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chapter in Indian history- Has
the .inproredeeted vtalt of the
Uit aieror been a success’
Will i he astonishing changes In
Indi-fc administration which ne
ms., .need at the liorbar prove
to be, as some think, a master
stroke of j-'att sntanshlp. or has
England made a colossal hlun
4et. (kick «M imperil her po
•ition in that \stall empire which she has gov
erned on amt e> *. u.l> for mure than a hundred
yaars*
These are uur.-'t.-ns ahich Indians and Enr
taluuen alike are --king Lord ('union. I-ord
kiiSs and o? r. have announced that they
alii bring ibe mailer up in the house of lords
.» xren as iiartiameht meets attain Mr. As
•yu'ia has given assurances that H will receive
iue cons>oeratIon in the commons While no
>*>r {.rufesaes to :♦c »rd il..* announcements
made by (be k «« as any thine hut final, there
seems is W a (ittsias realization of the grav
.(* of tie i hsag.-v which at (he tlms of their
-aao-acctneai were somewhat overshadowed
by the p»mp and imgeantry of the groat Our
bar
lirtaila of the < hanget are now available,
asd (• appears (hat the transfer of the capital
(rasa Calcutta to isth. i» only part—an.', not
t*restart!) the most important part—of a far
.♦»* schema of provin. :»1 readjustment
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TW * of Bengal which was partitioned
t>< I>>rd Curxon la IJW5. again*', the violent
protest of ita people. and which ha* been the
headquarter* of the sedition in India ever
t* to be reuai'ed The great divisions
' lietar. t'hota Nagpur and Orissa, which now
belong to Uer.gal, although their populations
ooo fbtlw in rare and language, ai.l b. <le
'ached from IHgti and form a new province,
^t* rr 'he control at a lieutenant governor and
riHm* Aaeatt t* to be separately admlnls
t*red by a chief commissioner, as was the caae
***** 'o lb#' lastly, the province of Bengal
la to be raised to the rank of a presidency
fter be example of Madras and Bombay)
i t. a governor Irom England appoined by the
kmc.
It 1* hardly an exaggeration to say that
no such awe*, .tig administrative change as
tti* ha* taken plate since the British crown
ioofc over the g< t eminent of the country from
*t*e East India am pan v at the c!o*e of the mu
tiny in Ixi* As to the motives which prompt
ed the move there is a conflict of opinion The
naOunaiista regard It ns a victory for their
moor They consider that the modification of
the partition of Bengal—which the English au
' her hies Lave repeatedly declared would never
altered—i* a confession of weakness on the
imn of the government, and some of the lead
ers of the unrest are bold enough to say that
he government transferred the capito! to Delhi
hem as* Calcutta had got too hot to hold it.
On the other hand, the dispatches which passed
lets rn Simla and London, which have n. w
b .-c cauf public, contain an array of practical
arguments in favor of the change, which sue
ccsaluily dispones at any theory that the gov
ernment was driven to the measure as the re
bel of seditions agitation. In less troublous
times the move would seem justified on plain
-dmiaimraUve ground* A* It is. it must be
considered as a bold experiment, which is ad
mirable is theory but which in practice can
only be Justified by a acres*
Curiously enough, its first effect has been
precisely the opposite of what was expec'
• 4 It was thought that the Mohammedans
would hail with Joy the establishment or
the central government In the ancient cap
ital of the Mughal emperors On the con
trary. they have been the first to denounce
the arrangement, declaring with true In
dial; perversity that sentimental ronsidera
tkm* acts nothing to 'hem in comparison
with the loss cf (heir political power it) the
abolition of the province of Eastern Bengal
It la not the Mohammedans, but their ances
tral foes, the KajpJU. who welcome the es
tablishment of the capital within easy reach
af their 'armory The Brugalis. too. who
were expected u> resent the loss of prestige
to Calcutta involved in the transfer, have de
clared that they are more than compensated
by the wished-for union of the Bengali peo
ple The Hindu* la Eastern Bengal have been
lighting bonfires for a month past ia celebra
tion at the event So far aa can be ascertain
ed 'be inhabitants of the newly created prov
ince at debar and Orissa are pleased at their
rxtense from Bengal domination. Bombay, the
Punjab and the United Provinces are sensible
af the advantages that will accrue to them for
get^raphical reasons The rest of India is In
different
I >•-. fcl !• rfcaiM by th» eorernme:! aa a
to'irr place for a capital than Calcutta, be
raw of Its tbtnrtc tradition*, central lo
cation. and bet'er climate, which will nn
able tto viceroy and hta staff to reside
tltotr for all hot four me nth* of the year. On
tU other hand. U la more rtmoved from the
rommrrrel internets and active life of modern
India Europeans in Calcutta have not hesi
tated la declaring that It will be little better
than a htnaia of the Plains” The rrerraege
aaent of the provinces will make for greater ad
mintotrntire cadency. though that again is
entinaed on lb# ground thru the modification
of the parthtoa of Iter.gal 1* a useless con
cruras to an agitation that was already prac
tically dead, while M wID undo all the good
• urh which has been started In the backward
districts of Eastern Bengal. The government
denies this.
