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Specially equipped autos now follow the Jungle trails and one may purchase a different type bf gun to hunt each variety of animal. In its early days Nairobi was known as "the tin town of East Africa," because of its houses and shops constructed of tin and corrugated iron. Handsome stone structures have generally replaced those earlier buildings. Wide, paved streets have supplanted dirt roads. Automobiles mingle with bicycles and jinrickshas drawn by natives. Nairobi is the capital of British East Africa and its attractive government buildings and large hotels gire the city a cosmopolitan touch. Tbe government of the city is vested In an elected council. Women have a ' municipal vote. 4*he climate of Nairobi resembles a perpetual Indian summer. Therefore plant life flourishes. Native English flora transplanted to Nairobi grows hajrdily. Gardens of hollyhocks and plUks and masses of roses make the suburbs resemble an English country- Most of the whites tal Nairobi are •B&tlsh. "The native population consists mainly of the Kikuyu, a mild mannered, agreeable people, add the Vasal, once the most famous warrior tribe of East Africa. The bulk of the iihtde is in the hands of the East In- £tans, of whom there are several thousand in the city. * . Venerable Land. Though Kenya calls Itself the new- < .Opt ©* the British colonies, it is oae the oldest lands of the earth. Theodore Roosevelt, in speaking of African hunting trip, said that the often reminded him of the pictttres of the soldiers of Thothmes and Barneses made by the ancient Egyptian sculptors, in that thlfsr faces were resolute and had clear-cut features. The same noted traveler said* . this tribe that though the women were scrupulously clothed, "the huskpnds and brothers, very ostentatiously wear no clothing for purposes of " «ecency." j Still Hunt "Sacred Book." ^*TFhe Galla* though they are now of little Importance either politically economlcilly, take great pride in lr past They say that they once Had a sacred book, like the Bible or He Koran, but a cow ate it, and not lytlng certain about the particular anl- Jnal, in tbelr search they are still Opening the stomach of every cow that f*es. • r The most effective weapon of the ItyUisai and Andorobo Is the arrow which they poison with the Aeocan- * thera Schimperl, a small tree. They »;>oll the leaves and branches until the ,, fixture becomes thick and pitch-like ?ln appearance, and place It on sheets *4f bark which they hide high on the , y ^ranches of trees away from the chll- 4 <6ren, until it is needed. When an anlinal is shot wijh an arrow dipped in, /" * the poison, It dies almost Immediately. V /fjjjphe natives cut out the flesh around . .tithe wound as soon as possible and M fhrow it away. The remainder is ' eaten and the blood is drunk. This ?slove of blood as an article of food Is < common among' many African tribes, \ several of them going so far as to * ^leed their cattle and drink the blood {- **fiot or mix it with their porridge. % :i'*' The mixed breed known as Swahilis, jfc. * who live along the coast of the main- ^V,'" f fland and among the thousand-and-one , ^.^representatives of other peoples of the world to be found in Zanzibar, have •iff ,j'ione claim to prominence among Kanya ' tlft ^'/tribes--their language Is the one In -M3 m common use in the colony. If one >. . f speaks Swahill he can find some one • to converse with him from Natal to Aden and from Mombasa to the *</• '•,* Congo. Uganda, westward of, and farther inland than Kenya, Is a land where . i. 30 years ago natives and wild anl- • mals reamed at will, seldom seen by the white man. Now the protectorate W th« Last Word llf Qa|it and a little friend had gone '*to the matinee at the picture show, .$j and they stayed so long that Claire's mother was lmpeMftd to ask the reacon. "Well," said her daughter la all /V seriousness, "you see, we stayed for •$v the no»velty!" Is an lmi>ortant source of Britain's cotton. Land of Cotton. Hemmed in from the sea by Kenya colony on the east, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on the north, Lake Victoria and Tanganyika territory on the south, and the jungles of the Belgian Congo on the west, the protectorate, which Is about twice the size of New York state, has become self-supporting. And 90 per cent of Uganda's exports are cotton. The cotton crop In 1905 yielded about 350 bales. Now more than 200,000 bales are produced annually. It Is not the white population but the black, woolly-headed, flat-nosed natives who are the Uganda "cotton barons." There are about 1.800 white inhabitants among a total population of more than 3,000,000. Many of the whites are experts who operate experimental farms and instruct the natives in cotton culture. More than a half-million acres of cotton-growing land are tended by the tribesmen. In eastern Uganda, where the best cotton is grown, native chiefs have large holdings. Their tribesmen take keen interest In small plantations, some of whty*h are smaller than half an acre. One outlet of the protectorate to the sea is through ports oa Lake Victoria where lake boats transport freight to Klsumu, British East Africa, the western -terminus of the Uganda railway that does not touch the land for which it was named. Freight may also move by rail from the lake, 62 miles north to Namasagall, the head of steamboat traffic on the Nile. A