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Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21
FIoERinE the NEGROES.

I see the same fierce native soldiers
everywhere as l saw them about In Vic
toria Nyanza, and they, as well as the
European officials, go about with a lordly
air. I have already written of the flogsing.
The colored man here has but few rights
that the white man is bound to respect,
This Is especially 50 after one gets out into
the wilds. Indeed. I am surprised at the
cold-blooded way In which the traders re-
late their own treatment of the natives,
An American, whom / met here, was talk
ing the other night Of a trip he had made
through German East Africa in which he
had employed a large gang Of negro porters
to carry his supplies. Said he
you can never tell whether these ras-
Gals are shamming or not. l remember one
OF my porters who was Away playing
off sick. and whom had to whip almost
from the start. None Of my men like to
walk through the swamps after nightfall.
II is rather dangerous, you know, but l
had to hurry aud / pushed right along.
One evening this porter refused 70 go far
Their. He squatted down on the edge OF a
and said ne would not move. l had
my men stretch him out and l flogged aim
again and again in vain. At last The fool
put one of his arms behind him TO save
his back from the blows of the kuboka
and / struck his wrist ana broke IL Ot
course l could do nothing with him after
that. He could not hold the load on his
head and / had TO leave him there in the
swamp
These were the words, not of a Belgian,
a German or a Britisher, although have
heard equally bad stories from men of
each OF those nationalities. but they were
those Of an American, and were uttered
as though breaking the mans wrist and
leaving him TO die in the swamp were OF
no consequence whatever.
Another man, who pretended 10 be a
Maltese, but who looked like an EuTasian,
told me hat he had lost several porters
by death from exposure during a recent
trading trip, and that he had logged one
until he dropped. The wages OF such por-
tiers Is about 4 cents q DAY and they feed
themselves. They carry loads Of about
seventy pounds each. and they trot along
all day with such loads on their heads. I
am told that they are cheated by the trad
srs in every possible way. Their wages are
paid in cloth. and short measure is usually
given. three yards being made 10 go for
tour.
The cloth mentioned In the contract IA
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

1SAA NAA A6NO NHS AStN~ R
travel.
Pets of the Black Continent,
While on the subject of animals 1 want
to tell you about the queer pets 1 find in
this part Of Africa Think of holding a
baby leopard in your lap! Or Of lifting up
a lion by the nape of the neck! This Ii
what 1 have seen done in the last week.
The baby lion was at a hotel here. He was
tied by a clothesline and 1 was able to pet
him without being hurt. l took hold Of the
skin of his neck and lifted him off the
ground, although 1t strained my arm to do
so. On Lake Victoria l saw a pet hyena.
and at one Of the native villages found
several pet antelopes. Pet sheep and goats
are common among the Africans, and there
are certain tribes in which a sheep will fol-
low its master about and come to him when
called. In Uganda sheep are often petted
They are fat-tailed animals, with hair as
coarse as that of a tin-can-fed American
goat. They are usually white in color, al
though some are as red as a blood bay
horse. In Oar es salaam 1 stopped with a
man who owned a pet leopard. 1t was only
a few weeks old and was as tame as a cat.
The captain on one of the Lake Victoria
steamers has several pet monkeys. a dog
faced baboon and, some parrots. The par
rots have silver gray feathers on their
bodies and their wings and tails are bright
red. They talk in the native language ana
whistle insperanto.
About the queerest pet bird l have yet
seen on this continent is the whale-headed
stork of Uganda, one of which has been
sent to Khartoum and is kept there in the
gardens OF the slrdar. The bird Is found
all around Lake Victoria, and especially at
the source of the Nile. 1t is as big as the
largest turkey %gobbler, and it's head looks
as though II had been chopped out OF a
telegraph pole and then hung to it's neck.
This stork has long legs, and 1t walks
about with great dignity. 1t looks sleepy.
and It does not seem at all afraid. l took
a snapshot at the bird with my camera,
standing within a few feet OF 1t at the time,
II did not bulge, but gazed at me out OF
its bleary eyes as though 1t thought ne a
fool. FRANK G, CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

the conversation on the subject Of reading.
At once her face was alive with interest.
Reading? She loves II.
why" she says, II was brought up on
Jane Austen, and she is my best liked
writer to this day. In my fathers library
there was a small copy of Pride and
Prejudice which think we children must
have thumbed quite to pieces, for it has en-
tirely disappeared now.
"Of course we have books in our own
library, and I think 1 reread Pride and
Prejudice at least once a year even now.
And ~Thackeray, too, I read and reread
without ever losing my taste for him"
There you arel No yellow plush" snob-
berry can find a footing in a household pre-
sided over by an American woman who
is so alive to the delicate ironies of Jane
Austen and Thackeray as to Civ them
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

