The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-24

DO you remember the Frenchman
who said, IL faut SAVIOR garden rinde-
pendance du occur A civilized man
can't do that. l am going back to my
people. L am going to become what
you call a barbarian again, simply be-
cause want to be free
An Afghan's Criticism of Divorce.
Much the same views were expressed
by King Khama, the famous Christian
entertain of South Africa, when he
visited England.
1t is all very wonderful" he said,
i gaze with awe on your steamships
and railways, your cities and your ma
chlnes. But what is the use of them?
Do they make you any happier or any
better? l think not. They seem to me
to give you no time to think or to live.
l think our simpler way of living is
better. AT all events, we are freer than
you. We do not have to work and
worry as you do
The moral, social and legal features
OF civilization do not meet with bar
harlan approval, and the relations that
are maintained between the sexes are
regarded as ridiculous.
An English doctor named James AL
fred Gray, who served for several years
in Afghanistan as court surgeon to the
late Ameer, had an Afghan nobleman
named Amin Ullah, when discussing
English customs with him oen day
say:
Il don't think it is right for English
men to sell their wives"
But they DON'T" exclaimed Dr.
Gray, in surprise.
Pardon me, my friend" said the
/ Afghan, reproachfully, but you know
they do, and, moreover, it is published
in the newspapers when they do So"
faWhaf nth Ia ,eI-
ed the doctor.
Il mean this. An English woman be-
comes tired of her husband and pre-
fers, another to him. The man who is
preferred is called the correspondent.
Straightway the three of them go be-
fore the kasi (magistrate) and after
much discussion it is decided at what
price the correspondent shall buy the
woman. The money is then paid to
the husband, and the shameful story
/ is told in the newspapers. Is that not
true?"
This way of looking at civilized d.
vorce gave DR.. Gray a shock. He tried
to explain that it was true, but not
quite the whole truth. But the Afghan
thought the payment of money for
alienation of affections very improper.
! ''What!' he cried. Take money as
the price of your wife's dishonor, and
let her go to the other man! It is
abominableI People of my race act
differently. If wife prefers another
man, the husband kills both of them
and washes his honor clean. That is
the proper way"
Cannon to Keep Out Civilization.
When the Shahzada Nasrullan Khan,
the late Ameers second son. visited
England some years ago, King Ed
ward-the Prince of Wales-took i'm
mense pains to impress him with the
wonders of English civilization. Natur-
| ally he wanted Nasrullah to go back
10 his father and tell him what a mar
velous country England was, and how
necessary IL was for Afghanistan TO re-
/ main friendly with her.
The Prince failed utterly. Nasrullah
was Disguised with the way things are
managed in England. According 10 an
Englishman. who was In Kabul when
4 he returned, he told the Ameer IN open
/ durbar.
Behold, II Is a country OF fools We
can learn little from England save
what 10 avoid. The Queen and the
I princes here lsss power than the
i eunuchs 81 yOR harem. They do not
govern the empire. Scoring the de-
crees Of Allah, the rulers Of the land
the peasants, the pariahs. the weay-
ere and the smiths-aa N horse
should say. 7 will have this rider and
no other"
But" said the Amesr. they have
wonderful inyenfions~Fteambhips, fele-
graphs, railways. guna.~