Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1910 — ROOSEVELT’S POPULARITY. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT’S POPULARITY.

Vt Draws Oat a Good Many Fanny Propositions. A government official just returned from Nairobi, where he met Colonel Roosevelt, is A. B. Baker, assistant director of the, National Zoological park, who assembled a fine collection of animals. In an interview Mr. Baker said: “The day I got to Nairobi I saw Colonel Roosevelt drive by In a carriage wearing a well-worn khaki suit and a wide-brimmed felt hat. He had oome In from the wilds for a rest. Kermlt Roosevelt told me his father wanted me to take tea with him. I found that the colonel carried less weight than when he left Washington and looked &b hard as nails. His Bkin was about the color of saddle leather. Colonel Roosevelt said he thought he had discovered, while president, every type of folly the American people were capable of, but he had discovered a new one since he had been In Africa. The proprietor of every small zoo In America had written, asking him to send a specimen. Anything would do, from a field mouse to a tiger. The richest letter he had, the Colonel added, came from & society of hunters In New York. The members wanted to give him a dinner upon his return, the secretary had written, and would he please pickle, preserve or otherwise keep In condition a piece of meat from every sort of animal he had killed, so they could have them all for dinner? ‘lt looks as If they want me to give them a dinner. Instead of letting them give me one,* was Colonel Roosevelt’s concluding remark. “While In Nairobi I saw three wagonloads of skins and skeletons collected by the Roosevelt party going to the warehouse. I heard that In on« of the crocodiles they killed an arm and a leg of a native had been found.”