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Show ROOSEVELT PROVED TO BE UNGALLANT. Theodore Roosevelt, after journeying journey-ing to Nairobi, discovered that thirty-two thirty-two of his seventy-two Dearers of hunting equipment were females. Smallpox broke out in the camp whllo "Bwana Tumbo" was chasing Hons through the jungle. The examination which resulted brought out the startling startl-ing disclosures that the society belles of Uganda had competed for the privilege privi-lege of being beasts of burdens to tho Roosevelt party. The natives of wildest Africa cannot be very different from tne Indians of the west, except that In dress tho male and female African :s without a distinguishing mark, while our aborigines abor-igines conform to our own style of clothing. A buck Indian Is too mucn a gentleman gentle-man to do any laborious work, except in dire distress, but his squaw Is a willing hewer of wood ann drawer of water. Soon after the whites settled In the west, tho squaws could be seen doing all the camp work, including the transporting of heavy bundles of sagebrush sage-brush by means of ropes Mndlng the loads to the back, these faithful slaves of mountain and pralrio hunters deeming deem-ing It their duty to wear themselves out for their braves. ' , This same spirit seems to prevail in Uganda. The ordinary Tiuntcr Is evidently evi-dently entitled to his wire's most strenuous services, but the fame ot the mighty hunter from America having hav-ing preceded the Roosevelt party,, it was in order for all the wives of all the other hunters to volunteer their services and enter Into a competition for the privilege of attending to Roosevelt's Roose-velt's comfort. The formor president will be. open to the charge of being so ungallant '.as to allow the ladies of Somallland- (to be heavily ladened, white Tie, light handed, watched them truGge aion.t? with his trunks. A bell boy In a hotel would hae been more considerate. |