A brilliant yoTing" engineer has built a great
bridge across the Ganges, all supported by the
patent steel truss which bears his name. Just
as it is complete comes a terrible storm and
flood ; the river seems to rise in her wrath to
overwhelm the man who has bridled her and
destroy his work. That night, in the midst
of the storm, he hears the gods discussing,
hears Mother Gunga in the form of a crocodile
bring her plaint before them, and ask for
strength to sweep away this obstruction that
the ctirsed white man has set up. Krishna
tells her that it is useless. ( " To-morrow sees
them at work. Aye, if ye swept the bridge
out from end to end they would begin anew.'M
When he wakes he finds his bridge in tact. ^

The White Man's Burden was written in
America, where it createda great sensation.
There are not wanting those who believe that
the white jman's^ burden is something that h e
puts upon the shoulders of the blac k man
when he colonizes his lands. But if there is
the country of the Amazon on one side of the

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account — and that is the domain of the half-
white man, who has never excited anybody's
enthusiasm — ^there is India on the other.