@NA' @H "a NAa
A 4th OF March. 1909, puts will
liam H.. TAFT into the White
- House It will present to the
kElfye7t possession Of the American
49, people an uncommonly likable
family.
For the matter Of that the American peo-
pie is not waiting for March 4. 1893. So
far as II has been able It has already
moved into the Taft residence in Washing
ton and has camped on the spot.
There one may see every day the camera
brigade firing fast and uriously. There
come and 90 the newspaper correspond
ents. At least they come and occasionally
some OF them SO.
one Ingenious young woman who turned
up the other day confided to Mrs. Taft her
conviction that the public was suffering
for q Nampse Of the inner home life Of
the Talt family. She proposed that she be
allowed Just to sit there and, so to
SPEAK. observe the wheels Of family affec-
ton 60 round.
II was a deep disappointment to her to
find that the secretary was at the War
office, that Mrs. Taft was going out to
luncheon, that Charlie was at school and
that Miss Helen. though at home, wasn't
Swing exhibitions Of inner homo life that
day.
It was an absurd notion on the part OF
the ingenious young woman, Of course.
And yet the g~llmpses one does get Of the
Iaft household make one wish for more.
IAe whole spirit Of the place is frank. un-
a4-Cctcd, genuine.
with a hearty Hello. old man." the
secretary meets a friend at the door. turns
the visitor around and carrier him off with
him. In the library Miss Helen's voice can
"a hAarI r1RnnNv- @. I'D T. H.
with her young brother, Charlie.
They have good voices, these Tafts; well
pitched, likable voices. Vocal cords are
wonderful t~elltales when II comes to secrets
Of character, but the TAFT family do not
need 20 resort to silence for self-protection
lie more they talk the better you like
them.
VIXEN Mrs. Taft, for instance, comes in
ard says with pleasant directress: why.
certainly; II you have any questions to ask
l snail be glad to answer them" you say
TO yourself: shes all right. She's willing
TO play the game and play It squarely."
And that Is precisely what Mrs. Taft is
trying to do. Plctures7 She, knows her
pictures are not good likenesses OF her.
The reporter had to choose from q dozen
or more photographs the one Which seemed
the least unlike her.
She Is not plning to have these misrep-
resentations Of the camera held up 70 the
public gaze. But II It is part of the game.
the great game Of having ones husband
become the president OF his country, why,
all right; take the picture alonR
She treats the questions asked her in
the same way. She is genuine, frank, unaf-
fected. She does not take herself too Sc
riousiy. She puts on no foolish frills.
She has no false pride and no false hu-
mllity. At each question her gray eyes
light up with interest, not, II you please,
because she Is thinking Of herself, but be-
cause she has the uncommon faculty of
forgetting her own personality in an out
side subject.
For example, the merest chance started
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

for steady literary diet.
But though a genuine lover OF books,
Mrs. Taft is no blue stocking, NJ high
browed pedant. She says that she honestly
try to keep up on general literature, but
her manner plainly asserts that If you take
advantage of that statement to start a
disquisitlon on sociology or modern philoso-
ply she will be distiI city disappointed in
you. And you are wise and ask instead
whether the children share this love Of
reading. Again her face lights up.
Indeed" she says, 81 think Charlie eats
and sleeps with books for his companions.
He loves reading better than anything else.
He has actually read the whole section in
the Congressional library devoted to boys
books.
He brings them home by the armful,
sleeps with one under his pillow at night.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

