THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 3, IMS.
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(Copyright, 19oa. by Frank O. Carpenter.)
. INGA, Busoga, (Special Cor-
respondence of The Bee.)
Stand
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the source of the Nile. We are
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head of Napoleon gulf, on the northern end
of Lake Victoria, In a straight line we are
further from the Medlttornn .h g.it
Lake City is distant from New York, and
that swift current moving below us will
wind Its way for about 4,000 miles before
it washes the cities of Cairo and Alexan-
drla. It will pass through this protector-
ate, will cross Albert Nyanza, and then,
breaking its way through the swamps of
the Sudd, will go on through the half de-
ert Soudan and water the dry lands of
Egypt.
Notice how fast the current is here at
the start It was perceptible as we came
In by boat from Entebbe, and the sur
veyors claim that It can be traced clear
cross Victoria Nyanza to the mouth of
the Kagera river in German East Africa.
Indeed, some say that the river is the
source of the Nile, but it is no more so
than are the other livers which flow into
Victoria Nyanza. This mighty lake is tho
only real source. It gathers its waters
from many rivers and the Nile forms Its
only outlet. Together with the river, it
has a basin from one-third to one-half the
size of the whole United States, and the
waters from that vast territory will all be
gathered between the banks of the Nile
before it reaches the sea.
Rlpon Falls.
Looking down now from the wooded cliffs
where we stood, we can see the beginning
of the rapids and can hear the thunder
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Rlpon falls, over which the flood pours a
short distance away. We can walk there.
and we pick our way In and out through the
woods along the cliffs, and finally stand at
the edge of the falls. There are little
Islands In the channel and the current pours
over in three separate rivers, reminding one
a little of our own Niagara, where the
waters are parted by Ooat Island.
As at our American falls, the current Is
comparatively quint above, but when It
leaves these Islands tt drops 1 down in a
boiling, bubbling, seething mass. The spray
rises high into the air and falls back like
rain on this tropical forest. It goes up in
a mist and the dazzling sun of the equator
paints rainbows In It. There are many fish
In the lake and they often swim down the
falls. We can see them Jump high out of
the current, turning somersaults, as It were,
as they go over the rocks. The woods are
full of strange birds. There are cormorants
and hawks, and one may sometimes see a
Whale-headed stork.
Where the Nile flows over the falls the
channel Is only about 1,200 feet wide, and
I understand that the rocky foundation is
. such that the lake can be easily dammed.
The stream Is deep and narrow and It
passes on over a series of cataracts which
continue almost forty miles. During this
distance It is so swift that boats cannot
Uve In It Tfaese waters of Victoria Nyanza
ruah onward with a terrible force, and this .
continues until within about thirty miles
of Lake Choga. Here the land Is almost
lev! and the lake la shallow and quiet. It
' haa awamps filled with crocodiles and hip-
'. pot ami and the Nile flows peacefully
through. It then goes onward, traversing
this protectorate, taking two other great
' jumps on Its way to Albert Nyanza. The
first of these Is at the Karuma falls and
the other at Murchlson falls, which Is about
10ft mtVea north of here. After that the cur
rent la comparatively sooth to Lake
. Albert.
Mighty Electric Force.
This description gives you but a faint
Idea of the electrical possibilities of the
Nile away up here at Its source. The Brit
ish are surveying It and are estimating
its value as to the Industrial development
of the country. Art English syndicate has
a roncession for the little Island Just und r
the falls, and it expects to Invest $S00.0iO
In establishing a cotton factory here. There
are big lumbermen who are exploiting the
forests on both sides nf the Nile, who want
power; and I am told that other parties ar
after concessions. The government Is
averse to leasing power stations at the
falls proper, as It may be necessary to
build a dam here to regulate the outflow
of the Nile. They do not object, however,
to works bordering the rapids below trie
falls, and a series of power stations mlfht
be made thirty or ferty miles long which
could do all the manufacturing for this
part of Africa. As It is now the govern
ment has reserved a strip of I .ml, a mile
wide, on each sldu of this part of tha
Upper Nile, but concessions might possibly
be had for turbines bK.ii.t tl.e mplda. ami
the power could lastly be conveyed across
this strip by wire.
