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French Soceys Great Trip India for the Kaprtaa Marriage Fes

Cyprus! My grandfather fourteen times
removed was there with Lusignan!''
None of their family had been this way
since.
They dropped few natural tears, and
settled to bridge.
l have seen some letters of de Fou-
quieres which will be published by the
Figaro and Gaulois. They are delighted
with the beautiful tenue of the ship and
the style of the English personnel. They
take lessons in Hindoo conversation from
big black men. LaScar sailormen-grave
rapid, active, silent.
The few officers are of rare distinction,
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needed before all projects under way art
completed.
There is a benefit to the Indians entirel,
aside from that of providing them witt
farms. They are converted into work
men in the meantime. The work of build
Ing dams and digging canals is. as far a:
ordinary labor is concerned, all done by
the Indians themselves. BY the time one
men Of the tribes interested are carried
well along the road toward civilization
through wage-earning.
Take. for instance. the big project
on the Crow reservation. in Montana.
one of the first built 1t covers 10000
acres of Indian allotments, and insures
the present and future prosperity of
the tribe. These sons Of the men who
slaughtered Custer and his fellows
know little Of work. The Crows were
cultural instincts of those tribes far
Their SOUTH
But getting these Indians to work
was one Of the objects of the reclama-
ton. The appearance of the early
Crows who assembled at the call of the
engineers in charge was sufficient to
discourage any man alive to the task
on the pay roll under such names as
Kills Three Men," Takes a Cum"
Kills tho Man Who Has No Front
Teeth 'Two-Barrelled Cum Uncle
Sam probably never had a stranger set
of employees They brought with them
all manner Of teams of mismated
bronchos. whose harnesses were mis-
f1ts and frequently tied together with
buckskin thongs or baling wire.
The sight Of Crow or Cheyenne In
dian attempting to drive such team
with one hand. while the other tightly
clutched his wildly Tapping blanket, was
one to be remembered. These blanket
robes are much more picturesque than
unitarian. Squaws in multi-colored
dresses worked in clearing up the right
of-way, and were really much more eff
fective in the beginning than the men,
having had more practice. But in the
end these men became good workmen.
Today many Of them are peacefully
following the pillow in the very shadow
Of the Custer battlefield. and their
property has SO increased that the tribe
will be prosperous forever.
The Yakima Indians already have
$4,000 acres under cultivation. This
area may be expanded to four or five
times that amount. This land lies just
below those famous irrigated laads in
Washington that have been recently
opened up by the reclamation service.
and which 1t is today selling at
from 500 to $500 an acre. So 1t is
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and rupees of all India, accompanied by
their suites of elephants and bronzes-"
YOU mean BONES And grandose
matches, terminating with an east-and-
west cotillon in which we are all to take
part-like the tiger hunts. Do you know
that the ladies are to follow, in steel
cages?
What upsets me is the maharajah.
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liz IL2OSI 0xu 6Oyol-
nary thing that
ever happened to
Paris society is
tho marriage OF the
TfkA.
It Is the climax
OF q thousand and
one nights adven-
ture. In which the
quiet gentleman
who sat alone at
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evident that sufficient prosperity will
be supplied to these Indians and others
similarly situated.
X X
Indeed. the problems connected with the
reclamation of these lands In the north
are comparatively easy as compared
with those in the. arid southwest, partic-
uarly in New Mexico, Arizona and Cali
fornia. In Arizona the government Is
spending approximately 100000 to relieve
the Pima Indians on the ella river reserva-
ton. 1t, was the ancestors of these In
dams that built the mighty Casa Grande,
the greatest ruin of an aboriginal civiliZa-
ton in the United States. This monster
ruin was used in olden days as a storage
place for the great grain crops raised by
these Industrious people. 1t was a part
of a walled city into which the Pimas car
ried their stores and barricaded them
selves against the raids of the Apaches
and other warlike tribes from the noun
tains. But in the end the peaceful In
dams were overrun and their vitality sap
ped.
