TII1D OMAHA TAIljV ) BEE : SATtlMDAY , SEPTEMHER , 1807 , 11 ENGLISH RULE IN INDIA Review of the Causes Laading Up to the Present Hebollioti. FOREIGN DOMINATION PUT TO THE TEST 'llir Ciiinitr } Dralni'il of MM llriniircri unit IllluMcil li > Ali-K-nlcc l.iiinl- lurillxin llrllUh I'l iniiler uiul lU'l'ri'HxImi. At no tlmo since the English established their nile over the vast aggicgatlon of peoples ples and territory known to the u t of the world as India has their capacity to hold the country and their moral right to posectn * t been subject to severer testa than they ecein likely to bo put to now. The task of governing India In the pant , says Harper's Weekly , has been comparatively easy , be cause the various rates were kipt opart by racial and religious prejudices , the mem orle of former conflicts , and by the compar atlvely little Interference of the new con qucrors with their customs , usages and laws , and the complete toleration accorded to any mid every form of religious belief. The early administrators of India , too , were leba Interested In collecting taxes and making pleaRlng reporU * to their superiors In Eng land than In extending the territories sub ject to their Influence , and augmenting the profits of the trade done by "Jchan Kum- panl , " nn the old Hast India company was familiarly called. With nil the talk ot "tho blessings of peace , " by which the Kng- ILsh government and press seek to justify 4hclr prceendo anJ rule hi India , the ucoa- mulatud wealth of the country was greater than It Is now , and though the taxation may in appearance have been heavier than at prc - int. It was In reality lighter , because It all remained and was spent In the country , In- etead , of , ns now , being drained out of It to enrich the governing claase of a dlstanl and foiclgn domination. That Is the key to the present situation In Drltlsh-goveined India , declared and re iterated by every Intelligent and educated native ot no matter what religion or race , and admitted by every capable and honest Kngllsh admlnUtiator and statesman who has h.ld am thine to do with the government of Indl i The cry of the spokesmen ; of the Indian p ople when asking for changed In the government of the country has never been to menace nngllsh nilc , but has been u plaintive appeal for reform , for mercy , for home relaxation of the pitiless system of government that was landing the Indian people In national bankiuptey and Individ ual povert ) and threatening the foundations of English rule At the head ot those who have unceasingly warned the Urltlsh govern- inont of the danger of the course it was running has been the lion Oidabhal Naor- ojl , a native of liombay , and a 1'arsee by race and lellglon l'osses > d of Intelligence ot a high older and n desire for the wel fare of his countrymen of every race and ereed , this gentleman has devoted the cn- orgles of his mind and life ontltely to their service in vaiious wavs Horn ill Hombay in 1825 he lese as he progressed In yeai.s to the ( .hair of the piofessor of tnathematlen nnd natural philosophy In the Rlphlnstonc college theie In 18.15 he resigned his pro fessorship and went to England ns n partnet In the Indian mercantile house of Cama & Co One of the first steps he took after his arrival In England and aftet malting a cat etui stud ) of the subject was to rec ommend his fi lends In India to bend theli sons over to England to qualify for the civil service In > , ider that they might take pait In the admnDilation of their country. In isni he went out to India for u short tlmo , and on his ictJtn to England he 01- ganUed a political association In 1SC7 known as the East India association , with a branch In Domba ) foi ( he study of Indian political questions IIo received help and sympathy In his work , both In England and In India , from public men nnd native pi luces , and laid the foundations of v.hat has since developed - veloped Into a wider movement that has taken the form of n peiiollcnl gathering known as the Indian National congress. DIUFTINQ ON THU HOCKS. From the very first Mi Dadabhal saw tha the rock toward which English rule In India was drifting to wieck was the economl question. Ho fcaw that nn administration tliat regarded Itself hlmply as a ta\-col- Iccting machine nuwt fall Into trouble when the demands for ta\c exceeded the avill- able supply ot resources out ot which the taxes could be paid. semi-commercial scml-nnlltary paternal despotism ot the East India eogipany went down in 1817 in the revolt against the greased cattrldges Issued to Itfl Sepoy holdler ) Itn place wat > taken by a gov eminent under the queen , ap- polmted bv the Uilthh Parliament , that wan Inaugurated In 185S by a pioclamatlon breathing the spirit of Jean Jacques Kous- Bcau In 18T5 an net ot Parliament said of the people of India nnd their rights : "No native of the tnld territories nor any natural- horn subject of his niije.it ) therein shall , b ) leasnn rnly of hl.i religion , place ot birth distent , or nnv of them , be disabled from hnldlrg any place , ofilce or employment un der the aalil company " This was leafilrmed , amplified and proclaimed as the royal will after the mutiny of 1857. and lelteiated In an act of Parliament In Ib70 , which declared any office In India we * open to the Indian people. What has been the icfiiilt ? Let Lord Lvtton ono of the more rtcc-'it of the gov ernors general of Indh , furnish the answer In a minute , which he wrote for the English govoinment on the qucsthm of the employ ment of educated natives In the adminis tration of their country , ho MI\S- "Since I am wilting confidentially , I do not hctitltate to ray that both the govern ments of England and of India appeir to me , up to the present moment unable lo answer satlsfictorlly the charge of having taken every ineins In their power of breaking to the hrait the words of pininlse they had uttered to the car" Thla was In 1878 , and no change has taken place nlnce , while the crowd of educated young Indians yearly In creases without any prospect of n career The danger of the situation the English rule has creited imy hr brlell ) hummed up as a tax-Impoverished population of some U50.000- 00(1 ( waiting to be Hi oil by the discontent of 250.000 of a more or le's educated pioletarlat with ambitions without ocopo for their exei- clse Men like * Hum Mnhun Hey , Dadibha ! NaoroJI. and others before and since , have fitrlvni to < nvaken the dlmlnant power to a cnnso nf the danger , and they have advhod iMtlcnce and hope to their countrymen. Hut it has been without avail PLUCKING THE NATIVES Rightly to explain the economic difficulty of continuing to govern India on the present rxtrnvagant aystem , with ll.i high-salaried and hlgh-pcmiloned English officials , toiiic details aru necessary , In the flrot place , competent statistician * * , comparing the relative average Incomes per head of a unit of population In England and India , plnen th first at $210 and the latter at $10. The average Income of an agricultural laborer in India Is estimated at $32 , on which to maintain filinaolf. wife nnd fhree children n little over | 3 per head Tl-o next poorest country to India Is Hussla , wl'h an uveragu Income ot $50 per head , Official calculations wont to show that In northwest India nn Income of not leas than $17 per head waa abr < olutcly Indispensable to supply the neccn- rarles of llfo foi an agricultural laborer. In the warmer pattn of the country $15 wan reckoned fmtficlent , without extras Yet the uamo official calculations went to ulinu that the highest aveiago Income In nil ) one pro > Iuquha only $15 , while In a largo P'irt of the country It wax but $12.50 , and In a utlll largti pirt of Itvas down to $ )1 ) , with u general average all over India of only $13 CO , In both ranes the Indispensable In come was above tha average actual Income- anywhere , lhu proving the tiuth of the official i tutemcnt made by Sir Auckland Col ) In In 1885 , that "the masses of the people are men whcae Income at thu bet 1 barely ! BUlllctont to afford them the tmstenancu noccbuary ( o support life , living OH they do on the barest neccasarle * of llfo. " In 1S88 the Hcngal government admitted that In Debar , with 16.300,000 population , 40 per cent of thin vast number waa only able to provldu for one meal per day ! All over India the olllclaU report that the ma o of thu Jifoida KO through life on liuwtnclunt fo-d. The salt tax , Imposed for revenue and military imrpoiea , has raided that nuces. mry article ot cocauiuntlon from 27 ceotu i maunil of 82 pounds In 1800 In Madm to | $1 27 In 1S90 and In Bombay from 21 cents a rnaund to $1 21 To d poverty-stricken vegetarian : population the deprivation of this vital nccci > * ary Is the source of disease , leprosy among others The vitil statistic * ot India give twenty-three and one- half year * as the life average , as against forty > carIn England In the worst three famine VMM of the century , 1S77-9. the number of registered deaths was 1491S71S In the three "good" years there died 15.812.- 4C9 people. To emphasize the meaning of theie figure * It I ? shown that the Income of the people of India as compared with tint of the English people Is a minus Income- thai Is , Insufficient to fuist.iln a healthy life The plua Income per heed In England , after athfylng wants and providing extras. Is put rlown nt $2077 The minus Income In IndH is set down at 31 cenM. To ftlltlier expose the excerfllvc mortality In India , In a state of ueace. from economic cnus-to , a comparison with the recorded deaths In war f'om 1790 to 1S93 Is most Interesting In these 103 jearo the number of lives lost In war 1s put at 4 500.000 , exccos dtMths from fever ( starva tion ) only during 18S1 to 1S8S In India , 4,349- 922. Such figure * speak for themselves. THE COUNTRY DHAINEU The causes plainly stated , for the tctrlblo condition of the Indian people are absentee landlorl m , with Its consequent drain of the resources of the country-Jomaintain a foreign domination. As an Instance , taking the fln-incl-il year 1889-DO , the net amount of the land revenues of India was $97,600,000 , while the amount expended through the Indian olfico In London , In England only on ac count of India was $117,250,000 These figures are olficlal. Prom this It will be seen that nut only was the whole land rent ot India taken to be spent In England , but over $20- 000,000 more that had lu bo taken from other sources. This may make It understood how It la that the India people are Insufficiently fed and clothed , and consequently short lived. When It Is remembered that this drain has been going ot In varying degree for over ninety ycara , the wonder Is that the patience ot the people ban not been exhausted long ago. The reason of thelKqulesccnce has been their Ignorance Had the old American colonlin been Inhabited by people ot the same tompcrqmcnt , aa Ignorant and docile , there would Iiave been no Boston tea patty , no Declaration of Independence nnd no Old Glory floating over the forty-flvo stalea and the territories of the < union. Another subject worth touching on Is the relative percentages of the populations of England and Isidla engaged Inarlous In dustries. In India Si ! per cent are en gaged on the land , and In England only 11 0 per cent. In other Industries In India there no 12 per cent and In England , In mariu- facturcn , etc. , 30.1 per cent. lm various other occupations In England , 55 per cent , and In India. 