The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-06
RG0SETELT'S AFRICAN STORIES.
In Address to High School Children
OF Kansas City He Told Them
Some Marvellous Things.

President Roosevelt made a speech to
tie high scloJ, girls and boys II.
which he told them some stories
which he brought back with hicl from
Africa. The Associated Press says ci
lis speech:
The auditorium of the high school
was crowded with students when The
colonel arrived, and they stood anG
gave him the Chautauqua salute,
while at the same time they shouted
at the top of their voices.
AS soon as they would let him speak
the colonel said he had confession to
make; that he was little afraid of
the audience, because half of it was
composed of girls, whom he never
knew how to handle.
As Girls Will Do.
81 have four boys of my own," said
he, "and only two girls. The girls
were both in charge of their mother
until they grew up and then they took
charge of me. They have treated me
kindly but firmly"
Col. Roosevelt said he was going to
tell them some stories of Africa.
"The natives are perfectly wild saw
ages" he said, 'tand their enemies ac-
cuse them of occasionally and playful
ly lapsing into cannibalism. That is a
delicate subject and I never inquire
Into 1t. ~;ss: ~ :ssa e. e. X amszess>.
"0ne day while I was riding up the
railroad to Nairobi, telegraph COM
munication was interrupted" he went
on. E'That was because herd Of graf
fes had cantered across the tracks and
pulled down the wires with their
necks." ..
when they were building the rail-
road" he continued, construction Y.
stopped for two weeks because two
lions established themselves on the
tracks and ate up all the men who
came to work. I think they ate
about one hundred. Finally they were
killed.
He said the survivor of another en-
counter with the lions told him story
which he would repeat.
Encounter With Lion.
"At enc railroad station" he began.
The lions ate up the agent, aid wLen
the rext train came along 1t ate up a
brakeman. The division superintend-
ent, an Englishman, took German
and an Italian with him and went out
there to kill the lion.
"They sat up in the night waiting
for the lion and finally the Italian
went to sleep at one end of the car
and the German got into one of the
berths. The Englishman sat at the
window with his rifle on guard. He
evidently went to sleep there.
"The lion, with it's queer sinister in
tellgence, saw that the man was
asleep. 1t came up on the platform,
pulled the sliding door open with its
paw and went in. The German was
awakened by the weight of the lions
hind legs on him. The forelegs of
the lion were on the Englishman and
the lion had the mans head in his
mouth. The German shouted and
awakened the Italian, who leaped up
and jumped On the lions back. He
jumped off again and ran to the other
end of the cars. The lion had his
man and only wanted to get away with
him. 1t smashed it's way through g.
window, dragging the Englishman
with him, and all through the night
the German and the Italian could hear
the dreadful purring of the lion as it
ate the Englishman."
Advice for Everybody.
The school children liked the COL
onels stories so we'll that they did not
want him to stop, but he was late, and
had to leave. Before he departed,
however, he gave them some advice.
To the girls he said:
"I don't like to have a girl dance all
night so that she will be tired the next
day when her mother wants something
from the second story"
His advice to the boys was given in
terms of football. It was:
Don't shirk; don't foul, and hit the
line hard"