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10 Tim ARGUS. FRIDAY. : AUGUST. 7, 1908. 1- When Roosevelt Reaches Africa. Denizens of the Jungle Will Be In Danger Extensive Preparations Being Made to Insure the Ulti- t T i mate Success of the Novel Expedition of an. Ex-President. ' 8 fir - T By ROBERTAS LOVE. J?ow In 'awesome apprehehsion, Shrinks trie lion in his "lair. Held in torror"a torturinfr tension, Tba rhinoceros renda his hair. , JCow the elephant Is fearful j Lest his step be overheard, " Jlnd he'd be a Bight more cheerful Were he Ju3t a little bird. r rum vungie jingies, ius. - IIERE is one piece of news that will be news for at least n score of months. ' Then It will becomo literature at $2 a word. Allu sion Is made to' tbef forthcoming plunge vi. meouore uooseveit into tne wilds or Africa to hiint bis game. . It Is a piece of news that already has thrilled the' world." Kings, courtiers and coramous are talking about it. Af fair of state have taken a back seat. They are dry as dust. This Is Interest ing as a raging cataract. It still thrills. When. Immediately after becoming our cn?y living ex-president nest March, Mr. Roosevelt departs for his dash Into the jungle for a year's absence, the thrill will be such that many of us can hardly wait until the huntsman's own story Is written by himself and pub lished broadcast to an avid earth. That thl3 Etory will bo all of the six best thrillers amalgamated is not to be dis puted. : For seven years Mr. Roosevelt has been held In check by the reins of of fice. He has been bitted and curbed, lie ha3 been restrained by a steady job. so that he has been unable to do what he wants to do. When he re turns to the liberty of a private citizeu of British and German East Africa for the past ten years, cultivating the ostrich aud incidentally eliminating the elephant, the lion, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the leopard and a few other big uns that abound In those parts. It is east Africa, mind you, to which Mr. Roosevelt will go, Mr. Fringle writes back to an Amer ican some tales about the game in those parts which sound as If they came from the tall timber. , But Mr. fringle Is reputed to be honest, though rich. He. has had excellent opportuni ties to see the roaming multitudes of large beasts, and what he says should be taken without doubt or. derision. . "I have just returned," he writes, "from the Karamoyo mountains, .and I had splendid success. I added eight elephants to m list and could have killed probably a dozen others." Whew! Think of being turned loose with a blunderbuss when Barnum's circus Is making its free street parade. Tossed by an Elephant. But hear Percy Pringle further: "One of the elephants tossed me and nearly broke my skull. My 'boys' car ried me home in my mashela." The mashela, be it known, is a ham mock, and "boys" are the naked blacks, age and size immaterial, whom every African huntsman must take along to do the heavy work. Inci dentally this skull cracking should in spire Mr.. Roosevelt with a disinclina- LION HUNTING IN AFRICA. Be js going to do jur.t as he pleases. What he pleases to do is to make and leave a record as the world's champion bunter of big gnme. , And that's why he's going to Africa. ' Killer of Fierce Beasts. Mr. Roosevelt has shot everything in this country worth shooting. An American bear looks to him now no bigger than a brush pile bunny. He fcas been and seen and conquered the growling grizzly, the screaming moun tain lion and the mooing moose. Kings and czars are the only big game left in Europe, so it Is necessary to cut 'loose from civilized continents alto gether and puncture the primeval. iMr. Roosevelt proposes to go to the Hand where truly real lions roar, where hippopotami hop, where leopards leap, .where elephants elevate their trunks and where gorillas gr-rowl. I" This is live news because it Is so (unusual and because it is announced sausage meat of thvir white overlord. Bat,; as rule, thee Africans can be coerced with cash arguments. They are buyable, like some American poli ticians not of the Roosevelt stripe. And there are the supplies. They also come high. The medicine item is a big one'. There are dense swamp jungles to cross before reachiug ' the tablelands and the foothills where the big beasts be. These' swamps exude a miasma that confers upon the unac climated Caucasian a fever that puts him to sleep permanently In a dozen hours or so unless he can manage to fight off the first attack with the prop er specific. Even then, once attacked. that swamp jungle fever is apt to re turn in force about once a year the rest of the victim's life. But, with the medicine discovered by the late Tr. Livingstone taken as a preventive lxs fore catching the fever, and as a spe cific after