Evening star., 1902-08-09

state the setting up OF an electric power
piant IN whatever part OF Ethiopia he would
want TO run 1t the Ras simply asked to have
caicuiatlon OF the expense Of such plant
ana the necessary European stan made for
MN, as in the case OF the war balloon or
the petroleum automobiles he bought five
in the same afternooni
this silent, dignihed black prince. so oh
Vio1sly ignorant OF western wonders
nevertheless got back at the west on The
third DAY of his visit to Paris He had
heard that the French National Library
possesses great store OF ancient Coptic
ana Ethiopian manuscript, and asked TO
see them.
He was taken with another learned Fthl-
opian, the kantiba, TO see them I'm ono OF
ms new petroleum automobiles Down half
the length Of the great boulevard and then
down the busy Rue R'chelieu the spor+inp
venice went with its illustrous guest the
farisians saiuting with respect and high
good nature. In the eastern manuscript
department the old savant In charge had
paced the mass OF ancient parchn1ents on
a. Setiss IS on long tables Not tenth Of
them had ever been dccinhered nv himself
or any OF his predecessors or for that mat
ter' by any European student The eyes OF
Ihe % %Ras sparkled as he hurried from one
clumsy old parchment book TO another
This IS the history Of s,icb-an4-s,,eb a
dyhasty! he exclaimed 'This is a con,,
OF the works Of such-and-such a nhfloso-
taIe bner OF such-and-such a centuryr' He
Ihere are things here that No bsJ
thought forever lostr' he cried ..N%-, 49,
navy copyists set to work on them imme-
diately!' ''iie
Had Learning, Too.
Two hours they stayed with the delighted
o'u unrar'an. The next day the Ras re-
'ui heo again to the precious MSS. accom-
p'Hieu oy MS TWO generals. They went
'nroush volume after volume. parchment
roll after parchment roll. jotting down no.as
Y. III.
hau smiled at their innocent wonder IN tba
presence of electric machinery and balloons
were now forced to look on the ,1.cl, ~,
with new respect. A learned man 70 n
learned man. even when his learning IS fn
me tongue of the Queen of Sheba
ne ohiy other occasion when the imnas-
siNe black prince showed emotion vas a-
tHe great annual review of the French
troops by the president Of the rep,lhlic on
the Iith OF July. This is the celebration
Gay OF the republic and equivalently our
Fourth. When 10000 soldiers under arms
marched past the presidentiai ma s,,,I
the lace OF the Ras showed adnira ton for.
the military force displayed before him
ne hinsef Is great general, as the Ital-
lans once discovered. But when NJ ~.
end Of the great cavalry charge : oao t,,,,,,
ers numbered down upon them and stonned
suddenly within few yards of the presI-
uehtlaI tribune he could not restrain his
exclamation Of delight
That's riding! That's n cbarrer, Io
cried to NJ. Loubet. and Immediately IN
Vlted him to come to Abyssinia 10 see what
their own mounted troops could do IN the
same line.
Something he did not anprove at all VAS
the terrible bicycle race for the ''Rol dor"
golden bowl. Of which he saw the finish
late In the afternoon of the same day.
Ihls 2l-hour race has been run annually
for eight years In France and Is dIstIn
guished by two Of its regulations-H) mace
makers are allowed only during the two
flrst and two last hours Of the race and ca
these pacemakers NAV be rln by any l,ir1
of motors. Although this years distance
covered was not anything like as good as
what has been done in previous wears the
finish was tremendously exciting At the
end Huret, who won. tainted and they had
some trouble to bring him bacK TO life
while the three who came behind him. Wat
teller, Fisher and the negro '.VendredI'
Fridayl, presented pitiable spectacle Of
exhaustion.
What is the use of that?" Inquired the
Ras.
They told him IT made a fine test OF en-
durance.
Why don't they do 1t on the omen
roads?" he then inquired. 1T is not natural
to make test Of practical endurance on
an artifcially kept track"
he thought the pacemaking ridiculous
III wanted to send a messenger across
the country a bicycle / would not give
him a petroleum pacemaker"
The Maisons-Laffitte horse races on the
otlel manu-, he ADMIRED immensely. Him
self an accomplished horseman. in a land
where Arab steeds have been inbred and
outbred for full eight hundred years and
genealog1es go back five centuries the
nephew of the Lion of Judah gravely ap-
proved the splendid animals and In particu-
lar the splendid riding of the American
jockeys. Milton Henry, who won the Prix
Ragotsky, the great race of the day. and
Ross and Thompson, the two new riders of
w. X. Vanderbilt. The latter. a mere boy
of fifteen years, who rides at eighty-three
pounds, was specially remarked by the
dusky visitors. who fully approved of the
peculiar American seat, we'll up on the
horses neck. French cavalry officer
who criticised 1t was told by one of the
Ethiopian generals (through the interpre-
teri that it was Just the right seat-to win
races. STERLING HEILIG.