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present time is Khulna, the King Of Bamangwato, South Africa, who has long been Well known by repute to the British public and to the world. Every travelle and hunter Who has journeyed towards the Zamhesi, Mataheleland, or Mashona- land, or the far Lake Ngami country, has experienced the nnweerying courtesy and kindness of this excellent ruler, and has had nothing but praise to speak concerning him and his country. His name appears constantly in the blue books and works of travel. For 40 years and more Khama has been the constant and unswerving friend to the British and their progress in South Africa. The wish has long lain near his heart to come over to England and see with his own eyes the country and the people whose cause he has, through evil and good reports, so stoutly upheld in the far interior. That wish is now being gratified. The King has a host of friends. and it cannot be doubted that his stay in England will be made a pleasant one. In truth, no native King has ever deserved a warmer welcome then this progressive and high-minded bechuana gentleman. One may say “ gentleman” advisedly, for no An interesting visitor in England at moi man, blacker white, has by his scrupulous honour, integrity, and devotion to the highest ideals ever supported the title more faithfully than Khama of Bamangwato. This is no excessive praise. Every English- man who has come in contact with Khama from the far ~03 days of Livingstone to the present time, has had reason to speak of him in terms of . 'l‘he Ulnwervlng Frlnu South Africaâ€"lune:- Prourcnslve Penplz Been Visiting: Englu HE IS KHAMA 0F BAMANGWATO AN ESTIMABLE MONARCH. From an unruly Lribe, deeply sunk in barbarous and often cruel customs and superstitions, Khulna. has led his people step by step into Christianity and progress. From this wretched chaos and turmoil left: by his fatherand uncle,Sicomy and Machen, who for years were struggling for the chiefbaiuship, Khama. has evolved throughout his wide domains peace, pros- perity. and order. When the wretched Bamengyvapo people, rverried end hemmed Khama has had a remarkable career, which it may be worth while here to glance at. He is now 65 years of age, but, says a writer in the London Globe, as with many black men, his appearance would denote that he is much younger. Tall, slim, and well-dressed in European cloth- ing, the quiet, refined-looking Bechuana might very Well be taken for at least ten years younger than his real age. His activity is remarkable. He is now 65 years of age, but trom earliest dawn till nightfall he may be met with in the saddle, riding about his great spreading capital of Palachwe, busied unceasingly in the wel- fare of his people and the affairs of his country. No matter is too small or too minute for his marvellous memory and kindly nature. From the humblest of his tribes-people to the passing Englishman â€"for whom Khama never seems to be able to do enoughâ€"every person in his town seems to receive some share of his care and attention. Palaehwe, the capital of Bamangwato, has a. native population of some 20,000 souls, every one of whom is ruled by the direct personal influence of the King. But besides Palachwe, Khama has a huge ter- ritory, extending from the Limpopo to the Victoria Falls, and from the Metabele border to fur-ofl' Ngamiland, to look after. He holds daily court in the ” kotlh," or inclosure. adjoining his residence, receives reports from the far-off parts of his coun- try, administers justice and listens to appeals. A fairer-minded or more just ruler it would be difficult to find in all Europe. Years ago in the hunting field and in native wars [{hame proved himself a. men of rare courage and resource. For twenty years, as paramount chief of his tribe, he has shown himself also a. natural- born adminiszrator, reformer, and by Matahele raids and internal strife,were. thirty years ago, scratching a miserable subsistence from the soil, you may now see, thanks to Khama’e foresight and enterprise, immense fields of grain furrow- ed by hundreds of light American or European ploughs of moderate make. Drink, that curse of the African. has been completely banished from the country, to the immense comfort and material welfare of the tribes-people. Great herds of fine cattle and numerous flocks of sheep and goats are to be met with through )ut large portions of Khama’s kingdom. The European traveller or sportsman traversing the country finds everywhere 3 people who greet him with pleasant cordiality, and, thanks to Khama’s far-reaching influence, do everything they can to assist him. Briefly, it may be said that Khama has transformed a harassed and unruly native State into the most progressive