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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29
On the Track of a lioness.

The brush was so thick that it was
next to impossible to get through it,
and therefore, as it was clear around
and there was no fear of making a con-
fagration, 1 set fire to it as the best
apparent means of ousting our game
Telling Bob, my Kafir driver, to keep
close behind me, 1 went a little fur
Their round the cover and was just in
time to see a lioness break away, but
SO far off that 1 did not fire, preferring
to let her go, in hopes of getting
more favorable chance for a shot BY
this time the blaze had got so powerful
that we, too, were glad to get away
from it.
The lioness made straight for an
other bit of brush, whittier we went
after her, and, though the thorns were
quite thick enough, decided to follow
her in. My boy did not relish accom-
panying me, nor could l exactly blame
him; for, though a fair hunter and a
brave enough lad in ordinary, he did
not like lions, his father having been
killed and his brother badly mauled by
one 1t was rather difficult keeping
her spoor but after some trouble and
considerable wear and tear, l espied
her lying on a bare spot watching me
intently. Her head was resting be-
tween her paws and, as quickly as pos
sibie, / fired between her eyes. and
could have sworn 1 planted the bullet
there, for she was not above thirty
PAGES from me- Turning to take NV
spare carbine from Bob, / found that
he had vanished. But the lioness never
stirred, and 1 was hurriedly reloading
when she suddenly jumped up and
dashed further into the thicket
Unparliamentary language relieves
the feelings, if nothing more; so, after
having mathematical poor Bob. once
more plunged after the lioness. won
dering how our next meeting would
come of. There was plenty of blood.
just where her head had lain, and also
enough to guide me easily On the
tracks she had taken Indeed, before
Il was aware of ii, I was almost on ton
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29
Awakened by the Roar of a Lion.

My theory was that a lioness would
probably not be altogether solitary, as
is sometimes the case with animals of
the male sex. Acting on this hypoth-
esis, l determined to cast around and
see if l could not make out further
signs of lions. l did not need meat.
There was plenty for some time, and
the additional excitement attached to
hunting such game as L was after had
a great fascination. 1t was no use my
talking to Bob, and the other boy
would probably have fed at the first
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29
Getting a Lioness with Her Cubs.

l don't think she meant charging,
however; one can tell intuitively pref
ty correctly when this is going to hap
pen, and 1 believe she would have
gone quietly away and taken her cubs
with heA if l had not interfered. The
tenets ventilated by a certain ex-
plorer of prominence. who evidently
considers it a heinous crime to kill
lions and similar gentle, useful crea-
lures, had not then come to my know1
edge, not that they would have inf1u-
enced me a bit, if such had been the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29

; HAD had very little sleep
all night, owing to the
prowling around and roar
ing of lions, attracted by
the offal of a giraffe
which 1 had shot the pre-
vious afternoon, and had
had dragged bodily up to
the wagon. The night was,
however, so dark that 1
could not get a view, and,
although l once thought I
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29

of her. Stepping steadily back-she
lay directly from mel drew another
bead between her ears at the base of
her skull, and let fly This time there
could be no doubt as to its being eff
fective, for, as 1 stood, 1 could see
where the bullet bored right into her
brain. The lioness never so much as
moved, so 1 stepped up and examined
her. My first bullet had struck her too
low beneath the eyes to reach her
brain. 1t had torn through the cartil
age of the nose and down her throat,
momentarily stunning and so Supply
ing her that her last rush was a ran
dom one; but she was dead, to all in
tents and purposes, and doubtless was
not in need of my second ball. Her
skin was simply of no value, and could
only have been an eyesore, so l did
not bother to take it off, only keeping
her skull, and returned to the wagon
to rate nv needless driver SOundly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29

could make out the form of a
lioness in the gloom, 1 concluded it
was not best to fire, as, in the event of
my only wounding her, she would have
had much in her favor should she have
attacked us in such darkness.
All we had left of the giraffe was
represented by a few splinters of bones
which the hyenas had polished after
the lion had gorged himself. For some
distance along the river bank the
country was pretty we'll wooded.
whilst away to the north stretched the
nalahari, dotted here and there with
scant timber clumps, but otherwise a
vast sea of sand. I did not take my
horse, as he was a bit stiff from the
tumble of the day before; he had also
somewhat renewed his lameness, which
was scarcely to be wondered at, consid-
ering the country 1 had ben galoping
him over
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-29

w. N. u, Kansas City, No. 21-1eos.
