(Continued from page 13) been returning after three years of exile to his home he could not have been more brimful of spirits. Captain Jensen was a Dane (almost every river captain is a Swede or a Dane) and talked a little English, a little French, and a little Bangala. The mechanician was a Finn and talked the native Bangala, and Anfossi spoke French. After chop, when we were all assembled on the upper deck, there would be the most extraordinary talks in four languages, or we would appoint one man to act as a clearing-house, and he would translate for the others. On the lower deck we carried twenty "wood boys," whose duty was to cut wood for the furnace, and about thirty black passengers. They were chiefly soldiers, who had finished their period of service for the State, with their wives and children. They were crowded on the top of the hatches into a space fifteen by fifteen feet between our cabin door and the furnace. Around the combings of the hatches, and where the scuppers would have been had the Deliverance had scuppers, the river raced over the deck in eddies of a depth of four or five inches. When the passengers wanted to wash their few clothes or themselves they carried on their ablutions and laundry work where they happened to be sit-. ting. But for Anfossi and myself to go from our cabin to the iron ladder of the bridge it was necessary to wade both in the water and to make stepping stones of the passengers. I do not mean we merely stepped over an occasional arm or leg. I mean we walked on them. You have seen a football player, in a hurry to make a touchdown, hurdle without prejudice both friends and foes. Our progress was like his. But by practise we became so expert that without even awakening them we could spring lightly from the plump stomach of a black baby to its mother's shoulder, from there leap to the father's ribs, and rebound upon the rungs of the ladder. The river marched to the sea at the rate of four to five miles an hour. The Deliverance could make about nine knots an hour, so we traveled at the average rate of five miles; but for the greater part of each day we were tied to a bank while the boys went ashore and cut enough wood to carry us farther. And we never traveled at night. Owing to the changing currents, before the sun set we ran into shore and made fast to a tree. I explained how in America the river boats used searchlights, and was told that on one boat the State had experimented with a searchlight, but that particular searchlight having got out of order the idea of night traveling was condemned. A Leisurely Progress up the Big River on a "Tin Tub" Steamboat OURS was a most lazy progress, but one with the most beautiful surroundings and filled with entertainment. From our private box we looked out upon the most wonderful of panoramas. Sometimes we were closely hemmed in by mountains of light-green grass, except where in the hollows streams tumbled in tiny waterfalls between gigantic trees hung with strange flowering vines and orchids. Or we would push into great lakes of swirling brown water, dotted with flat islands overgrown with reed grass higher than the head of a man. Again the water turned blue and the trees on the banks grew into forests with the look of cultivated, well-cared-for parks, but with no sign of man, not even a mud hut or a canoe; only the strangest of birds and the great river beasts. Sometimes the sky was overcast and gray, the warm rain shut us in like a fog, and the clouds hid the peaks of the hills, or there would come a swift black tornado and the rain beat into our private box, and each would sit crouched in his rain coat, while the engineer smothered his driving rods in palm oil, and, the great drops drummed down upon the awning and drowned the fire in our pipes. After these storms, as though it were being pushed up from below, the river seemed to rise in the centre, to become concave. By some optical illusion, on either hand it seemed to fall away to the depth of three or four feet. But as a rule we had a brilliant, gorgeous sunshine that made the eddying waters flash and sparkle, and caused the banks of sand to glare like whitewashed walls, and turned the sharp, hard fronds of the palms into glittering sword-blades. The movement of the boat tempered the heat, and in lazy content we sat in our lookout box and smiled upon the world. Except for the throb of the engine and the slow splash, splash, splash of the wheel there was no sound. We might have been adrift in the heart of a great ocean. So complete was the silence, so few the sounds of man's presence, that at times one almost thought that ours was the first boat to disturb the Congo. Although we were traveling by boat, we spent as much time on land as on the water. Because the Deliverance burnt wood and, like an invading army, "lived on the country," she was always stopping to lay in a supply. That gave Anfossi and myself a chance to visit the native villages or to hunt in the forest. To feed her steamers the State has established along the river bank posts for wood, and in theory at these places there always is a sufficient supply of wood to carry a steamer to the next post. But our experience was either that another steamer had just taken all the wood or that the boys had decided to work no more and had hidden themselves in the bush. The State posts were "clearings," less than one hundred yards square, cut out of the jungle. Sometimes only black men were in charge, but as a rule the chef de poste was a lonely, feverridden white, whose only interest in our arrival was his hope that we might spare him quinine. I think we gave away as many grains of quinine as we received logs of wood. Empty-handed we would turn from the wood post and steam a mile or so farther up the river, where we would run into a bank, and a boy with a steel hawser would leap overboard and tie up the boat to the roots of a tree. Then all the boys would disappear into the jungle and attack the primeval forest. Each was supplied with a machete and was expected to furnish a bras of wood. A bras is a number of sticks about as long and as thick as your arm, placed in a pile about three feet high and about three feet wide. To fix this measure the head boy drove poles into the bank three feet apart, and from pole to pole at the same distance from the ground stretched a strip of bark. When each boy had filled one of these openings all the wood was carried on board, and we would unhitch the Deliverance, and she would proceed to burn up the fuel we had just collected. It took the twenty boys about four hours to cut the wood, and the Deliverance the same amount of time to burn it. It was distinctly a hand-to-mouth existence. The Congo captains