At the advent of Europeans into the
southwest there was but the remnant of
the tribe. They lived in tepees along the
ella river, but a shadow of the civiliza-
ton that was evinced by their more am
bilious buildings that had fallen into decay.
But even then they were comparatively
prosperous. They led the waters of the
ella onto the lowlands and raised wheat
and melons sufficient to supply their
needs But twenty years ago even this
meager prosperity slipped from them.
The white man came into Arizona. He
found many fertile lands lying along the
headwaters of the ella. He tapped the
stream and irrigated those lands. The
Indians a hundred miles below watched
the flow Of the river grow less and less.
Finally there was no water for their small
farms. They were forced to fall back
upon the rabbits of the desert and the
beans of the mesquite for subsistence.
There was much hardship among them,
and the shadow of famine. There has
never been the great amount of suffering
that has been pictured by the emotional
easterner, but there was hardship. Neither
were the white men, who diverted their
water to blame, for they knew nothing
of the damage they were doing in the
lower river.
But just now there is being inaugu-ated
a plan that will place these deserving and
peaceful Indians on a better basis of
prosperity than even their fathers Knew
Eighty-five miles away across desert and
valley and mountain stands the great
Roosevelt reservoir, which Is this month
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HENEVER Uncle
Sam gives an In
dian family q thir-
ty-acre tract OF
ultra-fertile irriga-
BILE land IN the west
and perpetual wa
ter to insure It's
continued produc-
tiyeness he has
emancipated that
family. Its MEM
bers are no longer
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the last ten years, there are nothing but
Chinese servants to be had for love or
money. They tell this amusing story out
there to illustrate that Chinaman proves
himself an apt pupil
*
"One of the consuls there had a very
fine Irish cook. Bridget. whom they
trusted implicitly. She went with them
to Vancouver Well, two years later
Bridget told them she was going to get
married and they must find another cook.
1t was easier said than done. Finally.
they came to the inevitable-a Chinaman.
On his arrival the consul took him into
the kitchen and introduced him to Bridget.
saying:
Bridget will remain here a week to
teach you. So do exactly as Bridget
does
THE Chink turned out to be a good
cook and the consul and his wife con-
graduated themselves on their find
Three weeks after Bridgets departure the
consul went into the kitchen to look for
buster which could not be found When
he looked in the closet he was surprised
to see row of neat paper packages on
the shelf
Look here. Ling Sing. what are these
things?'
% Ne do like Bliget did: Twelve eggs
come. me take six eggs, tie in bag. nut in
closet. Six pounds sugar come. me take
three pounds, tie in bag, put in closet.
Ten pounds flour come, me take four
pounds, tie in bag, put in closet. Slat-
erday night. little girl come, me open
closet. take all little packages, put In
little girls basket. shut door, go home
The Cinnamon are like the nursery
rhyme. when they're good they're very.
very good: and when they're bad they're
awful. When you give an order to a
Chink 1t is extremely difficult to find out
II you have made an impression. or to
discover in what spirit your words are
taken. Their yellow. parchment-like
faces are usually immobile expression
less masks That betray nothing.
II had a Chinaman once who nearly
drove me to madness. II I told him to
be in at q certain hour he invariably
answered:
Me no sabe. Me clom back bi mebbe
'leven, mebbe tlelve o'clock tomollow.'
when I had friends to dinner Chow
was just as apt to begin In the middle and
end with soup. Again, with malice afore-
thought. he would put the roasts in front
Of my wife and the sweets before me.
He knew better, and he knew we knew
he knew better. If you demonstrated
with him he would simply say: No sabe.'
He would get perfectly furious IL we
we're late for meals. and II our guests
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pitied him. 1t would have ended there.
had not they met. later, in the doorway.
from which a heavy rain had driven
bile Gall were private in those days.
private chauffeur then rare) waited.
The young Partisan was offering him
50 for a three-mnute course" to his
club "a thing often done by coachmen
then and chaufeurs now, when the quiet
stranger interviewed and modestly pro-
posed to give him a lift "a thing never
done except by buncO steerers); but the
young Partisan was sure of his position
and judgment-and the covered auto be-
longed to the stranger. So he accepted
and the two had a short, formal con-
versation. till the stranger dropped him
at his club.
