The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-11
CITY OF BULUwAYO.
1t Is Two Years Old and Offers Ear.
gains In Scents Pants.,,ams


It is diverting to read that in Buluwayo
Lobengulas capital, the age of starched
shirts and dress suits has arrived" SO
quickly has English civilization supplanted
absolute savagery. And in the mind now
rises grim picture Of the entire white pop
ulation in the town arrayed in dress suits
hnmes mats taxing hn up arms TO defend their
to wipe the white men from the face of the
earth.
The situation is. indeed. almost grotesque.
Even our own country in the days Of the
Indian massacres in Deerfield, Haverhill and
Cherry Valley never beheld so strange, so
striking contrast between the civilized de-
fender and his savage foe. 1t was a pioneer
folk, living in a pioneer state of society,"
whom the American Indian murdered and
scaiped. The. communities pillaged were
agricultural. None Of the refinements of So
ciety was yet cultivated in them. The state
OF the case in Buluwayo is far different. It
is as If Leadville or Cripple Creek in Col
upon by redskins.
Buluwayo, now a little more than two
years old in the white mans calendar. has
an eight-page newspaper, published twice
week, with a fine showing of advertisements
OF the enterpr!sing merchants of the place.
Capital has just been subscribed for build
ing an opera house in the town. 1t will
cost $150.o00 seat 800 persons, and be lighted
by electricity. The city already has a club,
building association, a chamber of commerce.
a circuit court. poo club, and a lodge
Of Freemasons. The Buluwayo Laundry
Company. lately organized had its stock
sales are going on at the clothing clothing
stores, and enormous bargains are
Chronicle reports that the Wesleyans have
built a new church IN Ninth avenue, and
calls the attention Of certain cid fogy pion-
GERS to their practice of turning their horses
out to Craze In Eighth avenue, which was
well enough two years ago. but it is decided
~ Objectionable, now, A suburban resort
has been opened on the Umgusa river, six
miles out of town, whittier the young people
may resort for shooting matches, cricket,
tennis. golf and other sports. The hotel at
the place (the Welsh Harp will provide en-
tertainment for man and beast.
There is still, however. some token that
the place is rather new. Butter fetches from
s1.75 to 1886 a. pound. Eggs are quoted at
ging at from So cents to $3.50 each. Cab
bages are worth from so cents to $1.13 apiece
The price of everything else is proportion
ately high and no matter how good a mans
strous expenses.
May 1t not be that herein is the source of
the Matabele discomfort and uprising? I'm
der old Lobengula food was to be had with
grew on the trees, lunch was to be had at
ones neighborS-or on them, as ones feel
ings dictated; dinner was always waiting
in the jungle at the price of an arrow or
more fruit for the picking. no more of ones
dearest enemy's elbow joints no more mon
key stews, no more roasted elephant foot
or lion tenderloin; no more giraffe steaks
The white man has put an end to all that,
and IL one eats now he must pay, and to
get the money to pay ne must work, and
work is curse.
This may not be the cause of the Mata-
beles expedition on the warpath, but fancy
If you were Matabele: would you not go
on the waroath?