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THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 24, 1907.
f" . 1 ALCUTTA. Jan. Th emir of
I I Afghanistan arrived Id this city
-..... j .. . - uniri DMfll
It known that his visit wu of a
pUTely private character. Never
theless, formal mils were exchanged be
tween the amir and the viceroy, and then
the. amir settled down to a program of
sightseeing.
That really ia the and and aJm of tha
Journey, which la a remarkable one. Tha
amir ia a tourist and aa ha la. for tha first
time In hla Ufa. outalda tha boundarlea of
tila native country, ha la Informing himself
and enjoying himself aa only a traveler
can Who U under no necessity of consider
ing tha out of pleasure or of anything
else that Interesta him.
Ha left hla capital. Kabul, late In De
cember, and haa been on tha way ever
alnce, pausing when and where he listed,
making aide excuralone to see points of
Interest or to pray at famoua ehrlnea. For
thla private unofficial tour he surrounded
himself with a retinue of no leaa than
J.Ert) persona, who are now quartered In
tills city.
It must be difficult for Americana to get
an adequate conception, of the amir either
aa a man or a ruler, for there la no coun
try with which new world people come In
direct ..or erven diplomatic contact that
offer any sort of analogy to Afghanistan
and Its civilization. There la clvllliatloa
In Afghanistan; there are atone houses,
splendid palace, an extraordinary litera
ture, which Itaelf Impllea educational Insti
tutions; well erganlxed government, laws,
fttrarta, army, police; but there la not one
toUe of railroad, and there are few other
road suitable for wneeied vehicles; and
Ita monarch. ' a man of native Intelligence
and highly educated according to Afghan
standards, haa had hla first ride In a rail
way train this month, his first ride In a
motor car, and haa had hla eyea opened
In many other respects to things which by
mere fore of familiarity wa have coma
to regard as eaeenUai accompaniments of
civilization.
Afghanistan la on of the few countries
from which Great Britain had to retreat
after gaining a footheld on the solL Be
fore the middle of th last century the
Afghans drove out the British garrison
and their defendants with great slaughter.
No serious attempt haa been made to re
cover military control of the country, but
what tha British army failed to do haa
been accomplished so far aa la necessary
for British Interests by diplomacy and
money.
After much negotiation th late amir,
father of the present ruler, agreed that
Afghanistan should accept the advloe of
the British government In India on alt
questions relating to farelgn affairs. This
means In plain language that Afghanistan
is dependent on Great Britain. It cannot
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He entered Brltlah Lerritorv on Januarv 4
make war with or enter treaty relation and received a formal welcome from a rep-
with any other government and oannat
maintain agents or representative In for-
lgn capitals.
So far aa Its domestic affair are con
erned, however, Afghanistan la aa lnde-
resentatlva of ..the Indian government at
the very frontier, but it was not until tie
reached the Important city of Agra, ten
daya later, that demonstrations of con-
alderabla magnitude occurred.' Meantime
pendent aa th United Stat and to amir on the way from Peshawar he paused at
J its absolute ruler. Ha Is in his own per- Nowaheva and Attock. frontier towna,
on th court of appeal for ail kinds of where he Industriously took In all th
case and he can abrogate U law or pro- sight, quit In tha manner of an Amer-
claim new ones without let or hindrance loan tourlat in London or Paris,
from Oreat Britain. There were two con- Th fortresses in these towns naturally
lderation which Induced the lata amir to commanded his attention, and at Attock
deprive his country of Individuality In th he made a trip to a new bridge in process
list of nations tha payment to him by tha of construction over the Idua. On this oo-
Indlan government of $800,000 annually and caalon he walked far out on the structure
i the guarantee by th British government where footing was anything but eaf and
: that Afghanistan should be protected easy In order to realise' the height of th
gainst unprovoked aggression. bridge above the river.
