The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 19th 1879

The relation of the Government to the governed has often been illustrated by that of the shepherd to his flock but the parallel is especially applicable in countries where the former is the land-owner as well as the ruler. [...] The curse of the country is to be found in the rigorous and vigorous revenue-system which makes it an heinous offence on the part of the local officers to suggest suspensions or remisions in years of scarcity not in the money-lender who enables the cultivator to tide over his difficulties. [...] August 19:184 into thepower of the money-lender in order to meet the claim of the GOvernment upon him leaving to the measure now on the anvil the comparatively easy work of securing fair treament at the hands of the Unlined' for those who by imprudence orbiniefortune are driven to borrow for other purposes. [...] The effect of tobacco on these minute vessels through the nervous system is to cause contraction of them as a primary fact BO that the face of the person affected becomes pale and the surface of the body cold while the heart labours to force on the supply of blood until its own vascular system comes under the influence : then the stomach involuntarily contraots and after a time the voluntary [...] The chief portion of the sickness among the native soldiers in the way of diarrhoea and dysentery is undoubtedly to be attributed to the bad Wirt with which they havo been supplied and not to the water.