Indeed, the electrical possibilities of thy
Nile in connection with Uganda are enor
mous,' and the manufacturing pouiblllties
re equally great. The country has plenty
of Iroa ore, and It war some time be the
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Pennsylvania of Africa. The British offi-
clals say that it can raise as good cotton
as that grown In our southern states, and
they predict that there will eventually be
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Plants and cotton mills at Murchlson falls
an alon& the upper Nile.
The whole of Lake Victoria, which is
larger than Lake Superior, is tributary to
thla reelnn. unri tho v.t noT,i,lntl,.n hlh
eurrounds U could be supplied with cot-
ton woven at these factories. At present
one ot the great troubles in getting the
natives to raise cotton is that of trans-
Prtatlon. It Is now carried Into Kani-
pala on tne heads of porters and the long
mareh eats UP the profits. By establishing
"lnnln" Plants along the Nile much of the
Cotton wl11 8 t0 them In boats, and more
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cellent roads which the Brltisli are indue-
ing the natives to build. There are already
hundreds of mile, of road In Uganda, which
could be used by an automobile, and one
can travel thousands of miks on a bicycle.
Lake Victoria as a Nile Reservoir.
One of the Interesting problems of tills
part of the world Is as to whether the flow
Vlct0ria. t hav, told yu about the As.
souan dam, which has added millions to
the wealth of Kgypt. Some of the best of
the world's civil engineers look upon Lake
Victoria as the great possible reservoir of
the river Nile. Sir William Garstln, the
chief engineer of the Egyptian public
works, says that a regulator could bo put
in at Rlpon falls and the water let out
through sluces Into the Nile. That river
n.iuufiii Diuuei in 1 1 10 1 m. 1 imi 1 i.t'i
is, as I have said, the only outlet for Lake
Victoria, and a slight dam at its source
would produce enough water to Irrigate a
large part of the Sudan and to add millions
of acres to Egypt. As tt is now the lake
Is estimated to have 138,000,OU0,OuO tons ot
now water every year. Thd most of this
is lost by evaporation and only 18,000,000,000
tons go into the Nile. The present daily
discharge of the Nile is less than 60,OuO,uuO
tons, so that Lake Victoria could double
it discharge and not feel it. Indeed If all
the water which is carried down by tho
Nile during one year were poured into Lake
Victoria, It would not raise the level of
the lake one foot, and It would take all
the Nile flow for more than three years
to raise It a yard. There are, however,
many engineering problems connected with
such regulation, and there are also political
ones. The damming of the lake, f ir In-
stance, might cause It to flood the shore,
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Kaiser Wllhelm would likely object.
ItlgT Lumber Country.
AH along this part of the Nile are dense
forests. The trees come right up to the
river. Some of them are about 150 feet
high, rising forty or fifty feet without a
branch. There Is a great deal of ma-
hogany and other hard woods, and lumber
mills will probably he established along the
Nile to supply the demands of British Ea.t
Africa, Uganda and the other countrlts
about the lake us they develop. S me of
the timber is so valuable that it could bj
sawed up and shipped across the lake to
Port Florence and thence over the Uganda
railroad to Mombasa, to be carried by
steamship to Europe and South Africa.
I have written about the big rubber syn
dicate which has a concesslonu of IV)
square miles of forests In this region. It
has been platting out Its estate and Is en
deavoring to establish good labor condi
tions. The chief treuble here In protec
ting any large enterprise is the lack of
available workmen. The natives v. ill lab r
for a few days or weeks and in n Iny . tr
until they have eaten what they hjve
earned. At present the current wage a-e
1 a month, but the lumber iyn.il. -ate now
needs 3,000 men and It has offered the (nir-
mous sum of fjur rupeus. or I1.S3, a month
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Developing: Industries Along
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for new hands. This Increase Is Just about
a cent and a hair a day, or a rise from
S'i, to Ai cents. As a result laborors are
coming In from other parts of tha protec-
torate and there Is a loud outcry that this
rise will ruin the country. At present much
of the lumber is sawed by hand.' but mod
ern machinery will soon be brought In.
Anions the Bnsosaa.
