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ZULU chief is again abroad in South
jijnca. ,; i nts . somas ominous; . dm
South Africa is not takinr it very
seriously, When one says "Zulu chief " you
promptly think of a huge, athletic warrior
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assagais under it.
But this chief is only poor, old Dinizulu,
the fat and ungainly chieftain who lived in
squalid comfort with his cottage organ and
twenty-seven wives until the English impli
cated him in the Zulu uprising of two years
'He has been several years in a nice, clean
tail, where he has lost so much weight that
Us figure is really quite, trim and neat, and
now lie is to turn agriculturist in the Trans
vaal and be a good, respectable citizen that
is, as respectable as a man can be with twenty
jeven wives.
And that is news of big importance y, for
the great and dreadful Dinizulu being peace
fully i at large marks the end of rampant
Zufuism.
The idea of a Zulu chief living placidly
In jail, to his utter satisf action t and then going
to: farming, proves how degenerate honest,
upright savagery has become. It marks the
passing of the warrior, peoples of the dark
continent.
f INHERE is one thing that the Zulu's worst enemy
I , will say of him without reservation: he Is the
JL most forgiving mm In the world. In the old
!Tg' before '79-when the assagais were as
thick reeds in the Natal country, and the. Britisher
Who was looking for trouble had merely to step out
In s the open and announce his deBire to have it come
down upon him In black hordes It was freely granted
that a Zulu warrior was the "scrappiest" and at the
same time the friendliest individual bearing the human
form. :
So it may be safely inferred that, If there was ever
any trouble in the rotund system of Dinizulu. there
Is not the slightest malice remaining thre, though
he had been fed on prison food for several years and
deprived of twenty-four of his wives during that pe
riod. For the Zulus .are like the old Irish of the mora
primitive eort, who would fight you for politics re
ligion, a entiling or any excuse they could trump up
and them embrace you for the very scientific drubblntr
you had given them. 8
'A wttru,aiuui iq Zulu-as he really fa cannot come
ttmlas in connection- with an account of the career of
Uinl, the latter being, : for most part, obscure, at any
i hey were erlginally a small tribe of warlike peo
f!e noted for their Huperb physical development and
high Intelligence. That was Jn the early years of the
iinieteeruh century. Then there aroe a certain Zulu
Napoleon named Tshaka, who opened a series of con
quests and was thoroughly successful, so that he was
iliortv lord of sll the lands and the black tribes from
the Zambesi to Cape Colony.
7-uiti .viiiefs are elected and serve as long as they
satisfy their subjects. This vast territory of Tshaka's
was ruled by a succesxlon of single chiefs until the
violent outbreak of 1&79. The fighting ability of the
kv( wa amply demonstrated in their encounters
with the British forces sent against them, at that
FighMnfc skulking;, low-caste Hindus
was " one
TCTinir; warring
-MrttwrmrwThwrinfi
, trained eavage noble, of South Africa w.'s a genuine .
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Chieftain Who, Lost His
With His Excess Flesh
privilege, 1 the old story-tellers are to be believed.
They came at you like a. storm. They could hit
a three-Inch circle every time with an assagai ; and
In the tall grass, where a native could strike yon
down at sixty feet with his weaporX long-range rifles
were not of much account. i,
They were brave as savages can be, and generous
as knights when all was over. When peace had been
temporarily arranged on one ' occasion, a lofty-man-
nered chief came dut of the Jungle grass to be so-
ctable with the Enirllah. He stood before them, smil-
lng genially, and after discussing his methods of
fighting
and discipline as compared with those of
civilized armies, he offered to demonstrate how he was
able to beat men learned in the science or war. The
T
HE isle of Oxias, wooded but rocky, long
stranger to all life save for some infre
quent tired bird and the dying molluscs
washed up on its Bhores, has suddenly been
transformed into the scene of a great tragedy.
The Turkish government has made it the em
pire's canine Devil's island for all, or very nearly
all, the pariah dogs that for so many ages infested
the streets of Constantinople! .
