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An Echo of the Fourth.

THERE is a small hoy who resides on
Thomas Circle who didn't set OF
any frecrackers on the glorious Fourth,
but who is satisfied. Some policemen
are not quite pleased. Early that
morning this small boy emerged upon the
street with a large red cannon cracker
OF the Chinese type tucked safely under
his arm. He STROBE out to the middle
of the car tracks and there. setting down
his engine of noise and destruction.
struck a match and applied il to rle de-
pending fuse. while pedestrians stood
Mortified and policemen hurried up from
three directions.
Put it out" yelled a man who was
driving a FESTIVE horse My horse'I run
away"
''Oh. it's going off. squeaked a yound
miss on her way to the picnic, and. clap
ping her hands To her cars. she dashed
into A neighboring drugstore.
What are you doing that for?'' ex-
claimed the first policeman to reach the
scene as he grabbed the boy by the col
lar and gave him a rough shake. Don't
you know it's against the law? I'll have
to take you TO jail
What for?" asked the youth. meekly.
'.Why, setting off a bomb-CraCher in
the streets" petulantly replied the police
man, pointing TO where the sputterinS
fuse was now less than half an inch
from the body Of the cracker-too close
for him to risk eXtinSu.shing it.
II amt set off no bum-cracker." re-
plied the youth. EFF you'll wait a
TIE policeman saw a little puff OF
smoke from the giant explosive and
that was all,
The boy wrenched himself from his
nerveless grasp and picked up his sup
posed cracker.
faint nuthin' but tin painted red
with match stuck in for a fuse 10 set
off, he exclaimed. making derisiVe faces
at the baff1ed officer. There amt no Law
agin setting off match on the street.
reckon is there"
And with contumelious twidde of his
fingers at the departing cop. he stuck
another piece of fuse into his tin bomb
and set forth after new victims among
the hluecoats.
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upon one leg at time and | hohbed
back and forth like ship in a storm
The motion was a swaying this way and
that. and | became half seasick as W.
wound our way up the mountains. In
front OF me was the driver. with his
brown EGGS c.aEped over the elephan- :
neck just back OF the big. tapping ears
He had a sharp steel hook in his hand.
and with this he stirred up the great
beast, and now and then made him trCt.
After a time l got used TO the mo-
ton. and when We Were out in The coGu-
try and climbing the hills | began Ia en-
joy my strange ride. | had TO watch ou'.
however. for every now and then some
thing made the beast shy. AT one place
a monkey ran across the rad ard a
long-tailed ape jumped through the
branches just over our heads. whereupon
the elephant sweTVed and almost threw
me out of my seat. ~ Other places we
saw wild peacocks. and am lS he trees
wild hogs were feeding
BY and by We came to the ruined city
of Amber which a generation or so ago
the capital of the state Of Jeypore.
II is now quite deserted and the monkeys
play in its ruins. Ii was once magnifi-
cent city, with fine residences. big bust
ness quarters and temples and palaces.
But one of the ra jahs of The past became
dissatisfied with his surroundings and
decreed that the capital should be moved
down to the plains, and the result was
the pink city of Jeypore. of which ! may
write in the future
AS to the relation these native rulers
held to the British government, I must
say before closing this letter that the
vlceroy and his high officials do not fear
them. The anarchistic demonstra tons
and the unrest have SO far been in the
British states rather than elsewhere. and
today native India is quiet. During my
stay in Calcutta / called at the state
department and had talk with Mr..
Harcourt Butler. its secretary. Said he:
The native rulers are giving US no
trouble. and. in fact, they aiding in
keeping things quiet Many Of them are
enterprisIng. They employ civil engineers
and are trying to develop the country.
Some are building irrigation works. some
establishing factories and nearly all have
schools of one kind another. In some
Of the states newspapers are published.
although the rulers reserve the right 20
abolish such at any time and to Danish
their editors"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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ZHEZNZ4zZ WHO
HIS -ZHZzlONYIA -XzAR-

collected from his hard working subjects.
and that he could not afford to buy things
of that kind. They forbade him to pay
any more on the stone. At the same
time the diamond had come into the nj
zams possession. He refused to give it
UP. and those who sold IT have brought
suit against him for balance still due
them. All dlIrbar not long ago this nj
Fam wore about his neck ropes of pearls
and strings of rubies and diamonds which
were valued at one million dollars.