The natives of this district, which In
cludes the Bource of the Nile, are known
as the nasogas. They are not so civilized
as the Baganda, but in many respects look
and dress not unlike them. They wear
bark clcth blankets, the materials for
which they raise In their gardens. The
men tie the blankets over their shoulders
and the women wrap them around the
body under the arms, leaving their necks
and shoulders bare. They sometimes have
a sash of bark about the waist, and when
working a girl often allow, her blanket to
fall down to thl sash,' leaving the upper
pan or ner Doay nuae. ai sucn n .
possible to see the skin decorations which
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making four long scratcb.es, which stand
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strings of beads and shells about their
waists and not a few have bracelets and
anklets.
Tho chief business here is agriculture,
although some of the people have cattle,
sheep and goats. I see peanuts, Indian
corn, beans, bananas aod sweet potatoes
in the market, and am told that the chief
crop grown Is bananas, and that this fruit
constitutes the principle article of food. It
3 an 0dd thing that the women hero are
not allowed to cat chickens after they are
married. Why this Is so I do not know,
u , gomewhat like the custom which pre-
VRlla among tlle Brmgh East African
trbe wncre ,he mari.,d women dare not
to , fc k , suppose the men want to
mollopollze both.
The day may come when there will be a
great city here and when railroads and
steamboats will make this point one of
the chief centers of trade of these high-
lands of Africa. At present the population
conslsts of a few hundreds black natives
dressed in blark cloth and cotton. They
live in thatched huts scattered along the
wide streets laid out by the English. There
are some Hindoo traders and a, consider
able market. The government offices and
stores are Inclosed in a laree rectangular
stockade. There are no hotels nor other
in .tnn at n,i T .i.nii ). nn thn
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steamer during my short stay. I came
here from Entebbe. The boat may make a
regular call on their way to Port Florence
and the falls of the Nile are thus easily
accessible. The country about, however.
Is considered unhealthful, and I fear to
spend much time close to the lake on ac-
count of the tsetse fly, whose sting gives
one the sleeping sickness, which has killed
a vast number of people in the immediate
vicinity,
Klerplnu; Sickness.
I doubt whether many people In our coun
try have heard of this terrible disease. The
person Infected by it goes to sleep Involun
tarily and he sleeps most of the time. The
disease comes on slowly and it may last
several years. At first the sleep Is only
occasional, but It increases until the man
'eeps all the time and finally die. The
imuves nere are more airaia 01 it man tne
smallpox, n seems to be a sickness of the
brain and the doctors say that It Is largely
caused by a little worm or bacillus which
is injected into the blood by the tsetse' fly.
This bacillus multiplies rapidly and soon
goes through every part of the system,
When It reaches the brain the sleeping
symptoms begin.
Until recently the sleeping sickness was
confined to the valley of the ConfcO, but
f'lthln the last few years It has attacked
the Islands andcoast of Lake Victoria, and
It Is also found In soma parts of British
Kant Africa. The disease is supposed to
have been brought here by the porters who
curry Ivory tusks and rubber on their heads
from the Cong.) to Iake Victoria. They
bring their fr ight to Entebbe and to other
ports abojt the lake In order that tt may
be sent across tho lHke In the steamers to
Port Florence and by railroad down to
Mombasa. It is supposed that some of
these native porters were Infected when
they came here and that the tsetse flics,
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are found, In great numbers in the
swampy regions nl nut the lake, were in-
ocuhited by lltlng them. You know how
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If that mosquito bites a yellow fever
nati.-r.r Its t. d becomes filled with vel-
low fever germs, and It plants them ir.
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TOMB OF KINC1 MUTESA.
