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COSM0P0LITANISlI.
WHAT TRAVELLERS AND Expl oRFRe
ARE DOING FOR THE WORLD.

s~ Ofa NvOhIO.
Use of Arctic Observation-Disclosures Of
boiha-a Forty Years Ago-Cyclins Over
q Couple OF Cortinents-What win be
tho End.
Haec2el Il his recent travels in Ceylon tells
Us OF the happy Cinghalese, who lies oil day in
nus bungalow, occasionally cracking parasites
to accommodate a 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
to his environments. Emerson wrote 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
whistling Of birds. The Bomoos have no
proper names; individuals are called after
their height Or thickness, or have nlcknan1es
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 viii through many nations" To-day
the Bornoos are overrun by westward popu-
Iation of Mohammcdan tribes; and free
State of Congo is near at hand, manned By
ctSlECIlOlItSi1i I-AlDLJGet-lo Anu lItoc IODT
Cinghalese hardly comprehend what a visit
from Haccllel means. 1t 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 expo
citionsl They involve untold suffering; and
really they can never hope to reach the pole.
-ha nj, j. +hos
there is another kingdom to conquer he viii
not sit down to childish tears. 1t is not the
pole that is of any valuo, but the effort to
find the pole. Riding in the cars the other
day fell in with plain fellow with ideas.
He had special interest in an open polar sea-
He believed in such a sea- Ee longed to live
to know it was discovered. He demonstrated
this open sea to me- 1 felt convinced that
there YVES such a sea. Had it not enlarged
this mans imagination and sharpene6 bis
wits? He sailed on it every other day of his
life It held the islands of his satisfaction;
the warm current of his emotions At home
he was q blacksmith, with half acre of gar
den stuff But be hsd taken stock in the
islands OF tho open polar sea, and was o COS
rnopoiitan.
THEN AND Row.
In 1874 The New York Tribune published
this letter. "To all the nonarchs of Europe
SIREs: / set out for Bokhara to ransom the
lives Of two officers, Stoddard and Connolly,
but both of them were murdered many
months previous to my departure; and / do
not know when this blood Of mine shall be
spilled lido not supplicate for my own safety;
but, monarchsl 200, 900 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 rcuch-Joseph
Wolf" Today, forty-two years from that
time, The Outing prints for mo q letter from
q young Yankee, dated in that same Box
hara, who is taking q pleasure outing on 4
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.
LILY ideal of a traveller IS this young fellow |
cycling il around she world and writing let |
tiers to Ne7v York and Boston as the binocular
hub Of creation. He is one OF the new type |
Of cheery, happy, resoluta fellows made By |
the better sort OF athletics ard sports. 4
dozen rnen-of-war and q dozen armies could /
not conquer Is gran,gy, though they should !
cooperate. II IS not the mere cycling over q !
couple OF continents; it is the peaceable and
generous pathway he cra.5es among hostile
people, and through lands considered impassa-
bic. There IS no question but we are breed |
ing O more resclGte and hearty lot Of young
folks. who viii conquer the world by cheerful
acts OF good VIII, more thoroughly than their
ancestors did with brute force.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
The standard traveller Of twenty-five years |
AGO invariably fogged dragomen, growled |
about backsheash and tips; but invariably |
told whenever he refused to giye-in fact, he |
kicked his lordly way around The earth, |
through the outside heather, and came home |
to write up his Qualifications. The best |
travellers we have had, by long odds, were |
missionaries. These men gave Us most excel |
lent ard readable books, although not ell of |
them could see tho peoples q tho earth III any |
other light than as creatures sure Ot eternal |
perditicn, unless they could be converted to |
Yankee commentaries on Hebrew scriptures.
Thompson gave US the best book on Palestine;
Livingstone we all know and have recognized /
rs the discoverer of n continent 1t was |
equally trua Of China, India, Turkey, west |
orn Asia. western Africa aud the Pacific |
islands, that religious enterprise and mission |
airy good sense gave US the most readable &C
counts The fact was, these good men became !
cos2c poiitans. Going oC5 tC convert others, |
they were by inperceptible changes, them |
selves converted 10 broader views OF huinani- |
ty, ard sometimes a broader Christianity.
Have YOU ever considered what viii be the |
end OF this cosmopolitan tendency? The /
present race distinctions are fading out The |
confusion Of tongue is nOw 2 daily miracle.
Il hundred brogles are conjoined in OF
American speech. The world is slowly learn !
ing common languages; this must erd at last
in single language. The ultimate human |
stock will include the enterprise OF the later |
races with the conservatism of the older.-"E, /
z. p" in Gl)bc-pemocrat.
Public Sentiment Rare IN Fra-1ce.
Public sentiment. There's the rub! 1t is a
rarity in rance There can be, on occasion, |
plenty q public fury, as when, in the old |
DAYS, they kept tao guillotine busy choppins |
heads: and plenty Of public effervescent en- /