Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-21


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Thomas A. otetens mas been COM
missioned by the New York World to
go to Africa and find Stanley and Emin
Bey, and incidentally to make himself
acquainted with all the details of the
Arab slave trade, This is the gentle
man who went round the world on n
bicycle for that lively magazine. Out
ing, and his perseverance, courage
and pronptitude of resource are as
conspicuous as the same qualities in
Henry Nj. Stanley. He goes by the
way of Zanzibar, and has acquired n
fund of information respecting the
regions he will have to traverse, that
has been published by the World, and
forms very interesting residing. 1t
seems that the table land beyond the
frontiers Of Zanzibar is occupied by
the NASSAU, people who are thorough
tree-booters and whose way of living
has something in it that recalls the
heroes of Homer, and is much more
Hellenic than moral The territory of
these Moon men, as they call them
selves, reaches to the eastern shores
of the Victoria Nyanza, and marches
with the land of Uganda, which is now
in possession of the Arabs. Ste vens
proposes to get through these hostile
countries somehow, but one does not
quite understand upon what he bases
his hopes of success, and this informa-
ton shows that Stanley was right in
choosing the western route in spite of
its delays. Single travellers may slip
through from Zanzibar without great
difficulty, but an expedition bearing
supplies seems certain of being plum
dered, if not massacrced, either
among the NASSAU or in Uganda.
The new gospel of humanity had a
stirling illustration in Philadelphia a
few days ago. The woman's branch
OF the society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals presented gold
medal to Keeper Shannon of the Zoo.
for bravery in entering the hyena's
cage and preventing one of them
from choking to death on a piece OF
meat. The hyenas were only recently
made captive, and it was only by the
exercise of a good deal of agility that
Shannon, aided by the head keeper,
Bryne, escaped serious injury. 1t is not
long since the effort to protect docile
and useful animals from cruel treat
ment was regarded as a foolish craze,
and even pessimists will admit that
the world is growing better when men
will risk injury from noxious and dan
gerous animals to save their lives, end
get gold medals for doing it.
Lille Devereux Blake said at the
woman's suffrage meeting in Washing
ton: men speak of the inferiority of
women. Why, woman's money fitted
out the boats that brought the discov-
erers over to America; woman's money
fitted out the Mayhower; the American
flag was designed by woman, and
the American national bird is hen!
Yes, it is. You have all heard of the
famous war eagle, ''Old Abe" who
accompanied u Wisconsin regiment
all through the war. Well, after the
fighting was all over, "Old Abe" was
taken to Madison in the state Of Wis
consin, to end his days in honorable
retirement; and he spent all his leis-
ure time in laying eggs" 1t is prob
able that the walls of the sacred edifce
never before echoed such screams of
laughter as this splendid thrust
evoked.
California thinks it ought to be
represented in President Harrisons
cabinet, because that state is the geo.
graphical center of the United States.
Geographically this is true. The most
eastern point OF the United States Is
Quadley Head Me-, while the extreme
western point of this country is Alton
one of the islands of the Aleutian arch.
ipelago. off Alaska. Strange to say,
California lies midway between these
sv
miles. 1t is hard to see how General
Harrison can resist this clinching ar.
gument, and no doubt would be
anxious TO give California the desired