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CHATS ABOUT
THE STRENUOUS LIFE
THE BIG STICK
1858-—0ct. 27, Theodore Roose-
velit born in New York
city.
1880—Graduated from Harvard.
1882.4—Member of New York
legislature,
1884.6—A ranchman at Medora,
N. D.
1889.95—Member of national civil
service commission.
1895.7—Member of New York po-
lice commission.
1807.8 Assistant Secretary of
the navy.
1898-—Colonel of the
Riders in Cuba.
1899-1900 — Governor
York.
1900-—Elected Vice President.
1901-—S8ept. 14 took the oath In
Buffalo as the twenty-fifth
president, aged forty-two.
1904—November, elected presi.
dent.
Rough
of New
0
HEODORE ROOSEVELT was the
most popular of all our presi
dents. With the exception of Lincoln,
©
ing character had in
the presidency.
that we have
Yet he was born apart from the mul-
titude whom he led and he might have
ved and died a stranger to the masses
He had
life of
not the health to enjoy the
ense which opened to him at his
Roosevelt as a Young Man.
birth. Roosevelt
very breath
ehildhood.
illy he
had t« ght
in his ga
for his
tock an post-graduate
his in the wild
West, where tl four-eved tenderfoot™
had to fight the battie 0
over again, in a stra
rent standards
ture
of his youth all
with
for mens-
nge world,
entirel y
uring men.
Roosos
in
slature of
corrupt
New York.
could chosen a more thor
ough schoo]
der, muddy
ities. His
realism into
for instrnction in the hid-
&p
experience
gs of parties and pol-
at Albany
and
oYer
put
his idealism made
the acnd reformer
most intensely practical politician we
have had in the presidency.
He at the outset to act in
each office as if it was to he the last
that he ever would get, and for nearly
into the
decided
Roosevelt could not have been
elected to anything in the boss-ridden
#tate of New York, For a long time
form mayor of New York sppointed
ers and lawbreakers,
lican politicians, with any hope of get-
ting it, was the asgistant secretaryship
off to lead his Rough Riders.
In
five
1903-—February 6, Roosevelt in.
duced Great Britain and
Germany to arbitrate with
Venezuela. November, the
Panama revolution,
1905-—May 12, brought Russia
and Japan to agree to dis-
cuss peace. August 29,
the peace of Portsmouth.
1906--Roosevelt awarded the
Nobel peace prize.
1918-—January 6, death of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, aged sixty.
still depths of the
mountains Roosevelt turned
gulde coming out of the
to
woods
Ree
condition was worse, Although
{ died 13 hours before the vice president
arrived.
At the
i ministration
of Roosevelt's ad-
a fearful citizen
{ the rough rider not to permit his fight.
Ing spirit to plunge the country into an
{ International war, “What!” the
| ident exclaimed.
{up here in the White House?
Many first half
aluiset
forgot the
No man ever had
| the efficacy of first
ian fashion, with
whether a senator or
The
the of
simpler faith
“talking it
an
an
a
few feel stick™
siraw,
the “big
was only stuffed with
y and Tory
nd were on the point
ory
1G
soe if It
government
of
a al
Si
a8 a security for some claims
Venezoelan citizens.
rr
velt g
=
succeeded in dissunding F
step, but fa
to arbitrate the
upon he told the Ger
| man ambassador that unless the Berlin
to
send
{ land from such no he
to induce Germany
matter, Ther
arbitration
Admiral
to stop the Germans from land-
VYenezuels. The
the Kaiser
P government consented
in ten days, he would
Dewey
ng ambassador
protesting that could not
back down now, Roosevelt replied that
was
simply tellirig him what would happen.
After waiting
answer from Berlin, he
bassador that he
rEuin
he wag not ng g¢ with him buat
without
told
a week an
am-
the
unless
the
was going to cut
timit to nine days and that
arbi
In 38 hours
back fn
con
Germany agress] in 48 hours to
trate. Dewey would sail
the a: CRI
messmge announcing that Germany
nbassador He with
sented,
In
| the
: ’
| before
good t Roosevelt oye
his
inne,
of
fice
the
{the Russo-Japanese
the
aled to
unique
bring t«
position
warld to an end
War, hrewdly
in,
stents
right moment
the
SETI
| choosing PD
i"
tye
“yy
with a
he two be
common and a
directness that a friend would
bringing together two quarreling neigh
! ard he steered the peace
Portsm against its
steadily toward a peace of recon
mtient Russian declar
ered
simple
$
use in
yore. Afterw
conference with
at
will
Lion,
an
his
imi
that “steel wrist” har
the powers
ter
-11 Ktrengosn
t a treaty that neither of
wanted at tl » and that “the
Americ resident
ing
Fible
8 capable « lock the conferees
mame to pull it through the pending
election that it met him at the wharf
Henn nominafion for governor. But in
the governorship, he realized the worst
fears of Boss Platt that he harbored,
ns the boss naively wrote him, “vari-
ous altruistic ideas,” and that he was
“a little loose on the relations of capl-
tal and labor, on trusts and combina-
tions and . the right of a man
to run his own business in his own
way.”
