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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1910)
( , - ROOSEVElT'S ' TOUR Of \ .AfRlCA AND EUROPE : . . : Strenuous r Ex-President Has Spen I Fifteen Months in His . : Re- I ( , markable Trip. * L m THE JUNGLE AND AT COTJE1 . . 'I ' flis Triumphs as a. Hunter Only : ; I . . Equaled in His Reception. : , . : ' by Royalty. . . . " t . Ex-President Roosevelt's fiftee : months' tour abroad has been one of triu.mph both in the jungles of Afric , and in the courts of Europe. The hum - ing trip , officially known as the Sraitl . sonian African expedition , occupie _ nearly ] eleven months of the- time. Th Smithsonian Institution wanted spE'ci- : jnens from the Dark Continent , : Mi . , Roosevelt was commissioned to obtai : them , and he has been .most success . ful.So , there was something back of ; the strenuous ex-President's desire to , hunt : big game. Soon after his successor was inaugv . I rated Colonel Roosevelt bade farewel to a great throng of friends and saild from New York for Naples. With hir ' were his son Kermit and three natura ] ! ists , and stowed in the hold was mos of their elaborate outfit for killing or - -photographing the animals of East A1 , rica and for preserving the specimen destined for the Smithsonian Institi . - tion. The Institution paid part of the . expenses of the expedition , but Mi Roosevelt bore the personal expens ( : of himself and son. Wireless communication was mair. . taine with the steamship Hamburg which bore the party , and the Colonc found it impossible even in mid-oceai to be lost from the world. At th , Azores , and again at Gibraltar , the oi ficials and people insisted on doin ; hkn ! honor , and when he reached Ns pies the entire populace turned out t greet him. Flowers and a letter from Empero ' . , In . . a preliminary report to the Smithsonian Institution Mr. \ Roosevelt summarized the material results of the expedition as follows : "On the trip Mr. Heller has prepared 1,020 specimens of mammals , the ma- jority of large size ; Mr. Coring has pVepared 3,163 , and Doctor Mearns 711 . Of birds ! ' , -a tofal of 4,997 mammals. Doctor Mearns has prepared nearly 3- : 100 , Mr. Loring 899 , and Mr. Heller about 50-a total of about 4,000 birds. ford Mr. Roosevelt delivered scholarly public addresses and the literary and scientific circles o'pened td let him in and marveled at the wide scbpe of his knowledge. The event connected with Mr. Rooae velt's European tour that aroused the most interest and excitement occurred immediately after his arrival in Italy early in April. Before he. left Africa his desire to pay his respects to the . . . . % i , . . . . , . , . . . .1' . . . . : 4 . . . , I. 4 j $ 95c : I , , I . fr , . : . . ' : Y4--J 7 1f ' - - & * * I . . i : . ; I rr3i ; 4L/2t.L 5 ' . . _ _ , / . , . --V , , ' - . - r7V7V : . J . . . . - . ' , : . . , ) ' * w/k' 4' 27 'f - : , , i GUILDHALL , LONDON , WHERE MR. ROOSEVELT SPOKE. . "T , : "Of reptiles and batrachians , Messrs. Mearns , Loring and Heller collected about 2,000. ; "Of fishes , about 500 > were collected. . Doctor Mearns collected marine fishes : near Mombasa , and fresh water fishes elsewhere in British East Africa , .and he and Cuninghame collected fishes in : the White Nile. "This makes , in all , of vertebrates : . Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . : . . 4,897 , Birds ( about ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . , . 4,000 Reptiles anl batrachians ( about ) . . . 2,000 Fishes ( about ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11,397 . "The invertebrates were collected . chiefly by Doctor Mearns , with some assistance from Messrs. Cunninghame and Kermit Roosevelt. "A few marine shells were collected near Mombasa , and land and fresh- r water shells throughout the regions I I , . / iq 4 S . 1PL : A I 1 , % . ' , 6 ' . . j. , ' 4 ' , . . k . ' . - . 