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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

as they often charge such a caravan.
Slowly the shadows heightened; the light
waned the glare of the white, dusty plain
was softcned, and the bold outlines OF the
distant mountains grew DIM Just before
nghtfall we halted on the further side OF a
dry watercourse The safari came up sing
ing and whistling, and the men put down
their loads, lit fires, and with chatter and
laughter prepared their food.
Trekking Through the Spectral Moonlight.
We had tea with bread and cold meat
and most delicious meal it was--and then
lay doing or talking beside the bush-fires.
At half past eight, the moon having risen,
we were off again. The saiar was still in
high spirits, and started with the usual
chanting and drumming.
We pushed steadily onward across the
plain, the dust rsting i'll clouds under the
spectral moonlight Sometimes we rode,
sometimes we walked to ease our horses.
The Southern Cross was directly ahead, not
rose the moon, and brighter grew the flood
of her light. AT intervals the barking call
of zebras was heard on either hand.
1t was after midnight when we again halt
ed. The porters were tired, and did not
sing as they came up; the air was cool, al
most nipping, and they at once huddled
down i'll their blankets, some of them build
ing fires. We. the white men, after seeing
our horses staked out, each lay down i'll his
overcoat or jacket and slicker. with his head
on his saddle, and his rifle beside him, and
had little over two hours sleep. At three
we were off again, the shivering porters
making no sound as they started; but once
under way the more irrepressiblc spirits
speedily began kind of intermittent chant
and most OF the rest by degrees joined in the
occasional grunt or hum that served as
chorus.
For four hours we travelled steadily, first
through the moonlight, and then through
the reddening dawn. Jackals shreked, and
the plains plover walled and scolded as they
crcled round us. When the sun was we'll
up, we halted; the desolate flats stretched
far and wide on every side and rose into
lofty hills ahead of U.S.
The porters received their water and food
and lay down to sleep. some directly in the
open, others rigging little sun shelters un-
der the scattering thorn-bushes. The horses
were fed were given half pail Of water
apiece, and were turned loose to Craze with
the oxen; this was the last time the oxen
would feed freely, unless there was rain;
and this was to be our longest halt.
Noon came, and soon afterward we again
started. The country grew hilly and
brushy 1t was too dry for much game, but
we saw small herd Of giraffe. which are in
dependent OF water. Now riding our horses,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

drawn by span of seven or eight yoke
they were all native bumped cattle
We had 1876 porters, in addition to the
askaris, tent boys, gun-bearers and saises
The management Of such safari is work
OF difficulty; but no better man for the pur-
pose than Cuninghame could be found any
where, and he had chosen his headmen we'll
In the thirst, the march goes on by day
and night. The longest halt is made in the
day, for men and animals both travel better
at night than under the blazing noon We
were fortunate in that it was lust after the
full of the moon, so that our night tricks
were made in good light OF course, on
such march the porters must be spared as
much as possible; camp is not pitched, and
each white man uses for the trip only what
he wears, or carries on his horse-and the
horse also must be loaded as lightly as pos
sible. took nothing but my army over
coat, rifle and cartridges, and three cantecns
OF water. Kermit did the same.
The Start of the Trek.
The wagons broke camp about 10, to trek
to the water, a mile and half off, where the
oxen would be outspanned to take the last
drink for three days; stock will not drink
carly in the morning nearly as freely as if
the march is begun later. We. riding our
horses, followed by the long line of bur-
dened porters, left at II 80 and in couple
of hours overlook the wagons.
The porters were in high spirits In the
morning, before the start, they twice held
regular dances, the chief musician being one
of their own number who carried an extra
ordinary kind of native harp and after their
loads were allotted they marched out OF
camp singing and blowing their horns and
whistles. Three askaris brought up the
rear to look after laggards, and see that no
weak or sick man fell out without our know
ing or being able to give him help
The trail led FIRST through open brush. or
low, dry forest, and then out on the vast
plains, where the withered grass was dottel
here and there with low scantily leaved
thorntrees, from three to eight feet high.
Hour after hour we drew slowly ahead I'M
der the shimmering sunlight.
The horsemen walked first, with the
gun-bearers, saises, and usually few very
energetic and powerful porters; then came
the safari in single file; and then the lum-
berng whte-topped wagons, the patient
oxen walking easily, each team led by half
naked savage with frizzled hair and spear
or throwing-stick in his hand, while at i'll
tervals the long whips Of the drivers cracked
like rifles. The dust rose in clouds from the
dry earth, and soon covered all OF us in the
distance herds of zebra and hartebeest
gazed at us as we passed. and we saw the
old spoor OF rhino, beasts we hoped to avoid.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

