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Show r Lve, i. -- V tiered ( 3 v. 7 IRST among the four in Importance Is undoubtedly the baby emperor of China, little Pu Yl, who was born so lately as 1906. Only as may ; be surmised, the actual reins of state are not held by bis tiny bands, but by those of bis uncle, who Is acting as regent till bis majority. Even bis power, though he represents in theory an absolute, if A, monarchy, is yet in practice, limited d several boards, advising by of the grand council, the government council, the board of censors and 'many viceroys, who all have a voice in the settlement of affairs of state. d The emperor who holds in bis hands the lives and fortunes of over four 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 position on the throne. Progress Is capable of doing strange things in China, and by the time be ascends to the throne, bis country may be one for western nations to cope with in the field of industry, or of military supremacy in the east Already China is making vast strides, and assimilating Ideas in every branch of civilization, which cannot but threaten with the passage of years, to put her neighbor, Japan, in the shade. It ? "Ji - Is to be hoped that the emperor, when he does come to occupy that position, which has proved so often to many of his ancestors of the Ja Chlng or "threat Pure" dy- nasty, of which he Is the sixteenth In the canonized series; may exert all the Influence at bis command in the Interests of peace. Meanwhile, he is learning of the wonders of the west. of King Carlos and that he was suddenly called to the In the shape of toy trains and other mechanical toys sent throne by the tragic assassination of his father and his him by other Juvenile royalties, and being taught that to elder brother. Luiz. Although his own inclinations rule well owe must learn first of all. to be obedient to the guide him toward an artist's life, he was always posrules which guide man through life. sessed of a high Ideal of the duties imposed upon him Next comes Ahmed Mlzra, the boy king of Persia, by his royal birth and a reserve of will power to carry which holds within Its C35.000 square out his ideals at all costs. miles, a scattered population of nine millions. He too, Is under the care or The area over which he rules. Including the islands a regent, Assad VI Mulk, who is head of the of Azores, covers a total of 35,490 square miles and his powerful Kajar tribe, of which the shah's mother was a princess; people number five and a half millions. Though Manuel and to whose Influence he owes his position, since he Is ascended the throne at a time when there was nothing not the eldest son of the deposed All Mlzra. lie Is only but the murmur of anarchy in his ears and his thoughts 13 years old. and another three years will have to pass were assailed by sad recollections, he has come through before he Is crowned. the events which succeeded his accession with an equanimity and diplomatic grasp of the situation which does It Is no wonder that with the example before hlui ot Infinite credit to him and his training. his father, who was removed from the throne alter a As it is the duty of a king to his people to marry, he brief and troubled reign of two years, that he wept bitterIn England, but there has lately been going ly when the news of his succession was brought to him In has been a distinct hesitancy on the pnrt of his printhe Russian legation, for he was extremely lond of his cesses to share his fortunes, which may or may not. father, and could not understand why he was not allowed as time will show, be checkered with misfortune, if not to go to him. It was only after his vizier had scolded with tragedy, and be left England with nothing decided. him harshly that he dried his tears and prepared to acBut sooner or later he must make up his mind, and Now him. Is he done been the had which honor cept meanwhile matchmaking Europe is discreetly but earIn enervatithe practically a prisoner In bis own palace, ng atmosphere of the women's apartments, where his nestly making plans for hla future. Ills Highness Daudl Chun. Kabaka or King of Uganda, education Is being carried on in a way contrary to the grandson of the celebrated Mutesa, is a minor under a wishes of the national reform party, who brougni acoui regency of three native chiefs, who are assisted In the his sudden change from the position of a spoiled child to that of a king Ills native tu OSOOMOOMOKO000 tors endeavor to teach him Persian, Arabic, history and writing, but his attention Is allowed to be distracted by the Interruptions of the many chamberlains and cour tiers who are permitted to be present Ills only companions are a few young slaves and there Is nothing being done to prepare him for the lofty duties whloh he must fulfill at nn enrly date. The throne and the many at tendant ceremonies appealed to him merely as parts of a new win and he soon tired of fhe . honing with which he . . , was surrounded and he Is io more than nn unhnppy child. A change, however. Is promised hy the reformers, who are only iwaitin the voting of funds to "it their Intentions In execution. Ie Will be rrninvpil frnm iho tn. iienro of the woman's opart- y ' - will tutors Instruct foreign pnts "n In their lancunco: tho of to Persian scholars till! hn rlin. ; i to ? liwuicnte In him the pre-(,- lt which are thought best, with ntai languages and history; he will be given ' more sultnhio htrth companions h lie tiohlp famllloa nf liln blnirf,..n mi git lUD- - red t by- - mi- - hem were dbj and pace moui atwl Istlns spec- - pd tor - quick- hi dar- - conon-- in H&H the i famous I aiuB of peo ut some! lay top?, ve and. n,ther- - achieve- - t our 20 ''V" properK ,w open) ome gl had ms-'- l pd to M chlldr he ba I til Ltlon, Collier f dren hai r the fir: the grot! I of 35 , we: they Ut: paid lov she BBt." that appealed Tom, i' b, Did ary. i you?" other." In bis tv to come onto Tot Ice. 9nred In nner: "U MIsb.. an . of an lnva r stealing fl 3f butter. 