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LOVE AND I.
Onre ! found l,vv lrcplntc
And rimed dim with it mull's,
"Now llmt I hit vi i n-'-rht you
Viii in u "t slny nw litlo."
But lie i-lni il and fr;itid,
Hlirhlnu t'pu-ltfh'.
An lie lpnt mruiiiMt Ihe ImM,
";ivo tno li'HTly."
Tourlnd hylii lamenting,
I net w Me the door;
Out lie Hew nnd viin'-'.A-d,
And 1 wn fl ItWorc
By my lonely hrnrthHtDim
Mttitly 1 wcpi,
HVhn vtth til!t;hts -?i;id'.v
ThrotiL'h the d "r I.mif creiit,
Tliini'ih I die u lien i ifmpd,"
Ho whi-ificrt'd, "yet hrn fn
Ohl wotnnn heed the U'-mhi
1 t miu lit return to time, 1
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KING 0FN0IvL(JI)0M.
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF MAHARAJAH
DHULEEP SINGH.
Hl People Conquered by the Hrltlah, Ha
Removed to KnRinnd With nn Allowance.
Tried to Rtlr t'p the Mlkhi A Bain, lint
Wna Nipped nnd Forgiven by the Queen.
A decade ago MHluirajnb Dhuleep
Singh, who died In Pnris recently,
whs a well known figure in London,
whoso photograph wns on sale in the
shop windows. He was horn In 18fl8,
tho son of Rnnjeet Singh, "the lion of
the Punjab," that doughty Eost Indiiin
sovereign who was tho founder of the
Sikh kingdom and tho causo of so much
trouble to England. Thrre hnve been
two Sikh wars In tho lust half century
in which the relatives of Dhuleep
Blngh figured. The first was In 18-1.1,
when a Sikh army of 00.000 men in
vaded the queen's Indian empire and
fought fonr pitched battles, the final
result being the retreat of tho invaders
across the Sntloj and the surrender of
Lahore to the Britiwli. By the terms
of the peace Dhuleep Singh, the infant
son of linnjeet, was recognized as rajah.
The second Sikh war broke out in
1848, bnt it proved to be short lived,
the British forces nnder Lord Gough
succeeding in destroying the Sikh army
nnd in annexing Punjab to tho queen's
possessions. As a result of this way
young Dhnlecp Singh received an allow
ance of 4I."0,01'0 from his conqunrors.
He, with his mother, moved to Eng
land, became a Christian, and on his
estate in Suffolk cultivated tho habits
of an English gentlemen. Hn was an
Intimate friend of the Prlneo of Wales,
who lined annually to apend part of tho
shooting season ut Dhuloep's country
home.
Tho mahnrajnli's first vlfo was a lit
tlo Syrian timid whom bo met in Cairo
in 18(11, when on his way back from
Bombay, where ho had gone to tak
back to its native soil the body of his
mother that it might lie tln ie cremated.
Tho maharanccdicd in 1HH7, nnd a cou
ple of years later in IHH 0 ho married
in Paris Miss Ada DongluB Wetherill.
Dhuleep watchei closely tho advance
of Riuuia into Asia, nnd when he
thought tho proper time had come he
renounced Christianity and issued a
manifesto to the Sikh nation claiming
the tbrono of his father. Hut his re
nunciation of the crned of Baba Nunuk
and his suspected illegitimate birth it
was asscitcd by the Kikhs themselves
that' he was tho son of his mother
through an intrigue with one of the ra
jah's water carriers bad long since es
tranged tho feelings of tno people, nnd
if it had been possililo to crentn a Sikh
roMJion in the Land of tho Five Rivers
there were other princes better ublo thnn
this malinrajah to lead such an enter
prise. The British made hort work of his
pretensions. flo wns traveling with
leisurely dignity on Mb great mission
in a P. & O. steamer, when at Aden ho
wns informed that n return passage had
been secured for him, and that ho
would not be permitted to laud in In
dia. A Sikh rebellion would have been
a serious matter for England, for nover
were the British forces more evonly
fought thnn on tho battlefields of Mool
tan, Chillianwallah and Guuznoe.
