| Show I Ir I r JJ Ih r L i iT I T JI f II t I I r tL 2 I 1 r ST ps J I kl 1 J U Y J O DO t 1 0 i Society Bell to Walk Through Africa May Meet M Roosevelt Sal ce ceL ODON Jan L kl t weI known uk hu ha Juit from frou to on oi wa oC cC the mat journy lifer ever und ak by br III women wn She to IV f Iou to Cube cairo lItA or o oce by b only 1111 k kUve Uve Part art lit nf the wy r tie w 1811 coun country I try In III the she he to meet 1 thu place I ti not a yet upon XI NI It will he h nr neur north ur r Lak The natives th uC oC thu r to h MIld ind and nd a wilt will be the only white weman them the I Is to prove highly to toy toy y the tho The ThO spent ent II 11 her hr re time In learnIng how to ta us rm so h lit hi tn m Ofte oil ot of th most Itou IrI trip on lib ube will ho to give g a good account nt ot o Ii rit WILL AlIl What will carry crry Miss I Is the darin of f her J h not the Journey made ned b ba by bya a women woman through th this portion ot of It I Is the lint tI time on ot of her lx has hall to gO through till wt t the IID hose down by M Mias other who have mad md lbs trip haw have done u nc u Ity going gom o part art or the Ule district to another iii order to reach some ome permanent ree In tile the country and nd having a as little to do with the tb a su poul pol bl ble With Ith MI however It ItIe itI Ie I Bhe he to tr try to tord rd with the native tb to 10 learn tl their lr ot thought and nd to tudy their customs he I lii great areat believer In tb of oC the native races and a as sh I Is ot of a eser r her will to let get en cu rapport With th the In ii way r undreamed ot of by others I 1 VI ed to oot e ad when iten by the writer at t her beau u hat In th the west ead ot of Jt before her net I L ny whatever In kill killIng Ing nv but chiefly ehly to be able abl to tot t myself the wild besets ot of the and nd to toed food tor our flUr party as We e go 10 Iu I 1 have be bene ne quite quit an ospert with the pistol shotgun U uni nd 11 rifle and nd think there will willbe be no 11 1 In all the p gem required Li to 0 tIM the sally Uv J I Jr tsar r no trouble from source at all Its III tact ct J I he have received let letI I tars unknown whit ta In parts parta o 0 the wb have promised to 0 help m me on my wy way trough by to 0 the various that my is II sot acK OM ens 0 of es a I LONE LOiK I 2110 MILE L I shall go ao rom to the ot of lb he Victoria I rail read but this I a ery portion ot C the Journey It is III In tact fac t vla the railway for good that tIM the real 1 begIns J I w will UI IIa v vt t walk fUlly mile mUe halt hair of which Sf i I have said ald that I Intend to tok toik ik k through this district but that Ut t coUrtW will 1101 uL be In lie literal sense possible u a R e Iare r portion ot of the Journey journe wIll 11 hl to be made b by bywater water Por a artir the tho ot at the Za river rawer In we It hil hay hav tu to IrO o It by boat boal laM lake prom tIM ike end of 1 that la lake We wc gradually mk mak our 91 way on foot until w we eo coinS tu to thu lower ea end of the heo Nile Nil 1 1 am anxIous to I Into the tbt mining In an JArt of lb the It I Is reported ported that there are II i ot of indent topper OPI mines worked by nU sad Dd that t these natives are re wild I 1 would IU to ea th the ml mines though 2 1 haY lave been n w warned that tbt such uell a jour journy ur I De ny Is quit qui end that vilt from trona g whit person would a be II t I all 1111 w This ria add 0 of JOUr Il II Ih thu snore to tile the seal t 0 of the trip hut whether I et aln ible ur or not aol tO 10 visit the thea mines will wUI be a br u da udit 1011 wh when rt Iha spot poI WILL WUL HAVE COMPANY J I am not goliti 0 wholly al toi 0 Miss I d though I bo lb Ihl ua only t ta liCk U tI I rip I 1 shell 11 be I e IdI 1 Who lIu will wUl hav I lI y laiI r t ril I or Af nu III 1 1 U 0 tiki ivr d aid ii iiI Id I hk Ii nIj to tie or II lii tIe th I II Ii It or r th Ih thu ju u ui will o 1 I 1 11 ha bl l u t Jilt I t hll n II l