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POLO I'M WASHINGTON

horses flew like birds. That, of course,
is to be accounted for on the ground of
oriental imagery, but it probably was
a great game. Other literature may be
found which treats of polo played very
much in the present fashion at least
1000 years ago. and there are many
indications that it was a popular sport
considerably more than 5000 years ago.
The game extends so far back into
the past that one might reasonably in
cline to the belief that it is one of the
oldest games, if not the oldest game,
played with ball and stick. In those
very old times. on the authority OF an
cient writer's. the game was played by
women as we'll as by men. 1t would
seem that the pastime declined in favor
as the centuries rolled by and became
at length extinct in Persia, but was
kept alive in Tibet, whence it passed
into India, where it has been played
many centuries.
1t was introduced into England from
India, British officers having learned
the play on the northwest frontier OF
India At the time of its Introduction
into England it seems not to have been
very seriously regarded as a sport, ana
the story goes that it was first played
at Aldershot in 1869 by officers of the
10th HuSsars, who rode their chargers,
used crook handled walking sticks IN
stead ON allets, and an ivory billiard
ball instead of the regulation willow
or Eastwood Dali. soon dlter that
event a game was arranged between
teams representing the 10th Hussars
and the 9Th Lancers, and this game
was played at Hounslow. with the
proper equipment brought from India.
1t was not long after the appearance
of the game in England that 1t was
seen in America, but here it was look
ed upon with favor only by the ultra
fashionable horse set having English
proclivities. American riders gener-
ally found their solace in cross-country
riding and in racing. But polo has
made great progress in the esteem OF
the riding brotherhood, and each year
extends its circle of friends.
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man race.

man race. His father was millionaire
of Chicago and young William went into
bus ness there He also learned to ranch
In California. hunt in northern Mexico,
fish for salmon in Washington state and
yet study and read a great part of the
time.
In speaking on the tariff question one
day in Congress about two years ago
he made the following Illustration of the
way the protection laws worked:
ut is said that by taxing one industry
for the sake of another we can create a
home market productive of wealth. This
statement reminds me OF a story told by
Davis Starr Jordan in which there are
a lizard and an eagle.
The eagle swooped down and bit Off a
bit of the lizards tail, which he ate.
Then it afterward few into its nest and
laid an egg The lizard climbed the tree
suckc the egg and thus got energy
enough to grow a new tail The eagle
ate the next tail and thus received
enough energy to lay new egg. which
was in turn eaten by the lizard. This
process, which was kept up for years.
resembles tho high protective tariff
system"'
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thorities, whose possessions had been
scattered by the storm, sent soldiers out
over the country to collect as much OF
the stores as were in proper condition.
New, the gunpowder was put up In long
Sits of rolled paper like cigarette
a ward long, or an immensely elongated
stick of macaroni. Whole boxes of this
were blown by the w nd over the farms
in the vicinity Galveston and one OF
these boxes in the possession of a
farmer.
The old man was much averse to giving
up the property. which he regarded much
as the fishers along a shore look upon
salvage from the sea. But, at last. when
the private had pitched the boxes into
his wagon and was driving away, the
old fellow shook his fist at the victorious
sold err and pointing at the packages. ex-
claimed in an angry voice:
Take your burned old macaroni 1
don't want 1t anyway My wife cooked
some one day and 1t tasted like . boiled
mule"
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going their business activities. The
Hindus on their part are apt to think
it shame to work on Mohammedan
New Year day when the Moslem popu-
the circle Of New Year holidays.
There is a simple arithmetical meth
cd of calculating the time from the
Hegira IN the terms of the Christian
era, but the easier way is to accept
without question the fact that such
and such day is the New year OF
the Mohammedan era. similarly, !he
New Year of the Buddhists and the
Brahmins and the Jains and the Sikhs
may be accepted without botherlns
about the calendar.
The British New Year in BOMBAY, OF
Calcutta, or Delhi is much the same
as in England The American VINO
may happen to be in India falls in with
the custom quite naturally, since II ar
fers little from the New Year at home.
heat, he will be likely to array him.
self in a frock coat aid tall hat and
gloves and carry cane. ana MAKE
his call on British authority Whether
The rest of the SAY will be given over
to such diversions as he may prefer,
with sports filing in the greater part
of the program.
+
In Bombay the observance is more
homelike-for the Briton-than else
where in India, because the surround
ines are more fomelike The Bombay
that the Englishman knows is The
Fort" BY this is not meant a fortress,
but the part of the city on the Apollo
Bunder. or waterfront, and that in
which Elphinstone College and other
solid struc.dres. built without reier-
ence to the tropical climate on Indian
architecture, are located. The medley
of native life outside these precincts,
the most vari-colored and picturesque
in all India, has little interest for the
Englishman on New Year day, or on
any other day, for that matter.
The Englishman in Bombay, after
paying his respects to authority, may
lounge at the Royal Yacht Club or at
the Tai Mahal Hotel and listen to the
swash of the sea against the Apollo
Bunder landing In either case he
will take more than the ordinary num-
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"A Group or EMpy PlleRlNs ONNEwIEARsD DAY

