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HOW PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CAMPED OUT
And Some of the Thrilling Stories He Told His Boys
Around the Campfire
THE SUXDAY OREGOXXAX. PORTIiAXD, AUGUST 6, 1905.
BOYS, how would you like to 50 camp
Ins with a real President?
How would you like to have the
President of the United States row your
boat Ave miles down the quiet waters of
Long Island Sound In the cool of the eve
ning and then go swimming with you?
And, best of all, how would you like
him to gather you all about the Are when
supper was over and tell you stories of
grizzly bears and elk and antelope and
buffalo and mountain Hons and coyotes
and wolves and all the other wild crea
tures of the plains and mountain wilder
nesses of the West?
' Wouldn't it make your eyes pop out?
Sure!
At least that's what the 11 lucky boys
who were President Roosevelt's guests on
that memorable camping expedition down
at Oyster Bay are telling their friends,
says a writer in the New York World.
Why, when one of the boys of Oyster
Bay heard all about it next day he was
a shaver of 10 he went straight to. his
father and said:
"Pop, let me go away for two months
all by myself."
"Why. son?"
"I want to get out under- God's free
heavens and shoot Indians."
Of course, you boys would not ever
blame the lucky eleven, now that they go
around with chests thrown out and heads
carried high. They have have been camp
ing out all night with the President of the
Unltod States.
You'd do the same, wouldn't you?
This camping party didn't have any of
the frills you might see in the Adlron
dacks or the Rangelcy Lakes, or the Bad
Lands, or any of the more civilized hunt
ine nlaces of the United States. There
people have guides and men to carry
things, and to pitch the tents and' do the
cooking. Here the President wouldn't al
low any such thing. Even the Secret Serv
ice men who attend the President 24 hours
a day, no matter where he goes, were left
behind.
' It was the President and the boys, and
not a soul olse.
Who were the lucky eleven? Oh. Just
fellows who stand well with the Presi
dent, even as you might If you were lucky
enough to live around Oyster Bay. There
were all the little Roosevelt shavers, of
course Theodore, Kermit and Archie;
and Jack. Philip and George Roosevelt,
sons of W. Emlen Roosevelt, the Presi
dent's cousin; two sons of Mrs. J. West
Roosevelt, cousins of the President's
sons: Stephen and Harry Landon, who
live next door to the boys at Oyster Bay,
and a little fellow from XewYork who
is a chum of Theodore.
He was so modest that he wouldn't tell
his name. Would you boys have done this
"if the President had asked you to come
along?
No, slrree!
It was Tuesday afternoon, and a bully
day at Oyster Bay. Far across the sound
you could see the Connecticut shore shin
ing through the soft haze. The quiet
waters of the sound lazily lapped the
pleasant beach that stretches around the
foot of Sagamore Hill, where the Presi
dent lives. There were nice things
a-doing.
Four boats lay moored at the, water's
edge and close at hand lay piles of things
in cans and loaves of bread In boxes, and
-cans of condensed milk and big rashers
of bacon and a side of beef and a lot of
eggs and things. There was a heap of
blankets, too. and axes and knives and
tin plates and forks and spoons, and frying-pans
and a pot and a kettle.
Four o'clock was the hour set, but
every uvy was mure rjui aiier iumcji.
They explained that there might be a lot
to do so they came jurt a little early.
It was the first time that the Landon
youngsters had been bidden, o they came
oxtra punctual. When the littlest one
saw rail the glorious preparations, he had
to turn, his head aside and smile.
"I Just pretended I was smiling at the
dog," he explalnod afterward, "when I
eaw thora blankets and knew that one
was for me."
.There wasn't a muI there to help but
the President and the boys, and he was
the last to arrive. He didn't take time
Climbing Oregon Mountains for Fifty Years
Cyrus II. "Walker's First Climb Was in Company With Marcus Whitman, the 3IIssIonnry.
The writer of this article In Cyrus H.
Walker, of Albany, the nrrt while child born j
in "The Oregon Territory," arvd the" oMert
living Native Son. While he made his first ,
cMmb 48 yearn ago, he has net yet lost his
love for the exercise and its Inspiring la
fiuence. THOSE who have not climbed some
grand mountain peak for the pur
pose of sightseeing have missed the
grandest way "to look at Nature in her
loftiest mootlr."
