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and palms. but not much
underground or vines. Directly beneath, the bank
pitched down steeply to what | then supposed
was the single source of the brook; and down 1t we
softly slid and about through the palms we tip
toed eyes keenly about fo- sight OF the bush
smashers. But while the ground was hard tram
pied all about, rough treetrunks often worn smooth
by the rubbing of giant bodies, nothing did we
but balloons.
Presently, when the declining sun warned it
was time to get out told Awala to lead out straight
from east sharply north, and apparently the short
cut would mile or more
As we advanced, the game paths became fainter
solid wall of vines and bush, solid looking and as
dense mass, in fact, as an ivy clad wall But
through it. scarce thirty yards away 1t seemed was
the vine wall we began cutting our way with our
knives. clambering over and through them, up an
ascent and down declivity only to lind ourselves
literally swinging on network OF vines nteen feet
above another brook.
Lured on by Patches OF Light
THE air was sitting the labor exhausting; we
drenched with sweat Bat just beyond US
lay another patch of daylight that ured us ahead.
And so other CLEANS of light lured over more
rises and drops, each drop with new spring brook
at the bottom, whose presence we realized only by
their murmurs, except once when Awaa slipped OF
his vine perch into of them, good ten-foot drop
and climbed back up vine, many of which were
twisted and looked precisely like halt-lnch manila
rope.
On, Tor the prenenSle tall OF one Oh Tue DaOOOuS
PLAYING about among the branches above and
grinacing their amusement over the wretched stag
ger making at their pet sort of senatorial
travel or for the wings of the great vultures and
marabou storks perched in alot of the highest
trees grimly weighing their chances of fat picking
against our chance Of escape!
While still twilight without, black night was now
fallen within the jungle and farther progress ahead
had become impossible.
No alternatives remained except to pass the night
any part of the wide vine hammock we liked to
stop on attempt to feel way back along the
route had come; which not amusing, for we
knew that there several points where slip
through the vine floor might mean broken leg or
worse.
To be sure. in measure safe enough on
the vines; for nothing short of leopard could get to
us, and much doubt if even he could but, wringing
wet were, to stop there without dry change
of clothing meant nothing less than fever or
pneumonia.
So there was nothing for it but to try and back
track ourselves, and back we turned. Sometimes
through small openings in the leafy canopy above
the young moon helped us bit; but most OF the
way feel every step of advance with hands and
feet. Heads bumped limbs, and leaves and twigs
were SO constantly jabbing in the face that. to
eyes crept ahead with closed lids-untl,
finally reached the open game paths and were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25
A Roam Antelope.

till dark While rhino came, it was an amusing
evening Tommys, tiny oribi. and graceful impala
glade, all about me, often within fifty feet. Could
have stirred to make adequate opening in my shell
ter. should have got some capital photographs:
but the cracke of twig would have sent them off
heller SHELTER, and sat tight until at shutdown
all OF them wandered off into the bush toward the
hills.
And them just as was about to leave, with great
catter chatter and barking and noise of crashing
boughs like rhno smashing through BUSH out trooped
Dig rne o. great man apes od and young close lose
high papooses holding to the scru of their mothers
necks and riding comfortably their backs. fierce
faced long fanged old in the lead and out the
TANKS; and there for half hour all around
they pranced. youngsters scufling and capering ell
ders digging roots or breaking great boughs and
tearing bark apparently taking the dessert of the
evening meal; for just the brief twilight fad
ing into night, and when was beginning to think
should have to shoot my way out if was to get
back to camp that night off they ambled into the
bush.
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A Camp Beside Wonderful Cascades

