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Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
How the vieeroy Lives.


The yicereRal mansion Is magnificent. 1t
looks not unlike the White House, save
that IL is more beautiful and of twice the
sixe. II stands like the White House at
the end Of a great park with government
buildings at the side and back. Below our
White House flows the Potomac, and the
White Lot and Washington monument
grounds are the beginning of a park which
extends right through the city to the capt.
tol, a distance Of more than mile, The
government house at Calcutta has grounds
At the end of the Madam, a park a mile
wide and two miles in length, which runs
along the Hooghly. The two executive
mansions are just about the same distance
from their respective rivers and each is
surrounded by acres Of beautiful gardens.
The entrances to the home of the vice
roy are more imposing than those Of our
presidents home. You pass through gates
upheld by massive pillars connected by
arches upon which hugh white lions arc
crouching. Below, on each side the gates
are dark-bearded East Indian soldiers in
uniforms Of bright red, with blue turbanS
as big as half bushel baskets. They carry
muskets and swords and present arms as
you ride through. At the end OF the drive
are more dusky SilIhs In red. and at the
house entrance you are met by the serv-
ants Of the viceroy, clad in the brightest
OF red, with blue turbans. They wear
ivory handled dirks in the belts and look
stately and fierce. on each side the front
door are more soldiers, with flags in their
hands. Like those at the gates, they are
giants, each six and a half feet in height.
and their turbans make them seem taller.
They stand Ike statues and look neither to
the right nor left.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
About the Annrchists.

But your eXcellency must appreciate
that there is a large number of these peo-
pie who are bound to drive out the Brit
ish. How about the anarchists"
"We undoubtedly have anarchistic or
ganizations, but l think We have wiped
out most of them and practically sup
pressed the others. One can never tell as
TO such bodies. They are made up Of secret
societies and they may lie dormant for a
time and then suddenly spring into action
There has been an extensive organization
of this kind in India. 1t has had its
branches in France, Canada and, / think,
in the United States. We have traced them
to Paris, London, and also to Vancouver
and Seattle. They have been active in
throwing bombs here and in other parts
Of India, and you may remember the shoot
ing Of Colonel Wyllie of the Indian office
in London. From such men no one can tell
when he is safe"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

has $50 servants to help him. There are
stables OF fifty horses and carriages Of
state of various kinds. Everything is done
TO make the admiration as impressive as
possible to the natives, who judge all things
by show. Indeed, / doubt whether there is
anywhere in the civilized world more for
NAL receptions than those Of the viceroy
of India. The native costumes are of the
most gorgeous description, the English Of
ficialS appear in their uniforms and the
soldiers in full dress. There are raJahs,
native princes and officers of the diplo-
matte corps in court dress and also the
European ladies of the court in fashionable
gowns 1t is the same at Simla, in the
Himalaya mountains, where his excellency
holds his court in the summer.
OF all the pompous assemblage about
him the viceroy himself is the least os-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

is being held up at an eXorbitant price /;
that monopoly can be broken, or at least
very much modified by the government
selling its own timber If any such neces-
sity should arise.
THE first thing to do, of course is to
protect the timber we have, and the main
thing is to keep out fire 1t is pretty
hard, but we are doing It better and bet
ter all the time 1t is simply a matter
Of keeping enough men employed and
keeping those men travelling the noun
tains in fire season and jumping every
fire at its start.
LAS soon as a forest fire gets a good
start it is almost hopeless to control II
before immense damage is done. The
man thing is to stop the little fires at
the start. A great part Of the work had
been to create a good public sentiment in
regard to the fire question, and that has
already been done, and California in that
respect is away ahead of the rest of the
country; they are very much more care
ful here than in any other part Of the
west.
Forestry is a sort Of agriculture and
we treat it as you would an agricultural
crop. The object is to make that land
produce that crop which is most valuable
and which that land can best support and
to keep that timber growing continuously
For instance, We are selling timber all
the time but the trees are cut In such
a way that instead of the lands becom-
ing barren, burning up and becoming
waste a certain proportion OF the stand
is left, trees of all ages, and fires kept
out. so that those trees left set up the
land again, and you have new trees com
ing all the time and thus you are always
assured a continuous supply OF timber.
That is the object OF the timber business
mot only do we want to keep timber
growing on the land, but We want TO i'm
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Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
How India Chanqen.