2 ner cent. Before the Hrltlah system of administration broke up the In dustrial system of India the proportions were dlffeient. The co-ordbiiatlon of Indus tries established by nnurat process was de stroyed , nnd the bulk of the population en gaged In manufacturing was dilvcn out of employment by the Hooding of the country with Brit sit manufactures and thrown back upon the laaid , where the reward of theit I ihor has proved Inadequate under even the meat favorable conditions to sustain life de cently. SOMETHING RADICALLY WRONG. At first sight It would seem to American- * hat It vould only be necessaiy for the Eng Ish people , In vvhoe > c name India Is gov- ined as has beem shown , to bo made ac- [ iialntid with thu true state ot things fein n Immediate change to be mide It K most egrctable that It Is quite otherwise Evil ounsels have apparently been always up- > ermost and prevailed In the government of ndla. Men HKe the duke of Devonshire , the alp John Bright , the duke ot Argyll , the ate Mr Pavvcctt and a host of others have all admitted franklv and without reserve that here was something radically wrong with he government of India ; yet when In ofilce hey have been as supine , Inactive , and as nnth enslaved by the led tape of the bureau- ratic system as the most aident bureaucrat could desire. It has been fldmltted and declared that ndla is suffering fiom Insufficient adinlnk- ratlon , but that bho cannot afford the cost : > f more Imported English officials The emcdy Is acknowledged and said to bo the employment of mtlve olficlils : but they arc not employed. As far back ns 17S7 Sir John hole foresaw that the time must come when the evils of Kngllsh adtnlnt-tration In India would more than counterbalance Its advantages. In IS1) ) , ! Mr. Gladstone said that the ex penditure of India , but especially the mil itary c\pcmliture , was alarming. Sir David Harbour said. In189. . ) also : "The financial position of the government of India at the present moment Is buch as to give came for appiehcjifiton. The prospects of the future are disheartening " Lord Lansdowne , when viceroy , said : "We have to consider not so much the years which aie past and gone as thouo which immediately ahead of us , nnd Ifve look forward to these , there can bo no doubt that \vo have cause for serious alarm " A COSTLY DEPENDENCY. Lord Macaulay , vvhoo knowledge of India and comprehension of Its needs have nevei been surpa.Tjed , eild of India In his day "That would Indeed be a doting wisdom which. In older that India might lemaln a dependency , would make It a useless and costly dependency which would keep a hun dred millions of men from being our cu.Uo- merB In order that they might continue to bo our slaves. " IIo was speaking then In the middle of the transition pcilod through which India was passing , fiom a commercial to a bureaucratic-military governed country. but ho was not understood. The duke ot Argyll In ! Sfi9 said , bluntly : "I must say that wo have not fulfilled our duty or the promises and engagements which we have made ; " but , hiving said that , ho appears to have satisfied his political conscience , Lord Salisbury In 1875 iceognl/ed the evil ot the system under which India had to be drained yearly of i-o much v ealth vvltnout any equiv alent return , but nhu'gged ' hiu shoulders and said ( hero was no help for It but to continue the bleeding process. In 1SS3 he even went further ; and when Loid Northbiook , who had leaincd something dining his vlceroyalty In India , phaded In the llor.ho of Lords for the carrying out of the act of 183J , already quoted , and the solemn proclamation of the queen In 1S3S , Loid Salisbury settled the question by the astonishing sentence"My lords. I do not ucii what Is the use of all thin political hypocrisy. " Latei In 1S83 the duke of Uovonslilic pointed out that It would not be wise to toll a pat ! lot Ic native of India that the Indian people shall never have any chance "exiiept by their getting rid , In the first Instance , of their European rulers " Yet this Is Just what the English rulers of India have been doing , not In words , per haps , hut by Implication and so prepiilng the way for an upheaval that must bo dis astrous to the people ef India , and may bo fatal to thn contlnuaiiio ot English rule In 1S7C Sir Louis Mallet. In a minute on Indian land revenuu Bald. "Hy a constant habit ot palliating symptoms instead of grappling with disease , may , i > not bJ leav ing to those who come after a t u > k so ag gravated by our neglect or timidity that what Is dllllcult for us may bo Impossible for them ? " The only governor seneral of India In recent time * who harf endeavored to grap ple with Indian problems In the spirit of a htatesman. Lord Rlpon , was denounced as an agitator and a disturber by the bureau cratic clement that saw nn end of Its power to "plunder India , " ns John Hilght termeil It , coming , If his views prevailed. Repies- sltui and drift are now the watchwords of IlrltUh iiileln India and to what It If ) drifting may bo gathered from the utterances of the leading public men of England nnd India which have been quoted , aid from the aymptoms of unr"3t and disorder manlfcst- Ini ? themselves all OM-I the country In va rious way a. Philadelphia Ilulletln : A man car. lone his head without being beheaded ? You can still see wheu'lillnded hy preju dice ! It doesn't hurt you to lnt your ' > ii > fall 1 to the Hoer ? 