2 THFi OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 4,-1910. , " ,
Britain's Army in India; Native
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that snows the volcano beneath. Since I
have been hero the anarchistic organiza
tion, hava made attempts upon the lives oil
many officials, trains have been wrecked
nd the root barbarous plots unearthed.
Beveral boroba have been thrown at the
viceroy, and no high official Is safe. In the
main the natives are quiet; but the unrest
laaema increasing and any International
f complication In which Great Britain takes
part may precipitate trouble.
On mv v Kr r.i.,,,,. T
;wlth General Fola-Carew a well known
-British tffloer. In speaking of the army
b aald: '
"Our Indian troops will be loyal enough as
lion aa England Is In the ascendency and
Her ower In the far east predominant If
I -we should have trouble with uny other na
ition. such aa Rustaa. for Instance, and
should meet with defeat, there would be a
j danger that the Indian army would fly to
'the worship of the rising sun. Aa It Is now
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wa hold India, because it Is a oontlnent of
vj wwm rauier man one. Tne peoples
I are suoh that they cannot com bis. The
IBMrobem oX the various castas hat yk an-
mr iftJ race win not ax and tha -
I llaSlCaaal fJVT. If H Jala! J txiM 1 V A
the death. It la to this that our safety
lias.
Said another general whom I met here at
riuan rule were removed for
m wees, jnaia wouia De anarchy. The
Mohammedans would swoop down on
On
we ainaoos, ana tne aoorkhas would loot
and massacre the towns of Bengal. The
only HyaUon for India Is In a strong
power at the head, and we manage our
in. cum sua Sects in
auch divisions that they cannot combine.
Wa learned that during the Sepoy rebel
lion and shall never forget It"
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Tha Bodlers Loral.
I am told that the agitators are doing all
they can to stir up sedition ln the army.
Fuoucauons are smuggled into
the native harr.u. ..t ,. .a. .
create dlasatlsfutinn r th mi
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are loyal and stick to the British. Never-
ld r'hl th'nkLn'1 .nd thlnklDf
wished TSlJ P IT; I W" W"
watched and discussed In the barracks, and
It was a great surprise that the Japanese
dJt?td K.h RuMlana- 11 w, the ofet
f tha white man by the brown man, and
the question among the flahtlns clans la.
the Jape were victorious why should not
.-" ..u.u u. . ,u some great war
1 tha future. On tha other hand, .the
, rajahs appreciate tha conditions that would
obtain should the array, as now constituted.
be dissolved. One of the northern chiefs
who controls a population larger than that
of Great Britian, recently said:
1 should like to see the British far more than It costB. This is especially eminent success, and part of his constant
leave India, If they did 1 would take a B0, as the Hindus pay the total expenses of car n oeen always to co-operate with
half doaea' regiments, and within three the military supplies and of the soldiers. hl" brother ln maintaining the principle
lweeka there would not be a two anna bit The cost amounts to something like 1100,000,- which sometimes costs money ln the pub
left on tha plains of the Ganges. We would 000 a year, but this Is all raised by the tax- business to give the Scrlbner im
lopt tha Bengalese and capture their women, atlon of Hindustan. prlnt only to BUch books as deserved pub
l tall you It would be sport" Tne lrmy u not extravagantly kept from "'t'n on their own merits, as nearly as
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Tha Army of India.
John Bulla hold upon India Is th. won- whlch , go0(1 pay for tnls part o( the
der of colonial governments. Ha has here world. Moreover, those who remain ln the
a combination of tha most turbulent and ,ervice for a fixed length of time are re
most peaceful peoples on earth. He has tlred on a pnslon 0f 5 cents a day. and.