But it is also a land which is rapidly
changing, is it not?"
Yes" replied his excellency, India is
changing. The people are different now
than they were five years ago, and the
policies which the state has successfully
used in the past are not adapted to the
present. In that lies one of our great
troubles l mean the making our people at
home understand that they have new
India to administer. They are apt to think
a policy should be adopted because one
of the Anglo-Indians who left here twenty
or thirty years ago said it worked we'll in
his day, and that it ought to work we'll
now. They appear to think that a man
who served India ten years ago should be
able to suggest and advise as to today.
This is not so. We have here a new India
and a new people. The conditions are en-
tirely different and they grow more and
more so every year. Many of the changes
have come about through the policies which
we ourselves have inaugurated We have
created an educated class, and this is
made UP Of natives who are thinking for
themselves and who believe that they
should have a greater share in the gov
ernment. In the past our administration
was practically autocratc. We must rule
the country today but we shall have to
adopt conciliatory methods. We shall have
to use more diplomacy and give tho natives
a greater share in the administration. This
change is the natural growth Of movements
which we ourselves have started, and
think 1t is a change for the better"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

OF lhat service in the state, VIII be of more
than casual interest. Mr.. Omstead says
The national forests in California. as
well as elsewhere. and the work of the
federal forest service is designed first of all
to benefit the agricultural interests and as
fruit-growing in California is of course
the dominant agricultural interest the work
of tho forest service should benefit that
interest above all others.
The history of all mountain regions the
world over shows that the resources Of the
high ranges have always been neglected
until they have been taken care of through
necessity. Settlement, OF course, in the
first place has always been in the valleys
when the country is opened up and in
many cases timber and the various re-
sources of the high ranges have been inn
pediments rather than anything else.
California in way is unique, because
a great deal Of the first settlements were
made in the foot hills and mountains. But
that was merely scratch and the real set
tlement came afterwards through the build
Ing up OF agricultural interests in the great
valleys. In this state, as we'll as in most
parts Of the states OF the west the need
for some kind Of systematic care of gov
ernment forests was first felt about 1890.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

tentatous lie impresses one as plain
practical business man, and, dressed for the
part, he might-be taken for a college pro-
fessor, a Wall street broker, or a quiet
everyday club man. He is fine looking and
his face shows high culture. He is free
from airs and puts every one at his case
He is about five feet eight inches in height
and does not weight over $50 pounds. AL
though 81 years Of age, he looks to be about
so, and is now at the top of his prime. He
is great worker and thrives in this eli
mate of India.
Earl Minto has had a long public ca
reer. He took part in the Afghan cam
paign out here as a young lieutenant, now
over thirty years ago\ He was in the
Egyptian war, which arose out of Arab
Pasha's rebellion, and was attached to
the Turkish army in the Russo-Turkish
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

Inc conversation here turned TO the in
dustrial conditions Of Hindustan and their
future. The viceroy spoke in highest terms
or the ability OF his subjects, saying that
the labor was intelligent and quick to learn
The handling OF machinery. He thought
India would be benefited by a protective
tariff, and that if 1t could have the proper
protection 1t might soon be manufacturing
not only for the markets Of China and
the far east, but for the world.
His cxcelcncy referred to the Swadeshi
movement the watch cry Of which is
india for the Indians" and which ad-
vocates the boycotting of all goods NOT
made by native labor The viceroy said
he was surprised that the Swadesbi api-
tation had not made the protective tariff
their watch cry instead of the boycott and
that protection would have seemed a NAT
ural demand. 1 asked him whether sucD
a tariff could be instituted He repIicd
he thought Great Britain would not sl-
low 1t on account OF the objections ~
Manchester ana Birmingham which "a
80 largely to the Indian market.
his eAcellency tells me that machinery
Is gradually coming into use, although A
great many Of the manufactures are now
produced by hand labor. lie says that tho
weaving and spinning mills are stead
ily growing in number and that iron and
steer mills are question Of but a few
years. Technical schools have recently
been established m many parts OF tho
country The government is doing what
II can to teach farming, and on the whole
INDIA Is advancing agriculturally, COM
mercially and industrially more rapidly
than ever before.
FRANK q. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
Awakening of India.