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poisoners and so on, always cause the
members of the Sob Squad to work. oh,
SO VARY hard.
Wait a minute, though. Perhaps you
don't know what the Sob Squad is
Well. the Sob Squad Is the bunch of
saffronesaue writists (mostly lady pen
smithsp who do the slow-music. tremolo.
lachrymose. weeperno accounts of
murder trials for New York. dailies of
the yaller variety.
The Sob Squad tells us all about the
prisoner on trial for murder-tells us in
those gurgly. out-in- the-snow phrases.
In the view of the Sob Squad. no killer,
hair. is guilty of anything worth men
tiopng. Such a prisoner is merely the
victim of circumstances and environ
ment" They nudge in that wcrd "en-
vironment" till it's all frayed and frazzled
around the edges The killer is victim
of environment. His environment"
hasn't been sufficiently saturated with
sweetness and light-therefore he looks
around for somebody to kill. and he's
justified In so dong-that. in essence
seems to be the view of this matter
taken by the Sob Squad.
The Sob Squaddists take the ground
too. that If the killer has or ever had a
mother. why, that fact is sufficient reason
why the prisoner should be turned loose
without having to endure any sort of
punishment at all. The Sob SGuaddists
prefer, of course. that the mother OF
the prisoner shall appear daily in court
SO that they can write OF her white hairs
and her forlorn countenance and her
''air OF delicate refinement-'' all killers
mothers, according to the Sob Squad, are
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the guard at Garfield's grave. Then he
was professor of military science at st.
Johns College, New York
During the Spanish war he was a cap
tain Of the 10th Infantry. The following
year he married and was commissioned
lieutenant colonel of volunteers. and sail
ed off with his bride to the Philippines
as adjutant general to Gen. Lawton. He
was In the thick of all Of Lawton's
battles out In the Philippines during the
Santa Cruz and San Isidro campaigns.
and the expeditions to Morong and
Cavite. Once, to make flank movement.
he swan the Zapata river with his COM
mand. and defeated his foe. For his varl-
Gus acts of gallantry he was recommend
ed by Lawton for the brevet, first as
major. then as lieutenant colonel then as
colonel of regulars. and finally as briga-
dier general of volunteers.
All Of the time that he was fighting he
was studying our Malay -Polynesian wards
and their problems When he came back
to Washington with Lawton's body. in
1900, Elihu Root. then Secretary of War,
found him such an authority on Philip
pine matters that he organized for him
the division of insular affairs in the War
Department and made him chief. This di-
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necks. Men have but. one way--a stifr
collar attached to a shirt, with q cravat
swaddled around the collar. The fellow
who puts on stock. which is a COM
swaddling, is promptly set down by the
men-sheep as a Willie of the Pickle Boat.
Supposing. for example. one hundred
women. picked at random from Broad
way, were to be corralled In a single
large room and a hundred men. selected
In the same fashion, were to be penned
In an adjoining room. You'd observe that
the hundred women had about one hun
dred different ways Of dressing them
selves. The motif OF fashion would, nat
urally enough, run through their general
idea OF personal adornment. but there'd
be variations, exhibitions OF individual
ideas. departures from the strict pattern
OF fashion. distinctiveness in the ar
rangement Of details, and all that sort of
thing. No two Of the women would be
anything like just alike as to their ex-
teriors.
But the one hundred men would be, ex-
togs. just exactly alike in all OF the es-
sentials Of their dress. Their clothes
would all be cut In virtually the same
way The coats and trousers of all of
them would indicate practically the same
block their shoes would be all of a sort,
their hats In no wise essentially different
their collars as like one another as
couple Of peanuts-everything in the
whole makeup of ali Of them based
upon feeble fiaccid jellyfish obedience
to the dictation OF conventionality in
dress. nothing whatever to indicate in
dividuality Of taste or independence Of
spirit.
What's the answer? This: Men are in
deadly fear all the time OF each others
criticism as to matters Of dress. whereas
women, so long as they feel that they're
dressed becomingly don't care a hang
who criticisas them-and. moreover.
lnay Cfnin nnd hxy he E,,or
their sex won't criticise them il they're
dressed becomingly.
