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RETURN OF COL. ROOSEVELT. 
“Oh. splendidly, never felt better in my life. If I could only get food 
and medicine for my men, I would be absolutely happy.” 
At Khartoum the Egyptian students listened to a speech from Mr. 
Roosevelt. He told them what is an absolutely certain fact that in 
12 years the Sudan, under British rule, had advanced more than any 
other country on the globe. He advised them to stick by the govern¬ 
ment that was doing so much to develop their country and give them 
all an equal chance; and to the men who came from the Christian mis¬ 
sions, he characteristically said: “Be such a Christian that anybody 
who sees you will know that Christianity is a religion second to none.” 
It was a strange historic and fascinating moment when this dynamic, 
kinetic and enthusiastic statesman of the west stood here beside the 
classic river Nile, and looked on its waters as they flowed away north 
to the Mediterranean. The Egyptian national party took offence at 
Roosevelt’s warm appreciation of the English government. Neverthe¬ 
less the genial and self-assured hunter went through Cairo, the centre of 
the Egyptian nationalist movement, and was on every side the con¬ 
quering hero. This remarkable faculty of fitting in with all classes and 
conditions of men, even with those radically opposed to him, is such an 
unusual characteristic that through it Mr. Roosevelt wields a wonder¬ 
ful power. 
In this country he is perhaps almost as popular in the democratic 
party, among the average voters, as he is in the republican. The Cath¬ 
olics tell me that no president in the history of America has treated their 
denomination with more eminent fairness and sanity. We have a good 
example of this in Mr. Roosevelt’s visit to Uganda. At Kampala, 
Uganda there are two great missions—one of these is the Catholic 
mission at Nysambya. Among other workers in this mission the ex¬ 
president found a self-sacrificing and devoted woman, an American 
named Mother Paul, who has her rooms all draped with American flags. 
In his generous and enthusiastic way he at once volunteered to help 
her mission by giving a free lecture in America for the benefit of the 
institution. A few days later the hunters were invited to the Church 
of England mission at Namirambe. The ex-president was at the open¬ 
ing of a new medical missionary station there. He spoke to the 
assembled dignitaries of the English Church in his usual plain, frank, 
blunt, manly way. He told them he had just been to a Catholic mission 
and that the missionaries there had informed him of their deep debt 
