The record-union., 1893-01-26
SULTAN OF JOHORE
What He Looks Like-How He Dresses
and Lives.


and Lives.
In personal appearance his highness
Will compare favorably with the best
representatives of the Anglo-SaXOn race.
de is five feet eight in hight, is well
built with clean-cut, kindly features.
His color is nearer the Spanish type than
the Indian. His hands and feet are
small, forehead high and full, lips thin,
and nose acquiline. His hair and mus
tache are iron gray. He speaks good
English, and is able to converse in
French and German. In everyday
dress he affects the English Prince
Albert suit, to which he adds
narrow silk sarong and a rim
less black cap. At unofficial dinners
low-cut vest all with diamond buttons,
black pantaloons and gray sarong.
liz the front of his cap is a
plume Of diamonds, and in his
button-hole diamond orchid. on his
wrists are heavy gold bracelets of Malay
an Workmanship, and his fingers are
cramped with almost priceless rings.
in official dress, including his crown,
his highness wears $4,000, 600 worth Of
diamonds. His collar epaulet, belt, cuffs,
and orders of all the monarchieS of Chris
tendon blaze with diamonds. The
handle and scabbard OF his sword are
solid mass of precious stones.
Other than being a lover of jewels, his
highness is a lover of good horse flesh
and of yachts. His stud comprises 200
horses, among which are fleet Arabians,
sturdy little Delhi ponies, thoroughbred
Australians, and Indian gallOWays.
Twice q year he offers cup at the Singa-
pore jockey races and enters half-doZen
OF his best runners. At his tent on the
grounds he dispenses champagne, ices
and cakes, and his native band Of thirty
nippnS pIauS altarpatplU with the Vpui-
mental band from the English barracks.
His 300-ton steam launch was built on
the Clyde. Besides the Sultan's saloon
on the lower deck, which is furnished be-
fitting a king, there are cabins for
ten people. The promenade deck is under
an awning and is furnished with heavy
rosewood dlnlng-table and long chairs.
She carries four guns of long range.
He has two smaller armed yachts of
| 100 tons and 20 tons each that are OF light
draught, built expressly y Tor shore and
river use. At present a Liverpool firm
has an order for 500-ton iron yacht and
gunboat combined, which his highness
designs shall be one of the finest ahoat.
The revenue of Johore amounts to
S6,000,000 a year, to which the Sultans
private property in Singapore adds
nearly half-million more. The bulk of
the national revenue is raised from
opium, spirits and gambling. The
scheme OF taxation IS simple, but most
effective. A Chinaman who has a long
ing for the pipe pays into his highness'
treasury 81 a month, and is granted per-
nit to buy and smoke opium; another
monthly dollar, and he is licensed to i'm
bibe.
The gambling privilege is given to the
highest bidder, and he has the mo-
nopoly for the kingdom. There is also
small export tax on gambler and tin.
on the other had, any immigrant who
wishes to settle and open up farm of
any kind is given all the ground
he can work, rent free, to have and
to hold as long as he keeps it under culti-
walton. Should he leave, it reverts, with
all improvements, to the crown.
The Government is autocratic, but tenn
pered and kept in sympathy with the
English ideas of justice as seen in the
great colonies that surround it.