Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 134, 15 April 1920 — Page 13

PAGE THIRTEEN '. DARK CONTINENT" TURNED ITS DARKEST SIDE TO AIRMEN

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(Boston Herald) For Leigh Hunt the "dark continent" ras symbolized by the Nile as it flowed through Egypt "like some grave, mighty thought threading a dream." For Henry Drummond, to have lived in Africa was "to have lived before Menes" and '"to have watched the dawn of evolution." Famous explorers of the mysterious country, from Livingstone to Stanley, a round dozen of them, one after another grappled with it, but had to leave the biggest of its puzzles unriddled. Those were days in which traveling had to be done with feet to the ground through a shutin land which defied all save local investigation. These are airplane times that permit of larger prospects, and the "bird's eye view" of Africa just taken by Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, the scientific aviator of the London Times, U the beginning of a new method of

charting out the continents or me world. It shows a region all untamed ' and far yet from having qualified itself as ?afe for civilization. The attempted trip from Cairo to the cape, a good part of it accomplished in a single machine, was well calculated to try out African conditions. Dr. Mitchell and his party found it by no means easy either to stay up or to look down. Heavy rains, thunderstorms and whirlwinds pre vented clear vision; good seeing was albo interfered with by flying sandstorms, even by bush fires which sent j up trailing columns 01 sraone iui-fit-ores of miles. At one stage of the journey there were "columns of dust thousands of feet high all round the horizon. Terrific heat sometimes lessened the lifting power of the plane, and "forced descents" recurred with disagreeable frequency. Once ground was reached, there was danger from both human and animal enemies; armed natives threatened the aviators from the- bush, lions roared near by. or elephants charged on the resting party. Occasionally there were "pestilential landing places abounding with mosquitoes, centipedes, crocodiles and large bellowing . animals." Many a lime the hippofly "stabbed like a lancet" and the minute lake-fly "raised Instantaneous blisters." Dr. Mitchell found the mountainous regions of Africa "extraordinarily wild, cirsolate and picturesque." But outHide the populated areas there were many "desolate wastes," swamps wet and dry, and such natural processes at work as tended to "make the whole country arid, and limit men, animals imd plants to the river banks, water holes, hills and lakes." The general Impression made upon him was that nf "slow accumulating decay through countless centuries" of "generations of men, beasts and plants festering In the steamy uplands and in the dry lowlands, giving dust and a faint odor of death." Happier lands are recalled by him which "have risen and fallen under the cleansing sea, been scraped and scoured by glacial epochs, while Africa has only cracked and festered." Me calls it "the most interesting, fascinating and deplorable country imaginable," and his only hope Is that some colossal upheaval may come in to redeem and remake it. Yet in spite nf all he would be glad to repeat his lirplane trip over the dark continent. FccMc 3 Old People Gain Strength and Vigor rapidly on Vinol, our Cod Liver and Iron Tonic. Vinol contains the very elements needed to replace weakness with strength, just as it did for this New York man. "I am 74 years of asje and got into a weak, run down condition as a re?u!t ' the grippe. Our druggist suggested V inol to build me up and I noticed an improvement soon after taking it, and it has restored ;ny strength so I can now do a goofl day's work. My wife has also taken Vinol for a run-down condition with splendid results." NOTE: Your leading druggist ha for many years specially recommended Vinol because ho knows there is nothing better than this famous Cod Liver and Iron Tonic to create strength and build one up. The formula of Vinol is on every label. Your money back if it fails. 0 Clem Thlstlethwatte. t I'm artist1; -v-rv where. Druggist, and Try Our Fresh STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM THE KANDY SHOP 919 Main DR. LEE C. HOOVER Veterinarian Phone 1399 20 S. 12th St, Try Fleur de Venice Cigars GEO. H. SHOFER Distributor Richmond, Ind., Phone 3240 or 3 1 27. For sale by all dealers For Good Dry Cleaning Phone 1072 D. Moody Welling A Good Dry Cleaner

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