more than a church wedding in west
ern countries.
the equal of the man. She has the same
advantages of schooling, and education
is one Of the cardinal features of the
Parsee system. ParSee women are seen
occasionally in the United States at
peace conferences and conventions and
parliaments of the worlds religions.
The first native woman physician in
India was Parsee lady in Bombay.
Foreign women occasionally marry
Parsee men, but whether they ever are
admitted into the mysteries of the faith
NAV be doubted. On the steamer GO
ing out was a Parsee cotton mill owner
who had married an English girl. There
were also several Parsee ladies with
their husbands. 1t was noted that the
Parsee with the English bride held
little communication with his fellow
Parsees. There was something like
mutual avoidance. l was told, however.
that a French woman who married q
Parsee of one of the powerful families
was received by the community as q
genuine convert.
While the Parsee women are pro-
gressive. their progressiveness has not
caused them to initiate western fash
ions, although many of them are as
familiar with Paris and London as with
Bombay. They wear the saree, with
its graceful fields of clinging tinted
silks. and the mathabana, or thin white
linen headcap, on all occasions.
Z X
The Parsee men have been less f1xed
in maintaining their traditional garb.
Some of the older men still wear the
three-coil white girdle. but with many
of the male community the vizorless
cap is the only distinctive mark.
On the double Parsee New Year day
in which I was in Bombay chance
sight was afforded of their religious
observances. or Zoroasterian services.
1t was in the Allbless Bagh. on the
Charm road. Their churches or tenn
pies of worship are free from archt-
tectural pretensions without and with
in. These are more like an ordinary
hall.
cred at one end of the room and the
men at the other end. In the space
between was a stand holding a lamI
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seventh century, and from there ra-
There is an influential colony of
Parsees in Calcutta. Some of them also
are found in the Straits Settlement at
Singapore, as well as at Hongkong.
But the mass of the Parsees are locat-
ed in the Bombay presidency, and
about half of them are in the city
itself.
The total number of Parsees in India
of whom are in Bombay. The popula-
ton of Bombay is close to a million,
and out of this million the $4,000 Par
sees exercise an influence greater than
Bombay is filed with the evidences of
their practical philanthropy. which is not
confined to their own members.
Some Of the great Parsee fortunes
had their origin in cotton speculation
during the civil war in the United
States. The opium traffic. under the
regulation of the Indian government,
was the foundation of other fortunes.
The cotton mills have been largely or
ganized by them, and there are few ma
tive enterprises which are not financed
by Parsees.
One of the greatest and boldest
among them, Mr.. Tata, had the cour-
age to establish iron and steel works
in the face of difficulties that would
have daunted many an American cap
tain of industry. for the religious
scruples of the workmeD and the obli-
cations of caste had to be overcome
along with the obstacles incident to
any great industrial enterprise.
Parsees have represented the Eng
ls6
and Central Fishbury in the British
parliament. Lord Salisbury once gave
great offense by speaking of the rep
resentative from Central Fishbury as
"a black man from India" The Parsees
are not black nor are they racially a
part of the black races.
The British government has knighted
some of the leading Parsees. and made
others baronets in recognition of their
services to the empire, usually of a
Evening star., 1914-12-27
FIRST PASSENGER ELEVATOR
in A NEW YORK HOTEL

