added a 

 postscript of many admonitions as to how to avoid the plague. 

 Also, he was not to travel 3d class in India, to stand in the 

 sun, or to tip unreasonably, above all, not before his baggage 

 had been placed where he wanted it. 



Thus forewarned, he set sail westward on the Siberia on 

 April 8 , having left unpaid the annual assessment of one dollar 

 (US gold) for membership in the Society of American Bac- 



