Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — NEW AMEER BRITAIN’S FRIEND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW AMEER BRITAIN’S FRIEND.

Assures Curzon He Will Follow in His Father’s Footstep*. Habib Ullah Khan, the new Ameer of Afghanistan, has officially infoi’med Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, that he will

follow in his father's footsteps, hoping that the friendship existing between the Afghan and British governments will continue to increase. “Accoi-ding to official intelligence from the Ameer of Bokhara,” says a dispatch from St. Petersburg, “t Ii e

brothers of Habib left Cabul secretly with their partisans the moment their father died, and therefore cannot be said to have acquiesced in the accession of their brother. Habib Ullah, indignant at their flight, has taken measures to defend the capital and sent strong detachments to prevent their return, or to endeavor to capture them as rebels.”

The future of Afghanistan may be said to depend almost entirely upon this new ruler*s personality. His legal title to the throne could not be better than it Ib, but, as the late Ameer declared in explaining his own course, ‘‘One must be a lion if one would govern wolves.” No title is good in Afghanistan without the qualities of strength and skill in the claimant. . _ J. L. Caldwell, Huntington, W. Va„ wants to be Senator, so he has just purposed 5,000 acres of land and will build • n*w town on the Guyandotte river.

HABIB ULLAH.