The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-02
cellent article Of commerce"
VIII you spend the rest of your days
In Tripidadg'

cellent article Of commerce"
VIII you spend the rest of your days
In Trinidad"
mo. indeed. I could not endure II TO
cut myself Off from the whole civilized
woriu IN mat fashion. ! shall live there n
lew years, and afterward I shall come
anu 60 shall start In the spring, IL
Iile war In Brazil Is over That has delay
Cd me from starting this fall"
The baron's kingdom will be about sixty
square miles In extent-not so bad. by
eny means; not enough TO Justify the
tue OF emperor. nor yet. perhaps Of kirg,
Dat certainly enough TO justify price or
grand duke. with H. r. r. before II. His
royal highness the Grand Duke Of Trinidad
would not rank with great white car or
she emperor Of Germany. But he would
be fully as lofty as the Prince Of Monaco.
or the Prince of Lippe or Lichtenstein,
or any of those little Kingdoms which have
TO ask permission of their neighbors when
their soldiers wish TO have target practice.
1t IL Interesting to think what will come
about should Mr.. Flagler's son-ln-law
thus make himself one Of the sovereigns
OF the earth. VIII all nations recognize
him? VIII his father-in-law become one
Of his subjects? If his people should
some day revolt and wish to establish a
land, order them off? And will they go or
will they send him? There are absolutely
no precedents in this case. Other men
have STEPPED into kingdoms already
manufactured. Baron Harden Hickey will
manufacture his own kingdom.
Aside from his present enterprise, Baron
Harden Hickey is a very Interesting man.
He comes of one OF those Irish families
that fled with the Stuarts to France and
became Frenchmen. He is a poet move
list. journalist, duelist, soldier. sailor. He
has known poverty. and he knows what
II means 70 enjoy great wealth. He has
been everywhere and has done almost
everything. and yet his appetite for ad-
venture, for hardship is unsatisfled He
was educated I'm the College of Jesuts at
Namur, Belgium, and afterward at Leip-
sic, where he learned TO fight duels. When
he was nineteen, he entered the French
Military school at st. Cyr, but left when
his father died i'm 1875 He devoted himself
70 writing and to the study of sculpture.
Beginning with 1876 ne published many
novels and poems
In 1878 ne started I'm Paris a royalist
jpurnal-Le Triboulet-and for ten years,
supporting the claims Of Count de Cham
bord, he fought many duels and endured
the continual harassing Of the republican
government. tHt BoHtdiStF tittHtt Oh
the Count de Paris disguised him with
French royalty. which, as he said. never
could hope tc DO anything I'm France
again He abandoned his journalistic
work, and took passage In the Astoria for
a sailing voyage around the world. He
visited China, Japan and India and in the
last country became a BuddEist-not IN
esoteric Buddhist after the manner Of the
Blevatsky cult but a believer i'm the
teachings Of Buddha as a wise and pure
man, with no esOteric nonsense.
Three years ago. while I'm New York
looking about with some idea of endeayor-
Ing % evangelize America into Buddhism,
he met and married Miss Anna Flagler.
Since then he has been I'm the orient again
and has only returned here to set on foot
his Trinidad scheme. 1t may be that Bar
on Harden-Hickey's Buddhistic beliefs will
largely influence his plans for the new
kingdcm.-New York World.