There were at that .time about 10
regiments of Sikhs in the Indian army,
acknowledged by British officers to bo
the finest in the service, and In most of
the Punjab regiments there was a very
large proportion of Sikh soldiers.
After bis abortive attempt to stir np
the Sikhs into rebellion against British
rule, Uhnleep went to Russia, thinking
to enlist the sympathy of the czar in
bis behalf, but his greeting was not
overwurm. So the king without a coun
try established himself in cosmopoli
tan Paris, where he lived up to the
time of his death. Life on the conti
nent seemed to unsettlo somewhat tho
domestic, morals of this oriental Chris
tian, and an hereditary predisposition to
polygamy assorted itself. The inaha
rajah recently expressed Vop regret for
the course of hostility which he had
pursued toward England, and her maj
esty, by the advico of her ministers,
was graciously pleased to accord her
pardon to him.
General Dick Taylor of Louisiana
UBed to tell a story of an encounter with
Phuleop. While ho was stuying in
1H71 at Sandringhau with tho Prince
of Wales, the muharajuh was of the
party. One morning Taylor arose early
and strolled out into the grounds to a
mall summer house In which there
was a Hindoo idol brought back from
India by the prince. As be came near
he saw some one, who proved to be
Dhuleep, standing in front of the idol
executing certain movements, evidently
of worship. The troth probably U
that Singh never had abandoned the
trim faith of bin fathers.
The religion of the Sikhs was found
ed by Naiiiik, who died A. D. 13,18,
and who left for the guidance of his
followers an inspired volume bearing
)lio Very tmcuplioniotis titlt) cf the
"tiruntli." This book is held in great
reverenco and is carried every morning
in solemn ntnto to the Golden Temple
of Immortality nt Amritsir, where it is
venerated by some ii.nmi.iHio or 4.oon,.
000 of people. When Europeans visit
the temple, they nre required to removo
their shoes. An exception, however,
Wit made in tho caso of the Prince of
Wales.
Tho tomb of Runjeet Singh, the fa
ther of Dhuleep, is nt Lahore, the capi
tal of tho province of Punjab. It is a
White structure, with a dome nnd five
minarets. Runjeet's mnnsolcmn is in
the center of the building, nnder the
dome. On the top of tho tomb is a
white rose surrounded by five white
lilies carved In stone. The white rose is
In memory of the great rajah, and the
lilies that of IiIm five wives, who threw
themselves on his funeral pyre. The
mother of Dhuleep Singh declined the
honor of being burned alive. New
York Times.
Where Tyndnll Wanted to Rent.
"Whatever the lute Professor Tyn
dall's final wishes may have been, it was
not," writes a correspondent, "his desire
at one time of his life that his remains
should rest in the little graveyard at
Haslemere. I remember some 10 years
ago sitting next him at a dinner party at
the late Earl of Dulhousie's and his ex
patiating with much xest and eloquence
on his horror of being interred in a damp
spot. His final resting place, the pro
fessor declured, was already prepared for
bim near his favorite Alpine retreat a
shelf cut in tho hard rock, high up in the
pure, dry mountain air, where the nat
ural process of disintegration might be
accomplished with as few of the painful
adjuncts of decay ns might be. He
laughingly volunteered to provide con
tiguous rocky shelves for any like mind
ed friends.
"I may perhaps bo allowed to add that
through all tho intervening years I have
retained a most vivid impression of the
enthusiasm with which Professor Tyn
dnll dwelt on the wilder beauties of na
ture. Ho assured me that he lived on
Uindhcad not for tho sako of the exqui
site summer days, but for the wild even
ings of spring nnd autumn, when storms
nnd mists and raiuclouds sweep across
tho open hillside. His artiHtio enjoy
ment of such u seeiio seemed to me quite
as keen as his scientific appreciation."