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AT THE SOURCE OF THB NILE.
any human being It may bite thereafter,
It la the came with the tsetse fly. If It
has bitten a man having sleeping- sickness
it will carry that sickness to every victim
whom it bites In the future. I have seen
this fly. It looks somewhat like one of
the blue-bottle variety which we have in
America, and is three times the size of
our ordinary house fly. It has been known
about Lake Victoria for ages, but it was
not at all dangerous until the sleeping
sickness
natives came here and lnoccu-
lated It. That Is supposed to have been
just four years ago. Shortly after that
time the sickness spread all around the
uke. The flies on the northern Islands
became infected and the natives died by
the thousands. Lake Victoria is full of
Bianda which a few years ago were thickly
popUiate(i and which , are now almost
deserted. Xhe Engng tried to stop the
dseaM( but they couId do nothlng, and.
they , to ,ook on ftnd M, th, p.,.
maerttbiy perish
Wlthln th. .,, v,.r thev hava had
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th-rl. .pcUlUt. her. studying thedis-
ease, lie nas a large hospital on tne uesse
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It was to fill the patient with arsenic. This
counteracted the disease, but the trouoie
was that the arsenic usually killed the pa-
tlent. It la said that certain antidotes for
the arsenic have now been found, and It
may be that by means of them the patients
can be kept alive until they car. get rid of
the arsenic taken into their system to kill
the bacilli.
It Bites the Hippopotami.
A very serious matter with regard to
this sickness is the report that the fly
is now inoculating the hippopotami and
crocodiles which are found everywhere
about this lake. They bite the hippos
under the lobe of the ear where the skin
is thin and the microbes are thus intro
duced into the blood, so that every fly
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becomes inoculated. I understand that
the hPp0 has many thin veins of blood
runnlng through its thick skin and that
this source of infection is serious. As to
the crocodiles they are bitten under the
neck or between the scales. I do not
vouch for theso fasts, but give them for
what tney worth.
In the meantime the British have es-
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"ensued sleeping sicKness nospiuua at qu-
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also segregation camps. When a village
geU the sickness they put those who have
been bitten Off by themselves in mosquito-
proof houses and keep the outers apart
until they are sure whether tne have . been
rht down on the shore, of the Ukl J
U U ' ld thJ ?flv wm n't go but tew
hundred steps away from it. The people.
however who have their villages on the
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lived there, and there they will live and
die.
Society of Ghouls.
Among the Islands which have been
seriously affected by the sleeping sickness
are those belonging to the Sesse archi
pelago. These Ue some distance south of
Uganda, and are reached by canoe, or
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and woods, and until recently a great part
of them was well cultivated. It i. there
that Dr. Koch', sleeping sickness hospital
was.
The people of the Besse islands are no
torious for their secret society of ghouls,
known as the Bachlchl. The members of
mis soc.eiy e . uu, .u
i. so well known that the Christian natives
keep watch for eight days after burial
over the graves of their fellows who have
passed away. There are branches of the
80Cteiy in 1 gatiua, anu iim uuiwm
mon In othor places. It Is sold that the
ghouls of the Besse .Islands sometimes
carry sick people off Into the bushes and
knock them in the head in order that they
may be the sooner fitted for the table.
lr. Cunningham, who lived long in
Uganda, states that the Besse' people when
they put away their dead wrap them in
shrouds of bark cloth and than lay them on
a wooden frame abovo ground far off In
the forests and do not visit them analn.
The presumption Is that they will be taken
care of by the society. My Tanganyika
friend says that the bodies are usually
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book on Uganda, speaks of a Sesse Islander
who killed his wife on the wedding nigllt
because she refused to cook tiie thigli of a
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man burled the night before, which he had
dug up to celebrate their marriage supper,
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Monuments at Mengo.
There are two great monuments at
Mengo which mark the changes now
going on in Uganda. One Is the tomb of
the tyrant Mutesa, who was ruling inese
millions of aeml-clvllized natives when
Stanley came. It is guarded by a acore or
more of hls baldheaded widows, who are
lateo to waicn nis coum io n.o ua
their death.
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dral of Namlrerabe, put up by the natives,
that forms the center of the modern
this nation. It 1. the largest church on the
African continent, and thousands of ne-
groe. are worshiping in it
at the tomb. It lie here a few miles trom
the Victorla NvanL on a arelt hlU oppo-
KampaJa yand othar tomb
upon earth. I have visited the gravea of
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many re.pect.lt mora M and more
wonderful.
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gtack and a, th, maln tent of a c,r.
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nrt fullv 100 fet in circumference. It is
a great tent of thatch sewed to a frame-
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wont or reeas ana upneia oy uunui--u0
poles.