Does this change exist among the COM
mon people, and does 1t cover all parts Of
India?
The awakening of India, il you call it
by that name, is going on IN nearly every
part of the peninsula, although It is more
pronounced in Bengal than otherwheres.
There are several sections Of the country
in which the movement is quite active.
The unrest began previous to the Japan
Russia war and has grown rapidly since
then. The natives, who are Asiatics, then
saw an Asiastic nation victorious over a
European one. They began to inquire that
if this were possible for the japanese why
should it not be possible for them. They
asked their fellows why India should re-
main under the rule of the British and dis
cussed that question here and there all over
the country. 1 think that war was, to a
considerable extent, the cause Of the great
unrest of today"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

n
MY stay here 1 have had an
audience with his excellency,
NYkYRN the vlceroy of India, at the gov
J ernment house The meeting
was arranged through the aid-de-camp in
waiting, in response to my call at the gov
ernmeut mansion. where I presented my
letters of introduction and wrote my name
in the visitors book
Tho social machinery OF the vice-regal
; court Of India is more complicated than
that Of the White House. The viceroy,
comparatively speaking is a greater man
/ than our president. He has more power
than King Edward VII, by whom he is
/ appointed, and the peoples he rules are
as many in number as the population Of
Europe, and of as varied nationalitles. He
Z lives in as much state as any European
monarch, maintaining a large establish
/ ment, and going about in pomp. When he
rides out It is in magnificent landau.
{ with gorgeous coachman and footmen in
I front and behind, and with gigantic native
soldiers as outriders and guards The
, soldiers have magnificent horses and they
! carry long spears which flash like silver
! in the tropical sun.
When one goes to the White House he
may call at the offices and send in his
card and possibly see the president within
g few moments All who wish to pay their
respects to the viceroy Of India must first
announce themselves by writing their
names in the visitors book. This is much
like a hotel register. 1t has places for your
name, your profession and the date of your
arrival and time OF leaving Calcutta. 1t is
kept in a booth near one Of the gates of the
executive mansion and is accessible to all.
The list of names so subscribed is taken up
J 20 his excellency from day to day and, at
his direction. the aid-de-camp sends out
notes OF appointment to such persons as the
viceroy is willing to see. From the list is also
made up the invitations for the dinners
balls, receptions and other events given
by the court There Is no society anywhere
moro splendid than that Of Calcutta during
the season, and the government house Is
alive with festivities from one end of the
winter to the other
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

was of 1877. He aided in suppressng Louis
Riel's Canadian rebellion in 1885, and twenty
years after that he came back to Canada
to be its governor general. He served six
years there. and then was made the kings
greatest subject" the viceroy of India His
eXcel.ency was married in 1882, to Mary, the
daughter of General Charles Gray of the
British army The countess of Minto is
a beautiful woman. She is highly accom-
pished and is popular throughout India.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
Inside the Government House.

Entering the front door, which opens out
on a wide portico upheld by Greek columns,
] came into the audience or throne room.
This Is an immense hall running along the
front of the building, with another great
room extending out from It at the center.
The ceilings OF both are, judge 100 feet
high and are supported by columns OF
marble with capitals OF gold They are
freseOed by artists. The floor shines like
a mirror. Il is OF dark marble In the
throne room and OF white marble veined,
In the dining room adjoining.
The throne room Is as imposing as the
East room az tho White House, and Il
impresses me moro than any / have seen
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
Forest Reserves Created.

From that on what were then called
forest reserves were created in California.
They now practically include all the great
mountain ranges Of the state. They begin
at the oregon line and run south along the
entire crest OF the sierras and on the other
side along the entire crest of the Coast
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
Talk with the Viceroy.