The announcement of the great changes has
had at least one effect that is already appar
ent; It has Immensely impressed Hindus and
Mohammedans alike with the power of the
emperor. Although King George stated at the
Durbar that he was acting on the advice of his
ministers, this seems to have been Ignored by
the mass of his subjects, who felt that here
was a ruler indeed, whose lightest whim was
law, and who could change at a word the
foundations of government and the established
order of generations. I suppose that few offi
cial announcements have ever been more dra
matic. Pertqpps a dozen men out of India’s
300,000,000 were in the secret, and to the rest
the declaration came with the surprising force
of a revelation.
It is precisely for this reason that anxiety is
felt over the ultimate reception of the propos
als by the Indian people. When the awe
caused by the visible presence of the sovereign
has passed away, it Is feared that fierce opposi
tion may break out in many quarters. The
original partition of Bengal was thought at the
time to be an innocent measure, but it stirred
up disloyalty in half of India, turned two
provinces into hotbeds of sedition and pro
voked a series of anarchistic crimes which has
not yet come to an end. The present changea
claim to be purely administrative, but the pe
culiarly secret and arbitrary way In which
they were determined may prove an excuse for
new discontent. More than one English official
who was at the Durbar expressed the opinion
that the next year or two would see another
wave of anarchy and sedition Incomparably
greater than anything India has yet known.
The government does not hold this view. It re
mains to be seen who Is right.
Two important tacts, in any case, have been
made clear by the publication of the dis
patches. The first is that India is at last be
ing governed once more from India and not
from I*ondon, as was the case when Lord Mlnto
was viceroy and Lord Morley secretary of state.
The entire scheme for the change of capital
and redistribution of provinces originated at
Simla, and was embodied in a dispatch from
the central government to Lord Crewe, who
accepted the proposal without a change. It
would be interesting to know whether Lord
Hardinge or his council are principally re
sponsible for the undertaking. If the for
mer proves to be the case, current views of
the new viceroy will have to be revised. It
argues more than a little courage and initia
tive in a man who has been in India barely a
year to risk bis official reputation on such a
hazardous measure.
The other fact disclosed by the dispatches
is an important intimation of England's policy
regarding the future government of India. Lord
Hardinge and bis associates state in so many
words that the only solution of the Indian sit
uation lies in the practical autonomy of the
provincial governments. In other words, the
old bureaucratic regime, which began with the
first victories of Clive and the taking over of
the Bengal diwanl by Warren Hastings Is
confessed at least to be a failure. Decentralis
ation Is to be the watchword from this time
onward. A new India is gradually to be form
er, on the model on Canada. It will consist of
a group of confederated states, financially In
dependent and legislating for themselves In lo
cal matters, but subject to the control of the
central government in imperial affairs. In
name there will probably be little change, for
the government of India is slow to move and
conservative, yet this is, baldly stated, the sig
nification of the plan. At the same time a
further extension of the principle of self-gov
ernment is indicated. To judge from the words
of the dispatch, the central authorities are at
last alive to the fact that the government of
India must not only be for the Indians, but to
a large extent by them, if it hopes to endure.
Lord Hardinge’s words foreshadow a speedy
enlargement of the elective element In the leg
islative councils and are the most important
pronouncement in this respect that has been
heard since Lord Morley made public his deo
laration to grant his famous reforms.
The general effect of the king's visit seems
to have been strengthening the loyalty of the
Indian people to a degree that surpassed
expectations. The wonderful spectacle of
tile Durbar made a profound impression, and
when the king and queen later stood on the
wall of the fort In Delhi and received the
homage of an adoring crowd of more than
100,000 natives, it is said that the scene was
indescribable. Gray-bearded men bowed them
selves to the ground and others wept for Joy
and mothers held up their babies above their
heads to see and be blessed by the emperor.