4 . . . ' . . ' .4 \ ' " . , . . . . ' . . . . : : : - ' - c ' I taN\ , . . I ; : . ' . ' , . : . ' S S 3-z . . ' . - ' . . . . . - . - . . - - . : S MOMBASA , WHERE COLONEL ROOSEVELT LANDED. . William wishing him "good hunting awaited Mr. Roosevelt when he boari ed the German steamship Admiral for Mombasa. A stop was made at 1'lessi- J , na to view the earthquake ruins , and there , at King Victor Emmanuel's re- : quest , Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit vis- ited the Italian monarch. At Mos - basa the party was cordially receivei , and the Acting Governor , . under instru - tions from the British government , did. . all in his power to further the plans of ! : the expedition. Mr. Roosevelt and ' J Kermit were licensed to kill lions , and . the hunters were otherwise grante unusual privileges. ' Kermit had trail - / ed himself to be the chief photograpl - : cr of the expedition , but he also tun - ed out to be considerable of a hunte S The party was here joined by R. J. ; Cunninghame , a veteran African hun : , - er and explorer , and Leslie J. Tarl < - the ex- , ton , and these two managed b % ' , pedition in a most able manner. . . . . Bis Hunt Uegins. - I . f the . The party next became guests on ranch of Sir Alfred Pease at Kapit plains. Here a caravan of over 250 . - : persons was organized and on April ] : 25 Colonel Roosevelt had his first Af- rican hunt , during which he bagged a Thompson's gazelle and two othe r beasts. Five daysvlater the first lion fell victims to the shots of the Roosi velts. After that the big game cam S fast and cheetahs , giraffes , rhinoce . oses and more lions were added to the , list , in all fourteen varieties of animal being secured. Meanwhile Kermit wa busy with his cameras and the natural ists prepared the specimens. Several weeks were spent on the , ranch of an American namedlaclil - . Ian and in the surrounding country : Game was plentiful thereabouts ans . . . secured. . . many fine specimens were Leaving East Africa on December 19 . the expedition crossed Uganda am . , . went down the White Nile , getting ! : back to comparative civilization at : Gondokoro. There they went aboard a , steamer put at their disposal by the < _ . . . 'S. If' . . . / Sirdar , and journeyed to Khartum , - where Mrs. Roosevelt met her husband , c , . ' . nd accompanied him in a leisure ) ' , . _ . / , t-ip to Cairo. During his stay in . Roosevelt was the re rr .C . 7pt Colonel ic . ; ' . ut of many honors and made sev . . ; * -a ! fppeches. At the end of Marcl . tb& Roosevelts sailed for Italy. . . , - " s . italy.'S. . . ' ' . , visited , as well as crabs , beetles , mill , peds , and other invertebrates. "Several thousand plants were col. ] lected throughout the regions visite , by Doctor Mearns , who employed an trained for the work M'nyumne : : named Makangarri , who soon learne , how to make very good specimens , an turned out an excellent man in ever ; wa ' . "Anthropological materials wei gathered by Doctor Mearns , with sorr. assistance from others ; a collectio was contributed by Major Ross . ; , a : American in the government service t \ Nairobi. " Tour Through Europe. In the tour of Europe the America : ex-President desired to be treated a : ; man of letters and science , rather tha pope had been conveyed to the Vatican and the holy father had intimated that he would be glad to see the distin. guished American. However , upon his I arrival in Rome the Colonel called off the contemplated audience , stating ! that as an independent American citi. zen he could not submit to the restric. tions that were imposed. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermil were received by the king and queen oj Italy and spent some days in that coun try. The Colonel and his wife 'visil Venice and traveled once again the Ri viera route that they passed over or their ' honeymoon , and next Mr. Roose velt visited Vienna and Budape where he was given a royal welcoi Paris was next visited and there , 01 April 23 , he lectured in the Sorboi ] before a great audience of savants ani students. The municipality and its 01 ficials , the president of France an ! various learned societies vied witi each other in doing honor to the \'iE \ itor , and for amusement he was take : . . . . . to the field of aviation , where ' he sa' ; some exciting aeroplane flights. Then , traveling northward byv of Brussels , Amsterdam and Copen. ] , gen , Mr. Roosevelt arrived at Chri ! tiania and delivered an address on iI ternational peace before the NobE prize commission , . which had award ' to him the Nobel peace prize for hj 1 successful efforts to end the Russii