The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-22
DIR, STONES LETTER
From IudiG-Tho Golden Guns of Bar'dA.
Astory for Children.

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1 was reading this morning about Fred
Krupp the greatest cannon maker in the
world, He is a German. He makes iron
guns which rival the storms in thunder.
He is a kind and gentle man yet l suppose
his iron ~thunderers kill more men, make
more widows and orphans, and knock to
pieces more ships and forts and houses
and generally do more damage than those
of any other man in this war living world.
have seen guns that could crawl into,
go big were they; then | have seen and
heard Calling %gunB-I think they are
dreadful. | read in the history OF old
Fort Henry, once the name OF Wheeling,
Of a log cannon. The Indians loaded 9
hollow log 10 batter down the old fort and
"Vot bowed" up for their pains. But not
until a tsw days ago did ! see q gold gun
or cannon There were two OF them. l
mink they were made not 80 much to
KIN people as for pride's sake. Just the
same spirit influenced the old Hindoo
Raish to spend 100000 in making these
ouns which moves many American ladies'
10 buy a really new style bonnet, tina is,
to get ahead Of somebody else ttoW
many people in America enjoy getting
ahead OF everybody, either In bOnnets, or
horses, or houses, or necktes, or dear
knoys what, Isn't that true2 Why a
INdy should get cross because she sees
"verybody wearing a hat just like hers is
h the very reason that the GGekwaF had
ioy Jetermining to get ahead Of the chief
who made the silver guns. q.
n my readers will look up the map OF
India, find Bombay, then LOOK up Baroda,
which is but a nights ride by rail from
Bombay, they will locate the home OF the
"Golden guns OF Baroda." These guns
ara named sun and moon. They are al
most worshipped. BY their side stands q
banner which Is also 30 holy that people
look with awe upon 1t.
should have told you that the Prince
of Baroda Ia called the GGCkpdr. He ia
an independent prince, hasa government,
A country aud an army Of his own. He Is
Of course friendly to the Queen aud her
government and ia punished II he Is not
good but the English allow him TO rule
N his own little realm. His kingdom is
about as large as one Of our smallest States.
said il he was good he was allowed to do
as he pleased-if he did not 90 too far. /
saw while in Baroda q long box contain
ing the most costly carpet ever read OIL
ayen in the arabian Nights" 1t cost
500 600 rupees or Sl,500,00O. The Clark.
war wanted to do the handsome thing and
sent that carpet made Of gold cloth, jewels
and pearls down to Bombay TO DO shipped
OF 10 Mecca as o present to the Black
Stone worshlpped by good Moslems in
that city Of Arabia. Well, the English
quietly sent the carpet back with instruc.
tons not to make such costly presents. l
saw the box all covered with dust lyingin
an upper room in the palace.
We reached BRroda after q dusty ride oil
twelve hours from Graut railroad station,
Bombay. Mrs. Stone Is as fond Of travel.
ing as most Wheeling people, and ! rather
Ike her company. She and l made up the
party. We secured a second class Compart-
ment to ourselves. In India we can 10
hrst, or second, or third class. The cars
are not like our home oues-long cara
with doors at the ends and isles running
down the middle. They are divided into
small compartments or rooms, with doors
on the side. Each compartment Is Gu.
tirely separated, no boys came through
them ceiling apples, or figs, or morning
papers, The conductor never enters your
compartment, he Ia not even called a con.
duCtor, but a "guard." Tho seats, two OF
them to a compartment, are as long as the
car is wide, Now imagine yourselfin one
Of them and of for Baroda and the guns
Of gold.
Ipreier these Carsto the American. One
a lie down at full length in them with.
out paying two dollars extra for a sleeper
ticket with ten cents in the morning for
the porter.
AT half.past six A. NJ. we reached Baroda
Captain Lynn, Of the Gaekwar's army, was
on the platform to meet US. As we left
the car we took our beds with US for one
never travels here without his bed. As q
rule when you are shown your room in
the home Of your hostess you find q bare
bedstead and mattress ready for your tired
bones. Bed and soap aud towels Iemem.
Der to carry with you when travelling in
India. Last year Mrs. Stone and | spent
ten days with an American missionary
and there wasn't even q mattress on the
bed Stats. Fortunately We had o mattress
with us.
Baroda is an interesting city. Like all
native cities Its streets are for the most
narrow, Its houses built Of sun.dIied brick
covered with plaster, producing q painful
glare. II has palaces and public build.
ings quite modern and very grand andim-
posing. The King has two palaces, one in
tho city, the other five miles out in the
country. l found atelephone in operation
between these palaces and the public Off.
ces. 1t talked Gujdr att. The Queen
mother also has a palace. by the way,
the Prince sent a singular message for q
Hindoo through his telephone q few dayb
ago. A very cultivated nativeC christian lady
was visiting him. He had put at her dis.
posal a furnished house and q carriage.
The message was sent to her. 1t was this:
Take your organ with you 10 the feast
and after they finish their nonsense play
and sing some OF your beautiful hymns to
them" That Christian telephone D A more
wonderful 10 them than the golden guns
were 10 CE.
This prince IL quite advanced In bis
ideas, the old Brahmin priests think. He
laughs w tub uIu bupbIbllLluubi Anu III
have two wives. His first wife died a
year ago. He was quite obstinate in re.
lnsing to marry again, but he had to yield.
lie however insisted on seeing the lady
before the ceremony. He invited the
native christian lady to 60 and give his
new wife some good, wholesome advice.
Now for the guus. OF course we went
to see them, they were kept we found, in
q shed. l was surprised at this. The shed
was but q common affair. Side by side
under II stood mounted four %ten.pounder
cannon, two Of silver and two Of gold. The
cannon were about four and a half feet
long and as thick as ordinary cannon.
There was a tube Of iron about half inch
thick inside the guns for the discharges
Of powder would tear the gold.-
The gun carriages belonging 10 this
costly ordnance were covered Withplates Of