An Incident that happened at the laying of the
first stones of the new capital gained the king
a great reputation among the people. As he
was about to touch one of the stones with his
golden trowel he noticed that it was not quite
straight, and asked the master mason to bring
it into better alignment. The ceremony was
stopped for a few minutes while this was
done. The story spread like wildfire through
the bazars, and wss accepted as an omen by
the natives, who now firmly credit their em
peror with almost supernatural powers of dis
cernment and a determination to establish the
foundations of his city so surely that it will
last through all the ages to come.
No seditious attempts were made on the life
of the king, although the murder of a police
inspector in Eastern Bengal the night before
the Durbar gave eloquent testimony to the fact
that disloyalty still exists in some sections of
the population. The release or remission of
sentence of over 180 political prisoners was a
move of the king's, which added to his popular
ity, while his concessions to the native army
and the grant of money for the extension of ed
ucatlon were deeply ap
predated. It Is sate to
say that If the new re
forms are followed by a
further extension of rep
resentative government
King George will be re
garded by the mass of his
Indian subjects as one ot
the best beloved emper
ors that India has ever
known.
Hindu and Mohamme
dan sentiment have for
ages marked out Delhi as
the real native capital,
for has not Delhi, no
doubt, mainly from Its
geographical position, be
come the capital of every
Invading and conquering
dynasty as it swept over
Hindustan from the northwest from time im
mortal? Tb prove this the traveler has only to
wander along the sanly banks of the river
Juma, and also to realize the mortality ot
empires, for one can dearly see, as In Rome,
cities built upon the rutns of cities, and in ad
dition the relics of many a Hindu capital of
bygone ages.
The Delhi of today Is of course the mighty
city of Shah Jehan. with its seven gates and as
many arches. The Delhi of the future will be
built on the site of the recent Durbar camp.
This is situated some miles from the site of the
old Mogul capital, as the famous mutiny ridge
camp separated the latter from the former
camp. It will have the advantage of being
built on fresh ground, a by no means trifling
detail in India, where sanitation is ot para
mount importance.
From the point of view of climate, also,
there is no doubt that Delhi possesses great ad
vantages? over Calcutta. To the newcomer in
India Calcutta is described as having one hot
month and eleven—hot months, whereas the
cold weather of Delhi is delightful.
Another important feature of the proposed
change is that the position of Delhi will re
move the headquarters of the government from
the environment of what is known In India
as the Bengali element. This type of super
educated Indian native has undoubtedly been
responsible in no small measure for the agita
tion caused by the partition of Bengal. This
innovation was initiated by Lord Curzon and
though the agitation against it was never really
popular or In any sense national, yet this noisy
Bengali element succeeded in raising a clamor
quite out of all proportion to their actual num
bers, aided as they were by the vernacular
press. The further partition of Bengal, re
cently announced, may have the advantage of
further decentralization of the unwieldy ma
chine of teeming millions already divided by
Curzon’s action.
Another great advantage in the change of
the capital is the fact that .-Delhi is undoubted
ly much more in the center of the fighting
races than Calcutta. The great native princes
much more easily can assemble there. The
Shikh and the Rajput princes are nearby—
ythe Maharajah of Kashmir, the Gaekwar of
Baroda. the important Nizam of Hyderabad,
and the head of that well governed state of
Mysore, are mostly at no great distance away,
and these all undoubtedly will welcome the
change of capital.
LUXURY.
Jim. who worked in a garage, had Just de
clined Mr. Smith’s invitation to ride in hie new
car.
“What’s the matter. Jim." asked Mr. Smith;
“are you sick?"
“No, Bah," he replied. " 'Tain’t that—I done
los' five dollars, sah. an’ I Jes’ nachirly got tuh
sit an’ grieve.”—Success.
dream that bis knowledge embraces
all members of the family. Neverthe
less. Sir Walter Scott's cat does not
belong to any one of these divisions.
It was in 1826 that accumulating dif
ficulties constrained Sir Walter to sell
his house in Castle street. Edinburgh.
When instructing his agent to offer
the bouse and all its contents for sale
by auction, he made one pathetic ex
ception.
“I wish." be wrote, "to save a ma
hogany thing which I called a cat,
with a number of legs, so that, turn
Ing which way it will. It stands up
right. It was my mother’s, and she
used to have the toast set on It before
the fire, and it Is not worth three
pence of any one's money."
To these words Sir Walter append
ed a pen-and-ink sketch which does
tittle honor to his skill in drawing. It
represents an object more like a dou
ble starfish than anything known to
nature. The tender concern with
which he regarded this unsightly relic
reveals one of the most delightful as
pects of his delightful character.
Here was a man who had been con
spicuously a spoiled child of fortune.
