DRAMATIC
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GRAZING
Human Beings Driven to Star
vation to Make Room
for Cattle.
CATTLE INDUSTRY FAILS
Two-Thirds of Farmers Occupy Only
' Hall Land, White the Kcst Is
Given .to '. Small Number
of Caitle-C.rpwers.
DUBLIN, Feb. 1. (Special.) The war
against tlje grazing system the ranch
ing system, as it is called is not an
agitation against a system that is
merely continuing, but against one that
Is on the increase. The latest publi
cation of the Agricultural Department
shows that 45 new holdings of over 200
acres had been created in 1806, the
area of land used, for this purpose
being 19,000 acres. This means that a
number of small holdings, as a result
of . eviction, had been consolidated
within the year.-and 50,000 acres of
land previously devoted to mixed farm
ing turned into grass.' ' -
The effect of this year's change in
tie agricultural conditions will be bet
ter appreciated by considering the
question of "uneconomic holdings." for
the necessary enlargement of which it
is sought to acquire and divide so much
of the grass lands as would be required
to' make them economic. Mr. Bailey,
the Chief States , Commissioner, lias
defined an ' uneconomic holding as a
farm of land so small in extent and so
poor in quality as to be , unable to sup
port the tenant without other aids to
subsistence. The Agricultural Depart
ment experts estimate the minimum
area of an. economic holding at "about
50 statute acres of average quality,
exclusive of bog and land that cannot
be cultivated or reclaimed. If two
farms combine in the Joint use of ma
chinery and labor in working adjoin
ing farms, this might reduce the eco
nomic area to 3"0 acres, or even if the
land be of exceptional fertility and
markets good,' to 25 acres.
Cattle Supplanting Men.
The number o& holdings over one acre
in the country was, in 1906, 515,651,
and the number of these under 30 acres
in extent was 351.61 5. The - Agricul
tural Department - calculates that the
combined area of these holdings is only
3.000,000 acres, or less than one-fourth
of the total area of Ireland. Thus two
thirds of the farmers occupy less than
one-fourth . of the land. On the other
hand, farms, of over 200 acres, which
may be assumed to be grazing farms,
are In" the hands of 9600 occupiers and
cover an area of 4.500,000 acres.
Thus there are' two great divisions
of the land of Ireland, nearly equal in
extent one occupied by two-thirds of
the farmers whose holdings average 11
acres each and do not in any case ex
tend to. 30 acres, and the other occu
pied by only one-hftU of the hold
ers of land, the holdings averaging
500 acres each and the minimum hold
ing exceeding 200 acres.
George Wyndham. M. P.. Chief Sec
retary for Ireland under the last gov
ernment, stated that "untenanted land
of the best, or even of good, quality
for grazing cajmot be brought into
the market except at a price which is
almost prohibitive, if it is to be used
for agricultural purposes." It is well
known, of course, that-the ' best land
of tile country is the grazing land, and
that tho land in tho occupation of the
330,000 farmers . whoso holdings aver
age only 14 acres in the worst. Mr.
Wyndham's evidence i quoted as of
ficial testimony to what is common
knowledge in Ireland. This is briefly
the state of affairs as between the
grazing system, with huge farms 6f
the primest land, and the claims of
the bulk of the farmers for holdings
of moderate size with mixed farming,
which will afford the means of sub
sistence to the tenants.
Increase of Grazing Farms.
The increase, year after year, of the
large or grazing farms adds to the dif
ficulty and renders the situation more
acute. The 50.000 acres added in 1906
to tho large grazing farms represents
at least 1000 economic holdings. This
newly created grass area would suf
fice to enlarge 2500 uneconomic hold
ings to economic holdings.
The statement is sffmeiimes made that
the division of the grass lands would
injure the Irish cattle trade. There is
no foundation whatever for such state,
ments. Mixed farming produces more
cattle than a purely grazing system,
and" fattens the, cattle to the finish,
which, except in a few " places, the
grazing does not and cannot do. The
grazing system is, except in a few
places, unsuitcd to Irish conditions. It
is now admitted by all sides .that The
conversion of Irish tillage land into
grass. land was a mistake, and the cf
forts of statesmen profess to Be. direct
ed to restore such lands to tl plough.
