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Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
NATTvEkPR PRIVATE

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 am told that this still occurs
now and then. In and about Benares there
is a tradition that II 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 we're allowed to live and
many castles and tribes threw their surplus
Of children into wells or tied them to trees,
where their eyes were picked out by the
crows. In the Upper Ganges valley the
British had to pass special laws for ths
clans supposed to be addicted to child mlrN
der The police were set on them aad tneF
were heavily taxed until their proportion
of girls correspondent to that of the rest oS
the country. Even today everywhena
throughout India girls are less priced than
boys, and the girl baby is not as we'll cared
for as her baby brother. She is not so well
fed and not as we'll treated in sickness. II
may be that this has caused in some deszOa
the difference in the numbers Of tho iniSntS
of the two sexes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

Two brothers. named Schefflin, Ed and
Jake, had been prospecting for gold in
Arizona, and they finally hit the locality
which was later to be known as Tomb
stone. They had got down SO deep that
Jake had to dig the earth ana load 1t in a
bucket which Ed would draw up by work.
ing a windlass on the surface. One day
Ed called down to Jake that he saw some
Indians in the distance.
Then skip" called up Jake, because
this is going to be a great gold camp. and
you can't save me from those devils. But,
when it's safe come back and put up a
tombstone over my grave"
Neither one had to skip and they finally
struck 1t rich. A few years ago Mr.. Ham,
mond was talking to one of the Schefflin
brothers and asked to see the original
papers locating the claim to the mine. He
read It and Tombstone was spelled ''Toam-
stoon."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
The PniIcc Force.

In addition 10 the army, India has a
large civil police. Every town has its local
watchmen, and every city Is patroled by
police with clubs in their hands. The local
village police aggregate something like
10000 men, and this would be hardly
enough to give one TO each village In addi-
ton there are thousands in the cities and
on the whole order is fairly we'll kept. The
thugs and other castles, who, in times past
made a business and religion OF murder and
stealing, have been wiped out, but there are
still armed gangs who now and then go
about committing robbery and housebreak-
ing,
The system 81 police work is excellent,
The watchmen are under the eyes of the
head men Of their villages. and important
crimes are reported TO the districts, and
in many cases the watchmen are re-
spOnsible for losses or thefs.
Every place has its own police station
and arrangements for patrol day and
night. In tine larger towns there are po-
lice commissioners and at the stations
lists are kept OF released convicts, sus-
pected characters and habitual offenders.
Such partie sare carefully watched and
when they move, their regulations go with
them TO form part OF the black list OF
their new residence.
Upon such lists are the descendants OF
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
Rise of a Great Railroad Builder

trinket is worth and how much you are
willing to give for it,"
1T is worth 1920; will give you 81 co.,"
was the answer.
That is a remarkably good guess.
paid $1.1OO 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 APP
proach him, and the young fellow came
up in a half insolent way.
Cant you call station without below
ing like a mad bull?" the manager asked
What is II TO you how l call stations.
you old hayseed? Besides, do you expect
an opera singer for $50 month";
The new brakeman turned his back on
the manager. When the conductor came
along Merrill told him to quietly train
that yahoo in the manner OF calling sta
lions"
The editor OF an up-county daily asked
Mr.. Merrill for an annual pass.
II see no reason why l should give you
a pass was the managers answer. Il do
not know you and never heard of your
paper How long has 1t been printed ?
What kind of a paper is III"
my paper has been printed longer than
you have been trying 10 run this railroad,
and is better known than either you or
your railroad" answered the editor Be
sides few years ago. when | was a mem
Der OF the legislature. 1 voted for all OF
the legislation you and your company
called for. and the bad taste OF some OF
the votes is stu with me-"
Manager Merrill called for Ben Lennox
his private secretary. and said Give this
gentleman an annual for himself and
wife"-A ]. Watrous In Record Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
Gossip and Stories About People of Note

