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Li'.-'' E I S t- At Philip Four Days each Week From Mondtf to Tliursdmy Inel. 4 Nort4t Center StnMft Phone 37 S"-M^ ***%&« v V ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA At the Hunting Ground By Frederick R.Toomb* OOPYMCHT,ltOS,8Y AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION EVEN hundred n ud fifty ttaou Mind square ii 11 e s of the ureutest buut lug ground on earth" —NIK IJ Weeks before the hunter Hie the itooaeveU game, ... 1 Vflrn ta Philip, Put up at Tte Philip Livery «. v W flwt Karn Emt &•.. S the Depot. sS& IN probably Mr. Koos«velt'8 de scription oi Brit ish Kast Africa, and. ty|in al of Ula ven.uresome character, he has chosen the wild est and most In KERMIT ItOOSEVKLT. accessible portion of this area of forest and veldt, desert and swamp. Juugle and tablelnml, mountain and rift, as the center of bis hunting operation*. At the railway stations at Vol, Ma kindu, Kiu, Athi Jtlver, Londiutii and Kscarpnient accommodations are to be had for hunters who desire to leave the train and shoot antelopes, bucks, rhinos, elephants or any other game that may be taken. Ice Is made artificially for travelers at these sta tions, hnd at times the train pisses through fields of com and millet aud plantations of oranges and sweet pota toes. At Port Florence the party embarks on the comfortable twin screw lake steamer Winifred, having baths, elec trio lights, etc., for an eighteen hour run across the lake to Entebbe, whence the Koosevelt hunting expedition in Its entirety will start into the unknown i for many months, lost almost as com pletely to the outside world as though Its members were hunting hippo(K)ta muses In the canals of Mars. From six to seven months will be consumed by the party in the fast nesse8 of Uganda, for many years the kingdom of wars, murders, slave sell Ing and wife killing, where even today cannibalism Is not wholly wiped out. where the dwarf Negritos shoot poison ed arrows at white men and where v "Wc -?•. at As- A WAITING THE I'HITK 'AL MOMENT. the tsetse fly tan caused the death of as many as 40,000 men, women and children in one year. Eutebbe, capita! and "port of entry' of the kingdom of L'gauda, reached by steuming aenms crocodile infested Lake Victoria Nyutiza, on which one can sail over 200 miles without si^lii lng laud from the masthead, provides every facility.for invaders of the sur rounding unktiowu. Here ll was that the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi pre pared for his notable trip in H)0( to the suow capped though equatorial Kuwenr.orl range, anciently kuowu as the mysterious Mountains of the Moou, lying west of the pirticular territory choseu by Mr. Koosevelt as his tleld, but close enough to afford him a good view of what Aristotle termed the Mouutaiu of Silver. Qf Wg v pJrty, reach Eutebbe preparations are made b.v commissioned persons. Native porters and guides liagandas, Swahilis and ^Soiualis are engaged as well as "boys" to aid in the work about the camps, Had a large bulk of supplies is made ready, savlug delay. Most carriers are Ragandas, the native population of t'ganda. who have preserved a verbal revord of the history of their nation reaching down through thirty-six kings from the fourteenth ceutury. Swahlll* ore half Arab aud half Bantu, the latter a widely scattered negro race of small stature. Somalls are generally incompetent aud deceitful. On the arrival of the hunters and ex- plorers at Eutebbe the final organlza- 'e^'8 Hon of the caruvau, or "safari," as such expeditions are termed, Is com pleted. Each man is drilled in the particular work he Is to do afield, lug gage Is separated into packs of from fifty to sixty pounds to be carried on porters' heads, a critical overhauling Is given guns, ammunition and medicine chest, and last letters are mailed to the "outside." Early morning, juat after suuup, tbe word to start Is giv en. Tbe porters, a hundred or more of them, gruntingly balance their pieks on their heads, woru smooth by such work, and ainid deafening shouts s art strung out In single file on tbe road leading to the trail toward Lake Isolt. followed by a dusky file of askaris. or native F. Winer, Mgr.} n A* |Killce, armed with Snider rifles '\v 1 ^vVv and intelligent native generalissimo of all the forces, who can make the ex pedition a success or a failure next the syces, who take care of the ponies, if such are taken, and lastly the hunters themselves, with their gun bearers, usually Homalis of "selected stock." Out of sight in the distance are the foremost members of the safari of from probably 300 to 4mj men, when the hunters themselves tighten their puttee straps, adjust their pith helmets and. undaunted, take their (daces in the march into the majestic vaults of the tropical forest where many an un fortunate man has gone never to re turn. The Hrltlsh protectorate of Uganda, still a native kingdom under youthful Kobaka I)andl ('iiwa. son of atrocious Mwanga, seller of women, covers 80, 000 square miles, wit It subterritories Mr. Roosevelt's plans Include travers ing the very heart of