Eagle Pass News-Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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IRST among the four in
importance is undoubt-
edly the baby emperor
of China, little Pu Yi,
who was born so lately
as 1906. Only as may
be surmised, the actual
reins of state are not held by his
tiny hands, but by those of his uncle,
who is acting as regent till his ma-
jority. Even his power, though he
represents in theory an absolute
monarchy, is yet in practice, limited
by several advising boards, com-
posed of the grand council, the gov-
ernment council, the ‘board of cens-
ors and many viceroys, who all have
a voice in the settlement of affairs
of state.
The three-year-old emperor who
holds in his hands the lives and for-
tunes of over tour hundred and fifty
millions, is of course, yet in the
nursery with his toys, but already a
scheme of education upon broad
western lines is being planned for
him in order to fit him for his posi-
tion on the throne. Progress is
capable of doing strange things in
China, and by the time he ascends
to the throne, his country may be
one for western nations to cope with
in the field of industry, or of mili-
tary supremacy in the east. Already
China is making vast strides, and
assimilating ideas in every branch of
civilization, which cannot but threat-
en with the passage of years, to put
her neighbor, Japan, in the shade. It
Is to be hoped that the emperor,
when he does come to occupy that
position, which has proved so often
ill-fated to many of his ancestors of
the Ja Ching or “Great Pure” dy-
nasty, of which he is the sixteenth
in the canonized series; may exert
all the influence at his command in
the interests of peace.
Meanwhile, he is learning of the wonders of the west,
In the shape of toy trains and other mechanical toys sent
him by other juvenile royalties, and being taught that to
rule well one must learn first of all, to be obedient to the
rules which guide man through life.
Tsext comes Ahmed Mizra, the boy king of Persia,
which holds within its 635,000 square miles, a scattered
population of nine millions. He too, is under the care of
a regent, Assad Vi Mulk, who is head of the powerful
Kajar tribe, of which the shah’s mother was a princess;
and to whose influence he owes his position, since he is
not the eldest son of the deposed Ali Mizra. He is only
13 years old, and another three years will have to pass
before he is crowned.
It is no wonder that with the example before him of
his father, who was removed from the throne after a
brief and troubled reign of two years, that he wept bitter-
ly when the news of his succession was brought to him in
the Russian legation, for he was extremely fond of his
lather, and could not understand why he was not allowed
to go to him. It was only after his vizier had scolded
him harshly that he dried his tears and prepared to ac-
cept the honor which had been done him. Now he is
practically a prisoner in his own palace, in the enervat-
ing atmosphere of the women’s apartments, where his
education is being carried on in a way contrary to the
wishes of the national reform party, who brought about
his sudden change from the position of a spoiled child
to that of a king. His native tu-
tors endeavor to teach him Per-
sian, Arabic, history and writing,
hut his attention is allowed to be
distracted by the interruptions of
the many chamberlains and cour-
tiers who are permitted to be
present. His only companions are
a few young slaves and there is
nothing being done to prepare him
for the lofty duties which he must
fulfill at an early date.
The throne and the many at-
tendant ceremonies appealed to
.him merely as parts of a new
game and he soon tired of the ob-
sequious homage with which he
was surrounded and to-day he is
no more than an unhappy child.
A change, however, is promised
by the reformers, who are only
awaiting the voting of funds to
put their intentions in execution.
He will be removed from the in-
fluence of the woman’s apart-
ments foreign tutors will instruct
him in their language; the best of
the Persian scholars will be cho-
sen to inculcate in him the pre-
cepts which are thought best, with
oriental languages and history;
and he will be given companions
of more suitable birth chosen from
the noble families of his kingdom.
All these advantages will be used
to transform him into a ruler such
as Persia ought to have to fitly re-
vive the glories of Alexander and
Darius.
Manuel, king of Portugal, is just
on the border line of manhood and
is of such boyish appearance that
he may well be included among
boy kings. He celebrated his twen-
tieth birthday last month and is
consequently the youngest mon-
arch in Europe. It will not be for-
gotten that he was the second son
u/o o.'
of King Carlos and that he was suddenly called to the
throne by the tragic assassination of his father and his
elder brother, Luiz. Although his own inclinations
guide him toward an artist’s life, he was always pos-
sessed of a high ideal of the duties imposed upon him
by his royal birth and a reserve of will power to carry
out his ideals at all costs.