WE spent noon of January on the cascades of
w the Lenderut River which some day will be
visited remarkable bit of African scenery. While
then than clear, cold, swift flowing, loud
ripping brook, in the big rains the Lenderut is
roaring torrent.
Just at camp the river had cut its way through
great dixie of close grained gray crystalline granite
with drop of probably eighty feet in the half mile
Through some freak of the combined chemistry of
rock and water or some wizard work of physics
along its bottom and its sides up to high water level
it has carved out in the hard rock immense round
tanks some twenty feet deep and big enough for
swimming bath. Indeed, sees here every sort of
vessel represented narrow mouth vases tiny cups
and shallow saucers, all smooth and highly polished
of interior and lip porcelain, and all brimful of
sweet water from the recent rains.
From great pool at the foot of the cascade Out
caught some fine eght-pound kumbari while
caught him and bit of the gorge with my camera;
the first time this world-old cascade under
snapshot fire.
That nights camp the most beautiful of any
this safar beside ice cold brook tributary of
the Lenderut thicky lined with wild date palms and
great springs that covered nearly square mile in
Lost in a Forest of Vines
A ND that same square mile gave me about the
canniest and toughest two hours | ever had.
Rhino and buffalo tracks thick about, and at
five o'clock l took Awala and porter, crossed the
brook, and stroed up toward the springs the
chance of shot. On the way up we slipped past
several herds of i.npaa and other buck; but it
not until we were what | supposed to be the
source of the brook that anything worth mentioning
happened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25

Then there was a great
crash and smash within the
bush a few yards on our
right which sounded more
like buffalo than rhino. [
waited a few minutes, on
the chance that they would
come out, and then crept
down into the edge of the
thicket opposite the point
where we last heard them.
Peering within, the bush
looked fairly open, thick
crowding giant ficus trees
and palms, but not much
Directly beneath. the bank
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Effect Of Imaaination.

Washington Democrat: A man in
this town was travelling in the Rocky
mountains. The brakeman told him
the day before getting to Tennessee
Pass, he would likely feel his heart
affected, if he had weak heart at all.
The man sort of had notion that
maybe his heart wasn't exactly what
it ought to be. He understood the
brakeman to say that they would cross
the pass about 5 o'clock Wednesday
morning. At about 5 o'clock the man
with the weak heart awoke and felt
his breath coming hard He got up
out of his berth and went into the
dressing room. He felt pretty tough.
His breath kept coming harder and
harder. He felt sure his heart was
weak and he felt he would be glad
when they got away from there. Pres
emily the same brakeman came along
and asked the passenger what the
trouble was and he told him. "Why, /
am having trouble with my heart on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Llncoln's Own Life Story
How He Came to Write One Of the Most
Wonderful Pieces Of Autobiography.

The search for new or unfamiliar
human documents relating to Abra-
ham Lincoln, which has been quick
ened by his approaching centenary,
has net with many unexpected re-
wards. It is not generally known that
Lincoln wrote his own autobiography,
very briefly to be sure, but with a
simplicity and candor which was
characteristic of the man. This sketch
was written in December, 1860, and
fills but three closely written olges
of manuscript. The original manu-
script, which has been preserved, is
in the familiar handwriting and bor-
rows unusual interest from the cor
rections in the text evidently made
during its progress.
The autobiography was written at
the request Of Jesse w. Fell, promi-
nent and public-spirited citizen of Hi
nois in those stirring days. During
the celebrated discussion between Lin
coin and Senator Douglas, Mr.. Fell
realizing that Lincoln was of the ma
terial from which Presidents are made,
applied to him for a brief history Of
his early life. Lincoln was then com
ing rapidly into prominence before
the nation, and Mr.. Fell, approaching
the rare qualities of the man, sought
in this way to familiarize the public
with him that he might assist, as lar
as lay in his power, in bringing the
nation to know Lincoln as he was.
Lincoln did not comply with the re-
quest until 1860, when he sent Nj.
Fell these three meagre pages. A
man far less before the public might
have taken advantage OF this oppoc-
tunity to fill reams of paper in self
praise or explanation. Lincoln wrote
briefly and with the simplicity and
unreserve one might use in talking to
a friend. His peculiar conversational
style is happily illustrated in these
pages. The genuineness of the hard
writing and the signature is certified
at the bottom of the last page by Da
vid Davis, Lyman Trumbull, and
Charles Summer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
The Anniversary of Paine.