Japanese war. Emperor William ha made great plans for the enterta ment of the ex-President in Berlin , bl the death of King Edward caused tl ] curtailment of the program to a CO ( < ! siderable extent. . I Having been appointed special an bassador of the United States to a tend the funeral of King Edward , Co onel Roosevelt next crossed the cht ] nel England , and when the body ( the dead monarch was carried to it tomb he was one of the re.markal } - crowd of royal personages and dist ] guished men that followed the gu carriage on which Edward's coffin w : borne. After the funeral he was i l' ceived by King George and Quo Mary and by the widowed queen moi er , and in a quiet way made necessa by the mourning of the nation mu ( attention was shown him. This culr e nated , in London , by a reception in t1 e Guild Hall , at which the freedom . t1 the city in a gold casket was present ! to him. He was the guest , thereafti . of several prominent Englishmen , ai I on June 7 l\e delivered the Roman lecture at Oxford , which had been poi t1 poned by the demise of the king. Th a was the most pretentious of all h n European addresses and the best. . . . . . 'u'U" " : : . . . , , I. ' 4 > 'fff'Vf w v * tfiy-f * vy&JNitW * * * fv f ' f < fv s ft + t'ifAff- " _ * -X Cx * , * f ] \ , > < x * , - * - > > ? - ' " " ? , f 4 . . " . , ' - S. - : ' - " _ . . - . . . * 4' , _ ' 'Sq * ' ' _ . ' Sy , " ' * . ' . - - A , , > v - / , . ' . . % ' v"s ' < - ' , , S. S. ' * , -"s - , , * ' % ' f t .1 : ' . " : ' . COLONEL ROOSEVELT AT THE GERMAN ARMY MANEUVERS. as a sportsman , and his desire was gratified. But in addition , Europe in sisted on receiving him as the most distinguished American of the time , and everywhere he went honors were showered on him. Emperors , kings , princes and all manner of royalties and nobility greeted him , dined him and toasted him : , and the people in all the lands that he visited turned out , in . . vast throngs to see him and cheer him. In Paris , Christiania , Berlin and Ox- . / . I . " . " / S _ ' 1' _ . Mr. Roosevelt was honored by Ca bridge University , which conferred 1 on him the degree of doctor of la and the occasion served to den strate his popularity with all clas : After fifteen months abroad the ti : eler , together with Mrs. Roosevelt , K mit and Miss Ethel , sailed , June 10 , the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on tt way to New York and the rousing Vi come that he knew was .waiting h on the American shore. . I " . . > . , I - : : . . . DtTOltAtS Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. I I I . Y' THE PICKPOCKET AND HIS VICTIM. - . MAN from whom a sum of money has been stolen and who has caused the ar A rest of a suspect receives an offer of the return of the money taken if he will droi - _ _ II- the prosecution. Desiring the return oi . his money more than the punishment ol S.- the thief , he consents. The money is re turned and he notifies the police and the court that he has no charges to make. Whereupon the judge orders the release of the man whose guilt is practically con fessed by the return of the money. What are the moral aspects of such a case as this' ? The victim of the -thief is naturally eager to get hh money back , but is he justified in letting the thief go ? Is he not , In fact , compounding a felony when he agrees to such a settlement ? What right has he to save the thief from imprisonment and to set him free , so that he often confront may prey on society ? Such questions citizens against whom crimes are committed. The temptation to recover the valuables and the repug nance for being mixed In court proceedings frequently lead to such settlements. There can be no doubt , how ever , that they are against public policy and , in point of fact , Indefensible. ' One may go farther and question the wisdom of the under such circum Judge who will let a prisoner go stances. It would seem better to secure the attendance 'in court of the accuser by whatever means may be nec could be held. The essary , so that a trial of the matter offer and acceptance of the return of the stolen money would be strong corroborative evidence of the guilt ol the accused man. Pickpockets are dangerous persons to be at large. When caught red-handed they ought to be prosecuted to the limit , whether the victim gets his money back or not.