St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-28
AMERICAN GIRL In AFRICA.
Dining With n Negro King Con-
spicuous for Scanty Attire.

DfntnB WIN II Negro EIHg Con-
spicuous for Scanty Attire.
Lewiston journal.
Miss Eliza Bates, whose mother. Mrs.
Julia Nj. Bates, resides on Park street,
In Lewiston, is bravcly working for the
cause on the dark continent, and
reports from the missionary officials in
THAI and show that she is doing a noble
work, productive OF the highest good.
In a recent letter Miss Bates says: 81
m uSt tell yun what an honor we had to-
day! The king and his suite dined with
Us to-day. Just think of sitting at table
with men WHO We're near,y naked, eX-
ctpC a cloth around their loihs! sup
pose that they never sat at a table to eat
like civilized people before.
w had a visit from the driver ants
last night. They are very unwelcOme
visitors. They come in all army, all fol-
lowing one trail, and sometimes when
they 90 10y it takes them hours &c pass.
About 3 o'clock last night / heard our
girl call out: Miss Bates. something
is the matter with the fowls. She said
that she heard them flying around, SO
we got up and took tie lantern and
went out OH the veranda. We found
driver ants Oh the veranda and in the
~ iNhs oAo 1i't u NsCiy hlNits W.
drove them out OF the house by burning
Kerosene oil, after working two hours.
They killed II little chicken that we
were Keeping for a man over in town,
and one of our own fowls would have
been killed If we had not found it and
picked the ants Off of il. We have nine
hens and two ducks.
we use a little more than two quarts
of rice per day. buying it in quantities
OF twenty-five Oh thirty quarts at Il time.
we pay three leaves Of tobacco tor q
quart o. rice. We cannot buy rice with
anything else but tobacco. Our help
live almost entirely on rice. We had
brought and set out for US to-day a ia
na'ta trre.an orange and Il sour Sap tree.
Sundays We try to tell to the people
of the town the ~freeness of salvation. 1t
is with difficulty thai we present the
truths of the gospel 10 these people, for
our interpreter can understand only the
simplest phrases in English, so that it is
hard TO make the subject clear 10 him,
and then he must repeat 1t to the ppO-
pic. II Of course We don't know how
plain he makes it TO them.
"The people seem TO be offended with
us just now. because they think we
don't give them aa much as they think
we ought to. They think we ought to
give tliem a cup OIL Tea apiece ana q
piece OF bread every day. and two or
three times a day il they ask tor it, and
they won't drink a cup Of tea unless it
has at least two %Spoonsful of sugar in
it. They say that we belong TO them,
and think tnat they think thai every
thing we have is theirs; at least, they
act as though they thought we ought to
give them everything they ask for, and
tina Would be everything we have.
"fhese people are devil wOrshipers.
When they cook they take some Of the
rice and throw it up and around the
doors fer the devil. and in some of their
towns they have an image To the devil,
and they bring food to it every day, and
they say he eats it. They pray to the
devil not to harm them. Those who do
not van TO i've God-fasliioned say they
are devil men,"