While there are many parsons who have
. had more frequent and perhaps grander
experiences in mountain climbing than
have I, giving mine may perhaps stimu
late .some others to go and do likowlse.
On Friday afternoon, April 17, 1S57, ReV.
. S. H. Marsh, the president of Tualatin
Academy and Pacific University, Forest
-Grove, Or.; Henry H. Spalding, son ot
Rev. H. H. Spalding; a pioneer mission
ary; my brother next younger than my
self; Marcus Whitman and 1 'ascended
Gales' Peak, a few miles northwest of
Forest Grove, in the Coast Range. Here
we had a fine viow of the Tualatin
Plains with their .scattered settlements.
While Henry and Marcus were making
camp and gathoring wood for our bonfire
the president and I went In soarch of
water, which we found near the head of
a ravine to the west of our camp.
After spending a very pleasant night
we ate a hearty breakfast, sawvthe sun
rise, then started for home, which we
reached about 8 o'clock that morning.
Coming down the mountain through the
dense underbrush the president's gola.
rimmed spectacles were "snatched oft by
a twig and we had quitp a search before
finding them.
A'll -this seems -as vivid as though It
were but yesterday, but of the four only
I am left to toll the tale; a. sorrowful
memory.
During the Summer of 1865, while guard
ing the emigrant road between Fort
Boise and Fort Hall, both In Idaho, and
commanding as First Lleutonant a de
tachment of Company B. First Oregon
Infantry Volunteers, when camped at
What was then called "Black Butte," but
now given on the maps as "Bs Butte, I
believe, two comrades, Marlon F. Roberts
and Sam Jones, and myself, went to the
top of the butte on Saturday. August 5.
It was somewhat smoky, but we could
make out the timber line along Snake Riv
er, distant about 30 miles. To the west
were the lava beds. To the north the
Lost River Mountains, and ten miles dis
tant Lost River itself, where the emi
grant road touches and leaves the same,
and was our camp the previous night.
To the eastward were Middle Butte and
Eastern Butte, and a vast expanse of
arid plain, beyond which The Tctons and
other peaks of the Hockles wore seen.
For a time we were boys again, and
amused ourselves rolling huge boulders
. off the mountain top and hearing them go
crashing through ''the scattered, stunted
vood growth on the northern slope and
to point out to the boys that there were
other things that bad kept him at his
desk little things about picking out Am
bassadors and arranging for settling the
war between Japan and Russia, and de
ciding whether or not a wicked man in
the Agricultural Department had been
working a little private graft with Wall
street by disclosing Government secrets.
That was why he couldn't come down to
the beach and begin eyeing the delightful
preparations right after luncheon time.
Being the only grown-up. of course, the
President took charge. But he had little
to do. so willing were his 11 helpers.
Everybody wanted to tackle the biggest
box all alone and do the lion's share of
the work. -So it wasn't Ave minutes be
fore they were ready.
The President took one sot of oars him
self and parceled out the three other
boats to the three eldest of the boys, as
captains. He himself took the littlest
boys in with him and gave thorn the time
of their lives.
The President Just then didn't look like
a man who can give advice to a Czar of
all the Rueplans ami be the beat Of friends
with the German Kaiser. There wasn't
a bit of poki lace about him. and .not
even the fr6ck coat and high hat of an
American alderman or undertaker.
He wore an old slouch hat, a flannel
shirt, a rough tweed coat and old trousers
that looked as if they had never enjoyed
the society of the tailor's goose.
By the way. suppose the President had
told you that his trousers really needed
pressing vchen you got back and asked
you to order two for him. Would you
have asked for two tailor's geeso or two
toward our camp below. One of the
comrades, a true Christian soldier. Marion
F. Roberts, paired from earth to heaven
long years agp. fjhe other, Sam Joaes.
I lost all track of after we were muscered
out at Fort Vancouver W. T July 28.
1E66. I would like to hearatfrom him If he
is still alive.