Another nabob, who has magnificent
Jewels and who lives in great state. Is
the Maharajah of Oudeypore. whose an
cestorS resisted the conquest or the Mo-
hammedans. He claims to have the bluest
blood of any Of the native rulers and
submits to the British only because ne
is forced to do so. II l remember cor
rectly he would not attend the great
which Lord Curzon was present. and TO
which most of the native rulers. lnclud-
ing the niZam. came.
The Nawab Of Bahawalpur is another
rich prince. He has state only ABOUT
as big as South Carolina. but his crown
is a mass of diamonds set in silver with
a row of pear-shaped pearls about the
base. The scabbard and hit or ms
$500. 600. and he has a necklace OF uncut
emeralds with a chain OF ruoleS ana
pearls Some of his rubies. are an inch
and a half in diameter. That naoob
owns j, ~ watches anu tdii icS wv VI
three at one time. He always has a
pocketful of gold coins made in India.
and on ceremonial occasions he now and
then gives one to friend. He
was educated under an English tutor
appointed by the British. His present
income is said to be about 100000 year.
l don't know what the Maharajah OF
Jeypore is worth. but he certainly has
money to burn. His journey to England
is reported to have cost about million
dollars. and he is said to have given
away something like a half million dol
lars in charities during that trip. lie
chartered a special steamer for the oc-
casion. and this was fitted up with six
different kitchens. according to the
castles of his followers. He took with
him his own drinking water from the
Ganges, and had little temple on the
ship in which he worshiped Rama, his
own divine ancestor He carried with
him priests. servants of all kinds, sew
eral wives and a chorus of Nautch girls.
and when he reached London he filled to
the brim the palace which the govern
ment had allotted to him.
l wish l could show you the state IN
which his highness lives in Jeypore His
palaces cover acres and his gardens are
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The Gaekwar OF Baroda who has
territory as big as Massachusetts be
tween here and Bombay, is instituting
all sorts of factories. He has appointed
An American as his economic adviser,
and this man is suggesting all sorts OF
improvements. bank has been or
gained. and native capital will be used
TO develop the country. A cotton mill
with fifteen thousand spindles has al
ready been built. and factories for the
manufacture of glass. brick. cement and
pottery will shortly be started. he
Gaekwar expects to make starch from
rice and he will manufacture his own
cigarettes and cigars. He Is teaching his
farmers modern agriculture. dairying and
stock breeding. He has his agricultural
experiment stations. and new plants and
crops are being tested. He has large cot
ton plantations upon which he uses
modern gins with hydraulic pressure. He
will eventually have weaving mills as
we'll He is also experimenting in silk
raising. as we'll as in ramie and other
fbers.
On nv way here I was advised To stop
ii Gwalior and told that the ma hara ia h
there would take me oyer the country in
his automobile and show me his improve
ments of various kinds. There are other
states where railroad enterprises and irri-
CATION schemes are well under way. and
altogether this supposedly dead part or
India is springing 10 life
territory still controlled by the Indian
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flaming protest from Vienna; and lat
er his faithful Hanoverians formed a
legion to fight against Prussia on the
side of France. In 1873 ex-king
George died, leaving a heritage of
hatred TO Prussia to his son, Ernest
August etc, and this heritage Ernest
August has spent his life increasing at
uSuriOus rate.
The Hanoverians did not love the
Guelphs. who from 1881 to 1866 had been
deSpotic. prosecuting constitution break
erS, but when they We're gone their eX-
subjects began to sigh for them: and a
Guelph party was formed to plague the
PruSsians. The question of ErneSt-Au-
gusts claim 10 Hanover was further COM
picated in 1884 by his becoming also
rightful sovereign of Brunswick, owing
to the extinction OF the house Of Bruins
wick Wolfenbuettel OF course. Germany
could not let Ernest-August ascend this
Brunswick throne as long he was at
open war with Prussia over his claim
to Hanover
The imperial government therefore. ad-
mitted that he was rightful Duke OF
Brunswick. but pronounced him ''perma-
nently hindered from occupying the
throne. and appointed as Regent of
Brunswick. Prince Albert of Prussia, who
made himself hated by the people and
increased the vigor of the malcOntent
Guelph party. The duke has been given
q chance of reigninS in Bruins wiCk. if
only he will renounce the Hanoveria n
throne. But when such suggestions are
made the grim. oldwomanly mouth con-
tracts and cmits an emphatic, categOri-
cal ''NeVer, And as the duke is an idle
man, with cares of government, he
has plenty of time to nOuriSh his mas
ter passion, hate.