-Minneapolis Journal. : COAL TAR PRODUCTS AND HEART FAILURE. * " " * | O MANY people suffer from sleeplessness and other real or imaginary affections of Sand , we call nerves ; and so many who S ' also think they find relief ' S. : . , think they suffer t in a certain cycle of hypnotic drugs , that . the permanent effect of these drugs on I . - - health is a matter of even more popular . than medical interest. The drugs In question are de l rived from the by-products of . gas making and oil re - fining , coke burning and the like. Science has utilized these unpleasant mineral smells as it has utilized the animal smells of the packing houses. These compounds are grouped together for the chemist by the fact that they approach the highly complex formulas of organic chemistry and lor the vulgar world of apothecaries and patients by the fact that the names of most of them end In al. They differ from the opiates or narcotics formerly used to produce sleep in their direct effect upon the brain and nerves through the circulation. This [ l effect is produced through an influence upon heart ac N tion against excess of which medical men warn pa. tients and which observing patients are able to detect. and in differ. Y This-effect varies in different preparations 1- ent patients , according to their condition and . suscepti : ) ' bility , all the way from a slight depression of vitality l' , > ) - . CLIMATIC IRRITABILITY. c l ; Why Certain localities Are llracin d mid Others Are Enervating. 1 Certain places are said to be "bra - I 1 Ing ; " while others enjoy an unenviab lE reputation of being enervating , though 1 , the latter quality is sometimes "de- scribed as "soothing , " according to the [ l L London Lancet. The very antithes t of soothing is the climate too often II 1 , met with in many resorts on the l\Ied- [ 1. 1 Iterranean littoral during wlnte , )1 where a blend of hot and cold that is lE disagreeable to the healthy and very Ie trying to the Invalid may frequent , n' 1 be experienced. : n It is common in midwinter in these : l E places for the landscape to be qulve - e. ing in the hot sun while a piercir n wind from the northeast seizes every I :1' : 1 opportunity-the shade of a palm tree' ' : 'Y or a wall-to grip the unwary traveli h In Its fierce embrace to the detrimei l . of his comfort , possibly of'his healt ] l The inexperienced laugh _ at the ca - [ W"i i s his i V r t of I Upus resident who . , dons overco ; : 1 to " ' - . spite , _ _ of ' jyhat looks . . - and feels like . r , Bummer u'nshlne. but the wages .of hi I Ignorance is often diseas ' 01 . ' " . , ! . " ! - . - e ! ! There is one curious effect of these ; t. : bitter-sweet climates-namely , a cer- , I : tain irritability of temper that attacl .i ! : people after a few veeks spent ' in thes surroundings. Ask any one who has = passed three months at Hejouan or I Algiers , Nice or Menton , and althoug he may not admit it as regards hin - self he will readily concede the trut of this observation on behalf of his friends. Now , this irritability is no dout an outward and visible manifestatio of a disturbance of nervous equil brium consequent on nervous exhau : - tion. The effect of these rapHly re- curring alternation : if heat 'id c . ) ld 1 ' : " on the nervous syteIr ! : is strictiy con - parable with that oc quick alteration of light and dark on the eye. Th bewildered vaso-motor system does its best to respond . to the kaleidoscopic ir - dications , but fails and ultimately : n - acts on the nervous system as a wholi . When this symptom declares itself it i is time to move on , either furthe south , where the variations of ten perature are less marked , or to a higl er altJtude , where the temperature , b < - Ing low , is more uniform. The latter is the betr choice of the two , because no matter how far sout one goes , starting from the Meditei = ranean , much the'same difference ol . .ro. tains between the temperature in the IP' lun and that of the wind. The onl } : ' vs , advantage attending the desert air iE Jll. that , being absolutely dry , the alterm es , tions are less trying than the nea a.v. coast , where the relative humidity i .er. hih - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ l . "fl on . Spiders in the Cheese. el reI. Andre Laturbe , a young Parisiai who thought he had solved the pro ! . im lem of living at other people's expense ki been arreited tor a most Ingenlou , S . S I I to complete heart failure and stoppage of life. Some drugs seem to affect one person In this way and some another , but few persons are Immune to all of them. It appears that medical men In the East are proceed- ing from Individual warnings in relation to the use of drugs to an organized campaign against any resort to ' hia direc- under them except on a physician's order and tion. They resemble other remedies in the respect that Injurious results follow their abuse. Whether these re sults are -BO uniform and certain as to make it neces- I sary to pay a doctor's bill every time one takes a dose appears still to be a matter of dispute.-St. Paul DIs- patch. . WHY MEATS ABE HIGH. HE schemes of "civilization" to put food ' materials ( mixed with some . materials ' that are not food ) through various com plications that greatly increase the price L- ' and hence the profit to the mixers , and that capture trade by putting out a prod uct that has a different appearance , color , odor or taste from the same thing in a less expensive form , are entirely based upon our anthropoid curiosity. In the case of meats , for instance , the farmer takes grain worth a cent and a half a pound and feeds it to a . steer who completely consumes fourteen out of fifteen pounds of it , and deposits in his carcass , together with the fifteen pounds of grain , two pounds of water. Now this steer the farmer sells to the packer at a rate high enough to pay for all his feed , labor and the loss from animals that did not thrive. Next the packer turns 40 per cent of this steer into fertilizer and fusses and fixes the rest of It up and passes It on to us through the hands of a dozen storage men , wholesalers and re tailers ; finally it reaches the consumer a pitifully : meager share of the original food grown on the farm , . and hopelessly loaded with the product of the steer's physiological economy and the packer's chemical la boratory. When one considers the waste and folly of the whole proceeding , Instead of being surprised that meats are ; high , he wonders that they are so low.-Physical Cul- ' * ture. ' BACK TO THE LAND Iv.- - NE HUNDRED years ago human society " was essentially rural. Since then the great collective interests have developed , V . . and the thought of the world has become largely urban. The present interest In country life is the rising of a tide. It is _ _ _ _ _ an unconscious expression of the senti ment lying back In tke human mind that society must be neither predominantly rural nor predominantly urban. We are now beginning to see that the most fertile civilization must be the result of the attrition of the two great means by which human beings express themselves-as individuals and as collective or aggre- gate units. Country life typifies the individual self- acting unsyndicated means ; city life typifies the asso - ' - ciated consolidated and corporate means. - National Mag azine. , fraud , a St. Louis Post-Dispatcl ' Paris correspondent says. His method was to go to a fash- ionable restaurant and dine well. When he got to the cheese stage I he produced from his pocket a little tin : box full of spiders. To introduce a couple of spiders on the plate from i which he was eating his cheese was the work of a moment. Then he called the waiter and protested loud ! ] } against the filthiness of supplyii food with spiders in it. On the arrival of the manager ] he protested still more loudly and the ' ruse invariably ended by the dlstrac ed manager hushing the thing up by I Inviting the outraged customer to take a glass of old brandy and tenderii profuse apologies. . Of course the wa : . bill. er was Instructed to present no But finally Laturbe , in choosing a restaurant where he has not been be. fore , happened to choose one that em- ployed a waiter who had seen his trick < at another establishment. This man quietly ! sjent for , : the police and when < Laturbe had been arrested and searc - was found In his ed the box of spiders " . . pocket. -t'- I" : ' : : : . ' . " " ' ) : : : : ; J"r - ' . ; ; " ' . . , , . . , , NEW5OLFLCENTMOOS Ian