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601FAAIMENT OFFICESAT KUALA LUMPUR
(Copyright, 1910, by Wank O. Carpenter.)
INUAPORE, 1910.-(Speclal Cor-
Sl responaence ol The nee.) 1 want
I to tell you of the new move-
jiii-iim nmung me aiaiays. A
generation ago this peninsula
was savage and the country
Jungle. It had neither roads nor railroads,
there wore no renting places for travelers
and the wilderness was Inhabited chiefly
by wild beasts and wild men. Todav the
English have taken hold of It and are mak
ing It blossom like the Irrigated lands of
our- irew w est. They have brought order
out of chaos, and are building roads and
railroads, establishing schools and laying
out towns. In the Federated Malay states,
which contain something like 1,000,000 In
habitant, more than 600 miles of rail
ways have been built and more than 3,000
miles of cart roads and bridle paths. There
are hotels at the capitals and outside
them new government rest houses, where
travelers can stay overnight. Thirty-five
years ago the people of the country had
never seen a postage stamp. Today the
post offices are handling more than
10,000,000 pieces of mall every year, and the
post office savings banks have deposits
running into the hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
I. arts, Courts and Schools.
The population Is rapidly Increasing. It
has more than doubled since the English
took hold, and It is being transformed from
savagery to civilization.
The laws have been established and
courts have been established. There Is
a good police force, and the British gov
ernment ha a battalion of Sikhs, known
as the Malay States Guard, who keep ex
cellent order. Schools have been started,
hospitals erected and public works of var
ious kinds are well under way.
In the state of Perak more than 13) miles
of canals and Irrigation ditches have been
dug, and at the close of last year In the
neighborhood of 100,000 acres of rubber trees
had been planted. There are now some
thing like 20,000,000 such trees on the var
ious farms, and tens of thousands will be
set out this year. The forests are being
exploited, mines opened and the country
prospected for tin, silver and gold. From
one slate alone as much as $80,000,000
worth of tin has been taken, and In all
something like 12,000 ounces of gold are
mined every year. In addition they are
finding lead, Iron and copper, as well a
mercury, bismuth, sliver and sine. The
country Is said to be very rich, but no
one knows yet what It contains, although
a rude sort of mining has been going on
for ages. The Malays are noted for their
work In the "precious metals," and the
sultans of the past -had goldsmiths and
carvers of silver, Ivory and wood. Some
of them demanded gold and silver trees
and flowers us a part of their annual
tribute, and the Malay spears and krises
nhild with gold have always been noted.
Malays of the I'enlnanla.
Hut before I go further let me tell you
homuthlng about tha Malays as they live
here In their own home on the tip end
of Asia. They are the first cousins of
our Flliplnons and belong to the race
which has overrun the Dutch Kast Indies.
There are something like 25,000,000 of them
In Java, a largo number In Borneo, and
millions In' the Philippine islands. The
natives here are better looking than the
Short Sharp Snap Shots Selected from
lie lVaa Used to Them.
fNCOLN," said a veteran Chicago
Journalist, "used to laugh skep
tleally over that scurrilous book.
Mi-.. Trollopu's Travels In
America.'
"Lincoln used to say that if
Mrs. Trollope's book were true, then the
story of the senator and thn plaice wi.i
gospel.
"Thl. story Lincoln ofltm told it-was
about a certain senator to whom a Wash
ington hostess said at dinner:
Senator, what kind of fish do yoj
prefer V
" 'Plaice, madam, thank you,' the sen
ator answered politely.
"A gentleman on the other side of the
room then said, with a loud laugh:
" 'Oh, senator, still a pluce hunter, eh?"
" 'What's that to you. you dern
strangerr exclaimed the senator, Indig
nantly, and, whipping out his revolver,
he shot the punster dead.
"Put afterwards, when the Joke was
explained to him, the senator had a good
laugh, and confessed that lie hd been
rather hasty; and. Indeed, to show that
he bore the humorist no lasting grudge,
ho. went to th. man', funeral." Chicago
Journal.
