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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1929)
July «. ilJ.I/HTRATKD FEATURE M O TIO N ft [Angelo Solimann, Son o f African Prince, R e fused Greatest H onors * * The A maxing Story of «♦M m aky. He -•♦aid h.‘ recallcd»and his sister but they * were*''»« a i i i. • 11 B la ck S la v e W ho B ecam e the great res|H?ct with which not among them. He tried to A d v is e r to E u ro p e's L e a d his father was treated and learn something of their fate, the number of his servitors. but the others were afraid to in g Rulers. talk, and soon after he was . Clever Child. separated from his people As a child he was clever forever. Intrm atlm ial OorrespondeiH m and Author with the bow and arrow and They probably were ship «■TH A T men with the ability could bring down with ease ped on to America while he birds on the wing. He was to be great scientists, was taken to North Africa by poets, thinkers, musicians, also adept in dancing anil in his .... master. ------------ - and artists are even now singing the songs of his native Here, desolate with home - 1 p^l ?‘ art whole !\nn-?',?n1 pre” ~n,tfd : „ 1 _____ 1 ____ i t u - ....a A - ».««P e r t » Turkish sword, and offered roaming the jungles of A f land, which made him a fav sickness and the sitd fate o f wS?*-— impressed with his well-pro- htm the command of a company." orite with the tribe. rica and are only waiting for But this would have taken him , , . . his family, he was set t0 ■ portioned body, the nobility of his features, and his wit and intelligence One day as he was playmg ^ ^ came|a away from the prince and Angelo thi* quickening touch of civi I that he expressed a desire to have declined. lization to come forth and beaide his mother while the l him as one of his personal atten- G iv e n to Countess. Next to Prinoe ! dants da/.zle the world with their latter waa nursing hia sinter, I At that time all Italy belonged to another tribe, probably in-i The years passed and one In reality, Angelo stood next to gifts is proved by the num Austria, and when one so great as the prince Those who had lavors to ,h tmnertal general Italian on a V visit I» said he wished to ask of the prince had to approach ber of Negroes, who led by cited by the slave-hunters. day a rich » K J V S S L “ r t l£ ! htm him Uirough Angelo— a task fate, have come to Europe descended on his people. His more which, it is said. Angelo tilled with from time to time to hold grandfather gave the alarm, did beam« mm TM s senile and ami- h|m to u,,n'j)rinoe and such tact, kindliness, and irreproach and his father rushed out to « r* y » J ? A .. 1 *?**?*__ . ” ' Angelo found himself separated from able conduct, that he won the high high rank there. . .. , taking him to Sicily, presented him his i~VfVi loved ones opinion of all. (meet the enemy, while A n - ¡to one of the richest ladies there, Among the foremost of A p t Pupil Some years later the prince died countess SoMmaan these was Angelo Solimann. gelo ran off into the woods the Boon after his arrival lie fell very The llrat few weeks with the and his last request of Angelo was ¡with another boy ami hid be ill and the countess got the best prince were unhappy ones for him. Uiat he should enter the service of Born in C on go. j hind a tree. medical attendance for him and : for the U tter went o ff leaving him the prince's best friend, the General. Solimann. it seems, was showered every attention on him ! to the care of his major-domo, with Prince Wenceslaus of Lichtenstein This was the last he ever *h«w«,r*d . . | inoniC lln i i A Among her iiiiriiiiniiu'i attendants W was a Negro Uie Instruction Uiat he should be A t the same time Francis I. E m horn in the Congo about saw any of e his parents alive, woman named Angelina, who taught German. This lie mastered peror o f Rome, hearing of the death 17-10. lie was one of the i for peeping from behind the particularly kind to him so rapidly Uiat. it is said. In “IT of Prince Lobkuwitx. sent a messen- W hen he was cured, the countess, days he could _____ ______ „ Angelo, offering _ _ thousands ami thousands of tree, he saw his father and write _____ and _______ speak JME, that ___ ger to him a high " ‘ i n -.-, in- wlio had decided to adopt him into language with a fair degree of tlu- filace t a '1 2 gervtreT' Etot' A i m ^ had children torn away from fan» . hlM g r a n d f a t h e r f a l l u n d e r her own family, arranged for hts enev. i iCrmtimied on p a g » x 5 * 1 1y ami tribe by raiders and tjl(, spears o f the attackers into the c m m m faith By J. A. R O G E R S , ft <* <*****“»« w h iten ess» On the prince* return he b e a m it im cat e t “ showed ill > s m a 11 rttf trt n r a n f I n te a t f .ri.it ti ; a n/t ltaa^oapeVL' » hich, It Is said, ofT to great his attendant and soon n afterwards advantage the black, velvety color of he became hi* esteemed friend and the akin ' A * head-dress lie wore I confidant. In the wars that followed a turban ornamented with an aigret he fought by the prince's side, and and a diamond of the purest water. one day when the latter was wound ed. he carried him off the battle R em arkably (lifte d field on his shoulders. But Angelo was not destined to In the years that ensued Angelo remain with the family that loved became skilled In military tactic*, him so much, and which tie loved and proved such an Intrepid warrior, so deeply in return. One day the that. It Is said that M srshall Lacy, Prince Lobkuwitx. Austrian general. com m ander-in-chief of the Austrian and one of the great dignitaries o f _______ _______________ ____ armies, "who esteemed _____ him __ a great Austrian Court, visited t h e , deal, praised him in front of" the scattered , , r , , in ,, the » ,. ■ slave-mar- . ,. kets of North A im 'll New W orld. a im > nC the u u i t r a u of i m i m m now rush- name when he would ,bi like, ,iiTr for ,w,"\\£hr. teut" iH iw III.-'ll hitherto he |back killed out. but they were beaten and either had been known by his African one. o r ' *7 •“ ta wcoghittoo L iu n n rlt/ liiu tiil'U IllIM i * A n ^ ^ l t n E S C ftlT. Thus his early history hani captured. la v e d by A ll come only from his own Ups, | I.ater Angelo and hia com Shortly after he was baptized with and from what his childish] panion were discovered, and ill the ceremonies befitting one be memory has been able to re led off prisoners. j longing to a noble household, and I as time went on lie made himself call. Hi* was about seven at E x ch a n g ed fo r Horae. I dear to everybody by his goodness of the time. . . . . . | heart, hta Just spirit, a r t the aston- He says that he was the Arriving a t the sea-coast Lshlng manner in which he pro- son of an African prince who he was exchanged for a horse sre.s*ed wiui his studies. As to dress he did not wear the ruled a kingdom called I and taken to the wharf. Here Italian costume but one that was Gangusilnn. His family’s 1 he found many of his tribe, rather Oriental in taste. It having specially designed for him by name, he said, was Manni-' awaiting shipment. He look- tieen a leading Italian artist. It was sim Fam orv ami his own Mrnadi-'ed anxiously for his mother ple but beautiful in Its lines, a flow -