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Show ' i ' " 2-'- " " " - " - lj " THE PROVO HERALD - - ,. ,. ' . 11 , ; "LJL r" . ' - :, tJ..-t V -- BATTLESHIP: FLpRIDA FOR SILVER .SERVICE -- - 04--3 - "" ... , - sa, ' JVk I I GYPT the and - r Low- - er:Nlle have long been L, Jtnowa AeHfhe tourist. but even among those ; who" know, their Egypt, few have completely realized 'what an Immense amount of new and Interesting coun-trhas been recently, opened up by the" 1 enterprise of Jhe Su- dan government. The traveler, reaching Khartoum In comfort tn eight or Bine days from England, has now before him an enormous tract of Central Africa, withlnwblch, still traveling In comfort, one may sajevejL.ln ;wiury,- May take tils pleasure and view at ease some of the utermost parti of the Nile regions. , All this, wonderful country was, until the conquest of the Khalifa in 1898, absolutely scaled to the white man, as it bad been for Something like a generation. Little had been "known of It previously save from hejeports of such "bold And, Intrepid explorers as Speke and Giant, Sir Samuel Baker, Scheveln- and ..furtb, Petherick, General-Gord- on some: few others. It seems wonderful .tqreaUzft. that the secrets of the Very heart of Africa, secrets for which these and other explorers suffered in- . credible toll and privation, nay, even -- v . y H mmmmarr. J) 1t - i I I'm I I " 111,1 !! I I T- i-- f - m, rri"r ' f-- - 1 1 - 'S . (Wry -- - - -- death Itself, to reveaLare jiow --laid hare to JoejcasuaLtraveler-an- d tourist, and are as readily accessible from Calro-- or Port Sudan as are the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi river from Cape Town. All this has been accomplished, by the enterprise of the Sudan government, which now conducts the., traveler with the least possible .fatigue and trouble not only to Khar toum and Omdurman, with their histor ic associations, but - much further afield Into dim and wonderful regions, where strange native races live the Jlfe of a thousand years since,, These Teg1onsteem with wild life, and the sportsman, the and the fisherman find ample occupa tion among; a varied and marvelously Interesting fauna. During winter In r u 4fe , j . , tt . Ifck im - V-y- r "iTTr ' v v Vtif' ihrfi-- - fy '. " M'11 r lilllh -- '- A presented service for tbe battleship Florida, the gift of the people of its TIH&410.000 silver The popular subscription for Its purchase was Increased of the vessel recently at Pensacola. by a generous appropriation hy the legislature. name-staterw- this part of Africa, especially from November to the end of February, the climate of the Northern Sudan' tsery pleasant The constant . sunshine Is tempered by fresh breejes, dry. although " warm Is wonderfully and Jhe beat Is less felt than that of an English summer. At this season, too, mosquitoes and files are absent, the Nile is high, and the ancient and mysterious river displays Itself lo its greatest advantage. By means of Its system of railways, and steamers Ihe Sudan government can now offer "the traveler various tempting tours and expeditions, In which the marvelous remains of the older civilization of Egypt iriay be visited, while further afield are to be viewed regions as Kordofan, Sennar, the Blut and White Nlles, the and the wild hills fringing tb,e Red - sea. Bahf-el-Ghaz- al thjairL now been extended through Wad Me-dato Sennar, where it turns from the Blue Nile and cuts across coun- A ISiGEE LQNDONID borde. got crookB oJL American-grafte- In the and rs habit of resortingi Yard kept the gaming under surveillance and planned to dispose of them by raiding this xlub, which .would furnish a decent excuse In court to ask that ' each of them be sent to prison for three months as a suspicions character, in addition to being fined for being In K- gambling Joint Thirty-fiv- e of these "international merchants," as Pat Sheedy, was wont to designate them, were thoroughly en joying when the word was passed- - to get out quickly and quietly In twos r and threes; "Don't rush out in a bunch, as there is half an hour," said the tipster. Half an hour later the police descended on the place, but the .birds i had flown iyn rertalfflghrcluISotJand be were Striking Feature of Night Life in done. observed, business could on. the to Kostl westward to the try Soho District. Now there are dozens of places White Nile. This extension will shortwhere the tiger can beJjucked Ajit the one time at El reach Obeld, ly mission is not difficult te any of thepe centeIn the headquarters of the Mahdl, r-of a region from which already, Gambling Is Protected In the Tender- places If one kuows the ropes. Baccarat and other PejNareDlay-- . loin of England's Capital vast quantities of grain, gum, cattle are edTBe pbkerrs" of thT foodstuffB Thirty-Twexported. and Card Faro a being v variety, played with 32 cards, all beThe towns and markets of these wild Favorite Game. low the seven being eliminated.; The and little known Regions are extravalue of hands In this game Is some. yet the latter-da; Interesting ordinarily London. The lid Is off in the no, what from the 62 card game, different brought-easilycheaply torious Soho district of tourist Is London, lu as Omdurman and and expeditiously to these places, and the last few months dozens of gam- as three of a kind beat a straight and a flush beats a full bouse. 