Confession is good for the soul. Men
are the sheep in this matter of dress and
women no longer are. For example, the
undersigned would like to burgeon out
In a straw hat today, which is hot, but
dye think he would dare? He would
not! CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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easily MAKE or mar Ine1fl, dCcOIulIiB ~
how their hatbands endure the strain.
They will also come in for great share
of annoyance from officeseekers and prop
agandists eager to reach the President
through his intimates.
Most Presidents have gone outside their
cabinets to find playmates. They have
not wanted to share their hours of relaxa-
tion with men who might be tempted to
talk shop with them on the bride pathSor
golf course. The close social intimacy of
his cabinet rather palled on Roosevelt,
and to relieve the strain he put the
uuictus upon the old scheme of dining
with his full cabinet nine times a winter.
He requested cabinet members to leave
their colleagues out when taking their
turns at dining him. And when he wanted
relaxation he turned to his tennis cabi-
net
Mr. Taft seeks his "golf cabinet in the
same spirit. 1t was Jackson who began
this unofficial cabinet" business. He
rarely got cheek by jowl with his official
Cd binet. but chose for his confidential ad-
visers a small circle of rather obscure
men headed by Amos Kendall. Wash
ington correspondent. This body was
called the Kitchen cabinet" rs was the
similar coterie that stood close to Car
field. But Roosevelt selected his tennis
cabinet less to advise than amuse him,
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ment and her love for her alma mater Is
among the charming traits of her charac-
ter. She belongs to the local College
Womens Club and is an active partici-
pant in all its affairs. She is also one of
the national officers OF the Wellesley
A1umnae. and though of recent years
family cares and pressing social obliga-
tions here and In her home city. Fort
Dodge, have kept her away from the clsss
days, her interest Is unabated.
This coming June the anniversary OF the
graduation. Mrs. Delivers class is going
to unveil a memorial window to Philips
Brookes In the chapel at Wellesley. and
she will attend. accompanied by her little
daughters Margaret and Frances. who are
nine and seven. This will be her first
visit since her marriage. Mrs. Dolliver
after leaving Wellesley. where she took
the highest honors of her class. spent
some time holding the chair of mathe-
matics at the Northwestern University at
Evanston, suburb of Chicago. Her ac-
quaintance with Senator Dolliver went
back to their early years spent in Fort
Dodge. and friendship which had proved
very pleasant ripened into something more
ardent during her summers spent in her
old home. Mrs. Dolliver was before her
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the heavier. There was always a friendly
rivalry between them as to who was the
better wrestler. and up to their senior
year 1t was about a stand-off between
them. Finally in the last week OF the
commencement H 'IS they had two or
three rounds. and Taft threw Bowen.
VINO on several recent occasions has said
that he viii never be satisfied until he
gets another go at his old-time rival.
Among other members OF that famous
yale. 49, whom Mr.. Taft still counts
among his friends are John Proctor
Clarke. Justice of the New York supreme
court and Intimate friend Of Theodore
Roosevelt: Raymond Patterson Wash
ington correspondent Of the Chicago Trib-
une and grandson of the great war edi-
tor, Joseph Medill: Tudor jerks, the au-
thor: Rev. Harlan Page Beach, author:
Roger Foster. the legal writer and mu-
nicipai reformer: Judge w. III. Hunt ex-
governor of Porto Rico; Clarence II. Kel-
sey, the banker: Charles Sidney Shepard.
the capitalist: William E. Waters. pro-
fessor OF Greek at the New York Uni
DR.. Reynold Webb Wilcox. the physician
and author.
One of the Presidents old Cincinnati
chums is Aaron Ferris. When they were
young bachelors they started out to re-
form Cincinnati politics together. First
they gave their attention to the primary.
Ferris on the inside as a watcher and
Taft on the outside as a challenger.
Whenever Ferris would suspect that a
man was about to cast a dishonest ballot
Bible and ask the suspect IL he was
willing to swear to the facts
4 4
Then Ferris would administer a high
sounding oath. and the culprits. fearing
punishment for perjury. would weaken
and pass out. AS a result OF this ruse
Taft and Ferris beat Martin Muldoon.
the ward boss. in that primary and made
quite splash in ward politics.
