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Show . MOIiXINU TI1K !0 r . Jtm EXAMINE!!: OGDEN. rTAlI, PUN DAY, FEBRUARY AFRICA IN WALKED ACROSS 2, 1907. WIDEST PART' ITS BREAK ALL REX)KIP IN MANY WAYS S l'ENDS A YEAR. LACE1NO ONE DAY, IN TRa VDOli li: MSO OF THE 10 ET, I1AP JUST FINISHED A JOURNEY THAT WHICH MANY WERE CAN N 1 BA I A YET HE IS A;' DELICATE UWKlNij MAN WHITE BEFORE, AXD-U- F nisT U.NF TURiiUGIl TIMID OF WHICH FEW HAD EVER KEEN vv ND WFNT IN ARMED TllKOUGllnUT THE TRII HE HAS DISCOVERED FIFTY NEW TRIHES, AND EXPLORED CHEAT A I HUS OF NEW TERRITORY, VMTI lirviiv UTTLE w M -, -- I ll.-lhc- IVet-ntuKo- the poe Walter Savage Landor was an-- ! ed to do waa to see the aua for a while, tually la London at that moment, hut la October, IMS, Old Sol was oat d that 1 would have to be In a hurry If lug biudnun in London to any .event, 1 wanted to tstrh him, ms he waa gw 7 though the fogw which .begin to make lug bump to bis tilla near Florence In , thefr appearance here about tbst fime 1 had not - . the course of a day or two.. actually set ia. But Hr. Laa-An- d wbcu 1 did see bint, it prated dur waa depressed. He had recently of ruffe be aae telling uir that the iafotMaikHi tiwi had retwhed mm in as atnrleatai way a true and that be had Jus TPraraed from making hat jiroluiblj la the luuguel and Bioat difficult iwarcb Jbaieurbas lam made through ibe coutiiieai of Afriet. Tb Yes, Ileary Savage Landor. as delicate looking one ie named, bae aew Afrijiuti succeeded la waking a can record 4 nr he to the first uisn who bss wnlked senei the Dark at its arosiest width. When be got to Haim, la Senegal, at the end of his JoaftMiy, he seat a post caid to a friend in Loudon, In which be and Copvrlghted in the 1nlted Stales by Curtis Hroan. Oml BritainKStrlc-tlKesvivod I (ill Rigbr to jour ture tarartou. Feb. braskfnn wlf (be Jim!) ltobied i tun of a luxuriously annotated Loudon apartment (bat look out on On the wail are wie of Whistler and a few laiareuiiioaistic water colon by unlst of the day. And at a table, with a breakfast before hlat that would ararrely satisfy the proverbial bird. a little auto is siUiag. He look so murk like the prewitt Duke of Marlborough that lb iwirai-blsac- e is startling at Brut, aod lari- - r. Con-liue- 'cesue ton the Philippines, - where there to sunshine moat of the time, and the, gloom uf lamdoa got a bis nerves. do he decided to go t Africa, W have a walk, and inctdeatally do a little exploring. Wlh the exception of a short trip in Algeria he had never been there before, In spile of the fact j that he has been wandering around ' the globe for tbe beat part of twenty-thre- e years,. Besides, he wanted to find some native African tribes who bad never laid eyes on a white man before and see liow he could get ea with them. Tha long walk acroaa the widest part of Africa was an afterthought the story of it will have found its way Into print before this article la published, although I obtained from Mr. Ladr a half promise that my article should be the first to give such details as ha is willing to make public at present In any ease, however, it may be said that although a many 01 her explorers Stanley, and Jdarrhand among them have suceaded In crossing the African continent from east to west, every previous trip to that of Landor has beet made considerably below tho point where Africa Is widest. This to between Cape Verde, on tho West coast sad Cape Gaurdaful on the east, and the distance between them two points is something like 4.500 miles. Stanley crossed between Bagamsyo, in German East Afriet, to Bums, at the mouth of the Congo, and here the Dark Continent Is no more than I.UOO miles In width, not to mention the fact that whereas Stanley made hla way acroaa largely by water. Landor went overland -- but 1 wax exprenly forbidden by the letter, to drew any comparisons on his behalf between bis achievement and that of the great explorer of ligands and the Congo. Landor believes that on his journey through the desert and Jungle, the swamp land and tbe forest that lie between