The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-06-27

The queen ana the Frlnce nave less power
than the eunichs of your harem. They
do not govern the empire Scorning the
DEGREES of Allah, the rulers of the land are
chosen by hordes of the low born-the
peasants, the pariahs, the weavers and the
smith-as if horse should say, i will
have this rider and no other. . "But,
said the Ameer, "they have wonderful
Notwithstanding, telegraphs, rail
ways, guns. "
TROUBLE AND BAD MANNERS.
AYE, said Nasrullah, ''but they only
make life more troublesome to live. These
people make toys of their inventions and
enslave themselves to them until they
think there is nothing greater in earth or
heaven than the works of their hands.
1--WE need nothing of theirs, he con-
cluded grimly, ''save their marvellous can
non-that we may be able to keep out the
rest of their civilization
Ras Makonnen, the right-hand man of
King Menelik of Abyssinia, gathered
poor opinion of civilization when he visited
Europe to attend King Edward S corona
ton He was indiscreet enough to wear
his Abyssinian costume in the streets of
London, and the small boys shouted rude
remarks when he passed by.
''It is land without manners or de-
cency, he said, Indignantly. 1--WE of
Abyssinia courteously receive European
travellers in their strange garb, and any
body who Knocked them would be severely
punished by the Negus, But when | told
an English prince that his own soldiers had
laughed at ne, his guest, he only said:
oh, you must not mind that; it is way
they have Ii seems that the princes
have no power in this land The common
people-sons of dogs with the habit of
pigs-are kings, -
The courtiers told off by King Edward
to look after the Ras tried to efface the
memory Of his humiliation by giving him
good time They showed arsenals, dock
yards, theatres, cathedrals and everything
they thought would impress him. Ii was
Of no use. He asked the question most
barbarians asked: ''Do these things make
you happier or better men p
The theatres and music halls shocked
him terribly
How can YOU go to these places to see
women dance shameleSsly, half clothed p
he exclaimed "And not only go, but
take your wives and childrenl You make
puppet show of vice, and then you call
us uncivilized. If this is civilization, if
the drunken men who swarm riotously in
your streets at night are produced by civil
iration, we Abyssinians had better remain
barbarians y
/ HORRORS or THE WALTZ.
Ras Makonnen' disapproval of the SOU
brette is shared by most barbarians, espe-
cially if they are good Mohammedans. A
Moorish visitor in Marseilles was even
more shocked than the worthy Abyssinian.
sit seems horrible to me, he said,
THAT your European women walk with
uncovered faces in the streets, and talk to
men openly and shamelessly as they choose,
even contradicting their own husbands.
But the women on the stages of your the
atres-well. cannot think of them with
out shame
This same Moor was taken to ball in
Paris by French friend In silent hor-
ror he watched men and women dancing
together, and at last confded to his friend
that in truly civilized country ike Nor
occo such women would be deservedly
strangled. His hostess, taking pity on his
| loneliness. asked whether he would care to
dance with her; but he sternly refused to
have anything TO do with proceedings
which he considered utterly depraved In
an Indian hamlet in Venezuela lives a well
educated Guaraguanes Indian who had
paid visit TO New York Asked by a
traveller what he thought of that city, he
replied:
1T is a wonderful place, truly and full
of marvellous things of which | had not
even dreamed. But the men who live
there must verify be accursed of God and
the saints. How can there be any hap
piness in their lives? They are always
rushing to and fro madly, as if jaguar
pursued them. Better the trees of the
forest than those tall buildings which shut
out the sun Why do wealthy men,
| am told-imprison themselves in those
building all day long? Is that the way
they were meant to live? Are they not
wasting their lives in a vain pursuit of gold
which will do them no real good p