Tha country covin an ma ahniit After leavina- At fork ha dlvurirnit from
: to that of the-New England states, plus the main road in order to visit Slrhlnd and
Mew York. It population U estimated at Vny at tne shrine of Sheikh Ahmad. It
! nearly 6,000,000. The present amir waa wa during this first stage of the journey
j born ln 187) and succeeded to th throne ,n India that he made acquaintance with a
, In October, 1801. y railroad. He arrived at the station half
I Ha) formally reaffirmed hi father'a treaty nour after the train was acheduled to
, with Great Britain In 1806 and at that time ,tart- bt th trala bad been held for him.
; announced that he wuld make a Jurney further delay then ensued owing to
to India In 1907. Hla affldal iMinttiM ta tne amir s reluctance to rink himself on
rather formidable ta EagUah-readtng ya, strange contrivance, but at length ha
but really not more aa than the omnlata swallowed hla feara. manifestly, observer
designation of other monarch, tha king of
England, for example, to whom officially
we must refer aa "hi moat exoellertt maj
esty, Edward th Seventh, by the grao of
God, of the United Kingdom Oreat
Britain and Ireland, and of th British d
minions beyond th aeaa, king, defender
of the faith, emperor f India" Th amir
designation la "hla highnes BlraJ-ul-mlll&t-wad-dln
Amir Habib Ullah Kkaa," which la
comparatively modest In dimensions how
ever grand It meaning may a. Slnoe hla
accession ha haa also aea mad a grand
commander of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George.
Th amir supports a considerable harem.
It la not known bow many oonouotne ha
has, but there are four regularly racog-
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miliar to ETngllshmen, and went abnurd.
The event abundantly justltled his repug
nance to railway travel.
There waa no dlaaster, but the engineer
had to make up lost time, and the train
woa run at very high speed for nine miles,
the distance to the amir's next stopping
place. It made Hablb Ullah seasick. The
amir was a wreck when the train halted.
fcarr aa reret tn my oaniag, but whan
I saw that th soldier war not weartnr
their I could not think of putting on
mine."
That remark mad th amtr popular at
noe, and his popularity lnareaaed with
every day that passed. He converses wall
with all manner of people and. like th
tru tourist, seems to believe that every
body ha meats can tell him something In '
terestlng.
For example, after th parada and whfl
. he waa Mill surrounded by Brlttah officer
of high rank, he saw tall, good-looking
woman crossing the ground.
,rWho la ehT" asked.
They told him that She wa th wlf of ft
common sen? rant.
"I want to apeak to her." aald he.
Anybody who haa had tha allghteat con
tact with military llf In America or else
where will perceive the astounding nature
of thla request. The British sergeant Is an
essential feature of the military establlab
me.it, doubtleaa a vry good sort of fellow,
too. and his wlf Is a necessary person and
presumably estimable, but It Is not think
able that ahe ahould breathe th aame air
aa a colonel's wife, much leaa a general'.
Th officers, thinking that th amir had
misunderstood. . repeated th explanation
that th woman wa a sergeant's wife, but
he blandly ra!tretd his wish to speak to
her, and th embarrassed officer could do
nothing but summon her. She was sadly
flustered at thus being brought Into th
presence of royalty with her ordinary,
clothea on. but tha amir had little difficulty ;
In putting her at betr ease, an they con
versed for quit ten minutes. '
This la a fair sample of all th nappe-(
Inge during Hablb UUah'a stay at Agra. .
He had a qnewtlon for everything h saw. j
sometime childleh. sometimes shrowd. bat:
all betraying an eager Interest la hla ad-,
ventures. , ,, '
It was In Agra that h took hla first rid
In motor car. Lord Kitchener aocomptwiy-'
Ing him. The amir had owned a car for
two year. It was th gift of a distant
admirer, but It ha lain unuaed
royal stablea ever slnoe It wa delivered at j
Kabul. .