The reeds are tied up in bundles and
are woven in anu oui as uun "
finest of basket work. In some places they
look like mosaics. They were orUlna.ly
whl'e. ne moke wn,ch arl8ts from
tne perpetual fires within has turned them
as black as the skins- of Mutesa's widows,
for whom the tomb forms a home.
The floor of the tomb Is covered with
grass cut for the ' purpose and spread
thickly over it. The poles which support
the roof are so arranged that there Is a
wide pathway through the center, and
right in the middle, under the tip of the
cone, lies the coffin. It la guarded by
spears' fixed upright on each side of it.
There are shields of copper and Draws in
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front, and at the back are huge curtains
of bark cloth the Bame material which
forms the clothing of the king's widowo.
Widows Guard Klngr's Remains.
Accompanied by my guide and a single
native soldier, I made my way into the
tomb. At first It seemed as dark as night,
but as my eyes grew used to the gloom
I could see about me. Squatted around tho
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coff lu and Beated here and there on the
grass in different parts or tne nut were
women of various ages ranging from 35
upward. An had biankets of bark cloth
wrapped about tlieir bodies, covering their
brenstgi but Ieaving the arms, shoulders
and necks perfectiy bare. They were bare-
fted and bw-hMde "nd ltl T
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8m"lp-f the youne. womeB were falrly
Some of the younger women were tan ly
5od ,00k,n: bUVa" re darlbTn.?I
DlacK Bna or nc8ro lealu""- D ",u
of my guide I was able to get a numoer
of them outside In the sun, and by paying
a little money had them pose for a pho-
tograph. The widows have been so ions
In darkness that their eyes were almost
blinded by the light, and It was only after
a number of trials that 1 got a good
picture.
These women were all wives of King
Mutesa. ana upon n. ,i """"
Mutesa, and upon his death, by custom
they took their places aoout his cortln to
guard nia oouy lor me roi ..1 w.w.
rest i'i i.itir
natural lives. A sadder sight I have never
seen. Every woman .eemed a petrified
Jlgu e of despair, and the whole recalled
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Dante's inscription over the gates of hell:
"All hope abandon ye who enter here."
I have learned of the funeral of King
Muteaa from the mislonarles. It was
mQre c,vB.d than that of hi, predeces-
Bor T,ere wcre nQ ,luman sacrltice, at
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under Jaw ,ntact ,n th)J paHt tne under
Jaw of a dead king waa cut off and laid
to one side.
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Slaughtered Innocents in Aasrer.
TVh..n U-Ino- Mutaou .11m. I h. nr.k.l that
the human sacrifices be done away with.
and so his cook, beer man and chief cow-
herd went free, but the widows remained
and they are still on the Job. This was so,
although King Mutesa had some years pre-
vlously killed 2,000 lijiocent men, women
and children In one day to celebrate a
tomb which he had built In honor of his
father. Had it not been for the work of
the missionaries his own death would
ProW have been accompanied by a .Im-
" slaughter.
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tesa since I came to Uganda. He was a
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KINO'S WIDOWS DOOMX TO WATCU HIS
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FALLS, WHERE THE NILR FLOWS OUT
mighty monarch and wae governing a mil-
lion or so people at the time Stanley came,
Ho held his court at Kampala, and tho
neighboring countries recognized his power
and paid hlra tribute.
King Mutesa had scores of wives during
his reign, but the two or three dozen that
are now watching his tomb are all that re-
main. During the earlier part of his life
ho nad a piayfui way of reducing his fam-
1y wnenever he became drunk. At such
t)meg he wouId tako up hl ,pear and ,taQ
at hl8 w)ves rlffht ,nd ieft T Wtts told
here of a picnic he once gave, at which all
the ladles of the harem were present. mission work. It has 50,000 native prearh
One of the prettiest of the girls In the ers, who are holding regular services from
fart.y t1uht to curr' favor wltu her rox
"IuT"a au" ln man"er B"?
f.lu,cke.d a "'f8 ,,f flna frult "".a offeruJ
J" 0T ,her 'amlliarity and began to beat
her Jeth with his club, when Spake.
the explorer, who happened to be present.
ran ia ana ava ner.