soma whose religion teaches them It Is therefore, can luxuriate for the rest of
their duty and business to fight and plunder their Uvea,
their fellows; and millions who have feuds
with each other and who would fight to the The Police Force,
death did they not fear the strong arm of in addition to tho army. India has a
tha British. large civil police. Every town has Its local
Nevertheless, he controls the country with watchmen, and every olty Is patrolled by
military force which averages much less police with clubs ln their hands. The local
than one soldier to each thousand people, village police aggregate something Ilka
India has altogether 300,000.000, and the 700,000 men, and this would be hardly
total army, Including both British and na- enough to give one to each village. In addi
tives, is only 236,000. Thl. Is scattered all tlon there are thousands ln the cities and
over tha peninsula. There are eight dlvls- on the whole order is fairly well kept. The
Ions ln the north, a large party of which thugs and other castes, who. In times past
guard tha frontier, and there are four dl- made a business and religion of murder and
vision, ln Uia south, as well as troops In stealing, have been wiped out, but there are
Burma and a garrlslon at Aden, Arabia. still armed gangs who now and then go
Tha army, all told, would be small, even about committing robbery and housebreak
if tha country were homogeneous and ng.
"peaceful. It I. nothing In comparison with The system 4it police work Is excellent,
tha great forces which ara forming in The watchmen are under the eyea ot the
'Europe and In the far east. If India had
aa many soldiers aa Japan has on a peace
footing lu army would number S.000.000. and
If on a war footing It would be more than
12,000,000. Tha German, hava 1 per cent of
their whole population under arms, and in
times of war they could put 6 per cent of
It Into tha field. At tha same ratio India
could hava li.000,000 under aruia In the
antra rtt the future, and tha only
w. that mlffht Dossibly auroass It In
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number, would ba th. Chinese, who at tna
jama rat. cou.d muster, perhapa.
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COURTS AT CALCUTTA.
Lord Kitchener. I met him about a year the thug, and members of the other castes,
f 80 h"0 " "tta. when he was Kill who formerly made crime a business. Ther
,n.char ' th trOOP'- 1,9 'Peak h'ffhlyre many of these. The Kuru marus ar.
f the BoIller" " flhUn force professional thieves and pickpockets. lW
y ,ney ,0i to th Kvernm8n.
althou" attempts have been made to
crrui mem. L,ord Kitchener when he
came to India about eight years ago found
three armies, each confined to one part
of the country. He consolidated these and
mobilised them. He made nine divisions,
each of which had Its own general and
staff. These were organised for war and
each could take the field Intact, leaving
enough troops behind to maintain order,
Every division had Its own . transport and
supply arrangements, and the divisional
generals had great authority. At the same
tlm uJaltlonal officers wera appointed
nd ,n,I,ta, college Instituted to supply
others. Lord Kitchener reorganised the
cavjl'y nd Infantry, as well as the other
l' "u " w" ounn
ministration that the army proper '
dlvlied from the department of millUry
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mis last department nas now its own
secretary, and It Is one of the great bust-
insmnuons or me government. "
daJ Wth army contracU. the manufao-
ture of clothtjig ocdBanoo, tne trans-
ortatlo of fta9P-rs and food, and v?
Inna i . 1 ,. 3. a-C
making boots axd tYSJs tor b aalers.
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large estbllshments for the manufacture
jviuiicd .ui uianiiiai raiiiroa Bft.uu mou
lauuure
of var-
farma,
of field guns, shells and armament
loua kinds. It has camel and cattle
and It supplies mules and horses and other
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animals for transnnrt. ThrA ftr mvrn 1
camel corps, and there are parts of the
country where the camel owners are given
,ands free on condiUon that they hold a
certaln number of camelB available for
rrtlM..rv v.. Thl. A.n.r(mt h..
also to do with elephants, some of which
are used for dragging the great guns
through the Jungles and over the roads. In
coming long dlstanoes both elephants and
guns are transported by railroad.
The chief breeding farms for horses.
mules and donkeys are situated In cer-
n .wt,4 i.irin. m nnrh-m tIk
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uwn' iu" syaicru in 10 pur-
cnase young stock and rear them on the
government farms. Horses for the
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nd stalUon. from Arabia for tha improve-
th. native stock.