and order- ly‘community in all South Africa. But; not only haaKhama caught hispeople peaceful mechods; he has taught them, also, to arm and defend themselves from the attacks of the cruel Mambele. Num- bers of good rifles are possessed by the Bamanzwato. They are born hunters; many of them are excellent, shots; and under Khama’s leadership they found themselves able, long ago, to repel success- fully of their Matabele neighbours. In one of these skirmishes, years smce, Khama wounded his great rival, Lobeugula, then younger and more active, in the neck. It is a fact that Lobengula bore the scar of Khama’s bullet, until than day when, defeated and (iiacxedited by the Mashona- laud settlers, he died miserably. a worn-out “'her fat an i‘d U 1' iiill 1V8 1‘1 THE BLOODTHIRSTY RAIDS first in .‘EB AFRICAN KING. UNMEASUEED ESTEEM. 1V“) RULEH. OF MEN Friend of the Ilrlllsll In Ruler ora Chrlsllnn and Peopleâ€"Ila llns Lately England. m us of England at the the King Of who has long countered Mof- in the course of penna of these great hunters. As Is lad Klmma. accompanied Gordon Cumming in those wonderful hunting expeditions of his in search of elephants and the great game with which all Rechuaunlend then teemed. Gordon Cumming slew nearly all his elephants in the Bamsngwsto hill country, and Khama and a. few others of his tribes- men can yet remember and testify to the prowess of that most enthusiastic and fearless Nimrod. This was between 1847 and 1850. Ivory and elephants were then inordinately plentiful in the interior. Nowadays Khama has but one, or at most, ltwo troops of elephants left between Palschwe and the Victoria. Falls !â€"a. woe- ful falling away. The chief himself is a. most daring and From his early youth, when guns were unknown and heavy and dangerous game swarmed throughout the country, on foot or on horseback, Khama has in hundreds of encounters proved himself a worthy emulator of those great English hunters, whose feats he had followed with so much keenness. Even now the old chief’s heart often yearns for a gallop after the (all giraffe or the kodoo. or gemsbok, or others of the numerous game animals still freâ€" quenting his more desert country. Of late years. unfortunately, what with the fear of Motebele troubles and the increasing vol- ume of European traffic through his terri- ' tory. Khnma has had little time to escape from affairs of State. 5‘: to E the vves ship that best foes to h P“? the pur Khemn became Christianized many years since, and it may be said without fear of contradiction, he has remained ever since the most entirely satisfactory model of the Christienized African. There are thousands of nations professing Christianity in Africa; there are, unfortunately, very few whose standard of ethics has been so consistently puremnd elevated as Khama’s. Khame’s early Christianity brought him into great trouble with his father and uncle, both thorough-paced old heathens. For a long time Kheme’s life was in danger from the machinations of these ill conditioned rele- tives. But the chief’s high character steadily secured him a. strong following in the tribe. In 1870 Sicomy end Machen, who had by turns been chiefs of the tribe, were deposed, and Khama was brought into power. A little later Macher. became once more too strong for his nephew, and Khams. went into exile in the desert coun- try toward Lake Ngami. In 1875 he was once more elected PARAMOUNT CHIEF of the Bemangwato. Since that time Khama has firmly held the reins of power, to the ever-increasing benefit of his people. Large numhers of the Bemnngwato are now Christianized. Khame allows complete toleration, and there is no forcing into religion. It speaks well for the Bamang- wato, nevertheless, that two or three years ago the sum of $15,000 was ubscribed and paid by the tribe for the purpose of build- ing a new church in Palachwe. Ten years ago Khama oti'ered the whole of his coun- try, under certain conditions, to the British Government. That offer was, strangely enouga, declined. A Protector- ate was declared over the lower part of the country ; the remainderhas been included under dire'ct, Imperial control. Tiie future of his son and successor, Sicomez, a. prom- ising young man of four or five and twenty, hag also to be provided for. in the British sphere of influence. There, with characteristic Colonial ()tfice " drift," the matter has been allowed to remain. The British South Africa Company has, since its inception, received the greatest. possible assistance from Khama. The traffic through the Bnmnngwato country has for the last five,yea.rs been immensely augmented, and the railway from Male- Khama now feels that he is getting on in years and would like no see the future of his coupuy dgfiuitgly