of society—newspaper reporters—furnishes materials for such history to be sure. Recrently a clever reporter on the staff of one of the local papers heard that the Rev. Mr. Gilder of the Chaddarghaut Methodist Episcopal Church was to leave for Bangalore to attend a missionary conference; and he saw a little afterwards the Rey, Mr. Stone, a former parson of the Chureh at My. Gilder’s house. The hearing and seeing were sng gestive of many truths in Mr. Reporter’s eyes. He who could put two and two together very cleverly, put these two things together aud drew from them the conclusion that Mr. Stone would act for Mr, Gilder during his absence And it is needless to say that the reporter soon found out he had overreached himself, The person who manufactured the paragraph about the “ Mrs, Liltledale who accompanied her husband on long passage through the Pamir steppe being a high class Mahrata lady, a daughter Dr, Atmaram Pandurang of Bombay," would seem to belong to the same gems of imaginative newspapermen as this reporter, The Mrs. Littledale who is a hich.class Mahrata lady being a daughter of Dr, Atmaram Panduradg of Bombay, was here doing work as Superintendent or Principal of the Zennon School at the time that Mr. Littledale is said to have passed through the Pamir plateau. How she could have been in Hyderabad and Pamir plateau atone aud the same time is a mystery which the writer of the paragraph alone can unravel. page 84
