Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09
"A TRUE ROMANCE.

who's experiences in South Africa are oil
J rather romantic character. EARLY in the
eighties Henry Moore lived near Corinth,
Miss, and was shiftless sort Of fellow.
He gathered courage enough to shift from
there, however, and climbing on tho end
Of railroad train managed to ride blind
baggage to Denver. Ho spent some time
In Colorado, then drifted to the Arizona
gold6elds, lounged in the everlasting sun
shine of Mexico for while and one day
found himself at Galveston. There he
drlfted on board n sailing ship and the
ship drifted him to the eastern coast Of
Africa.
Hero he found there was gold to be had
without the digging. When the ship got
to Liverpool he spent all his wages in trim
kets and worked his way back to Africa
on another ship. His exploits from the
time no Ia uded the second time throw those
Of Livingstone and Stanley entirely In the
shade, for they went armed, with retinue
of followers, with baggage wagons and
tents, cOmmissary department and cooks.
All alone, with as big pack 40 no could
carry, he started from tho east coast in q
direct line for the west. He disappeared
in the so called impsnetrable forests and
was heard no more of for over yeGT.
Not that there was any inquiry after him,
for he was not a newspaper explorer and
had, in fact, kept his project secret.
1t was something over year before hO
was again seen by one of his race or heard
his native tongue. He got back to tho
hY,E 1ntn inn fc Ia
had string of Camels and donkeys to
carry it and 1t had grown to goOdly size.
There were ivory tusks in itand gold mug
gets and precious stones and curious things
mover seen before. All by himself he had
gone nearly l 900 miles into the interior
and "bin doin right smart O. tradinwith
the coons," he modestly said
inject any savages?' he was asked.
mostly all savages, was the quiet re-
ply.
"And cannibals?'
eyes, they is most all cannibals, but
nary a one NV 'em ever eat me an l am
here to prove 1t. ="
This is what he said when he got back
to Corinth, some time later. What ho did
when no got his goods to the coast was to
get them and himself on to ship, and at
Liverpool he disposed Of them. With a
small part of the money he invested in
still larger pack, and again went into the
wilds of Africa, but this time with dom
keys and camels and native servants. He
passed through Mashonaland and to the
nOrthward. He carried many bundles Of
matches, and when he dCftly and swiftly
swung his right hand upward past his
thigh, and fire was the result, the natives
were ready to worship the flrelnakor. Ho
also took few firearms. Whom he Camo
to large village on the morning Of fes-
tiyal, he had the ruler informed that he
could kill man, and nobody would
know "what had struck him." The king
was curious about this and ordered out
one Of his young chiefs to be experiment
cd upon. Moore said his machine would
work just as we'll upon a COW, and an ami
NAL intended for slaughter was placed 300
yards away, which dropped dead when
struck by Moore's bullet. Moore said he
could have had bigger piece of land than
tho whole of the state Of Mississippi, and
its live stock thrown in, for that rifle, but
he could only bargain for things that he
could carry away with him. Some time
after that, however, he did receive dona-
ton of land about 20 miles square from
one of these African kings in tho interior
and sold half interest in it to an English
syndicate for nearly 81, 600, 900.
Moore got back to COrinth in 1887 and
has been going and coming between Africa
and this country ever since. When Chat
tanooga had land boom, he went there
and asked the price Of large tract. The
price was $40, 600.
but how much cashP' asked Moore.
He bargained it down to $4,000 and
gave check for that amount on San
Francisco bank. The land dealer laughed
at it, but on telegram being sent to San
Francisco on which the check was drawn
replied, Moore good for $3.50, 000."
Moore has 5000, 600 in government
bonds, and large accounts with several
banks He is not married, and his family
connections are all poor people-thAt is,
they we're poor before he returned. He has
sent his brothers two daughters to a fash
ionable boarding school and given eAch a
bank account Of $50, 1000. He has also
taken his brothers boy and sent him to
school. To the rest Of his family and in
innate friends he has also been liberal.
II have in my possession, said Mr..
Walker, "a piece of seaweed that Moore
brought from the Red sea, picked up near
the spot where Pharaoh's army tried to
CROSS"
This proves the wonderful romance to
be perfectly true. - Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer.