The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07
THE WAYS OF INDIA.
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 cur reading them. Finally, in self-de- fense, we engaged a stalwart Moham- medan wearing a snow-White robe, monstrous turban and a big bushy beard. He is an imposing spectacle; he moves like an emperor; his poses are as dignified as those of the Sheik el Islam, when he lifts his hands to be- stow a blessing. And We engaged Ram Zon AdbuIlet Mutmammet on his shape.
 It was mistake. Beauty is skin deep. No one can judge merit by out side appearances, as many persons can ascertain by glaneing at a mirror. Ram Zon, and that was what we called him for short was a splendid illusion. It turned out that he could not scrape to- gether enough English to keep an ac- count of his expenditures and had to trust to his memory, which is very de- fective in money matters. He cannot read or write, he cannot carry mes sage or receive one; he is no use as guide, for, although information and ideas may be buiging from his noble brow, he lacks the power to communi- cate them, and, worse than all, he is surly lazy and constitutional kicker He was always hanging around when we didn't want him, and when we did want him he was never to be found.
 Ram had not been engaged two hours before he appeared in our sitting room enveloped in dignity that permeated the entire hotel. stood erect like, a sol dier brought his hand to his forehead and held it there for a long time-the salute of great respect-and gave me a sealed note, which 1 opened and found to read as follows:
 Most Honored Sir-I most humbly beg to inform you this to your kind consideration and generousitee and trusting which will submit myself to your grand benevolenee for avoid the troublesomeness to you and your fami- les, that the servant Ram Zon you have been so honorable and benevo- lent to engage is a great rogue and conjurer. He will make your mind buzling. and will steal your properties, and can run away with you midway. In proof you please touch his right hand shoulder and see what and how big charm he has. Such a bad temper ature man you have in your service. Besides he only grown taller and looks like dandee as it is true but he is not fit to act in case not to disappeared. l beg of you kindly consult about those matters and select and choose much experienced man than him otherwise certainly you could be put into great danger by his conjuring and into troubles.
 41. fn,. fnic -him5fi reteienc nh stutfioethebgiven troubles I traking though he is my caste and countrymen much like not to do so, but his temperature is not good therfore liable to your honour ableness, etc, etc"
 I told Ram about this indictment and he stoutly denied the charges saying that it was customary for envious bearers" to accuse one another when they lost good jobs. We did feel of his right arm and he did not try to conjure us, but his temperature is certainly very bad, and he soon became a nui- sance which we abated by paying him a months wages and sending him off. Then, upon the recommendation of the Consul, we got a treasure, but he does not show it in his looks.
 | The hotels in India have a very bad name. Miss Scidmore, in her spark ling book on Winter India, gives them Q. dreadful reputation, which they have earned by years of imposition up- on long suffering public. People over I here are rather sore about her criti- cism. When you pin them down they admit their justice, but deny their ex- l pediency. They complain that she kept away a lot of tourists, who would otherwise have come to India for the winter, and that is probably the fact. | Miss Scidmore's book has been the sub- ject of much criticism in the news papers, also, but the Times of India, have confessed that her attacks were deserved, and advise people to correct the fault instead of abusing the fault finder. There are several good hotels
 in the empire, and every experienced traveller and every clubman you meet can tell you the names of all of them
 Hence it is not impossible to keep a good hotel with profit. Those at Cal cutta are the worst, although one would
 have pride enough to entertain it's
 many visitors decently.
 1 Bombay at last has found hotel as
 ought to be found in Calcutta and all the other large cities, an architectural monument, and an ornament to the
 country. It is due to the enterprise of
 J. N. Tata, parsee merchant and man.
 ufacturer, and 1t is to be hoped that it's success will be sufficient to stimulate similar enterprises elsewhere. 1t would
 be much better for the people of India to coax tourists over here by offering them comforts, luxuries and pleasures
 than to allow the few who do come, to go away grumbling The thousands who visit Cairo every winter are at 1 tracted there by the hotels, for no city has better ones, and no hotel gives more for the money. Hence they pay profits, and are a source of prosperity to the town, as well as pleasure to the idle public--William E. Curtis in | Chicago Record Herald.