The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-20
WHAT TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
ARE DOING FOR THE WORLD

Use Ct Arctic EIpeditions-King,iom Of
Eo1.hara Forty Years Aso-Cyeling Over
Couple of Coutinents.Whst viii be
the Ead.
.ia2e&ei IN his recent travels in Ceylon tells
u'of ttl" happy Cmshalese, who lies all iay in
hN bungalow, Occasionally crarking parasites
I" arctinHlste q neishbor and knowing ma
"atitN. The hlea II travel has never entered
His Head His world is lOO miles square. t.r-
hdlS ohly tsh Ills brains AMI Wit currssp. mi
ail' environments Emerson wrote a few
years ago In the itsarts II Boryo,. III.
rurh Tiihp"o> still dwell in caves. IL. ,hs
swallows, anal the language II th.~s negross
Is Sro'ntaf"t 10 tn" >hrleklng ot bats and the
NhlN,IhG "f blrS The Bonrss have no
proper names; individuals are eall.Si after
'IHlr h'i5lt az Thickness, or have nickname,
e!Is but TIM salt, the dates, the ivory. the
CONT "i the~' regions, tind their WAY into
COUNTRIES "h're nnn write laws, ami execute
tt"lf VIII through many nations" To-day
the b'nI'.> arr oSrrrun by a westward popu
Iuion ~ Mohamm,tlan tribes, and free
State of Congo II near ut hand manned by
cosmopolitan EuropHn,. And tho,, paor
tmS!iit>" hardly comprehend what "A wit
from iiarkrl means. 1t i, nothing less than
The INVASION III II c,~naIA,lltanlsm that looks
on til" whole world II, brain property, and
turns TN. plants aipi ~a>hells of hl, i,lani,
mt" data for counting progress
lat l. the Use Of Artle exploring expe-
ditl"n>' They involve untold Suffering; and
really they can never hope To reach the pole
w" \allh' l. this, that ~ long as man knows
tIHi" II another kingdom Ia conquer he will
r"t ~ down To- rhlbihh tears Ii i. not tn.
loh' that j. 1T an, value, hut the effort u
trrl the l"l". Riding Ia the ears the other
daH tell IN with II plain fellow with IDEAS
II" hhi Nl.eitl interest IN an open polar s+a
lie l"llrNrd in such n >a He longed to live
tn know u was discovered lie demonstrated
THIS nl"n Nra Ia me. | felt convinced that
there was Such IA sea Had it not enlarged
thIN mans imagination and sharlened his
Wits lie sailed un 1t every other day of his
ht" II held the Islands " his sati,faction
tlle warm current of hi, emotions At home
he was blacksmith, with half acre VI gar-
den stutf. but hr hal taken stock in the
Islands ot tn open polar sea, and was COS.
nololitan
THEN AND Now
In 1914 The New York Tribune published
this hti,r To all the nonarchs Of EuroIs,-
SiRfS. ST aut for Bokhara to ransom the
i've, ol two officers, Stuilard and Connolly,
lut both Of them were murdered many
months previous to my departure, ami l do
not know Wien this hlood Of mine shall be
splhd ldnnot supplltate for my own safety;
but monarchs' a1nD Persian slaves, many
Of them people Of high talent sigh in the
kingdom ot Bnkhara Endcavor to effect
then hirration ami | shall rejoice in my
gray" that my blood has been the cause Of
the rn,,n uf ~ many human beings | am
tob nt II agitat,d and too much watched
h. ,l,, t. ln ahlc 10 write much Joseph
N"Il To-day, forty two years from that
tim, Thu outnI prints for me letter from
II Nuua- Yankee, dated IN that same Box.
hart who +; taking a pleasure outing ON
hhNcr around the world Hi, head is not
N danger from unNthing else 81 much US from
tenn! TIM lI,n 1T the day wherever be trolls
his wheel
VI, ii al vt a Traveller is this young fellow
cycling Il around the world and writing let
t,rl tr New York AMI Boston as the hinucular
huh ot creation H. is ono Of the new type
Of chrory, happy. rsoutc fellows made by
the h'ttyr >''lt of athletics anl sports a
doh',I lrrIt of var and "a dozen armies could
not conquer rs granEy, though they should
cu.up,ri II i, not the mere cyclAg over a
c,lltlo ol continents, it is the ITaceabe AMI
y,nrruu. pathway h. creates among hostile
Ia,iIlr. au tnru.h land, considered lInpassa
iI" Ilt'rr IS No question but W. are breed
ing a mor rc,outc and hearty lot Of young
folks who viii conquer the world by cheerful
act of yuul Will more thoroughly than their
ancestors dh with brute force.
TWENTY fIvE yEAas AGO
The standard Traveller Of twenty five years
age invariably iloggrd dragOmen, growled |
almu lnrh,hr,'~h and tips; but invariably
told Whenever hr refused to give in fact, he
kicked hi, lurlv way around the earth,
through the outside hrathen, and came home
e. write up his self glorlllcatlOns. The best
tra,rlrr.. w., have had, by long odds, were
mis,unalp', These men gave Us most excel |
lent anl readable books, although not all Of
them could ,,,' thu peoples Of the earth IN any
Other .ht than rs creatures sure VI eternal
prlitiun uul,". thrv could be converted to |
Nalks, cunlnrntalie, on Hebrew scriptures.
Thoul,,,n CAV, H. the best book on Palestine,
Lnug,iut, Nc all know ami have recognized
n the di,rUyrr,r IT continent IL was
equally trl, Of china. India, Turkey, west
ern A.u. western Africa AMI the Pacific /
islands. that religious enterprise and mission
ary good ,,,ll> gave u- the most readable &c
count, The tact was, these good men became
cosnIulmIitrn~ Gong out to convert others,
they were hv imprrtrptiblo changes. them
nly,. converted to broader views OF hunanl-
ty, and sometime, "A broader Christianity.
Hnu. vutl ever considered what will b. the
end uf TIN. cosmopolitan tendency The
present race distinctions are fading out. lhe
confusion IT tongue Is now daily miracle.
a hundred hru.ur- are cohJonet IN our
American .p.t'L The world is slowly learn
iu.,runuuu languages this must end at last
in "A sp.lr an.ua-. The ultimate human
stu.k vii nrluc the enterprise of the later
ra,,> with thu conservatism If the older. e /
1 /. il Glub Democrat.
putiir sentiment Rare In France.
pulip...lttils,nt There's the rub, 1t Is .
rarity ~ France There can be, on occasion,
plenty Of public fury, a when. IN the Old
day4, ,hry kc,t tue g,IillOtine busy choppins
l., all: ai.l plenty Of public efferveseent en-
flu,,ip.m a, when nowadays. with much
:nr,I,t,. II military and burning Of gun
powder. th,, celebrate their llth oi
July: Lut Il .alln. -U.ttine'l effective pubhc
sltul.M th,r. j., d,arth Look at ths
a,Inrl,l,. u:,, IN wh,h in plain public sight,