The only thing to do with this wid
engine was to turn the switeh and
shunt it on to the side track of the
vice presidency. Roosevelt loudly pro.
tested that he wanted to be re-elected
governor. And while Platt was trytng
to push him on to the national ticket,
McKinley nnd Hanna Just as earnestly
tried to push him back on to Platt.
The Republican national convention
rose up and roared his nomination,
flinging him, in spite of himself, upon
the tide that led to fortune,
Edith Carow Roosevelt.
| submission,”
| While the Roosevelts were Its tem-
{ants, the White House was an ex
{ample and the center of the simple
family life of America . . .
{ second-rate palace,” the president sald,
| “but the home of a self-respecting
| American citizen.” A few months af
| ter graduating at Harvard, Roosevelt
{married Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of
| Boston, whom he had met in his col.
| lege days. This bride of his youth
passed from life as her daughter
Mrs. Allce Roosevelt Longworth-—en
tered it.
Nearly three years afterward he
sailed from New York, directly follow
ing an unsuccessful campaign for
mayor to marry a friend and neighbor
of his childhood, Miss Bdith Kermit
Carow, who was sojourning in Buarope,
(Copyright, 1990. by James Morgan)
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|
MM" DOG was old, but the younger
dogs knew that If he no longer
could hunt he knew more about !unt-
ing than they did und often
and listen to his adventures when he
was n ybung dog.
Mr. Juck Rabbit fooled me?” he asked
one day.
None of them had heard it, so Mr.
u final scrateh and settled down in the
sun comfortably to begin his story.
Juinper,' sald Mr, Jutk., *Would you let |
me see you dance? [1 suppose you |
would not care to jump, as that would |
give me a chance to run away. f
“Just what I was thinking,’ 1 re-|
plied, ‘but if you wisn to see me dince
I will show you a few steps.)
“I had teken only a few when he
ngked: ‘Did you ever try this? and |
he gave a queer little hop backward, |
then sideways and then backward :
again, |
“It was n fancy step I had not seen |
and so 1 tried it, and would you be- |
ileve, 1 forgot 1 was going to take him |
going hunting with the master,”
Mr. Dog.
morning and when it
"HE TORNED AROUND AND
I wns ting u r the shade ol some
bushes when al once 1 saw some-
thing mov
“1 was el
1 went
When 1 was
Rabbit
etty spry in those dn
HK what
path i
jiekerty
S301 10 sep
the
© n
WHR out
B. in
saw Mr. Jack going
spit
*Y
sided
through the
knew
to
pret
gO
iy well
becngse f4' BN
tended to look
had,
t morning 1 I
spare time |
ted that Mr, Jack
was some fast
at his heels
right a
he w
had
+ tha
into the first
re
tut |
first
runner
SNS and the
he knew against o
ths
hing ne up
stone wall no holes. 1 had
bim |
“He turne ground and faced
‘Mr.
nered
it
me
Dog.” ‘sou have me
to
COT
gm about
should like to ask a favor of you'
ahead, | Yi
dend rab , but
are
arant
* H30 a
“3
good as a ri
it ’
anything itfe
‘T hear you
in that fancy backward step. i
“The first thing I knew I had taken |
many backward that Jack
Rabbit was some way from me, and |
as I left him room enough
to run out of the corne= where 1 had |
he bound and |
awny he went.
ey] steps
him gave a leap and
“Over the stumps and stones 1 fol.
but he and 1 went |
back to my master feeling very uel |
ashamed, and as be had been culling |
towed, gOL AWAY
1
{
“I went the morning to tha |
place where 1 had thought Mr. Jack
wight live, but he had moved bag and
next
warning from this
Dog, getting up
never try
tnke
Mr
himself,
“Now,
said and
to
story,”
stretching
any new steps from Jack Hub
“and
arn
and
“Stick you know
of
the
them until
can put
io Ones
no that
family thew ur
reach.”
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££)
A LINE 0’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
WEALTH.
enming of the riches 1 would
KeeD creditor
AWAY,
With just a trifiea more
rpond
On 1
And
than 1 can
ody or on weltome
friend
stranger,
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tn
tat
THE CLEAN SKIN
IVILIZATION |
At every period of history, where
and intel
in refinement
sighbors, It will
atly was considered an
became civilized
d superior
a nation
lectunl at and
culture to
found t
imporian { ear
We has
regime,
and
the
hot
superior
h day's
wireless
but
running
and
inventions
rasitoar
rye lous
its
walter of the
of modern ingenuity
ba t if
pos«ible, have a
If the
to build is too
gthroom with
is ane
the daily bh
And, if
“Our bathroom
house you are planning
small to allow space for the large tub
hulld in a shower bath,
which costs leds install and takes
wp & quarter of the room. Shower
baths are really the only clean sort to
you prefer
to
ST 3
TE are
)
With a Flesh Brush,
take—for in a tub, you bathe in your
own dirty water, and you ean use only
a small quantity of that, owing to the
Hmitations of the tub. At least finish
your bath with a shower. Rubber
pipes with spray nozzles can be pur-
chased cheaply enough and attached
to the bathroom faucets,
Serub your skin all over with a flesn
brush: the pleasant friction of the
hiristles brings the blood to the surface
of the skin nnd open the pores, elimn-
inating the digr. With a flesh ‘brush
$
witnnmmn
ch
bindes,
Fou can rea that part between the
Otherwise yon are
i
the skis there, and un- |
pleasant blackheads result, spoiling |
fete dress,
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i
da leeving |
NLA
Cos
way 1 can maka
worka like a son-of-a-gun. |
Columbe taks da chancel
longa time ago een dat boat and he
finda deese place. But 1 take plenta
chance weeth da money and | no can
maka da profeet-—every time go broke,
Lasa week 1 wae een one place where
O
Chreesto
He
gotta hunch wheecha herse
So we go veesit dat place and my
ticket. He telia me he make bet on
He gay 1 can maka plenta money cef
1 betta some money. “You know,
Pletro, dat horse ees longa shot now,
but he no stay longa shot when ds
" my frien say.