And Of all the travesties on a pretty face
it was about as hopeless a one as could
be made.
The reporter protested that It did the
original too great an injustice. Mrs. Taft
was Of the same mind. Photographs had
been telephonlng and begging to be allowed
to photograph Miss Helen. Her mother
told her she really ought to go down and
rave 1t done.
The girl looked at the condemned picture
indifferently.
Il don't think it's so bad of me-" she said
calmly. IT don't think I'll get nythin
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

INI6IMf the scalplock or this African
Sy continent. 1t is a bit of rock
as big as your fist, and 1t was cut from
the top Of Mount Kilimanjaro, where,
dominating all Africa, It kisses the sky at
an altitude almost four miles above the
sea. The rock was cut off by one Of
the rma who climbed to the top of
that mighty mountain. 1t was ground
smooth and made into a paper weight,
and it now lies at the kaiser's right hand
on his library table in his palace in Berlin.
About Mount K~iIimanjarO.
I understand that the kaiser is proud
OF owning Mount K~ilimanjaro. and there
is no doubt that 'his subjects out here
feel the same way. The mountain lies just
back OF this part OF Tanga, almost on
the border between British and German
East Africa. It's lowest slopes are now
reached by railroad, and some of the
richest regions Of German East Africa lie
at its foot. ThSse are now being settled
by Germans who are planting out coffee
and hemp. There are some plantations
which contain tens OF thousands Of coffee
trees, and large tracts are being set out
In rubber or planted to grain. A colony
OF Beers has located there, and there are
also many Jews, who have been driven
out or Russia by the prosecutions OF the
czar. The land is high and the climate
is healthy. The railroad has now been ex-
tended about seventy-two miles westward,
and IL is TO go up the slope of Kilima
faro itself. The governor general, who has
recently made a trip through that region,
tells me he is well satisfied as to the
progress now making, and he predicts that
we will some day have a little Germany
away out here in the heart Of Africa,
under the shade OF its highest mountain.
The day viii probably come when the
ascent OF Kilimanjaro will be one of the
regular stunts of the world-mountain
climbers. and we may have cog railroads
running up to health resorts in and about
its mighty peaks.
During my stay in British East Africa ]
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21
Life Among Natives Around Kiimanjaro Loftiest of African Mountains

Their inland is a big white-walled, red
rooted hospital of two stories. At the end
of the bay the buildings of the city begin.
They are composed Of European structures
and matched rooted huts, which are the
homes of the Hindoo merchants and OF
the Swahili natives.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

often Americana or American sheeting, but
the traders will try to palm off Indian
%cottons, which are little better than
cheesecloth, instead. Indeed, the English
and Indian traders make no bones of tell
ing how they cheat the natives and they
laugh over it as they do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

saw this mountain several times. far off
in the distance. 1t looks like a great
cloud Of snow floating, as It were, in the
blue sky. j. ends in two peaks like a
saddle back, and it stands upon a great
pedestal, which is more than a half mile
higher than the top of Mount Washington,
Worlds RIightiest Mountains.
Kilimanjaro is on the roof of the African
continent, and it Is one of the half dozen
or more spires which rise high above the
roof of the world. With the exception of
Mount Mckinley n certain of the Him
alayas and the Andes. it is by far the high
est mountain on the globe. We have moth
ing to compare with It in North America,
and II you could put the A~lleghenies on top
Of Mount Blanc they would not reach so
high. I have gone along the Ande from
Panama to Patagonia and have seen all
their great peaks. Chimborazo IN Ecuador
is just as tall as Kilimanjaro with the
height OF the Washington added
to it. Mount Sorato in Bolivia is some
thing like 1900 feet higher, and Aconcagua,
on the borders Of Chile and Argentina is b.
900 feet, or 5000 feet above this topmost
point of Africa.
One of the greatest sights of the world
is Mount Everest, which rises out of the
midst of the Himalayas to a distance Of
almost six miles above the sea. It's actual
height is 29,OOO feet. 1 have seen II from
near Darjiling in the bright sun Of the
early morning, and l can tell you 1t does
not compare in beauty with this mighty
Kilimaniaro. Everest has so many other
mountains around it that you cannot real
ize it's size. Kilimanjaro stands almost
alone, and its double dome of frosted silver
fairly floats in the blue sky. Indeed, the
natives living near II believe that the top
Of the mountain is made Of silver. They are
too far down to know what snow means
and in a region so near the equator that
all the lowlands are steaming.
Natives AbOut K~iIimaaiarO
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

