AND THIS IS CALLED CIVILISATION.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

AND THIS IS CALLED CIVILISATION.

There caow from Africa the astonding news that Emm Pasha, after arriving at the German station of Bagamoya, had walked through the window, and had fallen so badly as to fracture Ma gkull. The extraordinary accident i 8 said to have been due to the Pasha's partial blindness ; but thio affliction had not induced any similar disaster during his later residence in his province, or on his march to the coast. If the newspaper reports »re to be credited, the flood of champagne which flowed around the travellers, and the numerous toasts given at the banquet in their honour, may have been more accountable for the tragic event than is vet apparent. Stolid must have been the brain that could resist the bumpers of champagne each guest was expected to swallow ; and it is no reflection on the sober habits of the Pasha to conceive it possible that the unusual libations thus forced upon him may have rendered him less liable to move about in salety. Mr. Jephson'a letters showed that drink played a great part in the rebellious outbreak of Emm's soldiers, and the .dangor to which he and Mt. Jephson weyra exposed. It is notorious that drink digs the grave of a large proportioa fit the white men who die prematurely o» the Dark Continent; and yet the wofidflrfnl deliverance of a noble man cannot be celebrated without floods of the ii<±upr, which is the curse of men of every rats and every colour, by whom it is consumed. A;>d ,I^l3 is called civilisation ! j