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Show I SUGGESTED HUNTING TRIP Leigh Hunt, the man who put the idea of an African hunting trip into the head of President Roosevelt in a conversation at the White House dinner table, is not second to the executive as aa example of strenuous energy. For that reason, rea-son, perhaps, he is counted as a friend of Roosevelt's. Roose-velt's. Hunt's life story tp to the present time is a series of tips and downs, a varied and altogether remarkable string of disconnected and differing experiences, out of which he has invariably come winner. He has been a builder of states and cities, a newspaper publisher in Seattle, a steel miller, a miner in Japan and Korea, a diplomat and royal fiscal agent in Russia, a reservoir builder and irrigation promoter in Africa and half a dozen other things in as many other places. He has failed at least once for a million, and returned a half dozen years later to discharge every debt with interest. Mr. Hunt, a native of Indi ana, is still in the pri-e of life and has decided to remain in his own country to enjoy the advantages of a familiar civilization. |