vertical screw railway. the first passenger
elevator ever built.
That elevator was one OF the chie!
wonders of the hotel. which, because Oh
sidered one of the wonders OF the new
world. 1.-The vertical railway, which
saved persons the trouble OF walking up
and down stairs. was widely writtei,
about. and people came from iar anu
near to look at the strange invention.
and to be able to tell their admiI ing
friends in Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington and other cities
out in the provinces that they mad peen
able to go up and down stairs without
waIkinr. When travellers came from New
York and told about this vertical screw
railway to our grandfathers, those
worthy gentlemen raised their eyes ana
hands in establishment. and probaoly eA-
claimed "W.u wonders never cease!
An English trade paper. the LONDON
Builder in September. 1859, had an edl-
torial on the subject of the vertical screw
railway in the United States. saving; 1t
is a carriage that will move from the
ton to the bottom of the building, and
from the bottom to the top. 1t will be
forced upward by the application OF
steam power. and the descent Will be
regulated by the resistance OF hydrau!c
power
the vertical railway was introduced in
England. the first lift being installed
in Albert Hall, and to ride in TINS pas
sengers were required to pay fee OF
one penny. Conservative people in Amer
ica and England looked on this invention
with grave suspicion. and felt it in their
bones" that it was only question of
time when it would fall down and kill
everybody in it. Today the lift fs
nothing like so common in Europe as
the elevator, which is the same thing. is
in the United States. One reason for
this is that the United States is the
birthplace and the home of the skyscraper,
while high buildings. as building heights
are measured in America, are infrequent
In Enrnne.
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OF his cOntention:
A certain politician was running for
office in a district where he was hope
lessy in the minority. He ran year after
year and was showed under with a regu-
lar!ty which became monotonous.
But still he kept on running.
A friend protested. The friend had
been watching the politicians untiring
efforts and was perfectly convinced that
he was wasting his young life. He con-
cluded with the remark:
"You haven't chance In the world.'
1.-The thunder / haven't" retorted the
politician, Indignantly.
The friend was aStounded.
How do you figure you're going to
have a chance?' he inquired.
The politician thought for moment.
Well" he said at last. there's al
ways a chance of my opponent falling
dead, amt there"'
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he is counted the only fellow. and who
but he?"
During the reign of some of the early
and warlike sovereigns of England a
goodly number of sports. notably bowls
and cricket, were prohibited by royal
order not because there was any royal
objection to them on the ground OF
immortality, but because they distracted
boys, youths and men from the practice
of archery. The bow and arrow were
the chief military weapons. and the
English kings desired that every Eng
lishman should fit himself to be a SOL
dier. 1t was by an act of Edward Nv
that cricket was prohibited. and any
person disregarding the prohibition was
liable to a fine of f10-the equivalent OF
perhaps $1,000 now-and two years
Imprisonment. That law stood on the
statute books of England for centuries.
though 1t became a dead letter. but the
law was not revoked until 174s. the
year Of the organization of the cele-
brated HambledOn Cricket Club.
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NapoIeon's Tribute.

