The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09
How One Of the Native Rulers OF
India Lives and Governs.
IN THE BACK WOODS OF INDIA.
Oar Correspondent Takes ar Excu ssi9n on an
Elephant and Describes The Country
Scenes of West Hindostan.

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native states. There is in Hindostan a
territory nearly one-iifth the size of the
United States, and containing a population
OF more than fifty six millions, which is
governed by raiahs. These raiahs have
THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
They have revenues of their own, levy tax
alton as they please and organize their PEG
pie and armies on different basis from
the English portion Of India They are
subject, in certain sense, to the English,
and most OF them have English officers
connected with their establishments.
They are fuedatory, states TO England,
and England does not allow them 20 make
war upon each other, nor can they have any
relations with foreign states. If a raiah
misgoverns his people or Expresses them,
the viceroy Of India reproves him, and if
ne does not COME Is time secures his re-
moval. These states, however, have none
of the new customs of English India.
Few foreigners visit them, and the people
are substantially the same as they were
years ago-beforc the railroad and the
English desire for business came IN to
grind them up in the mortar of modern
civilization One-third of the whole terri
and their subjects make up one-ffth of the
inhabitants Their united armies amount
10 30O,0O6 men, and their gross yearly
revenues are about eighty million dollars.
THRsE RAJABs LIYE as GRANnLv
Is did the kings Of northern India q Tue
past, and the English merchants OF India
eater largely to their wants. Some of the
finest jeweiry stores III the world ere here
in India and under every glass counter you
see barbaric jeyelry set with diamonds
worth fortune. ! saw two rings yester
day, one worth 5000 and the other 81, eco.
The first W2S diamond of about the size
of Il hickory nut set around with cluster
of small diamonds as big as peas and the
whole affixed 10 I, finger ring, containing
enough gold to make hunting case for a
Waterbury watch. The other was the
same size as TO the gold, but the central
stone was a ruby fully as big rs q chestnut,
and the diamonds about it were very beau
tiful. The top Of these rings were as large
around as old copper cents, and as I looked
at them | asked the ieweler who would
wear such gorgeous and unwieldly objects
Hc replied:
'oH, We SELL THESE TO THE RAJAHs.
They want the most extravagant jewelry,
and some OF them fairly cover themselves
with gems
At anonher store I was told that a rajah
had Just been in and given an order for POO
yards of satin at $40 a yard. He wanted
this to paper the walls of a room in d new
palace and thought nothing Of pasting this
$1,000 upon the plaster. The Sultan of
,Johore, when | visited him IN his palace al
Johore had ropes Of gold about twice the
size of a clOthesliue about his wrists, and
upon his fingers were diamond rings. The
fingers Of the right hand were covered
from the liuucliCS TO the first joints with
# with diamonds ard pmpTalf-S SO
that diamond alternated with an emerald
all over mis- hand. and the whole made a
blazing fist Of white and grC.n. On the
left hand the fingers we're covered with
rings in the same manner. save that costly
rubes took the place of the emeralds. At
Delhi, was shown a dressing gown set
with precious stones which cost s., 500, and
which had Just been made for rajah, and
here at Jeypore, through the courtesy of one
Of the most noted raiahs of India, l have
had chance 10 visit his palace, TO get {
glimpse of his wonderful stables, to take
ride on one Of his court elephants and sex
the life and business of his capital city.
Jeypore is one Of the northwest province!
Of India, 1t is
A DAYS RIDE FROM BOyBAT,
not far off from the borders Of Afghan
istau and some distance south of Cashmer
and the Himmalaya mountains. II has
and its rajah's income amounts TO s., OGO,OO
a wear The capital is the city of Jeypor
in which l am writing. 1t is said to be tn
finest native city of India, and II Is Ger
tainly il,a no other city have ever seen
n 10 hi than Omaha, Denver or Kansa
I;ity. and 1t is laid out as regularly as tn
citV of Washington. Its main street
two miles long and 120 feet wide, and thi
is intersected at right angles by or
streets of the same width, and the ,rhn
is cut by narrow streets into re ,ss.',.. ~
blocks III roads are better ',tll5 ;,h'
than those of any city of 40 it,;ta9 60
They are as hard as ,,o,,s and az smooth
floor. The .,ssas on the main street a
reguIarls Quilt and some raiah Of the Pc
lala s,ut The city and made the proper
1Holdera build after fixed regulations. 1t
more like a Spanish centre than an lndii
town. The houses come close to the sid
walks, and they have balconies over the
with oriole windows jutting out at Il
second stories above arcades which run
low from house to house; they a
almost altogether two-stOry buildings, al
the painting OF
TIE WHOLE Is DELICATE PINK.
Tmarine miles of pink houses with lattic
work windows, through which you m;
now an then see the eyes Of high caste Hi
doc damsels Let nut brown fingers he
and there clasp the l&ttice-wOrl al
through larger hole let here and there
arm peep out. In some Of the balloons
YOU see turbaned men and boys sittil
dressed in the richest of garments, I'D
side them Hindoo maidens, thci" rae
covered with shGwls and their eyss pee
ing out through the cracks.
Below in the decades are shops II 3 -As
sitting legged with &C DDS piled afS...
them. are merchants selling the tuOdsal
and one things used by the people, and o.
in the street rushing here ana there, mo
ing along leisurely, now chatting, and no
talking business, is Tue most motley throl
OF native men and beasts you viii md
any city Here is little caravan OF came
-iong-legged, gaunt, bumped animals ri
den by bare legged men IN turbans who b.
ND aud down as the camel rocks It's w;
along. Many of the camels are led, and t
drivers ride them with rope fastened in
their noses. They sit on the hump and
BEAT THE CAMEL WITH WHIP
or 2 cloth. There is one camel ridden by
woman. Her bare legs clad in bracele
are astride of the hump and her one e.
peeps out as she directs the driver whe
TO lead the beast. Here is one carryil
stones. Great long flags are tied on bo
sides of his hump. and he goes along VA
his lip down, pouting like spoiled chill
Here is another being loaded with lumb
a1das the rafters, one after another, are tie
70 his back he blubbers and cries like