Thursday. October 29. 1S74. I stood alone
on the top of Grizzly Butte. 12 miles
northwest of Prinovllla, Crook Count,
Oregon. I could see the then small vil
lage of Prlnevllle, northward tho Agoncy
Plain, northeast the few settlements on
Willow Creek, westward the Hay Stack
country, with thon "not a settlement, and
Hay Stack Butte Itself on the western
border of this section. Southwest was
Grey Butte, and beyond the Deschutes
River Black Butte towered up at the foot
of the Cascade Mountains, while still be
yond were the peaks of Mount Washing
ton and Threo-Flngered Jack. Southward
was the Upper Deschutes Valley, with the
Three Sisters, snow-capped, for a back
ground. To the north of them Je'fferson
and Hood wore conspicuous. Far south-
ward were seen other snow peaks, prob
ably Mounts Thlpison and Pitt, of which
one is now called Mount McLaughlin.
Little did I then think of the possibilities
of the Tapper Deschutes Valley, whore is
now the stirring town of Bend and other
settlements.
Head Christ's Sermon on tho 3lount.
Thursday. August 17, 1S7C, Harvey E.
Cross, of Oregon City; Richmond Winston
and D. Fairer, of Damascus. Clackamas
County, Oregon, and myeelf, started
from the snow line (and timber line as
well) on the south side of Mount-Hood at
5 A. M. and reached the summit at 5:45
A. M. Here, figuratively speaking, we
saw the "kingdoms of this world and tho
glory of them" in a moment's time. This
was the grandest view of alL my life.
Southward peak after peak of our tower
ing Cascades, with here and there moun
tain prairies. Above all but beneath us
were Jefferson and the Three Sisters.
Westward In the hazy distance were scon
the golden grain fields of tho fertile Wil
lamette Valley. It was too hazy to make
out Portland with our small spy glass.
The Hood River Valley seemed almost
beneath our feet, as we stood near tho
edge of tho precipice on tho northern
side. Here and there we could calch
glimpses of the lordly Columbia, and In
the farther distance Mounts Adams, St
Helens and Rainier Hhowed their snow
capped summits. Ess-tward extended the
arid plains of middle Oregon, stre'tchlng
away to the Blue Mountains, with then
porhaps not a settlement save those near
pome water course, but looking like one
vast grain field, as, covered with bunch
grass and well ripened wheat, it glis
tened under the August un. We had to
cut steps in tho Icy snow with a small
ax we carried. The Hummlt was bare.
Thermometer. SC dogrees above zero. Re
turning, camp was reached at IP. 1L A
full account of tills trip wag given In The
Daily Oregonlan of about the 2lth of the
same month from my write-up. While
on the summit I read aloud Christ's ser
mon on the mount from a pocket Bible
my mother had given roe.
On August . 1SS2, Mr. A. R. McCoy and
myself, then both employes at the Warm
Springs Indian Agency, buf now both of
"HIS BYES BCIUVED LIKE EMBERS
tailor gooses? Or what would you" have
said?
Woll. a smart boy would have gone to
the store and asked: "Have you a tailor's
goose? Yes? Woll. Mr. Roosevelt wanta
two right away."
Ot course, every boy dressed just like
the President. It wouldn't have been
etiquette not to have done so. so there
were plenty of slouch hate, old trousers
and baggy coats along, and not the sign
of anything but loose flannel shirts.
"All aboard!" shouted Mr. Roosevelt,
and they were off.
Thov were oft Indeed!
Now. It la a five-mile row to Lloyd's
Nfeck. where Mr. Roosevelt had arranged
to camp out all night. That's protty far
for a boy to row single-handed, but with
the President of the United States setting
the pace, what boy in the land would
drop his oars until he himself dropped?
Nobody dropped, and there is a sus
ploion abroad at Oyster Bay that the
President didn't row as fast as he might
have rowed that pleasant afternoon.
They wore there in about an hour and a
half, pretty well tuckered out. out still
game. Everybody Svanted to swim right
away, 3iut Mp. -Roosevelt, true woodsman
that he "bad camp pitched first. They
found the right spot near wood and wa
ter, as all good plainsmen do, got out
their camp hampers, started fires and
made things all snug. Then the 12, head
ed by the President, got into bathing suits
and went in.
