anaheim-gazette 1891-07-16

ABOUT DARK AFRICA. MISSIONARY HORN TELLS ABOUT HIS EXPLORATIONS. The Climate Is Healthy—Many Phases of Physical Character Are Seen—The People Are Grown Up Babes—Slave Trading Is the Curse of the Continent. There arrived in San Francisco from Australia an English gentleman, who, with his wife, has passed the major portion of the last thirteen years in Central Africa. His name is Capt. E. C. Horn, and under the auspices of the London Missionary society he has been employed building vessels on the great Lake Tanganyika and traveling through the dark continent. Capt. Horn in a conversation with a reporter said: "Reports on the land and people of Africa are varied, but all who have penetrated into the innest recesses are unanimous in their conclusions that the slave trade is the chief obstruction to civilization and commerce. Africa had, until the past twenty years, the name of being an arid, unhealthful country, because outside of a given distance little was known of the land. While it is true that great tracts of country are barren and no water exists, still by exploitation it has been proved that abundant supplies of water can be obtained which will make the country blossom into a perfect garden of flowers. "In the most arid part I ever visited—Ugogo—the people dig wells and find water, which is carefully stored for a time of drought. Perhaps no tropical country has a more healthful climate than Central Africa. In the interior the land rises to a high elevation. The many deaths and sickness among Europeans are caused more by the conditions of life, absence of accustomed food and good doctors and nurses than from climatic causes." OCCUPATIONS. "On the shores of Lake Tanganyika there are at least nine tribes distinctive in physical characteristics, language and fashion and weapons, clothing, architecture and domestic life. They are all expert fishermen, using seines and traps, and as the lake teems with fish their ventures are well repaid. Iron and copper are smelted for manufacture, but in the crudest style. Both of these metals, sum that the gentleman was disturbed. He saw that such prodigality, if persisted in, meant ruin; but not wishing to grieve his wife by a downright refusal he determined to give her a lesson in finance. He therefore smilingly remarked that he could not give her a check as usual, but would send up the money from his store. About noon the promised money came, not in crisp bills, as was expected, but in silver dollars, the sum total filling several specie bags. The wife was first vexed, then amused, and finally, as the afternoon wore away, became deeply thoughtful. When her husband came home to supper she took him gently by the arm, and leading him into the room where the pondorous bags of specie were still standing, said: "My dear, is this the money I asked you for this morning?" "It is, my love," was the reply. "And did you have to take this money all in, dollar by dollar, in the course of your business?" was the next question. "Yes," he answered, gently, "it represents the earnings of many weeks of hard labor." "Well, then," she said, with tearful eyes, "send a man to take it back to the bank in the morning. I can't use so much money for so trivial a purpose. I didn't understand about it before."—Youth's Companion. A Blind Man's Intelligent Dog. Every one who walks along upper Broadway knows the blind newsman and his dog at the corner of Thirtieth street. The man sits on a camp stool from noon until 8 o'clock every day selling papers, and during that time the dog is his constant companion. The other evening, when the man had sold all his papers and was ready to go home, he got up, folded his camp stool and tucked it under his arm, and catching a tight hold of the string attached to the dog's collar, started to walk Broadway. When they reached the middle of the next block the dog stopped. "Come along; get up, Prince," said the blind man, tugging at the string. But the dog seemingly paid no attention. He was looking intently down the street at the approaching horse carrs. He stood this way for some minutes, scanning each car carefully as it passed, and suddenly ran out into the street, the man following, and jumped aboard the front platform of an up town green car. On the shores of Lake Tanganyika there are at least nine tribes distinctive in physical characteristics, language and fashion and weapons, clothing, architecture and domestic life. They are all expert fishermen, using seines and traps, and as the lake teems with fish their ventures are well repaid. Iron and copper are smelted for manufacture, but in the crudest style. Both of these metals, in the form of small bars, ivory, rubber, palm oil and dried fish are articles of circulation among distant tribes. Pottery of a rude description is also made, while the art of weaving cotton cloth is well known. The character of these natives is infantile. In confidence and suspicion, in easy anger and reconciliation, in undeveloped instincts they are essentially children. Under evil influence, such as the introduction of spirituous liquors and other vices of civilized nations, they rapidly become demoralized. The idea of regarding these Central Africans in the same light as Australian or Indian aborigines is absurd. When better known they will be looked upon as healthy children, imitative and eager to acquire knowledge. Deprecating in every possible manner the horrible features of the slave trade, the explorer thinks that by honest trade, a selection of good employs by the many organizations now engaged in Central Africa, on the Congo and the great lakes; by justice, development of the resources of industries, together with the earnest co-operation of the missionaries, the prosperity of the great country and its people will be an assured fact. THE SLAVE TRADE. "I have lived in Africa," continued Capt. Horn, "long enough to assure myself that many a so called 'savage attack' by African natives was in reality 'a galant defense' from their point of view; that the low type African of whom we bear is often but a noble savage degraded by contact with Arab ivory and slave dealers. During the past ten or twelve years many