They brave the cruelly torrid sun and the now
innumerable biting insects to come down to the
T
(HIS tragedy of the isle of bxlas is one of, mercy,
not cruelty. The Turks, their masters, have not
exiled Constantinople's dogs in sheer, selfish in
difference to their fate. If the means taken to
dispose of them be cruel, it Is because cf a kindness that
has been mistaken, nothing worse.
Until this summer the dogs Of Constantinople, esti
mated as between 50,000 and 80,000, were among the famous
sights, and the Infamous nuisances, of the beautiful and
historic city. They were everywhere, but chiefly lying in
the middle of the street, and all maiiklnd stepped over or
?I them scrupulous not to harm them, and if a
Moslem, not to so much as touch them, for to the Turk
they are all unclean. ' - ' ...
Mongrels though tltey were, they were large, strong
tmasts in the main, and, for all their Irresponsible exist
ence, amazingly intelligent. During their generations of
self-government they had evolved a system of admlnls-
re uon or ineir own dog eulldiL-Bi
k KWiuagaaruing aca itaBgat
De,K,l.cn or f?"1- ?V appotntea to keep
""it wm par'tTe Y CS"e5t!a faith.
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English expressed curiosity, so be stepped Into an open
place and waved Ms arms. '
Instantly a vast territory "of grass-grown plain
was blac-k with armed savages who had apparently
risen from the ground. Everywhere the eye could
reach there were platoons ot them.
"Thirty thousand," said the chief, significantly. '
With more arm motions he gave a second order.
They opened, spread and gathered about a space
four ermfe acres, atud in an instant the grass was In
jFlames over the whole surface. A third order was
given, and the entire body of naked warriors leaped
Into the burning grass and with their hard feet
tramped out the conflagration as quickly u it had
' arisen. f - J,
His visit at an end, he chief departed, still smil
ing; and the British officers looked at each', other in
consternation. " ' y
; EFFECT OF ENGLISH DIPLOMACY :
As every one knows, the Zulus were finally sub
jugated, and with their subjugation came the division
- into thirteen subtrlbes, with as many chiefs to rule
them. - f '
A clever bit of diplomacy this was on the part of
the English. They knew that. If they attempted to
rule Zululand, rebellions and riots would be unending,
' and that they could be subdued only by a great ex
penditure of money ' and men. So they divided the
house against Itself and left the tribes to ruin each
other; and that they dW most effectually.
It is only thirty-one years since the chief who con
trolled 30,000 lire-eaters smiled upon the English in
his atbletic majesty, and now we have Dinizulu farci
cal substitute for the clean-muscled, clear-headed
warrior chieftain he used to be.
He was thought to have Instigated the Zulu risings
of 1907-08, and was arrested in the spring of 1908 at
,hls frightfully dirty kraal at Usutu and taken to
Petermaritzburg for trial. At that time he was found
stony shore line, where they stand .by thethou
sands, belly detep in the forbidding sea, to gaze
longingly, miserably toward the horizon, beyond
which lies the city whence they have been doomed
1 to lifelong exile" ", ;r v V PJjZ 'v'V '
It is as though in these big, strong pariah dogs
of Constantinople now outcasts in most' unhappy
truth, all the love of man's companionship, in
'stilled since the taming of the first wolf, has been
aroused by their exile. ' Their own kind can give to
that the' doge might hot be slain; and it wae tbe common
custom of the poor, and even of the wealthy classes, to
feed 'them with such "leavings", from the table as could
be spared from day to day. The Turk,' terrible Jn war, ,
was ever pitiful' to the pariahs be despised And wished he
were-well rid. of. -vv!
At the time of the Russo-Turkisn war the animals had
become so great a nuisance that many of them were
hastily captured and transferred to Buiwer Island, an
other eea-ringed'dsaert of the Marmora, although, once ties
residence of a British ambassador. Before the ' work of
transportation was finished the dogs, starving, were de
vouring one another. Hard on the heels of the scandal,
came news of a crushing .Turkish defeat The supersti
tious sultan saw Just retribution overhanging him for tne '
banishment of the dogs, and the exiles were brought back
as hastily as tney had been sent away.