Muramn'a Tale of a Minister.
J. Pterpmt Morgan, at th. recent dio
cesan convention In New York, amused a
group of clergymen with a story of a min
uter. "II. was as ignorant, this good man, of
financial matters," said Mr. Morgan, "as
the average financier Is ignorant of mat
ters ecclaalastlcal.
"He one. received a check the first h.
had ever got In his llCand took It to
bank for payment.
" 'But you must endorse the check,' Mid
. th. paying teller, returning It through his
little window.
"'Endois. itr said the old minister, in
a pui.led tuna.
" 'Yes, of course. It must b. endorsed
on th. back.'
" 'I see.' said th. minister. And, turn
British Are Developing a Jungle and
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Moros, but they have the same Brown
skin, the same sturdy form and swaggering
ways. They are clean-limbed, welt mode
and by no means bad looking. ..
Down here at the straits they dress In a
bag-like skirt known as the sarong, above
wblch Is a jacket which falls to their
hlp. The sarong reaches from the waist
to the calf; It Is a gray-figured calico bag,
often of plaid, which Is open at both
top and bottom, and Is of the save wldthi
throughout. When the Malay puts on hi
clothes, he steps Into his bag, raises Its
top to his waist and by a twist of the
wrist, fastens It there In a knot. Under
the bag he may wear calico drawers, or if
poor be may be naked. The rich wear
pantaloons of bright colors or white
duck, but the sarong Is always over the
rest of their clothing. It seems to be the
badge of the race, as are also the hand
kerchief turban and sandals or slippers.
Here at the Straits of Malacca the
Malays have been contaminated by for
eigners. The Europeans have taught them
to drink and through the Chinese they
have become opium smokers. They are
not so good consequently as the people of .
the wilds. They are naturally lazy and
have become the loafers of this part of
the world. Some of them act as coachmen
for the rich Chinese or Europeans. Others
do light work about the towns, and a few
live iu villages scattered over the Islands,
laboring only enough to keep soul and
body together. Now and then one meets
a rich Malay from the mainland, the son
of an official or perhaps a sultan, but as
a rule the Malays of the straits are shift
less and poor and they grow worse off
every year.
Federated States.
If one would see the race at Us best he
should go to the peninsula and travel
through the British stales. There are
other provinces belonging to Slam and
Johore where the progress is by no means
so great, but in the federated states he will
find towns which have sprung up In the
Jungle and public buildings equal to those
of Japan and India.
But first let me tell you what these
states are. If you will take your map of
Asia and look at the Malay peninsula, you
will see that It begins on the equator and
runs 1,000 miles or so northward, the upper
part belonging to Slam. About four or five
hundred mlhs from the straits these British
possessions begin. At the top Is Perak, not
as big as New Jersey, and farther down
the coast, Selangor and Negri Sembllan,
which combined, are of about the same
size as Perak, while east of them lies the
big province of Puhang, which is almost as
large as Massachusetts and New Jersey
combined. The four states altogether have
more than 26.000 square miles, or about 2,00)
more than West Virginia.
Each state la ruled by a native sultan
with a British official as resident adviser.
The sultan Is merely a puppet and the
Britisher pulls the string. Under the sultan
are numerous native officials, the most of
whom have English agents to help them,
the whole government being similar to
what the Dutch have in Java. The com
mon people think they are ruled by Malays,
but the better classes know that the British
are the real power behind every office and
that John Bull Is king.
These sultans live In great state. Their
uniforms are decorated wltli gyld leaf. They
have gold-hllted swords, and when they
go abaut they have servanta who carry
gorgeous umbrellas to shield them from
ing the check over, he wrot. across th.
back of It:
" 'I heartily endorse this check. "Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
A Good, Straight Lase,
President Taft has Just reappointed
Franklin K. Lane for a full term on the
Interstate Commerce commission, showing
that President Taft knows a good Lane
when he sees him. President Roosevelt
put Lane on the commission in the first
place to fill out an unexpired term, and
put him on at Just the time when the
Hepburn bill came along and the Inter
state Commerce commission was galvan
ized Into acute and arbitrary action. Lane
arrived from California, grabbed hold with
both hands and has been one of the most
valuable, clear-headed, far-seeing and
hard-working members the commission
ever had.
Ther. are those who think a government
Job lay a snap, says a writer In the Satur
day Journal. 6ome of them are, but mot
of them are not. The men who ar. put
In the Judicial and executive positions In
th. service of this generous government
which is said wth all fingers crossed
the generous part of lt. I mean work
harder than any set of men of similar
aOilllty In the wide world. It is a great
and a dignified honor to be a Justice of
the supreme court of th. United States.
Also, It I. a Job of work that keeps the
great and dignified Justices laboring by
day and by night nearly all th. time.
So with th. Interstate Commerce com
mission. Sine, our paternal executives be
gan regulating th. railroads th. work that
has been piled on th. Interstate Commerce
commission Is appalling. Ther. will be a
switching case, for example, with a prin
ciple involved, and along will com. a few
mile, of opinion and a few tons of brief,
and. after sitting all day listening to
dreary talk about preferential and dif
ferentials, and all that. ther. ar. nights
and nights of dull toll, searching through
books, construing opinion., examining evi
dence and doing a dosen dispiriting and
d.adly task. Work? Why, th. member.
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the sun. They have as retainers, men with
spears and swords, and the common people
bow down to the ground In their honor,
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British. The taxes are levied and collected
under the direction of the British, and the
revenues are expended as they prescribe,
In Koala Lumpur.
The chief city of these states Is In Sel-
tngor. it is Kuaia Lumpur, and It has
population of about 40000 people. It is
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government are. although the states are
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Lumpur may be reached by Bteamer from
Singapore and by rail from the coast. It
He. some distance inland, and has rail
roads connecting It with the other states.
The town has magnificent government of
fices, several clubhouses, a hotel and num-
erou. stores It 1. In a rich tin mining dls-
ir.cl. ana nas a large population ol Chi-
nese. wno are euner intcrestea in or work
In the mines.
Outside the city plantations of coffee,
pepper and cocoa have been started and
me .iace nas recently oeen granted landB
on special terms for the planting of sago,
pepper, gammer and rubber. '
of the Inter.tat. Commerce commission
work all the time.
Lane wa. born In Prince Edward Island,
but wa. moved to California so soon after
that event that, if one Is not too critical
about It, one ran almost say he Is a born
California. In any event, he Is a real
Callfornian, whether he was born there
or not. Is the Pacific coast representative
on the commission, and one of the biggest
men, Intellectually, we have in our pulsat
ing governmental midst.
Lane is smooth and round, sort of
cherubic. His face Is round, hi. head i.
round and not embarrassed with any too
much hair; his chest is round everything
about him Is round. He Is a student, a
worker, an Impressive orator, a corking
after-dinner speaker, a pleasant com
panion and a big lawyer. A lot of tha
multitudinous and Intricate work of the
commission falls to him, and he handles It
skillfully and expeditiously.
Th. Pop sad III. Friend.
The pope remember, old friends and
when he know, that some person he Is
acquainted with Is In Rome he never rails
to grant an audience, reports the New
York Sun. A few days ago a sailing vessel
from Malta was shipwrecked on the Roman
coast. Four men of the crew were drowned
and the remaining seven swam ashore and
were rescued with great difficulty by some
shepherds.
The master and mate were Injured and
they wer. conveyed to one of th. hospitals
in Rome. The pope read about th. ship
wreck In th. newspapers and th. name of
one of th. men sounded familiar to him.
"I think that I must hav. known this
man called Rugler In Venice, where he
used to com. on a schooner from Malta."
said th. pop. to his secretary, "and I
would Ilk. to see him."
An audleno. was arranged and Rugler.
th. mate, went up to th. Vatican. Th.
pop. kept him over an hour In his private
library, heard th. story of th. shipwreck
and presented him with, a gold medal.
"I saw your hollnes. n Venice one,
years ago." said th. mate.
