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from decay for thirty weary years. and
taking care that Herr A1brecht Schmed-
dings heirs were not robbed of their one
cent heritage. I'VE should all they said
had been trained to conduct the great
empires affairs according to that scrupu-
lous. impressive, dignifed, Olympian
and muchpaper- consuming system known
in long suffering Europe as govern
mental red tape If all the red-tape
metaphorically used in Europes govern
ment offices were joined into one vast
string it would stretch from Berlin to
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for detailed narration and 100 cohipH-
Gated for the ordinary Christian mind,
without study. to grasp it ! snail at
tempt only to mention a few of its prln-
cipa1 features and especially some when
are involved in the great unrest which is
spreading over India today.
The Hindu religion is one of the oldest
on earth. 1t sprang from our Aryan
forefathers and was practiced thousands
of wears before Christ. From age TO age
and generation to generation it has been
the faith of hundreds of millions, and to-
day one-eighth of all mankind upon 1t
rest their hope of salvation. There are
twice as many believers of this religion
in India as there are men. women and
children in the United States. They form
two-thirds of the whole population, and
most of them are so earnest that they
will suffer pain and death rather than
renounce their belief The Hindus are
naturally religious. In one form or an
other they worship almost everything
under the sun. They long for salvation
and they live in daily fear Of he'll ana
damnation. This is especially so of the
common people and to a large extent OF
the Brahman.
7 despair of giving you an adequate
conception of the gods of the Hindus.
Taking into account their idols, temples,
shrines and other objects of worship. 1t
is estimated that they number, all told,
something like three hundred millions.
And notwithstanding this. the Hindus
base their belief upon one God alone. OF
whom they say there is no second. They
say that God made the heavens and the
earth. and that he permeates all crea-
ton He is in every man. and in every
thing He is a part of you and me, and
therefore your acts and my acts are His
acts. We cannot sin If God Is doing
the acting. and at the best our future is
fated When we were babies the life we
would lead was written upon our fore
heads. and our joys and misfortunes were
settled before we saw light.
The Hindus believe that God mani
tests himself in many incarnations. Any
great philosopher. priest or king may rep
resent Him. and they have taken Buddha
as one of His manifestations. They say
that God as whole is so great that he
is beyond human conception. and there
fore they worship Him in His various in
carnations. In this sense everything
may be worshiped as part of God,
and 1t should be so. according as it is
pure or good or as it is terrible and to
be feared. The lower classes of the Hin
dus pray to animals and to the dead.
They pray TO the spirits of those who
have done we'll in life. and also to the
supreme gods OF Hinduism or the in
carnations of the deity represented
in their sacred books
In tie latter sense the Hindus have
three great manifeStat tons of the Deity
These are Brahma. Vishnu and SILVA
j find representations of them scattered
throughout the temples. and have seen
tens of thousands worshiping them in
one form or another. The god, Brahma.
is represented as a idol with four heads
and four arms. He was the great creator
who made MANKIND and all living. His
wife is often represented beside him. Her
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LIVERY Now and Again
La Business Man Finds
His Way Into Office-Tries
to Cut the Bonds Which
Make Sensible Administra-
ton Impossible-He Is Over
come by the Dead Weight of
Bureaucracy and Either Abb
sorbed or Forced to Retire
Dernberg in Germany the
Last Instance of the Man of
Affairs Who Went Down
Before Red Tape Methods
-Witte in Russia Only
Strengthened the System by
His War on It-Now An
other Champion Is Trying
His Hand at Staying the
Monster.
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recently ap-
peared in the off,
cial police gazette
of this well gov
erned capital an
a q V ert is G ment
which delighted
men of wit. 1t an
nounced that on
the fifteenth day
of August. 1879,
Herr a bre c hit
Schmedding. inn
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b En- AXES. clt-
y the holy city OF
BenareS. on the
banks of cid Moth
er Ganges, where l
c a n n e ar the
sIlashing OF the
pilgrims as they
wash off their
sins, I write of the
Hindu religion. The
subject is TOO big
for abstruse dis
cuSSion. too varied
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1t is impossible for stranger to I'M
derstand how the Hindus look at caste
matters. They accept their position In
society as a matter of religion, and do
not hope to alter it. All castles are hered-
itary. The son of a Brahman is bound
to be a priest and the son of a Sudra
Sudra The poorest Brahman always con-
siders himself at the top of the heap. and
he would spurn a millionaire of any
lower class than his own. What Is more,
the millionaire would stay spurned. I
was talking the other day with one OF
the chief officers of the British army in
India about this matter. Said he:
NO matter how rich or how powerful
a native becomes, he cannot rise above
his caste. Take the Maharajah Of Gwa-
lor he is one of the richest of the native
rulers, and vast sums flow into his cof-
fers. He has a big country to govern,
and his subjects are millions. Neverthe-
less the poorest Brahman among them
would not give him his daughter in mar
rage and / venture the rajah would give
all he had if he could raise his caste. He
would pay untold fortunes to be made
Brahman, but that cannot be bought We
have other rajahS of such high caste
that the majority of their subjects dare
not come near them. l cannot describe
caste; it has existed for ages and 1t Is
strong today
The rules Of caste are strict as to mar
rage, and this is especially so as to the
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LEADER OF FIGHT IN AUSTRIA.
baron Won Bienerth, the Austrian
premier. who described the wanderinSs
In the red tape maze of a typical peti-
ton to the emperor.
one knows that the thirteen bureaucrats
Will NIL a million pages with learned ar
guments. while the FIVE business men
Will say nothing: and that in the END
the procedure will be le1gthier and more
laby-lnthine than before
Red tape Is immortal and all ed-tapists
are the same. All have been trained In
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Brahmans. The daughter of a pork-pack-
ing millionaire could never marry duke
in this country. The Rrahman thinks he
condescends if he looks upon a woman Of
caste below him, and as a rule mar
riages are made only in the caste and
in the divisions of the castles to which
one belongs. This leads to the union OF
cousins. and the consequent degenera-
ton of the race.
AS to marriages, the code of 4..anu is
rigid, especially as to the selection of a
wife by the twice-born. There are GER
tain families which the Brahmans must
avoid no matter how rich they may be.
The code advises him to wed a female
free from bodily defects, one with small
teeth and soft limbs. a moderate quantity
of hair and the gait Of an elephant Let
him beware of the maiden with reddish
hair or who has no hair at all or who is
sickly or red-eyed He must marry in
his own caste. but not to one of the
same family on the fathers side. Re-
lation on the part of the mother does not
seem to matter.
The code of Manu- declares that a Sudra
woman alone can be the wife of a Sudra !:
in other words, dishwaSher must
marry a dishwasher and slopcarrier a
slopcarrier. 1t is the same with the
Vaisyas and the Kshatryas.
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CTR NGE Gods and
- Heather Devils - The
Queer Beliefs of One-Eighth
of Mankind - The Sacred
Books-The Vedas and the
Code of Manu-How Castles
Are Changing-The Brah-
mans and Their Marriages.
Among the Fakirs.
Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter
specisl Correspondence OF Tho Star.
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GERMAN CRUSADER AGAINST RED
TAPE.
Herr Won Gwinner, president OF the
Deutsche Bank, who recently attacked
the bureaucratic system In the PruSsian
house of lords and told how 1t had In
jured German credit.
the star Alpha Persei, make a million
turns round the great nebula in Orion,
and still unconsumed. float on the ether
outward in the uttermost abysses of in
terstelar space.
There is red tape i'm England, red tape
in France. inextricable tangles of 1t in
Austria. ard in Russia labyrnthine coils.
But only German red tape has the prop
er infallibility and repose. a French po-
Eceman would have kept the ring only
five years, and given ii TO his best girl
\ Russian red-tapist would have stolen
il and palmed II off on his wife as gold.
But only a German is capable Of keeping
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The laws also provide that only persons
of the same caste may eat together, and
for person of one caste to touch the
food Of another defiles it. I stopped to-
day before an itinerant sweetmeats ped
dler and began to finger some OF the
candies on his table. He grew angry and
told me to keep my hands off, as the Hin
dus would not buy anything a foreigner
had touched. This is especially so Of
the natives of the higher castles. In the
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
pEpJJ>- Til. /.
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must mix. arguing that such contamina-
tion will lead to damnation.
The second great class was the war
riors. From these came the Rajputs
and others whose duty it was to fight
This class has largely lost its prominence
since the advent of the British. 1t Is
supposed to have sprung from the arms
of the god Brahma.
The third class was the industrial part
of the old population, which contained
the labOrers. farmers, herdsmen and mer-
chants. This sprang from the belly and
thighs of Brahma. 1t is leading caste
now. 1t comprises the largest part of
the Hindus, and it's members are found
everywhere throughout the peninsula.
The fourth and last class was the Sudra.
condemned to do the dirty work of the
community. 1t was the servile or slave
class and such it is today. 1t sweeps
the streets and does the scavenger work.
/ have a Sudra at my hotel to keep my
room clean He is so humble and servile
that he never looks up as he creeps about
busting the floor. He carries the water
and does work which the other servants
despise. Others of the Sudras are COW
SINNERS and corpse bearers and some
are employed as BARRIERS. In addition
there are thousands of subcastes, so that
every one has his place and his own spe-
cial job.
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ashes, and his great eyes alone shows
tie soul behind.
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BERLIN, July - 1919.
HERE recently an
The evening world., 1910-12-14
$500 GEM
SHE PICKS Up FOR
!|FTY-CENT LOAN
Stair Sweeper Dazed When
Pawnbroker Calls Police to
Trace Diamond.