After that f'onFtantlnonle'rt rtotrs flourished ntiil erew
n grtat -ttt-wtunwr." wnrrTnirBnvgnt Tff power or trie Young
Turkish party and the coincident onrush of modern, nro-
gresMlve ideas of cleanliness and hygiene in Constantinople,
the pariah dogs -were doomed anew to some form of re--
living In flllthy majesty In a series of hut palaces, sur
rounded by his twenty-seven dusky squaws and bear
ing upon his person a huge accumulation of flesh not
suited to either war or closely calculated conspiracy.
In his parlor was a;dilapldated American organ; In
-talking machine ot primeval manufacture.
and In a third apartment which was termed the guest
room, the only bed in the community. The latter orna
ment was not in a state of cleanliness to satisfy a
very particular guest, either.
At his trial he was sentenced to four years' im
prisonment, and was rateful that he had not been
'tried by martial law. Had he appeared before the
military it is doubtful If be would have had the op
portunity of Improving hi figure as he has. In fact.
It was only through the efforts of Sir Henry Campbell-
Bannerman that he was spared this ordeal ,
At ' the expiration of two years he has been par
doned on promise of good behavior, has been-given
. a splendid South African farm- and an allowance of
$2500-a year. This does not seem like, a huge Income
for a king, or a great help to a man who has twenty
seven wives to keep In Zulu finery, not to mention
eleven little Zulus Dlni has brought Into the world.
Having shed so. much flesh, it would be .supposed
that Dinizulu, in the sparseness of his honors, might
now, be willing to shed a few wives, but Zulu law.t
though imwritten, is more complete and binding on
this score than any the whites can boast in Europe or
America. While a man may have helpmates without
number, the tenth marriage or the fiftieth marriage is
Just as sacred, holy and binding as union number one,
Bo what can a poor king do?
It Is said, moreover, that the ladies of the king's
harem are not content with the few feathers and
beads their grandmothers wore, but must have clothes
as well, real European ladles' clothes skirts, iats
and all the rest of it What a frightful time te
fallen monarch will have doling out the dollars to his
family! It prison fare brought him down to the pro-
' none of the banished brutes the substitute for. the
sight and hearing of man. '
Their anguish of loneliness goes on; night and.
day, unrelieved except when some visitors from"
the mainland many impelled by . a sympathy ; re-
l sponsive to such wretchedness discmba rk ' from
" little sailing boats. Then, in an ecstasy of joy, the
dQgs rush upon them, the wild delight at seeing
human beings striking a deeper sadness than could
the spectacle of their . wretchedness wholly unre
lieved. . . .
moval, if not of extirpation) Americans would have simply
gone throbgh the town with shotguns or; If .especially'
pitiful, would have rushed them ail to the pound for as
phyxiation. Not eo the sympathetic Turk. .
v The tale f Oxias was first selected, with no special
provision for the maintenance of the exiles. . But publlo
opinion was instantly protestant, and the pressure was so
strong that when the animals were deported the Turkish
parliament itself, by a formal vote, had to assume the re
sponsibility for feeding and watering them.
Their material needs are, therefore, looked after,
albeit some reports, from Christian visitors,' aver that the
amount of food they get is altogether Insufficient. But
even with an; ample supply the unhappy creatures suffer
the pangs of homesickness, which would be Intensified If
they could know that some few of their original number
have been spared their fate,;
wnen tne general capture was made many famines in
the r.iii n.-.u- i i...
Wherever they
ave assurance to the authorities that'thev
could, and would, maintain a dog and keep him within -bounds,
some lucky beast was selected . from the local
batch of prisoners and permitted to remain
portions of a normal. man, what will he and his tribe
look like after they, have buffeted-the high cost of
living for a few years with the twenty-five hundred
a year the government allowa him?
If he hanothJngelseJ..bA does hye bts-psrsonal
beauty, and for that he must thank the English. Huge,
ungainly and shortwlnded, ha was a poor specimen
of a warlike chief; and now he is trim and square, his
delicate hands and feet, which seemed eo Incongruous
with his body, are in normal proportion to his present
mold. His. face has attained, too, more dignity, of ex
pression, and with his whiskers he looka not unlike a
Bedouin sheik, ' ,.
