The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
Che Bishop 81 Bcnekono
South Africas Prince Of Fakirs Is Better Known Than
Cecil Rhodes Himself-The Bishop Passes Cheer
fully From Crime to Crime = Murder
With Seidlitz Powders.

and ran of into the sand A couple
of hundred boys then took up the bur-
den and marched inland under one of
Rhodes lieutenants. On this occasion
the leader died en- route and the boys
proceeded alone. When near Messi-
keSsi the caravan emerged from a thick
woods of mimosa, and in the pathway
stood large figure smiling in faith
erly way.
AT last my children. Your father has
been waiting 4 long time" said the
bishop in excellent Zulu. for il was he,
and then. waving his hand haperiousiy,
''habma" ego on) "Mena Buya" Il will
follow by and by). He explained that
the Manica Trading company had sent
him to meet the caravan, and thai he
would take charge Of the money. For
three days the boys rioted in the brandy
distributed. and by that time the bishop
OF Hongkong was far away on the
Inyanga plateau. A mounted patrol
hunted him far and wide, and Cecil
Rhodes offered a reward for his capture
to no avail. Once he was reported
from the Zambesi, where it was said
missionary girl had taken him for a
real bishop. A fine mission station
Was erected there not long afterward-
II was at Messi KesSi the bishop i'm
posed so outrageously on Mr.. Atkinson,
a respectable English settler who had
become rich raising sugar cane. AT the
end of the rainy season some scionS OF
British nobility came out to East Africa
for big game. Mr.. Atkinson. who was
entertaining them. arranged three
weeks trip along the Pongwee. Hardly
had the party got out of sight when a
travel stained. man turned I'D and
lamented vigorously on having missed
his uncle" AS nephew of Mr.. At
kinson he described the ancestral home
in Dev0nshire and told of his trip from
England by way Of Salisbury. He dis
played so large a bank note that no
one could cash IL, but as the favorite
nephew of Mr.. Atkinson he had only
to ask for food, drink or clothing IN
Messi KesSi and il was his on credit.
He made eyes at Mr.. Atkinson's house
keeper and so hypnotized the native
servants that they cracked their spinal
columns fastening to salaam when he
approached For the greater part Of a
month he owned the town. and then
abruptly disappeared. leaving a wake
of debts and the Atkinson household
minus money and supplies
A Trial of Sin.
50 we'll. Bob Gosh, the gambler. nearly
rubbed him out Gosh left Johannes
burg when times grew duh and went
playing the Rhodesian mining camps
He landed at Chimoia broke and in
a bad humor. The game had pro-
crossed a little ways when he observed
that the man across the table was
about the smoothest thing in poker he
had ever seen 1t was his holiness, the
bishop, who, becoming a little careless
in sleight of hand, suddenly felt a cold
steel gun barrel above his eye. The
trick exposed, the enraged Englishmen
proceeded to lambast the bishop
frightfully. Describing revolvers. they
SO thumped. banged and beat him that
he could not be recognized. all Of which
the bishop bore with meek fortitude.
making no resistance, but merely ma
neuyering his body so as to receive the
blows in the most protected parts.
Some were for lynching him, others
counseled docking his ears, and some
few suggested firing him over an ant
heap. Meanwhile the bishop found his
voice and so worked on the higher feel
lngs of the crowd that in the end moth
ing was done. Indeed, some good citi-
Gems who thought the punishment al
ready over severe, volunteered to pay
the bishops liquor bill and hotel ex-
penses. Next day delegation escorted
him out Of town, battered but cheerful.
Although notorious from these esca-
padeE, the bishop, on arriving at Fortes
Villa, had no difficulty in charming a
young Englishman named Fitzgerald
by his versatile accomplishments and
the latter insisted on losing daily in
cards. Finally the two started off on
L hunting trip in the Gwelo district
hat ended in the younger man losing
his hunting outfit, money and most Of
lis clothing. The bishop at this stage
If the play disappeared, as usual. and
struck out briskly for Fort Victoria.
He lost his way, however, and after
in a circle for one week most
found himself back at
Fortes Villa. Tagged out and hungry,
here was nothing for him but the
colossal bluff. Scratched and bleeding.
lie told a Baron Munchausen yarn
lnent the death of Fitzgerald under a
ions paw and his own heroism that is
remembered on the Dan 10 this day
lie showed the Englishnan's clothes
md gun. which he had secured after
he lions had carefully stripped their
,rey. and appealed for I1me funds to
'ecoup him for his benevolent labors.
When Fitzgerald himself turned up a
week later. almost naked and quite
amished, the town was wild with .
lignation. and had the bishop been
here it would have required all his
avior faire to escape serious injury.