Show TIT s r y ABDUR RAHMAN KHAN the ame of this oriental percy hotspur has lately figured o prominently and frequently before the newspaper reading public thit it is opportune to present a short sketch eventful life he ivaa born about 1830 a grand ton mohammed the power ful afghan ruler of hia arly life little or nothing i known he is aid to have taken part in the second campaign in the punjab when ach bar khan crossed the indus to aid the sikh in rebellion against the he did not however come prominently forward until 1863 rhen the death of dost mohammed gave the signal for serious clistus bancea and even led to civil war the first campaign between shore alinne li eljer brother abdur father ended in the discomfiture of the latter and the subsequent reconciliation of ane two abdur Bahman intrigues however soon led to other complications in consequence of which abdur had to seek his safety in flight finding a refuge in where bo lay ai in emlu cade for an opportune moment to come forth in february 1866 abdur babaan who had been joined by his uncle ahlm marched on babul and on the aj of march received its keys and installed adira as ruler abere ali received the news of bi defeat at Can dahar whence he at once marched on ie retrieve his losses in the battle of on may ho was vanquished and opened her gates to azim shore ali fled and afzul khan ascended the throne of afghanistan soon re lapsing in the lap of debauchery and voluptuousness while azim ruled with despotic ligor and tyrannical whim abdur kahman obtained a hia share in the division of he spoils the governorship of the province of afghan turkestan Turk estan abere ali meanwhile had not rested idle in hio exile but had collected numerous forces at whose head his youthful son yakoob khan advanced from taft routh and with the udden and powerful tiac seized C i ani G suanee being avith i nil th t oraiun nis n is of the in eari war ol 01 ahe hue cession in the last days af atiqur A m compelled to aflfe to B alyin on the road from abizur requited ul obtained aci mission of Kauf niami to in territory the fugitive biown pretender ol 01 affen itan met liia a friendly reception in the russian domain but all h request for ini axi either in urnis men or moral aur the purpose of huking nuking war abreh in ai hanitan hann tan were rejected tui russian government simply allotted binm a pension of rouble a year eugene schuyler in his tan tells us of a visit to the af an pretender lie found a till artel built man large hefta and marked afghan jenah face he near long locki of lenir ul il bilat a full curly LI u k airm he carries him elt with it and every dribo ei strong chi racier and one to command he wa in dreg a lp dark caftan with wide filler gilldon and rog of silver H balver h lt and a aber un hi he d he had a turbin anh blue H auke freely nebout adhn rii rg and apok 01 til story eliat shore all had forbid den hi name to b m in cibul ot dath imply kayin that it would nut mailer oliue ue auld only think twice aal mil h or him hr fell ure gaag Sc huvler thit he neail only declare to hav the population iopu lation entirely on his side sacro ali waa defeated b 11 the lie afghans for his corn plaisance ance toward england if the english were to give al the revenues of india to afghanistan it would not make people love england the better all that time abdur bahman was living very quietly and laying by four fifths of his allowance for ulterior purposes in 1873 ho told oen knufmann that with coubles roubles he could t any moment raise an insurrection in afghanistan the russian government however would give him nei aber encouragement nor and he was confined to laying the wires of his political intrigue ly means ol 01 correspondence with many chiefs in afghanistan it was not until february of this year that he commenced to reality the deep laid schemes of a dozen years having obtained the permission of the bus aiana he left hi asylum and at once appeared unexpected a lightning stroke from serene sky in at the head of a little force which was continually ly accession of various tribal chiefs his career was ft triumphal and at lat the british came to appreciate bis prestige so much a loatee him ameer hoping to have friend in urn to secure their frontier against encroachments encroach ments in aliis they are sadly mistaken and they resemble re emble the man in bablo fablo who took a serpent to hi bos om to nurture his own murderer |