The Detroit times., 1910-04-12
R00SEvELT's RIDE TO
OMDURMAN is BIG EVENT
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picture apparatus and some uninvept,
eC photograph that would produce tue
sounds
When camel Is asked to get down
TO its knees, or To get up from It's
knees, the way IL carries on would
yais9 up a Society for the Prevention
lCs Cruelty 10 Animals In a Siberian
exile station. And koosevelt's came,
made cariying-on a specially. Tho
lunlovely beast twisted round Its long.
ungainly neck, opened out its fioppS
lower lip and began. Gurgle, roar,
prowl, Bray while. sputter. Groan
grunt, snort AMI gnash Its teetn
ground and crunohed. There was no
form OF phonetic hldeousness that the
animal did not emit. From It's lips
came pink bubbles. Its eyes rolled,
and 10 the casual and uninitiated on
locker II seemed 10 give every evil
oence OF violent insanity.
What the natter, old boy?' In.
CURED the ex-president. Never heard
ssounls, like thai, not !, eyen AZ East
'Africa,"
The hurrid beast" said Mrs. Roose
velt, whose camel was dong likewise.
Il really think perhaps I'd better have
a donkey"
But they didn't.
And the joke OF ii all was that these
camels were really wonderfully well
/ behaved. II Is simply that camels do
that II they didn't, they wouldn't be
camels. You see have been out here
long time 90 days. and have
learned about camels.
So then the creature unhinged him
self The Arab said, "Hoosh," tan
I Arab says that when 1t is get down, .
get up" Or stop and our distin-
guished ex-p?esident lurched forward.
! For a moment II looked as IL the
/ mighty hunter had escaped the charg-
/ inS Thlno aud the angry elephant. only
/ TO break his neck over the front end
OF a foolish camel. But he gripped
the pummel and chung for dear life
THEN the forelegs We're unlimbered
and the rider was catapulated in the
! opposite direction. Again IL seemed
as If Scylla had been evaded only 10
/ be wrecked over the Charybdis of the
cainels tail "Whoosh," roared the
( Arab. N.Y." swore the dromedary
/ Then, hippity-hop, whirl, and a lurch.
and the world got fiat again, and an
expert faunal naturalist smiled into
/ the cameras and said. Delightful"
| IL is violating no confidence to say
1 that Mrs. Roosevelt does not ike
camel riding II Is not so much the
motion as the noise. She says she Is
made TO feel as II she we're persona
1 non grata TO the camel and, not caring
/ TO go where not wanted. she will
choose in future her old friend the
horse. And. on ordinary occasions,
this rule will be followed by our ex-
presidents. This announcement may
/ lie regarded as authoritative.
4 On, on over the boundless
wastes Pattering donkeys. lolloping
dromedaries. galloping Arab steeds,
Blue wells and light pongee futtering
and clinging in the stiff north breeze!
Ark shout the donkey boys.
Whoa" call the horsemen. And the
air is filed with the calls and clatter
of the native polyglot
II was my lot TO draw q collapsible
/ donkey. OF course. it's not far TO fan
over stumbling donkey's head but il
You are trying TO save the open cam
era in your left hand II is difficult to
do graceful fall. And IL is peculiar
| feeling which you have as you go
|
from below II suggests a lady mount
! ed ON an animated Effel tower. Never
have | seen presidents daughter
| from less advantageous point OF
view
I But the camera was not hurt, and
| / can fall much better now The best
way is to wait until the donkeys fore
head Is fiat upon the sand. and then
roll gently down his neck And IL is
also good form TO join the donkey
! driver in his eager allegation CHS only
F. glish) Good donke.! Donkey
vera fine"
And when We got where we were
going. there was monument with an
| iron fence around ii marking spot
where somebody fell And then we
! all climbed volcanic hill and looked
out on the fiat plain where the Derry.
! ish troops bad formed in semicircle 70
receive the charge OF Kitchener's 90
900 men Here Macdonald changed
his front and repulsed the charging
! horsemen of the malidi off there they
, fed. The killed were 10000, the
wounded many more. The rest fed.
and the Sudan was reclaimed from the
rule of the barbarian and fanatic.
OF course we had tea on the launch
going back. Wherever British rule
extends there come the blessings of
Huntley & Palmer biscuit, Dundee
marmalade, and shutdown tea. And II
| by any chance you don't drink tea.
there's a Scotch and soda to relieve
Nn I'D fe.ct