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The Exeter Times, 1889-6-27, Page 6twera,nrw _' SUEN,EMAT ,T1;!PORE, m_ � hag, stone, and merohendiee. Here is one. ridden by it turbaned Mohammedan, whose les w One of the Native Rajahs in toe finch' long beard and long shoes turned 1.1:14t pat the Woods et 1neta elves and Governs. toes attraeb youreyeas he goes by. Here are The traveler who would see India as it its must go out of the regular line and enter the native states, There Is in. Hindostan territory nearly one fifth the size of the United States and containing a population ofmore than 56,000,000, which is governed by rajahs. These rajahe have power of life and death.They have revenues of their own, levy taxation ae they please, and or• gganize their people and armies on different basis from the English portion of India, They are subject in a certain sense to the. English and most of them have English of• floors connected with their establishments. They are feudatory states to England and England does not allow them to make war upon each other, nor can they have any re- lations with foreign states. If a rajah mis- governs his people or oppresses them the viceroy of India reproves him, and if he does not Dome to time seoures his removal. These states, however, have none of the new customs of English India. Few foreigners visit them, and the people are substantially the same as they were years ago—before the railroad and the English desire for business came in to grind them up in the mortar of modern civilization. One-third of the whole territory of India is possessed by such rajahs and their subjects make up one-fifth ot the inhabitants. Their united armies amount to 300,000 men and their gross yearly reven- ues are about $80,000,000. These rajahs live as grandly as did the. kings of northern India in the past, and the English merchants of ladle Dater largely to their wants. Some of the finest jewelry stores in the world are here in India, and under every glass counter you see barbaric jewelry SET WITH DIAMONDS worth a fortune. 1 saw two rings recently, one worth $2,000 and the other $4,000. The first was a diamond of about the size of a hickory nut set around with a cluster of small diamonds as big as peas and the whole affixed to a finger ring containing enough gold to make a hunting case for a Water- bury watch. The other was the same size ae to the gold, bit the central Atone wee a SkumrsiewiTh PERSPIRATION, ruby felly as big as a chestnut, and the dis- are ornshing it into bits with stampers. As they do so a water-oarrier with a skin full of water upon his back, and his hand on the mouth of the bottle, throws a clear stream upon it and the whole becomes a mortar, which, when dried, is as hard as the floor of a cellar. You see these water- osrriers everywhere in India, and they water the streets of the country. They: a, •, ., water for natives, and peddle ib from hone to house. You may see dozens of them here at Jeypore with their bottles, made of the whole skin of a pig, and as they pass you think of the scenes of the Scriptures. Most Americana buy shawls in this part of India and after a sale is made the merchant invariebly demands that you write a recom- mendation for him in his note -book. This he shows to future travelers and I find seat- hered over India the autographs of noted Americans. At Delhi I found Grant's auto- graph and the merohanb whohad it under a recommendation stating that his wares were good told me that he had been offered 100 rupees for it and that he would not sell it for 100,000 rupees. James Gordon Bennett states that he "finds a certain man's shawls good and'.he tampons they are cheap," and the merchant who owns the book tells me that Bennett bought a dozen cashmere shawls, saying he wanted to use them tor making uudershirts. These were of the kind oalled ring shawls, so fine that you can horses wbieb prance along, They Dame from ,Arabia and among them are epme of.bhebest eteeds of the world. As you, look at them; and their riders you have no doubt of Joy- pore being a rich city. What gorgeous cos• tames 1 These riders wear gold embroid- ery enough to fib ant the diplomates at ,one. of our president's receptions. There; aro gold chains on bbeir necks and their arcus and fingers are anew WITH GOLD They havegold-embroidered turbans, costly gold vests, and the bits of their horses are often of silver. They sib very straight as they ride end by the stirrup of each runs a groom, now clearing the way for his master and ever present for fear he might want something. Here is a herd of donkeys loaded down with panniers eo that only their legs peep out and the load seems to be walking away bodily. They are no bigger than Newfoundland dogs and their drivers, barelegged, pound and yell ab them in Hindoostanee as they drive them along without either bridle or rein. The crowd on foot is as gray as that upon horseback and your