Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21

Stained with blood by new but the spots still
showed her
Esubonten the stool guard was smiling she
touched his breast with her hands and
them slowly down his body Prempeh growled and
spear the space But Esubonten ducKed ana
1t quivered in drummer behind him.
Suddenly the drums hushed and all listened to
distant booming.
The ntumpane," yelled speaker" the soldiers
come"
"out lights" Prempeh shouted, Warriors, forward"
The wchmen grabbed their stools and rushed under
the forward spears shaking and Prem
pen looked for the girl disappeared and the
queen mother was shaking him by the shoulder
Fight. KILL" she screamed. war comes
THE STOOL"
It was not there's
The soldiers looked at another and moved away into
the bush But Prempeh and walked forward until
they reached the capital Outside the kings palace was
guard of Gold Coast askaris under white officers.
and their head white in civilian clothes
Il have come take thee, O. King" he said. Thee
and thy queen mother and thy chiefs"
Prempeh stared about him, and those with him stood
like frightened children before the quiet white man.
He hung his head and breathed deeply.
Il come" he said quietly.
Prempeh and his renue went to the Seychelles where
he remained in exile until Then he allowed to
return Kumas where he died shortly afterwards
TITS SAID the stool guards ran
i into the forest and later it taken to wawase,
small village deep in the jungle 1t is said too that Din<ah
with Esubonten because she regarded him. being
keeper the STOOL as greater and richer than
Prempeh the stool removed to another place
and the British moved in.
There was. another rebellion some time later a
representative to obtain the stool symbol
of the Ashans fealty to the British Empire. But the
tribes refused to hand Indeed Esubonten moved
again at that time. ,e...
1t was not until 1921 that news of 1t to light
Esubonten was now a chief and Kdjo Danso
Keeper of the Stool. road to be built from Esu
town and while the trail being cut strange
thing happened
The surveyor decided to make right anged turn in
the line And at that angle aborers excavang struck
something below the surface.
Kojo Danso watching them uneasly.
"Yo" they muttered. Maybe there is gold
Back" screamed Kojo. 1T is fetish. There is small
pox here The laboers hastily rereated and no threats
would make them return to the accursed place.
But that night Kojo with guards dug up the
Golden stool where it buried between two great brass
pans it into the town where Esubonten ruled
Senagya of the descendants of the original stool
guards them and demanded share
''The stool is sacred" he told
AYE the stool" replied Seniagya, but not the gold
letters the bells the golden masks Let us sell
them and no harm done TO the stool"
The gold stolen the secret leaked out and
TO the ears of the Kumasi chiefs
THE stool desecrated" they yelled; and it
pected by the authorities that human sacrifices made
The who had stolen the gold and those who had
melted il down arrested.
The whole Ashanti nation in mourning. Every
man. and child wore the three red clay marks
each brow.
And only old Esubonten one-time Keeper OF the Stool
caa-hav explained why fastened to the stool below
golden masks of Adnra the decorators found but
did not touch cleaning ant-polshed skull, long and
narrow. .E
The skull Of Dinlah the dancing girl.
So after all for breaking the ancient taboo that
forbade the queen mothers to look upon
the Golden Stool.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY