Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-07-30

The Criticised AS Critics.


! cities and your machines. But what
is the use of them? Do they make yor
any happier or any better? | thinl
not. They seem to me to give you nc
time to think or to live. / think on,
simple way of living is better. At all
events, we are freer than you. We dS
not have To work and worry as you
do"
The moral, social and legal features
OF civilization do not meet with bar
barian 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 one day.
say: Il don't think it is right for Eng
lishmen to sell their wives" But
they don't" exclaimed DIR. Gray, in
surprise. Pardon me. my friend"
said the Afghan reproachfuIly. but
you know they do, and, moreover, it is
published in the newspapers when they
do So" What on earth do you mean p"
asked the doctor. 81 mean this. An
| Englishwoman becomes tired of her
/ husband and prefers another to him.
The man who is preferred is called the
correspondent. Straightway the three
of them go before the kasi (magis-
trate) and after much discussion 1t is
decided at which price the co-respon-
| dent shall buy the woman. The money
is then paid to the husband, and the
shameful story is told in the newspa-
pers. Is not that true?"
This way Of looking at civilized d.
vorce gave DR.. Gray shock. He tried
to explain that it was true. but not the
whole truth. But the Afghan thought
the payment of money for the aliena-
ton Of the affections very improper.
What" he cried. take money as
the price of your wife's dishonor and
let her go to the other mani 1t is
abominable! People of my race act
differently. II wife prefers another
man, the husband kills both of them
and washes his honor clean. That is
the proper way"
When the Shahzada Nasrullah Khan,
the late ameer's second son, visited
England some years ago, King Edward
then Prince of Wales-took immense
pains to impress him with the wonders
of English civilization Naturally he
wanted Nasrullah to go back to his
fnf hAr al IL.
country England was, and how neces-
sary 1t was for Afghanistan to remain
friendly with her. The prince failed
utterly. Nsrullah was disguised with
the way things are managed in Eng
land. According to an Englishman.
who was in Kabul when he returned,
he told the ameer in open durbar:
Behold, II is a country of fools! We
can learn little from England save
what to avoid. The queen and the
prince have less power than the
eunuchs of your harem. They do not
govern the empire. Scorning the de-
crees of Allah, the rulers of the land
are chosen by hordes of the low-born
the peasants, the pariahs. the weav-
ers and the smiths-as If a horse
should say, L will have this rider and
no other"
! But" said the aineer, they have
wonderful tions.--steamships, tel
egraphs, railways, guns"
aye" said Nasrullah, "but they
only make life more troublesome to
! 1.-Two THAR naopla ,,,y,~ .o,., ~ At.
inventions and enslave themselves to
work of their hands We need nothing
greater in earth or heaven than the
work of heir hands. We need nothing
of theirs" he concluded grimly, "save
their marvellous cannon-that we may
be able to keep out the rest of the
civilization.
Ras Makonnen. the right-hand man
of King Menelik of Abyssinia, gathered
a poor opinion of civilization when he
visited England to attend King Ed
wards coronation. He was indiscreet
enough to wear his Abyssinian cos
tune in the streets of London, and the
small boys shouted rude remarks when
he passed by at is land without
manners or decency," he said, indig.
nantly. 1--WE in Abyssinia courteously
receive European travellers in their
strange garb. and anybody who mock
ed them would be severely punished
; by the Negus, But when told an Eng.
fish prince that his own soldiers had
, laughed at me. his guest. he only said {,
/ oh. you must not mind that it is IL
| way they have. Il seems that the
r princes have no power in this land.
The common people-sons of dogs
/ with the habits of pigs-are kings"
, The eourtiers told of by King Ed
: ward to look after the Ras tried to eff.
: face the memory of his humiliation by
} giving him good time They showed
! him arsenals. dockyards. theaters,
cathedrals and everything they thought
, would impress him. Il was no use. He
asked the question most barbarians ask
do these things make you happ'er O.
better men?" The theaters and music