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extreme edge OF the bath OF springbosrd.
and with her back to the water and with
arms raised above her head, bend slowly
backward until the balance Is lost, the
body falling stiffly into the water. After
some practice the stiff posture should be
relaxed and a vigorous spring upward
and outward taken at the moment when
the body begins to fall. The toes should
be pointed. and the bowlike position Of the
back assumed as shown in the cut.
Diving from the surface to the water is
much neglected. 1t Is a very useful ao-
eomplishment either in case OF life saving
or when IL is desired to bring some object
to the surface
The exercise is supposed to be quite a
simple affair. but some practice is neces-
sary in order to effect II successfully.
The correct method IL TO take a deep
breath. then suddenly 70 depress the head.
elevate the body at the hips and simui-
taneously make a powerful stroke with the
legs and an upward stroke with the hands
ITO rise throw back the head and push
off from The b0te0m or lake . srong
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her sex in this matter Is Mrs. f. NJ. syers.
winner OF the Bath club ladies' Champion
ship in England for the last three years.
and one Of the most graceful women divers
In the world.
order to become an expert diver" she says.
The first attempts at diving should be
made from the side Of a swimming bath.
Bending until the head is nearly level with
the feet the beginner should allow herself
to fan into the water.
After confidence has been attained the
correct position may be assume In this
the diver stands erect. the legs together,
and with a strong outward and upward
spring, the arms at the same time being
swung forward with thumbs touching
and palms downward, she enters the water
in a straight line. the head between the
arms.
1t is important carefully to note the
correct position OF the hands. Many illus
trations of diving. and even medals and
trophies awarded for competitions, depict
the palms OF the diver pressed together in
the conventional medieval attitude Of
prayer.
Where ample depth is not assured, the
beginner should never attempt to high dive.
Tn expert alone is competent TO dive from
a height into comparatively shallow water
without risk.
when the lsarper has mastered the
forward dive the back dive may he at
tempted. This. though no more eompli-
Gated. Il considerably more difficult
'rhs diver should stand firmly on the
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fishing is good and there is good sport
shooting the birds, among which is the
whale-headed stork. Crossing from there
to Kampala, the capital Of Uganda, the
president will go on to Entebbe and thence
sail over the lake to Port Florence, where
I should by all means advise the party
to take a trip around Victoria Nyapza
before going south. This body of water
is bigger than Lake Superior, and hip
popotami may be seen in the papyrus
reeds almost anywhere along its shores.
There are lions and leopards In the woods
and one has no trouble to get a shot at
a monkey. There are some wild beasts
on the islands of the lake, and on Uker-
eve there is a herd of elephants. AT Blu
koba there are a German commander and
several German officials, and at Mwanza,
the southernmost port, there is a fine
set of German officers. who will be glad
to accompany the president on any big
game excursion he may care to under
take. At all OF these ports there are ma
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season for limiting.

Down here in Rhodesia the president will
find the winter months of from July to
November the best time for his visit. Then
the rainy season is over, the grass is grown
up and has been burned off and the new
grass is Just shooting. The game now
comes out of the woods and bushes to
Craze, and there are practically no insects
or mosquitoes. There is no danger OF fever
at this time, although would suggest that
the president go nowhere in Africa without
mosquito nets, and that he put them up
whether out on the plains or in the cars.
when there is the least danger.
In British East Africa almost any time
OF the year except the rainy season will
furnish excellent hunting. The big game
country is so near the equator that the
temperature is about the same all the year
round. This is also true of Uganda. and,
as for the Sudan, the best time there is in
the heart of our winter.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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instruction can. IN these circumstances, be
more effectively given, and the pupil is
able to concentrate her attention on ac-
quiring the necessary movements.
"As the beginner is always liable to hurry
and to work arms and legs Independently
until the movements become hopelessly
confused, It is best to learn the breast
stroke out of the water. In order that the
body and limbs may always be in the cor
rect relative positions each stroke should
be deliberate.
I'm the first position ne hands should be
touching the chest, palms downward: the
feet, with the soles together. drawn up to
the body; the knees turned out as far as
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Big Game in the soudan.