so, by dawn, they were unyokcd and driven
down to drink before the drift was attempt
ed, the wagons being left mile or two back.
After days rest, we pushed on, in two
days easy travelling, to the Guaso Nyero Of
the south The country was alive with
herds OF Nasal cattle, sheep and donkeys.
The Nasal, herdsmen by profession and
warriors by preference, with their great
spears and ox-hide shields, were stalwart
savages, and showed the mixture Of types
common to this part OF Africa which is the
edge of an ethnc whirlpool. Some of them
were of seemingly pure negro type; others
except in their black skin had little negro
about them, their features being as clear-cut
as those of ebony Nlotic Arabs. They were
dgnihed, but friendly and civil, shaking
hands as soon as they came up to us.
Of for Hunt.
The day after reaching this camp rode
off for hunt, accompanied by my two gum
bearers and with a dozen portcrs following,
to handle whatever l killed
Half mile from camp saw buck TOM
my with good head, and as we needed his
delicious venison for our own table, l dis
he faced me at 2l0 yards. Sending him back
by one of the porters, rode on toward two
topi we saw far in front. But there were
zebra, hartcbeest, and widebeest in be-
tween, all OF which ran; and the topi proved
wary.
| was still walking after them when we
made out two Gland bulls ahead and to our
left. The ground was too open to admit OF
the possibility OF stalk but leaving my
horse and the porters to follow slowly. the
gun-bearers and walked quartering toward
them. They hesitated about going, and
when | had come as close as | dared, mo-
toned to the two gun-bearers to continue
walking. and dropped on one knee.
had the little Springfield, and was anx-
ious to test the new sharp-ponted military
bullet on some large animal. The biggest
bull was half facing me, just 28O yards off |
fired little bit high and a trifle to the left;
but the tiny ball broke his back and the
splendid beast, heavy as prize steer came
plunging and struggling to the ground
The other bull started to run off. but aftc-
actually trotted back toward his companion;
then halted, turned and galloped across my
front at distance of 100 yards; and him too
] brought down with single shot
had killed these two Gland bulls, as we'll
as the buck gazelle bringing down each
with single bulet) within three-quarters
OF All hour after leaving camp.
A Herd of Topi.
| wanted topi, and continued the hunt.
4, last we spied herd OF topi, distinguish
able from the hartbeest at very long dis
lance by their dark coloring, the puppies
and browns giving the coat a heavy shading
which when far off, in certain lights, look
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

