The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-30
EMIN BEY's EMPIRE.
One OF the Most Unique Communities
Founded In This Century.

Founded In This Century.
Originally German jew devoted to
science and investigation, be has be-
come in reality an independent SOW.
ereign, and having turned Mussulman
he rules the great region intrusted to
him with absolute authority. His thir-
teen hundred black regulars have set
tied and married in the land, and will
never, he says, return to Egypt by
their consent He himself lives like
an Asiatic, which, no doubt, by blood
he is; and he has formed negro army
so well disciplined that it has defeat
ed even the fanatic soldiers sent
from Khartoum. He has herds OF cat
tie and flocks of sheep, his supplies OF
grain are more than ample. and he is
accommodating stock of ivory which,
If the road to the northward ever
opens, may bring him great wealth. in
the European sense. He is, in truth,
an African sovereign, and as his au-
thority consolidates itself, and that OF
the Mahdi dies away under the blows
it is sustaining from the westward, he
may hope to stretch his dominion from
the Albert Nyanza northward to Khar-
toum. Having renowned Judaism
and quilted civilization for years, he
can be little tempted TO quit that -po-
sition and return to the less varied life
OF an almost penniless student of nat
ural history in Berlin. There Is no
reason to doubt his statement that he
will never desert his followers, and
that if he leaves his kingdom he will
carry with him 5000 souls, thousands
of them women and children. To
march southwark with that cavalcade,
through the awful forest of the Aru-
whimi to the Congo. or eastward to
the Zanzibar coast, would be des-
perate attempt, nor is there any thing
to be expected from the settlement
which, if he retreats, he must form in
some new region. to draw him from
the banks of the Nile, where he is a
Prince, and whence he may
in time communicate easily with
Germany by the Suakim route
European journalists, in discussing
such parsonage, are apt to assume
that cultivated European must al
ways be longing for Europe, and this
was clearly SANKEY'S own idea; but we
doubt if that is always the case. Al
most all Europeans detest the tropics,
but ever now and then, in India, in
Cambodia, in China and in tropical
America, a European is to be found
whom nothing would induce to return
to the tanner life of Europe, and who
finds in the society of the inferior
races a never-ending charm. A natur-
alist has always occupation for his in
tellect, power has attractions for all
strong minds, and Emin Pasha, though,
if we may trust biography which has
every sign of truth, he has joined the
long list OF renegades from a higher to
lower faith-for though Judaism is
not Christianity, it is a loftier faith
than Islam--may feel that in partly
civilizing a great African kingdom he
is doing great work. That is the i'm
preston we derive from his own ac-
count in the latest letters published,
and there is no reason why it should
not be true. We are not all alike, or
all convinced that fifty years OF Europe
is better than cycle of Cathay; and
to found dynasty on the Upper Nile
may seem to Emiu Pasha far more at
tractive work than TO lecture in q uni
versity which has forgotten him on
tropical beasts and birds. Anyhow.
he had, when Stanley left him, elected
to stay where he is, one of the most
noteworthy figures which even this
age of separate personages has pro-
duced. Savants are common enough,
and savants with love of exploration,
but the adventurer who obtains q
crown, or the power of crowned
head over defined territory, is rare.
SpectatOP