aeulegi, inossible, kiEg is now. at once to be puhhed to Palacbwe. What An American Thlnku of Rum! England” A stafl correspondent; of the New York Tribune, recording his first impressions Of England says: “ Whoever enters England at Southampton seems to be journeying all the way through a continuous park plan- ned by a. landscape gardener who has known the poetry of his art. What is mosh remarkable in Lhis series of entrans- iug rustic pictures is the absence of blem- ishes and flaws. There is nothing un- sightly at. any turn. There is no blacken- ed stumps bleaching in the fields; no ugly fences fallirg out oi repair; no depressions in the slopes of well drained meadows ; no signs of disorder and lack of bidiness in the villages. Nowhere are flowsrs lovelier and more delicate; nowhere are the trees more shapely or the fields greener. Everywhere {here is 0. sense of svmmetry and repose that comes from perfection of detail. their trees and flowars, and know how to group and mass them. In their parks they study the broadest. and most restful effects, and avoid fussiness and pettiness in details. There is an artistic sense of tranquility and repose in their landscape an that is lacking in American rural and suburban scenery.” The‘English country is finished. Noth- ing remains to be done in order to perfect these pictures of ruml loveliness. The same impressions are produced by the magnificent pleasure grounds of London and its environs * " the old parks, Hyde, Regent’s, Kew Gardens, Richmond and Hampton Court. These, too,like the English country, are finished. The English love their trees and flowars, and know how to group and mass them. In their parks moue liquor the city would get, from 000 a year more than it l‘he all It is use fee in that city is$1500, one are much more valuable A FINISHED COUNTRY. High License in Boston Soscon proposed in Boston for the public echo: licenses at auction, SUCCESSFUL HUNTER 11 Coming w that the) Advert/isle re put I); uld pay 3 reuse more ‘13 by selllng The uniform M urr n, the lion of :stzzIFAM [WAD TIOI'E “In the autumn of 1799 it was necessary to send a large amount of specie across the North Sea. and, as usual, application was made to the Admiralty for a King’s ship. 'This method of conveyance was ‘ thought the best guarantee for honesty,the best assurance against capture by loreign foes. Although some Honey is supposed to have been transmitted by the Lutine to pay British troops then serving in Hollnnd , the bulk of the treasure Was forwarded for purely commercial reasons. “London merchants trading with North Germany in those days were in the habit of sending their goods and then drawing bills for their value upon Hamburg and other houses at so many months ahead. Recovery of$500.000-Sllll Gropmg for the Rest. Therein an onken chair in the office of Lloyd’s, in London, the great maritime firm, which has a. strange and romantic hlstory. It. was made from the rudder of the King’s ship Lutiue, which, In 1799,wxs wrecked in the North Sea. with the largest; amount. of gold on board that ever went to the bottom. The Secretary of Lloyd’s recently gave to the public an Interesting account. of this wreck, and of the numerous attempts to find her lost, treasure. The Lat/ins was a. thirty-six-gun frigate,ce.ptnx- ed from the French in 1793. The MORE By the time the bills fell due the goods had been sold for cash, which was paid into the banks to mean engagements. But a pro- tracted frost. in the early part of 1799 had so long sealed the Elbe that. the merchan- dise had been detained ice-bound, and could not be landed or disposed of in time. “The London traders, to sure their credit and escape the expense of protest, provid- ing new bills and other probable com- mercial disasters, resolved to send cash across to cover their drafts as they came to maturity. So grave was the crisis, so great the sum to be embarked, that a king’s ship was asked, and nearly every banking firm in Lombard street dispatched a member in charge of its own cash con- tribution. “Moreover, as many legal questions might arise, an experiened notaryâ€"his name is preserved, Mr. Schabruchâ€"was secured to accompany the party and advise in any difficulty. The precious cargo was insured principally at Lloyd's. “Various ideas, and nothing quite auâ€" thoritative, prevail as to the exact amount on board the Lutine. Some say the specie, which was in coins of all sorts, gold and silver guineas, golden piastres, double Louis d’Or, Simlian gold pieces, silver piastres and dollars, also in gold and silver bars, reached a total value of upward of a million. The only contemporary report is that in the Annual Register and in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1799, which