And wasn't It great I
swimmer of them all. Not a boy dared
i swim out as far as Mr. Roosevelt could,
Albany, climbed to the top of Huckleberry
Butte, as It is called, but called by the
Indians "Pah-to pah-to" (little snow
mountain; "Pah-to" is large Fnow moun
tain). It is the most prominent peak of
the cascade Mountains between Mounts
Hood and Jefferson, and I should judge
must be at least 6001 feet high. It was
too smoky to have a good view. The
most noticeable features of tho landscape
were some 3 small lakes encircling its
base. We ate eur lunch on the summit,
our coffee made from molted snow from
a bank ot snow still lingering on the east
ern side, near the top. Some seasons the
snow all disappears; others It remains
until snow falls again and adds to It.
On August 25, 1SS4. Mr. George J. Mc
Coy, also ah , employe at the Warm
Springs Agency, and I ascended Mount
Hood up to and on top of Crater Rock.
The mountain was unusually bare of
snow that season, so that "Crater Rock,"
which was covered when I was there in
1S76, was now bare, and on its apex were
a number of hot air holes, too hot to
1 hold the hand over, and around which
were encrustations of sulphur, some of
which we broke off and took home. The
snow field between this rock and also the
crater at its eastern base, and the main
crevasse fome distance below the top.
was widely changed from 1STS. Now it
was all broken up Into numerous chasms,
it belnj: the head of the glacier from
which flows the White River of Wasco
County. Had we taken an ax with us
we would have attempted going to the
summit, though knowing that late In the
Summer It is considered much more dan
gerous, principally from rolling rocks, de
tached from the crags above.
Viewing tho Valley.
My latest climb was the late Fourth of
July, and to the top of Peterson's Butte,
one of the most prominent landmarks of
Linn County, about 12 miles southeast of
Albany. With me were my two youngest
children, Glenn and Vernal. We went up
a timbered ridge on the northwest slope,
along which is a plain trail most ot the
way, made by "snaking" timber down
from some fine groves above- When
about half wny up we came to a magnifi
cent laurel tree. It measured H feet 6
inches in circumference two feet above
ground. At ground it is over five feet in
diameter. Its huge trunk and widely ex
tended arms were scarred far up, with nu
merous initials and some dates, the ear
liest I saw being IMS. I doubt it there
Is a larger laurel In Oregon, perhaps not
pin the "United States or the world. It
was no doubt a good-sized tree when Co
lumbus discovered America, to say noth
ing abo6t 100 years ago, when Lewis and
Clark were here.
Near the summit on the eastern slope
of the butte are a number of sturdy oaks,
underneath whose shade we found near -10
other pleasure-seekers from various lo
calities In this county.
A Climb Worth 3-Inkingr.
AH the way up the timber obstructed
the view, though affording a welcome
shade, so when the summit was reached
the whole visible landscape burst upon
us at one view. If Mount Hood was the
grandest view, this was tho most pic
turesque and beautiful, giving a panoram
ic view of nearly all the twesterh part of
IX THEf GLOOM," SAID THE PRESIDENT, "AXD AT THAT MOMENT I FIRED."
and that was just what the President
wanted, so that he could keep a fath
therly eye on the whole crowd. As for
the littlest boys, they weren't allowed
to go out of their depth, and they knew
enough to realize that the' President's
word was a command.
Hungry afterward?
You bet!
When thoso youngsters got out of the
water they could haVe eaten each- other.
The fires were-Just right, and it took only
a twinkling to get dre?sed. Then how the
bacon did sizzle and' the coffee did bubble!
Appetizing odors filled the woods there
abouts for rods around. Mr. Roosevelt
was chief cook, and showed the boys
Just how real woodsmen cook their coffee
and fry their bacon and eggs and boil
their potatoes.
It was a meal for a King.
Meanwhile the sun was sinking low and
the. voices of the night were rising high.
Supper was over. Dishes were washed
and knives and forks cleaned by repeated
plungings In the sand on the beach. The
President helped himself to a cigar from
his pocket and the boys gathered around
in a rprpetful uircle from. th campfire.
