Show l TH SHAHS JOURNEY The NorDar an unimpeachable authority au-thority on Persian affairs describes the manner of the Shahs progress from Te haran to DJulfa on the Russian frontier fron-tier The poor peasantry may well anticipate an-ticipate with terror the appearance of the king of kings and his huge convoy Says the XorDar In every laS I and hamlet uf the provinces through 1 which MuzafTeredDln Mill shortly pass on his Journey to the west there is Just now observable an extraordinary and feverish activity in the collection of great stores of provisions all kinds for supplying the wants of the many thousands of persons who accompany his majesty from the capital to the frontier But it Is not with joy but with grief and despair that the poor peop le go about thqse preparations Such requisitions are Imposed upon the i I unfortunate people in virtue of a legal ly sanctioned and ancient Persian cue Um according to which the Shah whenever he visits the provinces makes the satraps responisblc for everything he and his retinue require and the sa 1 traps in their turn recoup themselves to the last penny at the cost of the I 1 peasantry Hence the Imposing progress prosress of the Persian monarch through his own i dominions accompanied by great bod ics of infantry and cavalry and an enormous enor-mous personal entourage costs the state exchequer not a single farthing 1 is the poor peasant essentially a Isel to the satrap whose brow must sweat to find the needful first for the 1 padlshah and secondly for the grinding taskmaster who has bought his satrapy at an Imperial auction Thus the Governors Gov-ernors of Kazvlk Chamsa and Aser baishan were rcntly commanded by the Shah to provide all that was required I l for the fitting inception I of himself and the host of his convoy on his passage to DJulfa That order was sufficient to I sink the peasantry of those provinces into the lowest depths of tribulation knowing that it will take them some few years to recover by thrift and In dustry the substance they must now lavish upon the hungry horde of the Shahs envoy I Crowds of these distracted peasants with tears In their eyes and In their voices anxiously assaIled the correspondent corre-spondent the NorDar with the ques lon whether tho Shah wpuld return by the same route or would he go by way of the Caspian and Rasht and there by relieve them of the desolating effects desolaUng efccts of a second visitation Unfortunately the correspondent was unable to console con-sole them MuzaftcrcdDin has a dread of the sea and a particularly superstitious su-perstitious fear of the Caspian and he would therefore return by the same way that he came London Dally News |