now leading them, we travelled until nearly
sunset, when we halted at the foot of steep
divide, beyond which our course lay across
slopes that gradually fell to the stream for
which we were heading. Here the porters
had all the food and water they wished, and
so did the horses; and. each with double
span OF oxen the wagons were driven up
the slope, the weary cattle straining hard in
the yokes.
Pushing Ahead of the Safari.
Black clouds had risen and thickened in
the west, boiling rain. Three-fourths of our
journey was over; and it was safe to start
the safari and then leave it to come on by
itself, while the OK wagons followed later
At nine, before the moon struggled above
the hill crests to our left, we were off. Gusts
OF rain blew in our faces. and gradually sex
tied into steady. gentle downpour Our
horses began to slip in the greasy soil we
knew the rain would refresh the cattle, but
would make the going harder.
At one we halted. in the rain. for a couple
OF hours rest. Just before this we heard
two lions roaring, or rather granting not
far i'll front of us they were after prey
Lions are bold on rainy nights, and we did
not wish to lose any of our horses: so a
watch was organized, and we kept ready for
immediate action, but the lions did not
come.
The native boys built fires and lay close
to them, relieving one another. and us, as
sentinels. Kermit and had our army over
coats, which are warm and practically water
proof; the others had coats almost as good
We lay down in the rain OH the drenched
grass, with our saddle-cloths over our feet
and our heads on our saddles, and slept COM
fortably for two hours.
At three we mounted and were off again
the rain still falling. There were steep ra-
vines to cross. slippery from the wet but
we made good time. and soon after six off
saddled on the farther side of a steep drift or
ford in the little Suavi river. 1t is rapid
stream flowing between high, wel-wooded
banks: it was an attractive camp site, and
as we afterward found, the nights were 50
cool as to make great camp fires welcome.
In the Nasal Country.
At half past ten the safari appeared. in cx-
cellent spirits, the flag waving, to an accom-
panment of chanting and horn blowing
and. to their loudly expressed satisfaction.
the porters were told that they should have
an extra days rations, as we'll as day.
rest. Camp was soon pitched; and all, OF
every rank, slept soundly that night, though
the lions moaned near by.
The wagons did not get i'll until ten the
following morning. By that time the oxen
had been nearly three days without water,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

N June S 5000 we started
south from Kijabe to trek
through the thirst, through
the waterless country
which lies across the way
to the Sotik. The trek
across "the thirst" az anv
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

tBy special permission from AFRICAN Game Trails,
by Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright. 1909 1910, by
Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright. 1912, by
Charles Scribner's Sons. All rights reserved. in
GLIDING that Of translation into foreign languages
including the Scandinavian)
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

This is the sixth Of the fourteen great arti-
cles Of African big game hunting and ad-
venture by Theodore Roosevelt that are
appearing exclusively every Sunday in the
Capital News. These articles, from
Colonel Roosevelt's own account Of his
African expedition, AFRICAN Game Trails"
-one of the greatest books OF big game
hunting and adventure ever written-the
Capital News has secured for exclusive
newspaper publication in the territory it
serves through special arrangements with
Charles Scribner's Sons.
q asst week Colonel Roosevelt told of his buf-
falo hunting experiences on Kan,iti ranch,
1 owned by Hugh H. Heatley. After this
hunt was over the expedition went to
Nairobi, partly to pack up and send back
to America the many specimens of the
hunt already obtained. After this had
been done, the trek through the thirst to
the Sotik-a journey that is ever remem-
bered by one who makes it and described
in today's article was begun.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
A Herd of Topi.

| wanted topi, and continued the hunt
At last we spied herd of topi, distinguish.
able from the hartbeest at very long dis
lance by their dark coloring, the puppies
and browns giving the coat a heavy shading
which when far off, in certain lights, look !.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
BOUND TO PAY.
w. A. Neiswanger, Vice Presi-
dent Mica Co., Confident.
Car of Mica just Shipped From
Mine, Is High Quality.

Since becoming identified with the
Inspiration Mining company, now the
Inspiration Consolidated Copper com
pany, running over a period of some
thing like five years, 1 have had OPP
portunity of looking into a great many
mining propositions" said w. A Neis-
wanger. Nothing has appealed to
me TO any extent as compared TO the
Mica proposition being developed by
the Topeka Mica manufacturing COM
pany- When was assured by G J.
Price mining engineer, that there
were millions of tons of Mica bearing
formation on the company's prop
erty together with the knowl-
edge of the thoroughly competent
business management in Mr. S. B.
Rohrer's organization, did not hest
tate to make an Investment To my
mind the future is very bright for
this Mica company.
Il feel warranted in the making Of
this statement because Of the informa
ton given by Mr.. James Gilmore,
Mica experr, who states that the sam
pies shown him in the Topeka Offices
from our mine near Ribera, New Mex
leo, are equal to the Canadian Mica
which has no supe rior in the United
States. and as Mr.. Price says we have
the quantity, the future. as 1 stated
before is assuredly bright
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
WAS KOREAN ADVISER
Prof. H. B. Hubert, Who Held This
Post, VIII Speak Here Saturday.

