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dustries. It had a genuine economic
Justification.
Notwithstanding all that is said-and
part of which is true-about the bless
ings of British rule in India, the coun-
try's interests always are made sub
sidiary to Englands interests when it
comes to trade and industry.
The continuous discomfort of the Ben
galese and the seditious movements
caused the seat of India government
to be removed from Calcutta to Delhi.
Northern India has a larger proportion
of Mohammedan population than the
central and southern sections. and 1t
was thought that with Delhi as the
seat of India government there would
be less heard of the seditious and an
archistic movements. 1t is at Delhi
that the durbars are held, the great
spectacles which are supposed to typify
loyalty to the royal family of England.
The Mohammedan population of Delhi
Is as loyal as the Mohammedan popu-
lation of Calcutta and the rest of Ben
gal. but this has not prevented some
very unpleasant occurrences for the
governing powers.
Memorials of the Mohammedan con-
quest in the form of numerous mosques
are very much in evidence at Delhi
The most famous of these is the Jumna
Musjid mosque, with its three marble
more beautiful. The great arch and
wrought iron pillar of the Kutub
Minar, twenty-five centuries old, is the
reminder that Mahomets religion is
after all modern one.
Benares, on the Ganges, the real holy
city of the Hindus, with its uninter-
rupted stream of pilgrims and It's in
Vulnerable evidences of the persistence
of the religions of the Hindus as they
have existed for centuries. neverthe-
less has many memorials of Moham-
mechanism. The Moslem mosques ac-
tually dominate the Hindu temples.
and the tomb of the conquering en-
peror, Aurangzeb. is the most prom
inent memorial in the holy Hindu city,
though the Mohammedans themselves
are comparatively small part of the
population.
The farther north one goes in India
the stronger the Mohammedan influence
becomes. The fierce Pathans and other
fighting tribes on the borders of At
ghanistan are Mohammedans.
Among the characteristics of the Mo-
hammedans in India are an aptitude
for trade and for politics. including
office holding. The Pathan traders
spread south to Ceylon, while Moham-
medan meschants control the business
of most of the cities. The Mohamme
dams are also the money lenders. This
is another cause of the antagonism be-
tween them and the Hindus.
In spite of the influential position
they occupy. the Mohammedans fire.
quently speak of themselves op
pressed minority who are prosecuted in
business by their Hindu neighbors, and
who do not get their full share of the
offices. When these complaints become
very pronounced the British officials
extend fresh recognition to the Moham-
medans. and for time there are fervid
protestations of loyalty.
The protestations of Mohammedan
politicians and Hindu politicians
amount neither to more nor less than
do the professions of politicians in 9TH
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ress of Hindu temples. With perhaps one
or two exceptions, the Protestant and
Catholic structures are more pretentious.
The Mohammedan himself is almost
completely lost in the endless streams of
Hindus who pour ceaselessly through the
streets of Bombay. He is distinguished
from the mass of the population by his
red fez, and by wearing clothes enough
to cover him decently, according to west
ern ideas.
Hyderabad which is in south central
India, or Deccan, while it has a large
Hindu population, is nevertheless as dis
tinctly Mohammedan as any one part Of
India, and the nizam, who is, or was, the
Moharnmedan ruler, is fairly typical of
the Mohammedan rulers throughout India
The coming of the holiday mood which
heralds the ending of the Mohammedan's
month of fasting, and which corresponds
to the Christian Easter. is celebrated in
Hyderabad with all the pomp of the
prophets religion.
The women are subject to the closest
restrictions on their appearance in pub
lie, and are SO completely veiled that
the profane observer gets not even a
glimpse of the features.
The harsh oriental methods of making
an example of public criminals also
prevail, or did prevail a few years ago.
The criminal is decapitated publicly.
This might not be SO bad. but the pre-
liminary spectacle is demoralizing, for,
Notwithstanding that wine Is forbidden
to the faithful, 1t is not unusual for
both the criminal and the executioner
to be intoxicated.
British officials, on the occasion of an
especially scandalous exhibition of this
kind, sought to bring about reform !;
but they had to approach the subject
very cautiously, as the nizam's gov
ernment could not go too strongly in
the face of local sentiment. which, from
immemorial times, had looked upon the
decapitation as a spectacle in the ma
ture of a festival.
However. civilization, as represented
In some sections of the United States,
has not much on Mohammedan civili-
cation in Deocan in this respect. since
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ritain's MOslem Subjects in India Are Loyal