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At that time the klr had the right to
any woman in tho country and, no matter
how many deaths, the harem waa kept full.
H mmJegt , supposed to marry only
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and- m thl way they W8ra brought into
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the palace according to law.
Th ,endng of a pot of native beer to the
faUjer Qf ft gM an ,ndlcatlon tnat the
king required one of his daughters, and the
maiden specified was at once sent to the
palace. If she proved true to his majesty
and he did not kill tier in one of his fits
of anger, she was on the whole fairly well
treated and she had the chance of the life
long death watch which the widows are
now enjoying.
On the other hand, If the girl were not
true to Mutesa and sneaked away to
' another lover she was terribly punished,
The old penalty for such a crime was that
both offenders should be chopped up alive,
after the slicing process which, until re-
cently, waa common in China. All such
penalties have now been done away with
and infidelity is punished by the native
courts, which are directed by the British
officials.
As to Mutesa's cruelties, A polo Katlkiro,
the present prime minister, describes how
one of his wives was killed for speaking
too loudly in the royal presence. The king
was angry at her for her presumption and
straightway ordered that her nose and oars
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be cut off and finally her head. This sen-
tence was carried out rignt in tne muist or
the court crowd and the soldiers laughed as
they did it. '
An even more brutal beast than old Mut-
csa was King Mwanga. who succeeded him.
no reBned after the Christian missionaries
"ad come In and when the country was to
a ,are tent cvertpd to Christianity.
Mw"na 7" TT
mlBslonaries and he tortured the Christians
am"" the nat1-8' h ar'8
and feet of some and roasting others to
dpath oyer sow flrM He k)ed Beverai of
th(J wnte rnls.inarieg and acted so that
hrmlirht ahout a c.vll war Bmong his
people.
In this war the native Catholics and the
native Protestants fought with each other
and for a time the country was under the
control of the Mohammedans. The king
himself was notoriously weak and notorl-
, rn, r.ff. nf his nalaco were so
printed
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Va. defi ed a h y feared he would
ne oeposea, j
corrupt and wipe out he who e "
tm, Rrittnh mt last threw him from the
The British
throne and chose iiaudl Chau, wno was
then a baby, as king. That was about
twelve years ago, and in the meantime the
country has been ruled by this boy, with a
regency of natives and a council of the
chiefs.
Henry M. Stanley who nrst
brought Christianity invg w... ...
world. Now the Uganda people are prac-
tlcally all Christians. Of course, there are
Btni many heathen among them, but- I
. .., It la lafa tO SSV that something
uk a million of these native, bellev. In
one form or another.
'
Catholics Do Great Work,
jn addition to the Protestant movement,
which Is by far the most important, and
which is under tho auspices of the Church
Missionary society of England,
great
work has been aone Dy me ..amoncs. ina
White Fathers-, a famous French denoml-
. . . . ,.
nation, have native churches scattered over
the country
nd a large mission station
.......
The Mill II1U mission, also Catholic, and
COFFIN TILL DEATH.
River Nile
OP VICTORIA, UGANDA.
composed largely of Irish priests, Is d 'lng
a great work, having Its churches, hosi'l'iils
and schools. The converts of these tv i
slons, usually marked by the llf.le (-1 -.-.
which they wear around their necks. ;m;
to bo seen everywhere.
The work of the Protestants 1b enorm us.
Archdeacon Walk r, who Is at the ::... .l
the Church Mission society here, tells m
tht the first converts were baptized J.ist
about twenty-five years ago. and that to-
,j.iy Usanda ha8 aw native Protectant
churches and 200 native evangelists, who
are going about over the country 1 -Iiik
to k- The I,"Uv" have bullt t!'-ir
own
Plicr.
and they support their
People Devout Church Workers.
Tlle Peo,le o to church; they hold prayer
t'n- and many of them are earnest
Christians. They are called to church by
the beating of a drum. They keep the Sab
bath, and on that day tho markets through
out the country are closed. The archdeacon
says the relations between tho I'rotestsnts
and Catholics are good and that the field
Is still large enough for all denominations.