Prof Homer B. Hubert, diplomat,
traveller and lecturer on social and
political conditions in the far east,
will deliver a free lecture in the First
Baptist church Saturday night on
The Oriental Chess Board.
Professor Hubert was for twenty
years in the employ of the Korean
government and a personal advisor of
the emperor. For two decades he
lived at the center OF those stirring
scenes which diverted the attention of
the whole world TO the far east. He
personally participated in many of
those events and has had unparaI-
leled opportunities for Investigation.
He sided with Japan in the late
war, believing she would handle
Korea carefully. but he has found
cause to revise that opinion. In 1905
he was sent to Washington by the
emperor with a protest against the
removal of the American legation
from Seoul.
He was charged by the Japanese
with connivance i'll the assassination
of Prince Ito, and his life was re-
peatedly threatened. His story reads
like a novel and the facts are album
DAINTY corroborated.
Mr.. Hubert has spoken before So
CietieS, clubs, chambers of commerce
boards of trade and universities all
over the country. He has made
cific slope. The whole question of
the future of the Pacific basin comes
under review and he gives facts which
enable the listener to reach a definite
conclusion on at least some of the
points at issue.
Through a friend at court the
Mems club of the First Baptist church
was able to secure Mr.. Hubert for
Saturday evening and no doubt an
appreciative public will fill the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
OF COURSE he SWORE
Diner Spilled Hot Coffee on Himself
Freed in Court.

St. Joseph, MO, Feb. 15@Dudley L.
Purkaple of Denver. swore in a
restaurant when he spilled cup Of
hot coffee in his lap. He was arrested
and hailed before Police Judge ). T.
Alice.
s.I'II admit I used bad language"
said Purkaple to the judge, but your
honor, I could not help it I spilled
cup of steaming hot coffee all over
nv trousers and under the stress of
great pain and much embarrassment
restaurant man but a policeman ar
rested me-"
"Of course you did wrong to swear, .
said the court, but believe you were
almost justified and that you have suf-
fered enough. Your case is dis
missed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
Famous "Pfssf of Cough
Syrup" Receipt
No Better Remedy at Any Price
Fully Guaranteed.

Make a plain syrup by mixing one
pint of granulated sugar and u pint Of
warm water and stir for two minutes.
Put PA ounces of pure Pinex fifty
cents worthy in pint bottle, and fill it
up with the Sugar Syrup. This gives
you q family supply of the best cough
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Take a teaspOonful every one, two OF
three hours.
The effectiveness of this simple remedy
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up the jaded appetite and is Just laxa-
tive enough to be helpful in a cough,
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for bronchial trouble, throat tickle, sore
lungs and asthma, and an unequaled
remedy for whooping cough and Group.
This recipe for making cough remedy
with Pinex and Sugar Syrup Tor
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A guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
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this recipe Your druggist has Pinex,
or viii get it for you IF not, send to
The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15

a $500 difference between the fig
ures in MedIicott's office and the
books of the county repositories.
When Kelley & Kelley sold the
railway bonds, they retained $500
of the $4,000 received for the securi-
ties. This left a credit in the banks
of $4,000 to the county, while Med
licctt's books showed the sale price.
County Auditor James E. Larimer be-
lieves that Medlicott was misrepre-
scented at the meeting and that his rec
ord was not presented in the proper
light.
In letter of explanation, Larimer
has this to say concerning the sale of
the Missouri Pacific bonds and the diff
ference in the figures as shown in his
report:
county treasurer. and the taxpayers
league and county officials said Lari-
rner. Il would like to inform the pub
lie that the impression which might be
gathered from the report given out that
I had reported Mr.. Medlicott'S accounts
to the county commissioners as being
deficit to the extent of $500, or any
other amount, is erroneous. The law
requires that I make an examination
of the county treasury once in every
two months which has been done, and
in making report of this examination
bond proposition as follows: The bank
paid the agents their commission, $500,
out of the proceeds of the sale. and
credited the county with only 500, 500
while the treasurer, of course, took
credit for the sale price, $4,000. making
a clear difference between the bonds of
the bank and treasurer of 81. 800 but
there never has been any shortage with
either. The only contention being is
that the bank should not have paid
this commission. and that the agents
should have received a warrant direct
from the county commissioners for
their percentage"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
IDEAL BAKERY
The Place That's Different.
12f West Sixth St. Phones 100