Little Seddo Which Censorship Ve
Mohamedans the Buark
Political Breaking HtI
o Magnitude-Bnrh
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The women for whom Judge Cox
wrote his Lessons in Law" are por-
trayed as the weaker vessels' In
money matters, but they were touch
ing in that role, for If they were a
source of some confusion to business,
they were more particularly the VIC
Tins of their pretty Ignorance, appeal
ing to the chivalry of just men to rem
edy their ills.
What are you to do with money" Is
a question which Judge Cox asks his
fair readers" and answers for them.
You will by no means turn 1t over
to some benevolent old gentleman, or
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ON Merchants to Find Relief From Bad Check Evil

The difficulty in dealing with the OBJ
yious crime committed proceeds from
having no law in the District directly
applied TO the specific matter of draw
ing check deliberately on a bank
where no funds are on deposit to pay
the check.
1t is always possible to plead ig-
norance that the account has been
oVerdraWn, and it is always possible
to tell plausible tales of intention to
deposit money before the checks would
be presented for payment.
The law aimed at this situation by
the Retail Merchants Association
would limit the time that such pleas
may be advanced by making 1t a Grim
inal onense to have failed within three
Gays OF drawing a check to have suf-
to pay 1t.
II 1t is a distinctly criminal class
which puts the merchants to the great
est confusion in the matter of dealing
with bad checks. there is, the mer-
chants say. an immense amount of an
noyance and needless expense suffered
by them in consequence of goods being
got-or even money being got-on
checks which are returned from the
bank stamped with the omfnous words
insufficient funds" and. being various
ly explained, are. after more or less
vexations delay, made good.
The big department stores are really
the bankers of their customers, TO
whom they not only convey merchan-
disc. but also money. to the extent OF
millions of dollars in the course of a
year; for favorite means employed
by persons afflicted with a poor mem
ory as to how their bank accounts
stand is. instead of going to the bank
with their checks, to go to a shop and
ask merchant to cash check for
them.
In such cases the merchant seeks to
take every precaution against fraud
He requires the person who passes the
check to be identified, and he calls up
the bank to learn If such a person has
an account. But banks refuse to make
a statement as to the figures of a per.
sons account or as to their credit
This leaves the merchant in the dark
on important details, and competition
In trade favors the design Of persons
tempted beyond their strength (and
their bank accounts) or of persons in
crooked. Thus not a man,
but in this case, alas, a woman is
ca using one big merchant to depiore
his zeal to boost trade by being ACCOM-
to a fair" shopper.
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politics: 1t is of practical concern tc
the wage-earner and to business, fol-
stress of competition among men, the
necessity men encounter of specialiZ.
ing all their forces on the labor which
produces. tends to make the American
wife the cashier Of the mans wages
or wealth.
And almost to the same extent tina,
this prevails in France, where 1t is
usual to see the wife in street car
lift up her skirt and dig into the
pocket the French woman always has
in her petticoat to pay her husbands s
car fare. And it is the husband who
holds out his hand to the wife for any
spending money he needs. What the
American woman does with money has
become one of the big practical ques-
tions of the day.
Thank goodness, then, that so far as
the action of the Retail Merchants AS
sociation of Washington is concerned,
the proposed legislation to stop the
passing of bad checks is not particu-
larly designed in view of the cupidity
of the general run of woman shoppers.
No. let the glad truth come out at
once to relieve the awful nervous strain
that the crimson doubt occasions.
Investigation among the merchants OF
Washington discloses that the passing
of bad checks is largely practice con-
fined to a certain criminal class, the
individuals of which organize their
operations as naIClouSig dS MUSE
breakers or kidnapers. The elabo-
rate pains they take and the daring of
their plans Is fairly typiied in case
which the past summer gave NUMBERS
of merchants great trouble.
A man-not a woman, notlce-took
an apartment in fashionable apart
ment house and paid one months rent
in advance. He deposited small sum
of money in bank and obtained
check book. Then he made a round
Of first-class shops of all kinds. or
dered quantities of goods sent home
to the very correct address, C. O. d.
He paid for the things with checks.
In the natural course of business af-
fairs at least three days may be count
cd on for a check given to a merchant
to get back to the bank on which it
is drawn.
In less time than that the gentle
man mot LADY, shopper had packed his
goods into one kind of vehicle and
another-he even bought and got away