Said he:
"I am glad to have the Catholics do what
they can. We are all working to benefit
the natives, and we all believe In the creed,
the Lord's prayer and the ten command
ments." I wish I could show the American skep
tics who doubt the good mission work the
great Protestant cathedral which has been
bullt here by the natives with their own
money. It stands on the hill of Naml
rembe, about three miles from Kampala,
and it can be seen for miles around, it Is
an enormous structure of sun-dried bricks
with a roof of velvety thatch which rises
in three spires of the same material. Tho
architecture makes you think of the won
derful temples of Siam or Burmah, save
that this, to my eye, Is far more beautiful.
Church Can Hold 5,000.
The structure covers about half an acre,
and it can accommodute about 6,000 wor-
shipers. Its walls are about fifty feet high
ad are of great thickness. They are of
a rch red color. From their tops sloping
upward to a ridge with a beautiful curve
extends the mighty roof, which Is so larpe
that it took more than 200 torjs of grass to
cover It.
The Interior Is equally beautiful. It Is a
symphony of whites and blacks and rich
"J J "
dark reds. The floors are of sun-dried
bricks, and so are the walls. The roof is
composed entirely of reeds of eleiint
grags, ,aM together In bunches, and tied
wlth black shrubs from the swamps ss to
glve u a decorative effect. Tho roof is
u,)held by many red brick columns and the
w'ork of fitting the roof to the wall, Is
beautIfullv done.
The bUUd'n " ,n the Bht,P6 f CrOPS
wIth peat nava 8ixty feot wlde and
with a chance! for the choir at the roof.
The people come In bringing skins and
mats with them and they sit croBsleggcd
upon these during the preaching.
This great church Is the fourth . whloh
has been built here. The first was made
many years ago. It was constructed by
the voluntary labor of the natives, and its
labor cost represented $5,000. This was at
the rate of 6 cents per day for the men
who worked upon It, and at wages of $1
a day the labor cost would be over JSO.OoO.
FRANK Q. CARPENTER.
Chance in Reaching Verdicts
The verdict of I1.2S0 agaiDSt the New York
City Railway company in favor of Thomas
Dickson for the killing of his little daugh
ter Lillian shows that there Is a substantial
difference between verdicts resulting from
chance and those rendered In a more formal
manner. In the previous trial the Juror,
flipped a coin, Dickson got nothing, and
the Juror, were fined 150 each by Judge
Ouy. Law wa once defined by a cynical
member of the bar a. "the last guess of
the supreme court." Evidently the Jurors
failed to realize that the method of chance
was a Judicial prerogative.
Rabelais tells of Judge Brldlegonse who
threw dice for Judgment. Sage Wouter
van Twlller, governor of New Amsterdam,
In the suit by Wandle Schoonhaven against
Rarent liieecker adopted a more scientific
il..m. A .TAP VMInin m mmel r.r.il u ...... I - n
- .,-.., ,
counting th. leave, and finding tl.e ne
equal to the other, he pronounced opln o
that the accounts were balanced; ".here-
fore Wandle should give Barent u receipt
and Barent should give Wandle a receipt,
and the constable should pay the corns."
Even Biblical authority may be found, for
was not Achan found guilty by lot?
Despite these precedents tho law con
demns such procedure. To follow the
language of one decision, the law contem
plates that the Jurors "shall by their dis
cussions harmonize their views if possible,
.but not that they shall compromise, divide
or yield for the mere purpose of agree
ment." A somewhat different rule applies
as to quotient verdicts, where each Jury
man puts down a sum and the result Is
divided by twelve. This Is condemned it
there has been a previous agreement t
abide by the result, but not If such means
are adopted to secure an amount on which'
the twelve men may compromise. .
In private affair, chance may work out
satisfactory results. Bertie, the lamb in
The Henrietta," flipped a coin at critical
moment, and became a Napoleon of
finance. But such conduct Is too Irreg :lar
(or a Judicial finding of fact. The promise
of the Jury to render Justice Is then "false
as dicers' oaths." What it la likely to do
in any event I. a mystery beside which the
way of an eagle la the air, of a serpent
upon a rock, of a ship In the midst of the
sea and of a man with a maid la easily
guessed; and expediency dictates that the
mystery be not deepened. New York World.
