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British Engineer Fought Africans and
Built Road Above Clouds
Basil Tanfield Boothby bronzed
from his experience in the tropics In
the last 13 years building railroads
fighting savages and shooting big
game has arrived in America bound
for his home in England The young
engineer has helped to make history
during the long time that he has been
away from civilization and the story
he tells is one of absorbing interest
He left England for Uganda Africa
in 1895 under orders from the Brit
ish foreign qfflce to carry the con
struction of the government railroad
from Uganda to Mombassa
This railroad was needed for
strategic reasons to hold Uganda
Boothby stayed in the African wilder
ness four years carrying out the Im
portant task intrusted to him
He is enthusiastic over Uganda as
a sportsmans paradise declaring that
it is the greatest big game country
in the world Walton Harrison one
of the engineers in his party was
killed as a result of a stirring ad
venture while lion hunting with him
Harrison killed one of the beasts but
was torn to pieces by a lioness which
he had wounded
Boothby took part In many skir
mishes with the native tribes which
were hostile to his work His position
as a government engineer made him
ex officio a magistrate and he led one
campaign against 500 blacks who had
harassed his party poisoning the water
and waylaying stragglers and cutting
their throats This tribe was the Wak
ikuo and lived on the edge of the
Great Gift valley
This extraordinary valley is 1000
miles long running north and soulh
and 40 miles wide at its narrowest
point It is 2000 feet deep and
through an upheaval ages ago is 5000
feet above the level of the sea It is
full of lakes and rivers and volcanoes
and inhabited by the finest tribe of
warriors in Africa savages who eat
no vegetables or fruit but subsist on
a meat diet entirely This tribe the
Massai is allied to the Zulus
When Boothby finished his Uganda
railway in 1S99 he took an order to
build a railroad across the Andes in
South America from Buenos Ayres to
Valparaiso The surveys carried the
line over a district of lofty peaks the
pass where the divide was crossed be
ing 13000 feet above the sea level
Boothby encountered many difficul
ties aside from engineering problems
The negotiations with the Chilian gov
ernment -were not successful and the
result was that only part of the line
the Argentine side was finished
In 1900 Boothby went to China to
work on the Shanghai Nanking rail
road a line which will be ready to be
opened soon The road will serve
a rich district and Boothby says that
thus far the traffic is very encourag
ing The difficulties which tho road
encountered with the likin the inter
nal customs bureau of which Sir Rob
ert Hart is the head are about to be
adjusted amicably
The Shanghai Nanking railroad ex
tends 200 miles and cost about 10
000000 It was built for the Chinese
Imperial railways through a loan
raised by a British and Chinese cor
poration
Chicagos Great Subway
One of the most remarkable of lat
ter day romances of millions has to
deal with the freight subway system
of Chicago a marvel of enterprise re
quiring a staggering expenditure
While this great enterprise was not
intended primarily to economize in
time its purpose was to facilitate the
local receipt shipment and exchange
of freight to prevent congestion of
streets and in this way to insure a
more prompt transaction of business
in the second largest city in the
country
A swifter transaction of the business
of the great city has been the result
so that this expenditure of 30000
000 for 45 miles of tunnels beneath
Chicagos streets may be charged up
to the world wide fight to gain time
In its simpler commercial aspect this
subway system is a 45 mile network
of underground conduits to facilitate
the movement of freight from depot
to depot from warehouse to ware
house from factory to store and from
merchant to consumer
Every street within an area nearly
two miles square is duplicated ex
cept as to buildings at a depth of
from 25 to 40 feet underground each
street intersection name and direction
below corresponding to the same on
the surface
China Building Railroads
In China during the last year
through traffic was resumed on the
Manchurian railways The Hsinmintun
Mukden line has been redeemed by
China at a cost of 1666000 The
Shanghai Nankin railway has been ex
tended to Chinkiang and should be
completed within a few months to
Nankin the Kalgan railway built en
tirely by Chinese of which the first
section was opened on September 30
1906 has been steadily pushed for
ward the Chentung Taidan branch of