fixes the amount lost at merely £140,000; but Lloyd’s underwriters are said to have paid insurance to the extent of £100,000; another sum of £100,000 was insured in Hamburg. and there was £127,000 in public money for pay to the troops.” “ It is, however, known than she steered a. straight course for Cuxhuveu, at the mouth of the Elbe. wind strong from N. N. W., and greatly in favor. After \anding passengers and treasure the Lutine was to convey a fleet of mercantile to the Baltic. "Soon after midnight, going free and under full press of sail, she struck (-11 the outer bank of the Island of Vlieland (Flyland), the next to the Texel,und one of the ring of islands that hem the mouth of the Zuyder Zee. She must have been slightly out of the course, and it is said that there was a strong lee-tide running. During the night she went down With all on board. Another King’s ship,the Arrow, Capt. Port/lock, was in company, but she could give no help, nor the ‘schoots,’ or fishing boats'of the coast, and when day bloke there was no Lutine, only two sur. vivors were picked up by a. Dutch lugger at daylight clinging to the wreckage,one of whom died almost immediately, and the other, Mr. Schabrach, the notary, very soon afterwards died, but not until he had told the liLLle he knew. “Repeated efiorts have been made to recover the money. In the Vpar immediately following, when the whole thing was fresh, and before the sand had silted or drifted over the wreck, the Dutchmen fished up some £55,000. Then more sysbemnnic, and some really costly efl'orts were made, and by 1857-9 another £50,000 was recovered. 1892 who in m inter an clear the shlp of sand, but to inclose her a central area. or dock faced by sandbags, ich will prevent, further silbing, While :y ransack the interior of t‘né wreck by THAN $1,000,000 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. e present by an Eng had been e iaiug a. sun este US TREASURE SHIP. .OADING THE TREASURE SHIP { a. mum d in the with an pple, L} STRUCK ON THE ROCKS the King’s Sl||p Lntlne Will: Trrnnlre and All on Bonn -- ’ of$500.000-Sllll Groping for ey have vcl way. rations engine on M) Mr. F Dutc He n coast: became An In worked deep down into the sandâ€"as the guns must have done, for only two have been recovered : but; they will be found as the sand is removed. Loose coinsâ€"many of them will be probably sucked up through the dredging pumpsâ€"when deposited on the perforated tables on top the sand will pass freely away, but she coins will be retained. But the bars of gold are what will be looked for most eagerly." divers. This area from which the as: powerful suction d “It is calculate some 50 feet in die Lents dispersed some dist ioubb the heavy bars of worked deep down into guns must have done. to been recovered : but they with a machine wwn lenLner plpes, w carry a. large quantity of 'wuter in a. continuous stream to the tnp of the house, which was proved in the great fire at Sounhwark. Gusâ€"Did you make an impression on that pretty girl you got 80 Wild about? Georgeâ€"I’m nfraid not. When I called, she summoned her chaperon, and then the two spent the evening arguing the points of a new costume, with me as umpire. Smith is walking around to-day as if he were stepping on eggs. He needs to. What. ails him 1 Vi'hy, lastnighb after he had gone to bed he remembered that he should have taken some quinine capsules. He got up in the iark 3i THE GOTHENBURG ‘ove reted that. he h&d' 5w iber revolver cartridq Afraid of Internal Ruetion. but area is 200 feet in diameter, ne sand will be removed by ion dredge”. Rather Hopeless. 18D bro 0k ’elr RH Km a lesser ter incloses supp bullion ‘ the sa. l‘h nolng for the SYSTEM. an d its ound area 01 he ship Ire the No In the land of Moorish ruina,Don Quixote tnd PhilipIL, probably the most live thing is its troop of women bull-fighters. These strapping Barcelona. girls Were formerly mill hands, hardly earning a pittance. They became bull-fighters. and now they make $20 apiece for every fight in which they engage. Spain's Amnzonlnu Plcadors WlIh Lance â€"lcloo«ly Butcher-y of a Bull by tho Favorite Faunale Matador Rewarded Wllh Jewels and Flowersâ€"Decadence or [he “Art.” BRUTAL SCENES STIR ONLOOKERS T0 FRANTIC APPLAUSE. WOMEN Poor old Spain ! Her bull-fightl and her Moorish mine are all that are left, so her. '1 he Moorish ruin: are hateful in he eyes, bu: the bull-fight, remains the chosen “Sport” of her 20,000,000 of people. These bull fights by women are conducte‘l in the same manner as when the toreedorl are men. They wear the same costumes- and the scenes are characterized by the same brutality. In fact. were it not for their smaller stature, no one would think they Were women. Certainly not from any shrinking