TITE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAECII
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The government consist, of th. sultan,
his highness Tllah-El-Dln-Sulelman-Shah,
and the British resident, II. Conway Bel-
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"nu, incio id a wunuu ui biio tunnci-icu
wmi mem anu mere are aopuraie unices
for the secretary of Chinese affairs, for
lands, mines, revenue, treasury and public
works. The English clerks number several
hundred, and In addition there are other
rnnMLrripi'a pnraPMi In mining n nil ..nnrt.
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The town ' has a Dark, a native bazar
and ft gambling farm licensed by the state,
xne uritisn cimm that the Chinese will
gamble anyhow, and ,that the best way to
resinct ins vice ana to maKe money out
of lt is to tax lt.
Gambllng and Opium
Sir Frank Swettenham,
ettenham, who was the
of the country for a long
at tha nmhllnv hahlt 1.
resident general
while, claims that
lneradlcable amonR Uoui Malay, and
Chneiie and that lt woul(J lake one po.
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says the Malay rulers object to having
public' gambling forbidden, and that they
refuse to give up the revenues wh.ch come
from lt. According to law. gambling Is
now licensed only In places and In build
lngs approved by the police, and that
"To be sure," answered the pope. "I
remenrbered your name and the vow you
told me about, the vow you made when
you were shipwrecked once before. Do
you .till keep It?"
"Yes, your holiness, and I have Increased'
lt now," answered the man.
He then told the pope that he ascribed
the rescue to a repetition of the old vow,
namely, that he would fast on bread and
water twice every week for tho rest of
his life.
"But you already fasted twice every
week for the other vow and now you will
have to eat bread and water on four days
our of seven," exclaimed the pope, then h.
added: "You are on old man nnd'lt Is cruel
to starve youralf, so I prohibit you from
keeping both vows."
The seaman expostulated. He said a
bargain was a bargain, and as God had
saved his life he was bound to fulfill hi.
promises. The pop. Insisted. He tried
to convince the seaman that the vow was
not binding, as lt was too hard for a man
of his age, but realizing that It wss useless
to argue the point he had a regular brief
of dispensation drawn out there and then,
signed and sealed lt In the form and he
handed tl to the seaman, saying:
"If you do not obey this you w.U be ex
communicated, and 4hls exempts you from
fasting."
The seaman then bowed his head and
promised to obey.
Only a Piece of Coral.
The two men bad not met for years. The
man from out of town looked the other
man over.
"Sam. old Jim," he said. "Awfully glad
to se. you again. Strang, how such old
friends will drift apart. 80 you're married T'
The other man nodded.
'Three years ago.".
"Well. well. And I never heard of It
until I met Jack Ranslm last week. -What's
that?"
He was still studying th. other man's
appearance and his eye caught sight of a
segment of coral that dangled from his
friend's watch fob. II. lifted It and looked
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within certain hours. Tl la nrovlded that
U must be for ready money and in th. halls
open to all. The players are nearly all
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iim.iib. i ne men wno own tne gamDiing
nouses aia in tne suppression or lotteries,
The opium curse is handled In about
the same way
the gambling. It is
farmed out to the highest bidder and he
alone has the right to deal In raw opium
ann tn m.k. I In , . Knnn in wnlh
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it is usd for smoking. With the con-
sent of tha envarnmant ha rival nut
licenses for the sale of this stuff and sells
it at the price fixed by his contract. A
chest of Indian opium costs about $760
and upward. When it is turned into
chandu it Is worth $2,600 and perhaps
.000 So, you see. ther. Is a big profit
In th. business. The sellng of liquors
! rmed out the same way, as Is also
pawnbroking. It may be questionable
whether such thlnirs are rrariltiihla In a
Christian government. They seem a blot
on the Brltl.h administration, which Is
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Mates Without Debts.
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xne leueralea siaies . ; are among me
few colonies of the world which have no
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spend every year and none of them owas
Several
at It mors closely. The surface of th. coral
was roughened by slight Indentions.