1 This, Korosko, Karnak, Benen, may contemplate as safely 'a if he Joints and off color night clubs is the great and the favorite Faro Thebes, Philoe, Memphis and Abydos was in Cairo "the manners and modes bling can now be contrasted with the homes of life of savage peoples to whom less have opened and they are doing In-a game at all these Joints. Again It Is wide open business without police of Shilluks, Dinkas, Jura and other than a score of years ago the white the German or continental variety, not wild races, and with such Interesting man was utterly ..unknown: For those terference. the American, that Is played.' It may be explained for tbe benefit Thirty-twcards are used and no bird: makes long who wish to push yet further Into the of those unacquainted with London box; the banker dealing out of hand. heart of Africa, the Sudan government that Soho is the Tenderloin of the city, There is no elaborate steamers now ply far up the White Situated in the heart of layout; In most Member of Arctlo Feathered Species the west end. cases four matches sufficing. These Found atSagaponack and Is Nile until Rejaf, In the Uganda, coun- its broad streets abound in theaters dentlfled by Zoo Expert. try, Is. reached. On this expedition, and restaurants and are at the same are laid In front of the dealer and eacn end of a match represent which is made on a roomy, comfortWhlstllna -- FJendon Railroad -- Trains Dat wiu give you a able boat. carryinjLchanJ ty placing New YorkvGordon-B.- ' R&otmts", a purchase and mbfiefrBtt of end the 'the the match operator at the Marconi wireless teleelectric ' mosqaltoj with J to Held as baths, Up light, ..Especially Obloquy BtHve to uit Ws ran-You xanaot. tone night In company with a reporter which an va the cardbackedJ-lan rnrtn and represents lnnnne graph station at Sagaponack, r.,idnsM "'' of t vour eanlshment bnad .W Rnd'aMs5, turn at and exclaimed. "Gee! We wouldn't is a t Worthy to or win straight up from the road near the sta-proposition life and scenery wild of savage him he whistles In your face trlum- - rlety stand this for a minute in New York " lose, the punter betting that his card I tion a live bird, badly wounded, of a A student of the subject has come phantly and puts flourishes on his en Is to be met with. : After "reaching Back of thet broad thoroughfares will win, the banker that itwili lose one hundred and sev to the conclusion that 70 per cent, of core. You can keep a woman's hat Eoz pee8jorafeand unknown-t- n that are hundreds of mean. narrow streetSr "coppering locality that no one could name it mjlea: from Khartoumlhei the hotbeds of the male population of Brooklyn has pin out of ypureye8bylnlercepting enty-fivthe'Latln anarchists bets or naming the sequence of the It was sent for Identiticatlon to the .the whistling mania.- - In ' the early your evening paper between your eyes land of the pastoral Arabs and culti- and the abiding place of the scum of last card Park lh I and Bronx, where Zoological the is vators country left behind, In the morning. vehlng rush' hours, and It You can hold your neighbor's Latin andj .Teuton - On the This game of faro as played In Lon- it was declared to the be adovekle, or late at night, the puckered lips inflict .willow plume out of. your mouth. But of negroid races Is entered upon. police records Sobo Europe. ' has a bad name, don ls of excessive simplicity and of Greenland dove, also erroneously their punishment upon the Just and you cannot protect your ears' from Forests creep right up to, the Nile, and one Scotland Yard a In bird' of the a called inspector. "little the auk.'' excessive crookedness. An expert the unjust alike. It la apparently the tootler, or. your JungB from his and game- police Investigation' held a few years dealer can make the cards do almost arctic regions.. ?X ' ' '' and are seen, often and unknown to, the whistling fiend that baleful breath. antelope ago said that one of the streets in anything ;iorr him Only on very rare