The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-04-04
BACK. WITH new
JUNGLE THRILLERS
''DT. tiVlngstone's Successor
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Tells Of Adventures. =
SPENT 2sYEARsfA AFRICA

HNll TIT M
Hioh School Pupils speiIbound as He
spins True Stories Of Animal Life In
the aMiddIe OF the Middle" Of the
Dark OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Store a
thousand Miles Away.
Brmfui of interest and deftly tquchrl
Ing on the many sides of children's
fancy was an address delivered to pu-
pills or the westport (Kan) high school
by Dan, Crawford, missionary TO Afri-
ca. author of thinking BlaA" and,
as the Kansas City Star says. authen-
tic successor to Or. Livingstone.
when stand here looking at YOU"
said Mr. Crawford to his young hear
ers, "and think how have boiled grass
for porridge. killed lions and crossed
the bamboo scrubs and elephant marsh
es can hardly realize that / am the
same person. Ii Is thousand miles
from my home to the nearest store. 1t
takes twenty -three days OF tramping
to get out OF the jungles. When
came out this time and the tall grass
parted IN front OF me like curtain
and l saw the steel ends OF a railway
track for the first time in twenty-three
years what do you. suppose l dldf
blubbered like baby. ~ ~ :.
Then i returned TO the cemeteries
OF dead folks called literature. i be
gan the disgusting habit OF wearing a
collar-my first collar In twenty-three
years. Ilknew how a dog feels when
he wears his first collar" at
The Elephants Saturday Night.
Mr.. Crawford said he wanted to give
one OF his first impressions OF the "mid
die OF the middle" of Africa. where he
lives, "a r-fts :
1T Is a vast river, the Lupulu, on the
banks OF which DR. Livingstone died
Imagine Il. Here In the foreground Is
the river flowing through rapids. Just
beyond is the rim OF the bank. Beyond
that, In the middle distance. as an
artist would say. Is a crocodile marsh
and beyond that the black forest, le
sun goes down like n ball OF 1rs.~yd
the moon Is rising like a silver dollar.
The mosquitoes come out. singing their
tenor You laugh, but didn't.
"Out OF that fringe OF black forest
comes an army Of huge elephants, 1870
OF them, with hocks OF wrinkled baby
jumbos bringing up the rear. all pre-
posterously popderous In the moon
light They have come down TO the
crocodile marsh for their bath. You
see. it's their Saturday night
*The mothers arr. trying to get the
baby 3umbos TO babe themselves. and
they are having Nc trouble that all
mothers have. Morenver. the babies In
this case know about the crocodiles
hidden there in tie water. 80 the
mothers have to go III. ill their trunks I
and sutiiFt the wa;rr on the babies.
You naver saw sucL = hose party \,
81 Alright In ire Jungle. ,.
THAT'S scene one of the jungle pan
tomlme. Scene two brings on the fight.
The crocodIies reset the intrusion OF
the elephants. They go into commit
tee and put up their biggest man.
twenty-three foot long crocodile, to
take up the matter with the bun ele-
plant at the head OF the herd. He ap.
proaches. The elephant is waiting for
him. lie lowers his huge, tough trunk
I'm the water, and as the crocodile
comes np. feeling out for the trunk
with his great jaws. tte'eIephant seIzes
him. jerks him out of the water all
twentyNthree feet OF tim. and hurls
him high IN the air IL is the bull eIe-
plants victory, and lis herd resumes
It's moonlight bathlps. In peace. .
In his long resIden.e on the banks
OF Lake Mweru M Crawford has
built Eve schools, s9S; miles OF roads
and six miles OF sans ary cottages, two
rooms and kitchen tach IIc has also
translated the Bibeiinto the native
tongue. 81 4 5is g
I'VE built those roads because we
had to-" be snid. so save our people
from the Hons. Until we had the roads
ne children had q come to school
through the grass. The ernss was vel
low. The lions We're yellow The pu-
pills were bounced upon and eaten be.
fore they knew H. OnS hon killed
sixty-nye persons before we got m-"
Thinking Black"
Mr.. Crawford said II was Dr. Liv-
ingstone's last wish FOR successor who
would 20 to the middle OF the middle
OF Aftfca that sent him there. When
be went. boring in among the strange
tribes, picking up their speech MS best
he could. be mnde up his mind he
would learn how. to "thlnls black
Many a man. he said. "has been In
Africa thirty years and a still mark.
ing time. Africa hasn't taken hold on I
him. II y Ike man and his iob. n
? mans lob hasn't got hold OF him In
lord help him and the job.
So Crnwfnfd Iahnred ID COT the ne