WHEN, after the battle of jena, Ma
w poleon invaded Prussia, he visited
Potsdam. which contains the mortal re-
mains of the Prussian kings. The sep
ulcher of Frederick the Great occupied
a prominent site in the mausoleum.
When entering the latter Napoleon un-
covered his head and went directly up
to the sarcophagus Of the noted war;
rior.
For a moment, it is related. the con-
querer stood still. seemingly absorbed
in deep thought. Then with the fore
finger Of his right hand he wrote the
word Napoleon" in the dust OF the
huge stone casket, and turning to his
marshals said:
Gentlemen. If he were living would
not be here"
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7N0t4 beats the world for the NUM-
her and variety o. its New Year
DAYS. and This il; SO because Of the
q large number of races and religions.
When a traveller who expects to
spend some time in the country goes
TO the bank with his letter of credit.
usually card is handed him on which
Is printed the various holidays. This
is for his convenience, so that he
will not let himself get out of funds
and go to the bank in hurry, only
to find it closed on account of some
holiday. The holiday may be Chris
tian, Mohammedan or that of any one
of the numerous Hindu sects.
whe.- the usual card was given me
In Bombay noted the number of these
holidays which were ascribed to New
Year. They did not exactly bear out
the humorous description of every day
In the year as New Year day. but
there seemed hardly month of the
Christian calendar which did not have
at least one New Year designated.
and in some months there were more.
Kaleidoscope Bombay observes all
these New Year days because the
stream of Asiatic life which circuiates
through it includes all the civilization
and all the races and religions OF the
orient, with some additions from the
occident. The spirit is one of cath
olicity.
All tho races and all the religious
sects observe the New Year of the
Christian calendar. because British
rule of India is reflected in this day;
hut they also observe the New Year OF
the different races and religions among
themselves, at least to the extent OF
knocking off work.
Whether in Bombay or Benares, the
monkey temple has its throng of Hindu
vorshipers, and the Mohammedans
often are not unwilling TO snare IN
me observance to the extent of fore
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bANsPLANTED ENeL1sH ARe3lTIcT11RE h| Bo1bSC

New Year days are a little vague to a
person outside the Parsee community.
l asked one of them, who had been a
fellow passenger on the steamer. and
he politely replied that there was
nothing of special significance except
20 those of the faith. In answer to
another query. l understood him to say
that there were weddings and funerals.
just as on ordinary days of the year.
The wedding is a very formal affair.
with much ceremony, but perhaps not
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financial kind. 1t would not be making
a wild guess that the Parsees have had
something to do with the loans of the
present war, and with any financing
that may have been necessary in con-
nection with the transport of the In
dian troops to the aid of the allies. So
it will be understood why the Parsees
can observe two New Year days of their
own with the hearty acquiescence of
British rulers in India.
Just what the customs are on these
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GunpoWder Macaroni.

When Cen. Mel
son A. Miles was
down N Calves
ton after the ter
rible d i S a S I c r
which almost d 3
+; Dyed that city
a b IT fourteen
years age he was
amused by tie
story of an old
farmer who lived
a few miles from
tina. ci
The military au-
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A Chance.

There's always
a chance" de-
clared Re..,rese =
ative Gilbert Hau-
gen of 10 wa re-
Gently. Ther. s
ways a chance
for the man who
won't quit"
The Congress-
man vas Illus
tratinP the insta-
bility of politics.
And h told this
story in support
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on his shoulders. In instructing MN. an
official said:
Now. If anything unexpected happens
during the night. just use your own
Judgment in dealing with the matter
unless. Of course. IT is thing that Is
of such vital Importance that it requires
the attention of the Attorney General"
That night as the watchman sat at the
door there rushed up to the steps
modern Mercury on his wheel. 1t was
wire from some official in California ask
ing the department whether there was
any law against such and such a thing
Now this was a time, SO thought the
watchman, to 'act en- your own judg-
nlent," and his ignorance of Blackstone
did not stand in the way. He gave the
boy a reply to wire back which read;
81 don't know Of any" and the telegram
was sent
The next morning a high official
searned OF the matter and placed it ut
once before the. Attorney General. That
officer smiled at the answer given and
remarked: well, he's right about it
] don't know any law against it either"
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A MERICANS may lose the use OF
IN their legs A number of au-
q y thorities on this subject have made
the prophecy that unless the American
mends his ways and changes the direction
in which certain of his habits and
tendencies lie, his legs will become as
atrophied as has become his little toe
from close confinement in shoes and long
disuse, These authorities have pointed
out the street car. the automobile and the
average mans eagerness to get there
in the quickest way, and with the least
possible effort as the causes for the pres
ent deterioration in legs. and as me-
chanical locomotion becomes more ana
more accessible. and the riding habit
for his feet and legs.
In addition to electric cars and auto
mobiles, another modern device con-
tributes to the average mans increasing
feebleness of limb That modern device
is the elevator. To the present genera
ton, accustomed to ride from floor TO
floor, and to push the elevator bell but
ton and wait for the car rather than
climb flight of stairs. it probably seems
queer to see or hear the elevator men
toned as a modern device.
Men in their youth. and even in their
middle age, nave become 80 Hdpiluea.eu
to the elevator that they feel that such
a thing always was, or at least that IT Is
co-eval with brick and stone buildings.
Yet, the elevator is a modern device. and
the word elevator in the application
given it in America Is newer still than
the contrivance it describes.
Before the demolition of the old Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York there was in
one of the elevators a tablet, on which
was inscribed this: "In this space was
erected and operated in 1859 Tufts
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eJU11NA NusJ1D MosQuL .Bor1hn