bank had returned to the various
merchants his checks stamped with the
Illuminating words Insufficient funds
the man was off to parts unknown with
goods representing a handsome profit
on the money he invested in a fash
ionable apartment for month and
bank account for a day
That In a general way describes one
class Of persons who pass bad checks.
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the Mohammedans. The Nizam of Hy-
derabad. a Mohammedan ruler. who. ac-
cording to the Berlin reports, was de-
posed by his subjects, has not been the
only Indian pr nee to give substantial
testimony of his devot on to England
Native Hindu rulers have made cash con-
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F1HE Retail Merchants Associa-
ton will ask the coming Con-
gress to pass law to stop the
x passing of bad checks, which
has become an evil OF such proportions
In Washington that the merchants de-
clare they must have relief from some
quarter.
what have women TO do with that
evil?
The question arises logically. II is as
serted, in connection with the fact that
the official shoppers of Washington are
RomeH, not men. The spenders OF
American money are womer. This fact
n so generally established that the
University of Wisconsin was Influenced
by (, to erect a school of domestic
economy.
Those figures. seen IN relation to the
Washington merchants need of a law
10 stop bad checks. made one ask, is
The financial responsibility of shopping
too great for the weaker sex" Are
women inclined TO be dishonest IN their
role Of disbursing agent for the fam
ly? Is II the women of Washington
who have yielded 10 the temptation of
passing bad checks until the step now
sAken by the Retail Merchants Associ-
ltion has become necessary
Popular history of the sex in relation
70 money matters, alas. inclines one to
pessimism. Is not the noblest of
wives believed to be capable of riniug
her husbands pockets while he sleeps
and of taking anything she can find
with q clear conscience?
Do not good mothers. In their secret
.onclaves over the difficulty of keep
ing up with the Joneses. often confess
that the high cost of living and the
small profits OF matrimony drive them
10 the crime of breaking into the chill
iren's savings banks In order to make
fnds meet?
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of fraud and imposition practiced upon
"confiding maiden ladies or widows who
intrust their moderate means to faith
less male friends to invest for them
also. because the wrongs perpetrated
by husbands on their wives in refer
ence to the estate of the latter have
been numberless.
Some husbands intrusted with the
money of their wives have invested 1t
in their own names, SO that, on their
deaths, it was claimed by their own
relatives. Others have wasted IL upon
their pleasures, and others have lost II
in wild speculation or the grosser
forms of gambling"
1T is knowledge of events like
these" says Judge Cox in the introduce
tion of his book. which has often
caused the author to wonder that no
one has essayed. specially. to enlighten
women as to their rights and legal
status. and has inspired him with the
idea Of attempting to some moderate
extent to supply the omission. which
idea. and the persuasion Of female
friends, have prompted the present ef-
fort"
AS one of those female friends who
helped to persuade Judge Cox to write
his Lessons of Law for Women" it
would be ungrateful to that courtly
gentleman and finished scholar not to
complete his picture of the woman's
ture he makes Of the woman's inno-
Gently irresponsible conduct in bust
ness.
For instance, he relates the story of
"a certain lady who overdrew her bank
account, and when notified of 1t and
requested TO refund the amount over
drawn, sent a dainty note inclosing her
check on the same bank for the
amount"
I'm another case" Judge Cox tells,
"a gentleman going from home left
with his wife number of checks on
his bank. signed by him with the
amount left blank. to be filed up by
his wife as she needed the money. She
drew out all his money and when in
formed by the bank, she insisted that It
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QUESTION of What Women Have to Do With the Ev-His-
tory of Sex in Relation to Money Matters-Unversy Of Wis
consn Has School Of Domestic in Law for
Women-Wor Of the Retail Merchants Association of WASH
ington.
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The woman purchased a suit for $s7
and rendered in payment a cheek
drawn on bank ip Alexandria for
800. Her appearance inspired conh-
CONTINUED on Fifth PaEe.S
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Do not husbands as a class realize
zoo well the necessity of mounting
rtrict guard over their old clothes, and
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Retail Merchants Associa-
ton will ask the coming Con-
gress to pass law to stop the
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The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
OLD DIAz FACTION
LAUNCHES REVOLT
clENTIFlCOS WILL WAGE WAR
AGAINST CARRANZA AND
VILLA ELEMENTS.