Another man very near to the President
is Judge Horace Harmon Lurton of Nash
Vile. He was on the supreme bench in
Tennessee when Cleveland appointed him
to the federal bench OF the sixth judicial
circuit. where Judge Taft sat with him
for seven years. or until appointed presi-
dent Of the Philippine commission. Al
though he Is democrat and thirteen
years older than Mr.. Taft they became
warm friends while travelling together
over their circuit. Judge Lurton is also
dean Of the law department Of Vanderbilt
University.
Herbert w. Bowen is not the only close
friend OF President Taft who was de-
posed from the diplomatic service by
Theodore Roosevelt. Bellamy Storer. who
was dismissed from the post at Vienna,
stands In the same category. He Is ten
years Mr.. Taft's senior. but, like the lat
ter. was born and reared in Cincinnati.
and he married Miss Maria Longworth,
aunt of Representative Nicholas Long
worth. the same year that Mr.. Taft mar
ried Miss Helen Heron, daughter OF
President Hayes law partner. Mr.. Storer
had been practicing eleven years at the
Cincinnati bar when Mr. Taft was adj
mitted. JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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1881 and 1882. Mr.. Taft got married in
June, SO. and Mr.. Hollister in June. 'S7
both In Cincinnati and to Cincinnati girls.
How Hollster tried to have Taft nomi-
mated for President by the convention of
1883. which nominated Harrison, is a
story which their mutual friends delight
in telling. Hollister and Henry NJ Hoyt.
Roosevelt's solicitor general. were up at
Yale for class week and their chum, John
Addison Porter. was delegate to the
convention.
Porter was surprised one night to
receive from Hoilister and Hoyt a high
sounding telegram stating that inasmuch
as the candidates then before the conven-
tion were not acceptable to the delegates
or the country 1t was his duty. knowing
the worth and merits Of the gentleman.
to present the name Of "Bulr' Taft. as he
was then affectionately known among his
classmates. Mr.. Porter, who had been
through a number Of class weeks HIM
self. smiled and put the telegram in his
pocket. Mr.. Taft was then judge Of the
superior court of Ohio.
Another Of the Presidents classmates
at Yale with whom he has maintained
a deep friendship Is Herbert w. Bowen.
who was minister to Venezuela when he
had his falling out with President Roose-
welt in 1905. He and the President were
the two biggest fellows in Yale, Bowen be-
ing little the taller. but Taft somewhat
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face" or didn't; whether he "wistfully
sear6hesstfle faces of the stolid jurymen"
Or doesn't whether the jurymen look
hungry most of the time or do not, and
a DOT more important things like that,
IN which .newspaper-reading folks are
supposed to be absorbingfy interested
The members of the Sob Squad speculate
daily in their accounts as to what is or
isn't passing in the mind of the stern
faced judge"-he's always ''stern-faced,'
of course, because. when you come 10
think of it. Judge presiding at a mur-
der trial wouldn't look exactly right il
he spent his time laughing like a Chihua-
hua burro, would he? And they tell us,
with the most insistent particularity,
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ern papers until he accompanied Gen.
Matt. Ransom to Mexico when the latter
was appointed ambassador to that re-
public. Since entering the army he
has served three and a half years In the
Philippines-where Mr.. Taft knew him
and moro than a year with our army OF
pacihcation in Cuba. While he has been
in these tropical climes he has improved
his time by writing many short stories
for the magazines. and in between these
he has turned out books on finance and
military problems. Mr.. Taft certainly
has taken q shine to him, and he has
come to be known as the Presidents
shadow"
X
Among Mr.. Taft's boyhood chums one
who stands among the closest to him Is
Judge Howard Clark Ho1lister Of Gin
cinnati, whom the President affectionately
refers to as "Holl." They were both born
in Cincinnati, Mr.. Taft being the younger
by q year. They also went through Yale
together. both being graduated in the
class OF IS: and they studied side by
side in the law school OF Cincinnati Col
lege, getting their bachelors degree In
1880 Then both were assistant prose-
cutting attorneys Of Hamilton county in
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women with that "air Of delicate refine
ment." But, If the mother happens to
be dead and buried. why, what's the diff
ference? The prisoner on trial for killing
somebody or other once had a mother
didn't he or she? Well. then. Isn't
that an excellent reason why the prisoner
shouldn't be convicted? II it's not the
Sob Squaddists would like to know why
not, that's all.
