Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-05-25
SOME FREAKS OF FATE.
InglOri0ns findings Of ulnsfrious
Careers and of Many Of Worlds
Celebrated Men.

ss ~ ny. Stduoi dles nave Deen the obituaries
printed Of Professor Gurie during the
last week or ten days that it would be-
|superf1ous to say anything more of his
career further than to express the
opinion that he was undoubt edly the
greatest scientist of the age man
who could i'll be spared by humanity
on Of those master minds that have,
brought light into the world. Some
papers, and American ones at that, do
not hesitate even to declare that his
death was q greater misfortune to man
kind than the recent calamity at san;
Francisco, for the reason that the po-
tentlal aid OF radium in combating can
Ger, alone compensates, from the broad
human viewpoint the tragedy, of any
war, rthquake or fire. Yet radium
was but one of Curie's discoveries,
and engaged as he was at the time Of
| MS "a death In further exhaustive re-
searches. there is no knowing what
other hidden elements of nature he
would have been able to reveal to us,
i mad ma ne not been run over by the
brewers dray.
Yet such fates as thar BY which he
| mas been oYertaken are by no means
rare among men who have made for
themselves IN a name in history Indeed,
tate seems sometimes to delight in
reserFing the most inglorious endings
TOR the most bril- liant of careers. Who
can forget the case of that German
scientist and explorer. DIR. Schnitzler,
VINO was SO Infinitely better known
| by his Turkish name of Enain Pasha !?
When both England and Egypt with
drew from the Soudan in 1883, rather
i;Aaahdi, Emin, who was governor of one
Iof the most impor tant provinces. de-
lcllned to withdraw on the ground that
he could not bring himself to abandon
Ito the sayagery of the derYishes ali
those natives who had remained faith
ful to his rule people whom he had
learned to love and admire. and who
were far too numerous to be sent out
lof the country. For several years
Emin was cut off from all intercourse
with the outer world !. The idea Of
this white man fighting all alone in
Central Africa for the cause of civil
Ization against barbarii SIN. without any
support or encourag cement from with
fout, ended by appealing not only to-
his countrymen but to ali Europe and
America. Popular sent demanded
that he should no longer be left to his
fate. costly expedition was equipped
and Sir Henry Stanley after q march
+ from the west coast OF Africa lasting
nearly a year. came up with E1rlin On
the banks of the Nile near Iado, hard
pressed by the Mahdi but still able to
lhold his own. AS E1nin absolutely re-
/ fused to be rescued. or to desert his
I post, Stanley resorted Sto the heroic
measure Of taking him away against
\ MS VII at the same time encouraging
| all the natives who had remained IoyaI
1 to- low him In his march to the east
fcoast OF the dark consiI emit.
The rescue expedi ton III timateIy
reached Monb asa, the English seaport
on the African shore Of the indian
ocean, where Ernin was oyerWhel
wan banquets and dinners. 1T was on
lone Of these Festive occasions that
Eniin cropping his way along dark
icorridor,s walked out of "a Is second
story window into space ana broke;
his neck thus dying lii the most in
glorious fashion. before he could even
start on his Journey back to Europe!
Equal strange was the death Of
that other great African explorer.
Captain John Speke, who rediscoyered
the sources of the Nile for they had
been known to the ancient and who
flrst brought to- our knowledge the
existence Of these great inland seas.
Lake Tanganyika and the Victoria
lNyanza After having experienced
Ehai Tbreadth escapes OF death from
ssav ges and wild beasts In the d ark
continent he returned home to Eng
land onIg to shoot himself accidentally
while NOTING al ~ Iilssfc 7ss