. 1908, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
INCA. German East Africa
Especial Correspondence of The
Bee.)-Kaiser wilhelm, the I'M
peror of Germany, now owns
the scalplock OF this African
continent. 1t is a bit of rock
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

better, mother"
All of which is interesting because 1t
shows a wholesome indebtedness which is
very attractive. People have thought that
because Helen Taft was going to enter
Bryn Mawr she must be horribly intel
lectual." That she is exceedingly clever
there is no doubt. But neither is there any
doubt that she is a girl full of the tastes
of all 17-year-old girlhood.
She spent June week at Annapolis and
enjoyed that unique seven digs of gayety
to a degree that settles the question
whether she cares for society or not. In
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

There are Nasal among them, who have
large flocks of cattle and sheep, and many
other tribes who engage in farming. having
little fields of grain surrounded by hedges.
Some of these people irrigate their fields,
carrying the water from level to level by
means OF canals.
A little further up, Kilimanjaro is COW
cred with a dense vegetation. The tres
are full Of orchids and other air plants;
and there are lions, leopards and all sorts
Of wild beasts. There are some elephants,
and the hunting is said to be very good.
Higher still the vegetation changes and
becomes more like that Of the temperate
zone. At the altitude of Pixies Peak 1t
ceases entirely, and from thence on the
perpetual snow begins.
The topmost peak, known as Kibo, is
always snow covered. This was first
assembled by Hans Meyer in 1889. He says
that 1t has a crater more than a mile in
circumference and over 600 feet deep, the
walls of which are covered with ice. The
lower peak is known as imawen 1t IL
just 1880 feet high, or about as high as
Popocatapetl in Mexico.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21
.
Port of TanRa.

I wish I could show you this little African
town of Tanga. 1t lies here on the sea-
coast just opposite the Glove island Of
Pemha, which belongs to Great Britain.
1t is in German East Africa, a few miles
below the Umba river, which is part of
the boundary between this country and
the British Eat Africa. 1t lies at one Of
the mouths of the Pangani river, which
rises on the slopes Of Kilimanjaro and
carries away the greater part of its
SHOWS.
The coast here is low and tropical and
the vegetation is so dense that the noun
tains cannot be seen. Indeed, there are no
hills anywhere, and the eye wanders over
cocoanut palms loaded with nuts and
fat baobab trees, whose skeleton-like
ranches reach out like great white fingers
clutching the air.
Tanga has a beautiful harbor. The
mouth of the river is such that It forms
a bay OF thousands Of acres, well protected
from the storms of the Indian ocean. At
the entrance OF the bay is a point on
which stands a white lighthouse, and far
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21

A~sHINGTON. June of the
4th Of March. 1909. puts Will
liam II. TAFT into the White
House II will present 10 the
possession Of the American
people an uncommonly likable
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21
Natives About KiIimanJaro.

During my stay here l have talked with
German travellers who have explored large
parts Of this mountain. They tell me that
the land is rich at the foot, and that it is
inhabited by a number of tribes, each gov
erned by an independent sultan or chief.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-21
Pets of the Black Continent,

herman will have the greater part of that
travel.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-25

