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Show I Major G. Cecil lioult, member of wealthy E-.-lish familv. has hrown away 52,000.000. so that he might becme a war correspondent for a Indon newspaper on an hum- --'salary Tiring of living In splendor splen-dor with all his desires fulfilled, the newspaper man allowed a great fortune for-tune to pass through his lingers and Joes not regret It His inheritance of S2, 000, 000 was Pnt as a bet that he could find Sold in great quantities in a certain farl ot Australia. Operating on a large scale Major Boult Invested his wealth in the project and waited developments. They came when his bankers Informed him that he was Practically penniless. The man who. a few minute? before be-fore possessed a fortune, lighted a cigarette, poured a drink of Scotch whisky into a highball glass, and then telephoned his lawyers: "I'm bloomin' glad" its gone. Now T have no worries." With what remained he Invested in enterprises such as raisins tea in Ceylon, ruby mining In Eurmah and commanding a trading vessel in its .Qtivi t.hroush the South Sea Islands. When finally his last cent was gone the adventurer entered the office of-fice of a London newspaper. "I wish a position," he informed the editor. There Is no position open save fthat of a war correspondent." said I the editor "It's accepted," replied Boult, I nonchalantly. "But you must go to Africa A healthy white man cannot live there t The terrible tsetse fly bites him and p he develops the deadly dum-dum fever for which there is no cure." protested the editor. "My luggage Is ready When shall I I leave?" replied Boult. The editor, astonished by the wonderful courage of the applicant Immediately assigned him and ar-anged ar-anged for his transportation. It, make his visit to the wilds of Africa have a two-fold purpose, Boult entered the service of the Royal Army. Before long he was appointed a major and placed in charge of a detachment. ESCAPES HARM AMID A THOUSAND DANGERS. In the stnnge land with its thousand thou-sand besetting eVils and Its deadly dead-ly surroundings of wild beasts and Insects more terrible than deadliest of snakes. Major Boult prospered while men about him fell 111 and died of the dread pleeplng sickness. "Wild beasts assailad the soldiers as they slept and tigers and jaguars took a deadly toll of the warriors. Possessed by a peculiar luck. Major Boult escaped all such af-irtions af-irtions to enter into a rear combat com-bat In which he almost lo6t his life, while calmly drawing a sketch of thin "'"'nee of a thousand native Major's I. It Is only a newvpuy ei uiuit, t.u ,i rarely brave one at that, who will risk hl9 life and show rare daring under such circumstances. Unconsciously Uncon-sciously reporters are risking their lives every day In the year In collecting col-lecting the news, although the public pub-lic rarely hears of it. It was in Rhodesia, near Bula-waya. Bula-waya. In the Matopa Hills, that tho nervy correspondent took lime to make a battle sketch for his newspaper news-paper while death approached In the form of a black horde cf fanatics, fanat-ics, who, crazed by their great devotion devo-tion to the Sun. were intent on destroying de-stroying any human agency that opposed op-posed them. A native hurled a spear and the steel passing close to Major Boult's face, left a life mark and caused him to f.ill unconscious. When he awakened. It wa sunset. About him danced the native warriors, war-riors, while In the background of the rude hut, grinning and anxiously anxious-ly awaiting their turn at the tortured tor-tured Englishmen, the women, more deadly In their revenue than the men, awaited It was their lot to cut the unfortunate man to pieces, while their lords sat about and sans the death chant. Major Boult shouted to them In his own lansuase begging them to start the finishing process and warning warn-ing them that for his life that of a thousand of the natives would be taken by the English troops The more he raved and dared his captors to take his life, the longer thc continued their weird, ghastly ceremony. Then Boult realized thai it was to his interest to delay as long as possible. He made faces at the natives, he thrust out his tongue and derided them in his own language. lan-guage. Then he recalled that In trading among the natives many years before, be-fore, he had picked up a few phrases in their language. In monosyllables he told the natives what would happen hap-pen to them if they killed him. A? a dramatic climax, he pointed to tho West, saying in their dialect. There come the great Mother's soldiers. They will destroy you " BIG BLUFF FAILS AS NATIVES LOOK. The natives looked, but no soldiers appeared and the yreat bluff had failed. The officer was to lose His life despite all his strategy. Again turning to the West, whence he least expected them, marched a column of British Infantry, Infan-try, apparently dispatched by Providence Prov-idence to save their countryman. The natives fled and Major Boult wa6 delivered back to his regimen After reporting seven outbreaks in Africa, Major Boult Joined the railroad rail-road corps constructing a railroad in Egypt and was placed as an overseer over several hundred native na-tive workmen One day the natives became dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the provisions afforded afford-ed them by the British Government and decided to revolt. They plotted the death of their overseer. Knowing that his safety relied upon his nerve, Boult went to his office, obtained his revolvers and his rifle. Then he went to the camp, where the natkes slept in the open and laid clown as if to sleep with them. He kept awake fearing attack at-tack It did not come. This show of bravery