. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . and to sympathise with the weakness,sorrows and sufferings of all her subjects. There have beenin our own country good and beneficent Sovereigns, buttheir good and beneficent work has died with them. It is other-wise where impersonal law presides and rules over the destiniesof men. There are of course ebbs and tides and temporarydisturbances and even storms, but these only serve to bringinto greater relief the calm majesty of the law overridingpower and possession, more especially when this la
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . and to sympathise with the weakness,sorrows and sufferings of all her subjects. There have beenin our own country good and beneficent Sovereigns, buttheir good and beneficent work has died with them. It is other-wise where impersonal law presides and rules over the destiniesof men. There are of course ebbs and tides and temporarydisturbances and even storms, but these only serve to bringinto greater relief the calm majesty of the law overridingpower and possession, more especially when this law isadministered by the womanly instincts of one who hasknown sorrow and affliction herself. This is the moral secretof the charm which has endeared her home to millions and I20 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. millions who have never seen her. This is why all thecolonies and dependencies join with the British Isles in thiscommemoration, and this is the lesson which, on an occasionlike this, I would ask the students of this college to takewith them as the memory of an event which cannot fail. BRAHMIN LADY. to be remembered as a red-letter day on our countrysannals. On behalf of the students I have great pleasurein thanking the Principal and Professors of the College fortheir kindness in inviting us all to take part in this com-memorative gathering, and I hope such occasions will be MAY IT BURN, BUT PRODUCE. 121 far more frequent than they have hitherto been, (Loud cheers).There are Brahmins and Brahmins. Methinks that thehot winds of the Deccan are deleterious to Brahminicalmorals. Certainly the Chitpawan in the Konkan is usuallya good man all round; as certainly the Deccan Brahmin,with rare exceptions, like the chief of Vinchoor, is inferiorto all of the caste. Certainly the Konkanee Chitpawandeteriorates morally when he settles above the process can be watched in many a Chitpawanfamily, part settled in Poona, part resident in the narrowstrip of beautiful count
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