II Ip hinn I to aa I lb Ib Uk 1 V t lIal a III u Iti 1 III II as It N hi i 1 1 II I po 11 thy IhY alil III u I lI io th I 1 Un I I b I I I L Iteva there I Is some tribal one on set t of natives Is III not lIot al 1 lowed In the others territory I o w we shall have to engage nw new earners I about every evry M O mIle mUa Naturally the guide who will have chr charge of oC the ea cx will have to speak peak tb the various The mn man I am taking knows nearly every part or of the country well welland and 1141 M he le much thought or of U the na its Uv tives 80 10 I shell 11 have haft little t to fr fear Oft WI that soon Of course there a abanda are banda ot of wild throughout tin this country whose holle on one thought ems ema to tobe tobe be to keep people roan getting through theIr But even the these we Ife hope bope ti mollIfy by showing them that our vur I a j I bl one oneA oneA A to dangers front Crum wIld beasts I have no re resets to look for trouble on th this orl Quipped equipped am w we shall 11 be with ot of guns auna and ammunition for all kinds ot of hl gilme me J I would like to tomke tomake make mke a po poh at o of the tact fact that J I JIn an going In tu to d no shooting for the mere re rete sake te ot of killIng fur the fun un o of It We ball hll as I said kill what We need and if the big game I let t u us alone we shall hall not trouble them My y main mala Idea will bs be beto to pt pet through U the country and to tomke mike mke the lie neat maet out of the experience The only which I Im Iam am m told I 1 shall hv have to guard are the mosquIto tro from the bites ot of which on n gets Obi fever ver We shall provide I ourselves ovell with all the latest Itt precautIons precaution against the pea pests A s I go CO through the country countr I 1 shall hall write aka de and take I 1 Iam I am IU myself with a special l I photographic which will with wIthstand stand tand all 11 climatic No on onh h has been llean through tb this country with willi proper phot appliances ppl sad aDd I 1 think that the pictures I procure lf CU wUl he ba baa hea a revelation to the outside world I 1 Iam am ver very anxious to meet t PresIdent t elt the peculiar stances atance that will attend us I 1 hope bope tv tu obtain from him bl his own Imp of the country and I shall Improve In my opportunities Ity by joining I In eo some ot of his bunting expeditions It be it will alia allow me After Atter w we have reached the Upper tipper Nile our will be HI practically over as there are aN plenty of boats to take us ua to ta Khartoum At the latter pIce I 1 hope bope to most moat Roosevelt The 1000 mil miles 0 of practically une country through which w we will travel lie Lake Lalle and nd the Upper Nile ollie The trip should l take several month though it 1 I Is quite Im impossible to ml t a time limit upon It I l 11 we make 10 O mUM miles a da day steadily we could do 0 tb the L 1110 ml miles from Capetown I Ito to Cairo Catro In ve months month Rut But there are re all aorta ot Of unforeseen which might and It Ii I Ii well not to bure too on Ute the time HIGH NO GOOD MallY of my friends have asked ked me why I em m undertaking such ucb a Jour II ey Well In the placeIt may sound MUM frivolous am a wish to accomplish such Ucb II trIp for the purpose 0 of diverting au socIety leto women from their ul useless way ot of spending theIr lives I II move In what ma may be so 80 I clet In england and Act I dad IDd audi of the life led I ii perfectly purposeless not vapId J I h hope by such auell a trip rip as this I Ito to stimulate Interest In travel and ad to show lIbow women that there ther ate better thin thing than and nd bo house i parties partie It If I 1 go u through this roan try Cel It will be as It w were an wedge wede sad I have no doubt that In a few w yesra JUN time tim society wo 0 Ilten Illen will t take up UI this ot of work Th There I Is plenty of amusement to be obtained obtain from rom such an n adventure end In addition to this there