The area over which he rules, including the islands
of Azores, covers a total of 35,490 square miles and his
people number five and a half millions. Though Manuel
ascended the throne at a time when there was nothing
but the murmur of anarchy in his ears and his thoughts
were assailed by sad recollections, he has come through
the events which succeeded his accession with an equa-
nimity and diplomatic grasp of the situation which does
infinite credit to him and his training.
As it is the duty of a king to his people to marry, he
has lately been going a-wooing in England, but there
has been a distinct hesitancy on the part of his prin-
cesses to share his fortunes, which may or may no"-,
as time will show, be checkered with misfortune, if not
with tragedy, and he left England with nothing decided.
But sooner or later he must make up his mind, and
meanwhile matchmaking Europe is discreetly but ear-
nestly making plans for his future.
His Highness Daudi Chua, Kabaka or King of Uganda,
grandson of the celebrated Mutesa, is a minor under a
regency of three native chiefs, who are assisted in the
government by a
native assembly
or Lukiko. Be-
sides that there
is a British com-
missioner, a3
Uganda is a pro-
tectorate of
Great Britain,
who helps to
keep things in
order with the
aid of a battal-
lion of the King’s
African Rifles
and about a
thousand armed
constabulary.
The Kabaka,
however, is al-
lowed perfect
freedom, for the
people of Ugan-
da are unique
among the na-
tive races of Af-
rica. They are
an amiable, po-
lite and intelli-
gent ,race, as is
shown by the
fact that out of a population of three and a half mil-
lions one million are Christians while 200,000 of them
can read and write.
The dynasty of Uganda, of which Daudi Chua is the
thirty-seventh representative, in its earlier origin was
a king to the inhabitants of Egypt, though as intermar-
riage took place with the native race who have always
inhabited the kingdom the present representative is in
appearance negro with a slightly paler skin than the
average and large, clear eyes. That there is good,
ground for the belief in Egyptian origin is proved by the
fact that a certain portion of his people in feature
(though with curly hair) and in their traditions have
much in common with the Egyptians. The Kabaka lives
in Mengo, a straggling city of about 80,000 inhabitants,
built like Rome on seven hills, most of them of great
steepness, round which are marshy tracts. The quarter
inhabited by the king and his court and the people of
higher degree is clean and picturesque, surrounded by
trees and gardens, while a cathedral opened a few years
ago helps to give it the appearance of a capital city,
which it will probably resemble more and more as the
improvements now in progress are carried out.
The protectorate administration is carried on at En-
tebbe, which is renowned for its beauty, surrounded by
lofty incense trees, which have always a load of chat-
tery parrots and monkeys in search of the plums they
bear at certain seasons of the year.
The boy Kabaka, though his kingdom is the smallest
of the four, is probably most to be envied, for his posi-
tion is free from the many cares which will assuredly
beset the emperor of China and the shah of Persia in
later years.
SHRINKS FROM POMP
When Princess Victoria of England, daughter of
Queen Alexandra, was a girl of 14 it became her duty
one day to act as hostess at a juvenile entertainment at
Marlborough house. In the middle of it she suddenly
disappeared. A messenger was dispatched to Bucking-
ham palace to see if the truant had run away to “grand-
ma," but she wasn’t there. At last a letter from her
to the princess of Wales was discovered In the school-
room, begging “mother” not to be angry; she did “hate
parties” so, and she had gone to stay with the duchess
of Teck till this one was over.
