The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-09-17
COSH0P0LITANISN.
Ws,sT. TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
AT. DOING FOR THE WORLD.

Csc OF ..-ctfc ExpoGisions-t1irgdo Of
Eok:lara Forty Years Ago-cycling Over
o Couple O. Continents--what Will be
the End aFaH t.ss45@ sa
I'd Haeckel in his recent travels in Ceylon tells
usof tho happy Cinghalese, who hes all day in
his bungalow, occasionally cracking parasites
TO accommodate Iieighbor .and knowing no
I wants The idea Of travel has never entered
his head. His world is 1D0miies 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
whBtling of birds The Bomoos have no
proper names; individuals are called after
their height or thickness, or have nicknanles
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" To-day
the Bomoos are overrun by a westward popu-
lation of Mohammedan tribes; and free
State of Congo is near at hand, manned by
cosmopolitan Europeans. And those poor
Cinghalese hardly comprehend what visit
from Haeckel 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 expe-
ditions! 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 ths
pole that is of any value, but the effort to
find the pole. Riding ia the cars 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 sea. Had 1t not enlarged
this mans imagination and sharpened his
wits? He sailed on it every other day of his
life. 1t held the islands of his satisfaction:
the warm current of his emotions At home
he was blacksmith, with 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 1914 The New York Tribune published
this letter: "Fo all the Inonarchs of Europe
SIREs: set out for Bokhara to ransom the
lives of two officers, Stoddard and Conolly,
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 slpplicsste for my own safety;
but, monarchs 3O0, 900 Persian slaves, many
of them people of high talent, sigh in the
kinrtlarl of Bokhara. Endeavor to effect
their i; ,c-a:ioa, and I shall rejoice in my
grave taI' iay blood has been the cause of
the ralr;oli +. ~ EE,ny human beings. / am
too much agitated, and too much watched
besides, to be able to write muck.--Jossph
Wolf" To-day, forty-two years from that
time, TiFs Datisis5 prints for ING u letter frum
a youn.s Yatkee, dated in that same Box.
hara, who is taking a pleasure outing on
bicycle :.:vri;ist the wosld. His head is not
in danger f.on anything else SO much as from
being tn, l;oi OF the day wherever he trolls
his wheel
Ny i'll ii of a traveller is this young fellow
cyclilr, / ara III the world and writing let
ters tn .,sw York and Boston as the binocular
hub o. ..,.s -: lie is one of the new type
of cherry. ..,s2,y resolute fellows made by
the lcsr.r so i Of athletics and sports. A
dozen A to,-war and a dozen armies could
not con i. + a. graa9y, though they should
co-oDerat,. Il il not the mere cycling over a -
couple of continents; it Is the peaceable and
generous; pathway he creates among hostile
people. and through laiads considered impassa-
hle There is 10 question but we are breed
ing more resolute ard hearty lot of young
folks, who will conquer the world by cheerful
acts of good will, more thoroughly than their
ancestors dill with b.Il2a force
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. :
The standard traveller of twenty-five years
ago Invariably fogged dragomen, growled
about bacllsheesh and tips; but invariably
told whenever he refused to give-in fact, he
kicked his lordly way around the earth.
through the outside heathen, and canle home
to write up his Qualifications. The best
travellers we have had, by long odds, were
missionaries These men gave us most excel
lent and readable books, although not all of
them could see the peoples of the earth In any
other light thar as creatures sure of eternal
perdition, 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
as tho discoverer of q continent. 1t was
equally true Of China, India, Turkey, west
ern Asia, western Africa and the Pacific
islands, that religious enterprise and mission
ary good sense gave us the most readable ac-
counts The fact was, these good men became
cos,nopolitans. Going out to convert others,
they wcre by imperceptible changes, them
selves converted to broader views of hlmani-
ty, and sometimes broader Christianity.
Have you ever considered what win be the
end of this cosmopolitan tendency! The
present race distinctions are fading out. The
confusion of tongue is now daily miracle.
A hundred broglles are conjoined in our
American speech. The world is slowly learn
ing common languages; this must end at last
In single language. The ultimate human
stock viii include the enterprise of the later
races with the conservatism of the oldeF.-"E.
p. Pr in Globe Democrat.