The Sob Squaddists, being lady persons
mostly. take careful, not to say minute
notice of details concerning the killer
on trial. They tell you whether his nails
are properly manicured and If they're
flbert-shaped q think. that's the phrase
flbert-shaped, that denotes lineage and
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vision was made bureau two years
later. when Edwards became a colonel.
and since then he has been to our gov
ernment very much what the secretary OF
state for the colonies Is to Great Britain.
Mr.. Taft was still in the Philippines as
governor and Edwards. in a sense. was
his Washington representative, and after
Mr. Taft became Secretary of War Ed
wards became his chief adviser on
Philippine matters. They became chums
rode, golfed and ate together. Edwards
engineered and personally conducted the
famous Taft tour OF the world. on which
Miss Alice Roosevelt became engaged.
But of the "golf cabinet" coterie he
who is seen with the President more often
than any other man is Capt. Archibald
Willingham Butt, whom Mr.. Taft has
selected for his personal military aid.
This assignment has so far carried with 1t
the functions of companion, for Capt.
Butt has been close at the Presidents
side during all Of his horseback rides. all
Of his golf games and all of his railway
tours since the inauguration.
Butt is a man of many parts. He Is
a bachelor of forty-two. a Georgian
by birth, who entered the army not
by way of West Point, but through
volunteer service in the Spanish war.
Before that he had been a Washington
correspondent for syndicate Of south
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Great little layout, the Sob Squad. But
we don't have to read their stuff, do we?
Certainly we don't! Then what are we
making all of this rude noise about? Oh,
nothing. nothing. except that the New
York Bar Association, at one OF its re-
cent meetings, decided to ask the New
York legislature 10 frame some kind of a
law that will make it impossible for the
New York yellows to publish the kind
of Sob Squad stuff that they have been
uncoiling on this community for ever so
many years, and. from where we sit IN
the gallery, it looks as If the New York
just such law.
But what will the thousands OF cham
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20 scrape enough to take them through
college take advantage of what the state
offers. Girls are granted more leisure.
even by poor parents. and. If one wants
to be absolutely impartial. their thirst for
learning is keener than among their
brothers. l see only good results for
girls receiving the higher education. The
talk about 1t uniting them for their sta
ton. making them sour and discontented
in life. is now confined 20 fiction writer's
and romancers of every class.
''Those who study the question harp on
this side Of the problem but rarely. The
college bred wife possesses philosophy
which aids in every emergency. She
makes a better wife. certainly a more in
telligent mother. She not only educates
her children, but she will aid her husband
to surmount every obstacle caused by lin
tied schooling. l have seen such many
times. Then for the future generation 1t
argues well to have the mothers well
grounded in what the up-to-date. modern
college teaches. Our history shows what
our great men owe to mothers intelligent
beyond the ordinary and usually self
taught. What may we not expect from
training mothers, for a clever woman has
said 1t produces the most useful results
to add the incident of education to the
accident of brains.'"
Mrs. Dolliver Is profoundly interested
in all that copcerns educational deyelOp-
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prevents my claiming anything more than
that ! do live in the National capital. in
the role of an official hostess, and try to
live up 70 what my classmates kindly
predicted IN 1889.
Talking of Wellesley naturally brings
up the much discussed question of higher
education for women. OF course believe
in ii. and think all objections have been
gradually disposed of. l see no menace in
that bugbear so often held up which
results from the under education Of men
and the over education of women. This
cry Is rising from heads of co-educational
institutions, and ii seems to be the shibbo-
leti Of sociologists In crowded cities l
note that universities and colleges which
admit women on equal terms with men
are beginning to curtail the number of
women admitted as against those of men.
This. II appears to me. is mistake.
I see no reason for keeping out women
because men will not take up the higher
education. The best solution is for the
state TO make room for all. That is the
ideal national education. But generally
boys i'm the poorer and middle classes are
put early To work Only those with that
mgrained love of knowledge which leads
them to study at night and to rake and