Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-10-05

sui general at Bombay. His father be-
fore him was consul general at Bombay,
and he himself was born in Bombay.
Mr.. Ballantine is the Worlds Columbian
commissioner at Bombay, and, there
fore, he knows all about India. He and
his wife are in Chicago now. For days
Mr.. Ballantine has been in consultation
with the officers of the fair, and at the
next meeting of the directory it is al
together likely that he will be accredited
properly in order that he may carry out
his scheme. 1t is a wonderful scheme
There have been Indian villages at
worlds fairs. There were about seventy
inhabitants of the little hamlet that
was pitched in Philadelphia. But no
Indian village with five hundred people
was ever seen at any international ex-
position. That is the number Mr.. Bal
lantine is going to bring to Chicago. In
that number all the castles of that coun-
try will be represented. And that is
another thing no one ever saw or heard
of at fair. There will be the rajahs,
who never came to America and whom
it is difficult to secure. A rajah in
India is about as big as a governor in
the United States, and it is easily seen
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and place them on exhibition. Mr.. Bal
iantine has been promised by many
rajahs whom he knows that they will
come if they are invited with proper
dignity. To do this Mr.. Ballantiae is
seeking the consent of the government
to allow two vessels of the navy to
so there and invite them in the impress
sive manner such a voyage would nee
essarily imply. If invited with such
ceremony, Mr.. Ballantine- says, the
rajahs will come and bring rare pres
ents, following the custom of the
Orient. But Mr.. Ballantine intends to
fetch them and to establish an actual
Indian village in Jackson park. The
picture will be something like that ia
nous description of Lord Macaulcy in
his essay on Lord Give. Every caste
will be representative rajahs with
their glittering trains, the middle and
bower classes and the artisans. There
will be carpet weaverS from Cashmere
and gold workers from Benarcs. There
will be turbaned snake charmers in the
streets and the wonderful necromancers
of India, who do such tricks as wrap
ping a little boy in a basket, setting
him with swords until the blood flows
and then seeing him come running over
hill over q half mile away. There
will be the nautch dancing girls and oil
Of India's glories and all her pomp.
The temples will be reared and the
mosques, and the Mohammedan will
turn his face toward Mecca as he does
at home. The religious ceremonies will
be of vast interest, for the Indians are
y devout folk and win abandon none of
their ceremonies on this visit. The
parsees and Mohammedans, who have
no caste, will come with the Buddhists
who observe the s'I-am-holier-than-
thou" customs. About the only thing
Mr.. Ballantine will not have in his
Indian village is Rudyard Kipling. But
no feature of the exhibit will be more
interesting and none more entirely
novel, as the women from India's
zenanas Mrs Bnllantine, who is her
husbands collaboration in this
work will arrange the women's
exhibit, and will do what no one ever
did before-bring women out of the
harems of India into public gaze. When
one knows of the strict seclusion in
WHICH the DeauEleS OF the Inu1an
zenana ore kept, the enormity Of this
scheme begins to dawn. Mrs. Ballan-
tine will take the high caste women into
her own home and entertain
them there as her guests, driv-
ing them to The Indian village
In the morning and back again
at night, Mrs, Ballantine, in convers-
ing about her portion of the work the
other evening, said that the zenana
woman would astonish the ladies in the
womcn's congress, where she will have
them appear, for they are oil highly ed
ucated, even though their lives are so
confined, and can speak English as we'll
as American girls speak French. Their
influence and their interest in the wom-
ans congress, Mrs, Ballantine says,
will be amazing. "There is peculiar
ly appropriate reason why India should
be represented at the fair in an elabor~
ate manner" said Mr. Ballantine.
Don't you remember that Columbus
was searching q shorter passage to the