The Mena weekly star., 1909-03-25

lying ally to the type of the extinct richorine or woolly rhinoceros which lived in England at the close of the Glacial period.
 Journey Across Uganda.
 Leaving Nairobi in October, the party will proceed by the Uganda railway to Port Florence. on the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza. where q short stop will be made: then steamer will be taken to Entebbe, 150 miles away. There caravan will be formed and the journey across Uganda to the Nile will be begun. It Is expected that the White Nile will be reached about the first of the year 1910. Lake Albert Nyanza will be touched at Kibira.
 In a general way the course of the Nile will be followed to Gondokoro, and thence to Khartoum. At this city MT. Roosevelt and Kermit will be Joined by Mrs. Roosevelt and they will continue down ahe Nile slowly to Cairo. visiting many points of interest on the way.
 To Speak ln European CapItals.
 Plans for the remainder of the ex' presidents two years tour have not been decided upon definitely. but the time will be spent in Europe. and sev' eral matters of importance have been announced. He will visit Berlin at tho invitation of Emperor William and while there will deliver an address upon the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Berlin.
 From Germany he will go to France and deliver an address at the Sor- bonne. It has not been learned how long MT Roosevelt intends to stay in Berlin and Paris. Aftor his visit in France, MT. Roosevelt will go to Eng land, where reception of great warmth undoubtedly will be accorded to him. He has accepted an invitation to deliver the Romanes lecture at OK ford university and in all probability the honorary degree of D. c. L.. which Oxford has bestowed on Emperor win fam, will be conferred on Mir. Roose welt.
 The versatility of MT. Roosevelt will be shown by the fact that he will speak German in his address before the students of the University of Der lin. French in his lecture at the Sor bonne, and English in delivering the Remanes lecture at Oxford.
 Pays Ills Own Expenses.
 Mir Roosevelt will defray the ex penses of himself and his son on the African trip, but those of the scien lists and the cost of preparing the specimens and shipping them to Amer lea will be paid out of fund secured for the purpose by the Smithsonian institution.
 One of the objects of Mir. Roosevelt in taking this trip is for the purpose of collecting material for writing sev eral books regarding his experiences. During last summer he contracted with Charles Scribner's Sons. of New York, giving that firm all the rights for the serial and book-form publication Of whatever he might write on his visit to Africa It is said that the contract price agreed upon Is $1 per word but this never has been verified.
 No Slaughter of Animals.
 Even if the British colonial govern ment should offer to throw open to Mir. Roosevelt and his companions the Al rican game preserves under its con trol, the ex-president will refuse to take advantage of this opportunity Like other true sportsmen. he believes that the utmost protection should b< given to wild animals on reservations and that permission to kin them should not be given or accepted under any circumstances unless. possibly. when predatory animals are becoming too numerous.
 Moreover. the killing of animals for sport Is not the main object of his trip Mir Roosevelt hopes to send back to the Smithsonian institution two adult specimens, one of each sex, and a specimen of their young. of animals he meets with on the Dark Continent Beyond this the killing will be lim. ited to the demands of the commis- sary.