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16 fine-looking men, and are distinguished for their manly bearing and courteous demeanour.

When the Rajah of Kapurthalla died some years ago without children, his brother Harnam Singh was his nearest relative, and it seemed as though it were possible that a Christian prince should be acknowledged as ruler of a native State. It turned out, however, that the Rajah had availed himself of a family custom, and had adopted an heir, and as this child was immediately acknowledged as Rajah by the Indian Government, the Kunwar Rajah took his place as his subject, and as the manager of his landed estates in Oude.

It is on this property, not far from Lucknow, that Harnam Singh and his wife usually reside during the cold weather, but in the summer they live at Simla, where they have a charming house built and furnished in European style, where they live in thoroughly English fashion. They have paid several visits to England, the last one during the Jubilee year, when they left their two eldest boys in London under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Gray, of the Church Missionary Society, intending that they shall go later to Eton. They did this with the full conviction that a good English education would be the greatest advantage they could give their sons, and the Kunwar Rani spoke with tears in her eyes of the parting with her children, and of her anxiety about their health,