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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1929)
■ ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION Si'ptcmlitir II, 1021 ¡1K inii Jl? r e m i o e l Li and 1 he ^GrOlidlen S t o o l __________ ] I over to America long tiefore Columbus At least that is the theory set forth by Prof ( Weiner of Harvard Univer AN^ now living wilt sity in his book. "A frica and recall thf stirring | the Discovery of America.” The Gold Coast is so called utory of King I'rem- | because of the iiuantity of peh ami the Gulden Stool — fine gold to be found in its how for itevrral month* dur streams and even in the I ing 1900 tin* civilized world streets of the towns after the Waited with hreathleait in rainy season. It was gold tereat to learn of certain and the slave trade that had I events that were happening | first brought the Europeans! in K i 1 1 k I’rempeh’it capital, there. A large proportion of ( nonin.HMM*. the Negroes who were I said King I’rempeh and brought to the New World I the Golden Stool, hut if one i came from this region. is to ileal with them in order The Ashantis are a very of importance, it would lie proud people, ami not with better to say: The (iolden out cause. For two centuries Stool and King I’rempeh, for they had not only dominated it is the former that is the their neighbors but had real hero of this story. fought off the Europeans King Prempeh’s people, who sought to take away the Ashantis, gave hint up their country. readily enough when over The British and the Dutch awed by British cannon, hut were both compelled to pay when an Kuglinh governor tribute to the Ashanti kings, expressed his desire only to and several British expedi to sit on the (iolden Stool, tions sent against them were Tin yr lit ii < I had a costly little defeated. war on her hands. The gov I \inultil.»U*(t ernor and his wife nearly In 1B2J a Mr null rx|»*illtk>n c*»in- InsitiK their lives while a Rood tnandi i bj sir ChtrlM M i Cirlh many other white people w<»% killed to a until A (tint of Mir Chtrlr\Jt skull » » A made tu gold and lost theirs. IN T W O K A R T S Pari I By J. A. R o grra M G re a t W a r r i o r » . The Ashantis are the most warlike people in West A f rica. Their history dates hack to t h e dimmest aiitiipiity and some historians say that they ale the descendants of th o s e civilized Ethiopians who were driven southwards hy the con<|uerinR Egyptians as told hy Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, ancient his torians. As to the Ashantis, many of them, like the Brahmins, believe that they came direct ly from heaven. The Ashantis, along with other peoples on the (¡old Coast, had traded with the Phoenicians before Christ was horn, and with Europe for hundreds of years. Ash anti trade with France began in I :<(>(>, and with Englund in I (¡72. Further, it is as serted that black men from this region had been coming tued HA a drinking cup by K m « Kara- kit while the skull Itaelf wu., place.1 in the fetish hou.sr, i A fetish house the roulvnlrnt of the church in c iv i lised Units' Kt>r the n r ft four year» the B rit is h tiled to (Miiquer Ashanti in vain ind finally had to make ,\ tready by a h iih tliey paid rent for the land' tliey held "T h e white m an" laughed 1C t n f K utk.t "brine many • in non' to the hush, but the bush is utroiutcr than the cannon " In wealth the Aflhuntl# ulso ra n k ed with the richest people.-, in Africa Thomas Ilowdltrh, who went t<» make a treaty with them for Kmrland sai l ! In Ilia report ’"riie rhief.s as did their superior captains and attendants, wore Ash anti cloths of extravaKent price made, from the costly foreign silks which i had been unravelleil to weave them . . and massive «old necklace# in-, trlcately wrought 'Som e wor»' necklace# reaching to tlie navel, entirely of artery bead*, i a band of «old and bonds encircled the kr,- e ft >tn which aevei u itiIn of the same dej>ended; mall circles Me lo o k » a r e g a l fig u r e on a lo ft y throne with a h uge v e lv e t u m brella standin g over him. of «old like guincan, rings. and cast# of animals were strun« around their iword» which wen i mod them * Kimuia a fortified :.mn u i d - i a d watch the .'cr.imbio u , t tbem I M ,1 « r ft I 111 I t i l l , . , r . '* I .1,1 ft.% ■ ■ ■■ ■ M - II... M . « ____ _ . . . . . . . ankle.. . . and rude lumps of rock in great numbers castle, seven miles from the coast ; The Ashanti kings held the worli gold hung 1 1 oit) then left wrl# They Dutch Pushed that were led bv K ing KoA Kali records for the number of wives On- which were so heavily laden as to lx* supported on the heads of the hand Prior to 1874 tilts powerful black Kali, distinguished equally as a war was forced by tradition to maintaii rior and a spendthrift. somest bovs 3333. ••(»old and silver ni|ie.s and cane* nation had over-run the whole o ( Uie Over 3 00« Wives In 1873, the Ashantis, however me (landed tlie eyes Wolves’ and ranis (•old Coast and had Anally forced In 1873 an Ashanti heads. large as life cast in «old were out the Dutch King KoA's favorite sport was to (('•iK itidil ®n p tft f*«ri army of 4...000 light mg men laid throw gold nuggets among his w ives' *u#i>end»*t1 frfom their goldlmndled I NK LIFE OF BERT WILLIAMS No. 14 T e x t by B E N D A V I S , JR D ra w n by A . W . R E N N E G A R B E A .w . Our a long time, hr was associated w ith Ic o n K in d , and did a lanious sesrne w ith him In w hich h r was a p orter In (¿ran d C en tral S tation carryin g Hrtsil'a baggage. T h is Merer fa ile d tw create an aiiruar in H e r f* audience* The Inimitable W C. f ields was also associated with him for four year* and they became c W mc friends ■■ In lost M i name Wared over the door of Winter Garden In bold pleclrt lights He had become the drawing card of the »eentest American R em *