It, continuing northward to Oondokora, across the headwaters of the Nile, outpost of British Sudan, where Mrs. Roosevelt hopes to join him In a Journey down the Nile. The country first Invaded and where the hunting is done Is a virgin haunt of big game, the like of which exists nowhere else in the known world. It is a varied fastness, almost completely surrounded by Lake Victoria Xyanza. to the southeast Lake Albert Edward, southwest, near Ituwenzorl Lake Al bert. northwest, and the headwaters of the Nile and the ramifying Lake Chogn to the northwest, north and northeast. Although limited by his license to the killing of two male elephants, two rhi noceroses, ten hippopol a muses and wen ty-one antelopes, including two kudos, two gembok and one bongo, species of antelope two earth hogs, two earth wolves, ten tftievrotains. two colobl or other fur coated monkeys, two marabou storks, two algreis. two oa- 3 trlches and one chimpanzee, Sir Roosevelt can shoot all he desires of the following: Lions, lio'tesses, male Cape buffaloes, leopards, .-rocotliles. wart hogs and reptiles and any birds, except vultures, owls, whale billed storks, crowned craues oY young or fe male ostriches. Forbidden to shoot zebras, giraffes or elands, female or young elephants or Johnston's okapi, he hopes to bring back a live specimen of the latter rare animal, us none has ever beeu seen outside of the African wilds. On, on Into tbe heart of the un known presses the safari, rising the while on tlie l^randa plateau, where the air is cooler and where the usual midday rest, when the sun is hottest, can be somewhat shortened If neces sary. Working on out of the tirst strip of forest beyond Entebbe Is en tercd a region of rolling hills, the earth brick red, the high ground grow lng deep grass, "elephant grass," from ten to twenty feet high, with here and there single trees or groups set in brushwood and thorn. The valley bot toms produce luxuriant forests, and where the waters are stagnant Im mense swamps spread away, covered with papyrus and aquatic plants. Ele phants feed on the elephant grass. Hons hide In it and lurk In it, and hippos and rhinos escape Into it from their favorite watery wallowing places The principal trees on the hills and In the forest are the acacia, mimosa, euphorbia, erithryna aud spathodea. Like oases in masses of tangled growth are the forest zones In the val a'oll8 the brooks, where the palms and other trees rise 100 feet high, embraced by the long, ropy vines of giant iiauas the perfumes of Jas mine, honeysuckle and mlmosu sweet en the air. and beneath is the thick, damp, cool moss, softer than the flow er strewn paths of Arcadia. Grateful beyond words to the conqueror of the poison aired jungle, to the fainting plodder over sun baked sand, dead grass and tooth sharp rock or to the piercer of cactus aud tborn brush thickets are the gentle forest zones in the valleys. Approaching the mountainous sec tions spacious reglutis are found where strange granite formation Is a feature. Rounded granite hummocks, called i "moutonnes." push through the soli for protection of the camp at uiffbt amid reddish yellow grass mingled next the tent boys and personal scrv- with low ferns, and beans can be gatli ants of the leaders of tbe party, the ered In large quautitiea. Moutonnes cooka and cooka' helpers. Now comaa the neapara. or headm&n. the actira ire evidences of a prehistoric glacial (erh-d along the equator. When traveling at their best speed the natives of tbe safari cover from ten to eighteen miles on a continuous stretch of from three to four hours then a rest Is taken. Intensely violent tropical thunderstorms frequently in terrupt proceedings, and In the regu lar rainy season malarial fever per siKtently attacks the whites. The ter ritic beat ut midday Is tempered at times by clouds which veil the sun, and the changes of temperaiure and weather are strikingly sudden. A blaz ing sun and a bright sky will In a very few minutes be obscured, and dark ness swoops down as black as any body's midnight. Torrents of rain fall, threatening eh'Ctrlcal discharges occur, smashing down trees and destroying native huts, and the blazing sun will as quickly reappear. Many a capture of tempting game is prevented by these cyclonic (ut!ursts. Making camp In the hunting field is a diverting process, tbe natives erect ing their huts with remarkable swift ness. Laughing and singing, they stl -k flexible canes into the ground In a cir cle, bending th" t' ps to meet in the middle of the circle. Interweaving the ends In the form of a bell or dome. Bundles of elephant grass are then pa ked on the frame, a small s ace left open as an entrance. In fifteen minutes a grassy plain Is transformed Into a prosperous looking native vil lage. Should some village be near, wo men and swiirms of naked children visit to sell food and fruits, utul the native chieftain ai his council put on clothes and uncomfortably all «n the hunters to pay their respects, in ex change to receive something more tan gible, like silver trinkets or a pistol or two. (Jraft is not unknown even in the jungle. It Is unknown