"Some sort of token, eh?" he rattled on.
"You always wa. a great chap for picking
up worthies, trifle.. That's a queer charm."
He looked up and caught sight of the other
man', face. "Why, I beg your pardon,
Jim," he cried.
"That', all right," said the other man, a
little unsteadily "Only, you see, the boy
whose teeth made those marks he was
nearly 2 died last summer." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Attorney. Aa-reedwlth th. Court.
A lawyer came Into court drunk, when
the Judge said to him:
"Sir, I am sorry to see you In a situation
which Is a dlsgrac. to yourself and family
and the profession to which you belong."
This reproof elicited the following col
loquy :
"Did your honor speak to me?"
"I did. I said, sir, that, in my opinion,
you disgraced yourself and family, the court
and the profession by your course of con
duct." ,
"May I I It please your honor, I have
been an attorney In In In this c-court for
fifteen years, snd, permit me to say, your
honor, that this is the first correct opinion
I ever knew you to glv.." Dundee Ad
vertlser. Too Much Ilnetle.'
Senator Tillman, dl.cusslng railway
wrecks, said:
"There Is. I think, too much hustle, too
much hurry, about some of our railroads.
This hustle, when we turn to th. year's
unpardonable casualties, seems as Inde
cent ss th. SI Taylor case.
"At 81 Taylor's funeral th. doctor and
th. undertaker wer. conversing in low
tones.
" Too bad,' said th. undertaker, that
poor Si's wife wasn't with him when
he passed away. How did It happen T
" 'Mr a Taylor,' th. doctor whispered,
was uptown at th. time ordering her
mourning outfit.'
"Th. undertaker, with a bitter amUe,
turned away to supervise th. funeral pro
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TH &UWD'OFTHt SULTAN
f Cent f amounts Singapore, says that he hns to Ket China,,
to something ike $15,000,000 and It. ex- coolie, to do hi. work, for his own nwn
penditure. are less than $10,000,000. Selanger will not labor
takes in over $10,000,000 per annum and It I have visited some of the M.lay vll
cost, only about $7,000,000 to run the .tate. lages. Their houses are scattered about
Nlgrl Sembllan ha. receipt, of UM.00O under the tree, near the wJo",.
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yrt n th9 of lts development,
i rM lovemmoms ar manaird for th
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people aiid the money raised goes back to
tnsm.
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, The new railways are almost self-.up-
porting. Their receipt, last year were
nd th0lr P,nIlturl JUB bout
1100.000 more. This, in connection with th.
VT.hK,.Wh!,Ch thy bU'Wlnff ,nd
Ui. fact that railroad, are practically new
to the country. 1. surprising. The customs
receipts last year brought In over $12,000,000
and license, almost $5,000,000, th. latter
be nt largely made up farm gambling,
opium and pawnbroklng receipts. The gov-
.rnment spent last year over $5,000,000 on
public works, and it Is encouraging the
development of the country along the lines
of agriculture. In all the colonies planta-
, ilons are being set out and large aurlcul-
tural estates started. I have before me
a list of those now under operation In
Selangor. They embrace such crops as
rubber, coffe., oocoanuts. cloves and pep-
per and they ar. largely owned by syndl-
cates and other associations. Many of the
estates are of 1,000 acres, and some of
10,000 and 20.000 acres each.
Among th. chief crops of the Malays are
Tlce and cocoanuts. The Chinese grow
sugar, ana the government has started pep- Pm". ana betel boxes for the lime.
