Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27
THE CONFERENCE AT PORTSMOUTH.

which the king responded affirmatively.
sending at the same time 5000 soldiers as
escort. together with his ministers of for
eign affairs and war and presents.
Through the vast forests of bananas
which extend from Foueire south 200 miles
the barbaric host swept like a cyclone.
Nothing in the cavalcade of the dashing
but presumptuous Count d Estrada could
equal the barbaric display of the Uganda
escort kings bodyguard. armed with
matchlocks, dressed in plantain leaves.
raced UP and down the TANKS of the COL
umn. engaged In mimic combat firing at
random. and initiating. by excited gestures
and voice. the lion. leopard monkey. buff
falo and elephant of which the woods and
jungle were full
After fifty-eight days of marching through
| morass. marsh and malaria the column ar
rived at the capital and halted on an emf
nence overlooking the Victoria N'Yanza.
PROSTATE upon their faces. their noses in
the dust there laid 10000 subjects of the
KING, this attitude having been commanded
by the Uganda protocol In honor OF the
M-BEguru.
The ambassador was arrayed for the &C.
casion In the brilliant full dress uniform of
the Egyptian army-a blue tunic and red
trousers both respondent with gold braid /:
patent leather boots. gilt spurs and a red
fez The Ugandas, 1t should be understood,
are the only people in savage Africa who
aHect clothing Imagine. then. IL you may.
the prodigious effect of stunning uniform.
a white face and a horse three things I'M
seen before In tgandai Upon the act of
dlsmounting-which the people mistook for
d1slocatfon-the prostrates rose in wild
alarm and disappeared In the jungle. They
mad taken the ambassador until that mo-
ment for a centaur!
The khedive's ambassador was received
me next gay with much noise, the beating
of drums and the blowing Of
"A -'oy"A horns. M-Tesa, clad in
Audience. long blue cloak embroidered
with gold braid. his feet in
cased in sandals, and on his head a red feZ,
met the ambassador at the door of his
cabin palace and. retrograding. led him
| back to the throne. where he placed him on
his left, the newly made post of honor for
no man had yet been permitted to sit in the
presence of the king.
M-Tesa rested his feet upon an elephant
tuSk polished white The ca binet business
dspatohed-it was cabinet day-the gifts
were presented in turn amid expressions of
delight and wonder for such things had
never been seen in Uganda. The mirror
was magic, the music box a mystery. the
magnetic battery devil! With the latter
the ambassador shocked the king and over
turned his ministers one after another to
M-Tesa's great delight. The crucial test. in
applicable to the king and court, was that
the poles which knocked them out failed
utterly to exercise the slightest influence
over the now ail-powerful white prince
when the manifestation was finished. NJ
Tesa, according to etiquette, asked his Wis
ito, the object of his visit. The MBu-
guru blushed at the enforced resort to the
principles of Machiavel He had come to
present the khedive's salutations. bring
gifts. etc. Why tell the king. indeed. that
he had come to have him sign treaty and
also to discover the unknown Nile? He
is looking for lake. 4 lake is water. Has
the M-Buguru none in his country" And
then. Sign treaty." These things were
I,,Ix ,IaI, ,,1 70 l. I,xtn
who would aid the ambassadors efforts.
Finally the end of the audience approached.
A number of warriors rushed In armed with
stout sticks. on their heads great punches
of black ostrich feathers, their bodies
daubed with red. They made a feint at
tack upon M-Tesa whirling their sticks
in moulinet and executing a series OF antics
which We're explained as being In honor of
the M-Buguru. The white prince was not
treasured when suddenly the king nodded
to his official executieners, who bounded
from their posts unwound the plated cord
from round their heads and, rushing to the
door. 1assoed group of men collected
there choked them to earth and with their
clubs beat out their brains. Thirty victims
thus were killed in many. seconds as a
signal honor to the ,khedive's ambassador.
't~s X X &c - s:sN l5t :.
But to return TO a question Immediately
interesting, the conference at Portsmouth
Emperor Nicholas issued
Ine CZar manifesto on the 10Th instant
Manifesto. convoking the national as
sembly already announced.
The day was suspicious. the great religious
feast of the TRANSPORTATION being celebrated
in Russia generally and marked by the
bringing to the church of the first fruits of
the new harvest.
The effect of the manifesto it is declared.
will be electric and will create wave of
patriotism which will sweep over the Rus
sias with great force. That it has served
to strengthen the hands of the Russian en-
voys in the conference al Portsmouth has
already been claimed.
Tolstoi, 1t appears, has separated from
the radical element of his party and has
provoked thereby bitter manifesto from
Maxine Cork, who accuses the illustrious
sage of YaSnaia Poliana of being the slave
of an idea. that he no longer follows Rus
sian life nor listens to the voice of the peo-
pie. And Cork proceeds TO state that on
one occasion he was present when a group
of peasants came to Tolstoi for counsel,
when the latter treated them to a disserta-
ton on his ideas and considerations which
not only the peasants could not understand,
but some intelectuals could not fathom.
No attention should be paid TO Tolstoi, he
adds; The scars too far above them
Tostoi, on the other hand maintains that
Russia is passing through historical mo-
ment, due to the causes which he has fire.
quently discussed and denounced. The ne
ceSSlty or reform is compre hended already
in all civilized countries of the world and
it has entered into the conscience of a
hundred million Russian peasants. LIB
erals and revolutionsts see the evil from
different point. In speaking of the good of
the people they see only a small party-the
better class and the workmen in the cities
They direct all their efforts against the out
ward manifestations of the evil without
thinking of the fundamental causes, forget
ting the misery of the enormous rural pop
ula ton.
In order to remedy this fundamental evil
Tolstoi proposes 10 commence by anchor
ating the situation of the mass of the peas
ants, and when this is attained the evil
suffered by other classes will in turn be
remedied IT may thus be seen that far
from being Indifferent to the cause of the
peasants, Tolstoi halls with delight the
manifesto of the cZar as that which ma ria