Quincy Wing: These are the
times that try mems souls" wrote
Thomas Paine, serving with Washing
ton as Or rate soldier and compos-
ing by the Pickering hts of camp
fires, with drumhead as :. desk, the
clarion call of THE Crisis" which set
the colonists afla ~ and led the his
torian Ridpath to declare that "Paines
pen was :. mightier force for the free
dom of thu colonies than Washingtons
sword
1t was just 173 years ago today
that "the author-hero of the revolu-
ton" the man who first wrote the
magic words "tAe United States OF
America" and the first ~ publicly
advocate the entire paration OF the
colonies -om England, was born in
'Thetford, Norfolk, England. This year
is also the centenary of his death, and
it is remarkable fact that the year
that saw e first of Edgar Allen Poe
saw the last of Thomas Paine. 1t was
the fate of both to be maligned by the
malicious biographies of personal
enemies, and it is only in the last de-
cade, that Americans have COM
menced to hold Poe and Paine at their
true worth. The only statue to Paine
in the nation that he worked so hard
to establish is ct New Rochelle, near
New York City, where handful OF
patriots gather eacn year to pay trib-
ute to his memory. This evening
Paine memorial meetings will be held
in many cities throughout the country,
the most notable being that scheduled
to take place at Hull House, Chicago.
His birthday will so be widely cele-
brated in France, where several sta
tutes have been erected in remem-
| brance of the courage and wisdom and
moderation he displayed as a deputy
in parliament during the revolution.
! Paine was the son of a Quaker stay
maker, and was thirty-eight when ne
arrived in America. After much lit
erary work of great merit, principally
on political matters but including
essays and poems, he wrote Common
Sense" The pamphlet marked the
turning point in the career of the col
onies. Up to that time none had been
SO brave as to advocate complete sep
aration. At the time when Washing
ton and other leaders of the time ask
ed only for reform in the method of
colonial government, Paine struck a
/ telling blow for freedom and the es-
tablishment of an independent re.
public. The New York assembly at.
tempted to answer the arguments in
Paine's declaration of independence
but after a spirited debate decided
that they were unanswerable. Later
when Paine's advice had been acted
upon and the United States of Ameri
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NAL to a broker who takes it over
the line to Illinois, where it is sold as
sound at a handsome profit.
STEEL CARS FOR ROCK Is, AND

STEEL CARS FOR ROCK ISLAND.
The Rock Island road has ordered
sixty-nine all-steel passenger cars and
will purchase no other kind. Delivery
OF these cars will begin early in May,
and by the last of the month all Of the
order, which contemplates an expendi-
ture of over S1,000,000 will be in
service. Other western roads have
been experimenting with all-steel cars
for some years, but the Rock Island
is one of the first in the west to adopt
this class of cars as standard, with
the determination to supplant the old
equipment. with all-steel constructed
cars as soon as it can be done in the
ordinary course of business.
1t is stated that the cars will be
practically indestructible and that
they will not telescope under any pos
sible shock which may be sustained
in the event of collision. Further
more, the cars are so constructed that
there is only trife in each which is
infiammable. A small strip of wood
on the window-sills and another small
strip On the arm of the seats is about
all the timber the cars will contain.
From sanitary standpoint also they
will be great improvement over the
present style of cars, as there will be
little in them which can catch and re-
tain dirt. The Rock Island is to be
congratulated upon taking the lead in
this important advance in railroad
equipment
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county, Pennsylvania. An effort 10
identify them with the New England
family of the same name ended in
nothing more definite than similar
ity of Christian names in both fam
lilies, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai,
Solomon, Abraham, and the like.
My father, at the death of his
father, was but six years OF age, and
he grew up literally without education.
He removed from Kentucky to what
is now Spencer county, Indiana, In
my eighth year. We reached our new
home about the time the state came
into the union. 1t was wild region,
with many bears and other Wild AMI
mails still in the woods. There grew
up. There were some schools, SO
called, but no qualification was ever
required of teacher beyond "readl,n,
writin', and cipherin' to the rule OF
three" If a straggler supposed to I'M
derstand Latin, happened to sojourn
in the neighborhood he was looked
upon as wizard. There was abso-
lutely nothing to excite ambition for
education.
OF course, when came Of age,
did not know much. Still, somehow,
| l could read, write, and cipher to
| the rule of three, but that was all. l
have not been to school since. me
| little advance | now have upon this
store of education l have picked up
| from time to time under the pressure
of necessity.
/ was raised to farm work, which
continued till was %. At 81 came
to Illinois. Macon county. Then | got
to New Salem, at that time in Sanga'
mon, now in Menard county, where
remained year as a sort of clerk in
a store. Then came the Black Hawk
war, and was elected captain OF
volunteers, a success which gave me
more pleasure than any | have mad
since. l went into the campaign, was
elected, ran for the legislature the
same year, (1S32). and was beaten
the only time ever have been beaten
by the people.
The next and three succeeding bien
NAL elections l was elected to the
Legislature. l was not a candidate
afterward During this legislative
period | had studied law and removed
to Springfield to practice it. In 1S4'
/ was once elected to the lower house
of congress. Was not candidate 10
reelection From 1s49 to 1854, botl
inclusive, practiced law more assidu
ously than ever before.
Always Wing in politics, and gen
orally on the Wing electoral tickets
making active canvasses. was los
ing interest in politics when the re
peal of the Missouri Compromis
aroused me again. What have don
since then is pretty we'll known.
If any personal description OF M
, is thought desirable, it may be sal
/ am 6 feet 4 inches, nearly; lean
, flesh. weighing on an average Is
) pounds: dark complexion, with coars
) black hair and gray eyes. No othe
) marks or brands are recollected.
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WEALTH VS.. SERVICE.
President Elliot. of Harvard. SD

