The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-05
rnE KINa oE AsHANrEE.

something About the savage African King
Against Whom EnElRud Has Declared
War TO Forcs Him to Stop Making Hu.
man sacrlnS &.
Nee York World
King PrempOh, king OF AGhantoe, has
doaed the English government He has
ANNOUNCED his readiness for war, aud is
now awaiting tho arrival 81 the British
troops.
The king OF Ashantee 10 tho absolute
monarch oil about three milliOn subjects.
They live in the heart of the African
forest, a few hundred miloS back from
tho "Gold Coast" Tho king wears a
sirdlo Of dried grass around his hips and
q "plug'' hat. lie owns no crown, but
In some way has become possessed OF a
Gilk hat, which now does duty as an
emblem Of sovereignty.
Another remarkable TACT about this
barbarouS king is that he has no throne.
He has, however, q solid gold stool,
| which does service Aia throne. II takea
four able.bodied slaves TO tug this heavy
aIool around. =,
But tho great Official emblem Of royal
authority 10 an umbrella, This curioI.
ity has a bng bamboo hRudlO and spokOs
Of embossed gold. Tn the end OF each
spoke is o human skull. Nobody, not
even the king himself, knows the sig.
ni6CancO oil this strange sceptre ot
majesty, but 1t haS dosCAnded to hint
from a long lins>ot ancestry.
King Prsmpsh, among other things,
has exactly 1888 wives allowed him by
tho law. Why this liberal figure waI
decided on His Majesty does not know.
Like the umbrella, they came to him
by inheritance.
The King wears earrings. They are Of
solid gold. iia las RlSo other personal
adornmonss Of Aolid gold. His royal
ancestors also wore eatrinVS, too.
His mslcaty liyea in q big stone and
native brick palaCo-the only structure
of tho kind ia the kingdom, His royal
higbnon sleepl on the door. The king
il ~seycrnl tlmaS a millionaire, aud it Ia
believed he has GOveral barrels oil gold
dust aud nuggets, AShSnleO Ia rich in
gold.
King Prsmpsh 10 a bloodLhirIty mon.
arch and he IL In tho habit Of making
human sacrifices on q Wholesale Hcals.
Whenever II pleaSep him ~ do 30 he
ordun u low hundred subjects to DO DO.
headed. BoSidoI this during certain
religious ceremonies, II 10 customary to
kill subjects. It Is this practice which
England wants tho king TO stop. And
II il to nut an ond TO thoIo human sac.
rilCGs that tho British troops Will wndo
iHLo tho iorOit aud make wat Oh tho
king.
II 10 Just twOnty.on yCari ainch tho
British government appropriated ST.
5000 10 s0nd out ali expedition 10
bring tho king ni Ashantao 10 totmh,
and bblOrO tho expedition got BACK,
after burning Coomnslg, his capital, II
had cost No much moro
Tho English troops, undor Dir Gar
not Wolanloy, remained only two uhys
In tho capital Of AahanlOo, Before they
loft tho savage pniOniatO ngteau 70 un
certain thingh That was klnI hoHol,
lliI Hucrdusnr, tho nro5olit KING OF
AshNntOu, King PrompOli, has not lul'
oiled thaso conditions,
lie Ia an abiolniO duipot. Thn KING
Of AshaniuU could glyo phihA III Dos
pntlsm In tho sultan ol Turkey nnI thc
| czar Of Russia II tho cEar jNsFO TO do
Tho tilnr. which thu King Of AshantOn
thiuk, nplhlng vi doiug tleto would DO
a vacancy IN tito Winter IalarN
lfany man lookinl oleol hi'0,8j wives
that mauis nalno IL Uouui', 10 rio VI
t,Sso humorous wiy0b Of tliQ King Of
HslantcO arc not worth looking at, II Ia
ltnr. hui tho ownOt ot any ptolenO uyos
lint eyon by accident happenOl to tuRl
unon them, would DO conducted 10 u