Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-28

despise the Aslatics. IL is easy to tell them,
however, by their features and the European
the property OF England. II has governor
sent out by the queen and IL is practically
free trade colony. The difference between
II and the native Asiatic states is seen in
magnificent roads, fine buildings, gas, street
railroads, aud all the civilized accompani-
ments. Comfort goes with the white man.
Ignorance and barbarism, and non-im-
provement of every kind seem seem TO
be associated with the yellow and the |
black. England is slowly, but surely, |
swallowing up these countries of southern |
Asia. She has the lions share already and |
she is adding TO her possessions every year |
There Is no doubt but that the change is good |
for the people and wherever you find an |
English protectorate You find good courts, |
safety of property and life, public improve |
ments of all kinds and good school system. |
England has already strong hold upon
the Malay peninsula, but among the tribes of
Malacca, which are not subject TO her, is that |
Of Johore. Johore is
BIGGER THAN MASSACHUSETTS,
and Ii is governed by sultan, who has abso-
lutte power and who is one of the few inde-
pendent. NJ alay raiahs still living. l made
an excursion to Johore last week: visited the
capital, and there met this most noted Malay
ruler Leaving Singapore at sunrise,
our carriage was. driven by a
Malay coachman, and we had
a gray whlskered, bare-footed, East Indian
in red gown and turban rs a guide. We
drove for miles on road as level as the floor
and as well kept as u race track, through
plantations of cocoanuts and coffee. We first
passed great estates with beautiful grounds
and wide drives, and then on out into the
jungle. The green cocoanuts hung by the
bushels in great lunches from the top of tall
palm trees, each of which was from fifty to
one hundred feet high, and with a trunk of
from six TO twelve inches in diameter. The
bark was grayish white ana there were no
leaves until the very top upon which the
cocoanuts grew. Some of these groves had
thousands of trees and they all looked as
though they were drunken on their own
milk. They leaned in every direction and
tops Of some seemed to embrace
those of others IN maudlin .jollity.
The coffee sho. estates estate S9 sss ,,sh
with many branches, and the cof-
fee grows close to the branch and the yellow
fruit is tue size of small damson plums; each
plum contains two Seeds surrounded by
pulp, and these seeds are the coffee grains
They are cultivated, and the estates showed
that they had been but lately ploughed
This road across the island of Singapore
was lined with jungle, which was at times so
feet beyond the roadway, and when it is re-
membered that about three hundred people
are
KILLED EVERY YEAR HERE BY TIGERS,
and that the lower part of the Malay penin-
sula is the home of the wild beast, it will be
seen that the possibilities were both numer-
Gus and UNPLEASANT. We passed through
number of Malay Chinese villages and we
saw many black-skinned natives of Java with
nothing but breech- clouts upon them, work
ing upon the roadway. Now and then
we would meet cart drawn by heavy
| Indian bullocks with great humps of
| fat six inches high above their shoul-
ders and with their blaclk-skinned
| the heavy cart tongue. These bullocks push
the cart along with the front of their
| shoulders Their yokes do not come around
| the neck as do those of our oxen and they
| get over the ground three times as fast.
| They are the beasts of burden of this part
| of the world. They do all the carting and
| hauling and they are among the most pic
| turesque sights of this picturesque country.
| Their drivers are straight, lean, wrey men,
! who scowl at you as you pass and who, with
| all their black skins, have features as regu-
lar as the best you will find in Jour city. l
| snapped my camera upon one of them as he
| passed and the black skinned driver swore at
me IN Hindostanee as did so.
| Half way across the island our driver
| stopped and changed the horses of our car
rage for relay which had been sent on
up and we rode on through
more villages and more jungle
until we came to the straits
| of Singapore on the opposite side of which
was the main land and Johore. A Chinese
boat carried us across these and we were
landed AT the
| WHARF OF THE sULTAN'S PALACE.
beautiful lawn Of many acres slopes by
half dozen terraces to the waters edge.
Above this lies the palace, which is reached
by winding drives, and away to the right
shine the blue and yellow buildings of the
city of Johore which the sultan has built
within the last few years for his capitol, and
which he laid out in the original jungle. The
palace is large gray and white, two story
building with wide porticos and many large
windows looking out upon the water. 1t is,
perhaps, two hundred feet long and at least
| half that depth Soldiers, in u costume hal
European, keep guard in front of it, and
others in turbans march up and down
through its various corridors. Some OF
these soldiers arc olive-brown Malays,
| others are as black as ebony and the officer
who received my letters and took them in to
the sultan was dressed in European clothes
with n Malay surong or skirt shining out
under his coat After waiting moment
| the sultan himself appeared-a tall, fine
looking, broad shouldered, light yellow man
with gray hair, black eyes and mustache
He wore IL suit Of white duck with laven-
der skirt reaching to his knees, and with
bracelets of solid gold rope as thick as your
finger around each of his wrists. There
were diamond rings on his fingers and he
had seal brown plush trrban cap on his
head. He spoke English perfectly, SHOOK
hands with me cordially, and gave me seat
in an American rocking-chair in his audience
chamber while he took another for himself
at my side. He talked of the decadence ol
| the Malay people ana said that the Chinese
made much better workers He needed them
for the development of his kingdom and
he was glad TO have their immigration.
He talked of his travels and told mo he
| needed only To visit America to complete his
tour of the world. He had visited in Eng
land and had been so well entertained tina,
he was always glad to give Europeans
welcome when they came to his kingdom
| He hal visited China and Japan, and while
in England he had gone ono day to Liver
pool to see lady friend off for America. 81
went down to the ship" said he, "and put
my friend on board. II was only seven day:
to New York and had remained | might
have visited your country. ] am very sorry
die not do SO, for
THINK AMERICA Is GREAT
and your people are great and kind people
They give us the telegraph. the electric
light, ard they are at the front in inven tion
l like them and have many friends il
| America"
The conversation here turned to Johort
ana his majesty told mo 1t was he who hai
introduced coffee into Singapore and that hs
was anxious to SEQ his own kingdom becom,
one vast plantation. 1--WE have Coffee
SAID he, "that will grow here, and many for
eigncrs are buying estates. l believe
in getting all yon can off o.
the top of the ground rather
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