THE END OF HONEST SAVAGERY
However, . If one .has nylove of the barbartan .and
the virtues of primitive peoples, he cannot fall to see
the pathetic side to this whole Diniaulu affair. There
ia nothing so wistfully ridiculous as a good savage in
the garb of civilisation. Our own American Indians
are a sad example of the true savage in his humilia
tion. Several years ago in this country, when the St.
Louis exposition had been closed and most of the for
eign delegates had returned to their own homes, there
was one Filipino savage from an out-of-the-way
quarter whose beautiful physique attracted universal
admiration. He was retained by the men who had
charge of the Philippine exhibit, because he had ex-
, pressed a desire to see the. president of the United
States and to greet him as a chief of one of his de
pendent tribes. So they brought him east as far aa
Harrlsburg In bis seml-nudlty, dressed only in the
few sashes and weapons he was accustomed to wear
in his native Jungles.
Suddenly the impropriety of his appearance dawned -upon
some one in the' party and a complete suit of ill
fitting clothes Including shirt, collar and shoes was
purchased, and the warrior was fitted Into them. A
more benighted and ; pathetlo spectacle never entered
the. White House. His spirit' was gone; his splendid
body was maligned by the cut of his clothes, and ttjre
wae no more mark of the chieftain on hia person' than
was apparent in the bearing of the humblest dusky
waiter of the cultured capital.
True, Diniaulu has already adopted the European
' garb, but Dini as a farmer at Nylstroom is a longr
step from Dlni the lord of naked savages at Usutu.
Moreover, he is simply, the symbol of a general tend
ency. The fact that he has promised to settle down
and be good, that he is to persuade his people to. be
come good, citizens of the great southern colony, Is a
certain omen of the fall of savage nobility in the sav
age continent It is almost the last stand of pictu
resque barbarism 'on the globe. It is not even a
"stand" now, for barbarism in the person of Dlni has
already capitulated.
The Invader the Doctor
v of Nations
INVADERS are ' generally regarded as devouring
monsters by the people Invaded; but, strangely
enough, It seems that the man who has the energy
and courage to Invade a country is also a man with a
hobby for improvement. It Is almost Impossible to note
an instance where an invader has not brought with
him some benevolent or educational notions or some
revivifying element which stands the land In good
stead for generations thereafter.'.
William the Conquerer wae as cordially hated by
. the Saxons, Danes and Britons of ld England as any '
interloper who ever lived; and yet England . is In
debted to him for a whole host of Improvements which
advanced hen in a "generation aa centuries of natural
development could not have done. There was the great
census, preserved in the Domesday Book, In which
every cow, dog- and wheat stalk, almost, was numbered
unu the naniii . and respective wealtn of every man.'
from the nobility to the serfs, accurately set down.
Fair taxation and' a -properly administered executive
;and Judicial system were made possible by this giant
work, and historians .in all generations hate had
caute to praise old i William In rapturous tones for
hla enterprise.-- v : '!.':, ; . ; ..,-.r .i.f' try,-.
: . The, early invasions of the Saracena in southern
Europe . were regarded as a pestilence and a scourge,
yet -O.U of our science, all the wisdom of the east and
the first reviving Interest In the Greek classics and
philosophic writings were introduced by the dusky
conquerors. They knew astronomy,they were past
masters in the art-of metal work and in the making
of fine steel, ; Textiles were their hobby and graceful
architecture the best beloved expression of -their in
stinct for beauty. , .
' The uncouth barbaric tribes that ' swepf over
southern Europe "in the "early - Christian centuries
were not equipped with culture. They are generally
regarded as destroyers and Iconoclasts who broke in
upon the culture of an advanced veople and set It
back five centuries,-The trath of the matter is, the
people they found living among, the glories of. Home
and Bysantlum Vwere like the beasts, that dwelt in
i the fallen- palaces of the east. They Were a people
without virility,' without the manly virtues, lacking
the strength and clarity of mind and purpose that
had Inspired -the founders of their civilisation. The
Invaders, brought the very element-that "was most
., needed to redeem the cities of the south from a rapid
or--T'fnp(fr-nritraTHmeledT).v luxury ami license,
' It would seeinT that these movement's of men eve
timed by the fates,. not as scourges and wavea-of de
struction, but as tonics and antidotes for the old age
'.of sluggish nation ., "