John James Ingalls,. 1t will pay you, says
the Kansas City Journal
In 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
one time in quick repartee and pointed
irony
How was that?" asked the others.
He told that a man named Charles s.
Draper who been an employee of the United
States senate for many years, and was en-
ployed during ingalls, occupancy of a sena-
torial seat, was delegated by other en-
ployes to try and get ingalls, to favor the
giving of an extra months wages to these
employees
ingalls, had made a vltrionc speech against
tie plan when it was proposed on the floor
OF the senate, and had frequently inter-
Jected into his remarks: There is no prece-
dent for this, Mr. President; there is no
precedent"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

Merrill In his savagest manner, said:
Look here, Blank, have very good rea-
son to believe that you are not giving this
company its share OF the fares collected"
The conductor manifested his surprise
and Indignation and told Mr.. Merrill that
he defied him and all Of his spies and Of
flcals to put a finger on a place where,
or name a time when he had taken
penny OF the st. Pauls money
Mr.. Merrill fixed his eyes upon a brilliant
diamond that the conductor wore, and
said: 1T is not necessary for you to boil
over and get indignant over little bust
ness matter, Mr.. Blank, 1t looks to me
very much as IL that gistener your
shirt front indicated that what / said Is
true-that you have been taking funds that
you ought to have turned in TO the COM
pany."
Look here, Mr.. Merrill" replied the con-
ductor laughing, Il 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 / have been able to save enough to
buy this trinket which you regarded as of
vast value. / have had II as long as ] care
to wear it, and / will give 1t TO you for
Just what II cost me. 1t is very ingep-
iously constructed piece of glass, and
paid s. for it. You can have it for that
amount"
Mr.. Merrill laughed. II guess, Blank.
you are all right. after ALL" he said.
Il know / am all right, Mr.. Merrill"
well II that is so, you had better hurry
over 10 your train. 1t is nearly time fo'
you 10 pull out"
On his way to the train the conductor
stopped 20 talk 10 Jeweler. II wish YOU
would tell me-" he said, how much THU
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
Profes.lonai Murderer..

The thugs have about disappeared, having
been hunted down by the police like wild
beasts. They were caste or band of
hereditary assassins who first strangled
and 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
They killed by wholesale. In one of the
trials @ certain thug confessed that he had
been engaged In 900 murders.
The road poisonerD of today are said to
be the descendants Of or allied to the
thugs They work in small gangs, following
the pilgrims and travellers and using poison
that they may be able to rob and make
their escape. Ons OF the most common
erugs is nux vomica, and another is the
ne$Sve dhatura, which produces insensi-
bility and death. The latter comes from a
plant common all over this e,ouptry 1t is
Gao c-s the fssSoous DoiRons oS ancient India,
7el3csl S.lIs SathcsAt trace One 81 the most
zSA11 S-Sss0Hers Of recent TINES uses this
cTnE He wes q policeman. who had
learned the trade in jail At his trial he
confessed that he had poisoned hundreds of
people, and he gave the details OF sixty
nine murders
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
The Soldiers Loyal.

am told that the agitators are doing all
they can to stir up sedltion in the army
Anarchistc publications are smuggled into
the native barracks, and attempts made TO
create dissatisfaction among the soldiers.
So far this has been in vain. The soldiers
are loyal and stick to the British. Never
theless, they are thinking and thinking
hard. The Japanese Russian war was
watched and discussed In the barracks, and
II was a great surprise that the Japanese
defeated the Russians. 1t was the defeat
of the white man by the brown man, and
the question among the fighting class Is,
II the Japs were victorious why should not
the East Indian be so in some great war
Of the future. On the other hand, .the
ratahs appreciate the conditions that would
obtain should the army. as now constituted
be dissolved. One OF the northern chiefs
who controls population larger than that
Of Great Britain, recently said:
Il should like TO see the British
leave India, II they did 1 would take a
half dozen regiments, and within three
weeks there would not be a two anna bit
left on the plains OF the Ganges. We would
LOOT ths Bcngalese and capture their women.
tell you It would be sport"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