Somaliland and Senegal, he must have covered between seven and eight thousand miles, though he had not figured ft out carefully, when 1 saw him. It took him Just one day abort of a year to make the journey, which mav prove to be another record when ibe questions of climate and route are considered, but these are matters for scientific folk to wrangle ever, as wrangle no doubt they will. Considering the bare chance, however, that Henry Karaite Landor, who mansard to get. back to England from Africa without shelaa detected by tha other aewspkper men. may also gat home to Florence without being Inter viewed. It may be as well to asy here that he set out on hla Joruney In November, 1905, at tha little town of DJnbutl. in French Somaliland, Just below the Red Sea; and that Dakar, where he finished In November, 190(1, and incidents lly spent a month in quarantine, la tha seaport of Senegal, which lies practically under the nose of Cape Verde. Needless to way, considering that his journey across Africa took him morn than 7,ono odd miles, it waa not made in anything like a straight line from east to west On the contrary, lit ftp. was Was thsoaty Oas to tesftri Mstsd sa tbe map I am sending herewith roughly shows the journey which began In French Somaliland took the exwith making claims that he never plorer through Abyssinia, the British Sudan and the Congo State as far put forth. But when he did begin talking he told me things that are so ex- south as the Equator, after which he traordinary that if one were not ac- went a far north through the. Sabs' quainted with what he bee don pre-- 1 ran Deaert as the lower border of It would be pretty hard to be-- 1 pull, and then, coming south again, Ileve them possible. He said, to be- paaaed through the Nigeria and the gin with, that when he set out on hto French Sudan to Tlmbuctoo, after recent trip through the heart of Afri- which he made his last lap across ca he had no Idea of trying to be the Senegal to the shores of the Atlantic. first msn to walk from Somaliland to In making that joruney Landor told Senegal. All that he really had asnt-- me that with tho exception of flying anything but an' easy operation to make him Ull anything whatever about his record breaking trip. He to going to write a hook about It. and aamiwily - doesn't want to give the story a ay to begin with. Besides, 1 have an idea that he to a bit suspi-- ' clous of newspaper men from past ex-- . perience with oue who credited him nt , machines he made ue of every known mean of transport, including railways, camels mules, horses, oxen and men. He. believes that, considering the country and the climate. K waa the faatert. if not the longest, expedition ever made through Africa. Ip to now, by the way. Central Africa has not enjoyed any special tv nown as a health resort. It to just possible that it would, however. H all explorers resembled this wee, for he told me that one of the most satisfactory circumstances la Connection with hto 7,000-mllJourney through jungle and deceit and mountain ranges was the fact that be gained about eight pounds la the eourac of it. From beginning to end. in fact, he escaped without a single days illness, and considering that lie came across the ing'a paper which lay at hand, describing the effects ef their journey oa two recent explorers who went ever only a pan of the same route which be covered. One Of them died oa the way of blackwater fever, the other . suc5 cumbed to enteric. Landor added while oa the same subject, that while he was making- the last lap of his journej' by; railway through Senegal to Dakar one uf the men in the acme eempartmeM was attacked by yellow fever and died within a day or two. as tha result of which our explorer found himself obliged to remain in quarantine for a full month instead of a feqr days, according to custom. At may be gathered, he a bit inclined to crow over the way la which he escaped the ordinary of; fects of a tropical joruney, nnd sffyi e as.Londor puts It. the Royal GrographtaTtSS hr hut sae of the thmgs toffy Prtdea himself on b with him travel, i, that on one ha doesnt chang.