sweeping down TIE Office steps OF DR.
+. II. Mensching. a dentist. at No. 81:
Third avenue. Mrs. Bertha Reilly. tn.
caretaker. to-day found an earring vet
with a stone cut like a. diamond. Sh.
showed 1t TO her brother. who lives with
her in the basement of the house. He
told her 1t was glass and worth about
a dollar.
Mrs. Reilly needed money more than
a glass earring and took 1t to l.. Jacob.
son. n pa~wnbroker. on Third avenu,
near Fifty-nlnth street. Jacobson asked
her how much she wanted to borroA
on II.
Gould you 20 as far rs % cents?"
asked Mrs. Pe,lly.
Tho pawnbrCker said he would soc,
and quickly telephoned to the Ess: Eif-
ty-.irst street police station that n
woman a Offering n wonderfully
brilliant diamond. worth 500. for 50
cents.
Detective Van Tw!stern hurried 80 the
~pawnshop and heard Mrs. Reilly's story
Of finding the diamond. lie went with
her TO her home and questioned tenants
IN the house. None Of them had lost
a diamond. The detectives gave Mrs.
Reilly n receipt for the gem and depos-
tied It with the property clerk at Po.
Hce Headquarters. II no owner Is dis
covered It will become the property OF
the finder.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
CURNEN DOUBTS
lilly LOVES"
CRY TO RETURN
Her Burning Appeals Written
While She Was With Other
Man, Major Believes.