He had been the darling of a Ivf.Tioss
and exclusive society. He had made a
princely fortune, had enjoyed it as he
made It, and had shown both taste and
generosity In spending It. And now,
when the storms of financial troubles
were beating their hardest, the only
Item of his possessions that he strove
to save was a relic that reminded him
of hts mother’s love and cars.
Houses and lands, horses and cattle,
plate and pictures, and books and
manuscripts; all the modern appara
tus of comfort and luxury, and all the
antiquities and curiosities that he
had collected from the deserted keeps
and ruined abbeys of Scotland were
freely sacrificed when duty and honor
called. But thei one priceless treasure
that he would not suffer to pass into
a stranger's hands was a misshapen
contrivance for keeping toast warm,
“not worth threepence of anyone's
money.** but precious because It had
belonged to his mother, and had been
used by her.—Youth's Companion.
WOULDn PART WITH “CAT”
Fathatic Sacaetian Made hr Sir Wal
I«r Inti Whaa H« Waa Giving
Ua Hia Fart an*.
thinks that he
la. Ha la familiar
pat. ha has raad of
arttfe which obedience
that In Booth
is famlllarir
’ and so mar
SOME EXCELLENT SUGGESTIONS
REGARDING BREEDING OF HOGS
Roughage Is One of Most Important Factors In Wintering
Brood Sows—Animals Do Not Thrive Well If Not
Given Sufficient Quantity — Scrub Hog
Is Not Profitable.
(By B. E. LARA.)
The farmers of Denmark secure the
best prices for their fancy bacon for
the reason that they have established
small packing establishments where
they can haul their hogs and get their
pay for the hogs according to their
actual worth. How different from the
system, or lack of system, in this
country, where we are compelled to
take just what the packing house oper
ators are a mind to pay us for our
hogs. Will the time ever come when
our farmers can see the great benefits
to be derived from co-operation?
Roughage is one of the most impor
tant factors in wintering the brood
sows, and if they do not get enough
coarse food they will not do well. Corn
and milk are well balanced as a diet,
but there should be something added
to distend the organs or digestion.
Then again, brood sows will keep
more quiet and contented if they are
given alfalfa, clover or some kind of
roughage to work over during the day.
Good corn stover is better than noth
ing and the sows will work it over and
eat large quantities of it every day.
The man who has a lot of thrifty
August or September pigs and gives
them rational care until grass comes
and has them ready for the market
A Type of Hog That Is Fast Disap
pearing.
the middle of June will make better
money for his feed than he will on any
bunch of pigs that he feeds during
the year.
Do not be afraid to give shoats plen
ty of range during the winter, provid
ing, of course, that you have good, dry
sleeping places and warm houses to
shelter them during the extremely cold
weather.
On each and every farm there should
be some provision made for dipping
hogs. This not only proves to be an
easy and effectual way of disinfecting
animals which are brought on the
farm, but it also keeps them free from
lice.
Possibly there is no other farm ani
mal that can offer as poor an excuse
for his existence as the scrub hog. He
is an unprofitable animal any way you
take him.
As an economical pork producer he
is a failure. Even his ability to shift
for himself does not recommend him
to the people within the limit of his
range as he has the reputation of prey
ing upon neighboring corn fields when
food is scarce.
His build naturally adapts him to
his manner of living since he is long
legged. narrow in the chest, has a
long, narrow snout. This adapts him
to his manner of living. With the
scrub hog it is "root hog or die,” hence
the long snout. His narrow body aids
him in getting through small fence
cracks and if he failB to find a place
large enough to go through the fence
he can soon dig under it with his long
snout.
There is no standard of excellence
for the scrub hog since he may pos
sess almost any form except a beauti
ful one; he may be of any color.
He has the reputation of being able
to stand all kinds of rough treatment
and still survive.
He is regarded as being able to re
sist disease better than the improved
breeds of hogs. We very much
Pair of Champion Berkshire*.
doubt whether this quality attributed
to the scrub hog is true since we have
noticed that hog cholera takes the
scrubs as well as the well-bred hog.
One thing is sure, that the scrub hog
can consume more valuable feed and
give less in return than any other
animal that we know of.
A farmer who owns a herd of scrub
hogs seldom needs any other corn crib
than his hogs.
He never gets rich selling pork, and
in fact if he depended upon his hogs
to make him money to buy better bred
hogs he would never own better ones.
The scrub hog usually keeps his
owner so poor that he is not able to
buy any better stock. In fact, this is
the excuse usually given for his exist
ence. Poor farming and scrub hogs
are usually found associated together.