IHIk VIII INC NICeFUy'
During my conversation with the viceroy
I spoke of tho difference in the governor
generalship of Canada and the vice royalty
of India, and asked him how he liked his
present job. He replied that what the gov
ernor general of Canada accomplished had
to be done almost altogether through in
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
THE. GoVERN1NErT HoUSE AT CALCUTTA = = . . ZZss@%

= fluencing others, the governor gen
--. eral having little actual power in the
'sd@% administration of affairs, In India
the viceroy and his council are almost
supreme, and they have a world under their
control. Said Earl Mimic:
But few people appreciate the extent Of
our Indian empire. We have here a conti-
nent rather than country. There are SOO,-
OO0, 1000 people subject to us, and they be-
long to many nations, and tribes, They
speak more languages than Europe and
the nations are as different are those Of
the European countries. Hindustan has
many religions, each with it's own custom;
1t has a vast number of classes and castles,
many of which do not harmonic at all
with the others. 1t is a land of mighty
problems and of some almost insolvable." +"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

realize that. on the grounds Of humanity
If for nothing else, the great powers Of the
world would have to rush in to keep order,
and that this would result in India having
a change Of masters, and also that the
change might not be for the better"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01
National Forestry Service in California

NATIONAL conservation is en-
crossing at present large
amount Of public attention. the
following account of the federal
forest service in California by
f. r. Olmstead, who has charge
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

\ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VINEYARD.
; deal of it. 1t was like taking the re-
sources and locking them up absolutely.
That opposition brought about very good
thing which was a law providing for the
use Of all the resources OF the forest re-
serves, and short time ago the very name
was changed to get away from that idea
OF reserve.
"They are not reserves any longer; they
are national forests, and the timber the
range and the water, and everything in the
way of resources is for use and is used.
First is the timber. There are about
hundred billion feet OF merchantable tim
ber in the national forests OF California
Most OF 1t Is in the northern part Of tho
state, some of it in the south. II these
timber lands had remained in the public
domain and had not been thrown into
national forests what would have hap
pened?
They would have passed very quickly
from government ownership, and the
tendency has been and still would be for
private owners to gradually form large
holdings and monopolies. That has al
ready happened In some parts of the state.
In other words, the interests of the peo-
pie, so far as timber resources go, would
Oe in danger of not being properly guarded.
.
Secretary Can Combat Monopoly.
LAS It is now, the government owns
only small proportion of the merchant
able timber in California, but it owns
enough at the same time to have a very
strong influence on market conditions. For
example, there is no question whatever
but what It could control local market
conditions in the great valleys OF sacra-
mento and San Joaquin, because the sec
retary of agriculture is empowered TO sell
timber at whatever price he thinks best
and whenever he thinks best. II Il Is
found that through monopoly OF any kind
the price OF timber In any particular region
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

ALCUTTA, 191O-(Special Corre-
spondence of the Bee.)-During
MY stay here 1 have had an
audience with his excellency,
the vlceroy OF India, at the gov
ernment house. The meeting
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-01

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The Detroit times., 1910-08-12

as a rule.
To all intents and purposes the pro-
hibition TO carry arms is a dead letter.
1t comes into play, more often than
not, after the harm Is done, and some
times an honest citizen who uses a re-
volver or pistol In self-defense is
prosecuted by the authorities whose
duty II is to protect him.
The only way to stop the murder
Gus practices of the apache Is to re-
strict the sale OF weapons of all sorts,
and the Surete has prepared draft
regulations which, II strictly carried
out, would certainly cut his claws.
These regulations provide that any
person desiring to carry a weapon OF
any sort must go 10 the police com
missary of his district end justify his
request. II the commissary. after max.
ing inquiries, considers that the per.
son may safely be trusted with a
weapon, he will deliver a certificate
with n special note to the effect that
the person In question may have need
or the said weapon for self-defense.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-12