branch railway line to the protectorate from the railways of Keqya has also been constructed. Mombasa, at the eastern end of the Kenya railroad system, Is Uganda's Indian ocean port. Cities Replace Native Huts. Where small native villages once stood, the traveler now sees prosperous towns. Entebbe, the capital, Is a beautiful little town of bungalows surrounded by well-kept lawns bordering wide streets, shaded from the tropical sun by huge trees. It occupies a peninsula almost surrounded by the blue water of Lake Victoria. The government house is a gabled bungalow overlooking the lake. Save for a little business carried on In the Indian bazaars and the arrival of lake boats at the pier twice a week, Entebbe Is quiet. It suggests a summer resort rather than the seat of government of a large, prosperous 'colony. Although the capital is little more than a stone's throw from the equator. Its climate is not unpleasant. The thermometer reaches 115 degrees by day but the nights are cool, the mercury sometimes dropping as low as 50 degrees. Contrary to popular opinion that central Africa Is junglebound, Uganda has a large network of roads linking up various trade centers. On) the roads between important towns fit Is not uncommon to see natives Mding bicycles and driving pleasure automobiles and motor trucks. And beside the road, modern steel plows are often seen turning the soil that only a few years ago had never been touched by anything but the crudest implements. From Jinja one can see Mount Elgon rising more than 14.000 feet. In Uganda It is surpassed in height only by Ruwenzori, on the western border, which Is more than 2,000 feet higher. * Natives Accept Civilization. There are numerous tribes in Uganda but it Is the Buganda natives with whom the traveler usually comes in contact. The forests of the west are inhabited by pigmies. Lions, leopards, monkeys, hippopotamuses and elephants are still to be found there. The Buganda natives are intelligent, and according to the missionaries, easy to convert. Both men and women usually wear a wide, cotton cloth, sometimes brightly colored, draped about their bodies from the shoulders to the knees. The cloth worn by a native may have been made from the raw product of his own plantation, after having been woven in the mills at Manchester, England. Tall, clumsily built and ugly, the men are brave, polite to travelers, and happy. The women, while not beauti ful, usually wear a smile rather than the glum countenance of tfome of thef-* s'pters. 4* THEQILL HE OUTDOORS REGULATORY POWERS The tendency in game and fish administ ration is rapidly in the direction of giving the department in charge broad regulatory powers so that seasons may be closed, and limits and regulations fixed as changing conditions demand without awaiting action by the Legislature, reads an item in Outdoor America, official magazine of the Izaak Walton League of America. Almost half of the states alread have such regulatory powers. The sportsmen of California are now waging a campaign to place such responsibility upon the California Fish and Game Commission by constitutional amendment. It is reported that Roy Shaver, an active Waltonian of Los Angeles, initiated the movement and that the Orange Belt Council of the Izaak Walton League, the associated Sportsmen of California, and other groups have endorsed the plan and are standing solidly behind it. InfOrmati&n obtained indicates that, the commercial fishermen and the commercial duck club operators are the only ones opposing it. Apparently they fear that their legislative lobby of former years may be unable to influence the judgment of the state's experts in charge of game and fish affairs. The outcome of this movement in California will be watched with interest. Californians must choose between waste and destruction on one hand, and a future supply of game and fish on the other. It cerfunly is good business to relieve legislative bodies of the enormous volume of legislation dealing with regulatory details and place the responsibility where it belongs--the department directly in charge. f TrttTC By GRANT LiUllIO DIXON of NEW YORK k------ Tumriirr CLOSE MOUNT VERNON flOOMS TO OCCUPANCY The True Artist Happy is the man who has found his work--but one doesn't run across many such, in New York or anywhere else. • young soda hustler, who waited on me the other day, seemed to exemplify the proverb. Business had been brisk and he was kept on the hop. Then came a lull and he paused a moment to talk with a friend who occupied the stool next to mine. "I'm surprised to see yon back at the game, Charley," said the friend. "I thought you had quit It for good." "No," said Charley, who may have been putting over big business mergers or something like thst during his absence from the fountain, "I Just couldn't be happy at anything else. This game certainly has a fascination all its own. Yes, sir, pineapple soda and BO whipped cream." • • •' lacongruity *" He was six feet six Inches tall, If he was a foot. Ho was broad in proportion. When be walked from the shuttle train to the west side subway platform everybody turned to look at him. The little woman- who was walking with him drew the big fellow into a quiet corner, just at the edge of the tides of travel. "Now, honey," I heard her say to the giant as I passed the couple, "don't forget to bring borne a pound M coffee." } * * • Bootblack De Lnx« •[A