Unless the figures presented In Mr.
isryan's Commonor are considerably
OF. tile democratic leader from Ne.
braska has the Denver nomination NJ.
ready landed.
The last Issue 81 the newspaper
mentioned. dated June IL, aud which
accordingly appears To have been il.
sued little ahead OF time, gives the
numher of delegates who are instruct
ed for Mr., rryan, or who, being un-
instructed, express q preference for
hin, at az.
A two-third majority OF toe con.
vention il 81, 30 that when the Com
moner's table was complied Mf.
Bryan WAS still Is yates short Of tie
necessary two-third majority.
IL Is found, however, by references
TO the table mentioned, that since II
was made up three additional states
and one territory have held their con
ventions aud declared for the gentle.
man from Nebraska.
These commemorative are New
Mexico, Virginia, Kentucky aud
Utah, having combined vote ia toe
Denver convention Of o., 80 that Il
the rest OF the commoner's figures
are correct. and they appear 70 be,
Mr.. Bryan already has II votes osei
the necessary two.thirds, and there
are still las delegates 10 be named
from states, some Of which will uD-
doubtedly favor Mr.. Bryan.
IL Is said that figures do not lie,
and IL is recalled that one cyntc has
added 10 this statement the addition,
al suggestion that liars sometimes
use tigures.
The Miner, however, does mol
think for an Instant that the Com
moner has misrepresented the situa
tion, as It's table shows for itself, ant
was apparently correct at the time u
was Esade up, but four conventions
as shown by the Miner, have beer
held since that time aud Nil Of then
have Instructed for Mr.. Bryan.
1t Is quite evident that the leade
from Nebraska has the Denver con
vention In hand, and 1t would not b
at all surprising II he does not hav
hundred votes % 80 70 spare. =
Butte Miner.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-25
INuNseLEST aAIoRIr,

The following editorial il from the
Omaha World IIeraia:
hetseen April /, last year, and
April -. this year. while ths prizes
paid by the packers To the farmers
for cattle increased only - per cent,
the price charged by the packers to
the wholesalers increased - per cent.
The beef trust Ia ether words, hay-
ing charged ~ ia the public the fun
increase Ia the cost OF beet TO the
trust, gonTed the public Tor an sddi-
tiontl amount Sbich was alabost rs
Dor cent IN excess of that increase.
The profit made by the 6eef trust
out OF a 1900 pound steer. Instead
of being bUt ~ SCENTS, as Mr.. Garfield
reported, Is almost =.
The beef trust which. la fourteen
leading markets Of the country packs
and slaughters 10 per cent q the
cattle sid. fixes by concerted agree
ment % the melnbcrs Of the trust,
on each Thursday, Tie price that Will
be paid on each DAY Of the ensuing
wesk for cattle, sheep and hogs, a.
well a. the price that viii be charged
tn sbolasalers and retailers
The trust il a. absolute and more
exscting now than wben the govern.
pent practically abandoned It's prose
cution two years ago. The law that
" vas violating thea Is still the Law
a Law which IL Is the daIy CT the fed
ersl government to enforce. But Tbs
government Is making not ths
slightest effort to enforce H.
These are The most inieresiln.
points brought out by Cong ressmaI
fIltehcuek In bis speech In the ho0s'
TUESDAY on the beef trust.
The Omaha lee snesrs that th'
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-25

GRITTY not az the aeek aud cali OF WaH
S tFeet Aud this rump commission
counts upon sitting IN Europe and
this country three or four years aud
delaying Just that long currency leg
islation along sound lines.
What now will the investor sayY
How will the manufacturer or the
merchant who wishes TO increase his
output OF enlarge his business regard
the chances Of the f1tureg
He has known by bitter experience
In the last rear how be can he ar
fected by bad currency system.
viii he nov have confidence 70 go
forward more extensively while at
the mercy OF a system far more
vicious, with every old evil unrem-
etiied aud new ones added?
Tsu factors are responsible for our
great commercial Development
natural resources aud the imae Ina
tion OF the American business man.
But bis initiative and energy are
necessarily paraiyxed when be Il de-
prived OF confidence In the Integrity
OF The national financial system.
Therefore, II would be well N II
we're possible for ono OF the repnbli.
cans who voted for this new Wall
street peril to commence, or one OF
the democrats who aided aud ahstted
than. TO stand forth and tell hes a
prudent business man, 10 the face OF
what has just teen done, dare try 10
discount the future, capitalize us
possibilities and 80 forward with the
assurance that once Inspired him.
Hope lies only In the magnitude OF
the outrage. Cur trust Is that the
villiany may stir such wrath as 10
hasten the day when all such mock
commissions ms the present Que will
be kicked into limbo, and demand
| made foi the passage Of sn adequate
law that congress will fear 20 refuse.
Then, and then only. may come the
establishment Of currency system
tn this country which viii relieve a.
from being the laughing stock OF al
students 81 finance Ia every nation OIL
the world. Philadelphia North
American, lRepuhlicanl.