Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08
EMIN PASHA.
A DIAN WHO HAS ATTRa CrEp
WORLD-wInE ATTENTION.
Tho Remarkable Career OF an
Austrian Who Devoted Hts LILO
10 African Civilization
Stanley Sent 20 His Relief

heicrrlng to tho report that Emin
Iasha, the courageous Governor Of
fgypts equatorial provinces, was II cap.
tive in tho hands of Khalifa Abdullah,
tho Soudancso insurgont leader, better
known us tho Mahdi, Harper's Weekly
says:
Emin Pasha is in many ways most
remarkable and interesting man, and
even apnrt from the exciting circum-
stances which have lately concentrated
attention upon him, he would deserve
TO bc mentioned among the foremost of
those who have devoted their lives to
African civilization. According to tho
accounts given in German geographical
publications, his numo IS Edward
schnitzer, and he was born ut Oppcln,
in Silcsia, March %, l4o. Two years
later his parents removed to Ncissc
where his father died in 1Si7, AID his
mother remarked. At the Catholic
school in that town he was taught from
his tenth to his eighteenth year, and
developed strong love for natural his
tory i'll many of its forms. Thence he
went to tho University OF urcslau, where
his scientific apt tudcs and love of max
ing collections of birds, insects and so
on, were fostcrcd. lie chose medicine
rs his profession, and from Breslnu went
to Rerlin. Eager for new scenes and OK.
pcricnccs, he established himself in ga
us Turkish government doctor in Al
Danin, aud six years later was medical
officer i'll mn expedition 10 syiin and
Arabia. Other pcditions carried him
to various parts of tho Ottoman Emp 70.
When, accordingly, Gordon was in
trusted by the khcdivo with the Charge
oil Egypts provinces in the upper Milo
region, 1t was not strange To lind DIR.
Emin assigned as memler of his stall /;
md when Gordon WINS called away to
khnrtoum, Emin hey, rs hts rank was ut
that time, had already shown himself so
capable MS an administrator that Gordon
placed in his charge. with entire con
tidcnce, the province lying near tho
equator.
or the progress of events in Central
Africa during the last six years we need
not speak in detail. 1t is sufficient to
shy that when Mohammcd Ahmed, the
so-cnllcd Ainhdi, under whom the sue
ccssful Sondan insurrcciion was carried
out, began TO extend his sway down tho
Nile, he also pressed Em;n Toy in the
equatorial province The defeat of ticks
Pasha and the massacre of his command,
Gordon's return up the Nile 10 | liar
toum. and Lord Wolseley's campaign in
the SOudnn to rescue Gordon, with the
British operations around Suakin, for Il
long time ver,cd general attention
from Emin. Indeed he was for about
three years shut oil from communication
with the outer world. At length Rus
sim traveller DIR. William Junker, brought
through 10 /anzibar the news that Enin
had been gradually forced up the Nile
yielding station altcr station, and wns
established Mt Wndelai, not far from
Lake Albert Nyanza, where he was
Threatened by hostile natives on the
I south and by the Mudhi's forces on the
north. This news came in the hitter
part OF the Year 1888, and MS soon ns
practicable n relief expedition wns
organized under Henry NJ. Stanley
Much difference of opinion was cx-
many persons urging that the start
ley. however, was strongly in fnvor Of
the Congo route, md that was the one
adopted. Early in June, 1887, Stanley
started up The Aruwimi mn important
branch of the Congo. a reserve camp
nj 'rumbuga was established, and then
with picked force he plunged into the
wilderness to make his way to Wndclni
and the relief of Emin. From The mid
summer of 1887 to the close OF 1855
nothing authentic has been heard from
linn, although there has bcrn many dis.
quoting rumors. Ills reserve force
under Ma or I,nrtteloi, followed on his
trail during the past year, but before
much progress had been made l;nriirlut
was killed by one Of the natives in his
command. and the expedition was s;nt
tered: and soon aficrwnrd lame on. The
second in communal, returning to the
Congo for aid, died of fever.
Meanwhile Emin had been rcrcatctlly
heard from. One letter gave The vel
come news that tho ing of gnuda, ut
the south. was less hostile to II IN than
had been feared; other letters showed
that i halifa Abdullah, the new midi
was not pressing him. So TINT he was no
longer between two fires. Still anothc
letter indicated That King Mwnnga had
! allowed the Arab Mnhomct Biri 10 cnrry
, goods and provisions to Emin. one
letter showed that the negroes. by care.
lcSsncss. lad burned the town of
Wadclai, but Emn wns nndnunicd in
/ spirit ana rebuilt it. Indeed. when he
learned that Stanley was a'iout 10 sue.
cor him. he expressed the greatest de.
termination not to quit his post. Pres.
emily IL was learned that he was about
to be absent from his sutton to explore
the Kakibbi River.
1t il said TINT the Mnhdi has conquered
all the equatorial province; and thee is
no reason why. if fmin was captured Mt
I.ado. The Mahdi's forces should not
march up the Me and take Wadclni--
unless. indeed. Stanley was let behind
by Emin to hold it. But even if The
success of Arab fanaticism is complete
the Soudnncsc negroes will not wholly
forget what Emin has done for them.
The Box Elder.
This tree some years since had n grca,
boom, not only for its hardness. but