St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-08-01
BuLUWAYO.
Two Years Ago AIatabele KraaI, IT Now
Has Clubs and Hotels. Ht 4ssl

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Has Clubs and Hotels. iit
Buluwayo has become unexpectedly,
and through no desire on its part, the
center of unusual interest to all British
people. A little more than two years
ago it was the chief klaal of old Leben-
gula and his otusky warriors. Then the
Iirrepressible Britisher stepped n,
claimed it for his own, and fashioned
and modelled it into the semblaace of a
motherland township, with most Of the
Iconcomitants that go to make up a civ
ilized community. Now we are alarmed
with the news that the Matabeles have
risen in force, and are irresistibly re-
minded of the struggles in the earlier
part of this century between the white
pioneers and he sKaffirs.
i No better idea of the position occu-
pied by Buluwayo to-day could be OBJ
fained than ny glance through the col
umns of its papers,. The Buluwayo
4 Chronicle is {; well-printed eight-page.
journal, published twice weekly, and
containing a brave show of advertise
ments as testimony to the enterprise
of the settlers. Already the editor finds
cause to chasten: sThere are. various
events occurring in Buluwayo which
denote the transition of the town from
the rough-and-ready period to that Of
the settled stage Men are more care
starched shirts and dress suits has ar
rived The free and careless order is
relegated to the cid, obstinate pioneers,
who will not change. But, il the change
has its good side, it has also its reverse,
for there is not the dependence on the
word that there was in other times.
The lawyers are more busy, and the
reading oi this or that clause is now
contested, and judicial decision OBJ
tanned, where previously the spirit in
which the contract was entered into
was religiously acted up to. '''64tts. 5.f.
What right has dress clothes in this
recital? And what connection has
starched shirts with an Indifference to
ones word? is it the advent of the
lawyers, who. unlike their English
brethren, are not above advertising
their presence? Litigation would be
difficult without these gentry. And
what has Buluwayo to do with dress
clothes? Do they dine there at a fash
ionable hour, or are the young exquis-
ties preparing for the opening of the
new opera house, which is to be erected
by a company with u capital of c 30,-
900? This opera house is to have an
elegant exterior" seating accommo-
datio1i for $780, and to be lighted by
electricity. Modernity with a VEN
geance in old Lobengula's Buluwayo.
Buluwayo, too, has its club, number
of hotels, a stock exchange fas matter
of course), q building society on mutual
principles, chamber of commerce, a
circuit court, polo club and lodge of
Free Masons. True, remnant of prim-
tive habits, dating from two years ago,
survives here and there. What shall we
say, for instance, of the stubborn old
pioneers who persist in turning their
horses adrift in Eighth avenue to make
their way back unattended to the
stables? No wonder our editor calls it
an extraordinary pastime." The
thing couldn't be done in London.
Buluwayo must put a stop to it. 8
a One piece OF gratifying news is
that the. Buluwayo Laundry company
.went through swimmingly, being
) large oyersubscribed." Buluwayo will
now have the opportunity of getting de-
Gently clean shirts. This is, we repeat,
gratifying. Dress clothes would look
strange without the complement of
i starched shirts. Then one finds innu-
merable other instances of the progress
of Buluwayo Some one has become
bankrupt there, or gone into liquida-
ton, and a snopkeeper is already hold
ing clearance sale atWhich enormous
bargains are To be had. The Wesleyans
have built new church on Ninth ave-
nue., and had conversazione to cele-
brate the event. Suburban resorts. too,
are springing into existence, certain
gentleman having taken the Welsh
Harp hotel, at the Umgusa river, six
miles out, with the intention OF making
1t popular place for shooting matches
(pigeons, not lions) !, cricket, tennis and
other essentially British sports. g..
English farmers will turn green with
envy on reading the prices paid for
, 1 pTOuuce III buluWdyUs buStSi k1Cstii0Cs
! from shillings to l3 shillings pence
: per pound. Eggs are to be had foI
modest little sums varying from shil.
, lings pence to 10 shillings per dozen
though this is somewhat difficult OF
comprehension, when fowls are only
! worth from shillings 6 pence to 6 shil.
lings each. Do not the hens lay in
Matabeleland? And if they do not
! whence come the fowls? Cabbage, too
!, is at premium, being worth from
I shillings to shillings s pence each
, Probably the people of Buluwayo dis
: pense with butter, eggs and cabbage, as
!. superfuous Injuries, unless they are
all becoming wealthy.
And now, like a bolt from the blue, we
read of Buluwayc being in danger itseli
8 from the men who once owned the land
an unpleasant reminder that savages
e cannot be subjugated and civilized in
3 6iay.--Pall Mall Gazette. 4
Gold Ring In Turtle She'll
S The assistant agent at he Adams TX
: press Office in Washington, o., while as
: sisting in placing a salt sea turtl'
4 weighing $50 pounds in the fish pond a
Y the Washington cemetery lately fount