They are near and dear companions.
Both make a rapid retreat before a
progressive spirit and there is not a
better evidence of the general progres
siveness of a people than the absence
of the scrub hog from a community.
Too much stress cannot be laid on
selecting breeding swine from sound,
healthy parents. Animals that are not
strong in constitution cannot with
stand disease as well as those which
are strong in that respect. In case
hogs are troubled with disease it is
almost impossible to give them medi
cine or anything else that will prove
very helpful. About all we can do is
to feed a ration that can be easily di
gested and keep them in clean quar
ters, thoroughly disinfect the pens and
let the disease run its course.
Whole milk is one of the best feeds
for hogs that are suffering with dis
ease of any kind. It is an excellent
feed and has often been of great as
sistance in bringing hogs through
spells of sickness.
There is no disputing the fact that
corn is an ideal hog feed, but every
practical feeder admits that better re
sults can be brought about by feeding
a ration that is composed of less than
two-thirds corn. It is a mistake to
think we cannot afford to buy other
feeds to mix with the corn.
Ordinarily it is a mistake not to
feed the hogs the liquid before the
solid food.
See that the hogs have comfortable
quarters—now and the months to
come. Failure here will impair the
usefulness of the herd.
Hogs will make from 10 to 12
pounds of meat, live weight, for each
bushel of corn eaten, but because of
this too many fanners feed too much
corn.
The cream separator has greatly re
duced scours in pigs because the skim
milk can always be fed while swTeet.
When the sow of good type has
proven herself a prolific breeder, an
A Combination Hog House, With Hay
and Grain Storage Rooms.
economical feeder, and a good mother,
it is a good plan to keep her several
years.
The mature sow requires only rood
for maintenance while the growing one
needs food for growth. Furthermore,
the older one will have an appetite for
waste that a young one would not care
for.
Exercise will help make that streak
of lean and streak of fat that is de
sired.
English Workmen.
If what Rider Haggard writes is true
the condition of farm workmen in Eng
land Is a sad one. He describes some
of the places where men are compelled
to live as “vile and not fit for a hu
man being.” At one place he found
20 men working on a farm but could
see no cottages. There was one long
low building on the place. It looked
like a wagon-house. It had no win
dows. Sacks were laid on the floor
and there the 20 men slept. A hun
dred yards away was an elm tree on
a hill, and there he found the ashes
of a fire and a rod to hold a pot. This
was the dwelling place—the kitchen
and the parlor of the 20 men. Winter
and summer they did their cooking
and spent their Sundays under the
tree.
Large Pear Orchard.
Mr. Cornell, who has a large orchard
of Worden-Seckel pears in the Hudson
River Valley, was asked to give his ex
perience with them and state their
value as compared with the Seckel
pear. He said the Seckel pear is larg
er than the old Seckel. It is very val
uable, but not a substitute for the
Seckel. The tree grows larger and
bears good crops, but the quality is
not quite equal to the Seckel. It
brings a fancy prtce when well thinned
so It colors well.
Test for Grains.
To test grains for hardness. Dr. E.
Stranak, of Prague, pushes a specimen
under a very thin saw attached to the
scale pan of a balance. Tho weight
necessary to cause cutting is a meas
ure of the hardness. It is found that
grains resist not only insect attacks
but plant diseases in a degree propor
tionate to their hardness.
LABOR-SAVING
CORN-PICKER
Mafhtiw Will Do The Work of
Several Men—IsDestined
to Become Very
Popular.
While the corn picker ie a compara
tively new member of the corn-ma
chine line, nevertheless it is destined
to become a very important one.
Before the advent of the high-priced
help, and before it became so scarce,
the harvesting of the corn crop was
not such a serious problem. Modern
ideas and changes in the methods of
living, however, have brought about
a shortage in the supply of farm labor.
This shortage is very pronounced,
especially in the husking season, when
extra help is needed. For this reason,
farmers are more than ever in need
of a machine which will husk the corn
from the standing stalks—a machine
which will do the work of several men.
Heretofore, about an acre was con
sidered an average day's work for one
man. A corn picker, however, will
husk several times this number of
acres. A corn picker will, however,
not only do the work of several men.
but it will deliver the ear corn to the
wagon in much better condition than
is done ordinarily when husking by
hand.
The corn picker is not the inspira
tion of a minute. It is the work of
years While necessity was the mother
Corn Picker In Action.
of ita invention, yet it was hard work
that overcame the difficulties that con
fronted the designers of this machine.
One by one these difficulties have been
overcome, and the machine is now
perfected so that It does a very high
class of work.