The mollymawk is a member OF the
albatross family. and the kakapo a
large, green, fightless parrot peculiar
to New Zealand. The mollymawk, OF
course, leads a seafaring life, and the
kakapo dwells on the land.
At a great gathering OF the repre-
sentatives OF all birds Of the land and
the sea the mollymawk suggested that
they should change countries, the mol
lymawk going ON the land and the
kakapo going out to sea- The kakapo
suggested that life ashore would not
suit the mollymawk as, on account
of Its conspicuous white and gray
plumage, it would not be able to hide
securely from its enemies. They will
have no diffieulty in picking you out, "
the kakapo said, but !, who am all
green, easily hide among the foliage
so that nobody can see me-"
The mollymawk said that fair test
could be made by each bird hiding
while the other searched for 1t. The
kakapo turned its head away and the
mollymawk few of for about twenty
yards and hid. Now come and look
for me-" 1t said. why, there you are,
l can see you quite clearly" the ka-
kapo replied.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-12
MEASURES PROPOSED
TO REPRESS APACHE
Paris Officials Plan to Lessen Crime
by Regulating Sale Of
Weapons.

PARIS, Aug. 1C.-Onc OF the grav-
est tasks which confronts the Paris
authorities is the repression of the
apache"
In the course of the debate in the
chamber some two years ago on the
abolition of the death penalty, NJ.
BRAND. then minister of justice. de-
cIared that in his opinion one of the
chief causes OF the increase of Grim
inality was the abuse Of the privilege
Of carry weapons and the facility with
which arms can be procured.
One Of the first measures TO be TAX
en-. therefore, II the apache is to be
rot rid OF, is to make IL Impossible,
o. at all events extremely dificult, to
bf6cufe the weapons which render
him % dangerous an enemy of society
The law places certain obstacles in
ne way Of carrying arms, such as
placing pocket pistols I'm the category
(. q ~prohfbited weapons the posses
6lou Of which renders one liable to Q
heavy finc. Bnt nothing is done te
Drerent the purchase ri such weapons
+ 1nd xunsmifhs' shops ere plentiful
|enoneh n Paris. The apache, how
csuI buys his revolver second-hant
The Detroit times., 1910-08-12
POINTS FOR CHURCH-G0ERs.

A clergyman was smoking a cigar
under an oak.
MY congregation coughed this
morning." he said. II could hardly
make myself heard. II was most an
noying."
Well" said a physician, "the next
time they cough, tell them to press
the upper lip just beneath the nose.
Pressing the nerves in that quarter
will stop the most obstinate cough,
and, by the same token, 1t will stop a
sneeze, too.
I'll tell you how to stop the hic-
coughs. You press hard on the cheek,
right In front Of the ear. Those nerves
there control the hiccoughs as money
controls politics. You need only press
the nerves will do the rest."-Phil-
adelphia Bulletin.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-12
Growth of Socialism Alarms Japan

would be termed anarchists in Europe
or America. These people are bomb
throwers," and are headed by DenJiro
Kotoku, Kojiro Nishikawa and Toshik
Sakae. Most OF the prominent agitat-
ors Of this class are now in Jail, and
the government Is showing no mercy
in stamping them out.
A Japanese, writing Of these condi-
lions, says: Socialism Is a product
of civilization, and all civilized coun-
tries have Socialists In their midst.
II is, therefore, natural phenomenon
that Japan which has entered into the
list OF civilized nations, should have
them, too. While European books are
freely introduced, and people are al
lowed to study foreign languages so
they can qualify to read these books,
and while the present conditions re-
main unimproved, and again, while
beaureaucratic government will not
respect public opinion, no high-handed
policy against Socialists will avail"
The Detroit times., 1910-08-12

TOKYO, Aug. 12.-(SpeciaD THE
spreading OF the doctrines OF Social
ism in Japan within recent years has
been so great that the government
seems to be alarmed, and recent
meeting Of the cabinet council dis.
cussed means to stamp out the new
japanese Socialists.
The government divides the Social.
lists into three classes. The first class
includes the state Socialist. No
molestation Is suffered by those pro
Tossing the doctrines of state Social.
ism, many influential Japanese being
included In their number.
The second class includes those
who advocate revolutionary measures
to bring about the reconstruction OF
the social and political order This
class Is discouraged by the govern
ment in every possible way.
The government includes In the
third class Of Socialists those who