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SKULL OF AFRICAN NEGRO. Why a Certain Paragraph in the * Peace Treaty. "Germany is to restore within six months . . . the skull of the Sultan Okwawa, formerly in German East Africa, to his Britannic majesty's government." "This sentence from t^e official summary of the peace treaty present< ed to the Germans at Versailles set * official Washington wondering and swamped libraries and scientific insti? tutions in the capital with inquiries." says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "Among some tribes of Africa, including German East Africa, skulls of former rulers, called sultans, are held 1 in high veneration, and their possession often is of political value. "There are numerous tribes of German East Africa dlone and as many of these sultans as there are tribes. It is apparent that Sultan Okwawa was a sort of Mohammed or * Confucius among his clansmen, .and that the nation which assumes sovV ereigntvvover the people who revere his memory, and probably worship his skeletal remains, will be received with greater friendship if it can restore the precious talisman. "Furthermore the removal of the skull sheds a sidelight upon the long army of German propaganda, reaching even into darkest Africa in contemplation of 'defe tag* of Prussia's day under the scorching equatorial sun. The German government contributed a goodly sum for an expedition headed by Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Mecklhnburg, which ostensibly made a scientific study of the German protectorate in Africa in 1097-08. "There is a good reason to believe that the explorers were not wholly unaware of political advantages and by way of a tribal coup d'etat took away with them the skull which now has gained much unlooked for publicity. "The duke wrote a book about his travels in which he states, in sum V marizing the results of his expedition, that 1,017 skulls and about 4,.. 000 ethnographica were collected. "He describes visits to various 'sultans/ At one point he digresses from botany and linguistics to give this naive cemment on German policy: 'It is desired to strengthen and enrich the sultan and persons in author. ity, and to increase thereby their interest in the continuance of German rule ... At the same time, by steadily 'V . ~ "Controlling and directing the sultan and using his powers civilizing influences would be introduced. Thus by degrees, and almost imperceptible to the sultan himself, he eventually becomes nothing less than the executive instrument of the resident (German) governor. ? ' y "But Germany's early policy in her r African policy expansion was marked by no such adroit methods; rath\ er by such disregard of native customs and ruthless measures as that ^ N indicated by her removal of'the skull referred to in the treaty. Karl Peters, . x one of the first Germans to seek to * ' exploit African resources, instituted such a reign of terror among the natives by inhuman treatment and especially by wholesale murders of their ^ women that the German government 'was compelled to remove his commission until the storm of civilized protest blew over. * "But Peters was soon restored and other bureaucratic German officials rudely deposed native rulers, instead - * + iViflm oe Hill + V) ?> OI CU'Upei dUlig V\ HU no Clio. Clio British, and thus incited numerous native uprisings. One of these, in 1906, cost nearly 125,000 native lives /before the Africans succumbed to the same sort of terrorism as that instiv tuted in Belgium in 1914. "The duke commented on the generosity of the natives in presenting gifts but noted that 'yet the purchase of ethnographical material met with obstinate opposition.' He explained that each clan reveres some totem, believing that the spirit of the deceased enters these objects of reverence. "The totem is just as apt to be an animal, or part of an animal?the duke mentions the toad, crested ^ crane, the leopard and the goat?as a skull. Incidentally this fact helps explain the reverence of the old time % southern darkey for such tokens as the 'left hind leg' of a graveyard raohit caught on a dark night." ^ ! > ? * Circumspection. V "I am sensible of the honor you do me, Mr. Johnson, in the pronosal of marriage you have just made," said the haughty young lady, "but circumstances over which T have no control compel me to decline the ! onor." "What are those circumstances," | demanded the young man. "Your circumstances, Mr. Johnson."?New York Evening Post. V* m m ! 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