the Pekin Hankow line was opened on
December 6 the construction of the
182 miles having taken three years
and three months while another
branch from Kalfeng to Chenchou
was opened earlier in the year Work
on the Canton Kowloon railway is also
being pushed on rapidly
Canadas New Line
Canadas new transcontinental rail
way from Moncton on the Atlantic to
Prince Rupert on the Pacific a dis
tance of rather more than 3000 miles
is fully under way and is to be com
pleted by December 1 1911 at a cost
of 200000000
Flag sf Chesapeake
Its Purchase by William Wal
dorf Astor and Presentation
to a British Museum Its
Capture In Battle J
F the expatriated American Wil
liam Waldorf Astor had wished
to increase his already great un
popularity in the land of his
birth he could scarcely have done any
thing more apt to effect such a pur
pose than what lie did in purchasing
the flag of the frigate Chesapeake ami
presenting it to a British museum
About three months ago the report
was published that the lag had been
purchased In London at an auction
sale and that the purchaser was an
American Who could it be Some
said Cornelius Vanderbilt others J P
Morgan but at the time nobody
dreamed that it was bought with the
view of keeping it in England instead
of sending it to this country where
it ought to be preserved in the opin
ion of most Americans at least It Is
nearly a century since tho great battle
was fought between the Shannon and
the Chesapeake during which Captain
Lawrenco commander of the Ameri
can frigate uttered his immortal and
dying words Dont give up tho ship
Between the people of the British em
pire and those of the leading Ameri
can republic the most cordial relations
have long prevailed and it is felt to
be an act of peculiar impropriety that
a man born in America and inheriting
a great fortune from ancestors who
made their money in this land of liber
ty should be the one to fan the dying
embers of any hostility still existing
Mr Astor obtained the Hag at an auc
tion sale of objects collected by the
late T G Middlebrook Besides the
Chesapeake relic there was in the
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WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOlt AND THE FLAG
OF THi CHESAPEAKE
collec uon the bugle on which accord
ing to accepted tradition the order
was sounded for the charge of the
Light brigade at the battle of Bala
klava In 1851 Mr Astor bought the
bugle as well as the flag paying 42o0
for the latter and presented both to
the Royal United Service museum
which was the same thing a present
ing them to the ErLish govern near
since the museum is supported by the
government
The captured htrapeae was l
ken up about niiety eirs i a 1
part of her timbers went into the
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struction ol dwelling lioe 11 ne
towu of Portsmouth Engl nul Atcr
the Shannon and the Chesapeake ha 1
bombarded each other at ra jr
for live ininiues anJ hd tui f u
alongside ud been I d together
Captain Lawiviv a Iv terious
ouuded ge I lie eu - for his
bugler to crJl boas The Lu
gler was found ii hJT so over
come with feir tht he culd not
sound the coisainl Then it as
that mutiny signs of which Lawrencv
discovered just i h about to
give battle was maniesel The de v
j nas fa and tl L i boar lei
I the American voerel Liwrern o
I was beiisr carrie rcpatlnr
Iont gi -e t sh When an
Eii i ii i i itil t j nail
down the Anorican colors and place
abene them the union juk the li
yards hecirie twisted and led to the
Ptars and strips appearing above the
English colors Iire was then reopen
ed by the orlicer in command of the
Shannon and the British midshipman
who had pulled down the American
colors was killed his head being taken
off by a shell The flags were at last
reversed firing by the Shannon ceased
and the Americans surrendered the
battle lasting about eleven minutes
The Chesapeake flag originally meas
ured four feet by four feet sis inches
and eight tenths of its surface was
taken up by fifteen stars on a blue
field All of the flags stripes except
two are now missing
Mr Astor was born in New York in
1S4S but for about a score of years
has lived abroad and for nearly ten
fears has been a British subject
MARRIAGE AS AN INSTITUTION
Regulations Concerning Matrimony
Derived from Canon Law
There could hardly be a more profit
able undertaking for a young man
and young woman who contemplate
matrimony than a study of marriage
as a historic institution It would
show them better than almost any
thing else could do their relations to
society and to the state says tho
Youths Companion and would givo
them a personal understanding of what