Westminster Gazette
Advtro t-'rnm a KltiR.
Rnhnregn, the negro king of Unyoro,
in Central Africa, is nmun who rules his
subjects with a rod of iron. Like all ty
rants, ho regulates t heir smallest actions,
and n, host of spies inform him of any
disobedience to bis commands.
Among other tilings, ho lias made a
fixed tariff of prices for everything
bought or sold in his country, and every
deviation from it is severely punished.
An instance of this is given by Vita Has
san in his book almnt Emin Pasha and
the Equatorial Province.
About a month after Hassan's arrival
in Unyoro ho bought a fowl nnd paid 80
cowries for it, while the murket price
was only 25. In that part of Africa it
takes about 2"0 cowries to make $1.
Soon afterward a dragoman of the king
apieared and brought back S cowries,
with the message:
"A fowl costs only 28 cowries, while
you have given 80. The seller has done
wrong, and the king will punish him,
but ho semis to you tho advico to be care
ful henceforth in your purchases never
to give for anything more than it is
worth, first of all in your own interest,
and next to this in order not to disturb
tho murket." Youth's Compuuion.
Am Interesting Predicament.
A man who livos in a flat nour Central
park recently had a peculiar exierience.
A couple of deaf mutes rented an apart
ment underneath his own and wore
blessed in duo season by the arrival of a
bouncing baby with an excellent pair of
lungs. At night the little one woke up
nearly the entire house by its cries, bnt
through all of it the parents slept until
the tenant above, at the solicitation of
bis wife, went down stall's and fairly
forced an entrance. The deaf and dumb
couple resort to many ingenious devices
to overcome the disadvantages nnder
which they labor. They are unable to
hear their doorbell, so they have ar
ranged a piece of colored paper upon
the gong in trach a way that the paper
flutters when the bell rings. By keep
ing a watchfel eye on the bell they are
able to receive their visitors promptly,
but their inventive genius has not as yet
devised a scheme to indicate the baby's
distress at night. New York Mail and
Express.
JCaally Answered.
"Tho subject for discussion nt the
next meeting of tho Village Debating
society is ' What Is Truth' "
"Indeed? Well, that is a question
that should be easily answered."
"I'm not of your opinion. What is
truth?"
"Truth is what two persons speak
when they fall out with each other."
Loudon Tit-Bits.
Appropriate.
The Human Elephant Say, the In
dia rubber man got lull last night.
The Double Headed Man What did
they do to bim?
- ws MM MlnytmMH All Ufa
Kansat City Times.
THOUGHTLb9 MINISTERS.
Tho Cheeky lirninmer t'ntrlien Two Di
vines nn Nltn?il I'mpmtltliin.
Abashed nt nothing, n commercial
traveler in thn lioutlt once prrpounricd n
question to a couple of clergymen,
whom hn i iiconnt red on a railroad
train, which illustrates how easily a
man may bo tripped on n simple little
catch problem. Tho drummer entered
ilito a conversation with the minis
ters nnd entertained them nimiKlngly
with his brilliant conversation, touch
ing men nnd all airs. Gradually the top
ics changed, until at last tho talk was
of Dr. 'Talmago and his visit to the
Holy Land.
"Speaking of the Holy Lnnd," said
the graceless commercial man, "I was
quite interested to reud In a New York
paper recently that n party of explorers
in Palestine had discovered a huge heap
of bones, which, from their size ami
quantity, are supposed to be of the chil
dren which Herod ordered killed. They
were found In a cave, which had been
closed for centuries, which accounts for
their preservation."
"Indeed!" replied one of the clergy
men, much interested. "I had not
heard of it. It is certainly a surpris
ing discovery."
"Yes," continued the drummer,
"and, oddly enough, whllo nearly half
of the bones were bleached white, the
rest were as black as ebony."
"Remarkable," ejaculated the cler
gyman who had already spoken, while
the other looked at tho drummer sus
piciously. "What is yonr theory?" he contin
ued. "Do you think it possible that
the bleached bones could be of males
and the black of females?"