The general opinion is that the president
will leave New York for Gibraltar and
Naples, and that he will there take one Of
the German East African steamers and
60 down to Mombasa, beginning his hunt
ing expedition in British East Africa. This
can be easily ard comfortably done. There
are steamers every week and the trip to
Mombasa will take less than a month. The
fare I should say would be about $500.
A far better trip. however, will be to go
to Egypt and up the Nile into the Sudan.
Alexandria can be reached at e cost of
$50 in a little over two weeks, and an
other four or five days will put the pres
idential party in Khartum ready to take
a steamer up the Blue Nile to the borders
Of Abyssinia. They may even extend
their travels into that country, and IL
so the presidents friend, King Menelik,
will be glad to send native soldiers, hun
tiers and porters to aid In the chase.
For ordinary persons the license to
shoot big game in the Sudan costs $500.
but the freedom Of the country will prob
ably be awarded to our president, and he
will be allowed to shoot without limit
such birds and animals as are not on the
prohibited list. The laws of the Sudan
provide that no Que may capture or kill
gratis, zebras, ostriches, wild asses
or rhinoceroses. The holde of a 500 IL
cence can kill two elephants, two Glands,
two kudus. four buffaloes, four hippo
potami and about thirty of the various
kinds Of gazelles and antelopes. In
Abyssinia there are no restrictions on
shooting. and there are parts of the Sudan
where any number Of hippopotami may
be captured or killed. In addition to big
game there are in the upper Sudan large
numbers OF birds and also wild sheep and
small %antelopes, so that the hunting is
practically unlimited.
In case the president goes there he will
probably charter a special steamer at
Khartum and live upon it during the In
tervals Of the chase.
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Prattle of the Youngsters

punished. Tommy pondered a while, then
asked. Papa, will little sister GLADYS be
an aunt to my children when 1 am a
mani"
Yes, Tommy" answered his father
much interested. "Why do you ask?"
"Cause she might as we'll get married
and have a home Of her own. for | don't
intend to low any aunts TO stay around
my house, making trouble for my chill
dren."
what do you mean by smoking my pipe,
young man?" queried the stern father Of a
precocicus 5-year-old.
Mamma said II ! leased the cat again
she'd make me smoke for IT," explained
the little fellow, and I leased her again"
Elsie" said the mother Of a small miss,
you'll have 10 be broken OF the habit OF
shifting at the table"
Hadn't l better be mended. mammA7"
queried Elsie.
Little Dorothy is quite a punster. One
day at dinner she said: Mamma, what's
in that glass iar?"
Pickles, my dear, replied her mother.
"Then please pickle little one for me-"
said the small miss, grayely.
Elsie's big wax doll had come 10 an un-
timely end Mamma" she said one day,
you must not let baby lie In the sun"
why not dear" asked her mother.
"'Cause shell melt. like mlre did"
o
Small Clara, who had TO pass a glue fac
tory on her way to school, rebelled on
account Of the dlsagreeable odor therefrom.
81 wouldn't mind It 50 much, ann
she said. III / had been born with a deaf
and dumb nose
-
Little Mabel had been attending a eamu
meeting with her mother and upon her re-.
turn home she vas asked to tell what A
camp meeting was.
Camp meeting" explained Mabel IL n
place where they have Sunday ever data
ths wsek"-ChicaEo NOuA
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with him and make his stay pleasant.
1 have heard from another source that
there is some talk of the kaiser visiting
German East Africa at the same time In
order to go hunting with the president.
The two men have about the same tastes,
they are both fairly good shots and the
stories Of how they have chased tho lions
or the lions have chased them would be
read with avidity all over the country.
As for myself, 1 doubt the possibility of
the German emperor leaving Europe, but
1t will be remembered that he has al
ready gone as far as the Mediterranean,
and there is no telling what either he or
our president will do.
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In going dow the Uganda road toward
the ocean the presidential party might
get off at Vol and tramp across to the
slopes of Mount ~Killmanjaro in German
East Africa. / am told there are many
elephants in that region and that big
game of all kinds abound. This is so in
many parts Of the German colony. The
officials there are great sportsmen and
they will welcome the president. During
my stay at Oar es Salaam 1 had chats
with the governor and his chief officials.
They are anxious that the president
should come and will be glad to go about
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hunting is done that e N no trouble to
outfit or to know where to hunt. There
are mercantile firms which make a business
Of supplying hunting parties, and there are
men who will take charge Of everything
at so much per month or at so much per
hunt. The expenses are considerable l
should think 1t would cost the president $40
or SO per day for every member Of his
party; and without he has special priv"
leges given him each member will have to
pay, in addition, a license Of $3.50 for the
privilege Of shooting the big game. Such
licenses are now bringing from $4,000 to
10000 a year to the government; and they
are looked upon as a live source Of revenue.
They are paid by the nobility of England
and all others who shoot; but II may be
that there will be an exception in the case
OF President Roosevelt.
AS to good company, there will be no
trouble about that in British East Africa.
There are no end of famous people who
hunt there every season, and some of the
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President Roosevelt Anxousy Awaited in the Big Game Countries
~Ccopyrleht 1905, BY frank Q. carpentsr)