In Ireland the cropped area ia only
one-sixth of the grass land.' The small
farming .of Belgium raises more, cattle
to the acre than tn grazing lands of
Ireland, and tho cattle yield more meat
per head, and of better quality. That
this Is not due to the difficulties of cli
mole or soil Is proved In tho case of
France. .
Grazing Not a Success.
Ireland is the only country iu Kuropa
in which the number of milch cows do
not exceed the number of other cattle.
In Denmark and Austria the number of
cows is one-fourth more than that of
the other cattle, in Holland and Bel
gium and France it is one-third more.
In Ireland the number of cows Is less
than half that of the other cattle. This
shows the prevalence of mixed farming
in other countries and the use of most
of their grass for dairying.
Official statistics show that the cat
tle trade can he carried on successfully
with small holdings and mixed farming.
Ireland, as compared with the rest of
Europe, Is a land apart The percen.
tage of its area devoted to pasture is
twice that of Great Britain, three times
that of any other European country and
ten times that of Denmark. Yet the
stock t the acre is less than that' of
other European countries. The'propor
tion of cattle to the population, when
compared., with , other countries is
alarming. There is nothing like it in
Europe. "To find a parallel the inquirer
would have1 to visit the undeveloped1
countries of the New World or Australasia.-
Even Canada and the United
States do not exhibit such an excess of
cattle "over population as Ireland does.
It is estimated that less than a quar
ter of a million Irish cattle are slaugh
tered in Ireland every year. About
three-quarters of a million are export,
ed to Great Britain. The cattle ex
ported are not. as might be thought,
mainly fat cattle, but stores. Ireland
parts with half Its store cattle every
year to the enrh hment of the British
farmer and the impoverishing of Ire
land. .
Between these lines may be read
some of the causes of the great ranch
ing war in Ireland.
Make Ixjot of ttiflcs;. '
BOMBAY, Feb. 1. (Special.) For a
Pathan, there is' no more inspiring object-
of robbery than a government
rifle. The boldness and skill they cs
crcise In the pursuit of the fascinating
Weapon are well illustrated- in an ex
ploit at Karachi, where a sentry of the
One Hundred and Fifth Mahratta Light
Infantry, who "was on duty over the
regimental magazine, ras attacked by
three Pathans. He was knocked down
with a blow from a stick, and before
he could recover himself his rifle and
bayonet were stolen. By the time an
alarm had been given the thieves had
got well away with the weapons.
GIVE PLAYS ON TRAINS
Theater Xext Luxury on Long-Distance
Journeys.
PARIS, Fob. 1. (Special.) An enter
prising group of bankers, at the head of
whom is a great theatrical amateur,: has
met to discuss a new plan to provldo
amusement for travelers in trains on
long-distance journeys. . Their idea is to
add a theater car to every fast express,
so that travelers going at night from
Paris to the Riviera, for instance, In
stead of sleeping in their berths," could
book a stall in the theater car and at
tend a performance. The ear would be
so arranged as to resemble a small thea
ter, with stalls to accommodate 50 or 60
passengers, and a stage would be erect
ed at one end.
The orchestra, it is proposed; shall be
limited to a piano, a cornet, a piston
apd a flute. - The performance is to be a
continuous one, or broken up into sev
eral scries, for which stalls could also
be booked in advance. The railway com
panies may object that the scheme does
not look practical, .but neither did res
taurant or sleeping cars when they were
first suggested.
As the bankers in question have un
limited funds to draw upon, they might
make a trial,, and it is quite within tho
possibilities of the near future to hear
Riviera travelers tell of the enjoyment
they derived from the performance iu
the "rapide" by M. Coquelln or Madame
Sarah Bernhardt.
RENT PROBLEM IN BOMBAY
Charges Threaten to Kxcccd Those
'in Sew York.