Later, when he met the quiet stranger,
always alone. in the Bois at the races.
expositions and theatrical first nights, he
nodded to him kindly. Then. one night,
at Maxim's. the Partisan asked him to his
table. They supped. chatting, and 1t came
out that the stranger was an Indian
prince educated at Harrow and Oxford.
but more in sympathy with Paris art, life
and fashions.
y u
Indian prince meant nothing to Paris
ians. Little by little the man was &C
cepted on his merits. He had night
restaurant and race-track acquaintance
served and liked him. One day, at Long
champs, 1t became awkward not to pre-
sent him to the mother of one of them.
Carelessly, the grand dame asked him to
q dinner.
The first large reception he was seen At
was the then Princess de Sagan's. That
same summer Kapurthala was asked to
his first house party-at. historic .Chau-
ment-by the Princess Anedee de Brog-
lie.
He was the Maharajah of Kapurthala,
but II did not help or hurt him. Wher-
ever he went once he was asked often.
for his breeding, pleasing personality and
simple kindness. Within three years he
was one Oh the most popular figures in
ultra fashionable Paris society. He paid
his own way largely, entertained exactly
lonely stranger ought to, without
ostentation. and they did not even joke
about his Kingdom"
Paris has seen so many kings outside
their kingdoms
At that moment this same high society
became excited over a very different
oriental figure-launched with fracas by
enthusiastic buds just out of convent
schools. She was Princess Brinda, for
five years their schoolmate--"pearl of the
east In Paris setting'-the Princess
Brinda of Jubbal. descended from the
most illustrious and antique caste of
India!
Great ladies like the Comtesse du
Bourg de Bozas. the Princesse de la
Tour d'Auvergne. the Comtesse de
Pracomtal. the Princesse de Broglie and
the Comtesse de Montesquiou-Fesenz
EMBODIED her in their precious and af-
fectionate friendship. while taking care
not to disturb the religious sentiments
and traditions Of her transcendental caste
for the girl was Of the pure royal stock
OF Radjput. OF quasi-divine origin. Ger
tain high-caste Hindoos showed most
fearful generation in her presence.
Every one desired to know about the
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the proof is that she is being educated
To marry my son. / will invite you to
the wedding.
He began inviting people to the we'd
ding; the idea grew upon him. His Paris
ian, friends smiled politely; it Is common
to receive cards from foreign shore
arriving, regularly, after the ceremony;
you send your card back without Ires-
ent. Little by little all the maharajah' S
friends in Paris society had been PROM
ised invitations to that wedding. 1t got
to be a joke; and some said, laughing:
"If he really asks me ! shall attend it!
Meanwhile, you understand. the ma
hara jah's pride was elsewhere. He was
used to being maharajah. What sWelied
his soul with pride was that he-modern
.Haroun- al-Raschid-had come disguised
as simple tourist to the capital OF oc-
cidental elegance, and got taken up by
the. best people for himself!
He had pushed the love Of France 10
bring up his four younger sons at the
College des Cleres. near Rouen. and at
the Lycee Janson, Paris. Tired of his
sumptuous palaces of Kapurthala. Buena
Vista and Mussoorie, he had the French
architects. Paul Boyer and Marcel, en-
gagged in raising up. on the old Sikh soil,
a majestic pink marble pile inspired from
the Grand Palace of the Champs Elysee.
surrounded by French gardens that
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MOST Extraordinary
N1 Wedding Invitations
Ever Known Fashionable
Paris En- Route for India
The Maharajah Pays the
Freight Oriental Magnifi-
cence of the Quiet Gentle
man Who Sat Alone at
Maxim's Modern Haroun-
al-Raschid Taken Up by
French Aristocrats for Him.
self.
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He was a nice little man at garden
parties. and 1 never thought of him In
his real setting. powerful, sovereign. re-
doubtable. How is it he came to US? 1
thought that high-caste Hindoos were
contaminated by crossing the ocean,?