occasions, and of the practice Is. when Indulged pubIf Doctor Lederle of - the board of further on' glraffeSj elephants and oth- Soho from the Themaorlty criminal punters are very sharp eyed andwith usually in midwinter, has this species licly, a proof alike of his unmanner-lines- health would have signs put up In all er Interesting beasts may frequently was the worst in London! standpoint C a ; gang of regular players the attempts straggled as far south as jhls coast, . his lack of education and of public conveyances setting forth the be noted. Waterfowl of Innumerable H Js practically an unknown dis- at crooked ' to the playing are Infrequent, but but In the arctic It ranges northwestand charm menace of whistling; 'if the Society varieties, give life breeding, trict to the real' Londoners, who are let a tenderfoot butt Into the game ward as far as Melville island of the" e and nuge for of AU employes Ethical Culture wpuldLput-uJ the B..R, T. whistle. only acquainted with it's boundaries of end be has no chance to win ..; , great arctic archipelago. proclaiming whistling to be the fishes, for which Father Nile has al theater land or who. f They begtirwheirthey Eo on duly and L The proprietors of the Joints don't is about the size of a The dovekle peneperhaps, observed will be been ways famous,, keep it up almost continuously until recognized sign of the empty head, The trate a small way into the district in run the game. The bank is put up at teal duck, plump of body, black above their day's work Is done. Perhaps there might be some relief fof the In- among J.he native fisher-folthe search for the cheap yet excellent auction, as at baccarat, th man will- and white underneath-- and the feath- Shilluks live and Dinkas fool. one ought not to blame a B, malniy by T. nocent victim of the whistling "" which abound therein. restaurants ing to put the largest amount, of ers of the forehead extend far down man forwhlstllnr. Possibly hi? mind Uut there are' some persons" who fishing and hunting, and pursue their Those-whoff and are prone Gambling joints the beakrr color clubs money, taking the. bank. The propriebusiness- - la Hong- ,- narrow - "dugouts" Is distracted from his unhappy lot. never can be cured. In have existed and severe to make this winters always district their tors long predict profits by charging A man who hsd been. tormented. .by or jmall anibach rafts, equally as rickPossibly, like .the traveler by night About aUbzen jears ago London was so much an hour for tbe bank, the from the actions of animals will readto canoes. Accidents throughra graveyard he whistles to a whlstleflend all the way home on ety; as the ; wide but then a moral wave price varying with tbe size of the lly accept the appearance nt the dove--kikeert his ouragtprrArj Jth ere ure an elevated train one night, met a these wlld. sportsmen often hap- swept open, in. the police got busy and the bank, the minimum feeing. "$10 'an hour, on this coast, tar In advance or Idts of cemeteries in Brooklyn. But friend to' whom he mentioned his suf- pen, their most troublesome neighw . Several" payable In advance and'sealed winter, as a sure sign of cold weathhis remedy Is worse than his disease. ferings. The friend lentasympa- - bors being the Ud off efforts to er.spasmodic The the, of ....; ; ;; , e pry form of this popularity faro fa4 went further.. He add numerous. . Passing Kodok. once The jhlstllng JTX.'guard may have have been made .Ineffectually since Is widespread throughout the Latin In mous Marchand's own excuses. ed as his Fashoda not his The errand boy may Major only against the plaint then, but a few months go the word and Teuton population of Soho! and ; " Good Business Investment. i have his.; So has the brainless clerk fool who whistles, but the knave who time, Tanfikla, the headquarters of went around that, provided there was st the bigger of these gambling clubs "Politeness and civility are the best In hectic sor who varies his whistling rests his filthy boots upon the op the troops on the Upper Nile, Is reachno word. housefrom thousands the of are shouting dollars won jtbe and lost capital ever invested in business." act' He has posite seat, advertising his unfamiliar- - ed, at five hundred and thirty miles act with a -.