1t You eon tell hoiv Hiiythltig lookw without saying a word. Having n load on your mind doesn't In- creasi ) ) our w eight ' | Wi > can bo can led nw y and t > tay where wo are ? Two people muy full out wlthtmt nlilk- Ing somewhere. ' A person may turn a deaf ear to a bubjert and Btill hear every "orrt * 1 Wo can. uee. through BO many thing * with our oe clewed ? Wo cannot be dead lu i a incut on ait ) > subject without being very much alive to It ? KIlYBhll'S BLOODY GROUND , Ihaator of India's Revolt Famous for Its Terrible Massacres , STORY OF THE DISASTER OF 1842 r i > f ( lie llrltlili Torero In ( lie oi'U ) Dollies ( Inlj Olio INiMiiteil Dill of Sixteen ThotiMiml I-'U c Hundred Vr lum Trencher } , Harly In the course of tne Dost Mohammed wars , Shah Shujah , a claimant of the Afghan throne , took refuse In India , and placed hlirself t cider the protection of the Indian government , which vvaimly espoused hid cause , and , 'upon the pretext that Host had made war unna uu ally of the company , a formal declaration of hostilities was pro claimed , and In rebruary , 1S39 , the Urltlsh army , composed of about 12,000 fighting men , with 40,000 camp followers , crossed the Indus and entered Afghanistan At first the ex peditionary force was apparently successful evcrjwlitre. Cine Afghan position after an other fell before the British guna ; Ghimil , the Impregnable , was Btormed , the p.rmy of Dott Mohammed melted away , Cabool opened Its gates to the Invaders , Dost surrendered and was sent to India ns a state prisoner , Shah Shujah was installed In Cabool na the sovereign , and tno country was regarded as not only conquered , but pacified. Hut the conqurat of Afghanistan by the Kngtlsh was like the conquest of Spain by the French , nor were the people of the former , any more than the latter , reconciled to the Idea of n prince supported by foreign arms. Popular uprisings took place all over the country , the troops were kept constantly on the move for two years , and the expense of maintenance exceeded 1,000,000 a jear. The Indian go\eminent notified Sir William Me- Naghton , the British envoy , that expenses must be i educed The only way In which thlj could bo done was to cut down the allowances of the native chiefs , who had been subsidized , nnd as soon as this was sURgrated they broke out In open revolt The nngllah army quartered at Cabool oc cupied barracks a hort distance from the rltv , nnd was commanded by General Kl- phliistone , n veiy aged olllcer , . who , by rea- con of c.cut and other Infirmities , was equally ntcctrato In body and mind. There was practically no leader or the forces , ana \lien the city rose in rebellion eveiythlng vent v\rong. McNaghton , the envoy , and Jurncs , the niltish resident , were murdeied , he troops vveie besieged in their cantoiv- neiil , the commissary tort , weakly garrl- isoned vvao taken , and the Written force \as icdurcd to staivatlon As winter was coming on , the Impossibility of remaining n n hostile country without supplies wan ecognlyed , and preparations for evacuating .ho position were begun The Irresolution of General Elphlnstone , however , delayed the evacuation , as he hoped that , b > negotia tions with the chiefs , matters could be ar- inpr > d 01 that help would airlvc Both ex- icctatlons , wcie disappointed , and finally thr irlti . anny capitulated , promising to evac uate the country , while the Afghans guar- intecd them safe conduct out of Afghanistan iinl supplies for the match On January 1 , 1S12 , the capitulation was signed , and on January 5 the army , conipr'falng ' 4 GOO fight ing men and 12.000 non-combatants , nmrchea out of the barrack , ) at Cabnol and took the road to Jolallabad and the Khvber pass. MASSACRE OP THE TOIICE. The treachery of the Afghan chiefs was Instantly apparent , for before the long line was out of eight of Cabool It was attacked on every side by the tribesmen. The coun try from Cabool to the pass Is broken and rugged and two days' hard matching lay liefoto the , army. Every rock hid an Afghan maiksman , every commanding height was held by the enemy. During the flr.it day's march nearly all the pack animals were lost. The Afghani , armed with awords and long knives , fell upon the camp followers and massacred them by hundred's. At night a halt vva made , hut there vvai no rest , for the tents were gone , there were no pro visions , a deep tnow coveted the ground and nttacko of the natives were unceasing. During the second day the retreat became a disorderly rout ; It was not the march of an anny , but the huriled rush of a mob of fugitives All dibclpllne was gone ; officers and men , camp followers and women , crowded together In the narrow road to the pnfc , while from every side came the steady fire of the Afghan guerrillas. Al though the moat ample proofb had been given of the faithlessness of the native chiefs , the officers again opened negotiations with thPin ; the women and several of the leadIng - Ing ollicert ) . Including the general , were given or suiiendered themselves as hostages , lint still the- tiring went on and by the time the fugitives had reached the entrance