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TRAVEL IN AFRICA
trip de luxe if they have their waj
about the arrangements
To mitigate the fatigue of travel iu
Uganda the administrators of the
Uganda railway are building for the
presidents party a special train of
luxurious observatory sleeping din
ing and reception cars When he
reaches the interior of British East
Africa Mr Roosevelt will camp out in
one of the garden spots of the world
Civilization liy now penetrated so far
into the interior that even in close
proximity to the territory where plen
ty of wild animals abound there are
good hotels excellent food and handy
telegraph and cable stations In Ger
man East Africa conditions are some
what similar The scenes at a railway
station on the German East African
Usambara line are ditrerent from those
one would witness at a railway sta
tion in the United States but suggest
that the natives of the dark continent
are rapidly accommodating themselves
3 to twentieth century ways Travel on
a parlor car on this line presents
scenes too that are not lacking in
picturesque features The military ele
ment is apt to be much in evidence
and the travelers enjoy wine and song
tobacco and cards as they move swift
ly through the lands which were but
lately the haunts of the wildest of
beasts One may now roll smoothly at
forty miles an hour over country along
which Mackay and Uannington toiled
painfully but twenty years ago and
where the latter fell a victim to the
savage king of Uganda One can travel
In a week on commodious steamers
down the river whose passage Stanley
made only after many weary months
And there is now an ice factory at the
place where Stanley found the heat sc
unendurable
As for hunting In Africa that Is
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FRICA Is a continent tlmt is com
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ing to receive more and more
attention from the rest of the
world and President Roose
velts proposed trip to the jungles of its
interior to hunt wild animals has caus
ed It to be especially prominent in the
public eye at this time Everybody who
has ever been to Africa Is telling what
he knows about it and every one who
ever hunted bears with the president
or has shared in his adventures on
such expeditions is supposed to have
something to do with his forthcoming
hunt in the wilds of the dark continent
Naturalists and ethnologists are head
ed for Africa in the determination to
add their quota to the store of scien
tific lore by researches there The re
markable progress that lias been made
in an industrial way iu certain parts of
the continent Is the subject of innumer
able articles In newspapers and maga
zines and in general there is an im
pression abroad that in tills part of the
world in the near future some of the
greatest triumphs of civilization are to
be witnessed
Just at present there is a spirit of
gayety among the invaders of the dark
continent They are trying to show
that nothing is impossible to the enter
prise of the twentieth century whether
it is bagging the fiercest animals of the
jungle for amusement venders in
America crossing the deserts in auto
mobiles harnessing the falls of the
Zambezi scaling the heights of the Ru
wenzori or building the Cape to Cairo
railway Conquest of the continent and
utilization of its great natural re-
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AFRICAN USA3IBARA LINE
sources must be preceded of course by
establishment of means of rapid com
munication The ship of the desert
the camel must be succeeded by the
Iron horse and the chug chug of the
motor vehicle must invade the fast
nesses inhabited in the past by lions
and tigors and elephants and hippo
potami Already conditions have great
ly changed since the days of Lhing
stoue and Stanley and when President
Roosevelt arrives on African soil he
will find many conveniences and luxu
ries awaiting him in the borderland
41 ing between the cities of the coast and
the jungles of the interior Indeed it
begins to look as if the African au
thorities and railway companies would
make the expedition a sort of hunting
fast becoming a very popular sport
even without the Impetus which the
proposed trip of the president will
give it One of the greatest of Af
rican hunters is F C Selous the Eng
lishman who has given Mr Roosevelt
much advice as to his trip At the
age of twenty Mr Selous felt the
call of the wild and started for Af
rica aud for about twenty years he
spent his life hunting big game lie
made his hunting profitable and in
connection with it collected natural
history specimens Mr Selous served
as guide to the British South Africa
company in the pioneer expedition to
Mashonaland lie fought iu the Mata
bele war and has published many
books on Africa
Even women have taken to hunting
in Africa Two Englishwomen Ag
nes and Cecily Herbert recently went
into Somaliland They wore mens
clothes and shot one rhinoceros many
lions leopards hyenas and jackals
and numbers of deer and antelope of
various species
Somaliland is a wild country be
yond Abyssinia to penetrate which
requires special permits from the
Abyssinian authorities The two young
women went iu at the head of a cara
van of forty nine camels six riding
ponies and thirty live Somalis but
with no white companion They car
ried a small arsenal of express and
repeating rities
Another noted African hunter is an
American William X McMillan for
merly of St Louis It is said Presi
dent Roosevelt will visit him in the
course of his trip He is a lover of
wild places wild creatures wild men
A man of wealth he troes seeking ad
venture through the African interior
with such a caravan as Slieba took to
see the glory of Solomon Friend of
Menelik Abyssinias king sometimes
resident of London explorer beyond
the Sudan elephant hunter on the
Blue Nile lord of a manor upon the
edge of the jungle in British East Af
rica Mr McMillan is an international
figure
The McMillan place is called Juja
farm It is near Nairobi This part
of the continent is about midway on
the east coast of Africa Ilere is per
haps the worlds greatest big game
hunting On the plateau are the many
and beautiful deer for which Africa
is famous In the iunjrle are the lion
the elephant pnd the giraffe In the
equatorial the hippopotamus dis
ports and aong the lakes and streams
is that ponderous quarry the rhinoc
eros
Indeed as a poet Arthur G Bur
goyne put It in lines ancnt Kermit
Roosevelt and the part ho will play
in his fathers expedition as oificial
photographer
Theyll traverse trackless forests where
theyre erv sure to spy
Camelopauls and buffaloes and bis
noceii
The old min s gun will bang away the
kodak it will click
And thus the gallant sire and son will
jointly turn a trick
UNCLE
JOES OPPONENT
Henry C Bell Who Is Running Against
Speaker Cannon For Congress
There is much interest in the contest
between Speaker Joseph G Cannon of
the house of representatives and his
Democratic opponent in the Eighteenth
Illinois district Henry C Bell Mr
Cannon has boon re elected to congress
with so little opposition in the past
that he has almost had a walkover
Only once was he defeated and that
was in 1S00 when he was opposed by
Samuel T Btisy This year on ac
count of the opposition of Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
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of Labor and some other labor leaders
to Mr Cannons re election the fight is
closer than in the past Mr Bell lives
at Marshall III and is a veteran of
the civil war He enlisted when a
boy of fifteen and has a fighting record
of which he is proud He is making
a very active canvass and on account
of Mr Cannons national prominence
the contest has assumed more than
local Importance
ABOUT ADVERTISING NO 4
The Hen and the
Doorknob
By Herbert Kaufman
Once- upon a time there was a fool
hen who sat on a china doorknob for
three weeks expecting to get a family
The only thing she did get was ex
perience
The advertising field is full of
china doorknob propositions ex
amples of merchants who expect good
newspapers to hatch money out of bad
egg business j or who put sound nest
eggs under the wronq advertising
Hen
There are three principles to fol
low in an advertising campaign
First of all find a business that will
stand advertising secondly find the
newspaper that will make the adver
tising pay thirdly give the news
paper time to pay
You cant start in to breed dollars
in less time than it takes to hatch
them any mors than you can pull a
hen off the nest before she has had a
chance to incubate In both cases
you simply waste what has been invested-
If you stop too soon you
will get a rotten egg instead of a
chicken
Advertise something out of which
you may reasonably expect returns
and when you have found what to
advertise take care that you place
your copy in a newspaper that can
turn the trick Dont delude yourself
with a china doorknob and dont
confuse a rooster newspaper which
spends its time for
a hen newspaper that is too busy
hatching out dollars to strut about
crowing
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