He does this mainly at his schloss near
Gmunden in Austria. seldom visiting Ger
many and never Berlin. He is a grand
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An Easy Wager.

LIE was an utter stranger 10 WASH
ington. and as he stood under the
street lamp at the northeast corner OF
Mcpherson Square and gazed at the
sign above wrinkles of perpleXity 1ur-
rowed his brow Up 18th street from
the theater came strolling two frlends
One, an old resident. wise in the may
ways of Washington. AS he saw the
perplexed stranger he remarked to MS
friend:
II never saw that man before in my
life, but I'll wager you new hat that
l know his very inner thoughts. ana
further, 1 can win a nickel from him
within the next five minutes.
Its a good bet If l lose." replied the
other. Go to it.
The old resident approached the
stranger, who stood muttering to hlm-
self, and thus addressed him:
81 see that you are in state or great
perpiexity, my friend. l do not ask the
cause, but I'll wager you a nicked that
l can relieve it by a single remark
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German army on making the princes
acquaintance. and 'inveigled the young
man into a lengthy talk. Although
taught like all his family, to noursh
sacramental hate for Kaiser Wilhelm,
Prince st-August- Christian George
made civil if brief. replies. Wilhelm lis
heart gloWed into hope.
After twenty years of woong he had at
last had a polite word from a sprig of
the Cumberland house. And every one
declared that the immemorial quarrel
was at an end. The duke would keep
up for himslf and his eldest son the
claim to the throne Of Hanover. and
young Ernest-August- christian George
would reign as duke of Brunswick. But
the deal fell through. The duke would
not abate inch.
'Of course, will have Brunswick: he
said douriy, but will also have Han
over
The faithful kaiser groaned and plan
ned fresh traps. He contrived to go
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twice every year credulous newspapers
affirm that the duke has begun to
thaw He will meet Kaiser Wilhelm,
they say. at the Austrian archdukeS
shooting party: he cannot avoid Kaiser
Wilhelm at the marriage of Princess
Louise; they will have a friendly chat,
and be friends for ever after. But
just AT the happy moment of the kai-
ser's arrival the duke fades insensibly
away. His aunt happens TO die. he
sprains his ankle, he misses his
train. and the great occasion does
without him. And the mourning kali
ser and the newspapers comfort one
another with the rosy delusion that
Ernest-August some day will be real
ly caught.
The feud between the houses of
HohenzolIern and Guelph is written in
history. Hanover. formerly a duchy,
became an independent electorate in
1892, and after the Elector of Hanover
became George ! of England the two
states had one sovereign. In 1887 Vic
toria assembled the British throne, and
under the Salic law, which fOrbids, Il
woman 10 reign over Hanover. her
kinsman. the Duke of Cumberland. be
came King Ernest of Hanover. The
electorate had been raised to king
dom in 1914 Ii would be kingdom
today had not Ernest's successor.
George Y. Joined Austria and Saxony
in their war against Prussia in 1866.
The Hanoverian army made a tight
at Hohensalza. and then surrendered
the whole kingdom we'll as Hesse
Cassel and Frankfurt.
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The most of these native rulers are
well educated. The British government IS
interested in having them so. and it urges
them to visit England and TO send their
sons there to college In my travels
through China I made one or two jour
news with the Kumar of Sikkim. little
native state in the Himaiayas. under the
shadows Of Mount Everest and Mount
Kinchunianga The kumar, or prince,
had Just graduated at Oxford. and was
coming home by way OF Japan and
China He spent some time in Peking.
and while there met the Dalai Lama OF
Tibet. who was visiting the Chinese cap
ital | rode with the prince from Pc
king to Hankow by rail. and chatted with
him about his little principality. He was
glad he was going back home, and was
anxious to take part In the government
of his people.