bootblack of character la Tony, who has his stand on Canal street. Tony looks as If he had just alighted from his limousine and was on his way into a Wall street office for a day's session with the stock ticker. He wears a top hat and a cutaway coat with a rosebud boutonnlere, and as he slaps the polish on one's shoes he smokes a big oigar. He adopted the formal costume only recently, and declares that It has Increased his bus! ness 25 per centl He uses no .push and go to drum up trade. Never does he yell. "Shine 'em up!" as all the other bootblacks do. He inquires quietly, "Will you have a shine, sir?" • • • One Way to Put It A hotel guest recently made np a bundle of linen and sent it to the hotel's laundry. Accompanying it was a list of the articles. The next morning a card was delivered to the guest. It read: "Your list calls for one pair of pajamas. We received one-half pa- . Duftrou ExtresM* r .. JM*ersity and prosperity art ' * opposite phases of Hftr, but either fa) apt to breed discontent--American « Magazine. * ' Growth of Jewish Society The Jewish Agricultural society was founded In 1900. At that time thei» were about 1,000 Jews on farms. The number has grown to more than 80,000 and the area under Jewish o; approximates 1,000,000 acres. Erect New Building to House Society Members. Washington.--Never again Will the bedroom where George Washington slept be occupied by an 'ordlnafy individual. The Mount Vernon Ladles' association, a group of women from the 48 states who control and manage the Washington mansion, 18 miles south of the National Capital, have just finished an Improvement at this historic place which means that the. home of George Washington henceforth will be sacred from modern occupancy. Since it was taken over by this group of women, restored and opened to the public, It has been occupied oniy three days of each year. That was when the Mount Vernon ladles came in May for their annua! inspection visit. Then the mansion was closed to the public and at night the ladles slept in the historic Washington bedrooms. Now this will be a thing of the past. Now Buiiding Nearly Ready. Workmen are putting finishing touches on a handsome new building within the limits of Mount Vernon, which will be occupied by members of the Mount Verpon staff who live there, and has sufficient space so that when the ladles make their annual Inspection visit they can sleep In the new building instead of in the mansion Itself. The new building is a low, rambling structure, copying the original architecture as closely ts possible. It has strictly up to date modern features, however, Including a three car garage and all necessary plumbing and bathroom equipment. It will fit into the landscape so that the average tourist visiting Mount Vernon will hardly be able to distinguish it from tho original ' buildings. Visitors Increasing. The number of tourists visiting Mount Vernon Is Increasing in number from year to year, until now the historic estate nets an Income from admission fees of more than $150,000 annually. No other historic spot in or near the Capital has an equal drawing power. Last year the total number of visitors was more than 600,000. Twenty-five cents is the price of admission, and the mansion is open six days a week. A bill providing for its being taken over by the government is now pending In congress, and though this legislation will meet considerable opposition, there is a possibility of passage. Operated by the government, the admission charge undoubtedly would be abolished. Only one government building in Washington has such a charge --the Lincoln museum, which is housed in the dwelling where Lincoln died. The admission fee there is necessary because the house la not. government owned. "tip- 'Z Twice Told Tale* ;!£ ""'in SSI Interesting Bite of News Takn From the Columns of tho ^ Plaindealer Fifty aad ' 'y: Twenty-five Ye«f» -- Ag* « W----• I I M ^ I I I aaa-- Fifty Years Ago Counterfeit silver half dollars are floating around promiscuously. They are of the date of 1857, 1875 and 1877, and may be detected by a flarf under the talons of the eagle and an .imperfection in the letter "1* in the word "half". Fred Schnorr has removed the building formerly used by him as a shoe shop, near the Methodist parsonage, to the rear of the house occupied by Dr. Anderson, which be will finish off as an additional. George W. Besley is improving the appearance in front of his drug store by buiiding a handsome picket fence on the east and west sides and he also informs us that his store will also be improved by the addition of new show windows, four large lights of glass taking the place of the many small ones now to be seen. The people of McHenry are assured of an entertainment of unusual merit on Friday night at the opera house, when the Charlevoix Dramatic club, will present a play. ' Twenty-five Years Ago Henry Brefeld, the west side tonsorial artist, has purchased of Math Heimer the lot on Main street just* east of N. A. Huemann's jewelry store, and by September 1 he expects to be occuping a building wKich he intends to erect there. The marriage of Miss Mary Freund of Wauconda to Joseph J. Buch takes place in Chicago today. The groom is a brother of J. J. Buch of this vik; lage. y W. D. Wentworth and family arej now occupying the Isaac Wentworth house on Waukegan street, which had] recently undergone extensive repairs, Henry Heimer, son of Math Heimer^ sustained a broken ankle while enf deavoring to do some high jumping^ at school last Wednesday. The in* jury will keep him out of school for some time. The Richmond Gazette celebrated its thirtieth anniversary last weety; and this week enters upon its thirty*, first year of existence. P. K. Wright^ the editor and proprietor of tho Gazette, is giving the people of Richmond a paper second to nope ^ county. IF Fabled "Lost Grass" t» Found on Western Farm Belllngham, Wash.