Love letters teeming with heart
throbs and pulsatlng with penitence;
protestatlons OF undying love and plead
ings to return to his most penitent,
miserable OF women. your little Lilly
Love- took up the morning session in
the suit before Justice Guy in which
Mrs. Lillian Cornell Curnen seeks a sep
aration from Major Il. V. Curnen. who
was attached to Gen. George NJ. Ran
dall's command in the spanish war.
Curnen Identified the letters, many OF
which were read during his unsuccessful
suit for divorce. Mrs, Curnen. wearing
n black velvet peach-basket hat which
showed her flushed face. asked to read
the missives ,efore they were entered
In evidence. Frequently the woman's
feelings found expression in sobbing
spells, during which her daughter, Vera,
a beautiful. fashionably dressed young
girl, rushed to her mothers side and
soothed her.
Counsel for Curnen ook M a line of
inquiry as 20 Mrs. Curnen's conduct In
New York while the Major was In Bos-
ton. after his separation from her. Cur
men testified to witnessing his wife leave
Central Park In Lawyer Frances Cote
ly's company. On another occasion he
SAID he saw her leave the Hotel Bel
mont with Cotely.
His lawyers purpose was to show that
during the time Mrs. Curnen's burning
letters OF love were written she was
often in Cotely's company in New York,
and that her sincerity in writing the
letters was questionable.
Currents military status interested his
wife's counse when the -cross-examina-
ton began.
Tine somewhat curious as to whether
the witness was a lieutenant, ma ior or
colonel In the late war" said MIR.
Bowler.
Curnen started to explain his war rec
ord 9nd was as far as his lieutenancy
In cub when Mr.. Bowler Interrupted
to ask about tine title major"
II ranked as major on Gen. Randalrs
staff" interrupted the witness.
That's quite sufficient" concluded
the Court, III the Osborne has been
calling his client a colonel. or even n
major. ] car readily understand his
Southern relish Of military titles"
The evening world., 1910-12-14
Money Shy. Says Bride.
WHO HIT MICHAEL MORAN?