Hay , who comes before the American public for the first time with his new novel , "The Right Stuff , " is a young Scotch writer. "The Right ! Stuff" has been compared with Bar- rie's "WheiTa Man's Single. " It deals with ! London life of to-day. I . ' lau [ ' " , ce Hewlett has lately been ap- : ! pearmg as the bellwether of Thorn ; Hardy's admirers. Mr. Hewlett be. longs to a family that has lived i in Somerset and Dorset for generation I The members of the family were al- ways Whigs and Puritans. Mr. Hew- * lett has some French Huguenot bloo . His early reading was Mallory , the Bible , "Don Quixote" in English , SiI Thomas Browne. William Allen White recently ente , tained Governor Stubbs of Kansa Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan and Miss Mo jan at his home in Emporia. In ar [ interview the next day the Goverm characterized Miss Morgan as an "in : mrgent. " This is perhaps slgnificai in view of the fact that Victor Mu lock , who , it is believed , is the origin ! Df one of the characters in Mr. White novel , "A Certain Rich Man , " Is an in ; timate : friend of Mr. hite's-and : [ leading insurgent. H. G. Wells tells a story of a hus aess ! man next to whom he once sat a . L a public dinner. The conversation ha . turned upon one of his own books , ai , Mr. Wells had said something to tl affect , that "were there no self-seekej . - 'S the world would be a Utopia. " This- neighbor promptly observed : "I main tain that all water used , for drinking and culinary purposes should be boiled at least an hour. " "You are a physl cian , I presume ? " suggested the novel 1st. "No , sir , " was the reply , "I am - in the coal line. " It is well known that at one staga- of his career Mark Twain was in se rious financial difficulties. He was In terested in the publishing firm of C. I * Webster & Co. , and when that com pany failed he insisted upon under taking their liabilities. The figures are now being recalled. "The assets of the -company were realized upon as far as possible , whicn enabled the firm to pay about 40 cents on the dollan As the entire debts amounted to $100 ; ; > , . 000 , this left 60,000 of unpaid and unsecured debts. When this became known Mark : Twain announced that he would assume personally the responsli bllity of paying the $60,000. His phras was : Til pny ; ; this if I live. ' No on4 believed him , but he immediately went oha lecture ' tour" : wrote 'Foll w. t.5llie.J5 ator / and kept at work un .Jnzj ! e . Equaorand tilhehad paid ; 'ery dollar of th4 . . Webster indebtedness. " Trit.7 . : < . _ _ _ . . . _ _ . _ , , _ ; " J . . . . . -r 1 ; : " Aged 3Ian SIng5 Six Hours. * , . . - - - - What 7s believed to be the most pro longed singing performance on record has just been achieved by Alexandei : . R. Porter , a magistrate living in tha Liverpool suburb of Waterloo , who be fore retiring from business was chiei accountant in Liverpool of the. North and South Wales " . bank , the London Express says. Mr. Porter has sung a hundred songS In one evening by way of demonstrat ing his vigor at the age of 72. Tha veteran magistrate is sprightly in hiS bearing and has a ruddy and cheerful face. He believes that vigorous and frequent singing tends to longevity and good health and attributes his own mental and physical well-being to vocal exercise. Since he was a lad he has always begun the day by a vigorous bout of singing before break- fast and closed it with a liberal ex ercise of his vocal cords in the even . ing. ing.The The more he has sung the more he has found himself able to sing , and. . he contends that the singing has in- , vigorated his heart and brain , expand- . - ed his lungs , and so largely contribut- 1 ed to his enjoyment of good health. Mr. Porter on his 72d birthday gave - a party to relatives and friends , and during the evening iang 72 songs , one - for each year of his life. The songs included modern light opera , old bal lads and sacred selections , and were rendered in a rich and powerful ban- 1 tone , accompanied by a pianoforte. The feat took six hours , with neces- sary intervals. , .td When a gfrl goes out of town on a d visit , and her hostess cries when she e departs for home , she thinks her visil S 1 was successful. . . ' ; . , . t . . . ( ii : : ; ; ; , . . , -