El Paso.--A movement directed
against the Carranza and villa ele.
ments in Mexico has been launched by
the Cientihco party which supported
Dias and the Huerta regime The
new movement is said 10 have reCeiy'
cd the adherence Of men formerly
wealthy land owners.
II is said purported peace confer.
ence Of prominent MeXicans set Tor
February at san Antonio, Texas, is ex.
pected TO advance a new plan Of gov
ornment which would oppose both th2
Constitutionalists and the Convention.
alists Fredirico Gamboa, former
cabinet minister under President
iluerta, and once ambassador to the
Washington government, Is reported
to be slated for the provisional pre3I'
dency
Both officers and soldiers who
fought with Oro2co IN his revolution
have retained largely their organIla.
tion few Of them taking part In the
conflicts during the last year. Cen.
eral Yne2 Salazar, a former Orozco
chieftaIn, already is In the field In
Chihuahua state,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
ON SHIP
PURCHASE BILL
NO NATION HAS OPPOSED THE
PENDING MEASURE, SAYS
SECRETARY.
KEEP CONTINUOUS SESSION
Request Was Made to Install Cots in
the Presidents Room For
Democratic Senators.

Washington.-SeCr Bryan in.
formally denied that any government
had protested against the bill pending
in Congress for the purchase Of ships
by the United States Mr., Bryan is
sued this statement:
mo nation has protested against
the passage Of the shipping bill, and
it Is not likely that any nation will
or would, since the bin does not nee
essarily raise any diplomatic Ques-
tions.
ut is not proper for the state de.
partment at this time to discuss the
manner in which the authority con-
ferred by the bill will or should be
exercised We assume that the au-
thority conferred upon the president
and those who will be associated with
him in the matter will be exercised
properly and with due regard to the
nations welfare"
In administration circles close to
IbhlutIlI WllSOu IL was TelJeIdltu
that It is not the administration
purpose to buy vessels under the ship.
ping bill which will cause friction
with the belligerents,
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan have taken the attitude that
the administration could be trusted to
not do anything to involve the Unit.
ed States in international trouble,
Friends Of the president said that
IL could be taken for granted that no
ships OF belligerents would be bought
unless satisfactory arrangement was
made.
Preparations for continuing the fight
were perfected by Senate leaders,
I'VE purpose to keep In continuous
session." declared Majority Leader
Kern.
The White House got tangible evil
dence Of the activity Of the Democrats
when a request arrived for permis.
sion to install cots in the presidents
room for Democratic senators to keep
near the chamber day and night for
roll call, The president readily
agreed,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Reform Wave Goes Ear.

Constantinopo,=Through the co.
operation Of Henry Morgenthau the
American ambassador, Bodri Bey,
chief Of police, has begun vigorous
attack on whito slavery In CONSTANT
nople and its suburbs one hundred
and thirty persons Interested IN tho
traillc have been arrested and the
headquarters OF the Illicit trade has
boon rOIdcd and closed Tho white
slave traffic hitherto has hourishod In
the Turkish capital through the inObil
ity OF the consuls and the local au'
thoritles to cooperate IN checking IT,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
BARGE For President,

Portsmouth, ~ H,-A forty.foot
barge Of mahogany and highly polish.
ed nickel, built at the navy yard here
for the use Of President Wilson dur.
ing his intended visit with the battle.
ship fleet to the PanNmaPac0o ES
position, was given speed trials, The
craft developed a speed Of 1888 knots,
II will be- sent TO Hampton Roads
when finished to be slung aboard the
battloship Now York.
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
REPORTED AUSTRIA
EAGER FOR PEACE
KAISER URGED TO SEEK ToLER.
ABLE TERMS COPEN.
HAGEN SAYS.

London,-The Copenhagen CORE
spondent OF the Daily Mail asserts
that Baron Burian, the Austro-Hlun.
garian foreign minister, at his recent
meeting with the German emperor
drew a dolefu picture of the plight OF
the dual monarchy and said the time
had arrived for the Germanic powers
to consider most seriously the posi-.
bilitles for tolerable peace,
The Daily Mail attaches great i'm.
portance to the dispatch,
The dispatch says;
"From q most trustworthy and we'll
Informed source in Berlin | received
the following statement regarding the
negotitIons between the German
statesmen and Baron Burian, who re-
Gently visited the German chancellor
IN Berlin, and Emperor William at
the army headquarters In France,
Baron Burian, whose sole object
II is to save what can be saved OF the
dual monarchy represented to the
Germans that the situation in Austria
Is most precarlous and that ll the
Russian advance on Budapest Is not
stopped the effect may very probably
be the downfall of Austria and the
complete collapse OF Hungary which
must later entail as logical sequence
also the downfall OF Germany
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
WOULD STRANGLE
GERMAN EMPIRE
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ENG.
LAND CAN SAY, 1.-THE SEA is
FREE" SAID CHURCHILL"
BRITONS WOULD FIGHT ON
Should France and Russia Cease Hos
tiIities, English People ard Colo
nies Would Continue War;