only where hu man beings are unknown. After the evening meal of elephant steak, reedbuck. gazelle or fran -ollns (African partridges) and sweet pota toes or dellclousl.v cool pa paw, or egg fruit, plantains or sugar cane the hunt ers may partake, if they wish, of the native beverages, banana wine or lnbisi or mwenge (the latter very strong). Then, lighting their pipes, they discuss plans for the next day's shooting. The neapara (headman) sees that the guards are stationed correctly, and soon the juugle trackers are asleep. No late rising human sloth can hunt big game where shines the Southern Cross. The trailer of tbe lion and the ponderous pachyderm must up and away from his com-h before daybreak, eating Ills breakfast by cand cl'^ht in the cjuasl darkness of the early morniug. By the time the sun's rays concentrate on the jungle he must be off from camp with his helpers to sight his quarry when it first starts on its day's marauding. Lions and elephants are his chief dedre, and the latter usually travel In herds, crushing vegetation as they go, tear ing up trees by the roots and making havoc generally. The lion Is often found in wood scrub and in reed beds along the river ways and in beds of heavy green flag fringing the streams, these Hag beds called "tinga-tlnga" by the natives. Again, a lion or lioness and cubs will be found taking a siesta on some sunny ledge or crouching, alarmed. In a mountainous cave or un der leaning bowlders. Hippos or rhinos also take kindly to sunny spots when the glare is not too ^reat. In tracking the large game beasts the Uganda huntsman continually comes across countless aulmals of scores of species. There are over fifty kinds of antelopes alone In Africa, and giraffes, zebras, elands, hirtbee.ts, sing-sing water bucks and other water bucks, impala aud kongonl ever and again come into and flee from the range of vision. Multitudes of game fowl and flashily colored "birds of the air" are on every side. The "wuff wuff" of Jrant's gazelles salutes him from the rock koppics and the grass tufted mead, aud above him In nar rowing circles hover the vultures eared vultures, black and disgusting carrion vultures and the small neo phrons, dark brown, with repulsive livid pink faces, boon partners all of the hyena aud the jackal. Of course the safari does not escape the deadly menace of the implacable tsetse fly, the desolation spreading scourge of whites and blacks, Im planting with its bite the mysterious germ of the incurable sleeping sick- AN EAST AFBICAN WARRIOR. ness. Mr. Roosevelt has wisely studied every means of protection against this Insect. Whole villages have gone to sleep never to awake. Whole tribes have disappeared from the face of the earth because of It. Particularly deadly when attacking males In the prime of life, entire- villages are found today where only women and children survive. Stricken uatlves are driven oift of their homes to die In the forest and be torn to pieces by wild beast* 25 Per Cent Discounts on Town* Lotsr 25 per cent discount on lots in my addition to the town of Philip, for cash or exchange for horses and cattle, lots and property. Residence property and farm lands at great bargains. Horses and'cattle bought and sold. LAND ANI CATTLE COMPANY, A. J. Wray, ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA Hunting th« Elephant By Frederick R.Toombs C0PYRKjKr.M06.Sr AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WILD bull ele phant Is tbe no blest work of God." recently s a i a w e known African hunter to the writer. Undoubtedly the sight of him lunging through 1' a tropical forest, trunk upraised, tusks glistening, eyes gleaming, legs like monoliths crushing all opposition. Is more than euough to fill with awe akin to fear the soul of a mere hu man, uo matter how steely his uerves. how true his rifle or how clear his con science. That Mr. Roosevelt should not be satisfied with the dangers of liou, hip popotamus and rhinoceros killing and desires to add to them the unques tioned perils of elephant tracking is cumulative proof of his ambition to experience every possible thrill that this little world affords. His chosen hunting field on the Uganda tableland affords probably the best elephant ter ritory now remaining In all Africa. Re mote from the coast. Infrequently touched even on Its edges by whites, growing luxuriantly the pachyderm's best liked foods, well watered and well shaded, central Uganda was apparent ly created by the gods of the elephant as the ideal breeding place and (day ground of their favorite children. African elephant hunting Is more hazardous than that of India, where the venturers have trained elephants, on the backs of which large baskets or howdahs are placed to carry the riflemen comparatively out of harm's way. But no such trained pachyderms are had In Africa, and the tracking and attacking must be done on foot, an operation said by the renowned author ity, Sir Samuel Baker, to be the most dangerous sport ou earth, for. since many elephants are killed without any danger ou foot. It Is absolutely in evitable that the charge of a wounded animal will