-and certain formalities P. T. Barnum. provided top, nightly. with to occupy the outside of his head Ity Four the rudiments of courtesy, distance from Khartoum.; with something, since there Is nothing and making the space where his feet miles further, theSobat, whlchhas Inside. But the passen-- ' had been unfit for man or woman to found its "way'frouV the highlands of ZOO ELEPHANTS LIKE BEER ho whistles has ger nothing to jsx-- " rest upon. The two chatted Abyssinia, joins the Nile. Presently . tenuae his act Long and careful obthe (five hundred and Nelly, Aged Eight Gains Fame ' as ' Here Champion Drinker of Amber Fluid I don't know which is the worse." sixty-fivIs reached. servation shows that he rarely "can miles) carry a tune. He simply makes" a said the first man, "the biped who elephants, buffalo, hartebeest. water Chicago Buildings Thrown Open to dramatic' cfubs" At one school there '.'." In London Zoo. noise. He Is hopeless. He Is lost to takes up three seats with himself, his buck and reedbuck are plentiful, and Public for Dancing, Picture were moving plctufeSj'j;, London.The elephants at the too extended arms and his muddy boots or the rare-ana sense of decency '.and "Shows and Games. beautiful Mrs. Gray's wa The.isSfirrfT8 ranged from H to JO y' His whistling announces It to ; all It the fellow, who whistles. Tbe whisker trbuck la to be heard of for the first how drink beer. It Is as a special old...--. The schools, however, are. The of board mark of Chicago. confidence that tbe elephants educatjaai"8 ' Is safe to say that no man who makes la harder, .to get away from. His tor time. At six hundred and. fifteen to ne to me ratners and motha practice of whistling In public ever ture Is more definite and persistent. miles from Khartoum, Lake No Is en- pn their rounds with , thdr - children plan- - for. turning - tbe gcboer over to ers openea Efforts will be made to form on allowed peopU?,jor--socTathe amusement are the to stop at' has risen above mediocrity. In.busl-- I guess he's the worst' 'the passengers o tered, and evenings was inaugurated both men and "women's clubs. "Don't know but he Is," replied the south the steamer bears into the Bahr- - refreshment kiosks to see if there ness. iLMake SLJltUe atudy. of Jt and school buildings forihgmt-hwirTr-nhoiwere Four f p here, rivthlnasee If this la not true. You may. get other and then, utterly unconscious the main stream oHhAlIppeH 7:30 between and 9:30 Luck In Saving Horseshoes. o'clock. opened was of what It of he to he out offset started to White- the doing, enough interest ?trnrTStream; was a each' At unthere of bin All the ends audience,' the New Haven. Picking up horseshoea'-.;-an- d all large ties, kr whlsUe. torment you have enduredlllIeu.wUl Press. .neerTTibfed with "sudd." Is now a each and at the Snlsned to ' make this proved experiment tbem has go up glasses' a saving be who makes Mrs.. discover, too, that cleared of that obstacle; the sudd It..-and each of the ani- success. i:rX J. ' allowance! Miller special Adolpa thls'cityT a' fortune yt weird, uncanny noise with his mouth but Lucky self, is being specially treated and mals -ivagint. knows, when it Is Its tun Tor a rhrfauncblftg Itsnnnovation the of $50,000. according to ber state- doisojiecauft Jb-- h'within'nolhtHgeTse . ' v uc . t ,vuu juui .uur turned into a; valuable and markets half gallon or so ;; school board's object was to do ment Mra Miller has' Just himself to band received to do no resource ble commodity in the shape of fuel. ' ' The ehopplng." saldbe brlde.v, champion drinker ls; sad to say; something' that; will - counteract the news from Hamburg, Germany, that ' keep him from, dwelling on bis own : notrv; ; r On through the sudd regions speeds : a lady elephant, named Nelly,, eight evils of tbe dance hall afid the Imthe' death of her; uncle, - Adolph . . miserable state..".,. are so extravagant - The oth- the steamer; - lakes and lagoons years old.-- She nook a boitle o.Rasa properly managed ' moving picture by '"Men a German officer, she has been Rholf, Thousands of persons In New York er night, I sejtit George out to buy a abound, and papyrus reeds "form the from the band of the correspondent, show. Hundreds of boys and young left t50t000ta doywltb as she In their hearts pleases, have murder every turkey. He was gone a terribly long chief vegetation. FronvKlech, on the while Jess, aged five. fnd The ledger, girls '.who- otherwise would have bad according to tbe wording of the will! day on account of the whistle fiend. time and when he came back he had Shambe lagoon, a route lies to Wau. aged eight, looked in keek took to recreation the streets ... All Mrs. Mill ir has todo regretfully The Inquisition, missed Its choicest two pairs of chickens, a turkey, four the But perhaps the most accomplished part In the festivities. Hamburg and gel the fortune torture by not knowing' of the sub- - cans of oysters,', a ham and a live tbe tiny capital; Hhe old jelte j- of of all k the auonyiuous African eleWorkers .Protective )Mhe Beyond province. ' Jv7??)! 