Paris-Bor the first time in history
England can say THE sea is free" de-
clared Winston Spencer Churchill,
Great Britain's first lord Of the ad.
miralty, in an interview with Hughes
LeRoux, editor Of the Matin.
"Supposing Germany has friend
ships and relationships in South Amer
ica, how can help reach her from them
now? There remains the United
States, Public opinion there hesitated
perhaps In bestcwing its sympathies,
but at the present moment 1t is fully
unified We shall arrange to take
precautions fully compatible with the
rights OF belligerents and the respect
due to neutrals,
"Our adversary. perhaps, can obtain
few supplies from Turkey and Asia
Minor cherish no illusions, for as
long as there are neutrals complete
blockade must be q chimera. But while
you and we breathe freely, thanks to
the sea, we have kept and can keep
open. Germany is like a man throttled
with heavy gag. You know the eff
feet of such sag when action is nee
essary, The effort wears out the heart
and Germany knows 1t, This pressure
shall not be relaxed until she gives IN
unconditionally, for even II you of
France and If our ally, Russia, should
decide to withdraw from the struggle,
which is inconceivable we English
would carry on the war TO the bitter
end"
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Pink Boil Worm Watched,

Washington, Restrictive measures
VIII be necessary to prevent the intro,
ductlon Of the pink cotton boil worm
into the Southern states, according to
tho Department Of Agriculture. The
measures would limit importRtiona Of
lint cotton 70 Northern states only
would regulate the movement Of such
cotton from Northern to Southern
stNtos and restrict importatons OF
Hawaiian cotton TO certain parts Of
tc North,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Wilson 10 Make Address.

Observation-Disclosures men Of the
country are turning their attention
to the meeting Of the Chamber Of
Commerce Of the United States of
America in Washington early IN Feb.
ruary Special significance Is attach.
cd to this gathering rs President VII,
son and three members Of his cabI'
net are to make addresses, It Is ex.
pected that the chief executive VIII
take this opportunity to outline In
somo detail his attitude toward busI'
ness during the remainder OF his ad'
mini8tration,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
prssIdsnts speeoh Attacked.

Indianapolis Senator Lawrence y
sherman OF Illinois replied to prosl.
dent Wilson's recent Jackson Dag
speech ofitielzing sharply the preai
dents utteraheea and also his attitude
towards Congress- Senator sherman
apohe before q meeting OF tho indiana
Republican Editorial Association The
present Congress, the senator deolar
cd, ''Qntil recently has but registered
President Wilson's executive decrees,'
'fha Southern states. he said "ara
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Talks Across Continent.

Now York Alexander Graham Bell
inventor Of the telephone, sat in the
Office Of Theodore N Vail president
OF tho American Telephone and Telea
graph Company, and talked across tho
continent TO san Francisco It was
the first time the human voice had
boon carried by wire from ocean to
ocean,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Exnrnnn Renrnt For shootlnn.

Washington Sir Joseph Pope, I'M.
doraecrotary OF foreign affairs for
Canada, called on Secretary Bryan
with Sir Cecil sprIng.RIee, the Brit.
ish ambassador to formally express
regret for the recent shooting Of two
American duck hunters near Fort
Erio, ont, and to arrange componso,
tion for the families OF the mon,
The Harrison times., 1915-02-20
Ambition and Humility,

The highest ambition lg the parent
Of the truoat humility It makes one
realize that our ultimate aim Is 20
high that we need power for beyond
our own for the accomplishments OF
no trNnsoendont u work. that II wo
are truly TO be eoworkers with Az
mighty God himself IN the working
out Of the great scheme that rules tho
universe, tho task Is far too great for
our unaidod efforts, and we may con-
ildontly rely upon u power divine to
help US IN all our needs,