There wa nobody to run th thing, per-.
haps, though it Is hardly conceivably for
th late amir established several factories j
at Kasul where monitions of war are
made, aa well aa other articles that requlr ,
th services of skilled mechanic. Motwj
likely the amir's reluctance to railway.
th manifestation of general
It la aald, nevertheless, that the monarch intrunt of wheeled oontrlvanoea, and th
bore htmcelf well In thla distressing predlc- motor car may have been regardted a ft
anient. There was no whining, no te.ror, thin best let alone.
but rather an evident exercise of all the t that oar will b put into ootnmlsslon,
will power he had to avoid displaying his tha amir return t Kabul. Th
weakness. ,m around Agra. LoraV
There la no question that the Ills of the Kitchener took him at a rooderat spod
Journey were more than compensated by several mile Into th country.
the good time the amir had at Agra. He Hablb Ullah wa delighted and rruMStOCT
liked everything from the bagpipe salute tnat the machine be driven at full speed on
that greeted him on arrival aa a feature k back. He mad known hi Inteo-
of hla formal reception to the remarkable xya of using hi own car in th future, J
spectacle of a vast crowd bathing in tha wj t s fgn- to probay therefor tha1
Jumna river during the eclipse of the aun. Mtt wm presently be a reform in th
The accompanying picture, taken by an. roft-i 0f Afghanistan.
Agra photographer. Indicates the interest j, took a short trip In a bai
that any traveler would take in the acene. loQn wMU WM at AgTa, but he did not
The formal reception waa necessarily lntJm(Lt) tnat aeronautic would be made)
largely of a miliary character. Th entlr fashionable diversion at Kabul. Mo
garrison was turned out on parade and . . ...m,. and -hen the edg'
rode on a horse, the cavalry in hla retinue
galloping after him with all the abandon
of Cossacks.
It waa during this review that one of tha
pleasantest incidents of the Journey oc
curred. The weather, which la usually
warm and dazzlngly bright at Agra, was
say, because he deemed it unbecoming la
ft monarch to shrink from' what was fa-
h. worn oft that balloon, perhaps.
It la rather striking that while th amir"
was Ignorant of motor oars and railway
and much elae that pertalna to the ordi
nary Ufa of weatem civilisation he ha
long been familiar with and personally ex
pert at nhotcacraphy. While he was yet a
uriK.it ai Agra. wu ----- - - - . ,,. hu
as bad as It could bo there. A drlszllng pnnc ne wi .,1 .7u.
rain fell steadily all day and th. wind bad f ther. and more recently he has taken on
a disheartening chill. of himself. Both these productions of th.
Soldiers were permitted to wear their royal photographer accompany this letter.
overcoaU until the amir was actually at Th Amir ia a junuu.
hand, when, aa a token of respect, they
were' doffed. Presently one of the British
officers escorting the amir noticed that he
was minus an overcoat. The officer sug
gested that he waa In danger of catcMng
a severe cold, for his clothing was
drenched.
"It doean't matter," ha responded. "1
?One of the Richest Provinces of North Africa
and very dAvout. His sightseeing was)
always Interrupted at sunset for prayer,
on which occasion h would call in a loud
volo; "If ther are any Mohammedan
her lot them now withdraw to pray."
It was hla roUgtou faith rather than hla
eurloaUy a a tourlat that lad him to mak
a special trip to a suburb of Agra where
stand th Taj-Mahal, oa of the most
beautiful buildings In the world. It wa
built about J60 yean ago by the Eknperor
Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for hi favorite
wlf. and th emperor himself, on of
th greatest in Indian history. 1
hurled there.
The Taj-Mahal t mora than a building.
It la the chief seaport of ,,, . .., mh twins- tha central feature
. . , tuv iwsJ-' -w
OWIlu CT .l.twinLta aardena soma 800 yards long
(CtoDvrtB-ht- inrr. hv rrank a. r. renter 1 tim. and runnlnr back ud tha foot hills of th sota and It has several hundred thousand town of Oran.