He has to be purified He pays the
priests his weight in diamonds. Few can
afford it."
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claim to be the wealthiest per capita race
of people in the world.
Another OF the most Interesting Of the
transformations is that brought about on
the Zuni reservation in New Mexico.
Here the men of the Indian service found
the Industrious Indians carrying water in
great jugs and pouring it upon their
growing crops. The enterprising farmer
was thus able to cultivate field about
the size of the ordinary living room.
But on the Zuni reservation the govern
ment has created a storage reservoir and
constructed an irrigation system for the
reclamation of lands belonging to these
remarkable Indians. whose folklore was
so interestingly written by the late Lieut.
Gushing.
This little tribe of some 800 souls lives
in one of the most unique pueblos in the
southwest a compactly built adobe vii
lage, located on a slight eminence in the
center of a rich alluvial valley. whose red
soil is wonderfully fertile if irrigated, but
utterly worthless without water.
This pueblo is rarely visited by whites,
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PRINCESS BRINDA OF JUBBAL.
"Oriental pearl in Paris setting" who
has pissed the Ins: five yeHrs I'm
aristOcratfc French cOnvent-SchOOIs,
and TO whose marriage with his son
the Maharaiah of kapt,rthaIa has so
maEnificently invited go Paris fash
iOnables who were Kind to the Prin-
cess Brinda and himself.
only the French ladies are astonished
that they have no social relations with
passengers, live a particular life. and,
while showing the greatest courtesy, in
fact they run away from US
Il have been told about it, my dear. 1t
comes from an order. There was a drama
of the ocean, heartbreaking, horrible
years ago, at the entrance to the Red sea-
There was a ball on board; the officers
were dancing with the lady passengers.
when suddenly the ship struck a rock and
went down with all on board!'
They play childish games on deck-and
end by breaking down the reserve OF GER
tain chilly English, bound, like them
selves. for the marriage fetes of Kapur-
thala.
They discuss their pleasures in advance
with innocent ardor:
Have you seen the Tika's photograph?
He is a clean-cut youth of nineteen, with
short hair and a small mustache. His
name is Paran-jit-Singh, educated in Eng
land, but speaks French, flies hawks and
hunts swift little deer on horseback
with grayhounds.
He fell in love with the Princesse
Brinda's photograph.
1--WE shall see the old-draped cortege
Of the rajahs. maharajahs, ramayanaS
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THE Government Is Go
i ing Far Toward Solving
It's Problem of the Depend
ent Indian by Giving Him
the Water Which Will Make
the Lands of His Reserva-
ton Fertile-This Guaran-
tees Him a Plenty Forever.
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wards OF the government, Out SeAA-euP
porting. They no longer face that pos
sibility of starvation which has hung over
many tribes for decades. They inallenaoly
possess a heritage that will yield them
an abundance to the end Of the chapter.
And this is exactly what Uncle Sam is
doing. Already enough land has been
reclaimed to furnish 10000 Indians with
these homes This means that nearly a
fifth OF the Indians in the west have al
ready been supplied with this guarantee
of plenty. Yet the work is but well be-
gun, and may be carried forward until
il reaches practically all those Indians
who need it's aid.
The Zuni Indians, In New Mexico. cow
have great irrigation bitches where their
squaws formerly carried the life-gtving
waters in vessels on their neads. The
Mission Indians. in the great Colorado
desert of California, around Indio, whose
very existence in so inhospitable sur
rounding has always puzzled the tourist,
have been given scores of gushing ar
tes:an wells and the barren wastes are
blossoming as the rose. The government
wards at Sacaton, Arfz, who were LETT
without substance when the white man
took out canals higher up the ella and
cut off their water supply. have been
given great pumping plants that bring to
them prosperity of which their fathers
never dreamed. On the Yakima reserva-
of acres are being brought under 1rrtga-
ton, making it in every way equal to
the much-heralded apple lands OF that
section. The principle Is variously ap-
piled and is everywhere bringing IA
vorable results.
