Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-11-23

come from. Perhaps at first from Brazil
which is the nearest point Of communica-
tion. The soil is fairly good. There will
be some trade in lumber, because the island
has any quantity of fallen trees, which were
in 1888 and no doubt sill are quite sound
Then there ore the gunno, the wild fowls,
the fishing and the trade In turtles There
Is an almost inexhaustible supply of tur-
ties, and they are an excellent article of
commerce"
"Will you spend the rest of your days in
Trinidads"
mo, indeed. l could not endure it to
cut myself off from the whole civilized
world in that fashion. shall live there a
few years. and afterward shall come and
go. shall atart in the spring, if the war
in Brazil is over That has delayed me
from starting this fall"
The baron's kingdom will be about 90
square miles in extent-not so bad, by any
means; not enough to justify the title of
emperor, nor yet, perhaps, of king, but
certainly enough to justify prince or grand
duke, with H. R. H. before it. His royal
highness the Grand Duke Of Trinidad would
not rank with great white czar or the en-
peror 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 is interesting to think what will come
about should Mr.. Flaglers son-in-law thus
make himself one of the sovereigns of the
earth. Will all the nations recognize himp
Will his father-in-law become one of his
subjectsP If his people should some day
revolt and wish toestablish republic, will
he, holding the titles to the land, order
them off? And will they go or will they
send him? There are absolutely no prece-
dents in this case. Other men have stepped
into kingdoms already manufactured. Bar
on Harden-Hickey will manufacture his
own kingdom.
Aside from his present enterprise, Baron
Harden-Hickey is very interesting man.
He comes of one of those Irish families that
fled with the Stuarts to France and be-
came Frenchmen. He is poet, novelist,
journalist. duelist, soldier, sailor. He has
known poverty, and he knows what it
means to enjoy great wealth. He has been
everywhere and has done almost every
thing, and yet this appetite for adventure, for
hardship is unsatisfied. He was educated
in the College of Jesuits at Namur, Bel
GUM, and afterward at Leipsic, where he
learned to fight duels. When he was 10, he
entered the French Military school at st.
Cyr, but left when his father died in 1875.
He devoted himself to writing and to the
study of sculpture. Beginning with 1875,
he published many novels and poems.
In 1873 he started in Paris a royalist
journal-Le Triboulet-and for 10 years,
supporting the claims Of Count de Cham
.bord, he fought many duels and endured
the continual harassing of the republican
government. The Boulanger alliance of
the Count de Paris disgusted him with
French royalty, which, as he said, never
could hope to do anything in France again.
He abandoned his journalistic work and
took passage in the Astoria for q sailing
voyage around the world. He visited China,
Japan and India and in the last country
became Buddhist-not an esoteric Bud
dhist after the manner of the Blavatsky
cult, but believer in the teachings of
Buddha as a wise and pure man, with no
esoteric nonsense.
Three years ago, while in New York look
ing about with some idea of endeavoring
to evangelize America into Buddhism, he
met and married Miss Anna Flagler. Since
then he has been in the orient again and
has only returned here to set on foot his
Trinidad scheme. 1t may be that Baron
Harden Hickey's Buddhistic beliefs will
largely influence his plans for the new king
dom.-New York World.