Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1878, Winnipeg, Manitoba Daily edition. The knowledge conic Tox. Or. Ashley has contributed As the re suit of a tour in South Africa a valuable report upon the manners and customs of the natives and their country the Kaffir As or. Ashley saw him certainly appears to be what is called in homely Slang a and in dignified language a he dwells in a wonderfully Rich country i country which As far at least As the observations with which we Are now dealing extended suffers from none of the curses which afflict a o Many parts of South Africa. Of developing the resources of this country he Lias like most Savages no idea what Ever. But in of Tufti respects to is by no Mezins like Tho Savages with whom we Hwy to Deal in other parts of the world. In nearly All cases the More Contact and the White race has in Somo Way caused Tho natives to dwindle an. Disappear. The Kaffir is of a different stamp. The european exercises no deadly effect upon him or Only such an effect As Rifle bullets and poisonous Brandy exercises on europeans and africans alike. To increases and multiple Side by Side with the intruders nor has he it would appear any objection to those intruders in the abstract. He rather regards them in the Light of Milch As a recent african traveller heard his servants coolly Call him a person who in return for services rendered will food and Money and whose chief drawback is his unreason Able desire to have those services Ren dered with troublesome regularity. T he Ideal of a Kaffir s life is to procure a Little pocket Money now and then in this Way and to Supply the Ordinary wants of nature by the labor of his wives. With a Rod Blanket and a proper Quantity of red ochre he ins All that he wishes for in the shape of clothing and in the Way of luxuries tobacco and Cape which is not itself tobacco but a Nick name for the fiery colonial Brandy suf fice him. Unfortunately he is very Lazy very dirty and if not exactly in civilize lift he is at rate von diff Cut to his As a subject and a neighbor however hardly come from his personal drawbacks so much As from his system of government. This is strictly tribal and the tribe is under the domination not so much of its chief As of its for though Tho religious ideas of the Kaffir is among Tho weakest known he is thoroughly subject to the superstitions which sometimes exist by the Side of religion but More often in its place. As his chiefs and his Witch doctors Are even a he is with the additional stimulus to evil provided by unbounded authority working on ignorance the political and economical results of the system Are not in anyway surprising. Yet the Kaffir is easily subjected to the influence of the missionary though by Tho Way certain incidents of the present War seem to show that the influence is rather fleeting in its operations. Or. Ashley strongly insists on the terrible effects of the at present this evil vapor May be bought at seven Pence a bottle and traders wander about the country with Waggon loads of it which they almost Force on the natives. There is next to no licensing system and no whatever of preventing adulteration which is accordingly carried on to an immense extent. Idleness ignorance superstition and bad Brandy Are not civilizing agents. Tribes under the leadership of chiefs and Tois Are moreover squeezed closely to Gether. Old enmities Are at work among Thorn new of strife occur and there is none to Check them for we our selves exercise a most partial Anil intermittent control. Such is the present state of the inhabitants of the Fine Conn country for the Well being of which we have made ourselves responsible such Are the causes of its present calamities the phonograph. From i Toronto Filo be May Altti. At the Hall opposite the Hussin recently occupied by the congregation of the Church of Tho ascension there is on exhibition one of Edison s celebrated phonographs inaccurately called a talking for it first records and then reads of a Jain the spoken words that Are tutored in the Mouth piece that forms Ono of its attachments simple As the contrivance is 110 Mere verbal description can convey any Ade quate idea of its Mode of operation suf fice it to say in this connection that while the speaking is going on a Cylinder covered with tin foil is turned by a Crank and that by moans of a line Needle Point Tho record is made on the tin foil. There is nothing at All mysterious about this part of the process to anyone who and a stands anything about acoustics. Sound it is Wolf known is the result of vibration and when Tho person speaking into Tho machine imparts in this Way a vibratory motion to the disc this motion is communicated to the Needle attached to it and an irregular series of indented Marks Oil Tho revolving tin foil is Tho result. Those Marks Are As Littie like Ordinary words As could Well to conceived tie nearest approach to them being the Marks on the paper slip in Tho old fashioned system of recording Tol graphic despatches. The really wonderful part of the Experiment is the reverse of the above pro by adjusting the Cylinder in such a Way that the Needle Point is made to traverse precisely the same ground As it did during the delivery of Tho speech. The eau Sod by Tho ago Over the indented Marks Are in Chinmu Nicator to the Dise. And the result is a reproduction of the original sound. To assist its evolution a funnel is placed on the Mouth piece but this is not essential. That such an instrument should produce of some sort is not surprising but the reproduction of articulate sounds is car thinly a mystery. Moreover Tho articulation is wonderfully distinct not withstanding the Laet that Tho machine very modern invention is still Lav i we nil foot. A look ironing a whistled time the notes of a Cornet and the sound of laughing wore returned to the oar of the listener with most comical Fidelity mid with sufficient Loudos and. Or. Justin Mccarthy the novelist who entered the gallery of the House of com Mons Twenty five years Ngo As a reporter in a lecture on modern brings out features of the portrait of or. Disraeli now lord Beaconsfield which will be now to nil who have not had the privilege of watching the great conservative Leader in the House of commons. Or. Mccarthy in speaking to a Large and select audience in the Imperial hotel Hall in Cork a City which to left thirty five years ago an Humble lad to take a situation As reporter on a Liverpool everyone in the Hall familiar with Tho career and the strange romantic Rise of lord Beaconsfield. He had been so much written about in the newspapers that the newspaper writers had created an imaginary Disraeli for the outside Public and the Disraeli of whom he sometimes rend lie was often inclined to think had no existence at All. Lie had often been pleased to ask himself if he did not look upon the wrong Disraeli if he had not been taking the wrong Man As the person of his interest and that the veal Disraeli was a different being because if there was anything settled in a newspaper writing it was that Disraeli was a dark some Sphinx. They of the newspaper press had made a Sphinx of their own. Lie was described As a gentle Man of imperturbable Gravity from whom no smile Ever Rose and from whom no sudden Surprise was Ever known to draw Forth a single expression of emotion. He could Only say that or. Lord a most impulsive Man displaying his emotions frequently in the course of de Bate interrupting his and when not Inte to opting throwing in appropriate Josh making use of the. Most a tour 1 observe tons during the speeches of those whom he opposed and in other manners conducting himself in the strangest fashion unlike tie Disraeli in the newspaper press. Lord Beaconsfield was now growing somewhat old. Time had told somewhat heavily upon him and now he found some difficulty in gathering himself together when and an audience. But when he did speak there was the same Power of tie Bate the same Strong voice that filled any Assembly and the same Power of holding his hearers to the end of a very lengthened parliamentary speech. He i. Mccarthy heard him a few nights ago and heard him also about Twenty live years ago and though he was now on the wrong Side of seventy he could not recognize any difference in him. Lie had that same style of speech which somehow by the spell of Genius he had managed to pass off on the English pub Lic Asun English kind of sentences from which every Ray or gleam of meaning seemed purposely to be abandoned for himself to never could recognize in Disraeli anything of the Leigh class of oratory. La spoke of him now not As an orator but As a statesman. Jne of i. Best efforts was his wonder Ful Power of sarcasm he was Happy when he transfixed his opponent with an epithet for the use of epithet now iad the strongest Ettelt. In parliamentary debate. He touched Oil some weakness of his opponent either in language thought character or it May be in per Sonal appearance and so making them All delighted with the Man who gave them the cause of Hearty laughter. Elhai by the All rail Roule. 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