4* "Teddyf’ Offered His Roughriders for Mexican War Letter to Lodge Keveals Origin of Plan for Cowboy Cavalry. w* _________ (Most of Theodore Roosevelt * time for severs) year* was spent on hi* Dakota ranches, whence he wrote reg ularly to his friend, Henry Cabot Lodge.) Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota, April 16, 1SS6. Dear Cabot: I got the three horse thieves In fine style. My two main men and I ran down the river three days In our boat and then came on their ramp by sur prise. As they knew there was no other boat on the river hut the one they had taken and as they had not thought of our building another they were taken completely unawares, one with his rifle on the ground, and the others with thelra on their shoulders; so there was no fight, nor any need of pluck oh our part. We simply crept noiselessly up and rising when only a few yards distant (overed them with the cocked rifles while I told them to throw up their hands. They saw that we had the drop on them completely and I guess they rIso saw that we surely meant shooting If they hesitated, and so their hands went up at once. We kept them with lit nearly a week, be ing caught in an Ice jam; then we • atiie to a ranch where I got a wagon, and I sent, my two men on down sfc’-oam with the boat, while I took the three captives overland, a two days journey', to a town where I could give them to the sheriff. I was pretty sleepy when I got there ss I had to keep awake at night a good deal in guarding, and we had gotten out of fond, and the cold had been intense. I am as brown and as tough as a hickory nut now. Tours always, T. R. Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota, May 21, 'S6. Dear Cabot: This spring T have done enough antelope shooting to keep the ranch In venison. Really, I enjoy' tills life; with books, guns and horses, and this free, open air existence, It would he singular If I did not. Give my best love to Nannie, Good bye, old fellow Tours always, T. R. » Klkhorn Ranch, Medora, Dakota, June 7, '$*. Dear Cabot: I have been on th# round-up for i fortnight, almost steadily. When we started, there were 60 men In the sad rile who splashed across the shallow ford of the river; every one a bold rider, and everyone on a good horse. It has been great fun; but hard work —14 to 16 hours every day. Break fast comes at three; and 1 am pretty sleepy, all the time. In your Webster* I notice you quote Browning's "Love Among the Ruins:" that has always been one of my favorite poems. But wliat made him write such Infernal nonsense, as, for example, "Another Way of Love?" That lntelllectual prank can't be even parsed, much less understood. It Isn't obscure: it's unintelligible. When he writes some such sentence as "In flammable red Giotto qualifies pota toes," while I confess I don't under stand it, 1 also humbly admit he may use the words In a poelir sense which mv coarse nature can't grasp; hut when he use* qualifying word* that qualify nothing, a predicate with no object, and sentences or alleged sen tences, that are fortunate It they have one of the three part* I was taught to consider indispensable when I studied grammar—why then I rebel. Tours ever, T. R. . *My "Life of Webster.”—II. C. L. Sagamore Hill, July 2T>, 'S6. M.v Dear Gabot: I was amused at a remark of Stan ley Mortimer's which was repeated to m*. He was explaining who I was to aomebody whom he had told that I was a member of th* hunt; and, to localize me, said that I was a man who "wrote,” and being asked what, responded with some hesitation that he believed I "wrote speeches." Thank heaven he did not think I wrote poems," at any rate. tours always, THEODORE ROOSEVENT. (In the next letter Roosevelt Is found using th# term "roughriders," which w»* to become famous all over th# world In a later decade 1 Klkhorn, Ranch, Medora, Dakota, Aug. 10, '**. Dear Cabot: Just a line to make a request. I have wltten on to Hecretnrv Kn Today If elcome, Mr. President! To llim That Hath. Born in It, Buried in It. Pneumococcus Says 'Come.' By ARTHUR BRISBANE. ____ To Calvin Coolidge, inaugurated today, welcome to the presidency of the United States, on your own hook, with a vote and a plurality bigger than any other president ever got. The people know that your one desire is to serve them faithfully. They believe that you will be suc cessful in your effort to increase prosperity, and opportunity, and demonstrate the soundness of the theory underlying this government, that the people are able to govern themselves. “To him that hath." This is written in I.os Angele?, looking over the city from the top of the Ambassador hotel. S. W. Straus, who owns the Am bassador here, in New York and in Atlantic City, and has done more than any other American to make up for the building shortage, is a good judge of real estate. He says: “California has not even begun to move. Newspapers talk about ‘the second million in Los Angeles population.’ That second million will be here and the third million on the way before the people real ize it. A city situated as this is, grows like a rolling snowball. “Everything fundamental that a state could need was here from the beginning—climate, location, fer tility. The two things needed, pop ulation and capital, are pouring in dicott offering to try to raise some companies of horse riflemen out here in the event of trouble with Mexico. Will you telegraph me at once If war becomes Inevitable? Out here things are so much behind hand that 1 might not hear the news for a week. I haven’t the least idea there will he any trouble, but as my chance of doing anything In the future worth doing seems to grow continually smaller I intend to grasp at every opportunity that turns up. I think there is some good fighting stuff among these harum-scarum roughriders out here; whether I can bring It nut is another matter. Always your. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Sagamore Hill, Oct. 10* '86. Dear Cabot: 1 won In my primary contest, I was asked to take part In the Maine and Ohio campaigns; but could not, for I have an awful amount of work to (lo here. Give my best love to Nannie. Of course if there is any earthly thing I can do to help you in your campaign I will be only too glad to do it.» Yours always. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Tn nry campaign for Congresa— H. C. 1a Sagamore Hill. Oct. 17, ’86. Dear Cabot: •lust two hour* after writing you my last card. 1 was visited by a suc cession of the influential republican* of the city to entreat me to take the nomination for mayor. AVIth the most genuine reluctance I finally accepted It. It is. of course, a perfectly hope less contest, the chance for success being so very small that 1t may l>e left out of account. Rut they want to get a united republican party in thia city and to make a good record be fore the people. T am at the head of an unexceptionable ticket. They aeem to think that my name would he the strongest they could get, and were most urgent for me to run: and 1 did not well see how I could refuse. If T make a good run It will not hurt me; but tt will If I make a had one. as Is very likely. Many of the de cent republicans are panicky over George,• whose canvass Is not at all dangerous, being mainly wind. If the panic grows thousands of my support ers will go to Hewitt**, for fear George may be elected—a perfectly groundless emotion. The Evening Post is for Hewitt, and is harping vigorously on the string. So It 1* quite on the cards that I will be most hopelessly defeated. All that T hop* for. at the best, is to make a good run and get out the republican vole, you see t have over 40.000 majority against me. If I could have kept out. I would never have been In the con test. Always your*. T R •Henry George, the famous single taxer, mayoralty candidate of th* United Labor party In New York city. ••Abram S, Hewitt, democratic nominee for mayor, who won In the subsequent election. (To Up t’ontlnued Tomorrow.) HARMLESS LAXATIVE All Children I^ore Ita Pleasant Taste Mother! Hurry! Give Constipated Child “California Fig Syrup” Even a ft el fill, feverish, billions tfr constipated child loves tlie plessiinl tssle of "t^llfninla ElK Kyrnp." This gentle, harmless laxative never falle ♦a sweeten the stomach and open the bowels. A teaapoonful today may pre xenl a sick child tomorrow. It doesn't tramp or overact. Contains no nar cotlcs or soothing di ug*. A»k your druggist for genuine "Fab Ifornl.i Fig Syrup" which ha* direr linns for babies and children of, nil ages printed on bottle Mother' You must say ' Vallfornla" or you may get an imitation fig ayrup* from all parts of the United States." "To him that hath shall he given.” When you have nearly everything, the rest is given to you. Today the federal government starts spending six and a half mil lions improving the Los Angeles harbor, which you ur.e proudly told, already has a traffic second only to New York among the har bors of the United States. Far more important than any thing Hie government, or the east could do are the things that the peo ple of California are now doing tor themselves. The Imperial Val ley this year will produce $ Cl,000, 000 worth of long staple cotton, as good as any grown in Egypt. The next step will be to make that cotton into cloth out here, in stead of shipping it to eastern mills and eastern workers. An intense effort is made to build up industry, all sorts of manufac turers here. The people of Cali fornia realize that apart from the prosperous few, the thing that new citizens look for is a chance to make a living. California’s population will in crease from 4,000.000 to 20,000, 000 long before this century ends. And California is determined to find useful, profitable occupation for the new millions. • Ebert, Germany’s dead president, will be buried as a Roman Catholic, the rites of the church performed by Father Mass of Heidelberg. Ebert spent his life as a Socialist, he and his fellows rather hostile to religion as "a power seeking to make workmen contented and obedient in their miserable condi tion." But born in the Catholic church, he will he buried in it. Death, when it comes, is a strange, overwhelm I ing thing, and the average mind .turns eagerly to some power that -ays with confidence, “Leave all to | me." William Andrews ('lark, formerly senator from Montana, now lying dead in his magnificent New York j palace, began with nothing in the usual way, ami got many millions, lie could say to others, "Come and go.” They went and came as he bade them. Thousands worked for him, in cluding many politicians. He had money, and that is power. Byt all the money and power, all the doctors, with all their advice, will not free the richest, man when the deadly microscopic pneumococ cus appears. That infinitesimal pneumonia germ has no millions of dollars, no bank account. But when it says "Come,” the richest man must fol low. Warning to rich and poor, keep up your vitality with sunshine, sleep, wise eating, peace of mind. Only wisdom will fight the germ; money will not do it. Harry S. Sinclair knows about oil, and says the supply will not last. The ordinary man, told that :i(HU)0U,000 barrels are stored above ground, asks, "Why worry?” Mr. Sinclair says this country will use up the 300,000,000 barrels in 130 days. It is fortunate that President Coolidge is interested in oil conser vatism. Scientists employed by the I Better Tailored Clothes MODERATE PRICES StaUri&ecA P 151214 Dodge Street | r.-.n.-iriiiannfinoaonono g “Look Into the Future” g 8 $1,000 Gold. s O or g o it« miraculous singing tone, the durability of the Steinway, is its most impressive characteristic. And it is this durability, built into every Steinway during the five years and eleven months required for preparation and construction, that transforms its porebase into the soundest of investments. The Steinway is made in numerous styles and sizes to fit i/our home. It has always been sold at the lowest pos sible price as a matter of principle, and will fit lyottr income. 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