BOMBAY, Feb. 1. (Special.) For some
weeks back the housing'qucstion in Bom
bay has been becoming more and more
acute, and the government lias at last
taken an important step towards Its solu
tion. 'Sir George Clark, tho -governor,
has invited the principal public oodles of
the 'city to confer1 on a scheme for rem
edying the existing difficulties, and in do
ing so has laid down .a few leading-principles
for their tuidance. ?
It is pointed -out that "adequate pro
vision, for the accommodation " of the
wealthy 'classes who require Jiouses, either
in the Fort or on Malabar Hill ami its
vicinity, is.no longer available. Tho re
sult hus -bean a rise of rents in recent
years that threatens, if it continue un
checked, to render Bombay as a. place of
residence more expensive than New York,
having regard tu the nature of the house
accommodation provided in tho two ciiies.
"Simultaneously; a marked increase has
occurred in tire rent .paid by clerks and
other members' of -tho less . wealthy class,
who' are now reduced '"to- great straits In
! their endeavor to house themselves at a
reasonable rate within rtacli . of their
daily . objective, -it is impossible at
present to admit that . the rents paid by
either of these classes are such' as might
reasonably be expected for a' town of less
than 1.000,000 inhabitants, -occupying au
island 11 muVs bv,:leneth." ' "...
TRY A NEW ANESTHETIC
Physician Performs- - Kcmarkablc
Operation With Tropa-Cocaine.
CALCUTTA. Fob. 1. (Special.) A strik
ing operation has been performed in the
Calcutta Medical College Hospital by
Major Stevens on a patient who had been
suffering from plephantiasftv The re
markable feature of trm operation was
that it was done without chloroform, the
patient remaining. conscious all the while.
This is the first time that, an operation of
so serious a nature without chloroform
has been performed In India. The method
consists in injecting into the spine a solu
tion of a derivative of cocaine, called
trona-cocaine, before the operation.
Within ten minutes of ' In lection the
lower extremities and a-portion of the
trunk become anaesthetized, the upper
portion remaining perfectly normal. The
patient, therefore, does not feel the pain
of operation at all. In the present case,
when half the operation .had been gone
through, the patient asked: "When win
you b'-gin. doctor?" He was smoking a
cigarette all the time. This method is
specially vs. I liable In operations where tho
patient has a weak heart and chloroform
is dangerous.
JUMPS FROM GREAT ARCH
French Suicide May " He a Mem
ber of Nobility.
PARIS. Feb. 1. (Special.) Foi some
time past persons who Intended to com
mit suicide by throwing themselves from
a great height had avoided the Arc dc
Triomphe, which was at one time their
favorite resort. This apparent neglect
has now been made up by a well-dressed
man, who succeeded in climbing to the
top and throwing himself down over one
of the sides before the guard was aware
of anything.
He v'as, of course, instantly killed, but
what excited curiosity was the fact that
his underclothes contained traces of hav
ing been marked with a ducal coronet.
There was absolutely nothing to indi
cate his identity. The police think that
he may have been a person reduced to
poverty who had accepted the clothes he
wore as a charitable gift and that this
accounts for the attempt to remove the
marks.
MAY
ROOSEVELT
GO TO ENGLAND
Expected That He Will Visit
. London at End of His
Administration.
TRIP -PURELY PRIVATE ONE
American Colony Greatly Pleased
AVIth Decision of King Kdward to
Becoino Guest at Residence
of Ambassador Kcid.
LONDON, Feb. 1. (Special.) There
is every probability that - President
Roosevelt will pass some' weeks in
England in the Spring of next year,
when his term- of office will have ex-,
pirod. The President of the United
States has been anxious to visit this
country for some years past, but, of
course, this was impossible so long as
the reins of office were in his hands.
The last jcx-Presidcnt of tho United
States to visit this country was General
Grant, when a semi-official welcome
was accorded him. It is understood,
however, that nothing In this nature
will tak-i place on this occasion, the
visit being regarded as . purely a pri
vate one.