There wasn't a cigarette in eight remem
ber that, you boys. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't
like to see boys smoke.
Fresh wood was piled on the fire till it
blazed up high and lighted the faces of
the expectant little company. It was a
time when boars are out And mountain
Hons seek their quarry and coyotes bay
far away. The little fellows got closer
to the Are.
"Please. Uncle Theodore, tell about
Linn County, with much of Benton County-
The peak la nearly 1500 feet above
the sea. giving a view that might only
be excelled by Mary's Peak In the Coast
Range, over 4C00 feet high, and southwest
from Corvallls. From this peak It is said
the ocean can be seen. With our field
glass the towns along the Southern Pa
cific railroad from Harrisburg to Albany
were plainly seen. On the summit is a
Government station, and a platform about
ExS feet, in the center a place for a flag
pole. A small flag fluttered In the breeze.
We put a- larger one above it. Peterson's
Butte is tho highest point in the Willam
ette Valley apart from tho mountain
range?.
On Its eastern slope, between the timber
and the summit, the open space was cov
ered with a luxuriant growth of velvety
grass. Our broad prairies, the broadest
In the Willamette Valley, dotted with
lovely homes, gave a charming landscape,
beneath tho bright July sky.
I will not attempt to describe all the
glories. Visitors from abroad would do
well to see them from this towering
height. The Commercial Club of Albany
would no doubt gladly enable them to
do so.
As I sat and gazed for a long hour and
mused over the post, with all its changes
and disappointments. I thought ot Moses
as he viewed the promised land from the
heights of Pisgah. and these lines from
"The Burial of Moses" came into my
mind:
O! lonely rrare In Moab'a land,
O! dark Beth-Peer bill;
Speak to these curious heart of ours,
And teach them to bestUL
God hath hi mysteries of trace.
tVavj that we cannot tell:
He htd them deep, like the secret aleep'
Of him he loved to well.
CYRUS- H. WALKER.
Albany. Or.. July 29. 1S05.
ORIGIX OF THE KISS.
(Inspired by the many kisses of w el corn a
and adUux at the depots.)
Translated tram tha German.
Come all yo lovers great and smalt
And all ya maidens, top.
The history of kljslnr. now
I will unfold to you.
Old Adam lay, In Paradiso
A-inooxInr. near a rose.
The fragrance of a thousand nowrs
Waa watted neath his note.
And at bis side, dear mother Eva
Reposed, in elumber deep;
In admiration rapt, he razed.
The while she lay asleep.
With all the world they were content.
Xatight could their Jor eclipse
Whn a tiny bee flew buzz! buzz! buzz!
Upon Ev's rosy Hps!
And Adam then crept cautiously
(Ai anybody would)
To and what Eve had on her mouth
That seemed to taste so good!
The bee, Jn seeing Adam near.
Made haste away to fly,'
But on Eve's lips, left In his flight,
A drop of honey lie.
"When Adam pressed his lips to hers
Most wondrous sweet It 'seemed,
For he had found a nectar there.
Of which he had not dreamed.-
And all the world, from that time forth.
Has reveled in the bliss
Taught by a little honey bee
The rapture of a kiss! t
So that's "the way It came about"
What? Don't you believe I fa sol
Well, my old granny told It me
I guess she ought to know!
STEL7UA. Ml LEQRAND.
Portland, Or., August .
bears grizzly bears," one of the young
Rooscvelts suggested.
Everybody huddled closer."
And pie President started in with his
stories stories of the plains and the
woods and the mountains and the des
erts. He told, as he has often told before,
of the most thrilling moment of his life,
when he was hunting alone in the foot
hills of tho Rockies. He had gone out at
dusk to see if he couldn't pick up a
grouse for supper. Instead he came upon
a grizzly and wounded it. And then, as
the story Is told hi' his own book, he
went on:
"Scarlet strings of froth hung upon his
lips, his eyes burned like embers in the
gloom."