Ihre Is the veal att gain to the empire of opening oloa lip up the b district Despite all 11 MIss I disclaim ere ars as t to lbs tha danger that ma maher may her In passing through parents 11 with the suMter say 11 that It II I te a risky thing for tor a woo we wenan nan Inn to do IM ha already Ir received lost hOll of IU letters front from white residents In to her ber her bel against Int un lI so perilous II a trIp but as all 1111 her br arrange arrangements ments mente are mad she Is Ie so bark II Miss I i d g ta tam I In Is various walks alU 0 of 11 lb Is Ie a author and a a post poet the dl of called Ut the a Ills a Wheeler Wilcox 0 of Iud Hr Her little book 0 ci poems of the Wind crested ertH 4 quit a tapir In Loll ion all dru society let circle a year rear or ee two wo ago 0 while her novel lAM was wi widely ipso CU u or OF ow iTOC Miss I lays Ire special claim on America Interest ow to Ih the un that t her ber lbs III en I lit III the 80 and dl 1 Ih mI In Mamas hutt tr rr II t I S lIon Ion l ow owes or I II h ti to tho It I I Ihal i 1 1111 10 ulf Astor ur 1111 iii i tj tr to It the tb 1110 I II I r Ih the Pall Malt U II H III I I U t 1 IH I flet put ii dur I IIII III Inc II I tr a at 11 ho hoV I III II I V 1 p II CN lit III lith h S t 1 u I I II I IiI j I JI iI J 1 t I 11 Strange Stories of Lives Led 1 By Human Posters I I II I Clergyman Ruined by His Son Sons Forgery Eventually Driven to Asking for a Job as Sand wichman and Finds Hi His Son in the Same Brigade But Even Most MOlt Wretched Position Was Waa Again Lot Lost by the Sons Treachery Special Correspondence T ONDON Jan Ja 11 to the LONDON i t just JUet hock buk of Piccadilly t haunt of the gay r world Grid of an n obscure little IItti court which bears the suggestive n ot Ham Yard In Inthis this lal little bypass NV removed but a lit step from the human tide which though the great areat of this nta dl there seery ery morn mornIn morning In ing bout about 7 a motley throng of persona m many of DC whom once calLed ClAd tA tatter latter ni ran II broken broke down uy md and mentally these tho human seek k employment either a as ordInary sites or attIred In borrowed to togs consisting of frock cost coat trousers top hat bt gloves and od closely rolled umbrella la Is saunter Munter Into lbs of life as members of the brt business men inca clergymen representatIves of every we all x In life lund and their wy way dati daily to Hm Ham Yard Tb of oC th these ghosts u of th the gutter of often tea are re full of tragic surprises ro ri by of for fortune fortune tune when the they Arul nd money or articles of oC value during their weary wander ander It Is not easy to obtain from rom the sandwich steel Information about HIding under assumed MiNt meet of them dothe have haft buried t their put pst and aDd fw few will consent to resurrect its memory To Smith of lam Item Yard R Smith to tobe tobe be secret Meret of man many an n Inter rating b has bee been rev Smith has hall lui more experience with sand teh won mn than perhaps any Ia one site IM In III th the For lor more than 40 year he be has hall a III living for himself bY keeping alive such unfortunates Or Oc ot of cou th the human fbi 1101 aim aam and etAm cast upon tb the shores 01 Ham Yard leave Iv that tU teU their torl just a other wrecks ree reethe sleet the ocean sands PARSONS PO POSITION The Ib writer recently spent pent a dy day with the sandwich men In order to learn lears om loin of oC their lurid Until recently one on old men man long alured alureda 5 a London sandwich man under the nm name of th the Parson It was u not a amere mere nickname for the elderly carrier of th the banner heat had beta been an n emInently respected vicar vlear In a wealthy wealth Ills story to III ii full tull 0 of pathetic haitian Though th the parson himself eel 14 a alire 11 lire 0 of rectitude h his son Uk like ot of a many ot otI other Pr I Isles lid did not corn eom up to 0 the standard Id Idof of the eloth Hv He wt weal la in for