sooner or later have to be met successfully by the man who presses closely Into combat with him— met successfully If the hunter would preserve his life from this unsoughtcom bat that calls forth every ounce of un swerving, unhesitating, Intuitive cour age. Like the hunter of the jungle lion, tbe slayer of the tusked behemoth 5 F.U'E TO KAl.'E WITH BIG GAME. has thrown his life In the balance, and the balance swings against him ouly he himself is to blame. Another way of hunting the beast* In a safe way, unknown In Africa, Is the Indian custom of organizing im mense drives with from 300 to 500 men, encircling a herd of elephants and forcing It by noise and other demonstrations to enter a large, spe cially prepared lnclosure, termed a kraal. There the tuskers can readily be killed, or the beasts can be taken out iudlvldually and trained to the various kinds of work they are capa ble of performing. While It is true that elephant drives somewhat similar In nature are at times resorted to In Africa, they are conducted on much smaller scales, and the beasts are driv en In front of the hunters wbo kill them instead of Into inclosures. In elephant shooting It Is vitally Im portant that the huuter have a de tailed knowledge of the makeup of tbe brain of tba boaat, as tha shots bast 1 would have beeu crushed had I not drawn my legs forward as, shrieking shrilly, he rushed directly over me. "My companion escaped by leaping Into the ravine^ The beast kept straight on and disappeared, leaving me soaked and my hair matted with the blood that flowed from his wounds." When elephants fight each other one of their favorite tricks Is to bite off each other's tall. Females are espe cially fond of doing this to rival fe males In the same herd. Elephants roam about and feed both during day and night, usually resting from & or 10 In tbe morning until the middle of tbe afternoon. In warmest weather they bathe frequently and roll around in tbe mud. At such times they are shot comparatively easy. They are expert swimmers, going through tbe water with only the tips of their trunks or the tops of their beadj showing above tba surface* An elephant shot In tba wa ter floats, while a hippopotamus sinks. Tba faateat rata at which African ela- pbants bar® erer boon known to travel Is about fifteen uille* an hour, the maximum length of their stride being from six and a half to seven feet. 8talklng one or two particular ani mals from a herd (tbe herds In Ugan da uumber from ten to fifty members) la a task requlrlug consummate bunt ing skill. Tbe herds travel wltb tbe females in front and tbe bulls In the rear, and herds are usually attack ed from either tbe side or tbe rear. Solitary bulls, called "rogue" elephants, generally wildly vicious even before attacked, also present In teresting problems. The natives have developed great aptitude in following «nd interpreting the footprints (spoor) of the quarry, whether lions, ele phants, at telopes or other gaiife. If it is old the edges have crumbled and calculated to instantly bring down the animal are those that penetrate the brain, and tills, of course, cannot be penetrated unless a man knows just they are filled, or partly so, with drift how It is situated inside the skull. sand and bits of leaves. Wounded ele- When a herd takes alarm at a party phants are also tracked by the blood of attackers and starts on a rampage stains on the elephant grass through across country the hunters must travel which they pass, and by the height of at a punishing rate If they desire to the status on the grass It can be esti secure any of the specimens, and woe mated how dangerous the wound la. be unto whatever Is In the path of the in "On Safari" Abel Chapman tells crashing monsters. Obstructing trees, of an attack by a bull elephant that torn up by the roots, are thrown aside almost cost him his life. He says: like so much driftwood on an oceau "Archer and I approached to within shore, and they will go fifty miles at thirty yards of the animal (near the a stretch over country of a nature shore of Lake Baringo, British East that men would cover only twenty Africa) and hoped to get a good shot miles in the same period. Frequently without detection beforehand. Sudden elephants of the same herd become ly the wind shifted, and the elephant angered at each other and Indulge In caught our scent. Instantaneously he forest duels that would make a bull fight look like a kissing bee down on the old farm. The English authority, (1. P. Sanderson, actually witnessed such an engagement and describes It and the subsequent hunt as follows: was all alert. Suddenly he disappeared In the Jungle brake, and while trying to spy him a heavy crashing heard di rectly before us told us he was com ing. At once a big square forehead appeared directly above us In the tall 'The elephants were seimrated from grass (ten or twelve feet high) only a us by n deep ravine, and we saw them few yards away, resembling the hoary lunge ferociously at each other, cut- gray tower of some old village church, ting deep gashes with their sharp "1 placed a 303 bullet in his temple tusks. The cane