eye§ grow tired in try ing to oatoh and distinguish the strange characters yon meet. Here oomee a party of singing girls dressed all in red and gold, singing strange songs as they dance through the streets. They are not bad looking and bhere limbs are loaded with anklets and bracelets. Here Dome some Mohammedan maidens. They are fine-looking women, but their dress is hideous. It oonsiste of a short waist and a pair of thin, drawer•like panta- lets, which are very wide at the waist, but whioh taper down into tights at the calves. They have a saucy way of walking and the dirty red drawers are by no means becoming. There are working women as well as women of pleasure, and in some places these vim - did roads are being repaired. Here low - caste women are breaking stones. and there you see a dozen of them going along with baskets of broken stone upon their heads. They throw it upon the road, and a corps of brown -skinned men, their limbs clothed only in waist clothes and their shins mends about ib were very beautiful. The tops of these rings were as large around as old copper omits, and as I looked at them 1 asked the jeweler who would wear such gorgeous and unwiedly objects. He re- plied t " Oh, we sell these to the rajahs. They want the most extravagant jewelry, and some of them fairly cover themselves with gems." Ab another store I was fold that a rajah had just been in and given an order for 200 yards of satin at $10 a ^yard. He wanted this to paper the walls of a room in a new palace and thought nothing of pasting this $2,000 upon the plaster. The sultan of Jo - here, when I visited him in hie palace at Jo - bore, had ropes of gold about twice the size of a had about Ms wrists, and upon his fingers were diamond rings. The fingers of the right hand were covered from the knuckles to the first joints with rings set with diamonds and emeralds, so that a dia• mond alternated with an emerald all over his hand, and the whole made a blazing fist ofrwhite and green. On the left hand the forgers were covered with rings in the same manner, save that costly. rubies took the place of the emeralds. At Delhi I was shown a dressing -gown set with precious stones which cost $3,500, and which had just been made for a rajah, and here in Jeypore, through the courtesy of one of the moat noted rajahs of India, I have had a chance to visit his palace, to get a glimpse of his wonderful stables, to take a ride on one of his court elephants, and to see the life and business of his capital city. Jeypore is one of the northwest provinces of India. Ib is a day's ride from Bombay, not far off from THE BoHDEnS or AFGHANISTAN, and some distance south of Cashmere and the Himalaya mountains. It has a Repute,. tion about as large as that of Ontario, and its rajah's income amounts to $2,000,000 a year. The capital is the city of Jeypore in which I am writing. It is said to be the finest native city of India, and it is:certainly like no other city I have ever seen. Its main street is two miles long and 120 feet wide, and this is intersected at right angles by other streets of the same, width, and the whole is cut by narrow streets into rectan- gular blooks. The roads are better maoa- damizsd than those of any oity in Canada. They are as hard as stone and as smooth as a floor. The houses on the main streets are regularlybuilt, and some rajah of the past Laid out the city and made the property - holders build after fixed regulations. It is more like a Spanish city than an Indian town. The houses come close to the side- walks and they have balconies over them with oriole windows jutting out at the second stories above arcades which run below from house to house. They are almost altogether two-story buildings, and the painting of the wholeis a delioate pink. Imagine miles of pink home with latticework windows through which you may now and thenn see the eyes of high -caste Hindoo damsels. Let nut -brown fingers here and there clasp the Iattice-work and through a larger hole .let here and there an arm peep out. In some of the balconies you see turbaned men and boys sitting dressed in the richeat of gar- ments and beside them Hindu() maidens, their faces covered with shawls and their eyes peeping out through the cracks. Below in the decades are shops in which, sitting crossed -legged with goods piled around them, are merchants selling the thousand and one things need by the people, and out in the street rushing here and there, moving along leisurely, now chatting, and now talking busineas, is THE MOST MOTLEY THRONG of native men, and beasts you will find in nay city. Here is a little caravan of camels —long-legged, gaunt, humped animals rid- den by bare -legged men in turbans who bob. up and down as the camel rooks its way along. Many of the camels are led and the drivers ride them with a rope fastened into their' noses. They sit on the hump and pound the camel with a whip or a cloth. There fa one