"I fired," continued tho .President, "and
the ( bullet "shattered the poult .of the
grizzly's heart. Instantly the great bear
turned with a harsh roar of fury and
challenge" two small boys got closer
"blowing the bloody foam from his mouth
so that I saw tho gleam of his white
fangs. And then he charged straight at
me. crashing and bounding through the
laurel bushes so that it was hard to aim.
"I waited till .he came to a fallen tree.
V reklng bin as he topped it with a ball
waicn entered nis cnest ana. went tnrougn
the cavity of his body, but he "neither
swerved nor flinched, and at tha same mo
ment I did not know that I had struck
him. He came steadily on, and In an
other second he was almost upon me."
A bigger boy moved closer to the Are.
"I fired for his forehead," continued he
President, "but my butfet went low, en
tering his open mouth, smashing his lower
Jaw and goinz Into his neck. I leaped
The Oldest Temple at Thebes
High Artistic Development in Architecture of the Eleventh
E have now cleared two-thirds,
of the temple of King Mentuhe
tep. III., of the Eleventh Dy
nasty (B. C 2500). the oldesf. temple
at Thebes. The discoveries of this
year havo raised Important questions
as regards the development of Egyp
tian art and architecture, says the
London Times.
We have unearthed the remains of a
building-, which at present Is unique In
its type. It consists of a rock plat
form, which waa reached by means of
a ramp, like the terraces of the neighboring-
templo of Queen Hatshepsu, of
tho Eighteenth Dynasty. At tho top
of tho ramp a granite doorway (of
which the -threshold only remains) led
to- a triple row of octagonal sandstone
columns; The columns formed a double
peristyle, which ran along- tho four
sides of a central construction, the na
ture ana purpose of which are not yet
absolutely settled. This construction
is a rectangular block, the outside of
which was formed by a casing of large
limestone slabs, beautifully joined and
resembling those of the facing wall of
the court discovered last year. Behind
tho casing is a wall of rough and
heavy nodules of flint, and the middle
Is filled with rubbish and loose stones,
so tnat the whole was a compact moss.
What Is most probable is that It was
a basement or platform, with tho
usual Egyptian cavetto cornice and a
torus or angel bead at each corner (of
these we have found fragments), on
which was raised a. further construc
tion of some kind. This cannot have
been nn altar or a sanctuary as In this
case we should have found remains ot
a stepway giving access to the top.
But on the basement may have stood
a small pyramid, which gave to tho
building the appearance ot a funerary
monument of a type which we often
see in the papyri. This monument
may have marked the presenco ot n
tomb chamber at a great depth below
In the rock, which could not be reached
from the top, but only by a side pass
age opening; some way off, or It may
have been merely an architectural sur
vival, a kind of atrophied pyramid re
tained in the design of the funerary
temple, and indicating no tomb. This
supposition that a small pyramid stood
on the central erection squares best
with the Egyptological evidence, whica
demands a pyramid here, but the effect
of the whole must have been peculiar,
since we have also an absolutely un
usual arrangement; the pyramid base
was surrounded by a triple row of col
umns, which certainly supported a ceil
ing and formed a hypostyle passage,
or colonnade, which must havo been
quite dark, or nearly so (like the am
bulatories surrounding- (he shrines in
later temples), for the outside was
closed by a thick wall, the wall which
waa decorated with the sculptured re
lief found both last year and this. It
would seem, judging- from tho appear
ance of the columns, that the ceiling;
corresponded to the height of the
platform, .but the ruined state of tho
temple does not-allow us to assert this
to one side almost as I pulled the trig
ger, and through the hanging smoke the
first thing I saw was his paw as he
made a vicious side blow at me.
"The rush of his charge carried him
past. As he struck he lurched forward,
leaving a pool of bright blood where
his muzzle hit the ground; but he re
covered himself and made two or three
jumps onward, while I hurriedly
Ljaramed a couple of cartridges into the
magazine my rifle holding only four.
all of which I had fired. Then he tried
to pull up, but as he did so his mus
cles seemed suddenly to give way, his
head drooped and he rolled over and
over like a shot rabbit. Each of my
three bullets had inflicted a mortal
wound."
And with such true stories as these
the boys enjoyed the hour of their lives
before time for "turning In." The next
was a buffalo 'story.
