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Show KING OP Nq KINGDOM. THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH. His People Conquered by tbe British, H Removed to England V'Hh. an Allowance. Tried to Stir Up tbe Sikhs Again, bat Was Nipped and Forgiven by the Queen. A decade ago Maharajah Dhuleep Bingh, who died in Paris recently, was a well known figure in London, whoso photograph was on sale in the shop windows. He was born in 1838, the son of Runjeet Singh, "the lion of the Punjab," that doughty East Indian sovereign who was the founder of tho Sikh kingdom and the cause of so much trouble to England. There have been two Sikh wars in the last half century in which the relatives of Dhuleep Singh figured. The first was in 1845, when a Sikh army of 60,000 men invaded in-vaded the queen's Indian empire and fought four pitched battles, the final result being the retrWat of the invaders across the Sutlej aijid tho surrender of Lahore to the British. By tho terms of the peace Dhuleep Singh, the infant son of Runjeet, wasxecognized as rajah. The second Sikhjwar broke out in 1848, but it proved) to be short lived, the British forces .under Lord Gough succeeding in destroying the Sikh army and in annexing Pjfenjab to the queen's possessions. As aj result of this way young Dhuleep Singh received an allowance allow-ance of 50,000 froin his conquerors. He, with his ina'aier, moved to England, Eng-land, became a C hristian, and on hia estate in Suffolk cultivated the habits of an English ge: tlemen. He was an intimate friend of; the Prince of Wales, who used annually to spend part of the shooting season an Dhuleep 's country home. The raaharajah' first wife was a lit-, tie Syrian maid w join he met in Caianf in 1864, when on his way back f roll I Bombay, where h 3 had gone to I back to ita natiyj ;. EOl'l the bf 'IZ.ZX.' ni-i.iotli&r ni-i.iotli&r that it i. -a The maharaneedy-.n8Yanl pie of years later-U 1889he mmiJ ,n r3r 3 tta Douglas Wetherill.-& Dhuleep watche, cl eI the advancJ ? R"f lnt0 sia, and when he thought the prop5irtilne had comeb8 renounced Christy and a manifesto to the nation claimlng the throne of his But Ws nunciation of the Qf Baba Narmk and his suspected Mlegitimate birthit was asseited by t Sikhg themselves that he was the of hig motter through an intrigu & onQ f rft. f h 8 f r5ier-hadlong since es- tagedttefeelmg the people, and if it had been po a'gikh rebellion m the Lai of fte Fiye Eiyer3 there were other pn better aUe thaQ this mahara3ahtolead guch aQ enter. prise. The British mac short q pretensions. He . traveling with leisurely dignity oil', . .i.sion in a P. & O. steam?n13, grea! A1SS1?n c j it, 1 ft when at Aden he was informed that ' , , v a s return passage had been secured toV fr hQ dia. A Sikh rebeUn hayo a serious matter fot l , , - were the British fngland, for never fought than on the "J tanT Chillianwallahfatt ef lds of Mo1- There were at ffI Ghuznee. regiments of Sikhs ft timeabout 10 acknowledged by Iin. Indian a the finest in the ser5r.ltlsh ceis t( b the Punjab regime,""' and ln most of large proportion of ?. there was a very After his abortive B0ldlfs'. the Sikhs into rebel).11"6113?? to h n rule, Dhuleep went on against British to enlist the symp Rusfsia- thanking his behalf, but hi&y lthe czar"J overwarm. So the 1 SreetS J88 not try established him; nf w.lthout a co' tan Paris, where hi8". cosmopoli-time cosmopoli-time of his death. tTlJed nP to th.e nent seemed to unslfe on th c domestic morals of f".e somewhat the tian, and an herediti?18 oriental Chris-polygamy Chris-polygamy asserted jf? Predisposition to rajah recently expPf- The ma-the ma-the course of ho&f de'? f " pursued toward eJ !tt hich he had esty, by the advif' and hT. af was graciously pW$ er niters, pardon to himf 1 Jf. to accord her General Dick 'J, . T used to tell a story olor of Louisiana Dhuleep. While L an encounter with 1871 at Sandringhaj' wa? ln of Wales, the mahi wi h the Prince party. One morning J and Stroned out lorearly smau summer nouse ln whicn mere was a Hindoo idol brought back from India by the prince. As he came near be saw some one, who proved to be Dhuleep, standing in front of the idol executing certain movements, evidently 3f worship. The truth probably is that Singh never had abandoned the true faith of hi3 fathers. The religion of the Sikhs was founded found-ed by Nanuk, who died A. D. 1538, and who left for the guidance of his followers an inspired volume bearing the very uneuphonious title of the "Grunth. " This book is held in great reverence and is carried every morning in solemn state to the Golden Temple of Immortality at Amritsir, where it is venerated by some 3,000,000 or 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 of people. When Europeans visit the temple, they are required to remove their shoes. An exception, however, was made in the case of the Prince of Wales. The tomb of Runjeet Singh, the father fa-ther of Dhuleep, is at Lahore, the capital capi-tal of the province of Punjab. It is a white structure, with a dome and five minarets. Runjeet's mausoleum is in the center of the building, under the dome. On the top of the torn b is a white rose surrounded by five white lilies carved in stone. The white rose is in memory of tha great rajah, and the lilies that of his five wives, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre. The mother of Dkuleep Singh declined the honor of being burned alive. New York Times, |