Per plantations, and there are many good ,eaves nd nuts. Some high officials bare
Pepper farms. The British have also Intro- thelr chewing molds girls who carry abont
duoed silk worms and have expended large thn batel Beta er th. delicious ma
urns on th. introduction of Arabian coffee, terta,s to them from time to time preset
rubber and tea, as well as cinchona. Th. 'nB tha Mttoona t Intervals.
elnchona failed, but th. tea and coffee suo- '" V
ceeded, and eventually plantations of this -,K Malar Women,
kind will be set out. I have already writ- Tnes Malay", like our Moros, r Mtx
ten as to rubber. Many of the new plan- n"nois. They study th. Koran. keer
tatlons are of para trees, which begin to ean' and lf ther afford It hare)
yield a profit of $100 per acre per annum at "vJ'al wlvea- Th tf-'is re especially fin.
seven years and which should produce $J00 look,nr They have light brown skins,
per acre at fourteen years. It is estimated haJr and bea"U'ul yes. TheiF
that when the trees are 20 years old the
oroflts win h. rm n. n..
tree, grow well and yield abundantly At
19 year. old. one recently rave tw.ntv.flv
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pounds of rubber at a single tapping. That
tree was ninety feet high, and nt three
feet from the ground it had a girth of
elghty-elght feet.
At present the planters find It har.i in r.t
laborers. The Malays are not anxious to
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been neceamiry to go to India to find work-
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here In large numbers and seem to thrive.
Drones of the Orleut.
Indeed. I doubt whether any clviliza-
tlor. Will malra tha e.Hl.h! .
lndlMrtriou. man. Thl, Is true of the Philip-
Dlnc.. and vou will find faw ,..v
among the Malays of the straits nettlements
of the Dutch East Indies. These people do
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style and to give a feast when their chll-
dren are married. Their needs are few.
and when supplied they lay off until want
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comes. Some of the rulers tall me thev
cannot get their own subjects to work their
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iniuunuunB ana ui. suitan or joiiorp. whn
governs the state of the mainland ODDoslte
Sources for Sundav
cession.
" 'Hold on, gentlemen; this won't do,'
h. said sternly. 'Where Is the sixth pall
bearer?' " 'He's upstairs,' another pallbearer ex
Plained, 'proposing to th. wldder.' "New
York Times.
Dellarhtfal Limelight Man.
Forbes Robertson, at a dlhner in New
York, praised the American critical sense.
"But," be said, sighing, "Isn't your crit
icism in Its clarity and directness too cruel
sometimes?
"I remember a brother actor who played
on. night In a .mall western town. At
the climax of th. third act of hi. play
th. limelight wa. always thrown upon
him. In this town, however, the lime
light man shot th. light nln. or ten feet
to th. left and lt was from the blackest
shadow that my friend had to make hi.
best speech.
"Naturally, at the end of the act he In
dignantly asked the limelight man why
the deuce the light hadn't been thrown
where it belonged.
" 'Fly In the way,' the limelight man
answered, biting a chew from a plug of
tobacco.
" 'Why didn't you move the fly, then?
shouted my friend.
" The limelight man rolled his tobacco
to the other cheek, looked at my friend
dreamily and drawled as he turned on his
heel:
" 'If y. could set, I guess ye wouldn't
wsnt no limelight.' "St. Louis Ulobe
Democrat. For Fetched.
George F. Martin, the tobacco expert,
said, as h lit a Havana cigar:
"W. Americans should b. thankful for
our tobacco. It Is the best and th.
cheapest In th. world. I hav. Just re
turned from London, and ther. I found
that a shilling cigar scarcely equaled an
Amsrioan nickel one.
"Th. Londoners ar. Indifferent about
their tobacco Indifferent and blase Ilk.
an omnibus conductor I saw In Oxford
D
a Nation
,r"ia of bamboos or boards with thatch
of ralm leaves. The average hou.. ha.
nniv rn
j v...,. w inn luuiiin, m 6 DOODla nt1n
or sleeping where th. cooking is dons!
Thai i, i ... i. -
nutiini iiirnuure is an Iron can
and a cocoamit lurti. ..u "
for their soups and stews The bed Is a
mat spread on the floor, 'and the famllv
sprawl there t full length wh 1. re. Un
Th8 peop'8 of th8 'n"-'or 'v. not 'un'i
the poorer classes of our PhllilPDlns Is.
lands, and their customs are much the
same. Nearly every one chews th. betel
nut. and men. women and children smok.
cigarettes and cigars. I have seen clrls
of five and sir with .V.I
mouths, and the babies are taught to
smoke by the time they are able to crawl
As to the betel habit, this is universal'
It consists of chewing the nut of th.
