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An Immense Expenditure ofLabOr.

An Immense Expenditure ofLabor.
have visited it again and again and I
feel with the Russian artist who said, 1.-THE
Tai is like lovely woman. Abuse her as
you please, but the moment you come into
her presence you submit to her fascination. E"
The tomb is almost as perfect to-day as it
was when it was built. 1t took q, 600 men
II years to build it. The average life of
Ian in Iadia is fraction over 80 years.
Estimating this life az g., years instead of
30 the work upon the Tai emblsees Just TO-
900 lives. These 20, 900 workmsn got only
their food for their labors. An allowance
of corn was given to them and their over
seers cheated them in the delivery of it. It
was the same with the other grand strue-
lures of the time.
Within a mile of the Tai, in very good
preservation, there now stands an immense
fort, the walls of which are 20 feet high and
of red sandstone, carved so beautifully that
they would honor any Fifth avenue resi-
dence, enclosed in a space equal to four
farms of $40 acres each. This fort was
built by the Emperor Akbar, and its interior
is filled with grand palaces, in which the
ladies of the harem reveled in cloth of gold
add shone in priceless diamonds. The Tai
cost about SIS, ,0o0, 600, which in the purchas-
ing power of the time of Queen Elizabeth in
India must have been worth at least ten
times as much as it is to-day. The fort cost
countless millions more. Its palaces had
interiors walled with diamonds and emer-
aids, and the King who built the Tai had
peacock throne which blazed with rubies,
sapphires and emeralds at the back, in the
form of q peacock's tail, and with stones so
set that they resembled the natural colors Of
the birds feathers.
This throne alone represents 8 value of
over $50, 900, 900, and his land revenues
amounted to 500, ,OOo, 900 a year. The kings
of his time took one-third of the produce of
the land, and the total revenues of the
father of this man were $3.50, ,000, 900 per
annum. The e1travagancies of these times
are unrivaled in history, but it was only
the kings who were rich. The people were
as poor then as they are to-day. and the
curse of poverty seems to have ever hung
over the Indian peasant.
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F: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
!: CHARLES PRICE, ALIAS OLD PATCH,
ROGUE, swINDLER AND FoReER,

I bought the book for the small sum Of
twopenee and took it home. 1t proved to
be very entertaining, though the picture it
gave of immortality in London century
ago was appalling. The author signed
merely his initials, as if he had been 10th to
lend his name to such chronicle of crime.
The illustrations are copper plate engrav-
ings of a rough order, and few of them are
reproduced here. At one time all this great
city rang with the fame of Old Patch. He
was master thief. The burglar or conf
denee man of to-day has not half the skill
of this great Charles Price. 1t would take
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
CHASING A CAMERA.

A Photographer Pursued by a Pennsylvania
Railroad Locomotive.
Philadelphia Record,I
Ifhe work of the Pennsylvania Railroad
IN placing distractions in the path of the
proposed Belt Line Railroad at the Old
Navy Yard has been observed BY the Belt
Line Company through the agency of pho
togrspher and his camera for several days.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania men awoke to
his presence and whenever the photographer
got his camera in position to take shot at
the workmen Pennsylvania Railroad engi-
neer and freight car were showed directly
in front of the camera to destroy the view.
All day the engine and car were chasing
the photographer, but his camera was much
more agile than the locomotive.
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them in the hut, and some of the family u.s.
ually sleep under the overhanging roof in
front of the door. Going through Benares
in the early morning saw perhaps 500 peo-
pie thus sleeping in front of as many huts
They had no bedelothes under them and
none over them. Women and men were w.
ing with their knees up to their chins
wrapped in the same cotton garments they
had worn during the daytime. Others were
crawling from their beds and STOPPING over
the smoldering Goals which their wives
had just lighted. Squalor was everywhere
and dirt was king.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Hindoo Banks and Bankers.

