Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-05-15 | Page 7 | Most Despotic Ruler in Africa

Most Despotic Ruler in Africa is governed by a sultan who Is possibly the most moat despotic ruler In Africa and who looks the part he plays He is 6 S feet teet I 5 S Inches Inch Inch- es In height and he was partly strangled in his youth so that his lime front teeth have enormously pro pro- He Ie has hns practically absolute rule ule over human souls Whatever else It may be religion there is always picturesque In Instead Instead In- In stead of 01 churches there are spirit huts which are built of ot straw and clay and are regarded with intense veneration And Instead of ot Incense they offer otte gifts of 01 mead a mead a strange strang-c. sickly wine made mad of ot ban bananas as and Honey noner and matured In the thin sun Bun until it Is too potent for tor Europeans to drink with impunity Religion mingles with hypnotism and clairvoyance in a away way which is almost terrifying to the tho uninitiated The priestesses of ot one one sect claim astounding powers powers and and put them Into effect S Frow the way way Lloyd Georgo writes about tho the French French- you know they cant can't vote In British elections Washington Post