ployed. If a man wants to work he
can get work, if he has anything the
world wants.
zone man out of ten in America is
hopelessly incompetent hasn't any
thing the world wants
Do Away With Parasites.
1.-The business of the world now is
to do away with parasites There are
two big words now. One is sufficiency
and the other insufficiency- .
DO not get too much of anything.
If you get too much education you are
likely to get the big head; if too much
religion you may become q hypocrite.
Give your religion away. Do not save
it up for Sunday or Billy Sunday.
Don't get too much of a good thing.
Don't get too much health. Keep
your health by using it.
Eat less; breathe more Hate less;
love more. Think well of everybody
especially lawyers, doctors and preach
ers-God knows they need our pity.
They say so many things they don't
know
The only way to make money is to
render a human service The way
lawyers should make money is by
keeping their clients out of court
Preachers are or should be teachers.
A smoke stock is as sacred as a
steeple-
lowship is hell If you never have a
good time at your work you will never
know what a good time is.
I'VE used to divide men into two
classes the saved and the lost, the
learned and the illiterate. the rich
the poor But this is only compare
tive.
I'VE grub few stumps in the cor
ner of our 40-acre lot for a Phi. D.
degree, and all the rest is a bowling
wilderness The best educated man is
the one who is the most useful. The
only man that lives is the one that is
well advertised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
LOOK AT HOME.
Secretary Justis of Provident Associa-
ton Says Help.

1--WE feel that the people should
turn their attention to things right
here at home more than they do,
said Secretary Guy T. Justis of the
Provident association.
we are SWamped with people want
ing work just now and the situation
demands attention. We have had 20
persons in our wood yard today, but
we have had to turn other away, hav-
ing no work to give them. We have
several hundred dollars worth of
wood on hand in the wood yard, and
unless we find purchasers for the wood
we will have to shut down the yard on
account of lack of funds.
There are a few wealthy church
members in Topeka who do not con-
tribute towards our work. Some of
our most liberal contributors are those
outside OF the church Probably on
the whole the church people give more
money for humanity than those out
side of the church, but they in a great
many cases give individually and the
church does not get the credit for 1t
The non-church man gives strictly to
charity while there are q great many
more demands upon the church men,
bers. However, I do feel that more
attention should be paid to things
right here at home.
"A great many of the people who
have been out of employment this win
ter have had enough money to keep
them while, but are now out of coin.
Ninety per cent of the men who have
come to us recently for aid are those
who do rough construction work.
Il want to contrast two recent cases
which have come to our notice. When
W. A. Graves was blown up with
dynamite, people rushed to the aid of
his family. The same day a man in
Topeka died of pneumonia, leaving a
family consisting of a wife and six
children ranging in age from to Il
years.
Because the husband in the case
was not killed in a spectacular fash
ion there was nothing done to help the
family which was destitute. 1t almost
seems that it pays to die by being
blown up rather than in some quieter
manner. We rented a house for the
family. In the case of the Graves
family there are two or three children
old enough to work.
Professor c. c. Starr, superintendent
of the Topeka schools gave the practi-
cal talk at Dougherty's Business Col
lege yesterday afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15

Thomas Grisham OF Cottonwood Falls
viii be a candidate for commander OF
the state G. A. r. The annual encamD-
ment will be held in Wichita May p.
Mr.. Crisham IS well known over the state
as an attorney and politician and served
Tor long time a. advocate general %
the department.