This condition of affairs exists in South
ern as we'll as in Northern India, and I
found at Singapore and in Burmah emf
grants from Madras who looked quite as
thin and who had come there to better their
wages. Many of these were Killings. Lean,
black men, half naked, with long hair hang
ing down upon their shoulders-they do the
work of Ceylon and of many OF the islands
of the Indian Ocean. They are bright and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Living in Little Mud Huts.

waking of the town population of India
Only j man in 20 lives in q town of
over &c, 900 inhabitants. The other 19 per-
rSons live in,villages and these little collec-
tions of mud huts are scattered all over the
country. No one lives on the land he eul-
Ivates, and the farms are without fences
and are in large tracts divided up into lit
tie fields, the extent of which can be seen
by the low irrigsting walls and by the diff
ference in the colors of crops. These viii
lages are built entirely of mud. The huts
are from to Is feet square. Their roofs are
thatched with straw or with thin brick tiles
and there are no chimneys.
The babies in many cases wear no cloth
ing, and the dress of the remainder of the
family of five could be made out of three
ordinary sheets The smoke gets out of the
hut as best it can, and there is absolutely
nothing cheering about the house. The
floor is Of mud, and the walls are unplas-
tered. The family have no chairs, and thev
SQUAT on the ground at their meals. The bed
is either the floor or a network of ropes
stretched Oh a frame of wood with legs
which raise it two feet from the floor. 1t is
usually about four feet long and three feet
wide, and the man who sleeps upon it must
either hang his legs over the end or lie
doubled up.
During the daytime the beds are stood
out Of doors, because there is no room for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

senior dresser, who has been many years
with Her Majesty. is specially charged with
the task OF conveying orders to different
Observation-Disclosures. drapers, dressmak-
ers, etc.; one dresser and one wardrobe wo-
man are in constant attendance on the
Queen, taking alternate days.
Dress is matter in which, even in her
young days, Her Majesty does not appear to
have taken much interest At present her
perpetual mourning allows OF no crude color
combinations. Some of US elders have o
pleasant, if vague, recollection of Victoria
Regina good many years ago, say 40 or 4S;
In very simple and becoming bonnet tied
beneath the chin, wreath of wild roses un-
der the brim framing sweet, kindly young
face All mel sorrow and experience have
writ their cruel marks on hers and ours
since then.
PRESENTATION ETIQUETTE.
If fadmitted to the Queen informally, the
page-in-waiting simply announces the
visitors name thus: "Mr. -, your
Majesty" on which she bows slightly and
continues to stand or sit, generally the for
mer; then she begins the conversation. The
Initiative in this is always left to Her
Majesty. 1t is not etiquette TO open sub
Ject with her, only to reply to her remarks.
The Queen terminates the interview by
another slight inclination, and usually BY
gracious smile. The visitor retires. backing
and bowing until he reaches the door, for
no one must turn his or her back on our
sovereign lady.
One Of the trials to which the Court
ladies are subject is caused by the passion
Her Majesty has for walking and driving
In the coolest weather. Few of them are as
hardy and as Indifferent to ease as their
royal mistress. and to be dragged out for an
airing when bitter northeaster is driving
shower of snow across the hills at Bal
moral, or to pace the grounds at Osborne
under drenching rainfall, is not the most
agreeable mode of taking exercise.
To the philosopher or republican the array
of Court functionaries, holders of obsolete
offices, may seem somewhat ridiculous, if
not pitiable, and not far removed from the
dignitares who wait on the potentates of
pantomime or burlesque, and even we,
shaekled as we are by the irons of time
stifened routine, can scarce help smile as
we glance at the list of the royal household,
and read the titles of some of the appoint
ments. "The bargemaster" and the "keeper
of the swans" possibly may have their uses,
but to the uneducated ear the item "pages
Of the back stair" has an ugly soundy one
can hardly imagine these youths with clean
hands.
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Reasonable supposirIou.
Canners' and GROCERY Gazette. ]

An old bachelor, who was eaite wit,
lived alone in q very uncomfortable
looking place, aud his apartments were al
ways in great disorder.
"Why don't you set married?" said
friend one day. "Then you would have
some one to fix up things here, and make it
look homelike."
'"The tact Is, I've never thought Of IL"
Isid be, "but itdOesn't look reasonable that
a.better half would make better quarters"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
ALAND OF POVERTY.
How the Masses Live and Work Cnder
the Burning Sun of India.
WAGES AT FIFTY CENTS A WEEK.
The Most Beautiful Tomb in the World and
Its Royal Builder.
RIDING WITH SACRED HINDOO OXEN
rooHREsroNDENcE OF rHr D1srArcH., !,