Copyright, 1905, by Frank O.. Carpenter)
-ULAwAY-(speclsI Correspond
~ ence OF The Bee)-T have re-
ceived several letters asking as
3 to the presidents big game hunt
EAuUEsd In Africa. / have heard OF Il
U85tatJ here and there all the way down
the east coast Of the continent The Off
cials and sportsmen are talking about II,
and all are holding out their hands to well
come the nimrod Of the White House. 1
got the first intimation Of the presidents
plans, now more than a year ago while l
was travelling in the Sudan. They were
belng discussed by a German baron and a
British colonel belonging to the Indian
service as we we're crossing the Nubian
desert together. The baron and the colonel
we're on their way up the Blue Nile to
shoot lions on the border Of Abyssinia and
they believed that the president might find
excellent sport there. While at Khartum
l had a talk with the sirdar or governor
general, who was also commandments
OF the troops of the Sudan, and learned
that he would be glad to have our president
sample the big game Of the Anglo-Egyptian
possessions. When l arrived in British East
Africa a few months later | was told that
the president would surely come there and
! ncard Lhe same sNolS III OSimaH %
Africa. both at Mwanza on Lake Victoria
and at Oar es Salaam below Zanzibar. The
German officials can assure the president
a good bag OF CRATES, hippopotami and
elephants, and the same is true Of British
Central Africa and Rhodesia.
Indeed the presidents coming seems to
have been anticipated for some months and
the officials and %sportsmen are awaiting
his advent and to see him change his coat
Of arms from the Teddy Bear to the
Teddy Lion Teddy Elephant or Teddy
Hippopotamus."
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Hunting in Uganda.