zine contains the following sketch
of Charles Scribner which is
- here quoted in part:
yNIl0llAk One very good way to gain
- correct impression of what
Mr.. Charles Scribner is like is to think of
him as the operating mind in the publish
Ing business which he and his brother.
Arthur Hawley Scrlbner, have guided
through the considerable changes which
New York publishers have experienced and
observed during the last fifteen or twenty
years. The standing of this house among
Its contemporaries today is a mirror in
which the figure of its senior partner is
very clearly reflected.
mr.. Scribner took control of the bust
ness at an early age for man to assume
the responsibility OF such traditions as his
fathers were. He began the perpetuation
OF that memory in his choice of the firm
name, and he has laid his course by that
compass. Keeping abreast of the times
he has developed the business upon the
principles which under lay his fathers
eminent success, and part of his constant
care has been always TO cooperate with
his brother in maintaining the principle
which sometimes costs money in the pub
fishing business-to give the Scribner inn
print only to such books as deserved pub
his judgment and that of his advisers
could be confident. Often he has pub
lished books for which no great sale could
be foretod; never, an unworthy book
simply for the sake of the money II would
bring In. The general estlmate-in the
trade, and even of the public which cannot
judge so acutely-of the value of that i'm
print is pretty good guarantee of the
quality which II marks. For IL a single
word may be chosen to express the deepest
spring of his actions, II would perhaps be
the word 'fastidious, and this refers, nat
urally, not only to his attitude toward
literature, but to his whole outlook in The
world.
zone OF the most jog-trot of the virtues
is also one not always found even among
generally successful men-patience But in
this respect Mr. Scribner is highly en-
lowed As a sister to his instructive cour-
tesy, II has much to do with the under
standing OF his character which is held In
his offices. He has doubtless had many eX-
periences with business rivals as well as
business associates which have tried his
temper the publishing business is enough
to try anybOdy's temper OF strong con-
victions and vigorous ideas. It may be said
that he is slow to wrath. yet slow in no
other process of his mind. He is emnently
a just man, and punctiliously careful OF
other peoples rights. Just now he Is In
the greatest activity OF his middle life and
his strong personality is guiding force
not only in his own office. but throughout
the body OF American publishers"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
THE HIGH COURTS AT CALCUTTA

Lord Kitchener. I met him about a year
ago here at Calcutta, when he was still
In charge of the troops. He speaks highly.
OF the soldiers a fighting force and
says they are loyal to the government
although attempts have been made to
corrupt them. Lord 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
modified them He made nine divisions,
each Of which had its own general and
staff. These were organized for war and
each could take the field intact leaving
enough troops behind to maintain order.
Every division had it's own transport and
supply arrangements, and the divisional
generals had great authority At the same
time additional officers were appointed
and military college instituted TO supply
others. Lord Kitchener reorganized the
cavalry and infantry. as well as the other
departments and 1t was during his aa-
ministration that the army proper was
divided from the department of military
supplies.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

John Bulls hold upon India is the won
der OF colonial governments. He has here
. combination OF the most turbulent and
most peaceful peoples on earth. He has
some whose religion teaches them It is
their duty and business to fight and plumber
their fellows; and millions who have feuds
with each other and who would fight TO the
death did they not fear the strong arm OF
the British.
Nevertheless, he controls the country with
. military force which averages much less
than one soldier TO each thousand people.
India has altogether 30oO0O,OOO, and the
total army, including both British and ma
tives is only $4,000 This is scattered all
over the peninsula. There are eight divis-
ions In the north, a large party OF which
guard the frontier and there are four di-
visions in the south, as well as troops in
Burma and a GARRISON at Alden. Arabia,
The army. all told, would be small, even
II the country were homogeneous and
peaceful. 1t is nothing In comparison with
the great forces which are forming in
Europe and In the far east. II India had
as many soldiers as Japan has on a peace
footing It's army would number 200, and
II on a war footing II would be more than
l2.OOo, O00 The Germans have l per cent OF
their whole population under arms. and In
times Of war they could put per cent OF
Il into the field Al the same ratio India
could have 100000 under arms in the
great wars Of the future. and the only
power that might possibly surpass 1t II
numbers would be the Chinese. who at tho
same rate could muster, perhaps. $4,000
more.
The Indian army was made over b.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
The Courts of India.