-ff- ihff frown Thibet, it may to- - remembered to ut cal cub tomes, and perhaps thing hr told his march across the wildest usrTl w Africa, that he did It in a hat, business suit and the exact at boots which he is accus.omea 7 upon when walking dean Picaum? 1 forgot how many suits and nl hat. and pairs of boss he 10Mat, he wore out in the CW days that k, journey, lasted, but it was aomethi, Uke a dusen of each. The average im ' perature during his trip wa j. - Uv-ingsto- H MCflr h Was hriii sa lb Ofsat (M Ima tMs. sad run rt nirtr. dentally he elan lunke as If a really tiff praeae might blow him away. lightly built end ant much more than five feet In height, he weighs exactly ftl pounds. Including eight which be has just gained la a ramiher surprising manner. One would hat-ara guess that at the end uf half a mile s hsnl walking he would be ready to take a rah. Yes, an he aat there munrhlug thin slices of dry toast and bow and then inking a nip d w as itvacR landor. , tbr twk I Hla frva bavliu. la Atk-ia- Twcalr-VSir-O- told what he had ilonr, and the friend told me. That was thu first that had been heard of the thing, and the friend did nut even know when lan-do-r wan coming to lamdon, hough the post csrd that had told of hla feat also announced thnt he was coming. Just as a long idiot, however, I rang up Mr. Uutroda bankers nnd discovered that, all unknown to other newspaper correspnndenis, the already famous explorer, who to tho grandson of ly emanate the false nnd distorted pleas There Is, fur the array dram-shomoreover, n tremendous subsidising power to the advertising contracts of the secular press; and there are millions ef money to enforce It. Prior to the exclusion of beer from th puat stations the sale of Itqnnr to soldiers amounted to three and n quarter millions of dollars In a period of two years. - It tu be expected that the brewer and diatlllera will quietly aub-mto euch a his? Th comparison between the number of for drunkenness in 19H) and in 196. to cited generally by such of the religlou paper a lunch upon the canteen problem, and tbe Nashville Christian Advocate la forced ungratefully to suspect the dally preas of being subsidised by the A principal argument for brewers. the restoration of the canteen is that more drinking U carried on outside the garrison under the present law than formerly existed under the rule The facts, admitting the canteen. asserts the fillfornto Christian Advocate (Kan FYanrUciii aeents to be not only doe that canteen-drinkinBut reduce but actually inerease, the amount of drinking. Many of the Catholic papers maintain an attitude, awaiting more evl- - WWBlitWWSIWfiCTWW HffllWBaWIHM TEMP ERANCE DEPARTMENT t CONDUCTED BY W. C. T. U. I- ll EDITORIAL COMMITTEE MISS MABEL M. CHARP1E CLAYTON COOLIDGE MISS LEOTA S. KENNEDY THE CANTEEN NOT TO BE RESTORED WITHOUT CONFLICT. In recording x renewal of actlvby In tbe UMftetnent to repeal the law. The Literary Digest or June SCtb, noted thr fart tbst th temperance and re)1i!u ptv-- s bad, of laie, been lss in their Au offopoaltlon to this movement. icer of the Women's (hristian Temperance union writes to explain that "the religious press ia slb-on the Canteen queUun, fur the question le settled to their satisfaction, and we hare been axsured by logislatore at Washington that then-- will be On venous attempt made at this a-- salon uf law congress to get the n anti-cante- the other band, the repealed" Km, Dr. David James Burrell, writing In the "National Advocate (New York, February t warns the opponents of the that they are In army danger of being caught napping." and asserts that the portenttous alienee in some quarters is rimplj due to the fact that a 'still bunt la tinder way. There are five hill for tha restoration of the canteen now in congressional rommli't. hr sy. "any nae of mhieh may be sprung at the opportune moment ; that 1. at the Amt momem when the peoff iheir guard.' ple are sufficiently To quote Dr. Burrell further: "The secular papers, with a few notable