The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-10

and long battlemented walls of solid
masonry are now overhung with creep
! ing plants that all but hide the elabo-
rate tracerieS in red stone that are be-
Meath
Menelek's reign has endured since
1889, when he succeeded King John.
who. like his predecessor, fell in bait
tie
AN INFUSION OF IRISH BLOOD.
Another prominent figure among At
rican monarchs is Abul Aziz, the pres
ent sultan of Morocco, who recently
succeeded the famous Muley Hassan.
Not only the blood of the fahChful flows
in the veins of this young ruler, for it
is related that early in the present CEN
fury his ancestor, Sultan Sidi M@homet,
chose as his favorite a handsome Irish
girl, the widow Of sergeant of sap
pers, who had been detached from the
British garrison at Gibraltar and Ia
ken into the sultans service. On her
husbands death she was not averse to
becoming the sultans bride and bore
him a son, Muley Yezid, nicknamed
the Red Beard" who stands as pic
ture of incarnalte cruelty among the
sanguinary rulers of Morocco. His ia
vorite pastimes were to roast Jews
alive in the body of a bull and to roll
about the floors of the palace the heads
of his courtiers cut off for that partic-
ular purpose.
The romantic story of the Irish girls
elevation to this high station has it's
parallel in the family of Menelek of
Abyssinia, whose father is said to have
become enamored of a wondrously
beautiful beggar girl, whom, with
fine contempt for the conventionalitieS
of court, he raised to be his consort.
SAVAGERY OF THE BLACK KINGS.
The frightful cruelty of African mon
archs, as just instanced in the case of
Muley Yezid, may be illustrated again
sultan of Morocco, who was exceeding
ly fond of putting his relatives to
death, but with kind of grim con-
sheraton would allow them the privi-
lege of choosing the manner of their
taking off. Thus it is said that his
uncle, Muley Abbas. chose to die from
excess of drink, and shutting himself
up in his palace, literally drank him
self to death IN the course of couple
of months. The rest of the amiable
sultan's relatives preferred poison, re-
naming true to the Mohammedan in
junction to look not upon the wine
when it is red
More ferocious than all these was the
savage tyrant Behauzin, king of Daho-
mey, famous for it's female warriors,
whose capital was taken and destroyed
few years ago by a French army I'M
der General Dodds. The cruelties of
which this fierce chief was guilty were
of the most hideous character, human
sacrifices being in the usual order of
things, and as many as five hundred
human beings being slaughtered for
this purpose at a single time. King Be
hauzin is now in exile, confined at st.
Pierre Martinique, where he will prob
ably end his days.
THE YOUNG KHEDIVE.
The conception of the comic papers
regarding the African monarchs, the
caricatures showing a scantily
clothed negro arrayed in a breech-
clout and a stovepipe hat, with
laced coat for state occasions, set
forth grotesquely the undeniable truth
that civilization has had for the most
part only a poisoning and dernoralizing
influence upon the rulers Of this little
known continent. And of them all per
haps none has been more harmed by
the knowledge of Europe and the Gus
toms of the west than the young khe-
dive or King of Egypt, who was edu-
Gated and instructed in Switzerland, in
Vienna, in Paris and other capitals of
Europe with none too good results, it
must be said, for his morals and man.
hood. Since his accession to the throne
he has manifested a tendency toward
fanatacism, as if he I'M
derstood that Europe had had and
could have only a bad influence upon
himself and his people. This display
of love of the old ways and religion has
vastly increased his popularity among
his subjects and has given him a pres
tige abroad that he could never have
otherwise obtained. His fear of Eng
land, however, keeps him in a whole
some moderation and prevents any
undue expression of his devotion to
Egypt and the Egyptians.