Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-11-21
Mountains Of the Moon.

Prince Luigi remained at home sew
eral years, a long time for man who
would rather ascend mountain than
a throne. The labors of authorship.
with his regular duties as an officer of
the italian navy, occunied the bulk OF
his time until he was ready to tackle
the tough proposition Il planting the
tricolored flag OF Savov on the still
undiscovered peaks Of he Mountains
Of the Moon. These eq'atorial heights
were talked about as long ago as He
rodotus, and Ptolemy referred to them
as containing the sources of the Nile.
but they were regarded as mythical
by modern geographers until Sir Sam
uel Baker got glimpse of one Of the
peaks In 1854 Twenty years later
Stanley saw two of the peaks overtop-
ping the almost perpetual mists In
which they are enshrouded, but 1t was
reserved for the Duke Of the Abruzzi
to climb the sixteen highest noun
tains of the range and to measure and
name them all, thereby solving the
geographical puzzle of the centuries.
1t is worthy of note that to none of
these discoveries did this modest
young explorer give his own name.
One Of the two which he believed to
have been seen by Stanley he named
In honor Of the dead African explorer
His manner of referring to the fact
that he had named the two loftiest
peaks of the Ruwenzof Margherita
and Alexandra when he was address
ing the British Geographical society In
the presence of King Edward showed
the prince to be an adept at courteous
diplomacy as well as In exploration.
1T was about half past H." he said
in describing the ascent of the Ruwen-
zori "a fresh breeze blew from the
southeast. The clouds swept pass but
a few yards under us, leaving clear
only the two peaks that we had left
and the one on which we were stand
ing. And to those SUBMITS at the mo-
ment which cwned my efforts.I gave
the names of Margherita and Alexan-
of the two royal ladies the memory Of
two nations may be handed down to
posterity-of Italy. the name Of which
resounded for the first time on these
SHOWS in our shout of victory. and of
England, which In its marvellous colo
NAL expansion carries civilization ever
to the slopes of these remote noun
tains."
Quarry of Royal Matchmakers.
Up to the time Of his meeting witt
Katherine Elkins Prince Luigi hac
been 80 indifferent to the charms of
femininity that he had acquired the
reputation Of being woman Halter.
This, however, he always denied In
dignantly, declaring that he was only
Indifferent to social pleasures on ac-
count of the time consumed In them.
Although all the royal matchmakers
I'm Europe have tried their hand at
getting him married suitably, he has
held himself rigidly aloof from every
proposition of that kind. He and his
unmarried brother, the Count Of Tu-
rim, now the most eligible royal bache-
lors In Europe, have avoided thus far
every matrimonial moose which has
been prepared for them. Prince Luigi
by fiat refusal to be taken and his
polished and diplomatic brother by
methods equally effective. but vastly
less irritating to the more or less
royal mammals of more or less royal
daughters In search of more or less
royal husbands.
This Is the man who has declared to
all the world that the accident Of rank
will not prevent him from marrying
the woman of his choice. the queenly
daughter Of bluff. outspoken stephen
B. Elkins, senior senator from West
Virginia.