Bat I tink he was craze een da head,
1 tella my
frien mebbe he go dead somatime from
“You no understanda me, Pletro.” my
frien say. “Dat horse no getta shot
He was jusa longa
ghot weeth da bet. Why you no betta
your money and maka da profeet?”
8a 1 taka da chance and betta tree
bucks. Dat horse go lika devil leetle
way een da race and fall down. My
frien was pretty mad losa hees cash,
He say dat horse would win eef he no
getta seeck., But 1 was surprise da
horse run dat far when was shot.
Mebbe he was jusa half shot and only
run half da race. 1 dunno. I tink no
horse feeln good eef ees shot, Nexa
time | betta on one wot gotta plenta
health,
Wot you tink?”
a ff
Martha Mansfield,
“movie” star who has appeared as
leading woman in a number of suc.
cessful screen productions, takes her
born-—Mansfield, O.
semen Bm
Jimi
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Hints to Husbands,
When a
sits
woman on HHowance
d
aroun
every
CUeRs I'll
the lawn,’
five or six
Finnigin Filosofy.
MI We
“Whn
“Well,
done after
there was
{
i
What Are They!
your da
Pa
aitends
“Does
I, Mrs
“Non
vacntion schonls
ghter attend
au
mc hon rtingten?”
ghe one of those
"
# . *
Cru.el!l!
“My old SBeoteh uncle is coming to
#
firm's check for
and
this eountry with his
£20000 to pay for a coal mine
I'm sorry for him.”
“Why
“No, the mine
ie the & a flivver?
But my
hard
that
ne
iz all right
mighty
for him to ‘come across” with
- -
His Folded Flock.
It is perfectly right for a public
speaker has his andience
doubled up with Isaghter to speak
of his folded flock
. - -
Would Pass "Em Up.
If some folks we know were to
to dogs, the dogs wonld
immediately change locations,
- * -
FINNIGIN FILOSOFY.
Ut alwez seems t' me or inny
Irishman a rotten thing to boast
av “a mastherly rethreat”
imi Prussians
“Robin Hood” is spoken of by almo«
who
20 the
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MAKE STIR IN
SUMMER COLONY
Three Wealthy Sportsmen rare
Believed Part of Gang of
Bank Robbers.
-n Battle in
Raid—Were Popular in Millionaire
Resort—Launch Ready
for Fliyht,
«4
Mich. -.Bix
stylishly
Algonac, weeks spo a
dressed young
young
in a big
them.
three
drew
Car
up In Algo
” 1 wt
and esto
ae
ished
vangalow S| re in the
“oh
the
midst of the millionsad
ony. In a remarkably
vivaciomw
re
ghiort time
Young w= and her party
been “taken u by the leaders
the elite
the con
commun
only were
rwerned to have
of mon
they
young woman
Densmore. They enterts
4
. on ryit 4
iy and ornutely,
' ela
functions becar ;
Own Powerful Motor Cars,
Their ft
iBrge
wer try
of the
pow erfu
“Cowboy” Hill Was Killed,
Algonac yielded a kit of
inre’ tools and a cracksman’s out-
The police say the three young
a8 gang which altogether has stolen
more than £2300.000 from the banks of
Ohio and Michigan in the last six
months The money is sald to have
been placed in Algonac banks,
Launch Ready for Flight
There is no evidence that the group
operated in the lake shore district,
their wealth. The
police think they conducted their op-
erations while making trips in the fast
motor cars, and that the little boat,
Emma, was tested in the regatia to
see If it could outrun other boats If It
was necessary to flee to Canada.
Casualty Follows Reenactment at
Camp Meade, Md., of Fight
in the Argonne,
Camp Meade, Md.-—The regular
army re-enacted here as a closing fea.
ture of the national encampment of
Veterans of Foreign Ware a detail of
the fighting In the Meuse at Argonne,
It was a carefully planned sham
battle, but was not without a casualty,
Car! Durnsush, a fouryearold boy,
was killed hy a fragment of a shell
from one of the gunk used in laying
down the miniature barrage, .