, 1900-05-12
COT RAJAH'S GIRL.
UNCLE ISAAC NET AND
WON HIS PRETTY WIFE
IN INDIA.
Put to Hard Tests-Cobra, Man-Eat-
ing Tiger, and Keg of Powder Fail
to Kill-Wins 500, 900 in Bets
From the Prince, Steals a Diamond
From an Idol, and Comes Home.

FrOm the FRINGE, StealS q
From an Idol. and Comes Home.
MY great-uncle Isaac was n sailor
in the days when American shippin'
was somethin' wurth talkin' about"
said the truthful man. by a series Of
accidents to which a. in his perfession
renders 'emselves liable. he had be-
come somewhat bunged up and in the
last few wages he went on before he
made his fortune in India and married
my great-aunt, he sailed as a super
cargo.
ION the last wage he made to the
Orient he left ship at Bombay and
started out to see India. wanderin'
around until he fetched up at the CAPT
tai one of the Independent native
states down there in the southern part
of the country. The next mornin' af-
ter he landed he had gone out walkin'
and climb up a sacred hill and there
a funny thing happened. On the top
Of the hill, kneelin' on top Of a big
rock in the midst of a grove OF trees,
he saw a beautiful young m This
was the hill of solitary meditation
and prayer and II you expected the
gods to listen to your prayers, you had
to come there alone.
The young woman heard a twig
crack under by uncle's foot, and she
got up startled and turned toward him
a face whose perfect beauty struck him
dumb with establishment. She was
without the veil that the religion of
the country makes all woman cover
their faces with. 1t was lynn on the
ground away from the rock. Mortified
at the thought that she was letting a
man, and, above all, a Christian man,
see her unveiled, she gave a little cry,
made a jump, her foot caught, and she
would have gone headlong to death on
the rocky ledge below II my uncle
hadn't sprang and caught her in his
arms. -
"'I love YOU said my uncle. 1t
seemed as if he ought to say some
thing, and that was in his mind.
a. l love you, l love you, I love you
the girl replied. just like a parrot. She
told him she was the Rajah's daughter.
and had learned English from a gov
%erness she had had one year.
I'VE will run away said my uncle.
"tOh, beautiful dream said the girl,
beginning to cry. To be the one wife
of a man who will love me. But II we
run away, my father will demand me
and you. too. Of the English, and be-
cause the English never interfere with
native customs and religious beliefs In
order to preserve peace. your govern
ment will give us up. and then-oh.
they will burn us or boil u.s.
"I'd like to see my government Civ
in us up said my uncle, for I amt an
Englishman; I'm an American
Then he left for it was time for the
princess attendants to come after her.
The next four or five days my uncle
laid around cudgelin' his brains, but
with no result. He started to get In
with the natives, and they called him
the man with the beautiful leg the
man with a giitterin' eye the man
with a tooth Of gold any one Of these
titles, or all three, If they had time.
Ny uncle had adopted Hindoo costume,
and he his draperies SO that his
Tightly stockinged left leg was always
in sight from the knee down, and NO
sculptor ever carved a more perfect
shank. In a fight on the Mary G. Hold
der, brig, my uncle's middle tooth, up
per jaw, and his right eye had been
knocked out, s he had a big gold tooth
and a glass eye. The natives all
thought the tooth was for ornament,
and If they could have got one like ii
any one of EN- would have knocked out
a tooth to replace 1t with gold.
After my uncle had worked in with
the natives and had studied the situa-
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ton and had beat his brains, and after
he had seen the princess once more on
the sacred hill and gone wild with love
and no plan for runnin' away had sug-
gested itself. he Jest fixed himself up
in his BEST and went to the old Rajah
and told him he was the Rajah OF
Cumberland Foreside, state OF Maine,
America, and demanded the hand OF
his daughter.
81 will give you a chance to win my
daughter, who, il it be true that she
met and talked with a foreigner, is to
me now no more than Dirt said the
Rajah. You shall undergo three trials
of deadly peril. II you emerge from all
three alive. 1t shall be as a token that
my daughter has not violated our re-
a.