The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

The natives. are perfectly wild saw ages he said, land their enemies accuse them of occasionally and playfully laps ing into cannibalism. That is delicate subject and I never inquired into it.
 One day while I was riding up the railroad to Nairobi. telegraph communica- tion was interrupted" he went on. That was because of a herd of giraffes had cantered across the tracks and pulled down the wires with their necks."
 He talked about the lions.
 When they were building the rail- road,'' he continued. reconstruction was stopped for two weeks, because two lions established themselves on the tracks and ate Up all the men who came to work. l think they ate about 100. Finally they were killed"
 He said the survivor of another en- counter with the lions told him a story which he would repeat
 Lion Ate Up Agent
 At one railroad station," he began, ''the lions ate up the agent, and when the next train came along it ate up a brakeman. The division superintendent, an Englishman, took a German and Ital- ian with him and went out there to kill the lion.
 lucy Sdl up III tHe nlBnl WdltlnS lOr the lion, and finally the Italian went to sleep at one end of the car and the Ger man got into one of the berths. The Eng iishman sat at the window with his rife on guard. He evidently went to sleep there.
 'The lion, with it's queer, sinister in- telligence, saw that the man was asleep. It came up on the platform, pulled the sliding door open with it's paw and went in The German was awakened by the weight of the Hons hind legs on him. The forelegs were on the Englishman and the lion had the mans head in his mouth. The German shouted and awakened the Ital- ian, who leaped up and jumped on the Hons back. He jumped off again and ran to the other end of the car. The lion had his man and only wanted to get away with him. It smashed its way through the 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 to Children
 The school children liked the colonels stories so well 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 hAsaid:
 T 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"
 Colonel Roosevelt's speech in Conven- ton hall tonight was his principal address of the day. He said that honesty Should not be made party matter, and that the first man to attack a scoundrel should be the man in the scoundrels own party He spoke of corruption in New York, Mis- souri, Illinois and California, and said the duty of the people was to war with equal sternness against the corrupt man of great wealth and the small man who makes trade of corruption.
 We need laws which shall put the cor poration out of business so far as con- cerns corrupting the servants of the pub lie and betraying the rights of the peo- ple," he said.
 At another point in his speech he as- serted:
 The people of this country will get jus tice from the corporations only If they do justice to them and rigidly exact it from them.''
 At the Commercial Club
 As the guest of honor of the Kansas City commercial club, Theodore Roosevelt today drank toast to the president was himself toasted as the first citizen of the United States and listened to a rollicking song to the tune of "In the Good old Summer Time" which ran as follows.
 At next election time,
 At next election time,
 Rolling round the woolly west Getting things in line;
 For we like him and he likes us, That he will be our President At next election time"
 The colonel responded heartily to the toast to the president and looked stat uesque as the references to himself were made
 Later when he was called upon to speak he referred to the song, saying that "one of them was anxiously seeking the knowl- ege of my whereabouts.'
 Another song ending with the refrain, For he's insurgent through and through, he said could have been inn proved in technical accuracy if the word progressive hod been substituted for the word 1nsurgent,' "
 Don't get the bridle off, said the colonel amid cheers
 A Noisy Welcome ..-Three hundred men attended the lunch. con and gave Colonel Roosevelt a noisy welcome. Before the guests were seated, former representative w. s. Cowherd, who was toastmaster, said:
 Tt Is always the custom of the Com niercial club to drink the first toast to the health of the President of the United States"
 Everyone joined in drinking the toast. Among the guests were Governor Had ley .ofs Missouri; Governor Stubbs of Kansas, Clifford Pinchot, James R. Gar field, Col w. R. Nelson, proprietor of the Kansas City Star; Senator Bristow and Representative Madison of Kansas. Colonel Roosevelt complimented the peo- pie of Kansas City upon extensive i'm provements that have been made to their water works systems. He expressed his interest in the improvement of the waterways, especially of the Missouri river
 When I began as President, the move nient againse rebates that were univer- sally demanded and given, the practice was so general that the fact of giving them and asking for them had become purely conventional crime" said Colonel Roosevelt No one spoke of the giving of rebates as crime and as the practice was freely indulged in by the great mass of people. others were driven to the crime, having the alternative of being ruined by their competitors if they did not get them. The shippers de- manded rebates of the railroads and the railroads granted rebates to certain ship pers until they got into network of pl references from which they were unable