It was a sudden descent from bear
to buffalo, and everybody got brave
again, even If deep darkness had fallen
over everything. He told how he had
tracked an old bull and his family of
cows In the wilderness along the Wis
dom River, near where Idaho, Wyoming
and Montana come together. He trailed
them all day, and finally came upon
them In a glade shut in by dark pines.
He told how a half-melancholy feeling
came over him as he realized that they
were the remnant of a doomed and
nearly vanished race. It did nqt pro
vent him, however, from eating the
grilled steak of the old bull that night
at the camp Are with a hungry man's
relish. That bull's head now hangs
more definitely. In any case, we havo
here a new and interesting fact in
Egyptian architecture.
Between the inclosure wall of thl3
colonnade, or passage, round the pyra
mid and the edge of the platform is
an outer colonnade of square pillars
like those In the lower colonnade
flanking the ramp. The outer upper
colonnade was found last year; the
actual pillars themselves no longer ex
ist, but their shape and size are evident
from the traces left by them on the
pavement. It contains a cemetery of
a peculiar kind; tombs excavated in
the rock platform below tho pavement,
each- consisting of a pit about 12 feet
to 15 feet deep, leading- to a small rec
tangular chamber. In which had origi
nally stood a limestone sarcophagus.
Thes saracophagi, several ot which
were found intact, were not always
monolithic, but made of several pieces
lowered separately into the tomb and
put together when tho mummy was
buried. Most of these tombs have been
rifled; some of them were reoccupied
by deceased persons of later time,
usually of the Twenty-first Dynasty.
Originally they were made for a num
"ber of women, all of whom bore this
title: "The royal favorite, the only
one, the priestess of Hathor, N." All
were Queens or Princesses belonging
to the King's harem; at the same time
they were attached to the worship of
the chief goddess of tho place. Hathor.
represented as a cow. Close to the
tombs, small shrines dedicated to the
priestesses had been made in the thick
ness of the inclosure of the colonnade.
In them we found beautiful fragments
of colored sculpture, showing- the re
markable development of art under
the Eleventh Dynasty. The priestesses
or Princesses are represented In relief
in various scnes; offerings aro being
made to them, and the holy cows and
calves of Hathor are also represented.
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over the fireplace at Sagamore Hill.
Then a good story about a crack shot
old "Vic" scout and Indian fighter.
"He," says the President, "can run
the muzzle of his rifle through a board
so as to hide the sights, and yet da
quite1 good shooting at some little dis
tance. He will cut oft the head ot a
chicken at 80 or 90 yards, shoot a deer
running through brush at that dis
tance, kill grouse on the wing early la
the season and knock over antelopes
when they are so far off that I shou!d
not dream of shooting. He firmly bellcvos
that he never misses. One secret of Ms
success Is his constant practice. He Is
firing all the time at marks, and small
birds and the like, and will average from
50 to 100 cartridges a day; he certaln.y
uses 20iOOO cartridges a year."
Every boy there and then reoHed t"
ask his father for at least 3X0 cart
ridges a year, or more, if he eouM ge
them.
But the story that the boys always e
thuse over is the .stbry ot the death
old Ephralm. the great grizzly of Mr
tana. It took Mr. Roosevelt to kill t.a"
grand old bear. He tells it this way
"When In the middle ot the thicket w
crossed what was almost a breastw--.t
of fallen logs, and Merrlfleld. who was
leading, passed by the upright stem cf a
great pine. As soon as he was b L: h
sank suddenly on one knee, turning fc.
round, his face fairly aflame with ex
clteraont; and as I strode past him. wr
my rifle at the ready, there, not tr
off, waa the great bear, slowly rts.t
from his bed among the great sprt:
He had heard us, but apparently haril
knew exactly where or what wo wen?
for he reared up on his haunches s!i
ways to us. Then he saw us and drc-p;!
down again on all fours, the shagirv
hair on his neck and shoulders seerr.eJ
to bristle as he turned toward us.