'It all comes trom ' saving horseT. He B. Is R. at pig. We can't eat all that, stuff In a Kenlssa. once an Austria whistler, way and e the under of faKbest the sta the mission, tecgiie, supervision phant keep tip shoe." said Mrs. Miller, as she pointhis worst between 5 and :30 In tbe month.";;.,'':' v before; him. er'beid bad of tbe the "Get l"( vege young principals, charge ed with pride . to a row of them over changes, tton.the scenery hundred humane are evening, when a " tation becomes more tropical, and the round!!' he said, and" Jumbo gravely sers..- The same official chaperons the front door of her residence. mashed Into a space that should" hold J Bar! negroes are to be observed. Tbe performed a series of steps all around will be; on hand "each Monday and Prayer Answered. "It Is an old saying that for each "ten. On the platform of a subway church' Is reached at one Jthou himself in perfect waits time. "Now Thursday evening, the official rsoctal nail tn the horseshoe you will receive to "So went you actually no could be packed tighter car that sand and seventy-twmiles, and pres- reverse!" said the keeper, and Jumbo center nights," from now dntll spring. some time In your life J 1,000. I do v:i' without the assistance of a hydraulic last.8undar- " Their Instructions are to be as incon- believe that, for I found It to be a garrison of "reversed." '. and Gondokoro ently really true, Jack, the whistle maniac "gets In his" InSome wei the If and rifles. The next I "Excuse dropped .. me pieces It spicuous as Is compatible with good every bit of It I have about twenty last "topUganda (eeni s skeptical. He most telling blows usually cisure just out of his reach. "Blow order and with everybody's having a shoes now and that makes about fifty ping place is Rejaf, whence the steamto be directly behind you." He What was the texj?" teem to the gentleman," aald "the good, time:' Policemen have been as- or sixty nalla." :v, whole er 'there. have returns KhsrtoumTrThe I to text "Aha," The . you .r ,..1 blows in the back of your neck. He was "He giveth bis beloved sleep,' . of this interesting White Nile expe- keeper, "and he'll give them to you to signed to each school to maintain orblows He over ear. In your blows -r, der if It Is necessary. "Good ;work. And. who were there?" dition, Including the return journey, eau"Jumbo blew like a wild .ftats String Wires. , your squirming shoulder and fans ' of At biscuit and the schools three the Ban went .was there a in .It "Air round of to now. be can me." made fiylng seemed the beloved, t)lego,.CaWohn , Klncald. foretrip breath. with his cheek torturing your was- - duly ' te dancing. It wis stated hy some -- of man for the San Diego Gas twenty four days. At a revelation of across the floor, and : and Elec. :, And his breath usually is Tile. If ' ' .'" the principals that tbe social center tric- company, tried rafs in f ..; savage Africa there Is nothing to com trleved.;---- ;"" T;; The Smoky Wsyv laying you mauage to get an Inch out of the Then came the sJLA plan would hot be a success In their wires In condulta. By putjing cheese Of about that alrshlpr-- ' ' pare with It jn , modern travel. direct Une he ehlf ts - sufficiently 'to Is unless a man Into districts threw stall penny the dancing permitted. at the end of a stretch of verified pipe "It went up in smoke.:.C-"- A ? shdrter expeditions, one of the.most Jumbo heard It keep you as his sounding board. You : drop, fished for It, At all of the schools there were games, be found the rats would draV through Is the round trip from ; -at and tear "Burned, You ehf Interesting pry wriggle. madly nd music.- - 'Preliminary the conduit string, to whlchhn "Oh, to. Made an ascension at Cairo to, Khartoum, returning by Port found It and gravely returned It not gymnastics lira with pinioned elbows. You brace were to to ' also to organise ' Uched th wire he destr.o the but the taken, owner, steps keeper! on Sea. the Red Sudan, Ineffectual feet against anything PltUburg." yo-- r big-gam- e moderaJiat-tlefleldsrsnc- o them--Reiv- - y h At-bar- a. bird-collect- -- rr. flight o Sufferer Makes a Protest - . e : -- Abu-Gum- e - -- Hlppos,-oroco-dll- :- -- es - s, - . -- - pla-ear- p riverscape.-and-strang- k. , , , , o . -' : e . . hlppos,-whlch"are7ve- rf . thetic-earr"H- gum-chewin- g . well-dresse- d under-standingly- ." Open Schools Are Success -- A Bahr-el-Zer- e . self-respe- ct d , . ; T .turning-sharply-t- . - ' - New-Yor- . ;: Cbi-cag- o' ' w " . : . ; - ..- " . f - Bahr-el-Ghaz- . UrfO-koo- p, " r " row.-Th- ' -- tit-b- it .-; . . - " Lado-Enclav- e o - .' did-;"- bap-pen- hurrl-can- e V- ( r 1 : . best-Wck-- ow . of . - , - . . ij, .4 |