AGRA, March 3d.
Poverty ! poverty ! pow
ertyi 1 find written all
over India. Its charac-
ters shine out in the
shrunken legs and fat
stomachs of the people.
The blazing sun paints
the word on the huts of
every village, and the
squalid want, which
fills every part of the
cities 1 have seen, is so
plain that be who runs
may read. The condi-
ton of the East Indian
people is far worse than
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Anew York Girl. PrscocItz.

New York Sun.
In this city there is little girl of Swhose
mind is already agitated over the question
of female suffrage, and who holds that
women ought to manage the Government.
Perhaps she might modify her views If her
father were to give her o new doll and .
pound of tatfy.
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from year to year. In 20 years in this dis
trict there was only an annual increase of
six persons in every 10, 600, and at the pres
ent time the increase is not much greater
The people are so underfed that disease and
death keep down the natural increase which
goes on over the rest of the world, and you
see them apparently starving before your
eyes.
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too much space to detail all his rogueries,
which began as soon as he left the nursery,
hut let US take him in the year 1865, when
at 33 he has just succeeded in swindIing
Samuel Foote, the famous actor, wit and
dramatist, out of many thousands of pounds
by inveigling him into partnership in a
brewery. All his life previous had been
spent in swindling schemes.
A sMooTH-foNGUED HYPoeR1TE.
After his first noble attempt at brewing,
for considerable time Mr.. Price was COM
PEELED to pass his days in strict privacy, He
lodged entirely at coffee houses and shifted
his quarters so frequently and with such
skill that his most intimate friends knew
nothing of his address-not even the land
lord whose bill for boarding and lodging
was too often unpaid, Patch being too great
an artist to allow his talents to grow rusty
for want of use even in private lie. His re-
sources, in fact, were inexhaustible, and he
never acquitted himself with greater skill
than as Methodist preacher at Chelsea.
There, under the name of Parker, by dint
of an oily tongue, insinuating address and
frequent use of scriDtural phraseology, he
wormed himself into the confidence of an
elderly maiden lady of highly evangelical
principles-and goodlY fortune in the
funds.
A few months sufieed to rob this un-
happy and credulous old female of half her
fortune, to trife with her affections under a
promise of marriage, and to make her the
laughing stock OF pieus congregation.
Meanwhile, Price went on his way tri-
umphant to achieve new victories. 1t was
in the year 1867 that somewhere and some
how in the great city he made acquaintance
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

ID olywelI
Lane, came across small book, or a large
pamphlet, whichever you may please to call
it, the leaves of which were yellow with
age and the corners no longer in existence.
Upon the title page was printed in old-fash-
ioned type the following:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

7Sco Cents a Ddu. that of the Chinese.
The Koreans are fat and the japanese
wealthy in comparison with the people
around me. The Malays, the Siamese and
the Burmese have plenty to eat and leisure
for loafng. These people work from morn
until night and 60 to bed hungry. They are
not more than half clothed.
The masses wear two strips of thin cotton
cloth, and of the 25S, ,OOO 600 of people in
India four out of five go barefooted. Just
below here about the city of Patna is the
great opium producing district of India,
and am told by one Of the leading opium
officers of the Government that the people
of this region invariably feed their children
small quantities of opium daily, in order that
they may by this means ward off the cold
and reduce their appetites. There are in
the province of Bengal alone more people
than in the whole United States. The ma
jority OF these are farmers and their hold
ings are one-half acre to the person. The
most densely populated of our United
States are Rhode Island and Massachusetts,,
whose small territories snd large cities give
them respectively 254 and 221 people per
square mile.
A square mile is equal to four farms of
160 acres each, and the average of the whole
United States is six people to each such
farm. There are in Bengal 32O people TO
each cultivated 160 acres or two people per
acre. Our States have largely a city popu-
lation, and wherever we have large aver
age per square mile great part of the pop
ulation live in cities and make their living
of manu- featuring and trade. Here the
people live almost altogether by farming
and if you will put 800 people on the richest
quarter section you can find in America and
expect them to make their living by raising
ordinary crops you get the condition of this
part of India. Even with our cities Ohio
has only 20 people to the quarter section.
Oregon has q little over two, Nebraska has
two, Kentucky ten, Kansas three and Penn
sylvania, teeming with mines and manufac-
turers, has not quite 25.
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artists designed like Titans and finished
like jewellers. 1t would be as easy to tell
how the birds sing and the lilacs smell as to
describe the Tai"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