Somebody pushed Michael Moran into
q ceNar way one cold morning In Feb
ruary. 1907. up In Harlem, where MI
chael went to help Contractor william
bradley remove snow from the city's
streets.
lie told Justice Con- to-day that
Frank Bradley. the contractors son.
was the man who Set his fist go at
him. Moran is suing Bradley for $500
for personal injuries.
II was there with my shovel, ready
10 de my part as had been agreed be-
tween u.s. said Michael. Il was stand
ing in line. when Bradley came up,
showed me or pushed me and then hit
me. Down ] went Into a cellar. Two
men picked me VI and took me to my
home on One Hundred and Twenty
second street. Next day I went to
Harlem Hospital. The doctors plas-
tered my body with bandages. They
stuck on. Judge, until they fell OF
themselves, so they did"
Bradley's defense is that Moran has
mistaken. his identity. He says he
wasn't near Moran that morning ard
psserts he knew nothing OF Moran's
hurts until the complainant's case was
fled.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
CLAPP WILL NOT
PROSECUTE WIFE
FOR SHOOTING HIM
Clubman's Anger Cooling and
Friends Look for a Recon-
Citation Between Couple.

PHTT,ADELptTIA. Doc ii-t-,o, ~.
adyIes n, frta,1s ,Io-ho,, Mac. ,,.n.
,.r, ,.. all.
49,, -, -, '""'
-" :" Nus wiz carry MONDAY MORN
ing at No 1911 Girard avenue, Is said
to have made VI his mind not to press
the charge OF attempted murder which
he made against Mrs. Clapp after he
had been emoved from his apartment
to 81. Joscph's Hospital.
One reason for this determination. II
was said yesterday, was that Clamp was
unable TO present witnesses In support
" his accusation, and another reason,
according to an intimate friend. wa.
that. no longer in the savage mood I'm
which Magistrate Morris found him.
he was Yesterday dIsnosed IN In for.
giving,
This friend ssserted Inn, with. clam,
srill clunv 10 his s,or,, ~, h,,,nn 49,
Deliberately s,ot IN, his vI,a no saomoI
TO regret that the no,ico bad arro.,od
her. Thl. friend nre,,,c,ed ,na, ,h.
case uiii n. aro,no, a., r.. -,
aaa.a,s. wv" "' "o"''
"as'S.r"'e MOTIFS was also disposed
10 thInk mat the case against Mrs.
Clapp would be dropped. only Clapp
and his wife were present at tho time
of the shooting" said tho Na,,s,r.,.
"po,h ,el, a,war.,, .,a.to. s -,
oro ,.n,a,. "'- y" po,"
""''' """eSes W support their
statements
In addition to this. under the law.
a wife cannot testify against her hus-
i,,l -.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
COUPLE COMMIT SUICIDE.
MAN aud woman XIII selves To-
gethcr by Gas In Camden.

Il CAMDEN, n. j., Dec. l+-Mrs. Nett!e
Hall. t~wenty-eight years old, OF this
city and George Newcomb. thirty. OF
No. q Highland avenue. Highland
town, Baltimore. committed suicide by
inhaling gas in an apartment house
IA tails city some time during last night
or this morning. The bodies were
found to-day, when the landlady, Mrs,
Florence Roberts. edtected the smell
o; gas.
Mrs. Hall went TO the house a week
ago and engaged a room. Last even
ing at 6 o'cloc she was. Joined by
.Newcomb. Nothing was seen of either
after that time, On the bureau they
placed a sheet OF paper containing
their names and addresses.
Norris Hall. husband OF the dead
woman, is an employee OF the Public
Service Corporation in this city.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
Found InsensibIc on street.

An unidentified man. wearing a
mourning band about his coat sleeve
ana one on his hat. was found uncon-
scious at Nevins n Livingston streets,
Brooklyn. this morning. There were no
cards or letters In his pockets TO show
who he was. lie was taken to Cum
bcrland street Hospital. The man was
well dressed In II black suit OF clothes.
black overcoat and derby hat.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
BIoominSdnIc Guild 10 En,.r.,,u

The Bloomingdale Guild. a n~eighbor,
hood settlement which has been active
on the upper east side In the congested
districts for the past six years, will Civ,
an entertainment tomorrow evening al
,.eslie Hall. Broadway and third
street. The entertainment. which will
be for the benefit of the guild. will In.
.ciude n variety OF talent, both musical
and histrionic. Dancing will follow.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
They Don't See Enough
Of Their Wives NouO for
Perfect Comvadeship, Is
Assertion of Mrs. Mui-
liner.
"A Man Knows What's on
His WHe's Head Oftener
Than He KnoWs What's
Inside IT," She Says
systematically.
BY Marguerite AoOers Marshall.
Has = husband . hight to . day