of the drat pats through the mountains they Ind neither leaders , provisions nor am munition , and a large number of the soldiers were even without guns. Khjber pass Is a mere canon In the mountains , the load winding along the bank of the ilvir , and at almost cvciy point for five miles It' commanded on both xldes by overhanging precipices. No army could force Ita way through the defile If the crags over head vvero occupied by a hostile foice. This teirlblo defile , however , was not the scene of the annihilation of the anny. At the western entrance to the pass stands the city of Jelallabad , which at that time was held by a strong English force , and this town was the objective point of the army. Before i caching It , however , there were two passes to bo traversed , each almost as dlf- llcult as the Khvbcr defile The first was the Koord Cabool paw , and hero most of the arnv perished. Crowded Into a narrow road commanded by the heights and preci pices above , the men were shot down bv hundred * ? Thov could offer little effective resistance to the fire of the enemy and none at all to the masses of stone and snow that vvero loosened on the mountain sides above for the purpose of overwhelming the fngl tlvcs. A few survlvois. In all less than 200 Enropcin soldiers and about GOO Sepoys , snuggled through , hut at the entrance of the Jugdulnk pa&tt they found a strong Im provised fortification elected by the Af ghans In anticipation of their arrival and hero they all died. Of the host of 1R.OOO which two days before had marched out of Cabool , only ono white man escaped , a sur geon named Dryson , who , a day 01 two after the maisacro staggered Into Jelallabail half delirious from suffering , and told the tale of an army's destruction nilAVEKY 01' ' ' NO AVAJL There were man > Jieiole deeds done bv those who fell , and oven the Afghan ns- 83891118 told with admiration of the valor ol como of the DiItMi otilccis and Indiai troops , One captain , cut off fiom his com mand , placed his hack against a great rock end with a musket and bayonet held i do/en enemies at bay At last In striking a violent blow he broke the bavonot There wan a rush , but ho wrested u swore ! from the foiemost foe , and with It killed five men ire he was llnally disabled by n blow on ihc back of the head Three Sepojs Hood together , and though without ammu nition , killed hoven men with their bavo nuts ere they were dually cut down A lieutenant , separated from the main body tarvrd a lane through a solid phalanx o enemies and lejolned his comrades. A Se poy , himself wounded , can led a comrade in woiso plight clear over the Koord Ca bnol pass , only to perish with him n little further on. But braverj without propel Ifadmhip Is. of little clllrlency In n confllc of such .1 character , and the Individual cases did not In.'plie the multitude with courage 'llu > panic-Kit Irltcn mob was driven to , ficnz ) of flight b > the sight of thu heady o their conn alien carried on spears and poles hy the Afghans , or thrown down among the tnirvlvurd fiom some convenient Vet thine men were not cowards The ) were almpl ) soldiers at a disadvantage , without leaders , and confronted hy an over whelming number of i > av.3ge enemies. Such a situation U inough to make the moit dar ing apprehensive , Feting that the case Is hnpt-lesi. THE MAS3ACHK AVENGED. Vengeance for the masrocie was swift JiMlabad wan mill held by the Hindi h , and ' ttlien HUtninoned to urrimler ( iener.il Sale , the otilPi'r In ronurand. refused , and made iv jplrited rtrfon e as als > dll the Enouh guuUon nt rsn'lahar The Ind tan iwvern nu'iit , as * oou a > Ihw news of Ihcd " * 'er ar rhfd c.iKtutiati-J t coj/u lu t ! " ' iiJ'iMvttati and hy the end of Maun of the same yoir Oenor.il Pollock wai on hU way through the Khjber r" > Covering hi * advance with a snarm of sharpshootcre and shelling every suspicious spot on the mountain sides ho drove out the- Afghans and marched through to rfllevo Jelallabad Kre his arrival , how ever the garrison had effected Its own de liverance by a spirited sortie , routing and dispersing the Afghan force * . Ilcfore the middle of September the Kngltah army , aftar defeating the Afghani In geveril billies , en camped under the walls of Cabool , occupy ing' the cantonments ftom which the un fortunates nine- month * before had marched to thrlr death hirge parllM of prisoners , under strong guaiM , were ret to work bury ing the dead In Koord Cabool pa s , nml , according to the returns ritaM , Interred over 14.000 bodies of men , vvoinen and children , for the murderous Afghans made no ilUtlnr- tlon Many chiefs were captured ; some were shot , others were hung , the biriar of Cabool was burned , the city was pillaged by the soldiery , nnd most of Us Jualp population ocrlshcd at the hands of .the. Infuriated Ilrlt- Ish and Sepoj. The p fsdntrs. after per forming the service already slated , were gen erally allowed to depart If thfy had taken no hand In the massacre , btlL ; lch as had were hanged It is considered probable that the number of Afghans killed In the campaign and executed afterward 'fully equaled that ot the Kngllsh .nnd SetVdya1 who perished No effort at permanent occupation was mide. After this vengeful blow thelKngllsh left the country to Its native rwlert and anarchy. Twice fllnco have Urltlsh , nrmles traversed the Khjber and the other two pastes to avenge Insults to Kngllsh envoys or repress Afghan Insolence , and the Khyber h now a part of the stratcglo fr&htler of India , but all the subsequent successes have not effaced the memory of "The Terrible March from Cabool. " MVUVm.S OK .M'.miASKA CHOI'S. A Mi-Cook Mcrrliiinl TrllM Admit The ill , In GlilritKO. "Yes , I'm from Red Willow county , " said a McCook , Neb. , merchant to a group at the Palmer house last night , quotes the Chicago Tribune. "Crops ? Well , rather. My county is 250 miles west of the Missouri. Some years It doesn't ralu out there , then woTalso Pops. This jcar It did rain , and we raised evirything else. The pop crop Is ( the only total failure In Nebraska this year. "Wheat ? Well , our county covers about 4G./,000 acres. Out of that wo cultivate 215,000 acres say 46 per cent. Thla ) ear there weio 100,000 acres In small grain 80 per cent of that went to wheat. Much of It alieady thrashed shows thirty-five bushels to , the acre. It will average twenty-five bushels to the acre over the whole county ; that means 2,000,000 bushels for Ucd Wil low. "There are nearly a bundled counties In the elate , so I look on 50,000,000 bushels of wheat for Nebraska those are Eustls' fig ures as low. And the quality Is phenom enal. The thrashers repot t It Is weighing out sixty pounds to the measured bushel "But theeo Chicago farmers don't under stand vvbord It all comes from. The fact Is ws'ro cutting two crops In one. Last jear as a dry ono Many fields sowed to wheat n the spring were not thought worth cut- Ing ; they were never touched. This jcar ho same ground , seeded by what little grain Tew last jear , produced -aim lng yields of vheat. ' Ono customer of mine ( this is no fairj ale his name la Jlinmle Dojlt ) H es a mile lorth of town He rented a pleco of land o pnt Into corn this jear that had wheat on t last jcar. By the time Jlinmle pot his iwn land cropped It was too late to plant orn on the rented land , so he never touched t Well sir , the 'volunteer' wheat came ip like Russian thistles on an alkali bottom , and that fellow cut and thrashed 1,000 bush- lu of wheat off that eighty acres and never -ven harrowed the land. It cost ulmou bushels for rent , and he had a clean rake off of 750 bushels of wheat for nothing , and last . 'riday thej vvero bidding 70 cents at Mc- Cook for No 2 or better. There are any lumber of 'volunteer' wheat storks float- ng out there , but this one I know personally ' wonder we've got wheat o ho true. It's no o burn , Is It ? . , "But wheat H merely a side issue In Ise- biaska. Corn Is ically our crop That same imp county of Tied Willow will ile 4,000- 000 bushels of corn thlb jear .and never sweat t sunflower. You won't see any of It here It all goes Into cattle and hogs. Us vvottl 30 cents < i bushel to feed right at home. That neani nenly $1,000000 out of coin for one ittle county In Nebraska , and our cattle buvers aio scouring tti United States for fetders The Burlington brought a tralnload of "stackers Into Superior the other day way from Buffalo. N. Y. I met a stockman on mv train ftom Frontier county with $8,000 In New York drafts , and , he was going to New England to pay oK Rome mortgages and buy some feeders to eat tup his corn and -Alfalfa ? Why , of course , That's our big crop in southwestern Nebraska. You can ride for miles In the Beaver valley without see Ing anything but purple alfalfa fields Al filfa hav is selling for ? 1 ton down there They cut four or five crops of hay a j'ear from It. besides getting the seed , which Is valuable. The Beaver probably ships more nlfulfa seed lo St. Louis than any district in Colorado. And the beauty of It is that after you once get your stand of alfalfa jot needn't worry whether It rains for the next five or ten years. Your alfalfa smiles evcrj season Just the same. "I have known alfalfa roots to run thirty feet deep to find water. That's no fairy tale cither. They made a cut for an Irrlgitlor ditch through an alfalfa field out there once and we had an object lesson In alfalfa roots They will run as far for water as a Nebraska farmer will this year from a populist conven tion and that's a good ways , boys. " OItltiOF "COCICTMI. . " The \Vn > ( lie Vinorloiiii l > rliilt Clime Into 13\lKeliee. ( , . The origin of the American "cocktail" 's admittedly obscure , and many attempts have been made to trace It. An Ingenious but unconvincing explanation that has lately been going the round of the press gives It medical significance. The old doctors , they say , had a practice of treating certain d'a- eases of the throat with a pleasant liquor applied with the tip end of a long feather plucked from a cock's tall They finally be gan to use this prcpaiatlon as a gargle , and the name cocktail clung to It. The gargle gave waj to an appetizer to a mixture of bitters , vermouth and liquor that Is still In occasional demand. Tor my own part , says the American E cure , I prefer Infinitely the story of the Mexican beauty According to this legend , the original cocktail was made from pulque , an alcoholic beverage diitllled from the juice of the maguey , or agave The liquor , so 'tis said , waa discovered by a Tolteo noble , who sent some of It to the king by the hand of his daughter. The morarch drank the pulque nnd looked at the maiden Whether the girl's looks gave pleamnter flavor to the liquor , or whether the taste ol the liquor irmdo the girl KCCIII the fairer , Is not certain ; the king , at any rate , fell In love with both , started a pulque plantation and married the girl , wlioao name , Xochltl , thus became associated with the national intoxlcanl The rest U easy. When General Scott's troops came to Mexico they drank the liquor , liked It aoid. with the easy adaptability of the fiaxon , simplified Ita Aztec name Into "cocktail , " which they carriei hack with them to the stairs I Htlr Chillier for Chicago Post They hod met again on thu bathing beach. "The last tlmo we mot , " ho f > ald reml nlecontly , "was on this game beach Jus about a jcar ago " "Do you think I have changed much sine then9" she asked "No" ho , replied , and then ho aililei thoughtfull ) "As I rupall you then an sen ) ou now there wasn't much-to change She hmnhe was right ton. but ehe sal ( ho was a mean thing , TlWr the name an very Impolite to make a y'tommeut upon Indy'n bathing milt For Infants anil Children. 