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The officers here tell me that tha army
Is the best paying ' asset in John Bull's
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is kept up without taxing the people at
home, and it gives him a big fighting force
which he can shift to any part of the world
upon order. He used It against the Boers,
,nd also In China at the time of the Boxer
rebellion. In case of an Asiatic war of any
description it would be Invaluable to him,
and UDOn tne Wb0le it makes India worth
a western standpoint. The native soldiers
..i. .,.,.,i,i. i,u. nr 11 r,.r mnnth
head men of their village., and Important
crimes are reported to the district, and
in many cases the watchmen are re-
sponsible for losses or thenu.
Every place has Its own police station
and arrangement, for patrol day and
night In the larger towns there are po-
lice commUsloners and at the station.
lists ara kept of released convicts, sus-
iuril characters and habitual offenders.
Hurh nartia aare carefully watched and
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when they move, their reputation, go w,m
them ,0 form j part of th. bl.ca ...t or
Vpn uch Ust. ara th. descendant, of
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teach their children to steal and lie, out ot
,t. They burglarise houses not Through
the doors or windows, but by digging
through the mud walls with instrument,
made for the purpose.
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Professional Murderers,
The thugs have about dluappeared, having;
been hunted down by the police like wild
beasts. They were a caste or band of
hereditary assassins who first strangled
then robbed their victims. They had
maps of the country with murder stations
marked upon them, at which places one
could kill with least danger of discovery.
Tey killed by wholesale. In one of the
trials a certain thug confessed that he had
oe" engagea in sw muraers.
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thug They wrtt in snll gangs following
Sit XHm Ml!. k PtaIn
Ihllr r . Sa.h-Kt-
thalr a cape. On, , of the most common
fnura la mix vomica. A.nn innthA. I , A
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A Gentleman Publisher.
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HE September American Maga-
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oennner. wnicn is
here quoted In part:
vciy gou way to gain
a correct ImDresslon of what
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ouwer nae is to tninK 01
win as me operating mind ln the publlah-
mg Business which he and his brother,
Arthur uotui... en. . ,. :
ihm,.h .h. .m...k..' J. " '
New York publishers have experienced and
observed during the last fifteen or twenty
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its contemnorari- ,.wi . .
which the figure of Its senior partner is
very clearly reflected.
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nesa at an early age for a man to assume
the responsibility oi such traditions as his
father's were. He began the perpetuation
of that memory ln his choice of the firm
name, and he has laid his course by that
compass. Keeping abreast of the times.
no has developed the business upon the
principles which under lay his father s
iii juugmeni auu ihhi vi nis auvisers
could be confident. Often he has pub
lished books for which no great sale could
be foretold: never,' an unworthy book
imply for the sake of the money It would
bring lu. The general estimate ln (Jie
trade, and even of the public which cannot
Judge so acutely of the value of that im
print is pretty good guarantee of the
quality which it marks. For if a Ming?
word may be chosen to express the Ueppent
spring of his actions, it would p".'hapa be
tha word 'fastidious,' and this refers, nat
urally, not only to his attitude toward
literature, but to his whole outlook In t!ib
world.
"One of the most Jog-trot of the virtues
I. also one not always found even among
generally succesaiui men pauenev. j-.ui .11
tms respect sir. Dcr.oner is mgmy e.,--
dowed. As a stater to his Instinctive sour-
tesy, it has much to do with the under-
standing ot hla character which Is held In
his offices. He has doubtless had many ex-
perlences with business rivals as well as
business associates which have tried his
temper; me puonsning oua.i.eaa is .uuB.
to try anybody's temper: Of strong cou-
victlons and vigorous Ideas, It may be ald
that ho Is alow to wrath, yet slow in no
otner process of his mind. He is eminently
a Just man, and punetlliouBly careful of
other people's rights. Just now he is in
the greatest activity of his middle life, and
ni strong personality Is a guiding forea
not only ln hi. own office, but throughout
the body of American publishers."
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.tarted on "r.mlniac.nc.n," about Senator
Soldiers Great Factor in Restless Life
Poisoning has always flourished in India,
Tne gnl of the gods are full of the
custom, and love charms and death charma
m etl be bou nt Th d
P018011 cattle for ,ho ak of their hide, by'
P,aclnff areenl ,n ihelr ing .troughs;
Md u,,,, rec!nt tlmea an attompt
made to poison an army official with
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diamond dust mixed with arsenic. There;
ftre traditions of princes and piinceesM
who nave been Mnei
robe8 llke that of NeMtlB.