catching, the white man may feel reasonably sure of getting back to civilization alive unless a lion devours him or an elephant tramples him or a snake embraces him too cor dialiy., - Why, are there dangers in African big game hunting? Woods Full of Leopards. Well, some. How would you like to meet a full grown leopard cat not house broke in a forest somewhere east of Suez when the cat had missed its breakfast and it was some hours past dinner time? An African leopard is no respecter of persons, not even of ex-presidential persons. And, to use an American phrase, the woods are full of them. But the leopard is one of the least of the African ogres. The elephant on. his natiye heath is by no means the street broke animal of the travel ing circus. He will not eat peanuts from the hand, not even from the hand of an ex-president. - And his footprint is painful to the person printed. The African elephant is liable to step on you with both front feet and then dou ble up and plant his rear pedals where they will do the most harm. It was almost child's play for Mr. Roosevelt to hunt bears in the Mis sissippi canebrakes. There were a few flea bitten bruins of small size scooting around in the brakes, scared half to death at sight or sound of a hu man and scampering for cover. But when this same huntsman gets Into equatorial Africa and encounters King Leo in his lair there will be another tale to tell. Assuredly the exploit of the Yazoo darky who caught a bor.r and tied it to a tree so that the presi dent could shoot it (but he wouldn't and didn't) will not be matched by any of Mr. Roosevelt's black boys in the Jungle so far as the lion is concerned. Taxidermist In the Party. Mr. Roosevelt's purpose, as announc ed, is to kill specimens of each kind of big game in Africa. As he is to devote a whole year to the task, there seems no reason to doubt his ultimate success, ne proposes to back up wliaj he writes about his exploits by bring ing ' home "with him the carcasses of the- slain beasts. A taxidermist wii! accompany the party to mount the nn!- mals and preserve them for shipment The taxidermed pachyderms and oth er defunct beasts are to le presented I to some 'American inuucum of natural: history, so that future generations niny gaze uion them and admire the prow ess of the mighty huntsman of 1009. It is stated by one prognosticator that Mr. Roosevelt will visit while in Afri ca the home of William N. McMillan, a young millionaire from St. Louis who for several years has lived in the wilds of east Africa near the equator, where he has a place which he calls Tuja farm. Mr. McMillan, who Is an inveterate and intrepid hunter and ex-J plorer. is said to have 15.000 acres stoutly inclosed against the predatory! beasts of the outlying wilderness. H'n big bungalow is built of iron, so that 3 M i ill I" Good Cooks use K C Baking Powder and Good Cooks make good things to j eat. K C means success bake-day success. Suc cessful cooking means health and happiness. K- C is the one ntir Kak-ino- - powder that sells at a fair orice and with the following "Money- oack Lruarantee: Get a can from your grocer. Use it and. if you do not have lighter, better and more delicious baking, return it and have your money refunded. Try K C now you have a surorise in store Don't miss another day. Every can guaranteed 25 OUNCES 25 CENTS La. 1 1'w-r.n t ti . . mum :.".:(( '. SKY, LINE. TWENTY MILES UP. Kissimmce, Fin., to Piss an Ordinance Regulating Airships. . Mayor T. M. Murphy of Kissim tnee, .Fla.. has preparud an .ordinance designed to regulate airship Jiatnc. He will ask the council'' to pass it,, Sc-tin 1 "Sii.vs.- "Fov- the purpose of mi's ordinance the Iwundaries of the tc-vn nnd boundaries c f the airship limit of the town shr.t! It held to ex t'.Td upward i:i a vci:ti -:;l d:r?-M io'i to iv distance of twenty nV'Nv? in the Kky, oud the area. of the un'shii? limi.t of the town shall' be the s:::,.ij as that of the lire limit of the town." Aiiother' section provides that the insrsha! shall have an aeroplane to chase offenders, while another fixes n license tax upon nil styles of .irships. X'uoty d:i.ys or $.100 fine is the iH?naltr f( r infractions. '. Xo one in Kisr.Imniec . reuieinbers Ver having seen an airship. W. G. Maucker's Why Is it that the only time the newspapers spell a man's name rhiht In when he is arrested for street ti;;ht ing? Los Angeles Times. tlon to take passage on an elephantina trunk, and it should warn Kermit to give his strenuous sire some fatherly advice in the jungle. But peruse Tringle: "On none of my j trips have I seen so much game, and I believe that, instead of growing fewer in numbers, it is increasing. Lions are more numerous than when I came ; Hons, gorillas, elenhants and other .'ini- 'here. and there is hardly a