Tj.xi .i .. .k Tb rtrhe.t of tha French nosaeaalona. Atlas, haa soma of the richest soil upon more people, ine next is Algiers, wuiuu w.bwd m
fRnlclal CorresDondence of Tha however, are along the aouth coast of the earth., It la only from thirty to a hundred la not far from the else of Missouri, with of the whol country In else. It contain b m thaQ gQO wlda Tha gardens are
left Morocco and Mediterranean sea, comprising the two mile wide, but la several hundred mile a population of l,w,ouo, ana tne otner ia aoout mu.wu people, ana ie more Tencn M Deautiful in one way aa tha mausoleum
ellng In African e-reat atatea of Algeria and Tunisia. Of long, Including a territory about as large the western province of Oran. -where I am than Algiers itself. It Is situated not far u ,n .n,,. They are crossed by canal
these Tunisia Is a protectorate. It Is al- as New York and Maasacnusetia comDinea. writing, una w jui uuui u " l UneA with whit marble, ther are nuraer-
(Special. Correspondence of Tha
Bee.) I have
am now traveling In African
Franca. I landed at Oran three
weeks ago, and have already made my way
through th rich lands of the Tell, across
tha hlvh nlateaua 'Which are uoheld he-
nlted wives, th chief of whom, known aa twMn th, ot tn, AUa. mountajaa
and down Into the desert of Sahara. I
am now back In Oran, the chief seaport
of western Algeria, and am about to start
on a 265-mile railroad Journey eastward to
th queen wife; enjoy an allowanoe of
tSTB.OOO a year. Th allowance of the hr
wive are $300,000, $1C0,X and 176,000, ac
cording to seniority.
Ther la also a queea mother In thla ecm- ,.. tn caDlUli
pi ex family, and It Is well known that tha
young monarch haa a monkey and parrot Afrteaa France
time of It In maintaining domestic dla- A '
nx. .if. tormarw Befor I "begin describing my travels I
Slav girl, and whoa beauty Infatuated w,nt to. taU you wllt th Frenoh have " of property France has outside her own
Oran la lust about the alxe of from the borders
most ahaolutely governed by th French, It haa mora good land by far than both Pennsylvania ana lis population is more oireciiy aoutn or anagina ,n npain. in ou marble-fountains, anff grateful relief
and they are rapidly developing it. Algeria ' of those states. This land la known aa the than a million. Strait of Gibraltar U about y to th prevailing whit ton In a number
on th other hand la now a part of tha Tell. It runa clear across Algeria ana on uuai popuiauuu vi u wuoiw i ku.. of oypres tre
French republic. It Is a French state. It Into Tunisia. It haa been for centurlea the try now approximate 5.OU0.O00. and of these Boston, and It takes about two days to go mausoleum tand on a marb!;
holds it. own election and It haa three granary of this part of the world. The almost J0.o00 are French. There are also by ship from her to Marseille. Th port Umcm tinted eighteen fet aov th
aenatora and alx deputiea In the Parlla- Phoeneciana and Carthaginians built em- several hundred thousand other European, has a fine harbor, conalatlng of a beautiful lovi of th gardena Th main
ment at Paris. It. governor general 1. a Plres upon It. and It waa for a long time made up of Bpanlarda. Italian, Maltese bay with a high, ragged mountain took- w feet juare, ta. roughly .peak
Frenchman and moat of lta official, are on. of the principal bread basket of lm- and Jew.. The rest of the Algerian, ar lag down upon It. Eaat of the mountata .j,,,, enclong th tomb,
native, of the French republic Prial Rome. It was fought for by th Mohammedans. African., and three out of there 1. a gulley or canyon with low hill whloh to ft special structure In th.
native oi me rxencn repuouc vandale. the Greeks and In the eighth every live of them Is an Arab. There ar extending off to the eastward, and In and ,ntT m feet -uara.
century was conquered by the Arabs, wh also about 700.000 whit African known on the sides of this is the town of Oran. are wlnlows, ntt being ad-
neat Frc-noh Coloay. made tha country Mohammedan, aa it Is a Kaoyiea ana aoouv u,vw
Indeed. Algeria la by far tha beat piece today.
