Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-05
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WHAT TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
ARE DOING FOR THE WORLD.

Csc of Arctic observation-disclosures OF
Bokhars Forty Years Ago-Cyeling over
q Couple of ContiDents-what VIII be
the End.
Haeckel in his recent travels in Ceylon tells
is Of the happy Cinghalese, who lies ell day in
ais bungalow. occasionally cracking parasites
TO accommodate Il neighbor and knowing no
wants The idea Of travel has never entered
his head His world is 100 miles square, per
haps only ten. His brains and wit correspond
% his environments. Emerson wrote a few
years ago: In the deserts Of Borgoo, the
rock Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff
swallows and the language of these negroes
Is compared to the shrieking of bats and the
whistllng of birds. The Bomoos have no
proper names: individuals are called after
their height or thickness, or have niCknames
only. But the salt, the dates, the ivory, the
gold, Of these regions, find their way into
countries where men write laws, and execute
their will through many nations" Today
the BomooS are overTun by a westward popu-
ation of Mohammedan tribes: and a free
State of Congo is near at hand, manned by
cosmopolitan Europeans. And those poor
CinghaleSe hardly comprehend what a visit
from Hueckel means Il is nothing less than
the invasion of cosmopOlitanism that looks
on the whole world as brain property, and
turns the plants and seashells of his islands
into data for counting progress.
What is the Use of Arctic exploring expe-
litions! They involve untold suffering; and
really they can never hope to reach the pole
The value is this, that so long as man knows
there is another kingdom to conquer he will
not sit down to childish tears. 1t is not the
pole that Is of any value. but the effort to
find the pole Riding in the ears the other
day fell in with plain fellow with ideas
He had a special interest in an open polar sea
He believed in such sea. He longed to live
to know it was discovered He demonstrated
this open sea TO me. | felt convinced that
there was such a sea. Had it not enlarged
this mans imagination and sharpened his
wits. He sailed on it every other day of his
hfe. II held the islands of his satisfaction;
the warm current of his emotions. At home
be was blacksmith, with a half acre of gar
den stuff But he had taken stock in the
islands of the open polar sea, and was COS
mopolitan
THEN AND NOW.
In 1874 The New York Tribune published
this letter: ITO all the inonaTchs of Europe
SIRES: set out for Bokhara to ransom the
lives of two officers, Stoddard and Connolly,
but both of them We're murdered many
months previous 10 my departure; and | do
not know when this blood of mine shall lie
spilled. Idonot supplicate for my own safety;
but, monarchsl 3O0,O1 Persian slaves, many
Of them people of high talent, sigh in the
kingdom of Bokhara- Endeavor TO effect
their liberation, and shall rejoice in my
grave that my blood has been the cause of
the ransom of so many human beings | am
too much agitated, and too much watched
besides, to be able to write much.-Joseph
Wolf" To-day, forty-two years from that
time, The Outing prints for me letter from
a young Yankee, dated in that same Box
hara, who is taking a pleasure outing on
bicycle around the world His head is not
in danger from anything else so much as from
being the lion Of the day wherever he trolls
his wheel
Nv ideal Of traveller is this young fellow
cycling it around the world and writing let
ters to New York and Boston as the binocular
hub of creation He is one of the new type
Of CHEEKY, happy, resolute fellows made by
the better sort of athletics and sports A
dozen men-of war and a dozen armies could
not conquer as grnnfy, though they should
cooperate 1t is not the mere cycling over a
couple of continents; it is the peaceable and
generous pathway he creates among hostile
people, and through lands considered impassa-
BILE There is no question but we are breed
ing more resolute and hearty lot OF young
folks, who will conquer the world by cheerful
acts Of good will, more thoroughly than their
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