Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

who, with his wife, Is making a tour
Of the world in a motor car, believes
that already he has seen more of the
world and strange peoples than any
other individual man living. So far
he has travelled more than %, 100 miles,
and has visited thirty-four countries.
He has driven along the most north
crn road on the earth, and the most
southern road. In Australia and New
Zealand he has driven where h o
would nave been better had there
been nc road ut all. But he is already
convinced that the world was made
for motoring, and that the pastime of
the immediate future will be motor
ing around the world.
For pleasure there is nothing on
,arth like it." said Mr.. Glidden, in n
'ecent interview. For educating a
nan as to what the world is like and
what its peoples are doing nothing
:ould equal it."
Mr.. Glidden has taught two kings
how to drive a motor car, and has
left behind him a longing for the new
vehicle wherever he has been. He is
looking forward to the time when the
world will be laid down with special
motor car tracks, rallied like the rail
ways, and every man will be his own
train.
Hardly anything has surprised me
more" he said, than seeing the as
founding rapidity with Which the mo-
tor car IS making its way in the world.
It is everywhere. Mine was the first
to be seen in Fiji. Perhaps I shall
fnd a few places in Africa where one
il s. no. been before. But already the
mctor car is everywhere, and every
where it is being wanted.
when I landed in Fiji the natives
were very scared at first, and declared
that the father of all the devils had
fallen among them. l believe that in
Fiji the motor car will now always be
known by a native name, meaning
Sire Of SATAN But after had taken
King Ratu Kadavu Lew Roko TUT
Taileon for the first ride and then
given him a taste of speed, he wanted
to know whether 1 could go at sixty
miles an hour, and was quite disap-
pointed because I couldn't.
or. X. Lew R. T. Taileon, the king
OF the Fijians, is Il fine specimen OF
a modern king. He IS doing his best
for his people. His father was a
cannibal. He himself is a man Of
most polished and up-to-date manners,
and he is gifted with excellent com
mon sense. He still wears the bare
legs and little white apron of his
country, but above them he has Euro
pean dress, and he does not do his hair
in the grotesque native fashion. He
met me in an English check jacket
and w%aistcoat and cap to match, with
white apron and bare legs underneath.
For the instruction OF his people lie
got me to take many of them for
rides.
lone old aristocrat whom 1 drove
about admitted to having presided OF
no fewer than Al human feasts in his
earlier years. He looked it. He was
not good at arithmetic, and there were
NJ doubt many other festivals on hui
man dishes which he did not count
in with the Al. Whenever his mind
went back to those occasions, you
could see that he was reviving pleas
ant memories with evident relish. He
liked riding in my car, but I believe
he would have liked better to see me
nicely roasting. But c~annibaiism is
out Of fashion now in Fiji, and is only
INDUCED in on the SLY; the authorities
have practically put an end to it.
81 have just left a different sort of
monarch, the Sultan Of Java. He only
.asao,h1oc %J,o rn,Iov 80 Tho TSi;{,-. T.,
the length of his name. All I have of
1t is IS. P. ]. NJ. Toean Soesoehoeman
Pakoe Boewono Soerkarta A~dinigrant.'
+ But that, I believe, is only what he is
called for short. He did write the
whole Of it for me on a beautiful pho
tograph Of himself with which he pre-
scented me. By writing in a very
small and cramped hand he just man
aged to get it all in in six lines. Each
line is twelve inches long, and there
is no waste of room by having spaces
between the
But the Sultan Of Java has plenty
Of spare time on his hands. He can
afford to have a name like that. He
manages most Of the affairs which are
in any way involved with the religious
ideas Of the people; but the Dutch do
most Of the other work for him.
1--WE arrived at Sofa, the capital, on
a Friday and his majesty sent a
prince to meet me, and express his
royal regrets that the day being the
Mohammedan Sunday he could not see
me until Saturday, but we could visit
the palace. Our reception by him was
one OF the most wonderful ceremonies
ever conceived. The palace of the
Kraton stands in walled-in grounds
four miles uar Out of those
grounds the Sultan very rarely goes.
Until a couple of years ago he had
never seen the sea-, which is only fifty
miles away. The Queen had never seen
even the streets until she crossed them
on her wedding day. The buildings or
the palace consist almost entirely of
columns covered with immense roofs.
and with great ornamentations in gold
and silver.
"At the gates we were received by
the prince commandant OF the native
army. In the inner court we were
welcomed by q chorus of girls chant
ing. and a band playing on the pec,t-