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Show pest, where he was given a royal welcome. wel-come. Paris was next on his Itinerary, and there on April 23 he lectured In the Sorbonne before a great audience of savants and students. The municipality municipal-ity and Its officials, the president of France and varlouB learned societies vied with each other In doing honor to the visitor, and for amusement he was taken to the field of aviation, where he saw some exciting aeroplane flights. Traveling northward somewhat leisurely, leis-urely, by way of Brussels, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, Mr. Roosevelt arrived ar-rived at Christiana and delivered an address on international peace before the Nobel prize commission, which had awarded to him the Nobel peace prize for his successful efforts to end the Russian-Japanese war. Emperor William had made great TREATED AS FIRST AIR1CAN0F TIE Theodore Roosevelt Most Highly Honored in Europe. EXCITING INCIDENT IN ROME Former President Delivered Scholarly Lectures In Paris, Berlin and Oxford Ox-ford Represented His Country at King Edward's Funeral. Scarcely less interesting than his nuntlng trip In Africa, and at times almost as exciting, were the adventures adven-tures of Col. Theodore Roosevelt In Europe. There he desired to be treated treat-ed as a man of letters and science, rather than as a sportsman, and his desire was gratified. But in addition, Europe insisted on receiving him as the most distinguished American of the time, and everywhere he went honors were showered on him. Emperors, Em-perors, kings, princes and all manner of royalties and nobility greeted him, dined him and toasted him, and the people in all the lands that he visited turned out in vast throngs to see him and cheer him. In Paris, Christlania, Berlin and Oxford Ox-ford Mr. Roosevelt delivered scholarly public addresses and the literary and scientific circles opened to let him in and marveled at the wide scope of his knowledge. The event connected with Mr. Roosevelt's European tour that aroused the most Interest and excitement excite-ment occurred immediately after his arrival in Italy early in April. Before he left Africa his desire to pay his respects to the pope had been conveyed con-veyed to the Vatican and the holy father had Intimated that he would be glad to see the distinguished American. Ameri-can. About the same time former Vice-President Fairbanks was in Rome and had arranged for an audience audi-ence at the Vatican which was cancelled can-celled by the pope because Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks first addressed the Methodist mission in Rome. When Colonel Roosevelt reached the Eternal City he I r J " -.V Taking the Air in Austria. plans for the entertainment of the ex-president ex-president In Berlin, but the death of King Edward caused the curtailment of the program to a considerable extent. ex-tent. Instead of being the kaiser's guest In the palace, Mr. Roosevelt stopped at the American embassy, and though William received him and From itereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. COL ROOSEVELT IN VENICE received, through the American minister, minis-ter, a message from Cardinal Merry del Val, papal secretary of state, to the effect that the pope would grant an audience to Mr. Roosevelt if he did not repeat the mistake made by Mr. Fairbanks. The colonel promptly called it all off, stating that as an independent in-dependent American citizen he could not submit to such restrictions. The 1 V'- Aik I i.n,niui"i . ;'ggg?"j jkV" K8WC'iliiiMil' i iiimrUj ---; 'IZ- N, . r, IT -f- t .-, rrjtstSSmsKLii dined him and showed him the German Ger-man army in maneuvers, the more spectacular and public features were omitted. On May 12 Mr. Roosevelt delivered de-livered at the University of Berlin an address on modern civilization which was highly praised for its scholarly qualities. Having been appointed special ambassador am-bassador of the United States to attend at-tend the funeral of King Edward, Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt next crossed the channel chan-nel to England, and when the body of the dead monarch was carried to the tomb he was one of the remarkable crowd of royal personages and distinguished distin-guished men that followed the gun carriage on which Edward's coffin was borne. After the funeral he was received re-ceived by King George and Queen Mary and by the widowed queen( mother, and in a quiet way made necessary nec-essary by the mourning of the nation much attention was (shown him. This culminated, in London, by a reception in the Guild Hall, at which the freedom free-dom of the city in a gold casket was presented to him. He was the guest, thereafter, of several prominent Englishmen, and on June 7 he delivered the Romanes lecture at Oxford, which had been postponed by the demise of the king. This was the most pretentious of all his European addresses and the best, his subject was "Biological Analogies in History." The University of Cambridge honored hon-ored Mr. Roosevelt by conferring upon up-on him the degree of doctor of laws, and the occasion served to demon Etrate his popularity with all classes. As Mr. Roosevelt accepted his diploma di-ploma from the hands of Vice-Chancellor Mason, the students who crowded crowd-ed the galleries shouted "Teddy! Teddy!" and let down a large Teddy bear from the celling. The whole audience cheered and the colonel, ae he passed out, smilingly patted the Teddy bear. Later tha.t day Mr. Roosevelt addressed 700 graduates, on all kinds of topics. On June 11 the traveler, together with Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermit and Miss Ethel, sailed on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on their way to New York and the rousing welcome that he knew was awaiting him from his fellow countrymen. HENRY FORDTCE. Leaving the Sorbonne, Paris. head of the Methodist mission tried to make religious capital out of this, and Mr. Roosevelt thereupon canceled the plans for a general reception to which the Methodists had been invited. Thus, with his usual luck and facility for "coming out on top," he had the best of the matter all around and his conduct was generally commended all over the world. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit were received by the king and queen of Italy and spent some days in that country. The colonel and his wife visited vis-ited Venice and traveled once again the Riviera route that they passed over on their honeymoon, and next Mr. Roosevelt visited Vienna and Buda- |