I have told you that Theodore Roosevelt was fond of hunting. While he was President he had to leave the wild animals alone, but he did another kind of hunting, which was to hunt for dishonesty and fraud among the great business concerns of the country. He said that every man ought to have an equal chance to make a living, and he had laws passed to help in this. This kind of hunting made him very popular among the people, which was shown by his being elected President by a large majority when the time came for the next Presidential election. He also won much fame by helping to put an end to the dreadful war between Russia and Japan, and men everywhere began to speak of him as the greatest of living rulers. While Mr. Roosevelt was President several things took place which are worth speaking about. One was the building of the Panama canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is not yet finished, but when it is done it will be the greatest canal on the earth. A second thing was the splendid World's Fair held at St. Louis in 1904, in memory of the purchase from France of the great Louisiana country a century before. Two years later the large city of San Francisco was destroyed by earthquake and fire, with great loss of life and property. One thing more must be spoken of, for with this President Roosevelt had much to do. This was to have great dams built on the mountain streams of the West, so as to bring water to millions of acres of barren lands and make them rich and fertile. Also, to save the forests, nearly 200,000,000 acres of forest land were set aside as the property of the nation and kept from the axes of the woodcutters. The time for another Presidential election came In 1908, but Mr. Roosevelt would not run for the office again. I fancy he was tired of it and wanted to do some real hunting, for he soon set out for Africa, the land of the largest and fiercest animals on the earth. Here is the elephant, the rhinoceros, the lion, the wild buffalo and other savage beasts, and he spent a year in killing these animals and in keeping them from killing him. I have no doubt you would like to read of the exciting time he had in this great hunting trip, but I must stop here and leave it untold, for it is no part of the Story of Our Country. * * * * * Transcriber's note: The list of illustrations listed the photograph of the Steam Shovel at Work as being the frontispiece. The book itself placed the photograph between pages 182 and 183. As there is no reference to Panama or the Steam Shovel in this chapter, it was moved to the front to be the frontispiece as listed. Obvious punctuation errors were corrected. Page 16, "Northman" changed to "Northmen" (Northmen, named Leif) Page 31, "siezed" changed to "seized" (governor seized him) Page 38, "Chespeake" changed to "Chesapeake" (the broad Chesapeake) Page 142, "Andre" changed to "André" (Major André, a)