There is some flat ground for the wharves. mlttd thrjQ KrMMn of marW trellis j
but back of them th buildings of th
Hablb Ullah while h waa yet a prince, 1
ft termagant of th fiercest description.
ah is madly JeaJou. obviously with
eaua enough, and haa not viewed tha ao
oeaalon of other wives wltb any degree of
Africa. Their possessions include more
than one-third of the continent, a territory
several hundred thousand miles larger than
the whole United States, together with
Alaska and our outlying colonies. Practlc-
Bfrd'a-Ey View of Alarorta.
Meg roe avmd Bx-ftlavr.
Here In Oran ther axe a large cumber
Algeria consist of thee rich lands of of Spaniards and many negroes who were Down near th port ar great warehouses vjinHn- bright that th
ine oanara aa flUe1 with alfa graaa. bags of wheat and -hie softening of th glare that is nicety
www of th mtat axaulaata design. Ta i
city cUmb th hill. In three great ter- dwU mak th toterlor of th build-'
race, giving every houa an outlook over ,f lt wer, Up In New York. .
the Mediterranean sea w... h. iinumhm la usually aa
effect I an agree- f
boundarUa. It Is her great winter garden,
which furnishes the chief vegetables for
All th Pranrh ff f I a mnii th -v-nn-v m hlh
. ii . i. , h Tell, or the nisn niaieaus oi tne au juh unsiiuuiy v " - nued with alfa araaa. Dan or wheat ana Min.
steamers carry the garden stuff across tha tlw them, and of tha foothlUa running slave and sold In th market of Algiers, t,, fret hogsheada of win and other adjusted to th moat effectlv display of I
InTanrmttT but aba oannot heln herself, lly th" whoI of the we,t of th Medltarranean In a day and In thirty-six th Sahara- Tne coutury w iB 80ne 0I1U1 Algerian oa poy rtuff rfmAy tor exlMrt. Th wharvee are aom of th most wonderful dj-coratlv
equanimity, out an oannot neip nerseii. . .. ,n th-m th. t - . ' . ' ,ht lona- from eaat to west a from are about all negroea and I see many here .- v.-w -.h w,-. .nd immenaa ------ i .
noun i L is lur sale in mo iijuiei uvusnu - - -- - mwi .i'""" v
because th amir maintalna, and tha law
justifies him, that his rank entltlea htm to
at least four wive. Bo the queen wit
take it out on bar attendanta. Sh cha
tlaea .them freely and frequently, and thus
far ha killed three of tltetn with her own
hand. Abominable as thla may eeetu tn th
eyas of western civilization, th worst of lt
Is. so far aa the amir la concerned, that
th queen mother, th queen wlf and all
th other wlvea ar forever Interfering In
politic. Their Jealousies and conflicting In
trigue keep the court in turmoil, and
tenure of office la preoarloua, for Hablb
Ullah la not celebrated for firmness. He la
good natured and prone to avoid trouble by
yielding to It.
In hla Journey through Indta he haa been
eunsptc'uoua for his amiable qualities and
those that ahould mark a sovereign. No
end of stories are now current .hat tell of
hla unaffected dignity, courtesy, apprecia
tion of all attentions paid to hlirSand
Prattle of the Youngsters
Teacher Johnny, can you tail uie what ft
hypocrite IsT
Johnny Yea, ma'am. It's ft boy what
couia to school with a smile on hla face.
Teacher (In manual training school)
W hat may be .regarded aa the forerunner
of the modem automobile?
Shaggy Haired Pupil Anybody that gits
In lis way.
A little -year-old awoke otte morning and
gaaed In wonder at the snow-covered
ground, th first be had ever seen.
"Oh. Eddie!" he cxilaimeid, turning to
bis older brother, "now you'll gtt It;
mamma will whip you for apl'.llng aU the
alt outside."
.
Small Tommy Our teacher whipped ft boy
today for whlaperlng, but It didn't da any
good.
Mamma Why not?
Small Tommy 'Causa It mad him holla
tea time louder than h whispered.
