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THE- HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

-THE DIARY.

Tragedy of An Indian Pioneer.

Nindkat is, evan now, one of the loneliest spats in India, but seventy-three years ago, when we first added the Punjab to our respons bilities, a journey there] was a micor exploring expedition. Built on the banks of the Indus just below the spot where the great river leaves unknown Kohists and Amb State and enters India at Kirplain Rock, it looks on all sides over sandy. fats and low, barren hilla Even the river, narrow batween its walls of rock, does nothing more than lead the eye to the trackless, uninhabited foothills of Independent Territory on the other side. Fifty years ago, justį before the close of the time I am writing about, the railway to Peshawar was brought to Attock, thirty miles down the river, and the Kashmir road was made through the Hazara district, its nearest point being also thirty miles from Niadkot, and neither railway nor road bas come nearer, since then. About twice a year! the Superintendent of Police of the district goes there to inspect bis thana (police station), and perhaps once in two years the District Magistrate follows his example. But beyond these two! no Englishman ever visits the lonely spot And yet for many vears after wa annexed the

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REMARKABLE TRIAL.

feminine Murder Attempt That Was

Hushed up.

Panjab in 1849 it was the home valjant determination to get pro- of a European officer of the Salt motion to a better place, and here Department

and there in 2 Two years ago, when I was hand are interpolations in trae inspecting the than at Nindkor, Victorian wifely style, such as I went into the record-room. I am happy wherever my dear During my work there I noticed husband is." She tried to make & number of decrepit books on the garden in the sandy soil, and top of a high set of shelves and the stones marking the beds and asked what they were. said the Indian officer, "they were be seen under the cactus and "On," paths which she laid out can still left here about fifty years ago by thorn bashes which are all that; the Nimmakwala Sahib (salt grow wild in Nind kot. The diary {officer) when the post

was shows how happy these two were abolished." I had them brought in their solitude. down, and found that they were the accounts of the old Salt June, 1853, and the rest of the The record ends suddenly in Post, beginning in 1850

and sale I had to piece together from ending.io 1877, and 1

was the stories of the few old man of just about to replace theNiodkot who remembered the when near the bottom of the pile Salt Officer. 'e went out one

I came across a mannscript book morning in that month before which looked promising. I found sunriss to visit an outpost, and the first pages much eaten away on his return in the evening be by white ants and stained by found his wife dead of cholera. mildew, but the greater number The kindly village folk had al were still legible. On the back ready dug a grave on the confines was written with many flourishes. of their own kraveyard, and there Peter. Diary, 1842." This she was buried by ber basband was treasure-trove, indeed, that same day. A mound still

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

marks the spot, flanked by s slab It began in style, with an auto-

of soft stone from which the biographical sketch, and from the weathered inscription

long sjad,

bas

Paris. Oct. 23

inspector of forests, for the alleged The trial of Paul Boppe, so attemptei murder of his wife, who is a niece of Maurice Barros, the begins to-morrow at the provincial well-known author and poli ician,

and dramatic that it might have BSAİZ*5. The affair is so usual

been aken from a contemporary theatre. It will be followed with great interest by French society.

Both Boppe and his wife are of good family; they were married in 1906, and there are two children The case, according to the pros Boppe, who held a very good ecation, is that during the war position, was billeted at the house of a fascinating widow of similar social rack, with whom be con Armistice he bought a house for tracted ■ liaison. After the

her at Nancy. She was insistent on marriage, and urged Boppe to divorce his wife. He tried this course, but Mre. Boppe, for re- lixious reasons, would not conseat. One night she awakened with

mouldering sbreds of the openingake, sway. For her a start, and discovered she was

perhaps it

WAS

pages I gathered that the writer well that she died, for fate had her neck. She dragged herself nableeding from a painful wound in was a Eurasian who bad been settled that P-ter was ever to to born in Madras. His schooling get any more promotina. Indeed, besought him to send for a priest ber busband's room, zad must have been but slight, for the on account of his bumble birth and a doctor. Then, it is alleged. language in many places of the and lack of education, he had he pointed a small revolver a diary shows that it had been translated literally from the from the first So be stayed in ever, causing only a flesh wound. lttle chance of advancement her and fired, fortunately, how. vernacular in which he thought Nindkot year after year in com-The sound of this shot brought His age appears in one of the plete loneliness. He had no kin down the servants, and the in. oldest legible entries., June 7. 1847, my 22nd. Eirthday." He rarely did he see

an: never took a holiday. Very jured

W&S taken to was then in the Salt Department, and those few were always of SENTENCE OF FAMILY COUNCIL.

