Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-10

thar his his..s4Asid not allow his own
taste to prevail. iaH use nothing but native
furniture and fatats His garden is lovely.
being laid out in the highest style of Hindu
landscape art. At-the foot of the garden
is great marble building open on all sides.
witha picturesque, goof sustained by a null
fitude of coiumns,e (which is the public or
audience hall wieTe his highness receives
his subjects and gynducts affairs of cere-
mony. Behind i23 relic of some of his
sem-barbarous ancestors in the form of
tank. in which -@et of loathsome croco-
dies are kept for the amusement of people
who like that spy of thing. They
looked after by atvanerable half-naked old
Hindu who calls them up to the terrace
by utterng peculiar cry, and when they
poke their ugly noses out of the water and
crawl up the steps teases them with dainty
morseIs he has obtained at the nearest
slaughter house|aa1t is not soul-lifting
spectacle.
Maintains an Elephant Stud.
The stables more interesting. The
maharaja maintains the elephant stud Of
his ancestors. and has altogether about
eighty monsters. which are used for heavy
work about the palace grounds and fol
travelling in the country. They are exceed
ingiy well trained and obey the drivers.
who sit astride the necks of the BEASTS
with a peculiar-looking goad of steel 1t is
shaped like q heur-de-lis. with one arm
bkroken off. and the points of the other
two arms sharpened to a keen edge. don't
know exactly how they do It, but there is
some secret confidential understanding by
which the elephants know what is meant
when the drivers jab them with one point
and then with the other.
In the stud are two enormous savage
beasts, which are kept fighting duels for
the entertainment of the maharaja and his
guests These duelS take place in pad
dock where horses are exercised. His high
ness has erected little kiosk. in which he
a sit CHI q Cun lille the
Jort goes on. He also has a lot of Loop
ards. panthers and cheetahs Cdindu wild
CATS which are trained like dogs for hunt
ing purposes, and are said to be useful
and intelligent as Gordon settlers. His high
ness frequently takes out party of friends
into the jungle for tiger shooting and uses
these tame beasts to scare up the game
He is very fond of horses and has 300 diff
ferent breeds kept in long rows of stables
opening upon the paddock in which they
are trtained. Each horse has a coolie to
look after it, for no coolie could possibly
attend to more than one. The man has
nothing else to do. He sleeps on the straw
in the stall of the animal and seldom leaves
1t for moment from the time he Is as
signed to the duty until his services are no
longer required. The maharaja has spent a
great deal Of money and taken great deal
of pains to improve the stock of his sub
jects, both horses and cattle.
He has an experimental farm for encour-
aging agriculture and teaching the people
and horticultural garden of seventy acres
with menagerie, in which are a lot of
beautiful tigers captured by his own men
upon his own estates, within twelve miles
of town. They catch a good many tigers
alive, and one of his amiable habits is to
present them to his friends and people
whom he desires to honor
The Maharaja's Museum.
In the center of the horticultural garden
stands one of the noblest modern buildings
in India, a museum which the maharaja
established several years ago for the per-
manent exhibition of the arts and indus
tries of his people, who are very highly
skilled in metal and loom work of all kinds,
in sculpture, enameling, in making jewelry
of gold and silver and varieties of glass
work. ntsl
At great expense he has assembled sam
pies of similar work from other countries
in order that his subjects may have the
benefit of comparin git with their own, and
in connection with the museum has estab
Gshed school of are and industry, which
at present has between five and six hun
dred students receiving instruction in the
arts and industries In which the people of
Jeypore have always eXcelled The museum
is called Albert Hail. in honor of the King
of England, and the park is christened in
memory of the late Earl Of Mayo, who
while Niceroy of india became an intimate
friend and reYered adviser of the father of
maharaja. An up-to-date hospital with a
hundred beds is named Mayo Hospital in
memory of his valued friend
The Maharaja College is another institu-
ton which has been established by this
philosophical and progressive Hindu, who
has done more for tie educa ton of his peo-
pie than any other native prince There
are now about 1,09b students with a fac
ulty of eighty-two professors, including fif-
teen Englishmen and twelve Persians The
college is affiliated with the University of
Calcutta, and has the best reputation of
any institution of learning among the ma
tive states.
But even higher testimony to the liberal
1t yand progressive spirit of this prince is
a school for the education of women. 1t is
only OF recent years that the women in In
dia We're considered worth educating. and
even now. as | have told you in previous
letter, only about half million in this vast
country, with a female population of 150.-
uJoVoo, can read and write But the upper
classes are gradually beginning to realize
the advantage of educating their girls. and
the Maharaja of Jeypore was one of the
hrst TO establish a school for that purpose
which now has between 700 and 500 Girls
under the instruction of English and native
teachers.