"As he sank down on his foref.vt I :ai
raised the rifle; his head was bent sllsht
ly down, and when I saw the top of the
white head fairly between his small
glittering, evil eyes. I pulled the tr'j?
ger. Half rising up. the huge beast ell
over on his side In the death throes, tha
ball having gone Into his brain stlkls
fairly between the eyes as If the distil .x
had been measured by a carpenter s roe
"The whole thing was over in 3 ser
onds from the time I caught slgvt ct
the game; indeed, it was over so q- "kL"
that the grizzly dkl not have time t
show fight at all or come a step toward
us. It was the first I had ever seen a-1
I felt not a little proud, as I stood rvc
the great brindled bulk which I.v
stretched out at length In the vvcl sr:xl
of the evergreens. He was a monsir'ua
fellow, much larger than any I hae srn
since, whether alive or brought in deal
by the hunters. As near as we c-'.1
estimate (for of course we had n-'ttlnjc
with which to weigh more than
small portions) he must have weigted
about twelve hundred pounds."
If there are .any more oki Ephra!ms In
the Rockies, woe betide them! Ea-h bev
is likely to go West as soon as his pi
rents give their consent.
And so it soon came bedtime ard th3
blankets were rolled out around th
campfire. From the dark recesses cf th
night came queer noises and the oca
slonal cry of a night bird or the bark.s
of a dog far away. Each youngster
rolled himself Into his blanket, flrrclj re
solved to sleep with one eye ope- J-st
as Natty Bumpo did. to repel attarks
of wild men or wild beasts.
The next day they knew it waa mora
lng. There Is nothing to fear la the day
light.
Then there was another swim ard a
jolly broakfast. which the PresIIe-T
. helped to cook. At 7 A. M. lh aa.
dunnage was all stowd away tr ;e
I boats and the signal was given t start
home again. The party arrived at Saga
more Hill at 3 o'clock.
The President at once took up Ms rr
respondonce, with the aid of Assistant
Secretary Barnes, who had eonv up f-m
the village with a large paekag cf r-iaii
But tho boys cared nothing f--r t!:
they had heard the President's sf Tes ct
bears and 'mountain lions -from h'9 nwrx
Hps, and they now mean death t" griz
zlies on Long Island.
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Dynastv In Ejrypt-
It is worthy of remark that tn each
tomb was placed a skeleton of a cow.j
the sacred animal of the goddess to
whose service tne favorites of Men
tuhetep had been devoted durlrs 1'fe.
Two breeds of cows seem to bo rerire-
sented: one brown and horned thai
other dapplod and hornless.
For these priestesses were made t:tej
limestone saracophagi ment-el!
above, of which three were four-.i In
tact. One of these, which was ran-lej
in six separato pieces. Is most beauS-
fully sculptured, but not quite finished!
since it Is evident that eolor w.ts i3-
tended tp be added to the engraving,
Tne .Princess for wnom it was raadej
Kault by name. Is seen In l-" rere-j
sentations on its sides, living whatfl
was supposed to be her life In thel
other world. Offerings are be r.g maJ
to her. wnile an attendant dresses hex
hair and artistically Inserts a ha'rpln
into the coiffure. A priest milks a cow
for her and afterwards brings her thej
cup. saying: 'This Is for thee, drink
what I give." (On a finely sculptured!
and colored slab from the shrine of
another Princess named Sadhe a
priest, or courtier, brings the dereas
lady a bowl of beer, saying: Beer for
thy ghost I") This Is the first Urn
that a sarcophagus has been founcl
sculptured with scenes ot this kin&J
Thla beautiful and unique monumenti
the finest of its kind of the MUdl
Emplrp period, and probably tne finesa
relic yet found of the Eleventh Dy
nasty, is now in the Cairo Museum.
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"That brother of yours. Lucy." said ths
man of the house, seems to be a prett
tough character.
" 'Deed he Is, suh." replied the color
maid. "He jes' natchelly seems to be d.j
white sheep ob our fambly, sho' nuff '
No woman's happi
ness can be complete
without children ;
is her nature to loxi
and want ths
Deautitui jtn
- h which th wnw.tnnr rnrttVi.!-y.
dread, pain, suffering and danjeerJ
her with apprehension and horror.
passed without any danger. Tina
Mother',
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