Has = husband . night to . day
OFT
The name of the rash man who first
preached this interesting question Is
plunged in dusky %obscurity. His little
booklet. Happy Holidays for Hus-
bands" remains unpublished. But the
names Of his feminine opponents are
legion. and bright among them all
stand that OF Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart
Mulliner.
l had gone to Mrs. Mulliner rather
hoping she would look with favor on
this truly novel recipe for how to be
happy though a husband. Because. as
the "anti-alimony" woman lawyer. she
thinks the lot of the American husband
In distinct need Of alienation.
But she is quite sure days or from
home and mother-or rather, wife
wouldn't really make him any happier.
The trouble with the modern
unhappy marriage 10 not that hus-
band and wife see TOO much OF
eaeh othor, but that they Zee too
little" h began, firmly. "Thsy
don't Mood lays on from . too con-
lining companionship. because they
are not companions, In any sense;
frequently they are hardly even
acquaintanoes.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
The Difference.

From the Boston Transcript
Wifey-John, couldn't you let me have
a little money this morning? i;attlelgh's
Is advertising six puffs for a dollar.
Hub-Great Scott! And we men can
get sixty delicious puffs for 10 cents.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
Here's Another:

Traveller: How far is il to town, sir, If
keep going straight ahead'
Farmer: ! think it's about 1900 miles
if We keep goin' straight ahead, but
it's only about two miles II ye turn
aroun' an go the other way.
For the help you need, for the posi-
ton you seek, for the lost article you
mourn, for the home you covet, for the
bargain you long to find,
ARE YOU GOING IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION?
II our Wanted advertisement is
printed in the Sunday World II will be
given a circulation in New York City
greater than obtainable through ANY
OTHER Sunday newspaper.
World Ads. Are "ShOrt-
Cuts to Success.
The evening world., 1910-12-14
Fair Brides Epileptic Seizure
in Atlantic City Hotel
Chilled His Love.
WANTS KNOT UNITED.
REFUSAL to Give Up Money
Alleged by Mrs. Wiener as
Real Reason for Suit.

Thcre was a lump In .Jospeh wlener's
throat that almost choked him TODAY
when he told Supreme Court Justice
DAVIS that his wife. Sadie, was afflicted
with epilepsy and he wanted his mar.
rage to her annulled. From a far cor
ner or the courtroom, Mrs. Wiener
slsred at him angrily. II was not epi.
Ieptic fits that had caused wIcner's o
10 grow cold. she said later: 1t was sim
Ply because she had more money ana
wouldn't let him get his hands on it.
wiener claimed he was '~'trlcked'' into
marriage. He declared he was devoted
70 his wife until Re discovered she had
epilepsy. He had heard something to
mat effect before the marriage, he said,
ont she always denied II.
Says Fit Shattered Bliss.
The wedding was solemnized May 2,
1909. and the couple went to Atlantic
City for their honeymoon. After the
hrst week. Mrs. Wiener had a ut in tn,
lobby OF a hotel, according to Wiener.
ead this long. lingering ut shattered
his future.
Wiener has a delicatessen store at No.
2S West one Hundred and sixteenth
street. Prior to her marriage Mrs.
Wiener was Miss Powell. Since she and
Wiener parted. a week after their mar
riage. she has been living with her
mother IN Riverside Drive. Wiener is
thirty-two years old and she is twenty
nine.
In his complaint Wiener alleged he
would never have married Miss Powell
" she had not falsely represented to him
that she was not afflicted with epilepsy.
lie said he learned since he married her
that she has been subject to frequent
attacks of epilepsy since she was eleven
years Did.
Money Shy, Says Bride.
Mrs. Wiener denied her husbands
charges and asked that his suit be
dismissed. She declared he had taken
$500 from her. which ,he never re-
turned. and that hLs only grievance IS
he couldn't get more money from her.
Counsel for Wiener commended that
epilepsy Is an incurable disease, and
for that reason his client Is entitled to
ar annulmeat Of his marriage. He said
he would produce witnesses who would
testify that Mrs. Wiener has been
afflicted since she was a little girl.