L,lbvan desert belongs to them, and that
alone ta half aa big aa th United Bute w Paris. Some of the best wlnea uaed In Philadelphia to Cleveland, and aa wide as in the town. The negro women nn act inrUt each carrying four or five ton., ar Th wails ar in mesaloe ia which twelve
proper. They have 'an enormoue dlatrlct France are made In this country, and om Washington to Boston by way of as shampooer In the Moorish bath houses. nauled and down the hills by mule. I afferent sreclcu stem furar In amaslna
aouth of tha Bahara which la known aa Aiaerla aive Franc lmnorta to the amount New York. It contalna altogether aa much and many of th men are beggar, who baLV .eon her seven hug hogsheads of abandaao. Ames th Jeweta used In.
French Central Africa, and several colonies of sixty odd million dollara a year. France, land aa all New England added to New danoe about ainging weira "s to in wiDm on on, dray drawn by four mules these mural decoration ar agate, blcod
along the gulf of Guinea. Tha French
Congo, which ta north of tha Belgian Congo,
runa northward so aa to take in a part ot
Lak Chad, and covers, all told, an area
ten time aa large as tha state of Illinois.
It ta Inhabited by li, 000, 000 people, tha moat
herself, annually sends forty or fifty mil
lion dollara worth of her wares to Algeria
and 'tha trade between the two countries
steadily growa
Many look upon Algeria as a little strip
of mountain and desert. The truth is, that
York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey ana
Louisiana.
It la divided Into three provinces, each
beginning at the Mediterranean and cut
ting across to the Sahara. The largest
of these is at the eaat and ia known aa
of whom ar Jet black negroes of th moat part of it lying along th Mediterranean Conatantlna It ta almost a big a Mlnu-
clashlng of queer Iron cymbals. One auch
followed my carriage today and I mad
a photograph of blra. His danoe was a
sort of a Nautch dance, consisting of a
continuous contortion of tha hips and a
twisting of th waist.
But tat me give you ft ntatur of thla
hitched up tandem, .and other drays carry- .ton and Jasper, but th lapis lasuli
Ing loads that would seam an Impossibility lead la quantity and brtlllaney of effect,
in th United States. All traffic here goaa it I tm possible to estimate th money
upon two wheel, and that from tha load of value f th materials need In thla remark-
five tons on a cart with a bed twenty feet able structure, but It ta knewn that 10,030
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rwo otmcura o thb ttxxxob naigblb.
were ooesd rw enty-tw years ta
erecting ft. Th Amir rtaited th Taj
Mahal aa a reilgloua duty and prayed ther.
There ta on feature of th Amir's con
versation that ta altogether novel. It
manasre never to leave his listener hf
the slightest doubt as to th Intent of hi
remark. "Oentlstnen." he will ear. "I
am about to mak a Joka," or, "Gentlemen. .
I am about to ten a funny story." And. ta
etlnoh th aertalaty of avoiding misunder
standing, hi face Mrht up with a r. a. Tr
am lis when he ooroee ta tha point where th
laugh cornea tn.
Pointed Paragraphs
T? voany th average man' good Jud t- .
sent sho up a few minute lata. 1
Th man wh I witling to do anything'
Is seldom without oythtng to do. 1
A man snay admit that ha 1 a fool, butj
It Is aaldora news to Ms acquaintance.
If ft man la Ignorant h may learn, butM
If ha know as muuh ther to no bop torn
him,
Many prosilalng young man has foun
turns IX posing a OS aefanaant in a
rsaoh-of-promta suit.
According to statist! sine-tenths of thaJ
mast who commit aulolde ar married.
oommant ta ttnneceaaary. '
, Th average man dislike to give up hlay
seat In ft crowded car to a woman becaueej
b la afraid sh will tblnh ha 1 trying toi
flirt with bar.
It's a never- ailing alga that ft girl ta lnj
aov with young man when ah begin taj
want t read th Wtter reoeive frooaj
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