about the loins. Make them SQUAT upon
the dirt floor, and in front of each put fat
table foot and half high, upon which
lies ledger, the pages of which are filled
with Indian characters. Behind each of
these naked figures put chest about the
size of the average trunk with heavy lock
upon it and let all be working away as
though their lives depended upon their cal
culations.
On the outside>of the door, under a sort
of portico, the chief of the bank sits count
ing out silver coins to a farmer who has
come to borrow. He counts very rapidly
and lets each coin strike another as it falls
into his hand. By the sound he tells
whether they are good or not. He exacts
big rates of interest, and five per cent a
month is nothing to him if he can get It,
The whole rice crop of Burmah is owned
by these entities before it is harvested and
they own millions of valuable property in
the east. They live most abstemiously,
and it is their business to accumulate
money. They bring up their sons to follow
their business, and they are caste of money
lenders. The wives of these entities are
gorgeous in iewelry and though they wear
no clothing except the two strips of cotton,
some OF their ear rings are so heavy that
that they pull down the ears, and not few
uear nose rings Iour lheneS IN olameIer.
The Sacred White Bulloclks.
As came out of the TAI Mahal to-day I
took a ride on an Indian cab. 1t was drawn
by two great white bulloeks with humps
over their shoulders, each of which was six
inches high. The driver sat in front, his
legs resting upon the tongue of the cart, and
behind him, in a sulky-Iike affair made of
bamboo and covered with red cloth, 1 took
my seat cross-legged. These carts are used
throughout India and they are single and
double. They are rudely put together with
ropes and when completed they consist of
structure made of fishing rods and clothes
lines swung upon wheels with a seat resting
high above them and so made that they are
as easy as any spring vehicle you will find
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

LONDON,
May IL. A
day or two ago
as I was turn
ing over the
books, old and
new, in sdark
little shop in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
A FAMOUS SWINDLER.
Story of the Life of Charles Price,
Who Was Successfully
BREWER, PREACHER AND F0RGER.
How He Repeatedly Cheated the Bank Of
England and Gained Name
As THE GREATEST ROGUE IN THE LAND

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.l
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The Queen is a woman of strict business
habits and steady application; the amount
OF correspondence she gets through is enor-
nous. In the private portion Of this cor
respondence Her Majesty is assisted by her
private secretary, lady-in-waiting, and a
maid-ot-honor. especially by the Dowager
Marchioness of Ely, one Of the ladies who
is a valued friend. When the Court is at
Windsor the members Of the household in
attendance are : One lady-in-waiting (these
ladies are always peeresses), two maids-of-
honor, lord-in-waiting. two equerries, one
groom-in-waiting, also the keeper of the
Prlvy purse, the private secretary, assistants
In both departments and the master of the
household. The attendance is the same at
Osborne and Balmoral, with the exception
Of the lord-in-waiting.
To attend to Her Majesty's toilet and
wardrobe there are five maids-yiz., three
dressers and two wardrobe women. The
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-17
THE DAVIS CASE.
THE FORT WORTH CLERKS STATE
MENT OF WHY HE KILLED
NIILLIoNAIRE EVANS.
Two Thousand Dollars Damages Against the
Western UniOn-Message of Choctaw
Chief Smallword.
Special to the Statesman.