said for the benefit of those who have
not Travelled in India, is brandy and
soda or whisky and soda.
Club, in which event everybody will
attend. There is pretty certain to be
golf, and there is the entire certainty
of cricket on the maidan. or open
meadow park: There will also be some
afternoon calls. and tea, and more calls
in the evening and late supper.
Sometimes New Year day is made
more homelike by the arrival of the
as impatient for it's distribution as are
the people at a country post Office in
an American village.
While the Christian New Year is
formal and lately on account of Brit
ish authority. it has less standing than
the New Year of the Parsees. be cause
it is a single days observance, while
the Parsees take two days. The year
l happened to be in Bombay was the
Parsee Yazdezardi 1916, and the New
IA.
the official and the business commu-
nifty of Bombay was the most remark
able tribute that I had noted of the
hHdHcidl power ana the political in
fuence of the Parsees of India. The
impression was the stronger because
a wayfaring American traveller from
Persia had been telling me of the
wretched condition of the remnant OF
the Parsees there after centuries OF
oppression, although Persia was the
home of Zoroaster, the founder of the
Parsee faith.
Persian Parsees, according to this
traveller. practiced their ancient reli-
gion apologetically and humbly under
the shadow of Moslem rulers. while in
India British rulers took pains to hon
or the Parsees.
The contrast was not without histori-
cal interest. 1t brought in stronger
light the peculiar position which the
Parsees in India have occupied since
they came rs exiles to Guzerat in the
Evening star., 1914-12-27
A Philosopher.
II e p r esentative
nFgHNI

r. e pr esentative
William Kent
California is a
UNIQUE figure. A
man o. inherited
wealth. he is an
ardent c edvocate OF
a little socialism,
a litt Q Henry
George." but a
great deal of tn .
real purpose of
Life in working
for the better
rnenf of fho br-
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A PAR sII NTN YEA RS
SouaTte- Sr N--,c.-
SEoCrA PA,c hAG 90. ,A6 g 1917

Numerous Races and
Religions Which Fol-
low Their Own Calen-
dars-Hindu and Mo-
hanmedan Customs.
Enelishnen's Efforts to
Make Themselves Feel
at Home - Tribute to
the Power of the Par
sees in Celebrating
Two New Year Days.
Something About These
Remar rk able People
and Their RELIGIOUS
Practices Denial of
Fire Worship Giving
Over the Dead to the
Nl1lt1res at the Towers
of Silence.
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A Daniel.

Not I-ng ago Il
branI. ew watch
man was appoint
t1 IS night
guard in the De-
partment of JUS
tice. -'e assumed
his duties. filed
with the impor-
nee of his re-
sr onsibilties. anu
Sc IN I'd to think
himsel,, a second
Atlas with the
world re e t i n z
d.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-29
S|OROTE ROBBED
 BY TWO NEGROES
Struck Over Head and Seri- Ously Injured-Negroes
 Get $40

Isaac Siorote, storekeeper at Twelfth street and Fifth avenue was knocked on the head and robbed of $40 by two negroes about 7:30 o'clock last night Siorote was removed to St. Vim cents hospital in Shaw's ambulance.
 According to Officers Daily and Brown the two negroes entered the store of Siorote and offered to buy some merchandise when suddenly one of the negroes struck the merchant a heavy blow on the head with an iron bolt. The other negro then went through the cash register and secured $40 in cash and both negroes then escaped.
 The robbery was al once reported to police headquarters and officers de- tailed to the scene. On the arrival it was at once seen that Siorote was in q grave condition owing to the heavy blow he had received on the head and Shaw's ambulance was summoned. At St. Vincents it was stated at an early hour this morning that Siorote would recover although he was seriously wounded.