exception, are lending themselves to this 'still hunt. Thri are frequent articles, sometimes in editorial form, besrlng upon th nm-e- . A and practically all on on Id" a rule they abound in mts.ta'Ti, , On beer-cantee- n n-- iesnaix&r-sm-. court-martial- s sud perveralors of fact. All effurts correct them are vain. Th column uf the secular press are generally cbwi-- against the advocates of tern How shall this be accounted ' for? , "For example, these uipr say, Morrell, quoting from Congressman lnrreaiiIs an of drunken that There ness, disease. Insubordination, desertion, moral and physical degradation In the army since th closing nf the eanUT-o- . and W per cent of those In oofnmand of posts have expressed a positive opinion that (be law has Increased trials by court martial 95 per rent.' This to not only I not true UJ unmeawurably wide of tbe truth. The official figures of the war department show that In 1900 ihere were 1,645 for I drunkenness; and in lMtl (with can teen cl jsedl fit' cases. Dor that look like a '95 per cent increase? But get the newspapers to print that. If you i'. court-martia- ls rani wi-r- DRINK! DEATH! DOOM! d open-minde- d antl-canter- da-'a- rd Inlon. Temperance Mrs. M. X. president of the organisation, "And they say that practically all insert i. a did I)r llurn-ll- . that, "reasoldiers, favor tbe newed effort, is to be made during this officers, as well liquor How about Uenerala session of congress to secure the sat' of Shatter. f the l.iiinr-isntceWheeler, Mile. Daggett. In th She goes 0:1 to Henry. Boynton. Wilcox and Ktanley? in answer liow about t'oloiu-lDurbin, Sunder to rtT-alnu widely ineulra-t-.- i and IJlss? How about. Burgeon llen-era- l by In- secular press: Kternberg and Surgem time vat 'The i.rt.-repeated statement Scnella. with others of like charac- that low dives and drinking places s ter? Bit! ;nu will watch the pnpo-develop In the vicinity of military to rain to oe their side rtf If s. (i of the abolishment of But back of all others enraged in tbe liiiHir ellirg In the rantten to this campaign s'snds the oigini.-e- l on auit-trltof such men a di)iiu. and mobilized army of hrev. era :; Colonel Itoy nf Kenturkv; Major I distillers It. These who Nore nf ('.illfcrnia; General Daggett t'o '1II him' If is th. r w !i of VennsC.vaiiln. The repoit of those i irol the liteisry bun-a-- i f:oui b'i fend at .he head of 'he several s aig-.im- 1 -- wl-nl- court-marti- Oh. for u Daniel, daring and demonstrative te (ietiounce the darksome, degenerating doom of drink! Oh, for a dlscngagi-diplomatic, devoted to duty, denti era lie. discrete, o demolish with ilcaMi dealing derision the Oh. for a didevastating vinely inditrnnm. determined deliverer no dictat iv(. dreamer to dabble and If thr Hence. law la a tally and ihndle with the dibollcsl failure, away with lt. aavs the Kc-- ; destroyer, nor to delay or defer or red Heart Review (Host on I. which deny, but to do the deed, to down In udda: lie is no true temperance man the depths nf darkness the drink that ills tress, desertiun ot wrho attempts to make prohibition fit deals dom-ti- c dear ones, departure of delights, desall case and conditions." dependence, deterioraIn a recent issue of the Vniun Sig- titution, despondenej. nal (Evanston, ills 1. which ia the off- tion. demoralization, icial organ uf 'hr Womans Christian drowsiness, delirium, darkness, despotism, death, doom. Stern.-- , 1 bureaus connected with tha war department tin not contain any evidence that the present law produces had result. In support of this, I quote from a correspondent fa the Philadelphia Public ledger of recent date, who A few dnya ago the last ansays; nual report of Senator Georg. B. Ihvris. Judge advocate general of the Inlied Bute army, waa Issued. It tate that th trials by for drunkenness and other offenses two hundred and four less than in the previous year. 1 bis report and those preceding It since the regimental liquor aaloona, commonly called canteen-- , were abolished, utterly refute the statement so frequently made tha: the discontinuance of