The American colony in ixmdon is
loudly 'proclaiming Us satisfaction at
the announcement that tho King is to
visit their Ambassador at West'. Park,
the country scat. which Mr. Whitelaw
Relu rents from I.ord Lucas. ' The
news was immediately communicated to
President' Roosevelt, and it is under
stood that hu has sinco replied In terms
which leave no doubt as to his own
great pleasure at learning of the signal
honor conferred on the representative
of the United States in England.
ADMITS GUILT FOR FRIEND
Confederate Confesses Murder to
Save Chief Culprit.
PARIS. Feb. 1. (Special.) Very sin
gular is the manner In which an Indi
vidual who has bctn guilty of murder
has been detected. An old widow had
fccen killed and her premises r-bbc..i.
Suspicion haying fallen on a particula'
man, he had been arrested, and, whuc
is more, had actually confessed that he
had done tho deed. In spite of his con
fession, the judicial authorities had the'
Iiouso and grounds of a friend of his
searched, the idea being that he mlijiit
have been an accomplice.
A fowl which had belonged to the
w idow was found there, and soon after
ward a blood-stained garment was dis-,
covered. The friend was confronted
with the prisoner, and ended by admit
ting that he was the chief culprit, as
it was he who had murdered the widow. ?
When the prisoner was asked why he
had confessed to having killed the poor
woman, ho explained that lie had done
this to 'save 'his friend, as the latter
had a family of six children.
LYNCH LAW IM RUSSIA
Fxaperatcd Peasantry AVreok. Ven
geance for ISeign of Crime.
ROSTOFF-ON-DON. Feb. 1. (Spe
cial.) Russia's terrible epidemic of
crime has led the exasperated peasant
to take the law into his own hands,
and lynching is now as common as it is
in the United States. Lynching aro
announced from all' quart'.-rs. In De
cember at Novinomtkaytt, a village in
the Kuban district. a savage mob
butchered a band of thieves and then
pillaged and burned their houses.
At Novopokrovskayu, in the same
district, a mobof 400 persons, mostly
youths, captured 12 suspected thieves,
whom they beat mercilessly until they
had killed them all. Next day the 12
were buried in one grave, In the pres
ence of all the villagers. The scene at
the grave was made heart-rending by
the lamentations of the dead men's
relatives.
ISLANDS HAVE BIG TRADE
Commerce of the Bahrcins Amounts
to $15,000,000 a Year.
BOMBAY, Feb. 1. (.Special.) The report
on the trade of the Ruhrein Islands by
the political agent at Manamah shows a
remarkable increase of 20 per cent in
commerce. The two or three little towns
on tho Bahrein Islands carry on a trade
which last year reached a volume of over
1.".000,W. -
Pearls represent the largest item. Lat
year Bahrein exported pearis to the value
of nearly $4.3"'.t" to India, as well as
over JI.nOu.i" 'o the adjacent mainland
of Turkish Arabia. The imports uf Bali
rein reached a value, of $S.0X.X"3. of which
half was obtained from India nnd nearly
ail the rest from Arabia and Persia. Bah
rein bought nothing from Russia, and
only $.V'.0C) worth of goods from Germany,
but part of tho imports from India un
doubtedly -consisted of German goods
transhipped at Bombay.
SIX VICTIMS OF TIGER
Ferocious Beast Terrifies Entire
District in India.
BOMBAY, feb. 1. (Special.) For some
time the neighborhood of Vlckarabad his
suffered terribly from a man-eattng tiger.
Within the last three months he has car
ried off five or six victims, one being a
woman. Something akin to a panic pre
vails at Pudoor, a place about five ndles
from Vlckarabad. and the tipror's' lair is
supposed to be in the thick jungle close
by.
Mr. Pendlebtiry. son of the agent and
manager of the Nizam's Guaranteed State
Railway, was out recently in that district,
and ho shot a tiger which was said at t Ike
time to bo the one required, but the re
port of fresii victims dispelled that idea.