"Possibly," replied the more com
municative clergyman, "I am not an
anatomist, however, and can't say what
effects long exposure has on the bone
of the sexes."
"And you," persisted the drummer
to the other. "Whnt is yonr opinion?
Do you think it possible that tho white
bones belong to male infants nnd the
bluck to female, or vice versa? That is
the problem that now excites the dis
coverers." "Really," replied the other, "1 don't
know, but, possibly, as yon first put it,
the white bones may be of the male
children, and the black of the female,"
Shortly after this the clergymen
reached their destination nnd left tho
train. Just ns it wns about moving oil
tho drummer, who had been chuckling
to himself the meanwhile, thrust into
tho hand of onen curd, upon which wns
written tho words:
"Excuse mo if 1 suggest that you
read your Bibles hereafter with greater
caro. Had you done so in the past, yon
would have known that boy bubies only
wcro ordered slain by Herod." Now
York Ileruld.
Thejr Injured film.
Tho ways and menus of insurance
agents for securing customers ore many
and varied. Tho modus operandi seems
to be to get the victim interested and
then bombard him with aignment, elo
quence nnd statistics, nnd it is in the
first that the real genius of the business
comes in,
A merchant was writing at his desk
the other day when two of the craft en
tered. Being well dressed nnd prosper
ous looking, ho rose to receive them nnd
inquired their business.
"I want," suid one, "to introduce to
you my friend, Mr. Booker, who is a
well known gent Ionian living hero, nnd
special Hgent for tho Bluster Life In
suranco company."
"I am pleased to meet Mr. Booker,"
returned tho merchant, "but I really
don't know that I'm acquainted with
you."
"Indeed," said tho first. "Booker,
old man, introduce inn."
Booker did, and tho merchant, seeing
tho trick, burst out into hearty guffaw
and was soon insured by tho two
friends, who, if they had entered In tho
ordinary style and stated their busi
ness, would probably have been shown
the door. London Tit-Bits.
Irory Caning la China and Jnpan.
In China and Japan ivory has been
carved, the ivory balls inclosed inside
one another being specially noted.
Many theories have been formed as to
how these balls hnvo been cut. Perhaim
a probablo ono is that a ball of ivory
was taken, around the upper and lower
ends of which four small holes were
carved out, gradually diminishing in
size toward tho center until the axis of
tho one hole met tho axis of the other
or lower one at right angles in the cen
ter of the ball, and thut then small
tools were inserted, and a thin layer of
ivory, forming a purt of a circlo from
ono holo to its lower corresponding one,
was cut and loosened from tho whole
mass. Sc, gradually cutting from one
hole to the next ono, a complete inner
circlo was eventually loosened, the cir
cles themselves afterward being cut into
tho required pattern. Chambers' Jour
uul. Coins with dutes referring to "Auno
Domini" (A. D.) cannot be found bear
ing uu earlier duto than thut of the four
teenth century.
The little island of Ioelund, with
about 70,000 inhabitants, has the same
number of newspupers as the great em
pire of China.
The apple purer was given to the pub
lio in 18oa. At the present day oue east
ern firm makes over 37,000 a year.
llelsy Pnttrrffnn Itmninitrte.
Mine. Betsy Patterson Bonaparte, tho
sister-in-law of nn emperor, was born In
Baltimore, nnd nfter living many years
abroad returned to her itntivo land, ,
where she passed tho last years of her
life.
Ono of tho old lady's cr.'K-k stories in
her latter days was of n lesson in eti
quette given her by tho black butler of
her host. At breakfast she motioned
to him nnd handed him In r cup, wish
ing a second cup of ten. Undo Bob,
instead of taking tho cup to his mistress
at tho head of thn table, put it down
with a great flourish on the sideboard.
"Bnt 1 wanted another cup of ten,"
said Mme. Bonapnrte.
