New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-02
THE PASSING THRONG


Engand's Indian Civil Service Ia at the No.,
Imperial, having secured ve,,'
DEALING leave OF absence. Mr. Agnsw =
WITH FAM at the head OF affairs in IN. m,
me AND trict OF Hissar, Province OF Dr..
PLAGUE. jab. There are eight province. r.
India, and PunJab. which "a Az,
Of the smallest Of them IA divided into thrty.or.
districts yet Mr.. Agnew has under his perso,,,
supervision nearly a million souls. When a.
famine visited India several years ago his d.
trict was among those most seriously affected u.
said that for long time he fed more than 70,
thousand people daily.
THE Government handled the famine in A yer,
clever manner" he said. 1T employed all IA.
able bodied men and boys In the construction q,
the great canals by which the country Irrigated
Tho water IL brought down from the river 10 N.
thirsty sections by means Of large canal which
has branches into all the parcned districts ana
these branches have sub-brsnches 10 each farm
Well, when the famine came the Government EN-.
ployed the men and boys. as have told you. IA
construct this system OF waterways. They pan
them in proportion to the price Of grain giving
each man just enough TO live and keen M.
family from want. In this way they kept tha
. male portion Of the population steadily at WORK
and we'll fed. at the same time making some publa
improvements that were very much needed Ths
INDECENT women and children were fed In kitchens
tina, were established for their relief consider
pressure OF the famine not single person in ny
England has always made Il point in India
to employ natives In any official position which
my subordnates are natives. ! use them as
clerks or collectors or what not. and must say
ana faithful AS yet they do not get paees ~
authority, except In few very rare instances
where man may have received an education in
Europe and risen above the level Of his fellow
~ notice that the bubonic plague s stin raging
m BOMBAY. IL IL supposed to have been imported
to that city from Hong Kong, and has since spread
il has been kept within bounds in our province 5;
the strenuous measures OF the authorities under
is my wife's father. With three thousand police Ia
went into the district OF Jull!nder where the
plague broke out and turned the villagers from
their huts driving them out into the open. Those
who were not infected with the disease he put into
a hastily mprovised village OF grass huts by them.
the convaescents in another. the suspicious cases
~ hem a thus the plague was conned within
a radius Of sixty miles. ana only TWO thousand OUT
OF one nhnured tbnv uonIf p2obabi bsye beer
entirely wiped out. The bubonic plague. YOU must
know. is one OF the most deadly OF maladles. It
Kills two out OF three OF the victims upon whom
II fastens It's clutches. II Is called the ouoono
plague because it usually makes itself evident BY
some cases there are no buboes and then the symp-
toms are very much like those OF other malignant
about this plague, and one OF them Is that II rarely
attacks Il bur the cases are 30 rare as
to be almost unheard Of. I think that people who
then OF course the filth OF the natives has great
deal 10 do with their susceptibility. II either Kills
a.. r patient EVEN n less 1nffe e Intense ea, n
tense cold usually kills H. This Is another peculiar
estpre S me @ hrye HS So the
1t fourshes in the middle seasons and when ihs
came 10 England on the steamer Caledonia and
there was a case Of the plague on board We al
Suarantined. and fortunately, the real nature 0,
the case not discovered until atter We hal
Causing any devastation in European country L
could not get foothold. In city IKE Nsw,fors,
for instance there could be absolutely no chance o.
its spreading"
I'VE want 70 help New-York welcome Dewey"
said Governor Elisha Dyer Of Rhode Island AZ
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday
TO HELP afternoon. Dewey is the greatest
WELCOME man OF his DAY. and We should
DEWEY. honor him now "ne ne WIN
US. and not walt until re 10 dead.
7 don't know whether will be able TO accom-
plish IL or not but II is my desire 70 seha
battalion OF Rhode Islands veterans 70 Ne"'
York by boat They could arrive In the morn.
ing and return in the evening. Ny idea is to sena
two companies Of infantry, one coApany OF ols
mounted arterymen and one company ot na "a
reserves Only those who were eniI,soo 10. va
is an intensely patriotic State and is always a IA
ious TO do honor TO any OF tne NauUm ,ne essa
sometimes WHSie lHS SP'''N - ''S
From an industrial point Of view. Rhode ISL
and is prospering greatly II seems ilt e III ami
rsaominste BRYAN 81 course there is no doubt
that Mr. Mckinley will be the RepupGan cdna ai
date. and in my opinion 1t is practc2uy aSsure s
iitan rule at least on the Philippine question
we Of Rhode Island are stanch supporters io., 81
All Var p0 assnst ths ns
should be prosecuted with the utmost vgor, w., "
are in for Il now and We cannot honorary sn I,S
our plain duty in the matter ines are We We 0g
Sentiments which I have encountered. We arc
narriots and believe In supporting the To'efh-
ment."
wit, the possible exception OF Mexico ana
Chilli Costa Rico is the best OF the southern re
publics" said F. Weit!ng. COSTA
BUSINESS Rican coffee planter, at the Fu.a
IN COSTA Avenue Hotel last eNenins' W.
RIGA. Weitihs Is on MS "AS " -, acme
for brief visit 10 his old nome
He has spent six years in Costa Rica' ana "olN.a
I'm a profitable business. In Costa Rlcd' ne 49,
| NEARLY every man is a land owner. He may H4''
on1v half an acre but men who have niue are ~
,ora DESTROYS Of losing that little than men W.
have a great deal For that reason tney All
70 narticpate in the revolutionary Hos ne vs-y
as consequence, the Govern,nen, ss prosperous
ITnIted States or Mexico but sun II l5o,,,s
suffering man who is estaollsnei Ia Isunncb a
we'll hut | would consider II rlshy Urs Sor i0l
new enterprise at this time, Gomez $50 have
shiilines a hundredweight now; WneIS Be-, even al
known It 10 be high as Is shlluhss g., ~ and no
his Neure there is reasonable prom III -Ssre wifi
thrifty planter need suffer rom when times
he MANY openings for American cspI!'1 ,Ii DO soon.
SS,ahtayy IN a hit as | bSsieve they VIII ~ cont
There will be money 10 be made IN y-SSnn', think
ures and money in agrlcuItuIS; 0"'