Baby Killers.
unui very leceiiu v DHB oi Tji fnofVT mm.
Until very recently one of the most com-
71? ln Ind' ha' bn lnfaIltJcl'1o.
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8 practlced ln Bome locallUea, bing-
PrevaIent t the time of famine.
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Gossip and Stories About People of Note
John James Tnvalls. Tt will rav vnn aa vm
the Kansas City Journal.
"
In a little group of this kind on a recent
evening in Atchison, talk switched on to
the famous senator, and one of the group
declared that ingalls had met his match
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irony.
"How was that?" asked the others.
" man iiameu i unties a.
He told that a man named Charles S.
Uraper who been an employe of the United
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P'rfai J 2 w, . . mT' ,
torial seat, was delegated by other era
Ployes to try and Ingalls to favor the
giving of an extra month s wages to these
employes.
Ingalls had made a vitriolic speech against
'e vlan whton 11 aa PrPsed on the floor
" ",0 nu irequenny inter-
Jected ln,to hls remarks: "There Is no prece-
ant tov ,hl8 Mr President; there Is no
Precedent."
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Rise of
HERBURN S. M BRR1LL, who
died ln 1S85. was by far the "Look here. Blank, I have very good rea
greatent railroad builder and son to believe that you are not giving this
manager of his time' in the west company its share of the fares collected."
A native of Vermont, he served
a.H a hruL.nian anrl frniirht nnn.
Jut;lor and ,n otner ,uboralnat- positions
ln his state before going west. He reached
Milwaukee with only a few dollars in his
pocket flfty-elsht years ago.
Mr. Merrill was one of those everlasting
woikerM ho inspire those under them to
their bsit efforts, and it Is not strsnge
that he 'oroke down oon after be was 60
years of age. He had a rough exterior.
His nHture was that of an army Com
mander and he was plain spoken and at
time Inclined to be savage, but his heart
was as tender as that of a woman. His
swuu uerua wtsrv aeaneivu n.u.ig an .l. 111a
iiiiee. ana lonay mere are tew men wnu
are more frequently discussed and whose
acts are more heartily commended than
this great railroad chief, who began as
foreman of a gang of graders and reached
the highest station that the west cou.d
confer upon him.
dDllwj .hlrk. a,.d ,hleve.. If he
discovered an untidy station he would drop
in upon the agent unexpectedly and say to
him, "Let me never again see this station
look as shabby as it does today." It was
all that was neceaaary to keep the station
clean and wholexome during the term of
Umt aunf Teleeranh nneratora who aleDt
while on duty walked out without cere-
many as soon as the "old man" heard ot it.
It happened on the St. Paul, as It Is sup
poped to have happened on other roads.
I'ho were suspected
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pact When h. cam. to headquarter. Mr.
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f fli: &r kt
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Suoh Infants are usually girls. Many of
aa n aw ;unviaw ,aa nnr.
ouuii iiuano- txre uucuijr iru. in-u? i
the Hlndue look upqn the birth of a female
oiUId as a ours; and at a cenaus taken not
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and Draper was selected to see Ingalls
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and plead with him to withdraw his batter-
les. The senator listened to the tale of
hardships endured by the clerks, doorkeep-
era, messengers, laborers and so on, and
then asked abruptly: "Draper, If you are so
dissatisfied with your Job why don't you
resign and let some one else get It?"
ursper joosea ingaus squt
Draper looked Ingalls squarely in the
eye for a moment and replied in imitation
of Ingalls' voice and manner In debate:
Why. there is no precedent for this, Mr.
Senator; there Is no precedent." v
Ingalls' astonishment gave way to loud
laughter, and when the extra pay propost-
tlon came up again for final action, he
was out of his seat and it passed.
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The Birth of Tombstone.