"Did yon, mum?" blandly asked Un
cle Bob. "Yon see, mum, you put your
spoon in de snuccr, an that means you
donn' want no mo' tea. When you
wants some mo ton, de c rect way is
to put de spoon in de cup like dis
henh," and Uncle Bob gravely illustrat
ed the "o'rect" method of procedure. (
The family were on thorns, expecting
an outbreak from the sister-ln-lnw of
nn emperor, although there is no doubt
that a black butler In his own baili
wick could face an emperor himself,
but Betsy was only amused and laughed
heartily.
Aftor SO years of money getting and
money saving, she realized in the lat
ter purt of her lifo how futile it (til was
and rxplnimed grimly, "Once I had
everything but money! Now I have
nothing but money." Boston Tran
script. Wreitllnc With Englleh.
All strange tongues hold pitfalls, bnt
the English language seems to be rather
more provided with traps for the un
wary than almost any other. Vassar
girls had a private langh not long ago nt
the eulogy bestowed by a French gentle
man whose admiration for the young un
dergraduates considerably exceeded his
ability to speak it in English. He had
met the young women at one or two day
festivities and was sufficiently impressed,
but when, at an evening reception, they
burst upon him in the bravery of full
dress the admiring Gaul felt at once the
handicaps of his vocabulary. "I cannot
say," he confided to one of his hosts,
"how beautiful the young ladies appear
In their nightdresses." Her Point of
View in New York Times.
A Mace of til rent CnnnlliaU.
Unlikely as it may seem to some who
read these lines, it is n fact neverthe
less that there is an island in tho gulf
of California, not more than 00 miles
from tho Mexican mainland, which is
inhabited by tho remnants of n race of
giant cannibals. This startling discov
ery was imido by n west coast natural
ist early in 18111 and has since been
confirmed by both United States and
Mexican explorers. Mr. McNamara,
tho scientist referred to, has a photo
graph of ono of tho meu found by him
on tho island, that individual, ulthough
not one of the largest, being over 7 feet
in height. Tho island upon which they
wero found is known us tho island or
islo of Leri, nnd tho original discoverer
says that there is every evidence of can
nibalism among them. St. Louis Re
public. 0
What Decided II Ira.
"It's no use, " said the poet to tho bar
ber, "I will have to got my hair cut."
"All right. Want it pretty short?"
"Close np. 1 want tho job attended
to thoroughly."
"Long hair ain't instylo any more,"
ventured tho barber in an effort to be
genial.
"It irtn't tho stylo 1 euro for. Just
a few minutes ago I was introduced to
a man and ho suid, 'Which do you piny,
football or the piano?'" Washington
Star. -
lilt Wlfo'e Nmue.
An old farmer, intent on making his
will, was asked by a lawyer tho name
of his wife, when ho gravely replied:
"Well, indeed, 1 really don't recollect
what it is. We've boon married for up
ward of 40 years, and I've always called
her my old woman." The lawyer left
a blank to be filled np when his old
woman's name was ascertained. New
York Mail and Express.
One of the most interesting collec
tions of historical papers in the country
is in the possession of Joseph Hilton of
Pittsburg. The collection includes many
old, rare autographs and newspapers.
An "election extra," issued by Tho
Lodger in 18-U, is a prized relic belong-,
ing to Mr. Hilton.
A inodical journal commends tho in
vention for discovery of a method cf
treating certain disease by a doctor in
Trinidad, but says that "unfortunate
ly" he is debarred from putting it into
practice in his country owing to the
scarcity of these particulur diseases
there.
A fountain thut stood for many yours
on tho Main street square in Puwtuck
et, R. I., bus been removed and set np
in n cemetery. Its base hours in big
letters tho touchingly appropriate word
"Welcome."
Somo women are awfully touchy. A
widow hus brought an action against a
paper which said that her husband had
gone to a happier homo,
Hair cut from the heads of deud wo
men never nrovea aariafutnrv an atiu.
rienoed hairdresser havimr no difflnnltv!
in detecting it. - .