PRESIDENT Eliot, of Harvard, speak
ing of his career recently said:
"In the last three months there has
come to me a steady stream of praise,
thanks, and gratitude. My career APP
pears to strike considerable number
of people as successful one. People
congratulate me on what they call my
success. But my career has certainly
not been successful in what is consid-
cred to be the American idea of sue
cess. 1t has not been successful in
pecuniary way. 1t is success in terms
of service-service to the community.
Now, does not this refute the common
opinion that the American estimate
of success is a pecuniary one?"
Commenting upon the foregoing,
the Wall Street Summary says:
For more than forty years this
distinguished educator has faithfully
served the people. His efforts and his
sympathies have been devoted to
them, and our educational institutions
are heavily his debtors. He is COM
paratively poor man-yet the people
thank him, praise him and honor him!
Such an indication of the present trend
of the American mind is remarkable
in its impressiveness. 1t shows us,
as nothing else could show us, that
the man who devotes his mind and
sympathies to the service of his fell
| low fails not of recognition; and, also
| that we have reached that stage where
serviceableness and not wealth is the
1 Americans estimate of success"
| The closing statement of the Sum
mary's comment seems to the Sioux
! City Tribune to be bit too sweeping.
| The Tribune admits that undoubtedly
there has been modification in recent
time of American thought relative to
what is worth while in life. 1t also
comedies that these are higher deals
of usefulness than have governed us
in the passing ge neration, greater
recognition of our relations to each
other and to society and to civilization
but it maintains that the fight for ma
terial rewards IN the United States is
rather too strenuous, the desire te
grasp power, and power is founded II
large measure in wealth. too intense
for us to say that service and no
! wealth is the Americans estimate o
y success. Concluding a thoughtful
: article on the subject, the Tribune
says:
That service and not wealth is to b
: his estimate finally none may doub,
because that estimate is in harmon
with the very spirit of our institu
tons. The principle OF equal person
, al rights and equal personal oblig q
, lions implies the interdependence Q
men and suggests the service of mt
; tual helpfulness. We have all bee
too busy, heretofore, in looking upo
the principle of equal rights, to stud
). that of DUAL obligations. We. ar
only now coming to realization OF tn Z,
latter's transcendant importance; AN n:
thing approaching it's adequate a tie e E,
nression has not been achieved by 1h
r vast majority of those able to 40 muci
e but the future is rich l. promise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Illinois board of live stock COM
missioners has given notice that it
has no money with which to test tu-
bercular COWS. With cows suffering
from tuberculosis coming into the state
at the rate of 10000 year the board
has been compelled virtually to sus-
pend the testing of dairy herds and
elandered horses because the "slaught-
err fund" of $4,000 appropriated by
the state has been exhausted. 1t ap-
pears that educated Wisconsin farm
ers are largely responsible for this
state of affairs. They have earned
from experts of their state university
to make tuberculosis tests for them.
selves. After the farmer has salts
fed himself that a COW is tubercular
it is ninety days before the disease
shows itself. This gives the farmer
an opportunity to dispose of the ami
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