John Hayes Hammond, the mining engl-
neer, tells' the story of how Tombstone,
Ariz., came into being.
a Great Railroad
Merrill In his ssvagest manner, said:
The conductor manifested his surprise
and indignation and told Mr. Merrill that
he defied him and all of hi. spies and of
ficials to put a finger on a place where,
or name a time when he had taken a
penny of the St. Paul's money.
Mr. Merrill fixed his eyes upon a brilliant
diamond that the conductor wore, and
ad. ,.,t not nece8.ary for you to bol,
over and get indignant over a little busi
ness matter, Mr. Blank. It looks to me
very much as if that gllstener on your
shirt front Indicated that what I said Is
. lh . vou hav, been laklnc funn, that
you ougnt to have turned ln to the com-
pany
"Ixok here. Mr. Merrill," replied the con
ductor, laughing, "I will admit that does
look suspicious, but you must remember
that the company gives me a pretty fair
salary and pays me regularly. Out of that
salary I have been able to save enough to
buy this trinket, which you .regarded as ot
vast value. I have had 1t as long as I care
. it" nrt I win slve It to vou for
J(jgt wh(U u cot me u a ver. ,ngen.
lously constructed piece of glaas, and I
psld $3 for tt. You can have It for that
amount."
Mr. Merrill laughed. "I guess. Blank,
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11." he ssld.
I know I am all right, Mr. Merrill."
"Well, If that Is bo, you had better hurry
over to your trsln. It Is nearly time for
yu Pu" out-"
On hi. way to th. train th. conductor
-topped to talk ,0 a Jeweler. "I wish you
would tell me." h. .aid. "how much thl.
Jong ago It was shown that of the glrla
v.iB i. wM a.vnM w.v
under U year, of age of certain caj-tee,
about forty In every 1,000 were mlsslnff.
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T knil..,. . Onk.lln tVA mnJI
Jake, had been prospectlug for gold ln
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was later to be known as Tomb
stone. They had got down so deep that
Jake had to dig the earth and load it in a
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Ed called down to Jake that he saw soma
Indian. In the distance.
"Then skip," called up Jake, "because
hl 18 g'ng to be great gold camp, and
yu can 1 save, me irom mose aeviis. cut,
when It'B safe come back and put up a
tombstone over my grave."
Neither one had to skip and they finally
struck it rich. A few years ago Mr. Ham-
mond was talking to one of the Schefflln
brothers and. asked to see the original
papers locating the claim to the mine. Ha
read It and Tombstone was spelled "Toam-
"stoon."
Builder
trinket Is worth and how much you ara
willing to give for it."
"it is worth $1,200; I will give you $1,000."
was the answer.
"That Is a remarkablj . good guess. I
P'd H.100 for It."
One day Mr. Merrill was on a train
when a new brakeman called out in a loud,
harsh voice the name of a station. Mr.
Merrill motioned to the brakeman to ap-
Droach him. and the vouna fellow cam.
up in a half Insolent way.
"Can't you call a station without bellow
ing like a mad bull?" the manager asked.
"What Is it to you how I call stations,
you old hayaeed? Besides, do you expect
n opera singer for $30 a month?"
The new brakeman turned his back on
the
the manager. When the conductor came
along Merrill told him to "quietly train
that yahoo in the manner of calling sta
tions." The editor of an up-county dally asked
Mr. Merrill for an annual pass.
"I see no reason why I should give you
P.' as the manager'a answer. "I do
" ""w you ana never neara 01 your
PPr. How long has It been printed?
What kind of a paper Is It?"
..My paper ha, bw.n pi.lnt,a ,OIlger than
you hava been trying to run this railroad,
and is better known than either you or
your railroad," answered the editor. "Be-
sides a few years ago. when I was a mem-
oer or me legislature. 1 voieo. lor all of
"a legislation you ana your company
called for. and tha bad taste of some of
the vote. I. .till with me."
Manager Merrill called for Ben Iennox.
hi. private secr.t.ry. and said
Give thl.
gentleman an aanual for himself an
wlf.. -A. J. W.trou. In Record-Her.ld.
This would mean the killing of four girls
In 100, a large percentage, indeed.