Special to the Statesman.
Fort WORTH, OCTOBER 11.-Contrary to al
expectations, the taking of testimony il
the case of the State vs. J. w. Davis, or
trial for killing B. c. Evans, the millionaire
merchant, began to-day and was concluded
at o'clock. The court room was crowded
throughout the day, and this afternoon at
o'clock County Attorney Ayers opened for
the prosecution and spoke one hour. He
was followed by Byron ]. Johnson for the
defense, in two hours speech. Henry NJ,
Furman closed for the state in two
hours speech, making powerful and tell
ing argument, whenJudgeB eckham charged
the jury. Davis attorneys pleaded sefl-de-
defense and put the defendant on the stand,
who made the following statement, which
is given verbatim:
Imet Mr.. Evans the morning before the
killing between and 10 o'clock. Mr..
Evans told me that he would not need my
services after the 10Th of the month.
asked him was that all? Mr.. Evans re-
piled: "And more than that, understand
that you have been too intimate with lady
in this establishment" l asked who. Mr.,
Evans said: "You know who it is and it is
enough that it is lady in this establish
ment." Nothing more passed between us
until the evening. l walked up to him in
the afternoon and said thought had a
right to know who the lady was that he re-
ferred to. Mr.. Evans answered the same
as i'll the morning, enough to know that it
is lady in this establishment and then
added Mrs. - and Miss - are no better
than she is. then said, you are id
liar. Mr.. Evans replied you are Cd
Il 4 1ine 10 throw
hand to his hip. 1 then commenced to
shoot"
what other lady was there in the estab-
lishment besides the other twop"
"Miss - to whom | was engaged"
At II o'clock the jury is still out.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-17
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
A Lineman Killed by Contact With an Flee
trio LightsWire.


trio LightsWire.
New YORK, October 1l.-An electric line
man met with a horrible death at the
corner of Centre and Chambers street this
afternoon from contact with an electric
light wire. He was employed by the West
ern Union company, and presented terri
BILE sight as he lay on a network of wires in
midair, while the deadly fluid actually
made his body sizzle and the blood pour
out on the sidewalk and over the clothes of
the Mortified spectators. The accident oc-
curing in the middle of the day
in one of the business parts of
the city, was witnessed by large crowd
of people. The mans body lay limp
and motionless over the mass of wires at
tached to the cross-arms of the pole. The
firemen brought out the ladders and one
went up with pair of shears to cut the
wires. The man was found to be dead.
The mans face was turned toward the
walk. The wire in fifteen minutes had
burned off half the face of the victim. The
left arm was also seen to be burning and
every few seconds blue flames spurted out
from various parts of the body. Hundreds
of people stood shivering as they looked at
the awful sight overhead No one dared
to 90 near. Even the tiremen's faces
blanched with horror.
Lineman Benson, the dead mans COM
panion was asked why he did not go up.
He simply said:
"Its no use, he's dead. |
don't know the electric light Ewires. |
can't help him. / was on the other pole,
and don't know anything about it"
All this was said in a catching, hating
voice, as if the man was completely over
come with horror and emotion. lmme-
diately after the accident Mayor Grant was
| notified by his private secretary, Crane.
The mayor gave orders that the wires that
caused the accident be cut at once. Secre-
| tary Crane said that the mayor would act
promptly in the matter, and it IS possible
| that he may order the cutting of all cleo
| trio light wires above ground o.nlght
when a large part of the city will be III
darkness. The body of the lineman was
| left on the wires for more than half an
hour when it was taken down atVer the
current had been turned off.
Deputy Coroner Jenkins, who has witness
edsome horrifying sights durinGhis officia
career, said that this spectacle was the
most CHASTITY he had ever seen. He was Oh
the scene while efforts were being made tC
get the body down and viewed the, body
"The wire" he said, which cut through
the Iineman's cheek had evidently entered
at the mouth, 1t had burned clear int
tbe cheek bone. The burn in the throa
had severed the windpipe and man!
muscles and veins just below
Adams apple. If the maj
had renamed SusPenuGu 80,
air much longer the head would have P ,eel
completely severed from the Poq{; IN IN
stantiv, but it certainly rendered him, un
l,conscious so that his face fell forward OF
tbn other wires. cannot say just which
wire he caught hold of first, for his han,
amputated by burns and fallen to tn
street."