oamel ridden by a woman. Her bare legs clad in bracelets are astride of the hump and her one eye peeps oub as she directs the driver where to lead the beast, Here is ono carry- ing stones. Great long flags are tied on both sides of the hump and he goes along with his lip down, pouting like a opoiled i child. Hate is another being loaded with lumber, and as the rafters one after another arc tied to his back he blubbers and ories like a bab and asyou look at him you son baby, the tears rolling doyen burn hie proud, an ry PULL A WHOLE SHAWL through the wedding ring of a lady. It musb be nice to have an undershirt which you can pull through a ring, and in the case of a man who travels with his extra clothing in his hat I can see where the advantage comes in. The rajah's palace is in the centre of hie capital. It covers a great area and the palace garden with its flowing rivers of water, formed by fountain spurting out of a atone bed, would be large enough for a farm. His majesty is now in Calcutta, bub arrange- ments had been made for my visit, and a note from the English secretary, Maj, Head- ley, gave me a dark-skinned palace -guide and I was shown through court after oourt of marble and taken through room after room furnished with rich Persian carpets and wibh satin•oovered .chairs and divans of European make. In one palace there was an immense billiard -room and in this and the room adjoining the skins of tigers and leopards( were scattered about by the hun- dred. They lay in great piles on the floors. They were hung on the walls and some of the divans were upholstered with them. I went through room after room filled with such skins, and I was told that the beasts were all killed by the rajah, who is very fond of tiger -hunting and who le an excellent shot. I was shown the outside of the palace con. taining the harem, and. bee arrangements for keeping ib cool struck me as rather pe- culiar. Outaide of the mainhall and run• ning along the length of the palace was a series of great fanning mills not unlike those used by the Canadian farmer. These were turned by half -naked men and they thus kept pumping up drafts into the rooms be- yond. THE FAMINE iN SHINTIING. Escape From Starvation by Suicide—Sealing Women and Children. The Rev. Alfred G. Jones gives the follow ing details ot the famine as observed by him in Shintung. The letter is under date of April 4 "There is no village whish has not had deaths from starvation, probably about one person starved to death in every five families, to say nothing of those who are suffering daily on the verge of suoh a horrible fate. Regarding the sale of women and children, it is a matter of CO muoh.notoriety as the selling of mules and donkeys, except that they are nob brotu ht to market. Since the very cold weather passed over death from starvation has deoreased, but not so the sale of women and children. Women bebween 20 and 30 years of age are told for $5 or $10, the latter being a. high price. Children under 10 years, fay $1 to $1.50," Mrs. Neal wrote on April 11 : "I hear on all aides the saddest tales told in the quietest way, as if it were only natural, how this man's wife or daughter, this woman's only son or her two or three little children have been starved to death ; how So-and•So weld hie little girl or boy to get food for his other children for a month to Dome, or how a Certain man's wife hung herself to get away from the sight of her famishing babies. I heard our gatekeeper say to a math whose wife was ill : 'Year wife hadn't the courage eyes, Here is one with a turbaned soldier 1 mine had 1 She took her life most bravely on his back, and there is another ridden by ate arsenic) to save herself from seeing her a boy. On up the street you see an elephant. i children dile alouvly before her oyes.' The It belongs to the rajah, and its rider is one other man, determined that the sterlingchar- 01 the servants of the palace. who is taking ` aeber of hie family should bo aI precieted, the beast out for exerciee. Here are thou I? • my away replied 'Butboyran tem home .Y sands of bullocks wibh humps over their , to join a theatrical troupe, find fay only shcutdeee, the steered cows of India, doing daughter drowned herself last winter, so duty as pack horses. Theft bac1tu are loaded that her mother and I might have more t* with panniers and they are carrying. along ' oat 11 she •Wore gone,' " erreneeettatimmellataellemellellivaellerbeee It Made Mother Strong eery mother bas Poen using Penia'a; CsLaltr CcrrrOUND for nervous prostration, accompan- led by nielancholla, oto., and 11 has done her a world'ot goad.. It is the olilymodi. Gino that strength^ ens the nerves.' G. 11. 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Pain's Celery Compound is of unequaled' value to women. It strengthens the nerves,• regulates the kidneys, and has wonderfulwen In curing the ppaintul diseases with which was men so often sllently suffer. $1 per bottle. Six tor S. At Druggists.