The world is just coming to realize that
the best farm to be had is the irrigated
farm in the west. There the farmer
with ten acres and water Is Independent.
There may be lived the life that Is most
nearly, ideal Of them all. These Indians
are being given these choice farms. Their
allotments run from five to ten acres
each, with outside lands for grazing. A
family of six draws q farm Of from
thirty to sixty acres OF this most pro-
ductive land. The white man is making
a model home on ten and twenty acre
tracts, so the Indian Is to be envied. The
storehouse Of the Indian Is coming to
be perennially full and he Is taking on
q new lease of life.
This is one Of the big ideas that Is
Just now being worked out by the In
dian service and executed by w. H. Code,
fits chief engineer. Mr.. Code Is an Ann
Arbor man, who has spent the twenty
years since leaving college developing ir-
rfgation. The projects he has general
supervision over dot all that region west
Of the Missouri. Six million dollars have
been spent by the government in this
work to date. and Mr.. Code estimates
that an additional 100000 will be
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Maxim's takes them on his flying carpet
TO 1eWeled matches danced by starlight.
tiger hunts on gold caparisoned elephants
and dreamy afternoons amid the perfum-
ed breezes. tinkling fountains and pink
1T mystery OF old palaces where the
gems Of Golconda glitter-and are hand
nd out as souvenirs!
The magic carpet Il free transporta-
lion on four orient liners-private suites.
deck cabins from Marseille to Bombay
the maharajah pays the freight. He
always has said: II shall ask you to the
wedding OF my son." but no one dreamed
of more than an engraved card.
Now 100 foremost personages OF fash
ously and gratis. for the Indies to
participate In the marriage fetes of his
Mghness the T1ka, son and heir of the
potentate OF Kapurthala-the quiet gen.
tleman they had entertained SO much for
his own sake In Paris. 1t Is the first
time that a whole section Of them quit
France in a block for foreign parts The
TO the Spanish frontier for the marriage
of King Louis XIV.
All dates from the kind act of a young
Paris clubman one wet night ten years
ago. He had supped alone at Maxim's
alone. and watching wistfully the gaye-
ties At Maxim's there are two worlds;
those who are acquainted and ''the
others" He was obviously OF the
others," and the young Partisan vaguely
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There are at present ten projects either
completed or under way. Some 5000. 900
has been expended and as much more
must still be spent. OF course there viii
be still other projects with great pos
sibiities that will show up with the OPEN
inP Of other reservations. But the scheme
is doing much toward solving the vexed
problem of providing for the suffering red
man, and it Is effective just where the
suffering is greatest. The list and 10
cation Of the projects now completed ana
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Old IRRIGATION SYSTEM
The. .SQUK,W AND ThEJ
WATER JUG

with the white farmers in their water
users association and are as much .
party to the building of the big project
as are any of these. They now have 1000
acres under cultivation in this valley.
where such lands sell for $500 an acre.
They are permanently independent.
The Navajo Indians, tenders OF focks
and weavers of blankets, are tribe 30
900 strong. Their cattle and sheep range
over portions of New Mexico, Arizona
and Utah. They are prosperous and in
telligent. They need no irrigation. but
they need watering places for their fiocks.
The government is prospecting for arte-
sian water that the ranges may he made
more accessible because of added water
ing places.
On all these reservations are scores OF
young men and women who have been ed
ucated at the various Indian schools.
Many of them have trainings that COM
pare with those of our best colleges.
Most of them have been given much in
dustrial training. There is always the
tendency to revert when the youngsters
return to the reservations. but this may
have been because the reservations Of
fered no opportunities. Certain il is that
on many of these irrigated reservations
there are to be found coy cottages and
well arranged homes that are inhabited
by young couples Of education who are
making Of themselves examples to their
tribes and bringing to themselves a great
prosperity.
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,ohr<NuCc VI lno Stat.
PARIS, February q. 1911.
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Copyright. 1911. by W. A Du Puy0