Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-04

Gated in that way. Where ignorance
is bliss it is foolish to know too mnch.
Here, as in Ceylon, it was rice
paddy they call iO on the lowlands
and tea higher up. We found the
latter as high up as seven thousand
feet. That the plague is not all
wiped out is evident from a ncwspa-
per article saw in Calcutta which
gave the deaths for the week ending
Nov. 9th as his out of ), ,125 cases.
Snakes are quite numerous in the
country through which we passed.
One of the train men told us that
about three months ago he went into
his bathroom TO bathe and there
found a cobra. He pointed out
house close to the track which was
the headquarters of the police, where
only 4 short time before like snake
had dropped on the table while they
were sitting around it. They get up
in the palm leaf roofs of the house
and live on the bats that seek shelter
there during the day and by night
they go out. AS the bite of Il cobra
is almost sure death, it is not a very
nice thing to have about the house
Hindus believe in the tranSmigra-
ton of souls and they will not kill a
snake nor a tiger, for fear it might be
their grandmother, a thirty second
cousin or some other relative. In
fact before they would kill Il man
eating tiger whole villages have
moycd away and the government had
to send men to kill it.
On our return to Calcutta we did
not have much time to see the sights
but we visited the Botanical Gardens
and saw the largest banyan tree
known of. 1t is 40 years old and at
>. ft. from the ground it is 81 feet in
circumference 1t is s. feet high
and at the crown covers II ground
space of 991 feet in circumference.
\ banyan tree throws off roots from
the limbs. as il were, and these take
root in the ground, that is how one
tree covers so much space.
had n talk with a member of
the Custom House force about the
possibility of trouble with the natives
in India. He told me it would not
surprise him if they had, for many of
hcnativeS had gone to England and
received an education, at Oxford or
other English colleges and later re-
turned to their native Land to spread
discomfort among their less cultured
/ brothers. That such Il discomfort
exists is evident to anyone who has
spent any time in the country and
reads the papers, for hardly an issue
of the larger papers but appears clip
! piEg or trial notice for Scdtion telling
of the unrest now prevailing In ad-
dltion to the statements he made
about the natives he also said the
An1 Indians. (Thosc here born Of
English parentS) are dissatisfied for
while they have given up much for
the mother country the best places
are held by the gentlemens' sons and
the lower ones are all the others can
aspire to. He said for four genera
tions his people had been here and
fought for England, yet he had never
received anything from his mother
country. He mentioned that IN the
police de partment there were two
classcs-A and b. In the first
named the appointments were made
by the Secretary at London and
only the gentrys sons get them.
The otler they could aspire to but
he eruntiHdti0Rs wrrc hcld IN EHqian2
and an inspectorship was as high as
it offered. Following out the eX-
ample OF the Government, the mer-
chants bring their men from Eng
land and he says it is very difficult
for them to secure rcmuneratlvc en-
ployment In addition each religion
has representative on the advis-
DRY board to the Viceroy, and while
there is Il Parsee, Hindu and Mo
hammcdan, no Auglo-lndian is one
of the advisors. When they pro-
tested against this they were an
swercd You are English subjects
and we will represent you. | imag-
inc they are fearful that if they make
too much of them there is a posi-
bility of their setting up Il govern
ment of their own-perhaps ON the
order of Canada and therefore they
keep them of the board. even though
they should be among the ablest
counsclors the Niccroy could have.
EuraSians are those of mixed Eng
lish and native origin and they are
not permitted to hold any but minor
offices. In consequence OF the treat
ment received, he says neither
the Anglo-lndianS nor the Euras-
ians would take up arms for the
mother country in case of war
here Native troops have been
trained and when the time comes
, they will take up arms against her
and as they are permitted to make
and carry arms in some parts he
deems this menace. Where there
is SO much smoke undoubtedly there
is some fire, and it would not sur
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