The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-24

condescended TO ask for his help, the
Gslp OF an American citizen because he
possessed the kind of brains they lacked
he man is Major Frederick Russell
3urnham, the story of whose deeds on
The Dark Continent, like the deeds Of
many others there, reads like the in
vcn,ions OF a romanccr.
You can count on your fingers, and
,lcn have some to spare. the men who
have become famous in two or more
countries on their real merits, who have
contributed 10 the worlds history and
put the color of romance and the fire
Of sction into its matter of fact pages
| do not mean those professional war
Tiors who were sent out by their re-
spective countries at the head of legIonS.
T!lh the resources and wealth of En-
ores behind them, or men who were
rilde heroes by the inflated newspaper
INVENTIONS of copy manufacturers Not
mcn who could not be anything but
heroes. for the mere fact that they were
paid huge sums by these nations who
employed them. The very cowardice OF
such men is extoled into mastery re
treats and cool, calm courage in ad-
vcTsity in front OF overwhelming num-
6crs You all remember the Boer war,
where even stupid and disintcrestcd
mules were blamed for the crushing
disasters Of General Butler at the hands
of General Louis Botha with handful
or Boer burghers at Colenso. This
story IS not about man who could
not help being hero, a man who was
4 hero in spite of himself, 1t is about 4
man who made good" as the Americans
say, ever against prejudice in foreign
land, as we'll as in his own. A man like
such men as Lafayette, Garabaldi. Paul
Jones. Henry Stanley, and the few
others of their kind who have found
'hc routine of civilization commonplace
and unintercsting, nerve racking in its
monotony. like the clash of cracked
hell Such a man Is Major Frederick
Russel Burnham, known-evcrywherc
from Melbourne 10 Port Arthur. from
Port Arthur to Paris. from Cape to
Cairo, from Cairo to New York. from
New York TO Frisco, from Alaska's
snowy wastes TO the parched plains OF
Mexico. Burnham, who has not heard
drcd million behind him you would per
maps be not surprised that Frederick
Russell Burnham has made a world ac-
ouaintance. has put the seal of his
genus on the carth's annals Burnham
lad not this advantage. Instead Of
being born with the provcrbial gilded
spoon in his mouth he probably was
very satisfied with a galvanized iron
orc. He started his independent life
with a rife and few rounds of am
muniton. and on such beginning laid
the foundation TO world fame, and secs
himself while he still lives. a man Of
ruoucstioncd note. a man 10 whom tho
British Empire IS in debt
1t is the habit of success, purchased
by The exercise OF intelligent energy,
manly rcctitude and indomitable cour-
acc that made Major Burnham re-
spcctcd and admired even by his enc
mics I. myself. have tossed coins with
brother scout for the privilege of hay-
ing first shot at him, Of splitting his body
with bullet. Had succeeded 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
ham. chief of Scouts of the British
Army attached to the column of LORD
Roberts. Shot in a skirmish .hfteer
miles northeast Of Kroonstad. lnsteaC
of being buried under the sod Of thc
African weld, Major Burnham. eve
where danger n7unts II CRIMSON uAE
IS down in Mexico among the Yaku
Indians where, with John Hays Ham
mond and Harry Payne Whitney he. !
developing huge tract OF land whiol
he expects will make a considerable ad
li,ion to his already comfortable tor
.unc in a very short time. That is wha
he is doing to-day, tomorrow he migh
he standing with his back against
elf with half dozen sayases, aroun
him thirs;ing for his blood, whilst he,
doing his "durndest" TO continue hi
cyentfui existence
How did It come that an Americ7.
aud Americans. after all arc never rcall
liked by the English. who arc alwal
nreiudiced against anything that Is m
horn under the Union Jack. became
British hero. with dozen gallant dee,
20 his credit, any one OF which wou
r7yc BROUGHT him, or anyone else f7T
How did Burnham come to he in Afric
That is tho story Of an extraordiuai
c--scr
Purnham oocned his eycs in sdve
'"-e. tNc Storm OF war raced arou
bin wh~7 Re wac still IN his mother
arms. lie saw New Ulm, which W