Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — Plenty of Sand. [ARTICLE]

Plenty of Sand.

The great divine was delivering the funeral oration of the two brave explorers who had died while penetrating the trackless desert “We most remember,” he concluded, “that these two courageous men were utterly isolated from the re«t of mankind at the time of their death. Imagine them in the heart of Sahara, their food and water supply exhausted, they themselves near to death, but, never once, If I may be permitted to use the expression, did their sand give out!”