LIQUOR solicitors taking orders for
retail quantities to be filled outside
the state are barred from Iowa by
the state Supreme court in a decision
lust rendered that reverses the for
mer decision of the court and again
puts in force the statute which before
was held to be unconstitutional. Be-
sides forbidding the actual taking OF
retail quantity orders in either wet or
dry counties, the decision is held by
Attorney General Byers to apply to
the mail order business. The case in
point was that of the State OF Iowa
against Robert McConnaughy OF
Washington, Iowa. He was en1oined
from taking orders for Kentucky
liquor house to be filled outside the
state. The law prohibiting soliciting
was passed ten years ago and held un
constitutional eight years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

ca were engaged in warfare against
the mother country, Paine wrote "The
Crisis" and other tracts which were
read to Washingtons troops and i'm
bued them with new hopes and ambi-
tons and served to rouse their tagging
weary spirits.
The revolution over and the repnb-
lie established, Paine turned his at
tention to his native country. "The
Rights of Man. as the result-a
work in which he attempted to "open
the eyes of the English people to the
madness and stupidity of their govern
ment. Hundreds of thousands Of
copies were sold, when the British
government took alarm and Paine fed
from England with a price upon his
head. That the king feared the mis-
creant Paine" more than the traitor
Washington" was evidenced by the
fact that he placed a larger price on
his head.
The rehabilitation of Paine in the
estimation Of the public is largely due
to the efforts of the late DR.. Moncure
Daniel Conway, who wrote an ex-
haustive biography of the revolution.
airy hero in which he proved conclus
lively that the larger part of the
charges made against him were In
spired by malice and largely untrue
"The world is my country, to dc
good my religion" declared Paine
The United States of America, a free
and independent republic words frs,
written and spoken by Paine-is his
monument
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Don't Get Too Cav,


Don't get too gay, me fren'. It doesn't
pay.
You're mighty apt to feel a sudden
Maybe you think folks like that iosbin,
way,
But now an then feler goes too
far.
wouldn't tell a cop you'll get his star
wouldn't call husky rube a iay
Nor say to Mag her face would ston
car.
Don't get too ray, me fren' II
doesn't pay.
I've noticed when you make a funny
play
With certain guys, it's apt to leave
You try one on with me an should
You're mighty apt to feel sudden
jar.
Member the time you gave me that
A wrapper of terbacco round some
hay
An oakum that you's been an'dipped
in tar?
Maybe you think folks like that
joshin' way.
With me as yet your stocks Amt got
to par
An there is safer places you can
stay
Than round where am standin at the
bar,
With empty schooners handy. 0.
nay, nay,
Don't get too gay.
Chicago News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Fred N. Mildly, publisher of the Car
thage Democrat has associated with
himself Rev. j. T. Thompson who VIII
have editorial charge of the paper
henceforth Mr.. Thompson is vouched
for as a writer of ability and gives
every promise of being valuable addl-
ton to the Democrat. Under his man.
agement the paper will take an "ad-
vanced" position on Democratic lines
including the initiative and referen-
dunn. the recall, prohibition OF the
writ of injunction, national ownership
of the railroads, the issuance OF all
money direct by the government ano
other populistic and sociaiistic theo'
ries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Mr.. Bryan's paper remarks that
1--WE will not believe the limit of
equestrianism has been reached until
the President rides his horse up
Washington Monument The st.
Louis Globe Democrat is entirely safe
in announcing that this feat will oc-
cur on the day of Mr.. Bryan's inaug-
uration, with various other perform
ances signalling the suspension of
mind and matter.