Returning to Khartum the president
can go via the Red sea to Mombasa or
he can outfit at Khartum and take a lit
tie steamer on the White Nile for Condo
koro, more than one thousand miles up
the river, and thence on via Uganda into
British East Africa. The trip by way OF
the Red sea win take him between two
and three weeks, and the Uganda journey
will be thrice as long.
The latter trip. however. is by far the
better, as he will have a chance to shoot
big game all the way. At G%ondokoro he
win be In a country swarming with hip
popotami and crocodiles, and a little far
Their on will strike rhinos, elephants. lions
and all sorts OF wild beasts. He should
write in advance to the authorities OF
Uganda for licenses and permission to
hunt within the limits OF that protector
ate; and they will undoubtedly send SOL
diers to meet him on the border, while
the Sidar OF the Sudan will give him an
escort and all assistance on the upper
White Nile. Leaving the ship at Condo
koro he will have TO go on mules or on
foot to Nimuli. a march of only a few
days; and there he will get small boats
which will take him 10 Lake Albert, in
the Uganda protectorate, II he wishes,
he can be met at Lake Albert by jinricki-
shas from Entebbe; and a couple of weeks
will give him time for a leisurely run
through the protectorate with chance shots
At all sorts Of big game.
He will see chimpsnzees and coI5bus
monkeys and balloons OF all sorts. On the
way are great herds of Eebras, Wild buffalo
AID nearly ever known type OF African
antelopes, There are wild asses like those
OF Nubia and three-horned and five-hornsd
g~iraffes. Sir Henry Johnson claims that
there are okapi in western Uganda, and 1
know hat lions and leopards are every
where to be found. There are no ~restric-
lions as to hunting lions. and It will be
strange II the president and Kermit, who,
understand, is TO go with him. do not kin
several OF the Uganda species.
As 20 elephants. they are found all over
the country. and a certain number OF them
may be shot by each sportsman, when
properly licensed. The laws, however, pre-
vent the killing OF COW elephants or baby
elephants, and, as a general rule, none Of
the female OF the big game can be hunted,
KILLED or captured when accompanied by
their young.
Tho party will meet with many rhlnoc-
crosses and viii have to be careful to keep
20 the winward OF them. The Uganda
rhinoeeros is stupid and almost blind. but
II can smell like 3 bloodhound, and IL will
charge against the wind, / met one man
IN South Africa who had shot a white
rhinoceros. This was in Rhodesia, and / am
not sure whether any such are to be found
in Uganda I am told the rhinoceros there
is timid and that he will not charge I'M
less he II az shot at. The animals go alone
and are seldom seen In droves. They are
huge beasts with two great horns on their
noses. There Is a big horn just over the
nose, rising almost at right angles with
the mouth. with a small horn behind II.
The longest rhinoceros horn on record
measures almost four feet and somo are
frequently secured which are from thirty
six TO forty-two inches.
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sentimental Jah..

Jane simmerton is so sentimental We
were talking about the Puritans coming
over In the Mayflower, and l said that
somebody had pointed out that not one Of
them took a bath in all hat long voyage"
And what did Jane say2"
'she said she thought II was lovely Of
them TO want to bring over some OF the
precious soil Of their native landI"-CtSvs-
Lana Plain DealsEs
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vigorous plunge into the water. Yet diving
Is neglected on this side of the water. and
OF the great number of women who swim
we'll only very few know hom to live prop
orly. The reason is perhaps thai while the
teachers give much attention to swimming
they say very little about diving to their
pupils.
One of the latest to come to the aid of
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- sisters has recently entered
HihgSN into an international marriage
g contract.
Ethel was asked the otner day by one
Of the teachers, Whom did the scientists
say supported the world on his shoulder
Atlas" answered Ethel.
quite right" said the teacher, land
what supported Atlas?'
"oh," answered Ethel, 81 suppose he had
an American wife"
Little Margie's father had a bald spot
While kissing him at bedtime one even
ing she said: "stoop down, papa; / want
to kiss you on the head where the lining
shows"
Tailor Ito Tommy's mother, who is or
dering her boys sui)-Do you wish the
shoulders padded?
Tommy-Ma. ma, have him pad the seat
of the pants!
Little e-year-old Lulu was looking at the
numerous stars one night. After a time
she exclaimed:
"oh. mamma, hbw grand and beautiful
heaven is! And, just think, we can only
see the wrong side Of it!'
You must try to love your papa as
much as he loves you" said the visitor.
"Oh, love him more replied Tommy.
Indeed? Doesn't your papa love you
very much7"
mot much. He says he only loves me
when I'm good"
Wllard-Papa, may l go swimming?
Papa-Why, willard, only an hour ago
you complained OF a pain In your stomach.
Wilard-That's all right, papa / can
swim on my back.
.
Tommy's maiden aunt had called at
tention 10 some OF that young mans mis-
demeanorS thereby causing him 70 be
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In British East Africa.

dent had best go down the Uganda rail-
road to Nairobi, the capital of British East
Africa, and make that his headquarters
during his hunting in that territory. British
Bast Africa has more big game than any
other part of the continent; and so much
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02