Englishmen.nospital an assistant at Karnal, in those bigher caste than himself. He davs a frontier station.

When she was convalescent

DTHOM

I saw that he was an ambitious completed his service there, and her parents, fearing a scandal, soul, for there were numerous re- Kindkot post should finish with its wich Haurice Barres attended. the Government decreed that summoned family Council, ferences to lessons which he was builder. In 1877 he was directed Tuis body, it is said, agreed to taking from a regimental ch plain, to close the establishment on his hush up the affer on condition and his somewhat attractive Eurasian language degenerated in records in the police station, stating that he had intended to superannuation and deposit is that Boppe signed a confession many places into

the stilted" peadig their removal to head-murder his wife in sach's way as periods of early Victorian liter- ary" style. Most entires concluded neglected after his wite's death, suicide, and that he should take quarters." The diary. utterly to make it look like a case of with the naive expression, "I wish that I may do well in life." In caped notice among the other over his whole fortune to bis

books. 1848, be became engaged to te

wife and children. This, the man married, and many pazes were

enpulation of this extraordinary complied with, but the last) filled with descriptions of "Rosie's

court" bas that he should go charms. his ambition soars until] he envisages himself as a member day in Nindkot, went to the grave

man now, and he told me how the His last servant is a very old sahib, on the morning of his last

for ever into exile. and sat there," as though he were

He broke word and returned

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of the convenanted Civil Service, siting for the u.en.a-hib." After to Nanty. His wife then applied HALL'S DISTEMPER

the aristocracy of Anglo-Indis In all those years he must bays for judicial separation, and dar 1850 comes the long-looked for round it impossible to realise that ug the hearing of the case the promotion, the first step towards he was leaving her for ever. accomplishing his dazzling aims the servant timidly touched

At investigating magistrate, dis

He is appointed to the charge of bim and reminded him that b Buppe, asketed on his street.

| covering what was all-ged against the new Ninjkot Salt Post in the Panjab. He forgets his literary which be bad never seen. He must etart, for the new railway,

Paris, Oct. 25th, syle as he notes on this in

climbed on to the biraling pony Boppe was found guilty, with ex

At Nancy Assizes to das Paul vernacular. English, Rose too and went. Where the macb pleased."

rounds the bluff at Qizipor, and charge of attempting to murder tenus ing circumstances, on the Nindkot vanishe from sight, be

his wife, and was sentenced to

e reached Nindkot after a toilsoma journey, and there he

track

built a mad shanty for himself/tarbed and looked back for a five years' penat servitude and ten

and bats for his men. He work-moment and then continued bis ed with surprising energy, and a way. J. Coatman, in the

| Manchester Guardian.

all along this stretch of the Indus,

and through the low hills towards- Haripur, on the present Kashmir

road, he built small outposts, ONE OF WOMAN'S WORST whose ruins can be seen to this

TROUBLES

years' banishment. The jury sign- ad a recommendation to mercy.

Pros-cuting counsel, describing the state of things in the Boppe housebold, said the wife evidently Joved her husband up to the day when he attempted to kill her. day. All his days he spent in

Premeditation of the crime, was riding about his range, and at is promptly and easily remedied established by letters in which night he made up his accounts in by an occasional dose of Pine Bopps, writing to the woman clear hand with never a blot or kettes, because though tiny and Labouret the widow with whom alteration. Latera ecripta manet, delaty they are thorough, and he bed contracted * lisisno-ex- and these account books after their laxative action is as gentle-pressed the hope that the coming seventy years testify to the qual-as nature.

year would be decisive, and thei ity of his work.

Pinkettes dispel nick headaches be would be able to recover his and biliousness, clear the skin of two children, MARRIED TO “ROŠIE.”.

pimples and blemishes, purify toe

!!

In 1851 he and Hosle were breath. Chemiste sell them, 'or married in Attock, and came to sent post free for 60 cents the vial Hive to the mad shanty on the by Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96

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