Arepa palm mixed with tobacco and lime
As tha people chew they .pit. and their
saliva is the color of blood. The habit
turns the teeth Muck, swells th. tongu.
nd P"s out tlm lip. and makes them
crack. The chewing is said to take ay
hunger and fatigue, and th. habit ono.
acqlred Is seldom broken. I se. old women
pounding the nuts to a powder, that they
mair masticate them between their tootU-
,es" """"is. The better classes have bet.!
. T" " "lc""w lo e Hat. bat thel
tootn Ua pearls where thv nn
b8tel onw,rB' they have high for-
nca0!l anJ Wd faces. Many hav. small
ven'mtm unA T 1 . ...
""" wun square toes.
They are sometimes married nt 14.
hut
tlle more common age Is from 17 to 20. Th
parents arrange the marriages, and the
wpdt,lnB" Is long, tedious and e
xpenslve.
edalnB' presents are usually in
mnnov
and it la expected that every guest will
.
what he can.
After the marrlarn tha in.i,..j
?uentlr leve" " if with her parents
..rii monms, and then takes her
home. He is expected to have one hou-o
for snr-h u1fk I, i ...
each of his four wlva- I,iu . V.
" . . . rUr WlVM a,lk. to dlvld.
ZZ f. LlTtT """T " 1,9
? . P.' 'flPnt to "e- ,ie ought to give
does tZrT'? . ther''' 'nd " he
Divorce L L .
w,,urc" 18 lUIte as easy In Malnvala on
'S i0"-' Mohammedan land,, but the
.V - Ba 11,0 ri,fnt own
"""n io iree het
herself from her hi,n,.a
si
Shn naeH nnl ,.,ni. .
mav ma, i T L a"- "V"
are to a wtaln im i T WOm011
iw u a ceirain extent Indcnendent Mi
nf th,.m JI L r"""1.
. 'r i.usoanas, and Hi some
of
mo states offices with salaries are given
1.
iTf.. 01 tno cou'-t -,
HA NIC G. CARPENTEJnV T
street. You know the London omnibus.
It Is a double-decker. If you .ft h.,n
top you must go up and down by a Jvry
teep stair.
"Well, tills blase conductor pulled up
his bus at Regent circus, and th. ladle,
bound for Peter Robinson's eagerly got
out. But one fat lady, who had been sit
ting on top, came down the steep and
winding stair very slowly. Her skirt
flapped around her ankles, and at every
step she stopped and thrust It carefully
down. The conductor waited with a bored
expression, his hand on the bell rope, but
he kwt patience when the fat lady stopped
for the fifth or sixth time to thrust down
her billowing skirt, and he burst out ea
gorly: " 'Now, then, lydy, 'uny, cahn't yout
Figgers ain't no treat to me.' "Minneap
olis Journal.
An Unseen Bounce.
A certain Episcopal clergyman In West
Philadelphia received a most Inhospitable
reception the other night when he went to
call on a member of his vestry. The vestry
man In question was alone In the house, the
servants being out. when he heard a ring
t the bell. Going down stairs he found
an Intoxicated negro, who demanded money
for a drink. Highly incensed, the vestryman
went back upstairs, after ordering tha
man away, but hardly had he stated him
self when the bell rang for a second time.
A second visit to the door found the same
negro back again, and the vestryman, thor
oughly aroused, seUed the offender by the
shoulder and pushed his down tie steps.
While all this was going on the clergy
man was walking down the street, and a
fnw minutes later had mounted the s!m
of his vestryman', house and runtf tV
bell. He .toad with his back to tbe cixj,
when suddenly, to his astonishment, th.
portal flew open, a man rushed out and
he received a most painful kick, sending
him flying down the slippery steps. jt
required a lot of explanation and apology to
close th. breach caused by the Inoldent
Th. clergyman and Ms vestryman ar. still
on rather cool t.rrna.
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