tor 1 I 14 gamblIng and the usual that the books tell 11 us ue I lesel to ruin und and left lett hi hosts home sad aRd went up to 1 Landon For a 10 long time the tiLl he managed to keep III hint out of Jut but through Indorsing some not flutes lite elder eldr mn man was brought to 10 penury and hd had to 10 sever his hie with the church baying hl home hOlD the he Parson cam caD up to Lo London to seek k employ I ment nut Hut fortune u did not favor hi hiI him himI I I could lad to do nd SI I a II I last reo resort It W Lu Air Mr Smith for forn foran an n I S a I On h art I h lie same me Mr r Smith su sui to his le boki and nd en I that th was 11 another noth man In inthe the b bearIng In the pains title It 11 turned out oot to 0 b bt the Parsons own son It was lr that thy they should be put Inlo tnt U the sante m corps nd for m month paraded the London streets t father and coo along ull 1111 sorts ur of r besting yoke ok bout about their necks Mr I Smith am Int interested In the couple coupie an and discovering IbM the lIOn Ion Woe u a cl artist tb the youth Wis en tw by h his patron parOA to hili hi talent a sad la In producing some landscapes for which Mr r Smith undertook to dna a market This looked Ilk a opportunity for or the young man maa tu to extricate ulrica him himI himself self I aa sad hi his father from their thI pf meat But lut al alas fur for hum frail The Ia parsons son on borrowed a um sum ot of money I the 0 of attl setting tram r lid 4 sod end IId h his pictures whit hint him by thi last lut 4 disaster tile the father suddenly peered from rom t the bad leavIng no trace ON I You er c II list man maa leaning against lb Ih Il said Mr r Smith a he stood tood hi and nd pointed dow upon t throng waitIng or hll ha s one ON uses of Ike nuM OR on the London IAnn tepee In I Itt 1111 Ht tV W V hH hail haI of Ir her at us time ur or another A man often hu has said ald to m me nt send nie me out now thre theres a sergeant r standing at t the who used to know m me well 11 I 1 wu was Oft on tI the force toree He If know Ive Iv come down downto to this You scarcely reel credit some of the applicatIons wo we have There are plenty of people like the Parson and hi his eon I Besides professional men we frequently hv have who ho have oc cc occupied and nd also a good smattering 3 Jt actors and rally C cia dali I together with a fair number ot of representative from the army and nd Pointing down the yard t e Indicated men 1 who had In auh walks walk of 11 Ufe f One broad shoulders an Iron gray beard and piercing flY eyes a peaked cap CAll Hamed to stand nd out front Crem a group If at hulking erel figures urt That man was the master of a shIp Mlp explained Mr Smith ne II bet betone one eme of hI his vessels was wa not reinstated and tO took k to 11 does doe not drink now bread I Is hard bani though for tor him to gt get Being too old to go to Sea ell 5 a common sailor allor there Is III nothing for him to do but go on tile the streets street lie He might have bave got Into some sailors home but he seemed to resent the ug aug lie prefers making a shilling or two to II a dy day to being baing supported b by charity We Ve have several men rom the nv navy among us now two ot of whom were midshipmen The tall tail rather mn man with the white beard benI just to th rl right h huf Jr the former captain continued Mt tr Smith was Wall a I moneyed mn man In the dt city FIfteen y years ago he lIved III Ii Manchester Square and b drove a cr car rIp Flage and pair shout London JAndon tie lie tien wears n bl his heard beard today todar III as II a sort of d die guise fur for he 1 often baa ha to peat ua thu fashionable clubs hi Pall JOn Mall ot of which hleb he be was a member lie lout lot bl his CortUM In some enter eater print DOWN DOWl AND AiD OUT Another vIctim of circumstances who regularly attends tIM the gathering In Ham Yard wa was a prominent London tact He wu was wont to dint dIne daily at atone atone one or other of the great t J |
