The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-20
7. R. HARD At WORK.
Continued From Page cne.)

Brazil, realized from his appearance
that he had passed through trying
time. Though his cheeks were bronzed.
his smile present and his grip firm,
| showing a return of health, there were
many traces of the hardships he had
| the Rio Duvida the unknown river he
explored. The trip from Para which be-
gan May Z, did much to restore Colonel
Roosevelt. 1t gave back to him Is or 30
of the 55 pounds he had lost and the
! jungle testers that ran from the ankle
to the knee Of his right leg were nearly
all healed.
II have been very i'll with jungle
| fever he said on his arrival, but
I'm all right now. I feel fine
1t was from April to April Is.
| it was learned that Colonel Roosevelt
his party, including his son Kermit,
were ill at that time but the colonel
| himself was so sick and weak that
| there were days when one hundred
yards Of travel marked the measure
| of his endurance. --s go ~
For Ave days Colonel Roosevelt
was delirious with los degrees Of fe-
yer. Under it he begged his COM
panions, it is stated, to go and leave
him where he lay in the jungle.
Actual starvation menaced the
party during the last of the sixty days
down the Duvida. The pinch was
sharper far, it was said, than was in
dictated by the leaders declaration
| that they had to hold themselves to
! half ratiOns.
| At Manaos, the point of the expe-
| dition's return to civilization, Colonel
Roosevelt was still so i'll that it was
| necessary to help him aboard the
| Steamer Dunstan on which he trav-
eled to Para. During the four days
confined to his bed. Not until the
first day of his stopover at Para did
he show the improvement which has
continued ever since.
Colonel Roosevelt plans to rest
quietly at his Oyster Bay home until
village from Sycamore Hill to meet
his neighbors. 1t will be holiday
for the town and the colonel will
probably deliver a brief address of
| thanks for his neighbors' welcome
| Next Tuesday he plans to go to
| Geographic society on the results OF
his Brazilian exploring trip. and on
May 80 he will probably start for
Europe to attend, in Madrid, the
wedding of his son Kermit.
Conference Arranged by Cable.
Before he left South America he
arranged by cable for conferences
w
, w. Perkins of New York, chairman of
the national committee. and o. X. Da-
Wis of Washington, secretary of the
committee, were expected 1T Sycamore
Hill today. The Wilson administration
attitude IN the controversy with Co
lombia over the Panama canal, was
criticised today by Colonel Roosevelt.
He objected strongly to the payment
of what he termed 'blackmail" to
Colombia.
I'm submitting to this" he said, cit
is just as though some future president
of the United States should apologize
to the successor Of Huerta for the
seizure Of Vera Cruz. AS for the pay
ment of $4,000, 900 to Colombia" >.
here the colonel threw up his hands
well that is unthinkable." Colonel
Roosevelt expressed himself as strong
iy opposed to the repeal of the law
for the exemption of American coast
wise ships from payment OF Panama
tolls.
! He said he thought it perfectly right
to arbitrate the question If the right
OF the country to grant exemption
yield the point unequivocally without
arbitration was indefenslble. as he was
lccnvinced that the United States was
within its rights in freeing coastwise
ships from payment of tolls.
| When he goes to Washington next
week Colonel Roosevelt said ne will
be ready to refute statements of Henry
Savage Lander OF England, and others,
who have expressed doubt as to the
correctness of his statement that he
had discovered a great river In the
wilds of South America
River Is Still There.
1.-The river is still there said the
icolonel with laugh. 1T is not like
lclimbing an upexplored mountain or
going to the north pole. for such ex-
pc ditions leave no traces which are
there a year later. But nobody Is GO
ing to roll up that river and carry it
off. Anybody can go down there and
see it for himself. I will give him the
address of the owner of a rubber
plantation who will furnish rIvermen
for the trip. The lower third Of the
lriver is easily navigablc and anyone
who doubts the existence of that river
may go down and see for himself"
Referring to the testimony in Wash