The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-25

condcsccndcd to ask for his help, the
,..lD of an American citizen because he
Possessed the kind of brains they lacked
Lc man is Major Frederick Russell
gGrnham, the story Of whose deeds on
&C Dark Continent, like the deeds of
..21y others there, reads like the IN
Y-l.iouS OF 4 romancer.
OF can count on your fingers, and
nCl have some to spare, the men who
lave become famous in two or moro
csgGtrics on their real merits, who have
5u;T;butcd TO the worlds history and
g9i the color of romance and the fire
Of cction into its matter OF fact pages
do not mean .hose professional war
s:trs who were sent out by their re-
s~ectivc countries at the head of legions,
.,ith ;he resources and wealth of En-
res behind them, or men who were
:2dc heroes by the inflated newspaper
irc"tions of copy manufacturers, Not
.;cn who could not be anything but
..,Tocs, for the mere fact that they were
7l:d huge sums by these nations who
--,rloyed them. The very cowardce OF
-"ci men is cxtoled into mastery re-
cc1ts and cool, calm courage in ad-
rersi!y in front of overwhelming num-
bcss You all remember the Boer war,
were even stupid aud disinterested
,les were blamed for the crushing
';s2etcrs Of General Butler at the hands
-cf General Louis Botha with a handful
of Boer burghcrs at Colenso. This
s.oTy is not about man who could
:7t help being hero, man who was
hero in spite of himself. 1t is about
r1aH who made good" as the Americans
ST.. ever against prejudice in a foreign
gard as well as in his own. A man like
rsch men as Lafayette, Garabaldi, Paul
Jones. Henry Stanley. and the few
cdcrs Of their kind who have found
'',e routine of civilization commonplace
lIA uninteresting. nerve racking in Its
rc7o.ony. like the clash of a cracked
bn Such man is Major Frederick
russcl Burnham, known-everywhcrc,
f-om Melbourne to Port Arthur. from
Tort Arthur to Paris. from Cape to
Cairo, from Cairo to New York, from
>-ew York to Frisco, from Alaska's
owy wastes to the parched plains of
ir7vico Burnham, who has not heard
e iim. Had he been born with hun
t-cd million behind him you would per
,-9s be not surprised that Frederick
E-ssc Burnham has made world ac-
cna.rtancc. has put the seal of his
renms on the earth's annals. Burnham
lad not this advantage. Instead of
l.ing born with the provcrbial gilded
!ooou in his mouth he probably was
rery satisfied with a galvanized iron
c.. He started his independent life
Nh rifle and few rounds of am
,7ca;l;on. and on such beginning laid
-, foundation to world fame, and sees
l:nsclf. while he still lives, man of
rrqrestioned note, man to whom the
Iritish Empire is IN debt.
u is the habit of success, purchased
~ tic exercise of intelligent energy
,neaM rcctitudc and indomtablc oour-
&c that made Major Burnham re-
soeclcd and admired even by his enc
r1ie7. /. myself, have tossed coins with
? brother scout for the privilege Of hav-
;nc first shot at him. of splitting his body
v;,h bullet Had / succeeded l would
have had the lugubrious satisfaction OF
writing the majors obituary notice
which had my aim been true, would
have read thus:
Killed. Major Frederick Russell Burn
lam. chief of Scouts of the British
Army attached to the column of Lore
Roberts Shot in a skirnish f1ftcci
miles northeast of Kroonstad. lnstea'
rf being buried under the sod of tn
African weld, Major Burnham, eve
where danger faunts IL s crimson nds
IS down in Mexico among the Yaku
Indians where. with John Hays Ham
mond and Harry Payne Whitney he !
developing huge tract of land whic
hc expects will make considerable ad
lition to his already comfortable for
trnc in a very short time. That Is wha
he is doing to-day, Tomorrow he. Nigh
| be standing with his back against
,IiH with half dozen savsges aroun
hin thirsting for his blood, whilst he
doing his "durndest TO Continue hi
cyentful existence
How did It come that an American
and Americans after all are never reall
4 liked by the English. who are alwa,
prejudiccd against anything that is n'
! born under the Union Jack became
4 British hero, with a dozen gallant deet
i 10 his credit, any one Of which wou
rave brought him. or anyone else lam
How did Burnham come to be IN Atric
4 That is the story of an cxtraordina'
A -srecr.
4 Burntam opened his eyes in adve'
g urc. the storm Of war RACED arour
in, whom he was still in his mother
..ms. He saw New Ulm, which w