'SILVER ' COATING JUSTICE Repainting nnd Impi'ovinsr the Dome of the County Court House PLAN ADOPTED FOR SCJKG THE HEIGHT \Vnrk lo HdiiK Dour In Hcmllncx * for Hit' Antiiuil IVnlli ltU" < lii- clili-iit ( o Mute 1'nlr Work. Dining the past fortnight workmen hae been engaged upon the dome of the county court house. The dingy Iron work which for jears has stood a prey to the elements Is rapidly assuming A bright appearance , which only new paint can lend to a structure. Under the deft hamln of the workmen the ornate edifice looks as though It had been granted a now lca e on life. 1'eoplo on the pavements who have watched the men as they clambered about upon the dome arc not Inclined to envy them their Jobs , The "human fly" and the tia- ueze performer may extract pleiaure from their respective vocations , but the average man likes to plant Ills feet on terra llrma and keep them there. When It Is taken Into consideration that the pscho knot of the god dess on the court house ream Itself junt 144 feet fiom the foundation line of the building , and that In addition to this the whole structure stands rome thirty feet above the street. It Is easily surmised that the dome painter's job has Its draw back In the form of danger. A scaffolding has been costt'itcted about the feet of Ml Ed Justice , and here upon this Izzy po'ch several men have been applying silver coating which will serve the bltnd- oldcd maiden as a winter garment. This ortlnn of the painting has practically been omnleted and the figure glistens In the sun 1th a brilliancy which was unknown to It nder the old coating of sanded paint. Many persons ns they have watched the mprovements from day to day have vvon- ercd what method was employed in getting lie Bcafoldlng In Its airy position , whether t vves safe , and how It could be taken down vhon the Job was completed. "That's the aslest part of the work , " said the super * Isor of the work. "It does look a little Ickllsh to a novice In the business , but It s all In gettlmg accustomed to It. In placing hose planks In position wo cmploed 11 lumber ot extension ladders , the lower ends f which rested upon the Iron veranda of the omc , a short distance from the point where t rises from the main roof. After uolnc as Ugh upon these ladders as possible , shorter ones are plated behind the t'males upon the ops of the columns , and these will bo found 0 reach pretty close to the base of the ngure FURNISHES A SAFfi STAGING "You will notice that a short distance be- ow the pedestal there are heavy Iron vrcaths secured to the four sides of the lome. Af'cr placing the cncltcling portion of the stage In place , we merely had to sup * lott It with a few short plet.es ot timber , the ends of which were placed upon the Inner lortlons of the wreaths. Wlum Lomplcted we found that the staging wah strong and that It was way ahead of the average as stagings go "Tne force of men under me have been working steadily for nearly two weeks The painting forms but a small poitloi of the indcrtaklng The iron vvotk composing the cornices about the main toof , and the dome , with Its countless scrolls and decorations , have not received a drop of paint since it was completed In 18S8. This speaks well for the min that did the Job We found , how ever , that It had healed ann warped In man > places , nnd It waa found necessary to scrape 1 great deal of the old coating off It Is liere that the hard and tedious work Is on corntercd. The painting , provided we are not visited by strong w nds , could easily be completed In a few dajs. The wind has de- laved u.s badl ) , as It is impceilblo to use the sand which given the iron a stone finish "It was at first suggested by the county commissioners that we gild the figure upon the top of the dome. Certain kinds of broit7b might have been used , but It does not stand the weather. It was at length decided to use the sliver color , not as Indi cative of the politics of the court house cm- | ) lees , but slmplv because It Is more dura ble Gold leaf , If u ed , would ] iave coat a largo amount of money , and In addition to this would not have been any longer lived than the gold wash The coating decided upon is composed largely of aluminum. It Is spiead upon a preparation of gold siring which makes It doubly Impervious to the tain and snow. 