The NiZam of Hyderabad was educated
in England, and the maharajah who rules
this native state Of Jeypore has sent his
sons there 10 school The maharajah has
visited Great Britain and he was chosen
by the government to go there TO rep
resent the native princes at the time
King Edward was crowned His many
modern improvements his museums and
schools have been greatly benefited by
his travels, and he says he expects to
visit London again.
The government OF India has estab-
lished colleges for the education of the
native princes and rajahs. There are
four of these, situated at Ajmer. Lahore.
Rajkat and Indore. 1t is necessary to
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with the German ambassador at Vienna
And the duke is an old. old man. Surely
they argue, he will now make his peaca
with earth well as heaven? So say
the incorrigible optimists and perhaps
who knows?-the incorrigible op.imist :
are right.
But the incorrigible pessimists grin in
creduIoUsly. The duke. they argue OBJ
Stinately. will never soften his heart. He
Will even fee from the christening OF his
daughters baby. When the fateful mo-
ment comes-when the malignant shadow
of Kaiser Wilhelm threatens The integrity
of his hereditary hate-then Ernest-Au-
gust-Wilhelm- Adolf-George-F r I ri CHI
rightful sovereign OF Hanover, will fold
up his tents like the Arab and silently
steal away. He viii take his hate wit 4
him and try 10 bride ST. Peter to keep
the kaiser out
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and owner of numberlesS carriers, golden
heeces. elephants and other scintillatng
orders. He is married to princess OF
Denmark and has five sons and dauSh-
terS all of whom hate the PrusslanS as
much as he does. He is highly popular
at Gmunden. All round, indeed, he Is
very p,esentable old man-prosperous.
respected and always in perfect health
except when Kaiser Wilhelm draws nigh.
when his doctors order him to leave for
change OF air.
1t is the foible of ErnestAugust to
sacrifice everything TO hate. 1t is the one
luxury he allows himself. and he would
sooner abandon his Gmunden chateau ana
his twenty-seven decorations than sur
render the hate with which he has lived
happily for five and sixty years SO the
kaisers attempts at Cancellation cause
him pain. Wilhelm III began in 1892 by
handing back to the duke the Hanoverian
royal property known as the Guelph funds
which Prussia seized in 1863. Its value
was sl2.0O0,o00. The duke took the
money. but did not say thanks to man
he hated.
Next came the marriage of the duke
eldest daughter with the heir to the
Duchy of Baden; and this brought the
claimant again into touch with Germany
The duke. said people, is going to reient
and shake the kaiser's hand. But the big
mobiles of Hanover. whose hate of Prus-
STA Is quite as healthy as the dukes. ad-
vised the claimant against reconciliation
and the duke was only too Slad 10 TAKE
their advice. The kaiser was disappoint-
ed, but didn't lose hope.
The next step toward peace-maklnS
was taken by the Danish court. which
tried to get UP a match between Prussian
prince and the dukes pretty daughter
Kaiser Wilhelm was delighted. He
rushed headong to Copenhagen. eager to
seize Ernest-August's hand and battle 1t
in propitiatory tears. But the grim old
man discovered he had business in Aus
tria and as the haiser's train steamed
into Copenhagen the dukes train steamed
derisively out. The daughter married the
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Grey, He is Wilhelm
Adolf George friedrich, Duke Of Cum
bertrand and Brunswick. and pretender To
aha throne OF Hanover. vulgarly known
20 TIE sadly irreverent German as the
elusive duke The illusions of Ernest
August Wilhelm AdolfGeorge. Friedrich
are exclusively practiced at the expense
OF his kinsman. and foe. Kaiser Wilhelm
II, from whose affectionate pursuit he
slips away at least twice year with
even more amazing agility than did the
Grecian fish.
IL is all about the foolish kingdom OF
Hanover which Ernest-August. etc,
wants. and Kaiser Wilhelm has. II is a
one-sided quarrel and, were IL not for
Ernest-August. etc.'s. obstinacy. would
speedily be made up. Kaiser Wilhelm is
a good-humored man, and having got the
kingdom is placabie and propitiatory. But
Ernest-August is memorable. His por-
traits tell YOU why II is enough to
glance at the grim mouth. the old-wom-
anIy, shrewish face and the shallow. I'M
intellectual forehead to realize that this
is dour pragmat.c old gentleman VINO
is not TO be caught by kaiserly smiles
Yet Kaiser Wilhelm persists. Time after
time he has planted snares To trap the
slippery duke and utterly failed.