inc COuFtb Oh AnOAhs
Indeed, law and order now mean more In
India than in any other country of Asia,
with the exception, perhaps, Of Japan.
There are courts everywhere and every
native has the right to bring suit. The
Hindus are fond of the law, and they
spend freely in defending their rights.
Something like 100000 civil cases are in
stituted each year. The officers OF the
courts number almost 5000 and the civil
justices and the majority Of the mag
istrates are natives. There are many trials
by native juries. and the native lawyers.
who usually are graduates Of the universe
ties, are both able and efficient. There Is
a regular system of appeal courts, and in
Madras. Bombay. Bengal and the united
provinces there are supreme high courts.
which have the right Of appeal to the prlvy
council in England.
l have before me some recent statistics
which give one an idea of the work OF
the criminal courts, and show how well the
British are keeping law and order In Hin
dustan. The country, as you know, Is
thickly populated. Its inhabitants number
3OOOOO.O0O. but among all these last year
there were only two In each 1000 convicted
Of crimes sufficiently grave for sentences
Of Imprisonment, There was only one MUIR
der in each 100000. and only one in each
10000 received a sentence OF death. In one
year In this population, three times as
large as that OF the United States. there
were less than $1,000 convictions OF theft.
and only LOO men transported 10 the penal
colonies of the Andaman islands / submit
that this record is far better than that Of
most OF the countries OF Christendom.
FRANK q. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
JniIn ana Convict Labor.

JatIG ana Convict Labor
All such capital crimes however, are de-
ereasing, and in the British states have
almost disappeared. The police have a
record of every professional of the criminal
classes, and in the rogues galleries their
photographs and finger print records. The
railway has its own police and there are
guards about every station. There are
strong jails everywhere, and the criminals
now in prison are about 100000.
During my stay here visited some of the
jails. There are many OF them scattered
throughout British India, and not a few
contain several thousand prisoners. In
nearly all contract labor is done. The pris-
oners work about nine hours a day. There
are three classes of labor. hard, medium
and light; they are allotted according to the
physical capacity of the men. Much of the
work is in manufactures of various kinda,
and as far as possible in the making OF
things for the government. A great deal OF
the clothing and tents for the army come
from the jails. The criminals print most Of
the government blanks, and they also make
furniture for the public buildings. In some
jails trades are taught. great deal Of
weaving is done and some Of the finest
carpets of the world are made in the Jail a.
Agra The prisoners are forced to work,
and should they shirk they are punished.
Among the punishments are various forms
OF confinement, working in chains and
whipping. There are two rewards for in
dustry and good conduct, and the orderly
criminal can thus cut down his term.
There are boys in most of the jails; but
they are kept in separate wards and re-
ceive an education OF the manual training
order. There are also reformatories for
both girls and boys; and in some provinces
the jalls have special departments for girl
criminals,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

The employees held an indignation meeting
and Draper was selected to see ingalls,
and plead with him to withdraw his batter
les. The senator listened co the tale Of
hardships endured by the clerks. doorkeep-
ers. messengers. laborers and so on, and
then asked abruptly: Draper. IL you are so
dissatisfied with your job why don't you
resign and let some one else get it?'
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"
ingalls, establishment gave way to loud
laughter, and when the extra pay PROPOSE
ton came up again for final action, he
was out of his seat and 1t passed.
The Birth of Tombstone.
John Hayes Hammond, the mining engi-
neer. tells the story of how Tombstone
Ariz, came into being.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
(Copyright. leo. by Frank 9. Carpenter.l

Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter)
ALCUTTA, 1910. - Especial Core
spondence OF The ee.)-The
troubles in India continue. All
4es1 is quiet upon the surface, but
UHlktKN every now and then a bomb Is
Sa&SS thrown, a conspiracy unearthed
that shows the volcano beneath Since 1
have been here the anarchIstic organiza-
lions have made attempts upon the lives OF
many Officials, trains have been wrecked
and the most barbarous plots unearthed.
Several bombs have been thrown at the
'~iceroy. and no high official is safe In the
main the natives are quiet; but the unrest
seems increasing and any international
complication in which Great Britain takes
kpart may precipdtate trouble
On my way here TO Calcutta I travelled
With General Pole-Carew, a well known
british officer. In speaking OF the army,
The aaid
Our Indian troops will be loyal enough as
long as England is In the ascendency and
her power In the far east predominant II
we should have trouble with any other ma
{ ton. such as Russia, for instance, and
should meet with defeat, there would be a
danger that the Indian army would fly TO
the worship of the rising sun. Al It is now
we hold India, because 1t is a continent OF
many nations rather than one The peoples
arc suoh that they cannot combice The
members Of the various caseas hats ecso an
othsr. TIE races will not zsx and the So
hGiSas sOc9Rs II llN Al1ne. would figks to
the death. II is in this that our safety
lies"
Said another general whom met here al
Calcutta:
If the British rule were removed fol
week. India would be anarchy. The
Mohammedans would swoop down or
the Hindoos, and the Goorkhas would Loo
and massacre the towns Of Bengal The
only salvation for India is in a strons
power at the head, and we manage oui
army by keeping the castles and sects IL
Iuch divisions that they cannot combine
We learned that during the sepoy rebel
lion and shall never forget it."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

the thugs and members Of the other castess
who formerly made crime a business. There
are many of these. The Kuru marus ara
professional thieves and plclpockets. They
teach their children 10 steal and lie, out Of
IT. They burglarize houses not through
the doors or windows, but by digging
through the mud walls with instruments
made for the purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

II - Il
manager of his time in the west.
A native of Vermont, he served
- as a brakeman and freight con-
ductor and in other subordinate positions
in his state before going west. He reached
Milwaukee with only a few dollars in his
pocket fifty-eight years ago.
Mr.. Merrill was one of those everlasting
workers who inspire those under them to
their best efforts, and it is not strange
that he broke down soon after he was 60
years " age. He had a rough exterior.
His nature was that OF an army COM
mander and he was plain spoken and at
times inclined to be savage. but his heart
good deeds were scattered along all OF his
lines, and today there are few men who
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 could
confer upon him.
He despised shlrks and thieves II 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" 1t was
all that was necessary TO keep the station
clean and wholesome during the term OF
that agent. Telegraph operators who slept
while on duty walked out without cere-
mony as soon as the "old man" heard of 1t.
II happened on the ST. Paul, as 1t is sup
posed TO have happened on other roads,
that there were men who were suspected
of knocking down" Mr.. Merrill heard of
a suspicious case and sent for the sus-
pect When he came TO headquarters MT
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04

Poisoning has always flourished in India.
The legends Of the gods are full OF thu
custom, and love charms and death charms
may still be bought. The tanners used to
poison cattle for the sake of their hides by
placing arsenic in their feeding ,troughs;
and within recent times an attempt was
made to poison an army official with
diamond dust mixed with arsenic. There
are traditions of princes and princeseas
who have been poisoned by envenomed
robes like that OF Nessus.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
InrnIIs Met HIS Match.

Whenever you have time 10 while away
In Atchison and can get together number
OF the older men Of the town get them
started on notwithstanding" about Senator