Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-27

stounding rapidity on the dark CONT
emit III these closing decades Of the nine
zenith century. Livingstone, Stanley,
Do Brazsa and many others have turned
he light Of exploration and discovery
lpon vast territories before unknown
md have piloted trade, colonial
ion and civilization thither; diamond
mines have drawn adventurers from all
othef parts Of the earth to South Africa
and, now that the diamonds have been
exhausted, come reports of gold dis
coveries; the Nahdi has consolidated the |
yagabond rov,gs of the Soudan, hurled
the consolidated force against crack
British regiments, destroying them
or forcing them ont OF Africa,
has ovennn Nubia, threatened Egypt
and finally succumbed to small
pox, just lis my ordinary mortal; Ger
mans, Frei.ch, English and Portuguese
are elbowi, each other in u grapple for
more terri; +, and many other things
have happe. q or are happening there on
a scale Of tmi:!cient magnitude to attract
The attentio Of the rest of the world.
And now, upon the heels of all
the rest, cons confirmation Of the re-
markable dGings of Samudu, with his one
hundred thousand warriors, who has for
the past I've years been carrying on
much the sainG kind of crusade in the
regions stwnrd of Timbnctoo that the
Mahdi conducted in the Soudan md
Nubia. Like him, Samudu is also
n Mohammeadn and n prophet, who re-
CARDS himself MS called Of God to extir-
pate pagGuism and introduce something
like law and order into regions where
such elements have been hitherto almost
unknown. Reports of this new prophets
achieyemc nts show that his movement
has been mighty one. His victorious
troops are new nearing the coast in two
different quarters, to the eastward of
Liberia and the northwest of Sierra
Leone; willie a third portion of the army
is operating near the head waters of the
Niger, OF the effect of this great move
ment United States consul Lewis says
that "by suppressing the disturbing
elements, uufettering trade and introduc-
ing linowl g OF religion and letters
Sainudu's al is in on SENSE opening
the way fol egro emigrants of intelli-
gcnee and e. rgy to push ont from the
Africa-Ameri, IN republic 10 the
healthy and fertile regions of the
interior. In another sense it is forestall-
ing the whole regionfor Mohammedanism
and making it difficult if not impossible,
if, indeed, it is desirable, to convert that
country TO the faith imported from
America by the immigrants"
| W
The shooting of McGinnis brings again
before the community, with double force
the lesson of The murder Of Policeman
Peterson-that beer gardens are not the
places to hold ''picnics." II was one Of
these gatherings of his fellow-workmer
that drew Lewis Davis aud lis young wifi,
10 Spccht ~ Sphhn's pnrk, barely two
months ago, and tempted that young
man, Heretofore quiet and inoifensiye, tr
drink until he became demon incarnate
tliirsting for human blood. So, on las
Saturday night, it seems to have been on,
Of these so-called 'picnics" that attracted
Young McGimis to Schuetzen Park ant
started him On the spree that ended il
his death, How much Of the element 0
direct murder entered into tn
deadly slot which Becker fred is
matter TO he determined by the prope
tribunal but there are certain response
bilitiGs which come upon us now gor
: with tic blood of two probably 10 b
four fellow creatures, which cannot b
overlooked. II ii were not for the liltuJ
) sold At these places these ''picnicsn misl
: not have been held there, or, il hcl
there, would almost certainly have pass
" 81 without any i'll results. Hundreds
N larger gatherings have been held in ii
woods along tllc Brandywine in by-gol
5 Years mid w do not remember that au
y one oT th,m was ever attended by fat
yinioucp. Can we afford AS Il commuuit
longer 10 encourage the existence Of snt
!, death traps as tlIcse parks have be-,
4 demonstrated 70 Tie !?