4 term of so 1 WW Cured. dlacu dan, Mngton cr" itlon al flst ' 811 to ,.Kn devil nine down i cure for a bottle o Question A llnrvw IbIoii of tf Ml bl Tot these h ' h. A ., knc pnPMB bonier line of manhood and xueii noyiHh up wrfpct l Manuel, n ' ,nd , government by a native assembly or Luklko. The boy Kabaka, though his kingdom Is the smallest of the four, Is probably most to be envied, for his position is free from the many cares which will assuredly beset the emperor of China and the shah of Persia in later years. Bo-sid- that there a British missioner, com- Is I'ganda as Is a pr- SHRINKS FROM POMP otectorate of Great Britain, who helps to In keep things order with the aid of a battal-Iio- n of the King's Rifles African a about and armed thousand constabulary. Kabaka, The however, is allowed perfect freedom, for the people of Uganda are unique among the native racea of Africa. They are an amiable, polite and intelligent race, as Is shown by the fact that out of a population of three and a half millions one million are Christians while 200.000 of them can read1 and write. The dynasty of Uganda, of which Daudl Chua is the thirty-seventrepresentative, In Its earlier origin was a king to the Inhabitants of Egypt, though as Intermarriage 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 6f 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 bills, most of them of great steepness, round which are marsfhy 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- tehbe, which Is renowned for its beauty, "surrounded by lofty Incense trees, which have always a load of chat-terparrots and monkeys in search of the plums they . bear at certain seasons of the year. h y . When Princess Victoria of England, daughter o! 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 A messenger was dispatched to Buckingdisappeared. ham palace to see If the truant had run away to "grandma," but she wasn't there. At last a letter from her to the prlrfeess of Wales was discovered In the schoolroom, begging "mother" not to be angry; she did "hate parties" bo, and she had gone to stay with the duchess of Teck till this one was over. Not liking parties has been a charactertlstleof this princess ever since, though, having a strong sense of duty, which developed as she grew older, she doesrt't run away from them any more, says the Strand. But those who know her know that If she co .Id choose her , life It would ba one far from court a life free frora demands of etiquette and spent among the friends fhe loves. Whenever the can escape from the formalitlea tint surround her she does so. Btor'ej are told of heyfc planning visits Incognito with her sisters or other members 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- - t rlth and saw three small boys looking longingly at the 4 toys In a window. The priscess Immediately took the part of Santa Claus and for once In their lives those small and ragged boys hnd all the toys they wanted. Princess Victoria has a good deal of tact, says the Gentlewoman, and while she cares little about court life, ber Influence has broupht about several needed changes there. The queen's ladles In waiting have special reason to be grateful to her. Up to the time of King Eds ward's accession the breakfast hour for 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 nubile function 8he is accompanied by one of the queen's, as etiquette for bids ber 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. , the-ladle- il.:j.-----,,- -- y.., " k iy. " ii hlrthdnv In.t ' nourlsbiv appearance that w"" m included " iu in Klirnns V U mn,h among .., .. ...... . . I, 11 W1" no f9 tor-thwas the second bod OU have heard ot the sultan of Turkey, the sultans of Morocco and Zanzibar, but but who on earth Is the K If you $ it: aultan of Oman? 9 Imagine that his kingdom Is bounded on fhe Bouth by the footlights, on the east and west by thewings, and on the north by the back- Y4:r ffc-- 3 pos-essl- Iv. rv-- j U Uyyr fvi ntf'a-r'- cloth of a Broadway stage you are wrong He has nothing at all to do with musical comedy. On the contrary, he Is a very much alive personage who holds sway over the independent state of Oman, which Is set like another Gibraltar at the entrunce to the Persian gulf. Though nominally Seyyld Feysll In the eyes of the British government, who are presently eyeing askance tl, German commercial Invasion of Persia with the Bagdad railway, as a menace to the safety of India. The seat of government Is Muscat, a picturesque port, containing some 23.000 Inhabitants, and carrying on a trade In the export of fruit, flab, mother o' pearl and the Import of Indian goods Including arms and ammunition In large quantities. The sultan, though he nominally exercised nn absolute sway over a strip of a thousand miles of const line, extending along the Persian gulf as far as Katar and containing $0,000 square miles, yet in reality, owing to the mountainous nature of the country, his power is confined to the Immediate neighborhood of Muscat. Oman was once a Portuguese but finally became nn Independent 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 conquests nnd Znnzlbnr Is now a separate aultannte under British protection. There Is no danger of the line of Bultans or lnnians, as they are called, dying out na there Is a largo royal, family, the eldest ot whom Is ScyyUt' Talnuir bin Fcysel. The sultan Is extremely proud of his family of eight ts not at all and youngsters, averse to facing the camera In their company. He is a man who though he may not have heard of the originator ot It, yet firmly believes In Ue Roosevelt creed of bidding the stork welcome, and the stork on Its Oman-es- e equivalent Is a frequent royal rock-boun- vJ ..vv.s.'.-,v-- .;.' ! "iritis. tli hp for their l ind the lanw nrlns nilvnntn'a K transform hlni Into a ruler such ' 'rsln ought to have to fitly re--e 'ho glrieB of Alexander and 1 d a lnt k answers r Gee V" to-da- io chance. It as the na. t t, yA ffflFTAxr tor lwlcb of ran down i :lo boy, In guilty to In the sec 1 on proba condition Ime nay to t v?i 14 maun hed f three-year-ol- nlsbed e 1 com-pose- time far . bin Turkl, which Is the name of the sultan, is a free agent In the management of the affairs of his kingdom, yet the Indian government, in the person of a British consul and political agent, keeps In very clor,e touch with him, and for all practical purpose! Oman Is a protectorate of India. There Is a reason for thin. Oman Is Y- : v; : ,v- - a convenient bails for any operations which may be necessary to check the agresslve advances of any other power In the Persian belt, and as by its position it dominates the entrance to the Persian gulf, by Ita port Muscat, which Is the only share of British Influence between Aden, the Island of Socotra, and India, It la ot great value guest |