Not liking parties has been a charactertistic of this
princess ever since, though, having a strong sense of
duty, which developed as she grew older, she doesn’t
run away from them any more, says the Strand. But
those who know her know that if she could choose her
’ life it would be one far from court—a life free from
demands of etiquette and spent among the friends she
loves. Whenever she can escape from the formalities
that surround her she does so. Stories are told of her
planning visits incognito with her sisters or other mem-
bers of the court to some tearoom or shop, where for a
little while she can do just as other women do. She
likes to drop little anonymous surprises on the children
she encounters, as once when she was shopping in Pen-
rith and saw three small boys looking longingly at the
toys in a window. The priscess immediately took the
part of Santa Claus and for once in their lives those
small and ragged boys had all the toys they wanted.
Princess Victoria has a good deal of tact, says the
Gentlewoman, and while she cares little about court life,
her influence has brought about several needed changes
there. The queen’s ladies in waiting have special rea-
son to be grateful to her. Up to the time of King Ed-
ward’s accession the breakfast hour for the ladies in
waiting was seven o’clock in the summer and 7:30 in
the winter. They didn’t like it, of course, but in so great
a household changes are not easily made. Princess Vic-
toria, however, got the hour changed to eight o’clock
for all the year round. It was she, too, who secured a
much more comfortable breakfast room for them than
the one at their desposal during Queen Victoria’s reign.
True to her nature, she has always refused to have
a lady in waiting. When she goes to any public function
she is accompanied by one of the queen’s, as etiquette
for bids her appearing alone. She has, by the way, sev-
eral faithful attendants who always like going about
with her when they can. They are her nephews and
nieces, with whom she has been a great favorite ever
since they were little things.
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AT
OU have heard of the sultan
of Turkey, the sultans of
Morocco and Zanzibar, but
but who on earth is the
sultan of Oman? If you
imagine that his kingdom is
bounded on the south by the foot-
lights, on the east and west by the
wings, and on the north by the back-
cloth of a Broadway stage you are
wrong He has nothing at all to do
with musical comedy. On the con-
trary, he is a very much alive person-
age who holds sway over the inde-
pendent state of Oman, which is set
like another Gibraltar at the entrance
to the Persian gulf.
Though nominally Seyyid Feysil
bin Turki, which is the name of the
sultan, is a Tree agent in the manage-
ment of the affairs of his kingdom,
yet the Indian government, in the per-
son of a British consul and political
agent, keeps in very close touch with
him, and for all practical purposes
Oman is a protectorate of India.
There is a reason for this. Oman is
a convenient basis for any operations
which may be necessary to check the
agressive advances of any other pow-
er in the Persian belt, and as by its
position it dominates the entrance to
the Persian gulf, by its port Muscat,
which is the only share of British in-
fluence between Aden, the island of
Socotra, and India, it is of great value
in the eyes of the British government,
who are presently eyeing askance the
German commercial invasion of Per-
sia with the Bagdad railway, as a
menace to the safety of India.
The seat of government is Muscat,
a picturesque rock-bound port, con-
taining some 25.000 inhabitants, and
carrying on a trade in the export of
fruit, fish, mother o’ pearl and the im-
port of Indian goods including arms
and ammunition in large quantities.
The sultan, though he nominally exer-
cised an absolute sway over a strip
of a thousand miles of coast line, ex-
tending along the Persian gulf as far
as Katar and containing 80,000 square
miles, yet in reality, owing to the
mountainous nature of the country,
his power is confined to the imme-
diate neighborhood of Muscat.
Oman was once a Portuguese pos-
ession but finally became an inde-
pendent state through the influence
of an ancestor of the present sultan
in 1741 and added to the domains,
taking in territory as far south as
Zanzibar. It gradually lost its con-
quests and Zanzibar is now a separ-
ate sultanate under British protection.
There is no danger of the lino of
sultans or inmans, as they are called,
dying out as there is a large royal
family, the eldest of whom is Seyyid
Taimur bin Feysel. The sultan is ex-
tremely proud of his family of eight
youngsters, and is not at all
averse to facing the camera in their
company. He is a man who though
he may not have heard of the origina-
tor of it, yet firmly believes in the
Roosevelt creed of bidding the stork
welcome, and the stork on its Qman-
ese equivalent is a frequent royal
guest.
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Boehmer, Joseph O. Eagle Pass News-Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1910, newspaper, January 29, 1910; Eagle Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098326/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.