Show I Death Calls King Who Stops Rite of Bu Burying ying Live Babes With Dead Mothers I LONDON I ONDON Feb By 22 22 By By The Associated Press ress King King Khama the oldest In the world and one Its pioneer prohIbitionIsts as aril dl Is dead at 1111 Ili exact lCt ago age Is unknown n but he Is bo- bo bo to have o been nearer than 90 80 Khama as as ruler of oC the ate ato tribe become became a Christian when a young man and throughout his long llah Ens-llah life was largely ced by Eng lIsh missionaries ml As A a boy of oC 12 years year met hemet David while that great gl cat missionary explorer was making his first journey Journal In Central Africa After coming coning to the th throne one King Klag Khamo khama decided to suppress liquor Ho forbade the sale of oC this beverage and decreed that no foreign spirits might be Imported Into his hid hl ter territory These efforts were ere not en- en entirely entirely en entirely successful for tor the king wa n obliged to contend almost continually with Ith bootleggers The Tho white settlers especially coined caused trouble and incense ol olby I Iby by their of his hie repeated warn warn- warnings warnings ings King icing Khama finally banIshed them from his kingdom king Early In his reign Khama proclaim proclaimed ed elt religious freedom for tor heathens anu an Christians alike and under uncle under the I once ence of the missionaries he ho cd ed many reforms abolishing witch witch- witchcraft witch witchcraft craft and the practices of selling wo- wo women women wo women men as cattle and burying live babies dead mothers While Khama was still a II young man mar the man the tribe Under me tae notor- notor lous ls folis Lobengula conquered him ana enslaved his people r r Later however the Dam ate ng under leadership regained their Ind in dence pen pen- dence and since that time hasp nave waxen strong and prosperous until they now total hama h-hama was wan always alway friendly to the English and tufted Queen Victoria In to London In 1895 1395 I |