Founder Of German East Africa

Cari Peters, the Germán who has done more than any other man to give his rountry the doubtfiil glory of a colonial empire, appears at. present to be in diagrace with his government, for reasons that are not obvious. He was high in favor during the opening of the Baltic Canal, and in the many talke I had wlth him I was much impressed by his knowledge and his vigorous manner of presenting it. He is the founder of Germán East África, and it was he who fitted out the German expedition for the relief of Emfn Pasha. Of eourse in Germany he vigorously abused all things English, especially when they conflicted wlth the interests of colonial Germany. But aside from this pardonable political humbug, no man knows England better, or appreciates her services in Africa more highly, than Cari Peters. Ha is just now in London fitting out another African expedition, about which he throws considerable mystery. He deserves success, for he has great physical strength combined with mental equipment of the ftrst order. He has traveled In every part of the world, and has a mind ready to acknowledge what is good in different systems. It is melancholy to reflect that this man, only forty yfcars oíd, and who yet has lived long enough to see the Germán flag carried into the heart of África - thanks to his courage and enterprise - that such a man should be by Germany turned adrift, while the colonial office in Berlín Is lumbered up with a set of bureaucratie pedagogues, the whole volume of whose learning and