-, WRT,rv, RIOBAItDaoN t CO. &Iolrrasen. DIAMOND DYES p h np ca7 gathl YOUR BABY liPegt12veelraoLsYiiOT4TEDFO THE of • ++�''77f�F,A'�yEXE'IER TIMES I TIS$ NEWS. Sir William Gull comes to the defence of higher education for women with the state. meats that a university education, such as girls get at Newnham and Girton, makes them and their children healthier ; and that the percentage of childless marriages is less with educated women. An English newpapsr has the advertise- ment of a young Polish woman who asks assistance' in buying a panto, as her parents are to poor to buy one for her. The young woman's name is Jadwiga Janina Bogus Taweka Plobckow Trybunaaski Ulioa Mos- kiewakadom Dolinskiego. Mr. Bradiaugh's motion to abolish per- petual pensions has shown up the peculiar history of one of them. On the list is a small pension standing to the ,credit of a Scottish peer for the fulfilment of a senicure office. For two generations nob a penny has gone into the family coffers. This peer's grandfather being in need of ready money, sold the pension to a Portsmouth Jew, whose heirs and assigns draw ib to this day. An extraordinary instance of long hours of labor came to light through the Sweating Committee of the house of Lords. A Roum- anian Jew, about 35, small, and of poor phy- sique, was examined through an interpreter in a mixture of Hebrew and Gorman. He arrived: in Hull via Hamburg, intending to proceed to America, but not having money enough to pay his fare, he was sent to Mao. cheater. There he works from 5 o'clock in the morning until twelve at night, and sometimes until 1 or 2 in the morning, mak• ing an average of 20 hours a day for 6 days in the week, leaving only 4 hours for sleep. He earned 3s. a day in the busy time, 'last- ing about 10 weeks, and from 6s. to 8s, per week in the slack season, and on this he had bo support a wife and six children. Canon Wilberforce writes to a London newspaper that his belief in miracles has been etrengrthened.by a miracle performed upon himself by means of 'anointing and prayer., "My internal ailment," he writes. •'was of such a nature that leading surgeons declared ie to be incurable except at the cost of a severe operation. At lash I sent for elders—men of God, full of faith—by whom I was prayed over and anointed, and in a few weeks the internal ailment passed entirely away." The Canon takes paws to spy that he is confident that he was healed by "the Lord's blessing upon His own word; but, as in so -many cases, there was sufficient margin of time and possibility of change of tissue between the anointing and the re- oovery to justify the skeptic in disconnect- ing the two." Up in Berkshire county, Mass., the rattle- snake is hunted every summer for his oil, which sometime Jetohes $2 an ounce. Here is a description of the way the Yankee out- wits the serpent : "Ctooeing a hot summer day, the rattlesnake hunters saunter forth. One man oarries a fishpole, another a sharp scythe. The fishpole has a stout wire attach- ed to it, and there in an ordinary plekerel hook on the end of the wire. Moving cautiously through the grass, so as nob to disturb the sleeping- snake, who is almost always found beeking in the warm sun near a loose ledge of rook, one of the men prods his snakeship more or 'doss gently with the fishpole, being careful also to hold the hook invitingly near to the rattler's head. The snake wakes up angry, makes a dart at the nearest irritating objeob, which le the fish. hook, and very accommodatingly allowa the sharp tines to penetrate his jaws. The man with the fishpole holds the entrapped rattle- snake at a safe distance, while bis comrade moves up and severe the . snake's head from his body. The body then is deposited in a bag, and the hunters go in search of another snake, His Sul;a;ested Wish. Going down the Chesapeake Bay on an exoureion when the wind was fresh and the white caps tumultuous, !Judge Heli, of North Carolina, became terribly sea-siok. "My dear Hall," said Chief Justice Waite, who wag one of the party, and who was as clone, Portable as an old sea -dog, "oan I do any- thing for you? Jdsb suggest what you wiee." "I wish," groaned the seasick juricb, "that your honor would overrule this motion. —[Buffalo °eerier. A Slip of the Pen. Dr. Carpenter was noted for the gnioknees of his wits and it was a common saying in the baron in which he lived that ho always had an answertoady when it was required, Be was once introduced as "Ur Carter." Immediately his irked taw his error and corrected hhntelf, " Never mind," said the doctor; °‘ it's only a slip of the pen," JOHN LA BATT'S Indian P'/e Ole and XXXBrown Sou/ Highest awarls ant :yfedals for Purity and Escel- lenee at Oenteiinial b xhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; Cenada,1876 ; Austrelia,1877 ; and Paris, France, 1878. 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