The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-17
MODERN BLACK PRINCE
From South Africa, Who Is
Hight LobenguIa
KEEPS LONDON GUESSING
Since an IdiotiC English Girl
Up and Married Him.

'FWaat will Prince Lobengula do next?'
This IS a question which Londoners ar
just now asking, and with very good rea
son, as any one who has watched thi'
ddusky youths meteoric career during tn,
last few weeks.
We see him first at Bloemfontein, wher'
he is about 10 embark for England. He 4
attired in all the regalia OF an orienta
dandy, and a picturesque. If barbaric fig
ure he decidedly looks. AS fate would have
il, an English girl catches sight of hin
as he lolls one day lazily IN the shade
and straightaway her heart goes out Il
him and she determines to marry the darl
Adonis. Her name Is Florence Kate Jewel
and she is the daughter Of a wealthy min.
ing engineer Of Redruth, Cornwall.
When a girl makes up her mind to marry
a man she generally succeeds, and, though
Lobengula was a prince, Miss Florence
had little difficulty IN getting him 10 share
his heart and his principally with her
So the two Travelled together 10 London
where the prince had accepted an engage
nent to appear as the leading attraction
at the African exposition at the Earl's
Court. There he duly appeared before ad-
miring crowds, and not day passed that
Miss Florence did not come TO see him.
Naturally her friends and relatives see
ing how she was fascinated by the man,
became suspicious, yet for while not one
OF them had any idea that it was anything
but the fancy lof an cratic girl. What
was their anazement, then, when they
learned that she intended TO marry this
uncouth foreigner, who was daily exhibit
money! They pleaded, they demonstrated.
they threatened, they reminded her that
she was an heireSs, and that nobody
knew anything about his principality-they
did all in their power to dissuade her. but
al their efforts were in vain. The infat-
uated girl promised to give the matter fur
Their consideration, but the next her friends
heard was that she had married the
prince.
All London-indeed, all England was
amazed at the news. And no wonder.
English girls have occasionally made
strange matches, but no one before ever
heard Of an English girl of good birth be-
coming the wife of an African. Some re-
spectacle fathers and mothers came TO
the conclusion that there must be some
thing uncanny about the exhibition in
Earls Court. but certain persons, mainly
women, thought that Africans might not
be so ugly and uncouth as they were COM
monty pictured. ard the result was that
for some days after the marriage the
Proince's fellow countrymenl found them
selves the center of larger crowds than
had ever come to see them before Re-
spectacle London could not see why wo-
men should flock around a lot of colored
men arrayed in their native costume. and
when respectable London is in doubt as
to the propriety Of any proceeding. it very
soon makes its views known. The result
OF its protest in this instance was that
women were debarred from seeing the AT.
ricans on exhibition.
Meanwhile the Prince and Princess Lo-
bengula were spending their honeymoon az
the quiet little village of Eastbourne, hap
PLY enough. probably, though the life was
certainly one to which the Prince was
not accustomed. After the applause IN
the exhibition he must have found per-
petual tete-a-tete rather tiresome, since
otherwise how are we to account for the
fact that only a few days ago he was ar
rested in London on the charge of accost-
ing respectable white women? Nice con-
duct for a newly married man, His apollo
gists may claim that his antics were due
to his polygamous ancestors, but the mag
istrate before whom he was brought did
not apparently consiler this as any ex-
tenuauon Of the offence. Lobengula's de-
fence was tina. he knew the women, but as
preached them this explanation was not
satisfactory 10 the magistrate. who bound
the prisoner over in recognizances for six
months and told him TO keep the peace. as
otherwise he would get into serious diff
culties.
After this amazing performance, is It
any wonder that Londoners are asking.
What Will Prince Lobengula do next?"