from their brutal task for they seem to riot in the blood of these ignoble shambles and take a diabolical delight in the suffering of the doomed animals. Their houses are the same, broken down, that in the late years have been reserved ‘ for the national sport of Spain. a The Amazonian‘picadors come into the arena astride these poor, broken-down brutes, dressed in the costume of Spanish knights of old. THEY CARRY LANCES, and take their position in the middle of the arena, opposite the bulletalle. Then come the chuloe on foot, who distribute wham- selves in the spaces between the barriers. The chuloa are attired in splendid cloaka, and wear a. great deal of gay ribbon, altogether making a gorgeous flank of color. Lastly comes the woman matador, Providencia Almeda. She is handsomely dressed. She holds in her right hand a naked sword, in herleftlthe muleta,a stick with a bit of scarlet silk attached. The chief magistrate gives a sign,the bull is brought out of the stalls and the fight begins. The women picadors await the development of the bull’s character. If he is a brave beast it takes all their skill to act on the defensive and evade him ; if .he is a coward they goad him to fury with stabs, noises and waving a scarlet cloth. In a fight witnessed by the writer the first bull,a magnificent Spaniard, was taken in hand by a female Hercules, Maria Alvarado. The beast at once attacked several horses. One of these becoming completely disembowelled, galoped about the arena. with his entrails dragging after him. No one thought of despatching the poor beast ; he was dragged 06", perhaps, to have his entrails thrust back, his belly sewn up and be sent. back into the mug sgain. Such things ure done continually. Maria Alvarado deepatched the bull all Loo quickly to suib the blood-thirsty instincts quickly to suit. the blood-musny lnuuuuw of her audience. Two other fights, in which women to- readors participated, took place the snme afternoon. In one of these Providencin Almeda, the favorite woman matador, almost. drove her audience frantic with delight by her butcheriea. She kiileda French bull after a series of horrors too ‘ . L'lvuuu uuu -..~- hideous to describe.â€"T{1g VpreVOpIe shouted till they were hoarse, clapped their hands and threw to her The high-bred Spanish ladies, in their lace mantillas, would-have liked to smother her in embraces. u.- m ......... The enthusiasm of a London audience the final night of a grand opera season is cold and tame compared to the frenzied ecstacy of these people over this olive skinned sinewy amazon. There is, at least, one country in Western Europe, where Dr. Nordau‘s gospel is not needed, Spain has written finis to her “degenerates.” Among the Spaniards the decadence of the “art,” as they are pleased to term this disgusting brutality, is bewailed by con- noisseurs of the Plaza. La Nenua Sidia, the Madrid organ of the bullfight, insists that steps should be taken to restore the “art” to its original splendor. 'l‘hornherry, who years ago saw such bull-fighting as it would be impossible to find to-day, says that even then the judges were shaking their heads from the upper boxes of the Plaza. - H - u AL:â€" “Alas l” sighed Monoculous, "this chivalrous but, cruel amusement; has sadly fallen off and degenerated since the days of me Abencermges. The picadots then were gentlemen, who displayed their cou'rage and dextrous riding, not for hire, but, to win smiles from them ladies, who sat, looking on. The mere death thrust wal those carrion knacker’s horses, they wheeled and circled on fiery Arabs, each worth a kingdom and at whose death queens might have wept. Those turbaned men fought with simple javelins four feet long, and slew the bull unaided with their own hands. The bulls of Geryon, that Hercules stole, are still certainly strong and fierce ; but they are, after all, lean and small, and not to be compared with the bulls of England for power and muscle. But though no longer the amusement of high-born men, bull-fighting is more popular to day in Spain than ever. The Spanish ladies attend the bull fights With as much pleasure as the English fair attend , an opera. To the respectable middle class it is the chief recreation. They bring their children, and the little things clasp their bonds with delight at the goring of some broken down horse. nun AuunnuE v... -..- .vw , than a secondary thing, and instead of -L~_. How is business, John? asked Uncle Allen Sparks, as the Chinese laundryman handed him his washing.‘ Not velly good, answered the China- fee busin 9.11. By the 1 to pay Had Capital to Start With Chin Uhm. auudrying and try the a‘ . John. JE‘VELS AND FLOW'ERS the ULL-FIGHTEBS. hn, mused er. for the c Celestial, woman matador, otionser