Show i WHERE VAS THE GOLD OF OPHIR I There Is a gentleman in this city who lived several years In South Africa In conversation yesterday he spoke of the Zulus and gave many interesting facts regarding them With them the birth of u laughter Is hailed as a great blessing bless-ing for If I she lives to the marriageable ago It means so many oxen or ponies to her father They are looked upon much as the Hereford or Shorthorn breeder lools upon the increase of his herd To rnale them bring the utmost price they are zealously guarded and for a Zulu girl to go astray Is death Then again this gentleman says the Zulu language Is not a mere barbarous dialect dia-lect but a perfect language and one of the most beautiful and musical In the world men me anus nave certain customs which distinguish the ancient Isrealitcs and which arc not common to other tribes or nations of South Africa This raises the question whether It Is noli possible that thorc was a Suez canal before De Lessops constructed his and nnt was it not possible that Solomons I ships I which sailed away for gold and returned after three years found that gold in South Africa and that the language lan-guage which the sailors arid miners of that fleet spoke was carried to that country that many of the miners after the work was finished remained there and mixed with the people and that the present Zulu tongue Is a compound of ancient Hebrew and the original Zulu dialect A hundred generations of men have lived and died since Solo mons time and the story of what has happened during those WOO years Is mostly lost but It Is true that this black tribe follows many Hebrew customs cus-toms and the language spoken by it Is as strong and even sweeter than that in which Isaiah and the Psalms were originally written |