the minister means when in tho be
ginning of the ceremony he says not
by any to bo entered into unadvisedly
or lightly
The laws of marriage in all Chris
tian countries are derived from the
canon law that is the law established
by the Christian church in the Middle
Ages This law was based upon tho
Roman civil law influenced to a con
siderable degree by Teutonic ideas
Marriage laws are also influenced and
in some countries controlled in re
spect of marriage within certain de
grees of relationship or affinity by tho
laws of Moses contained in the book
of Leviticus Gradually some of these
prohibitions have been relaxed In
the recent case of the deceased wifes
sister act of England it Avas a matter
of couti oversy whether the Mosaic law
forbids such marriages
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ine purpose oi an statute Jaw as
applied to marriage is now and has
always been primarily the protection
of the state and secondarily the safe
guarding of the rights of the contract
ing parties The Roman Catholic
church regards marriage as a sacra
ment The Protestant churches of
western Europe reject this theory and
in order to lessen or prevent secret
marriages demand that tho consent of
parents be obtained
Even in Roman Catholic countries
to day marriage is governed by civil
legislation The civil marriage lias
ben said indeed to be Wie groat in
novation of the nineteenth century
m most catholic countries two serv
ices are performed The leligious
ceremony complies with the theory
that marriage is a sacrament the civil
ceremony with the theory that it is a
contract In these countries the civil
ceremony alone makes the marriage
valid The church ceremony alono
does not
Reminded Him of Home
William G King of Kansas City
recently told of the experience of a
Kansan crossing the Atlantic in rough
weather
One morning began Mr King
this Kansan went out on deck when a
b - gale was blowing Nobody was
in ght except the captain
Go below there the captain
Ued
The passenger looked about to see
to whom he was talking
You mean me he yelled back
when he saw there was no one else
in sight
Of course I do go below and the
captain came alongside
Well I guess not protested tho
Kansan Im up here to see how one
of your mountain high waves and ter
rific gales compare with what we
have in Kansas in the way of cyclones
This aint a patch to what Ive seen out
our way
A big wave broke over the deck
sweeping the Kansan aft They picked
him up with a broken leg a twisted
shoulder a sprained wrist and his face
looking as if it had been dragged
backward through a briar patch
When he came to he saw the captain
By gravy cap he said feebly that
reminded me of home only it was a
dern sight wetter
Heroic Test but Sure
A sufferer from nervous diseases
had been in the hands of the doctor
for many months Last week he de
clared his nnsitivn rnnvintinn thnf Yn
was cured
I think myself that you are again
as sound as a dollar said the special
ist but before I pronounce you en
tirely well I wish to subject you to a
final test Here are two books Read
one of them to night for about three
hours before you go to bed and the
other to morrow night If when you
go to sleep you dream about the
stories you have just read if you live
through the scenes again and see and
talk with the characters you will have
to come back for further treatment
But if on the other hand you either
do not dream at all or else dream
about something entirely different
from these books you are a well
man
The stories provided were of the
hair raising variety calculated to
make a deep impression upon any
man nervous or otherwise but the
patient laid them down at the end of
the three hours session and sought a
dreamless couch As the result of that
test of nerves the doctor pronounced
him cured
Egypts Wonderful Progress
The progress of Egypts commercial
development in the last 20 years has
been most marked The cotton cron
alone in that time has more than dou
bled In spite of the large reductions
of taxation the revenue last year was
the largest ever collected in one year
The great wealth of Egypt lies in her
agricultural resources cotton oil
seeds sugar and other crops These
in turn depend upon the Nile flood
With the Nile regulated and under
control by the immense system of
reservoirs and dams with a fellaheen
freed from excessive taxation and
tvith a network of light railways ren
dering the produce of the country ac
cessible to foreign markets the pros
pect of Egypt is placed on a more
solid basis than In the past
Government Land
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Homesteads located Write
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