--The fabled "-lost grass" of Europe, amazingly rediscovered reoently on an Oregon dairy farm, is In such a heavy demand that the government experimental station wop.- ders how the world managed to get along over a century without, it. The story of this strange grass Is romance of a far western stump farm. One year a peculiar pasture grass was found to. die early In summer, when all growing conditions were (n favor of green things. As soon as autumn rains fell the same pasture turned a dark green, as the dead grass suddenly returned In exultant resurrection. ** Government expert* were asked to study the field. Examination of the plant revealed a bulbous root and bulb-like seed pod. The government agricultural experts could hardly believe their eyes. The) all agreed that as nearly as could be determined It was the long lost, much written about grass which sleeps or hibernates while other varieties are green, then thrives best In the winter when food for live stock Is low. It forms a perfect turf even under heavy snow or Ice. Experiments have been carried on In Australia, New Zealand, Alaska. Oregon, California and In Scotland, the original home of the pasturage. ' Not only Is the strange grass a perfect food for cattle, but the turf-maklng qualities make It valuable for winter lawns and parks and for golf course greens. Various experimental stations of the Department of Agriculture are working to increase a supply of the "lost grass" for the increasing call from •farmers and seedsmen. - Plea for Openness ia Anger Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; anger concealed, often hardens into revenge.---BXttwer- Lytton. •Legs Needed inqtt all thumbs is the hitch-hiker.--Arl aas Gazette. kan- - i* ' ...'A Milk and Creain from the ^yCommunity Dairy Most mothers are particular about the milk they give their babies and growing children. They should exercise every precaution before choosing their dairy. One reason perhaps, why so many families use Community Milk and Cream. Most of our customers come to us through recommendation and personal inspection of our sanitary dairy. Home-clranMtf ButteraWi Phone 660-J-l Ben J. Smith, Pr# &.V Peterson Garage and Repair Shop Located in the Morrow Building, West McHenry, recently known as the Chevrolet agency. I am now fully equipped to handle all kinds of car and truck repairing ^ ^ Alviri Qf Peterson Badness Phone 256 Residence Phone 137-W TRAVEL VIA LAKE ERIE to Niagara Falls, Eastern and Canadian Points LETTHECSB LINE be TOUT host for a delightful, refreshing NGGHT'i between CleveUtd and Buffalo or to JVat Sttnler. C«a. Intramn mcxietu hotel awaits you. Auioa csaied. CUSVKUtND-BUFFAIX) DIVISION fwfmftUtandAnt* Abtfi miS m C&B Um TrimmtJ* i Class Distinction There are only three classes of people, so far as money goes: those wty don't get along on what they have; those who just do and those who save something.--American Magazine. - The Sleeper r. It happened the other night at an uproarious comedy. Someone, somewhere, was sleeping through it all. His snores were far from gentle, and a whole section of the orchestra was first amused, then annoyed. The buzzing of the slumberer caused waves of titters to sweep over the house, and the players on the stage, thinking the applause was for them, redoubled their efforts. Finally, when the house lights went up at the end of an act, the sleeper was located. He was a large, bald, tough-looking man. By common impulse a dozen members of the audience threw their programs at the shining (bald pate. The dreamer awoke with a start, looked about hiBt, and exclaimed* "No manners 1" . * * * Those English! It to no doubt provincial to me tip say so, but the British Who's Who provides amusing reading. Here are two of England's big men whose biographies are listed: Bear Admiral Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett- Ern-le-Erle-Drax, and Sir Rustonjee Oowasjee Cursetjee Jansetjee Jeheebhoy. _ (© by tha Ball Srndlcat*. Inc.) Dog "Jailed" for Huntin#" Dead Master at Burials Belfast.--Police "arrested" a dog which followed every funeral that passed through the streets, hoping, officials believed, to find his dead master. The dog invariably trotted underneath hearses. The animal was placed In « <hp»' home. ' • «" i j'fr; . v Swede Invents UmWella to Be Carried in Pocket Stockholm.--A regulation size umbrella which can be folded together and tucked away In an overcoat pocket or a lady's handbag has been Invented by C. A. Kihlstroem in Stockholm. It hap telescoping shaft and struts and weighs only a few ounces. Iff RUBBER UJ w Ob, of Coarse! -Lift, gurgles a scientist, is a heterogeneous" collection of Irreconcilable phenomena. Just the tip that the world has breathlessly been waiting fori--Cincinnati Enquirer, UttU in Serving P«UU He"~wfto serves the public Is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it--Goethe. 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