Evening star., 1914-08-16

ESS nSEG became a OF cutthroat, fly BY
SISS& night freebooters and was rather proud
of his hereditary title of the Mountain
Tiger. With him his sour-visaged Maratha,
Prime Minister, and Others of the same bandit ik.
Every time the Raja paused to drop his hawklike
gaze down the parapet, five hundred feet to
the valley below, he cursed the white sahbs by all his
gods. And that is saying good deal; for his deties
numerous.
Especially and comprehensively in that anathema he
mentioned the of one DAILY, American engineer
whom to the Rajas mind, Shaitan had brought
the Black Water solely disturb rule that good
chiefly because it went at the nod of his capncious
hunor. For visual of it, there lay very defty
constructed electric railway. 1t climbed in Agzag
fashion from the deep valley up to the walled
village of Golapur, almost crcled the palace crag
in midar until it reached summit at its western
tremity. and then went to-Gehenna, in the Raja's
opinion.
That this cutoff line great saving in mileage
transcontnental railway mattered nothing to him.
Neither did he about possible increase of
land values the benefit of it to his subjects What
troubled him that while previously his aery king
dom had been left pretty much to take of itself by
the white sahbs the railway would bring them
pokng around asking tiresome reform questions and
turning up things much better kept hidden. He
firmly believed in the ancient principle of one-man
rule, and pously hated any change depriving him of
part of it. Consequently his thoughts in full about
that railway and DAILY, its builder, could hardly be
printed.
SUDDENLY he wheeled upon his Prime Minister,
shaking his gold-topped rattan cane fercely. The
Prime Minister shrank back reminiscent impulse.
3You see, the Rajas beautiful white teeth cleaned
savagely 4this devil work is now finished. Tomorrow
the Governor will come with other swine, and shall
have and salaam before them saying how pleased
the Mountain Tiger-that they about to
clip my claws and pull my teeth. Before this Daily
Sahb appeared said the thing could not be done
and my throne remained it has been for thou
sand years But he put big wheels waterfall,
and then with lightning wires-lo l have with
my eyes train go by the wings of magic.
Why a stronger magic not brought to overcome
him."
20 Lord Raja Sahib protested the Prime Minister,
according to your order we employed very powerful
magcans, and they cast many spells whereof the stink
choked breathing; but DAILY Sahib's wheels could
not be stopped going round
3Then why was he not bribed to say the thing
beyond his power and so return his country?"
The Prime Minister lifted his shoulders helplessy.
4This sahib is of strange people. He cannot be
talked with in that way. Besides, the Raja must
know it is long time since we have been permitted
to go down and plunder the sheep of the plains.
Alas is but too true chests have grown
lean, unless it be those which are kept for future
time"
the Raa's dark eyebrows puckered ominously at is
before the Governor and this DAILY Sahib, who has
done that which do not want. Am 1.-The Mountain
Tiger-to sit like old hen and cackle while acals
come to destroy the nest?"
4Vcrv WELL Raja sahib. Something now shall be
done