won the hearts of the workmen. They thought him favored fa-vored by the Sun and spared him. While In a Ceylon tea plantation the Sinhalese workmen threatened to kill the adventurer because without with-out his knowledge a girl of high caste had fallen In love with him. It Is the tradition of the people that n person of the upper caste must marry among her own set and to fall In love with een an Eng-lish Eng-lish army officer and millionaire is considered a crime Blount, fleeing the natives, took up a stand ajralnst them In the doorway of his cottago with a rifle. Indicating that the first one who apprna""! wnu i he klllo inw nit i Wen, cowed by the weapon weap-on departed. Four days later SSSff PHOTOGRAPH'S ILI CLINT MURPHY OR Mill he learned that the girl had been burned at the stake for falling In love with him Major Blount again escaped death in a sandstorm in the Sahara Desert. He was cros,'inp when his camel died. The army officer wandered seeral days In the blinding storm before he was found, half dead, by comrades. Such are a few of the experiences experi-ences In the life of this war correspondent cor-respondent and many similar deeds of adventure may be credited to the thousands ' of correspondents who have gone Into unknown lands, suffered the greatest of hardships and risked their lives that the world might know the news. It is the policy of a metropolitan newspaper to not only print the news born of the day but to Incubate Incu-bate It before It Is mature and print it years before it would ordinarily or-dinarily develop. Stanley and Livingstone were sent into the heart of the African binclen bv pA'nAr. one to get "THREE poses of Major Boult, the war correspondent corres-pondent who blew in $2,-000,000; $2,-000,000; above, at left is the battleship Maine, the sinking sink-ing of which caused the Spanish - American war. Above, at right, a Mexican war scene. a news description of a wild land never before penetrated by man and the other to rescue his companion. com-panion. HOLE IN" MAINE FOUND BY NEWSPAPER REPORTER. During the Spanish-American War an enterprising New York pa- per sent a special tug to tho harbor har-bor where lay the ruins of the Maine. A reporter In diving armor went to the bottom of the bay to learn what caused the sinking of the battleship ami the death of its crew. When ho flashed back to hl3 paper tho evidence showed tho explosion ex-plosion was not from the interior and was caused either by a torpedo torpe-do or mine, tho story was sent throughout the United States. Many people credited this publication with moving Congress to declato "war on Spain. When the Titanic sank in the Atlantic, a reporter for a certain newspaper was aboard the Cnrpa-thla, Cnrpa-thla, the ship that went to the rescue. res-cue. By wireless ho flashed brief stories of the wreck and in the trip to New York, spent nlsht and day writing his story When the fhip was In a few miles of fho port, a steamer a tug sent by his paper went out to meet him and 'ike his story. When the captain of the Carpa-thla Carpa-thla realized what was to happen, he told the reporter he could not leave the ship. But the newspaperman newspa-perman was prepared for that emergency, just ns all reporters re prepared to meet emergencies, When the tug drew alongside tho great ship, the reporter, knocking aside several sailors, mountedx to the rail of tho ship and threw hl3 story to the deck of the waiting launch Into the hands of the eager reporters below. The enptain outwitted, the newspaper news-paper launch sailed triumphantly away with what would havo been one of tho greatest stories tho world has ever known, had the reporter re-porter not become excited and missed the great essentials. , In the great Iroquois Theater fire, where hundreds of peoplo were killed, reporters worked night and day amid the ghastly scenes gathering gath-ering news for their papers. After two weeks of work practically without with-out sleep or proper food, many of the newspaper men became exhausted ex-hausted and spent several weeks in bed before they recovered. RISKS LIFE TO GET NAMES OF GIRLS FN FIRE. Other reporters have risked their lives in big conflagrations either to get the news or to aid in rescue Work. It was only a few years ago that a reporter In a Western town went Into a building to get tho names of the girls trapped In a loft cn Ihe ninth floor and establish the identity of an elevator operator who was making regular trips bringing out the llvlncr. The reporter became lost In the smoke and fell unconscious. His aid, a reporter on the same paper, missing his companion, who promised prom-ised to be back in a minute, went through the smoke-filled room with flames crackling about him and burning timbers falling, and rescued res-cued his companion. Blount Is one of the few great Richard Harding Davlses of the nowspaper world. He was a member of a wealthy family, and as such the field of his 1 ' activity was limited to social teas I and other unexciting things to which society people are subject. His life was one round of dressing dress-ing for this or that function and U acting according to prescribed rules k Just as if he were an automaton. Blount tired of such life, and Jlke many another wealthy wanderer wan-derer decided to make his own way through the world. Ho succeeded as a war correspondent, although failing In financial adventures. In thirty years of wandering. Blount has made and lost several fortunes, but his one steady source of income was from newspaper work. He has covered many wars, among them the Mexican trouble. He is now touring tho United States and Canada, sending descriptions descrip-tions of this country back to his London newspaper. Just as Dlcken did many years aso. |