white men and women have lived among the tribes of the far interior, and it has been discovered that they are people of much the same passions as Caucasians. Although easily degraded, they are also capable, when surrounded by favoring circumstances, of rising in civilization and of grasping higher and better things. In the far interior numbers of people in every tribe are slaves. Prisoners of war, those condemned for witchcraft and other offenses and their families, weakly persons or those in distress, become slaves. They pass from hand to hand, traveling toward the coast as the direction where the value is greatest. There they are collected by traders, Arabs, half castle and African. This system of slavery can be abolished with the aid of the Arab traders. Assure them other modes of living and they Hopelessness of the "Cracker." One clever, original manufacturer for five years devoted head, heart and purse to ameliorate the condition of his operatives—the worst class in the community. They had no homes; he bought and built houses, which fell to pieces through neglect or were burned up in orgies. When their dwellings were again repaired the crackers felt out of place in a setting of order and neatness, and "jes to make things sorter homelike," as was afterward naively explained, they kicked out the panels of the doors, smashed the windows, riddled the walls and cut up the floors for kindling wood. With driftwood for fuel lying almost at their gates, if they have a gate, rather than walk to and from the fence, if they have a fence, the proletarian inhabitants prefer to destroy their landlord's property. An attempt to utilize their horticultural instincts was unavailing. The gardens were fenced, the tenants burned the planks; the plots were plowed, not a seed was planted, and when, undiscouraged, the employer planted the gardens himself, the people turned in the hogs with the comment, "Bacon's better than garden sass any day."—Century. A Hymn with Two Authors. Who is the author of the hymn, "In the Sweet By and By?" With regard to the authorship of this now famous hymn there is a difference of opinion. The author of the words is believed to be Dr. S. F. Bennett, who, while living in Elkhorn, Wis., wrote the lines in a fit of mental depression. They were set to music by Mr. J. P. Webster, a composer living in the same town. Another version credits Mr. Webster with the authorship of the music and the first verse of the hymn, which was then completed by Dr. Bennett. The credit of both words and music must be given to the two gentlemen mentioned, though what was the individual contribution of each cannot now be determined. The song was written in 1868, and almost immediately achieved the wide popularity which it has ever since enjoyed.—St. Louis Globe- "In the far interior numbers of people in every tribe are slaves. Prisoners of war, those condemned for witchcraft and other offenses and their families, weakly persons or those in distress, become slaves. They pass from hand to hand, traveling toward the coast as the direction where the value is greatest. There they are collected by traders, Arabs, half castle and African. This system of slavery can be abolished with the aid of the Arab traders. Assure them other modes of living and they will cease to barter slaves with the tribes that exchange ivory. "That the Arabs have been invited to the slave trade by the natives; that they prefer ivory, and frequently take slaves only as the alternative; that the natives suffer more at the hands of each other than of the Arabs; that the great traffic and most horrible features of the same are essentially African and the interior—are facts testified to by Burton, Baker, Livingstone and Stanley. The slave trade is in my opinion an African, not an Arab question, and while stories have been published of horrors and pillage committed by Arabs at the south end of Lake Tanganyika and the north end of Lake Nyanza they were untrue and exaggerated. The depredations were committed by the Wawemba and Wagaraganz tribe after the departure of the Arab trader, who kept peace among them."—San Francisco Chronicle. Macaulay's Memory. It is well known that Macaulay's memory was prodigious. He could pass from the minutest dates of English history or biography to a discussion of the comparative merits of different ancient orators, and repeat whole strophes from the Greek dramatists. He could rehearse every word of every article he had written without prompting. — New York Ledger. Taught a Lesson. A man with large business interests and a handsome income married a lady who, accustomed all her previous life to the luxuries of wealth, had never formed any clear conception of the worth and purchasing power of money. For some months the indulgent husband gratified his wife's every whim. One day the lady, to carry out some premises asked for a check for no large lines in a fit of mental depression. They were set to music by Mr. J. P. Webster, a composer living in the same town. Another version credits Mr. Webster with the authorship of the music and the first verse of the hymn, which was then completed by Dr. Bennett. The credit of both words and music must be given to the two gentlemen mentioned, though what was the individual contribution of each cannot now be determined. The song was written in 1868, and almost immediately achieved the wide popularity which it has ever since enjoyed.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Steering Clear of Sin. Milkman—Johnny, did you put water in the milk this morning? New Assistant—Yea, sir. "Don't you know that is wicked, Johnny?" "But you told me to mix water with the milk." "Yes, but I told you to put the water in first and pour the milk into it. Then, you see, we can tell the people we never put water in our milk."—Texas Siftings. He Run First. The depositors in a private institution in a Kansas town were getting ready to make a run, as the banker was reported short, but before they could do so he left by way of the back door, and took all the cash in his carpet-bag. He reasoned that in his case it was better to run than be run on.—Detroit Free Press. 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