The Detroit times., 1910-04-14

shake the colonels hand and give
three American cheers
II was pretty picture. night
Ike June Cool after biistering day.
4 sky without a cloud The river dark
and cool and shImmering with the
lights OF the embankment road and
tho palace on the other side The
blacks in their white turbans anu flow
ing robes. and The yellow Egyptians
Ia uniform and red tarbOusnes seem
"a especially dressed 10 give color 70
the scene
"Goodby It has indeed been u
pleasure
How often had ! heard those words
addressed 10 the caller az The White
House And how sincere they seem
now out here, repeated Tor the hun
dred thousandth time, What gen
ius the man has 70 make each man or
woman feel in the brief meeting and
those few words that ne or she has
been singled out and distinguished by
a peculiar sense Of pleasure conferred
upon the colonel by the meeting,
Nor is II merely acting. Nothing
Lut real interest-!nterest IL the
nlIrfan proposition in All It's myrial
make possible these re.
suits Roosevelt loves people as he
loves birds. He loves 10 discover and
10 know every sort. His interest Is
not limited by class lines One minute
IL may be a Mohammedan multi. the
next the man from home; in both
case II is a fact that the meeting has
been a genuine pleasure"
never saw a crowd more taken on
its feet than the one which listened
70 the colonels speech AT the Sudan
Clrb In Khartum--a crowd made mp
largely OF British and Egyptian Off.
GERS, with a sprinkling OF German
Greeks and Arabs For the moment
the speaker was seeing things from
the viewpoint OF the civil servant and
governor. the man al once
for and not responsible 70
a vague something known as the home
which occa sionally helps
ana generally binders the man en-
gagged in the task OF bearing the white
mans burden He spoke sympathet:-
caliy OF the trials. and appreciatiyely
o. tho work accomplished by tho
young men who spend their lives in
these frontier forts, and when all was
over the colonel could have had tho
vote OF all present for the
once OF "sirdar"
So there you are Outlaws. mis-
sionarles. civil servants. soldiers
each feels that the American colonel
f. their sort"-fitted by nature and
equipped by experience 10 know their
lives and do their work And whel
he says. 4 am delighted 10 have met
you" they know 10 q certainty which
cannon be assailed that there IS SINGER
ity I'm every syllable and word
But. as We. were saving, in the cool
of the evening We starred. A cute
lsttle train % cars, all done in white
enamel paint. with a little red toy en-
alue iH front. and lot OF Arabs IN
raiamas playing brakemen, and
Egyptians In khaki playing conductor.
You are given a stateroom (calied a
cabin 20 yourself. because the cars
are made up entirely Of cabins, with
an aisle running along the side And
right comfortably they are compared
with Geo. VI Pullmaus scheme OF cur
taireG shelves Each cabin has It,
OWL wash basin with running water
AID when YOU come aboard you ind
your cabin designated By card with
yor name beside the door.
Oh. We OF the United States do nos
know all there Is OF the comforts OF
travel Think OF being awakened in
the morning by a polite attendant and
&C. robe or disrobe in an upright pos
tute' Think Of meals prepared in a
kitchen car and served III dining
car And all this on the edge OF dark
est Africa Verify the time has come
10 send a commission 10 foreign parts
IN search OF information which might
HELP our railroads 70 mend their ways
From khartum 10 Halfa Is night
and day across the desert. The road
was built L. years ago By Gen.
Kitchener rs part Vf his campaign
against the khalifa At Hafa the
Nile makes a long detour 20 The west.
and the sirdar could not wait for
water transportation SO he pushed
his way across tract that most re-.
sembies our own Death Valley. AMI
finally built a railway 70 the enomys
strong hold The rails and seepers
are the same today
The desert ride Is rather interes..
ing There are beautiful mirages prac.
tcaliy all the time Sometimes they
are 80 near as 20 seem accessible by a
few steps; again they are 81 on the