The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-10
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter
Edgerton Wisconsin
i i.IDAY. MARCH 10, 1922.
Albion the Host to Royalty.


night, Feb. %.
Thinking the people of the COM
munity will be interested in knowing
more of this remarkable man, [ will
tell some of his history as it was
told to me.
The prince is one of the younger
sons of the late King John whose
mothers brother was Menelek of
Ethiopia.
Very little is known in this coun-
try of Ethiopia We see Abysinnia In
our maps but the prince says that
Abysinnia is only a province or
state of Ethiopia which embraces
much territory on the eastern coast
of Africa. Ethiopia is very ancient
country and is quite acivilized coun-
try. It's history goes back beyond
the time of Moses and the prince
states that they have written his
tory on parchment and scrolls as
we'll as traditions dating way back
there. It seems that the Priest of
indian whose daughter Moses har-
ried was one of their priests. They
also claim the Queen of Sheba.
But to return to the Prince.
Church and state are one in Ethiopia
and the Prince is Bishop of Ugandi
as we'll as a member of the royal
family. He is a very learned man
having taken degrees from Oxford,
Cambridge and Edinburgh Univer-
stiles and also from the University
of Alexandria, Egypt. He is also
fellow of a British Royal Society,
has been in the diplomatic service
and has been around the world sew
eral times.
His first wife was a daughter OF
the King of Madagascar and for
some time he acted as governor of
Madagascar. His second wife when
he married in 1912 and three of his
twenty five children were killed dur
ing the late war by the Germans
when they bombed the train on which
the Princess was travelling, from
Rome to Paris. The Prince at the
time was in Paris. He himself had
narrow escapes when the ships on
which he was travelling were torpe-
doed The Ethopians fought on the
side of the Allies during the war
and sent their soldiers to Europe.
The Prince says he entertained
Ex-President Roosevelt in his home
when on his famous hunting trip in
Africa.
His Royal Highness is passionate
ly fond of music and is a personal
friend of Amelita CALI Curci, also
of Caruso and knows Gluck and
Farror. He is somewhat of a must
clan himself, and played the piano
and sang one of their native pieces
at the entertainment.
He headed the delegation from
his country to the Peace Conference
at Versailles and was there all thru
the Conference.
For the past two OF three he has
suffered from cataracts on his eyes,
which he expects to have removed
in London in the spring when he is
on his way home where he must be
in May to attend the coronation Of
his brother.
No doubt many will wonder how
he came to visit the little town OF
Albion. To explain we must go back
into the history of his church. The
Ethopians were worshippers of Je-
hovah way back before Moses. Also
observers of the seventh day of the
week which was given to the race
at the beginning as recorded in
Genesis 2. The Prince says they did
not receive the Sabbath from Moses
nor from the Babylonians for they
were before both. During all these
centuries, they have through their
trying history chung to their religion
They received Christianity when
Philip the Evangelist preached to the
Ethiopian eunoch, who was treasurer
to their queen Candace. You have
read that interesting story in your
bibles. The Prince says Philip ne
elected to tell them of any change
in the Sabbath and so they kept on
keeping the seventh day of the week.
He thinks it was real mean of Phil
ip if he knew of such an important
change not to have informed the
eunoch. So today the Reformed Eop
tic Church of which he is bishop
observe the seventh day of the week
and he says in his country the other
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