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...Satan's own cajolery, used to warn him: "You are trotting down to Hell on a fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married, became bandmaster of Mahara's Minstrel Men. His story of those seasons is a homesick, gaily colored set of lantern slides about a form of entertainment that has vanished...
...roof squats and reigns that absolute autocrat responsible not even to his gods. His Majesty Tribhubana Bir Bikram, proud and by no means petty Mahara-jadhiraya of the valorous, stubbornly independent Kingdom of Nepal...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
Frankness pushed to the brink of indiscretion characterized, last week, an address delivered in London by the Honorable Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Mahara-jadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.** Said his Highness: "It is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that there is in India today a volume of opinion, small, perhaps, but yet not negligible, and which is growing every day not only in strength but intensely, which desires to get rid of British rule at all costs...
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