never attempt to travel when it is too dark to see the currents, so every night at sunset Captain Jensen ran into the bank, and as soon as the plank was out all the black passengers and the crew passed down it and spent the night on shore. In five minutes the women would have the fires lighted and the men would be cutting grass for bedding and running up little shelters of palm boughs and hanging up linen strips that were both tents and mosquito nets. Camping Under the African Stars While the Steamboat Rests Overnight IN the moonlight the natives with their camp-fires and torches made most wonderful pictures. Sometimes for their sleeping place the captain would select a glade in the jungle, or where a stream had cut a little opening in the forest, or a sandy island, with tall rushes on either side and the hot African moon shining on the white sand and turning the palms to silver, or they would pitch camp in a buffalo wallow, where the grass and mud had been trampled into a clay floor by the hoofs of hundreds of wild animals. But the fact that they were to sleep where at sunrise and at sunset came buffaloes, elephants, and panthers, disturbed the women not at all, and as they bent, laughing, over the iron pots, the firelight shone on their bare shoulders and was reflected from their white teeth and rolling eyes and brazen bangles. Until late in the night the goats would bleat, babies cry, and the "boys" and "mammies" talked, sang, quarreled, beat tom-toms, and squeezed mournful groans out of the accordion of civilization. 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FAIRBANKS (Continued from page 15) According to the rules of the game, to oppose this force meant political suicide for The conference decided that Durbin, who was an avowed candidate for the assurances were satisfactory, for Starr endorsed his candidacy and returned to Senator Fairbanks-we read in the inspired story of his life-"takes a serious "When he entered the Senate of the United States," says William Henry Smith in another inspired passage, "it was at a great pecuniary sacrifice; for having accepted office at the hands of the people, he determined to give to their service the same conscientious attention he had given to his profession, and to do that he must be prepared to give all his time; so he at once retired from the practise of law." Also partly from the practise of railroads, which Mr. Smith forgets, as ever, to mention. In recent years Mr. Fairbanks has held other than legal and proprietory rela- Mr. Fairbanks carries on this business under the name of the Indianapolis Frog I Fairbanks's Record as a Lawmaker HAVE digressed a little from my congenial task of filling in the Fairbanks legislative record for the revised edition of "Life and Speeches.' The summary will not take much room. His record as a Senator is as barren as the Salton Bottoms of California. Who will point to a statute on the law books which is his? What bill did he ever champion-whether successfully or otherwise-which has done any good to any one but himself? What steal did he ever expose? What defect did he ever point out in a pending law? What causes did he ever lead, what word did he ever speak, which would justify his presence in the highest legislative body in the land? Let us see. He put in a resolution appropriating a relief fund for the sufferers in the Martinique disaster. It was suggested to him by a telegram from the editor of his paper, the "News," and was.drawn by an old employee of the Senate. He introduced a bill for the admission of Oklahoma as a State. It was drawn by one of the Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and was sent to Fairbanks for introduction. He fathered a bill providing that country postmasters might, upon request, forward over the telephone the contents of special delivery letters. This was suggested to him by an employee of the Associated Press in Chicago. That is all. But his "integrity of character and lofty conception of the duties of a public servant and of the exalted dignity and responsibilities of a member of the highest legislative body in the world" fit him "to take a place among the lawmakers of a nation." Mr. Fairbanks has played a heavy stake on winning the Republican nomination for the Presidency. He relies on the Wall Street interests with which he has so long been associated. The Wall Street interests wish to elect a man who will respect the integrity of property, one who comprehends the folly of attacking large business interests. Fairbanks is that kind of a man. Probably there is less enthusiasm for Mr. Fairbanks among the common people, notwithstanding the dictum of that great authority, the Indianapolis "Star." As compared to Roosevelt, Fairbanks can not but impress the people as vague in personality. There is an absence of anything tangible, which has resulted in that strange belief that he is "cold." As characterizing his manner, nothing could be farther from the truth. He is smiling and urbane. He will not quarrel openly. He will not argue. He is as unresisting on his personal side as well cooked macaroni. If there is any coldness-and Mr. Smith says that there is none-it lies within, not on the surface. The public, with its dim appreciation of truths, shows somehow a feeling that Fairbanks is a man misplaced. That hits nearer the mark. He is misplaced-a trader trying to be a statesman. This supplementary biography is respectfully offered to Mr. Smith to fill in the chinks of his "Life and Speeches of Charles Warren Fairbanks." a man (I quote from the admirable William Henry) who tries "to lift party politics from the low marsh of detraction and corruption up to the high plane of reason and argument"; with whom "life has been too serious for him to utter sentiments foreign to his heart"; who, in the Senate, "was too modest, too self-contained, too much amenable to the traditions of the august body which he had entered to push himself unduly forward in debate"; yet whose words, when he does speak, "are not mere words thrown together to make phrases for oratorical effect, but they come from the keystone of his conscience; they are the axioms of his political life and the guides of his public service," who is "never so happy as when inculcating good citizenship," who is "a consistent and earnest Christian," and "never a pessimist, but always an optimist'; who "would no more falter in the face of duty than a soldier would falter and hang back in the face of an enemy on the battlefield''; a man, finally, who "turned a deaf ear to popular clamor and did what he believed was right," and yet "is of the people and trusts to their unerring judgment." 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