MR. ROOSEVELT'S TOUR.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4204, 10 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

MR. ROOSEVELT'S TOUR.

CHARGED BY A RHINOCEROS. According to cablegrams from Nairobi, in British East Africa, Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly owed his life to hui coolness and unerring aim, which combination brought death to a huge bull rhinoceros that was furiously charging the former President. Mr. * Roosevelt fired a bullet into the rhinoceros's brain when it was 14 paces from him, and rushing forward like a wild engine. The bullet was fatal, but so tieroe was tho dash of tho ciant rhino that it plunged en aimost to the feet of Mr. Roosevelt before toppling over dead. Tlio rhinoceros was encountered whilo the party was making a short hunting trip from camp. The nativo heaters had made a wide flanking movement, and a warning signal soon told the hunters to be on the alert. Within a feu- moments- the sta'ked animal gave its own warning, and, with furious snort«». broke through the underbrush, electrifying Mr. who expected the quarry to be his sixth lion. Thr* .rhinoceros came out into a clearing at a, point about 100 yards from Mr. Rco?eve!t, and immediately charged upon the party. Realising the danger that beset "Bwana Turn bo*' (the string fat man), as the natives have christened the former President, others in the party were on the point of firing, but Mr. Roosevelt held them in check whilo he stepped immediately -in the path of tho oncoming infuriated beast. With wonderful coolness, such as no Afr : can hunter has ever before exceeded, Mr. Roosevelt took deliberate aim and fired. He waited until a second shot would have been impossible, but a rccond shot was» not necessary, as the first had p:'erced the animal's brain. It was "Bwana Turn bo's 45th kill, and, says the cablegram, "he rejoiced like a schoolboy."

AUSTRALIA'S STAGE IDOL. To Miss Nellie Stewart's popularity alone the theatrical managers of Melbourne owe it that the queue has become recognised by patrons of plays. They had well nigh despaired of ever educating playgoers up to the princlp'o of first come- first served that the French institution honour.?. Melbourne preferred the more British "might i.9 right," and the weakest went to the wall in the scramble for the theatre entrances, as anyone who has been in on© can attest. But when Miss Nellie Stewart returned to Melbourne recently the crowd that waited outside the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, to welcome her back realised that ''the scrum" that was going to follow upon the opening of the doors would be more than ordinarilv strenuous. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon more than 300 peop'o wers in waiting, and the doors did not open till 7 o'clock. This 300 set the good example; they formed up in line, priority being strictly observed. Ravi tot got thus far they became very vigilant of their own rights, and anyone tried to take up n. position that was clearly a breach of fair play, he was brought up with an indignant volley of "Queue! Queue!" Miss Nellie Stewart appeared at a window at about three o'clock, and seeing the crowd in waiting ordered tea and oake for the lot. It was a generous impulse, and the # waiting hundreds were duly appreciative. knot on th© flank of the crowcr ctrifck up an improvised chorus to the air of "I want you to see my girl"— \ We're waiting to tee cur Nell, We're waiting to see our Nell, And she'll find we're all right, In the gods to-night, For we're waiting to see our Nell! The play Miss Nellie Stewart made her appearance in that memorable evening—such it was in. the truest sense of the phrase—was "Sweet Kitty Bellairs," which will also be her first offering to the Sydney public, when she will enter into possession of Her Majesty's, tinder the J. C. Williamson ThfV she received in Melwijl then be equalled by the warm-hearted Sydneyitee. Playgoers in Sydney admire "Sweet Nell" too much to ever let it be said that they could be second to any place in the matter of welcoming her back again.

"ROOF OF THE WORLD."

LADY CLIMBER'S EXPLOITS IN TURKESTAN. Dr. Hunter Workman and Mrs. Bullock Workman, the well known Himalayan travellers, hst¥£ arrived in Paris from Bombay after a remarkable mountaineering expedition on the border of Turkestan. Dr. and Mrs. Workman record for the highest feet—made in the Hiinatheir latest expedition they April to October last in the Whe^cliß»W»s Mra- •_ attire—helmet, tronsremarkable achievement of was accomplished by Mrs Workman, who, leaving her husband below, "climbed a peak 21,350 feet high on the watershed between the Hispar and Baifo glaciers in Pamir, "the roof of the world," a feat never before attempted. "It was a dangerous climb," said Mrs. Workman to a representative of tbo "Daily Mail." The la«t 2000 foet was most precipitous, the ridge being not more than 18 in. wide in places and capped with treacherous, overhanging snow. As we were nearing the top a storm broke, and Dr. Workman from below took a photograph by a telephotographic instrument, in which I and the two guides, are seen on the pinnacle surrounded by a wreath of clouds. As the peak was unknown I christened it the 'Watershed Peak.' " Dr. Workman paid :—"During our latent trio wt met the wildest tribe we have ever encountered. They threatened to kill our agent because he would not pay them three times the contract price for coolies. We took with us only six bott!<?s of whi-ky and brought back four."'

TAXING BACHELORS. The taxation of bachelors has become a reality in Bulgaria. The newspa p?rs of Sophia declare that the tax lias been popularly received, even by those who will have to pay it. They do not consider that to pay Bs. 4d. a year for keeping their liberty is a very great hardshin. The bachelor* of the ancient city of Tirnovo, while willing to pay tho tax. suggest that a condition should be attached to it. They have petitioned the Finance Minister to suppress the carnival custom of striking bachelors with* bladders fixed to sticks. The bachelors are struck with bladders because of their wil'ingnpps to find wives. They came in for rough usage during: the recent carnival. Dr. Edward Everett Ha'e, diseasing a rather finicky attack that had bepn made on certain rocent statements, aniiled and said: "But who or wbat is blameless? It is like the ca c e of the Scottish hen. An old Scottish woman wished to sell her hen to a ne ; ghbour. But me,' the neighbour said, 'is she a'thogither a en id bird ? Has she cot nae faute sit all?' 'Awell, Margot,' the other old woman admitted, 'she has got one fault. She will lay on the Sawbath.' "