During the trip agross Uganda the presi-
dent win probably visit Mount Eigon. an
extinct volcano. about which there Is ex-
eellent hunting. and Will then go 70 Jinga.
whore the water OF Victoria Nyanza flows
out forming the Nile At that point the
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a Healthful Exercise for Women

zW YORK, August 1.-Diying Is
one of the most fascinating
aquatic exercises for women
and there is nothing Of the kind
more conducive to a healthy,
clear cnmnlexion Than a rood
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tives who may be hired to carry the
equipment and guns, and there will
no trouble in getting them to chase
up the wild animals. The trip around
the lake is comfortable. The steamers
are small, but the food is good. and the
storms are seldom so great as TO effect
ones digestion.
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nobility of England have large estates with
game preserves. Lord Delamere, one Of
these, ia a famous shot, and so is Lord
Hindlip. who owns tens Of thousands of
acres in the Rift Valley. 1 have already
written Of our Pike county millionaire, Mr..
William Mcmillan, formerly of Missouri.
He has an estate OF 10000 acres right In
the best game region, and his wife now
and then goes out and shoots a lion In
the back yard. There is a chance to pop
over a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros in the
garden patch before breakfast, and there
are herds of antelopes and zebras on the
plantations. Mr.. Mcmillan has an auto
mobile, with which the president might
run down the zabras, or, in case Of an un-
successful trouble with a lion resreat In a
masterful way.
Seriously speaking, the big game Of
British East Africa Is numerous and va
ried beyond description. The Uganda rail-
way, which runs for about 600 miles from
the Indian ocean to Lake Victoria right
through the country, is lined with ante
Jopes, zebras, gnus and wild ostriches, and
one frequently sees ~giraffes, lion and
rhinoceroses from the car windows There
Is far more game visible in a ride over
that road than the number of cattle and
hogs in a journey through the best stock
raising portions of the United States.
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snort with The Natives.

ETHEL is the young
daughter OF a contractor In
Philadelphia one of her
sisters has recently entered
into an international marriage
contract.
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the natives lay in wait and shoot It with
their bows and arrows or kill 1t with
spears. They also stretch great nets
across the paths or drives, into which they
chase the game, and when the animals
become entangled they rush in and spear
them These nets are made of vines and
fiber and are sometimes two miles in
length.
1t will interest the president to see
how they shoot lions and leopards by
means Of traps. The most common lion
trap is a moose baited with meat and
so arranged that when the lion grabs
the meat he is caugh by the moose, and
in Jerking away pulls the trigger of q
gun which hangs down from above. The
gun is so fixed that when It goes off
the beast receives the ball just back OF
the neck and is killed. In trapping
leopards the gun is set at an angle of
forty-five degrees, so that the animal is
shot thrugh the brain.
Tiger Fish of the Zambest.
AS to fishing, 1 am told there is ne
sport like catching the tiger fish Of this
Zambesi. This fish often weighs as much
as twenty-five pounds, and it is as gamey
as a salmon. Indeed, 1t Is far more so
in proportion to It's weight, for 1t is said
that q ~four-pound zambesi tiger will yield
more excitement than a f~orty-pound SAL
mon. The tiger fish is dark blue on the
back, white on the belly, and It has five
or six blu stripes on the sides. Its fins
and tail are red, The best places to fish
for 1t are from an island, or below a rocky
bar, in about three feet of water. Ths
fish takes almost any kind of a glittering,
spinning bait, and a good way to catch
1t is to troll for it or cast with a hook
with a spoon fastened to the line by a
steel wire. The lines have to be carefully
made, and nothing but wire is OF any
good in connection with the hook, for the
tiger will cut a gut or Irvine line to pieces
with its teeth. Great care must be used
in extracting the hook, and 1t is well to
kill the fish first. Its teeth are sharp, md
II one Is not careful. he may lose a finger.
The tiger fish is as full of bones as a shad,
but it does not compare with either the
salmon or shad as a table fish. About its
only virtue is the sport which it affords,
and there are many African fish which are
better to taste.
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Tommy's maiden aunt had called at
tention 10 some OF that young mans mis-
demeanorS thereby causing him 70 be