'Under our contract with the county com missioners we are obliged to have the job completed by .September 10 , In older that It may not Interfere with the putting In position of the electrical decorations for the fall festivities. We have gone over the building once with paint and sand and ex pect to put on the other coat about the last of this week. The Job will cost over $500. " ILLUMINATING THE BUILDING. The county commissioners have decided upon a plan for decorating the court house during the fall festivities. It will bo a little more elaborate than any of those of former jcars and will give a much better result Tor the dajtlme the decorations will be with bunting , which will be used In profusion The top of the balustrade surmounting the main cornice will b ° ar a profuyion of small flags , and streamers of Hags will extend from tbo dome to each corner of the building. Largo flags and bunting will be draped be low the main cornice on the north , east and west sides and festoons of bunting will be used wherevci the effect requires It. The electlic light decorations will be dif ferent from any heretofore placed on the building. The figure of Justice will haye a circle of twenty-live lights surrounding her head after the fashion of a halo This will throw a brilliant light over the entire figure , which will bo Increased by a row of light. about the base of the pedestal. The coinlce of the dome will earn another row of lights and the corner "ribs" of the same will each bo outlined by a row of lights. This will give a complete figure of the upper portion of the dome and beneath It the columns sup porting the coinlce will each bo decoiated with a vertical row of lights , thus outlining the entlte dome OB it will appear at night. The noith , east and west fronts of the building will each bo decorated with wet do- nlgns of tasty appearance. The north front will bo maiKed by a waving Hag ahovvn In coloied lights , the folds of "Old Glory" be ing represented by 450 five-candle power lamps of appropriate colors Thlc design will be 7x12 feet nnd may be seen from any part of the city lying to the north. The west fiont will carry a i evolving wheel hav ing seventy lights. On the east will ho a largo star of ninety lights. The figure of Justice will not bo trans formed Into a Goddess of Liberty by drap Ing It with the national colors , as waa done last year , but will stand forth as the person ification of even-handed Justice , bearing the sword and scales and Illumined by the halo. Custards Oakes For Puddings , , and Blanc-Mange EV9cGREW IB TIIK ONLY SPECIALIST WHO T1IKAT AlJj Private Diseases Wtilim > DJ DUordir of MEN ONLY SOYWaKxpnrlence lOYenrtluUimitia 4 * ook hroo. ( > m nllB- $ * tionFieo , Uoiidfl.oi 14ta and Ftra&m Btt , OM.UIA. FRUU for the nsklnB I MISS PARUOA'S HOOK 01' KUCIPHS COMPANY'S > ? ? Extract of Beef 1 JII 3 furlon recommend * nnd ti ci thl * fn- inom jinnlnct In r-clf. Aii'l to do lots of good ' cooks nil 'round tin u nrld. ' AiMrci > frtrcooHbookUclitRCo.r O.ltot i 371S. New York , N.Y. - - - . DUFFY'8 PURE MALT WHISKEY All Druggists. 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Specialists In tie.itment of Chronic , Nervous and Piivate Diseases , uiul nil UlJAKM-Si MEM uiul U'M1IIKS of SViEfJ IIYDItOCI anu VAIUCOCUI. ! . peunanontli and succtsafully cured In tvcry case 1UX3OD ANU > KIN UlsenatB , faores bpots , Pimples , Scrofula , Tumors. Tetter , Hczemi anil Blood 1'olson thoroughly cleniittd liom tha ? > stem - tem NI3UVOUS Debility , Spermatorrhei , Semlml losses. Nlffht IJmlsslonB , Loss of Vital 1'OHCrs peimunently and ppeedllj cured \ \ i\ic MIV ( Vitality \VeiU ) , mule so Ijj too close nppll- citlon to business or study ; bevere mental strainer or Brief ; S13XUAL nXcnSSKS In middle life or from the effects of vouthful follies. Call or write them toil ly. IJox 277. Oinaua Meilic.il . and Surgical Institute \UW HOITSt NI3W Ol'l'OHTUMTinS ! l.A.MJ OK bUN&III.M : AMI IM.UVI'Yt 3111,11 CIilMATU TRUTHi : SOU , A.M1 OIIUAt > I.A.M1S ! The biilMlng of th < s Kansas City , rittsbure x. ttulf Itallroad , nn air llnu from Kunsua City to 1'ort Arthur , has opened up n country In west ern Missouri and . \rl.aneab and Louisiana that cannnt be t-xcclled uu an liyrkiilluial uinl fruit glowing countiy , toor | , healthy , cpirkllni ; Bprlnss and clear Btrcams , vvhtro sou can work out of doom 12 months Instead uf six. the houlhern and Koupoit terinltius , Is the best place In the United htateu today to Invest or to K Into bublncss 'lliiuuKh pibscncer trains leave Kansas City for Tort Arthur dally htudy the nmp nnd } ou will iiKreo a large city must bo built at I'ort Arthur , nearest seaport In KaiihaH t'lty by too miles Tut this out nnd mall In nd'lress IK low and reu Ivu line Illustrotrd parnptilcta. r. A. iiiiiMii ( : ( ic , Land Commissioner K C , 1' . Si U , U. It. mid CKneral Manager 1'nrt Atlhur Town- site Compan ) , K'lnsas City , Mo Knylltb I'lauojiil Hniad. Orlffln l and Onlf Ucnulnc * Arc , ftlwtji rtUttu LADIES ik llruiplil far r icA. l.r * , Ji'l ' , Ilia nil /Jrant tHn Uril and l.wW l . ! ] lu liluo ribbon uuolbrr. fti/uil tltittytrtnit t Honiand imitation * Al DruxfElill , or MO * . lo lUmii fur ntrtUuUrl IfitlnooUU > ui "llrllrr for t.uA\n. \ " tnlilU' , tij rrlara Mcll. 10,0011 fc.ilmool.li itMi . , _ Sold ball Ls-v Drucliti I-IIII , VI'A. . 1' Ui IligU for uunaturU Irritation * ur ulcerktlou of la a o u a lueiutiranei. l' ! al > , i'l not kilrln. ltHlE mCHlUiOlCo * " " PoUonoui. -l MoliI hj IiruffltU , 'or ttut in plain wr pj < r. tr sprnii , fitpuld , fat IMC. or 1 celllu , 12.70 , Circular WOOD BUR Y'S V V/V1 UU Al A kJ - COvlr-MXION. WHEN TRAVELING HERE IS WHERE YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES BOSTON. I'ulillc I.lli.-nrj. V'ciiiloiiic llulcl. BUFFALO. ( Iciicuce llutrlIVVK Stntul. BILLNGS W. iriT. BUTTE Itcrfc l William X CHEYENNE. 1C. A. I > OKIIII , (1lit > ) t > iniv > ! llonot. ' ( 'luon iu > Cluli. CHCAGO. 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