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Show Ho3'fi, Keoji Away from Africa. Two orlliivo vc( ks ago Ihreo young men. each having over $.!,(;00 in ca -li, h ft I'itt.-burg for Africa to explore. About it dozen letters huvo been received re-ceived from buys referring to tin's incident inci-dent and asking fur advice or information. informa-tion. 1 lad tho three young men set out for an idiot iisylum, calculating to nsk to bo taken in and cared for during tle r. luainder of their lives, they would have exhibited more common sense. Afriva is not a country where every Tom, Dick arid Harry can go roaming about at will. All tho seaports are in the, bands of Egyptians, Moors, French, Germans or English. Any one has a legal right to land, but not every ono has a legal right to fo gallivanting around tbe conntry. I Stanley had to have the backing of ; two government:) to enable him to do eo. A correspondent of Tbo New York World was threatened with arrest if ho went beyond certain boundaries. A young man who has no better sense than to set out on such an expedition ought to have a guardian, and that guardian ought to havo legal permission to tan his jacket ten time's a day. M Quad iu Detroit Free Fress. |