these saloons has resulted In murh demoralization in the sritiy." Literary Digest. - No Dante could depict the degradation of the drunkard. He ha berome deaf to duly, denied hi ideal, depart from dil'genee decorum and decency, disqualified for deeds demanding dauntless daring, divested of dignity and dollars, derided for dehaurlieiy, discord, debt, discouragement. dishonor, disgrace. The doom described of the drunkard is th d itvm deserved of the dram dealer who d'.levera to duped dolts and dullarda-ltfltilledoaea for dollar -- and dollors and dollars. Iniear th drunkard depend mi divine deliverance his dirte ih sounded Better heath than drinking h dregs of destiny drawing decanter of devils dark-browe- 11 A MSP WHICH HOrSHLY INDICATES MtUOB-- i ROUTE ACROSS THE WIDEST PART OP AFRICA. OmmS at a MwX Nairevar IMst, aa la ikon kj tk Stan Bm Plan, Om Kuawaya aag Pom, tka ftxtnlBg aUMS Rla Cnat Heft tka Dark Owtlaaat. moat yellow fever and mnlaria-ridde- n region In probably all the world he Instances this fact as one of the definite records which he la entitled to claim in connection with it. 'He left doaenc of the natives who made up hto caravan behind him feverotrlcken, but not only did he not get a single touch of It himself, hut ha assured me with perfect aeriouineaa that there la no earthly reason why other travelers In fever-ladecountries should not be equally immune. Lest anybody should doubt tbe perils from disease which he escaped, landor pointed out to me an item telegraphed from Africa la tha morn- - that perhaps ih'e most valuable result of his experiences will be the absolutely new theories which he is in a position to offer regarding the proper means of escaping both malaria and yelluw fever. He asserta that practically all the generally accepted notions on the subject are incorrect, and Incidentally declares that he. will deny flat footed ly the moaqulto theory In connection with both malaria and yellow fever .and offer a new one In Its place. When one pictures an African explorer, by the a ny. It is apt to he as being arrayed in helmet and all the rest of the traditional outfit, which. tbe shade, and Landor slept out ia th open from start to finish, without u much as a tent over him, excepting a nights when the rain actually fell ia torrents. No man could possibly tor done It without such an massing as possessed by this UMI Anglo-1- 1 alian, who ia now in the neighborhood of 49, but who domrt put his date of birth in Who's Who" bees use he Is afraid thnt people trill not believe that ha has done all hs claims to in the time hs hss hid t accomplish it One reason why ho never takes anj the draught of deceased, deluded, cile dolorous derelicts. breeder of crime to exist, a maelstrom which draws to its depths the young men of the city with whom rests the future? It ia not necessary; it need not be. Let the people become aroused and the place will have tocloasltsdoors. Now It ia wide open; it invites all to enter. It used to be a resort of the railroadmen, but It became ao disreputable that they left It Now the less sophisticated young men and hoys fall prey to Ha lures. It pose aa a cigar store; but It shall have to answer to graver charges than tobacco selling. ter n do- Not long ago Rev. X. g. Elderkln mentioned In a speech the fact that Provo has leas than one-fiftthe Dumber of aalonns of Ogden in proportion to the population. Adding that It might he well to hare an saylum here. Yea. if Ogdeq jiad an asylum and wouldput in it tbe abnormally minded liquor element the desired result might be attained. h What would the devil do if he didn't have drink to deaden man's sense of right and make a fool of him? WORTH PONDERING, Selfishness is moral dry rot. The boys follow not the drunkard, but the moderate drinker Into the saloon. The heaviest handicap of the church the Christian voter that can be got to put hla O. K. on the saloon sometime. to at the mercy of You are every con- vinced man unless you have tion of your own. convic- The safe kind of whikeys declares the Department of Agriculture , is