Among the Rajputs of northern India the
surplus female children were once destroyed
at birth, and I am told that this still occurs
now and then. In and about Benares there
Is a tradition that If a girl baby be drowned
In milk It may come Into the family next
year as a baby boy. Such beliefs made In
fanticide common in many parts of India
until the British administration took hold.
One authority relates that in some of the
tribes of Oudh not more than one In twenty
of the baby girls were allowed to live, and,
many castes and tribes threw their surplus
of children Into wells or tied them to trees,
where their eyes were picked out by th
crows. In the Upper Ganges valley tha
British had to pass special laws for thf
clans supposed to be addicted to child mur
dor. s The police were set on theft aad thea
were heavily taxed until their proportion
of girls corresponded to that of tha re.it of
the- country. .Even today averywhersj
throughout India girls are less prised than
boys, and the girl baby Is not as well oared
for as her baby brother. She is not so veil
fed and not aa well treated in sickness. It
may be that this has caused In seme deffTM
the difference in the numbers of the nlni
of the two sexes.
A ,uch capltal crlmes, however, are de-
All 8UCJ1 capital crimes, nowever, r uo-
crea8inK and in the British tate have
,jmoBt disappeared. The police have a
record of every professional of the criminal
- . (h. nri thir
photographs and finger print records. The
railway has Its own police and there ate
guards about every station. There are
strong Jails everywhere, and -the criminals
now ln prison are about 100.000.
During my stay here I visited some of tha
Th... manv f hAm r.attariwl
throughout British India, and not a few
contain several thousand prisoners. In
nearly all contract labor is done. Tha pris
oners work about nine hours a day. There
are three classes of labor, hard, medium
and light; they are allotted according to the
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work 1. in manufacture, of various klndaj
and a. far as possible in the making 0?
fw government x freat dcal ot
th. ciothln and tent, for the army coma
from the Jallg. The criminal, print most of
u,, government blanks, and they also make
furtllture for the public buildings. In some
jalls trades are taught. A great deal of
weaving Is done and some of the finest
carpet, of the world are made ln the Jail a
Agra. Tha prisoners are forced to work,
and should they shirk they are punished.
Among the punishments are various form,
of confinement, working ln chain, and
whipping. There are two rewards for in
dustry and good conduct, and the orderly
criminal can thus cut down hi. term.
There are boy. ln most of the Jails; but
they ara kept ln separata wards and re
ceive an education of the manual training
order. There are also reformatories for
both girls and boys; and ln some provinces
the Jails hava special department, for girl
criminals.
Tha Courts of India.
Indeed, law and order how mean mora In
India than in any other country of Asia,
with the exception, perhaps, of Japan.
lnero " every wneie. aim eve,
"Uve haa the right to bring suit. Tha
Hindus are fond of the law. and they
Pend fre''y defending their right.
oomeuiwg line i.uuu.uw cm., i-a-cs aia
stltuted each year. Tho officer, of the
coihs number almost 9.000, and the civil
Juatlces and the majority of the mag
istrates are natives. There are many trials
,,y lmtlve Jurie"' and tn natlve ''
W no uauauy a.v Bi auuain ui uiu umvci.i-
tles. are both able and efficient. There I.
a regular system of appeal courts, and In
Madras, Bombay, Bengal and the united
provinces there are aupreine high courts,
which have the right of appeal to tho privy
council in England.
I have before me some recent statlatlcs
which give one an Idea of the work ot
tho criminal courts, and bhow how well the
Brltin are keeping law and order in Hin-
augtan Tne c)untry, as you know, is
tnlckly populated. Its Inhabitants number
,w, jv, k... . n .1 1.... ....
there we're only two in each 1,000 convicted
of crimes sufficiently grave for sentences
of Imprisonment. There was only one mur-
oer n tach 300,000, and only one in each
600,000 received a sentence of death. In one
year i this population, three times as
iarge aa that of the United States, there
ere less than 10,000 convictions of theft,
and only 1,700 men tianaported to the penal
colonies of the Andaman lalands. I submit
that this record Is far better than that of
nd most of the countries of Christendom.
'KANK U. CARP fciN T luH
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