The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-18
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ondescended to ask for his help, the
4 Help Of an American citizen because lie
possessed the Kind oi brains they lacked
: Tile man is Major Frederick ka.ael
llurnham. the story Of whose deeds un
Ihe Dark Continent Ike the deeds os
many others there. reads like ghe III
ytnlons of ronlancer
NOu can count On yoar hugers, and
hen have some ~ spare the men Who
have become famous Ia tWo or more
Countries On their seal merits, who hayv
I contributed % the worlds history and
l,i, The color oi romance and the itre
II action into its matter ~ fact pages
! do not mean those professional war
riors who were sent out by their rs
\ spectlye countries az the head of lN2ions
with the resources and wealth af Elm
rires behind them. or men Who were
made heroes by the Inflated newspaper
laieutions, Of copy manufacturers Not
,aen who could not he anything but
heroes. for the mere fact thar they were
paid huge sums hy these 'ioas wh9
employed them The very eowar,hCe of
such men is eStoled into mastery re
treats aud cool. calm eolirage IN ad-
vcgsily ii front OF overwhelming num-
hers Nou an rtmemhsr the Boer war,
where even stlpad and disiuleCesied
.iuleS were blamed far the crushing
disasters cf Gen ral Butler at the hands
a General l.or Ra,ha with a hanalel
Of Boer hurgle al ColeMso This
story is NOT about maa who eoNld
nat help beng a hero, a man Whu VAS
4 hero IN spite Of himself Ii Is about a
man Who made COOL as the Americans
say. ever against prejudice in foreign
land, As well as ~ his OWL A uaH Ike
such meu as Lafayette Uayahaldi, Paul
i Jones, Henry Stanley and The few
others 81 their kird who have found
ne routine 81 civilization commonplace
| ard mnlnieres,ing nerve racking ln llS
moaotnay Ike the clash ID cracked
hell Such a MAN u Major Frederick
| Russel Rurnham, klsawa- -eyerywhere
from Melbourne ie Port Arthur. from
Port Ar,hWr n Paris from Cane "a
n Cairo, from Cairo a. New York. from
N New Work 10 Frisco. from Alaska
snowy wastes IA TIE narghed plains ~
II Mexico Rurnham who has not beard
9s III Him. ll4d he been torn with 4 hun
tlred milNaN hghiNA him NoN would per
n haps he not surprised thar Frederick
\ Rnsscl Buruham has made world ac
Quairtauce, has rni thu seal oi ht'
genius on the carth'S ansls, Buruhau
hal no, this advantage Instead q
a1.ng horn With the pgoveThial gldey
s~o0n III his mouth he NrohahlY wa
~e~9 satisfied with q galvanized iro'
&c. lie started his nideptydent hti
wiih rifle and few rounds oi am
muni,ion. and on such BEGINNING laa
the foundation 10 world iame, and see
himself, while he still lives. q man q
NuQucs;ioued note. a man to whom lh
British Empire is in dehi
Ii is The habit of success. purchase,
hy the exercise OF intelligent energ,
manly reciiudc and ipdemWahe eonl
aye that made Major BuTuham re
specteo and adnired even by his enc
| mics myself have tossed CONS Wit
| brother scout for the privilege Of hay
ing FIRST sho, at hmm of splitting his bod
with bullet Had ! succeeded ! wapf
have bad ,he lugubrious satisfaction @
writing the majors obituary notice
which had fuy aim heen trne. woul
have rea3 thus
Killed Major Frederick Russel Burr
ham. chief of Scouts cf The Rrnis
Army s,iachcd 20 the celumn ~ ! or
In Roberts Shot in slamish liftee
miles noT,heas; at KroonNad lassa
OF being buried under IRE sod q Il
African weld. Major Ruruham. eve
where danger launis IFS CRIMSON Ha'
is down Ia MeNka among she Aakl