night thatl mals more interestinir than ehnrtninJ i i - r I I we do not hear them near our cattle cannot break in and eat Missouri mil kraals." Fine Collection of Animals. That is rather Indefinite. But hear this, Mr. Fringle speaking: "One morning when I woke the boys car ried me to the top of a kopje so that I could see what was in the valley. I will never forget the scene. I do not believe any living man ever saw so mauy fine animals together at one time. There was only one herd of fourteen elephants, but of every other llonaire for breakfast. Presents For Native Rulers. Mr. Roosevelt is in correspondence with various persons who know some thing at first hand about Africa and the Africans, the climate, the kings, the beasts aud the "boys." High au thorities remark that the president shows wisdom in thus seeking advice, for. If he should plunge headlong into the hunting country just anywhere the chances of his catching a fever would be considerable. Fevers are more to be feared than the natives. Nevertheless, to conciliate the native rulers of the mnrvlrnhla IHnri tf enmn thnra trora la year beforehand. No president ever 1 so many that it would have been im- dld such a thing as that after stepping possible to count them. I believe. In a down and out. It Is big news because , day, even if they had stood in one spot i.,, it .Theodore Roosevelt is the most cele- lnstead of moving around like so many be neceSgry for Mr. Roosevelt to brated man in the world today. For . ants on a heap. There were buffalo. tat-0 oi, n i,n, . fiAQrlv ttta tAPtna fir. i i a npinniArt thn i , . of l . i 1 1 a r i o i inw uvi uuo vivui"i.u eiiuu, jjiraue ouu pruciicuiiy every highest post of hbn6i"In all the .world, kind of bok in the country." Now be retires speaklDg nearly A year ahead, of course and from the tip of the topmost tower fit civilization he . Now. isn't that enough? : But let us hear what the late mon arch. Tinno Tib. said about the multl- takes a header into the depths of the. Dicity of elenhants In his domain. darkest jungles of barbarism that yet .Tippo declared that there were at least Temain on the earth's surface. 200,000 elephants atone in his part of I 1' tkat is not a startler, then bring east Africa, about"15.000 herds of on the thrill medicine. I them, and the poor fellow died be- Just what sort of a country Is this moailing the fact that there was still into which Mr. Roosevelt and his sou 525,000,000 worth of ivory truncating Kermit. who will be twenty-one years ; around th inmr! nmhnhir Aid thMi. r in nlunco? Will th I ... . . .. . . . .. . I I'"31"' president be disappomted because the' "ZV , volunteer-army of several thousand Came is not what it has been cracked I . oW Vk. wilh wbich to )Detrate to the Interior nn to he? Will wwn Alornnrior 1 , ' . v . " a!"- , ana conquer tne country, or course lLt0L JS. tlZttrZT; I1?' In the true, for the Roosevelt It is more than likely that when an African king learns that his visitor has been the big chief in his own land the black host will confer unusual gifts upon Mr. Roosevelt, thus increasing the expense of the expedition, because courtesy will demand reciprocity. Just now the Roosevelt mail at Oys ter Bay Is bulging with letters from all sorts of persons who want to go along with the hunting " party. Secretary Loeb remarked the other day that the president could have, .If he wished, a line, Decanse or nnoing atter an n n,n-0 , .i, ,, ..ji" . . ."" travel and trouble and expense that nn tn ki7 "1 I lTlcan Dunt 18 SlnS to belong to his- thcre Is not another animal world to i", " 7 A !; " 'tb . .I : i X0Tl' BUt tne rox1 riaers flIKi wear-v coucc.er ta Africa? ! Well, that Is not likely. .Then comes the outfitting. That runs talkers who would like to be in at the If"' Big Qam$ Plentiful. up Into the thousands. "The boys" . must be selected and hired. It will re quire fifty or sixty of them for the f " " uooseveu ; expeuttton. The boys are That is, if we may accept the state- pack horses, carrying about seventy ments of certain persistent sportsmen pounds of luggage each upon their !rhn hire -ttrtfA ta live in Africa lust nuked backs. And'ths' walkin? lan'f " " j - , " .vn. riuju nuuwrcii,- wuo IS a 4jocause the big same is so plentiful. good either. Sometimes the boys balk husky young man and an expert pho aane, lor instance, -ercy rnuKie, w no aim uaie w ue wuippeu "uo iiur. j iograpner, has preempted the picture fcas Leca urms nr tue civiuing une tjpmeumes .- iney mutiny ana mase taking job. ' : killing will be disappointed, for the president is known to be a man who dislikes to have a mob around him when he wants to shoot game. 'v. Even the photographers,7 many of whom have urged their claims, are being turned down. 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