that which is bottled. The roeeda show that whiskey left in a bottle has never injured anybodr serlourly." Harper- Weekly. Dr. Wiley, of Wheat hut fare uncertain ia me climate, will grow anywhere. Is ' Here's a goliny man. said the head of the firm, "who seems to have something in him." Ye. replied the chier clerk. I Just saw him taking a drink of water'Hom Herald. unfll-tere- -l u one time taw a young min enter a lions case. The peopla held their brent n in honor. The same dav we sawr j oung man enter a saloon. The public smiled American I arte. THE Why TWENTY-FIFT- the STREET public allow a - (Continued, on Page Thirteen.) on the sideboard. It mattered aot for what a baUdiag waa intended whether for church, school or Pr nonage, rum waa the grand master d ceremonies, the indispensable celebrant at the various stages of Its completion. The party who dug the on out of storm, verily got their reward.',a sort of prellbatioa the visionary- tweets . of that laai flowing not, according to tho Jewkk notion, with milk and honey, but AP cording to thoreviaed version of wa with milk and rum. Rum forsooth, a rery decent devil, If Judged by the exalted character ef the tks It kept If stood high on rung of the nodal ladder and puucd and pushed men from It by thoumad towrptchedness and ruin. 80 flngrut and universal were the drinking of Boston then, that dealer w fered on the common during holidlTi without let or hindrance, the draw ard'a glass to the crowd thrtmgw byextemporlxed booths and bars ou Shocking ag was the excesses of period, nothing comparatively heard on tha: subject of In tempers It was seldoma theme tar they actsylst the newspapers scarcely knowledged Its existence, excenttn aom occasionally in connection with Chrirtom the crime or cataaprophea and patriot, while they perceived ravages, formed no plans for it throw and it did not occur to that a paper devoted mainly n dire suppression might be made and tucessfnl engine ot reform. rata expost uationi and Idlridual am f visions were indeed aometimea but no systematic efforts were dp to give precision to the vlewg or 4 to the sentiment of the people. All other quotation from the m ary Century Magaslne'' would cate that condition used to he and are probably growing better the time. In describing church affairs the cle Beyondthe Bap state that collections are taken np exceut the visiting circuit preacher once a year. Instead of th "Jw offering, the local preacher exclusive privilege of eelling at tho conclusion of services. Im thst privilege belonged to the ter todsy. ' Cheer up The best to yet to ( -- the-ano- cob-paa- INDIANAPOLIS. - It all depends on tho standpoint. Advene criticism sometime la highest praise; for instance the remark of a traveling man that Indianapolis to a clear, pretty city, but I'd rather be dead broke In 8an Francisco with only a second hand tooth pick In my Teat pocket than have a thousand dollars la Indianapolis. Why yon can't even get a drink of whisky on Sunday. IS THERE HOPE? At a recent meeting la tho city of a temperance organisation, the problem of the liquor traffic waa held ap to view, but one or two apeakers Intimated that nothing could be done. 8s It true? No, I don't believe It. One has only to look at the past to see what has al1 ready been accomplished. Wm. Lloyd Garrison first feared, hla work as a reformer in battling with the drink evil. Archibald H. Srisike thus life in his life of Osiris on of conditions: Rum during the first three decade of the century was, like death, no of persona, entering with equal freedom tbe homes nf the rich and hovels of the poor. It was In universal demand by all classes and condition of men. No occasion wan esteemed 00 mrred for its presence and nee. It was an honored guest at a wedding, a christening, or a funeral. The minister whose hands were laid ia baptismal blesaing on boxes, er raised In tbe holy sscratnent of love over brides, lifted also the glass : and the selfsame Ups which had spoken the last words over the dead, drank and made merry presently afterward among the decan J a |