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G2ADZNW1D- AT OKTZ1RD

ra iahs. They govern about half of all
HinduStan and more than One-fifth OF the
people. The native states are scattered
all over India from kaShmir and Nepal in
the Himaiayas to Mysore and others at
the extreme southern end of the country.
Rajputana takes a great slice out of the
heart of the peninsula. and Hyderabad.
ruled by the Nizam is an immense state
still further south. Altogether there are
six or seven hundred Of these states. con-
tanning a population of more than sixty
eight millions.
These are a part of British India
and vet not of il. The native princes and
rajahs are supposed by the common peo-
pie to have absolute rule. but they are all
under the control OF the British and all
have British advisers. The chiefs have
no right 70 make war peace to send
amba ssadorS to ca h other to outside
states. They are permitted to obtain a
limited military force. their troops alto
gether amounting to a little over ninety
thousand men. II is provided that no
European shall reside at any of their
courts without the sanction of the British
government, and. in case of outrageous
misrule, the British can come in and die
tate what shall be done. Some of the ma
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During my stay In Jeypore I have had
ride on one of these royal beasts. At
the invitation of the secretary OF his high
ness I Travelled by one to the ruined city
of Amber which is situated in the hills
about four miles outside Jeypore. The
elephant was brought TO me shortly be-
fore noon. At the command of its Hin
kneeled down for me- and l climbed TO its
back by a stepladder. There was a
cushioned saddle on top. with bars at
the side and the driver showed me how
to hold on while the beast climbed to
his feet. The elephant raised himself
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FAMILY Feud Between
i the Cumberlands and the
Hohenzollerns Has Lasted
Since Prussia Annexed the
Kingdom of Hanover-Pres-
ent Duke Rebuffs All the
Emperor's Well Meant Eff
forts ct Reconciliation
Amusing Maneuvers of This
Implacable Old Man to
Avoid Shaking Hands With
the Kaiser, Who Even Of
fered Him the Throne of
Brunswick If He Would Give
.nUp His Claim to Hanover
Says He Will Have Both
Kingdoms.
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funeral of Christian IN of Denmark,
Kaiser Wilhelm went owe" TO the duke
with hand outStretched. And the duke
squinted his shOrt-sighted eyes as though
ne did not see the hand. and made
north-polar bow which froze the melting
Hohenzollern into lump of ice.
Yet the kaiser's ardor increases: and
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JEYPORE. 1910
HE native states OF
India are like to
become hOtbeds of
unrest. Many of
the rajahs have
been g d u C a I e d
abroad, and not a
few are bringing
IN Cd ern innOva-
tionS. The Maha-
rajah OF Jeypore
has ST a b liShed
schools for both
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boys and girls. He has a NATIVE cOIIege
containing a thousand students. female
seminary where eight hundred girls are
being educated by foreigners. and an In
dustrial art institute. in which. among
other things. is made a blue and white
porcelain which compares favOrably with
that of Japan.
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NE Of the favorite
legends Of the
Greeks tells how
Chronos, the God
of Time, grew a
miraculous weed
W h ] c h bled
fishes which ate 1t
to escape from
fshermen's n cts.
OF all the children
Of men but one to-
day knows it's Sc
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has "a large army and he may declare
war
~ think there will he no trouble was
the reply
Well continued the general, II hap
pened to be at the capital of that native
state when these instructions from the
viceroy came. 1t was at the time Of the
durbar. and the rajah sat in state upon
his throne. Then a little man in black
clothes entered and handed the gorgeous
ruler the v.ceroyS orders to step down
and out. He read them and was greatly
surprised. But he merely salaamed to the
little British resident, and walked off to
in his stead. | cannot tell YOU why 1t
is, but the power Aof cur government here
seems supreme and the native rulers
know that it is useless for them to re-
Sist''
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Dukc Of DIS ut in

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
Thereupon the German crown prince mar
ried the grand dukes sister Cecilie. Here
at last reconciliation was in the air.
Kaiser Wilhelm sent a friendly telegram
to ErneSt-AuguSt. Ernest-August wrinkled
his Shrewish browS and sent no reply.
But Wilhelm III is not So easily fooled.
Having failed to catch the elusive