tops bowed and trees at the point described by experts, 'half shook as they bore each other back- way between the eye aud the orifice of ward and forward. The noise was ter rific, when tlie beast nearest us, evi dently having enough and losing large quantities of blood from his wounds, turned, uttered a deep roar of pain the ear,' though his ear was as big as a baru door. Archer, In front, tried tbe effective forehead shot, aimlug at the base of the trunk. The beast swerved from sight under these blows, and fled across the ravine to near but quickly reappeared again just as 1 where we stood behind a clump of had reloaded. He crashed at us vi* bushes. He began to destroy the clously from our right, aud we each foliage In sheer fury and grunted deeply. He was very large. It must have been a genuine mouster that worsted him. Suddenly the animal backed sway and stood stark still. Not a sound could be heard. He gazed straight in our direction, and I knew that he had winded us. Ills frenzy now sent his ears forward, his tall up, and straight at us he charged with incredible swiftness, considering bis put bullets into his head from the side, his ear almost touching our ritle muz zles, Archer hitting him with a 40 and I with two more 303, following with two lead slugs from a 45 black powder rifle. But these total seven shots in vital parts had no apparent effect, and the beast headed Into a heavy thorn jungle. We followed but for miles he outsped us, aud we re luctantly gave up the chase, marveling size I stepped out Into the open to that any animal could live, much less lear my gun of the bushes and flred. travel, so far and so fast with seveh I looked to see where the elephant lay. "Good heavens! He had not even been checked. To my horror he was upon me. His tusks came through tlitt sinoke like the cowcatcher of a lo comotive, and I had just time to fall fiat before being impaled on them. His ponderous left foot came within a few Inches of my left thigh, and I 1 ordinarily deadly bullets lu fils skull. Our natives continued the pursuit twenty miles and gave up. Later the beast was found dead at a point about forty miles distant, his great tusks, weighing ninety pouuds apiece, having been taken by a native Ivory trader. "This elephant was estimated to weigh almost 12,000 pounds, the great est weight known being 14,000 pounds, and this latter animal stood practical ly twelve feet high, the record height for the modern pachyderm." The elephant carcass is a choice prize for the natives. They climb upon Its side and cut a large hole straight down into the interior, just as a mining shaft is sunk, and the ua tlves climb dowu out of sight lu the "shaft" to hunt about for choice mor sels. A coating of elephant fat and blood is a populur substitute for cloth ing among certain Uganda savages who believe that no people should Wear clothes until after marriage. Elephant hunters In Uganda find ant hills a valuable aid as observatories. These hills tower to a considerable height, aud many of them cau be easily climbed. Others rise sharply like smokestacks, and. behig hollow, holes are frequently dug In their sides and fires built for cooking. A perfect draft is produced by the hollow in terior, and the smoke is carried off at the top. So numerous are these bills that they are a distinctive, a typical, feature of the country. Cases are known where hunters have saved their lives from charging elephants by dodg ing behind convenient ant hills. The charge of an aroused elephant herd Is, by the way, a sight never to be forgotten if tbe object of It escape's with his life. A writer In the Geo graphical Magazine describes such an assault by African elepbanta near Lake Rudolph, as follows "We entered a patch of dense Afri can Jungle. Huge prickly aloes, enor mous cactuses with long sharp points-, and a tall feathery plant like privet: made up a safe asylum from ordinary mortals. Very few minutes sufficed to turn hunters Into hunted. No. 1, ai cow, charged down on us. Jumping aside, I killed her as she rushed on my gun carrier not four feet from him.. Hardly bad we struck tbe spoor of an other lot when a young bull suddenly hore down on me. However, a lucky* forehead shot laid him low. While* skinning one of these heads the whole* place seemed alive with elephants smashing toward us. Seizing my rifle. I ran ahead. Suddenly a line of over forty elephants broke cover, about twenty-five In the first line jammed together like a cavalry regiment charg ing. Being only twenty yards from me when they appeared, with tbe cen ter bearing directly down on one, I own to feeling they bad the best of me. I aaw my only chance was killing the flank one. In a second I dropped the left hand one. which, falling In wardly, Inclined the whole troop Special term* on application i a lit tle to tbe right. Wltbln tan yards I fired my remaining barrel, dropping another, causing still further deflect! rn to the right. Another second the flank one on the left rushed past, almost knocking me down. "1 fait tbankfnt for such a lucky escape and blessed my new 400 cordite rifle, which had dona such good work