The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Young Mans Long Trip.

BY the time this letter reaches Won or
within Il few days afterward, you will
have with YOU in America a. young Eng
!ishman, who proposes to take a novel
Tourney }o9 says London letter to the
lishman is Harry de Windt, and his
Journey will be from America to Europe
by land. 1t will take him two years,
cost him $4,000, and he will be the first
man who has ever performed it. From
tins 1t will be gathered without diff
Guilty that Mr.. de Windt is a man of
leisure and a practical traveller. This is
true. II. tact as an amateur explorer he
has not many superiors, for he has just
returned from trip through Siberia, in
which he inspected the Siberian prisons,
and bis first journey was from Pekin to
Calais by land. He comes of a we'll
known family and is partially of French
descent. His sister married Bajah
Brooke of Sarawak. The idea of the
Nikolaiefsk, Siberia, by Capt. James
Adair Of the American sealing schooner
Ada. with whom he discussed the ques-
ton of the longest possible journey by
land, Capt. Adair said that he had
crossed Behring straits seven times on
ice. and. counting that as land, the jour
new from New York to Paris would be
as long a one as man would care to
take. The idea struck Mr.. de Windt
as novel, and he asked Capt. Adair if
he would accompany him on such trip;
the captain, with true Yankee spirit,
jumped at the offer, and the bargain was
struck.
Mr.. de Windt's party for the journey
will consist of himself and Capt. >Adair,
and Mr.. de Windt's servant, George
Harding, who has accompanied him on
all his trips, and his escort, which will
be procured at Vancouver by Capt.
Adair, will consist of some thirty Indians
and half-breeds, all well armed, for the
journey through Ala ska will be a danger
Gus one. especially at Cooks inlet, not
on account of the natives, but the min
ers. Mr.. de Windt said to your CORE
spondent:
MY plan. roughly, is to make my way
slowly across America, to reach the Pa
cifc coast and while waiting for favor
able weather to complete my party.
shall stay in Vancouver for three weeks;
be Joined there by Capt: Adair and my
end of March. Leaving Sitka and pass
ing Mount St. Elias. I shall penetrate
the unknown portions of Alaska and
after reaching Nulato, 300 miles from
Prince of Wales cape (the most westerly
point Of America) nothing can possibly
be heard of ME for eight months-that is
to say until l have traversed Alaska,
East cape (the most westerly point of
Asia) and reached Yakoutsk in Eastern
Siberia-a distance of not less than 5000
miles. During great portion of this
section of the journey shall have to live
underground. The wind storms, known
as bourga, will be d serious danger, be-
cause while they last there is a chance
too, will be terrible. r shall have four
months Of darkness at Anadyrsk in
Eastern Siberia, n point two months
journey from Behring straits. l leave
civilization at Sitka british Columbia)
and return to it at Irkoutsk, six months
Journey from Behring straits and within
300 miles Of the Chinese frontier"
Behring sea will be crossed with the
aid of sledges, and the journey will take
ten days or so. as the ice hummOcks
make progress very difficult The jour
ney will be the longest, most difficult and
dangerous that Mr.. de Windt has ever
undertaken, and he will cover not less
than 10000 miles.
Blessings Oh that manly doctor who
came out boldly not so very long ago
and said that children need candy! Girls
always knew it, but their opinion was
considered prejudiced: In the interest
of those who like to have authority in
UcSI u1stuS dUOul CuuOy anu
this is what the sensible doctors say:
"Children need reasonable amount
of sweet things. Their craving for can
dy is natures own signal that she wants
it to work with. But there is candy and
candy. That which does so much dam
age to the teeth is the hard sticky, sweet
kind, that has to be bitten and cllewed.
Chocolate is most wholesome. Why, in
Europe chocolate is sold everywhere at
railway stations and is used extensively
by travellers for what hey call *.snacks,'
being preferred by them to stale sand
witches and sawdust cakes. 1t lasts them
just as long and is much more agreeable.
If you have a toothache after eating
candy use your tooth brush and rinse
the mouth thoroughly. Avoid highly
colored candy. 1t is apt not to be pure.
Good candy is good for good boys and
girls and it is good, it is SO, isn't it?'--
Brooklyn Eagle.