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The sentiment which resulted In the
nomination of McKInley for governor
of Ohio was en-
As Governor
and
President
gendered Immedi
ately upon the an
nouncement of the
result of the elec
tion of 1800 when
after fourteen
years continuous
service In congress the Ohio statesman
was defeated for re election
During his gubernatorial campaign
In 1893 McKInley visited eighty six of
the eighty eight counties of Ohio and
made 1110 speeches He was elected by
a plurality of 80905 up to that time
the record In Ohio
The policy which Governor McKIn
ley pursued during his four years of
occupancy of the gubernatorial chair
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MKINIiETS HOME CANTON
was outlined when In his inaugural
address he said It Is iny desire to co
operate with you in every endeavor to
secure a wise economical and honora
ble administration and so far as can
be done the improvement and eleva
tion of the public service
From the day of his Inauguration
Governor McKInley took the greatest
interest In the management of the pub
lic benevolent institutions of the state
and he made a study of means for their
betterment During his first term the
state board of arbitration was created
and he made the workings of the board
a matter of personal supervision during
the entire four years of his administra
tion
No account of McKinleys connection
with labor problems would be complete
without some mention of the tireless
energy which he displayed in securing
relief for the 2000 miners in the Hock
ing valley mining district who early in
1S93 were reported out of work and
destitute The news first came to the
governor one night at midnight but be
fore 3 oclock in the morning he had
upon his own responsibility dispatched
to the nlllicled district a car containing
1000 worth of provisions Later he
made appeals for assistance and finally
distributed among the 2732 families in
the district clothing and provisions to
the amount of 3279095
McKinleys nomination and election
to the presidency in 1S9G the stirring
events of 1S97 culminating in 1S9S in j
the war with Spain and the acquisi
tion for the first time in this countrys
history of foreign territory by conquest
as well as his re election with Theo
dore Roosevelt as his running mate in
1900 are events of too recent occur
rence to require more than passing
mention With the circumstances sur
rounding his death resulting from the
bullet of an assassin fired while Mr
McKinley was receiving at the Tan
American exposition and his gallant
but unsuccessful fight for life the pub
lic is but too painfully familiar
General Coar Quelled a Mutiny
General Cox was a good disciplina
rian but he never blustered and was
never severe On one occasion several
officers called at his headquarters and
stated to him that they would not
promise to march their men up the nar
row river valley He sent them to their
quarters and said nothing of tbeir im
pertinence until after the war
While in camp at Gauley bridge his
quartermaster general shot a private
In the Second Kentucky The men of
the regiment escaped the control of the
officers and made a rush to kill the
quartermaster who had been taken to
Coxs headquarters Cox saw the men
coming but instead of ordering the
guards to fire on them he ran toward
them alone bareheaded and unarmed
He reached a gap in a stone wall ahead
of the 500 or GOO furious armed men
and stopped them He explained that
they might kill him but they could not
pass
Straightening to his full height he
said Your general unarmed as you
see orders you to remember that you
are soldiers and obey Much to the
surprise of the score of anxious officers
watching the parley the men returned
to their camp Cox sent for a company
from another regiment which guarded
the prisoner to the lower camp No
charge of mutiny ever appeared against
that regiment which afterward under
Nelson and Palmer made a splendid
reputation for drill discipline and hard
fighting Chicago Inter Ocean
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In the production of common watch
glasses the glass is blown into a sphere
about a meter in diameter sufficient
material being taken to give the desir
ed thickness as the case may be Disks
are then cut out from this sphere with
the aid of a pair of compasses having
a diamond at the extremity of one leg
There is a knack in detaching the disk
after it has been cut A good work
man will it is said cut G000 glasses
In a day
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Beg pardon said the rude young
man gathering his features together
again I simply couldnt suppress that
yawn
Dont mention it replied the bright
girl By the way that reminds me
I visted the Mammoth cave last sum
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ROOSEVELT
Interesting Career and
Home Life of the
New President of
the United
States
Theodore Koosevelt the new presi
dent of the United States is one of
the most remarkable men in this coun
try His career which from the outset
has been a most strenuous one may
be divided into nine phases or stages
leading up to the tenth as president
upon the duties of which he is just en
tering
In nine different roles he has given
evidence of the attributes that mako
him today perhaps the most talked of
man of forty three in the world
Of aristocratic birth a member of a
family distinguished for valor patri
otism and culture for many genera
tions young Roosevelt first sued for
public favor when he appeared as can
didate for assemblyman in his native
city New York He was then just out
of college 1879 and was twenty one
years of age
Even his opponents admit that he
was a zealous servant of his own par
tyan unwavering Republican He
was then as now athletic and remark
able for his boundless energy his in
terest in people and things and his un
failing enthusiasm
The second stage of Mr Roosevelts
public career was that in which he an
nounced himself as candidate for may
or of New York
It was very characteristic that he
should with his belief in himself con
sider the office of mayor one which lie
was equipped to fill but unquestiona
bly if Mr Roosevelt were consulted to
day he would agree with his friends
that his defeat in this race was bene
ficial to him Defeated as candidate
for mayor Mr Roosevelt next appears
as a national civil service commission
er and here again his party found him
studious untiring capable and effi
cient
This appointment was made in 1SS9
by President Harrison when Roose
velt was a trifle over thirty Two years
later in 1S91 the fourth stage of Mr
Roosevelts remarkable life he ap
pears as a hunter of big game
When Theodore Roosevelt concluded
to hunt grizzly bears he naturally de-
ROOSEVELT AS GOVERNOR
cided to do so in what he considered
proper costume and it is most inter
esting to see the dramatic instinct
again dominating The pictures of Mr
Roosevelt taken In his costume as a
hunter show him holding his rifle
loaded with many bullets The leather
breeches with their picturesque adorn
ment of fringe the hunting shirt of
leather embroidered supposedly by In
dians the scarlet silk handkerchief
ivory handled revolver the knife thrust
through the cartridge belt are all the
fitting paraphernalia of the cowboys
hero
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When Roosevelt dressed in his gau
dy and personally selected hunting cos
tume made his appearance among the
untrammeled citizens around Little
Missouri river he was looked upon as
a tenderfoot of a very elementary
brand The toughs who proposed to
show him a thing or two arranged
among themselves in their own ex
pressive language to take some of the
frills out of the New York tenderfoot
A well known character approached
Roosevelt and asked him what he in
tended to do and what kind of game he
was after The New Yorker said he
was after grizzlies and it was soon
noised about the camp that the four
eyed tenderfoot was looking for big
game The hardest man in the vicinity
sent word to Roosevelt that he couldnt
shoot any grizzlies in that territory
and that if he attempted to the bad
man in question would be informed
and proposed to shoot Roosevelt at
sight
When this message was conveyed to
the blue eyed tenderfoot he seemed
greatly pleased and looking eagerly
through his glasses he Inquired of his
informant where the bad man lived
Immediately upon receiving the desired
information Roosevelt rode over to see
the man who proposed to shoot him
When he reached the camp of the in
dividual in question the bad man
had forgotten why he Intended to shoot
and was very much disposed to be
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amlatle wth the tenderfoot from the
east
Mr Roosevelt not only wore a cos
tume which he considered appropriate
for killing grizzlies but he actually
killed more bears than the best of the
bad men and his unquestioned brav
ery and fearlessness won him as it al
ways does with the Bret Ilarte type of
man unbounded respect and loe
What the men of the west thought
of the tenderfoot was shown when
Theodore Roosevelt called for volun
teers for the rough riders among
whom wure some of those who tried to
take the frills off the New York dude
when he first appeared among them
and who today lovingly and loyally re
fer to him as a leader whom they
would follow to the death
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Presidents eldest daughter
what had become of the first appro
priation he replied Every cent of it
Avas spent for powder and shot and
every bit of powder and shot has been
fired When he was asked what he
was going to do with the 300000 he
replied Use every ounce of that too
within the next thirty days in practk e
shootinc When the Mahe vi- blown
up Mr Roosevelt had ud doubi that
The fifth stage of Mr Roosevelts
career was embodied In his service as
police commissioner of New York city
Other commissioners have come and
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MRS ROOSEVELT
gone and their records are more or less
prosaic but the history of Theodore
Roosevelt stands out again picturesque
dramatic and alive with the intensity
of the mans nature an intensity which
differentiates him at every step of his
career from his predecessors or succes
sors As police commissioner Mr Roose
velt made New York seethe with ex
citement Disguised he visited at night
the various precincts seeing for him
self and testing the probity and capa
bility of his corps By day he fought
the other police commissioners he up
set old time rules and enforced old time
blue laws because as he explained
they were in the statute books and
must be obeyed until they were re
pealed
The sixth phase of Mr Roosevelts
career was brief but most satisfactory
and was embraced in the short time of
his service as assistant secretary of the
navy Colonel Roosevelt was nominat
ed by President McKinley on April G
1S97 On April 17 he tendered his resig
nation as police commissioner to Mayor
Strong of New York city
From the very first Roosevelt fore
saw the possibility of a conflict with
Spain and he set about preparing his
department for it He pushed repairs
on the ships he worked with might
and main for the navy personnel bill
and visited the various naval reserves
throughout the country He left noth
ing undone In fact that would secure
the highest efficiency in the service
when the time for action came It is
an open secret that he it was who first
realized the tremendous opportunity
that the war would open in the east
and who had Dewey in whom he rec
ognized the right man for the place
appointed to command the eastern
squadron And naval officers agree
that the remarkable skill in marks
manship displayed by the American
gunners was due to his foresight Tie
saw the necessity of practice and he
thought it the best kind of economy to
burn up ammunition In acquiring skill
A characteristic story of the truth
of which there is no doubt is told re
garding Roosevelts insistence on prac
tice in the navy Shortly after his ap
pointment he asked for an appropria
tion of S00000 for ammunition pow
der and shot for the navy The ap
propriation was made and a few
months later lie asked for another ap
propriation this time of 300000
When asked by the proper authorities
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Naturally enough Roosevelt would
not be content to sit behind a desk
while there was fighting going on He
submitted his resignation to the presi
dent on April 10 and tried to get an ap
pointment upon General Lees staff
Then came the rough rider idea the
seventh phase of Roosevelts career
hardly thought of before it was realized
Roosevelts rough riders something
in the alliteration of the name struck
the popular fancy and the regiment
became famous before it was organ
ized Roosevelt had had some military
experience as a captain in the Eighth
regiment but not enough in his esti
mation to fit him to command a regi
ment in time of war and he modestly
took the second place and was content
to learn from his friend Dr Wood
It is hardly necessary to recount the
history of the rough riders from the
time they were organized In San An
tonio Tex until they were mustered
out at Camp WikofT to recall the jun
gle fight of Las Guaslmas and the
bloody charge at San Juan Hill The
tale is still on every ones lips But it
Is worth while to recall the remarkable
influence Roosevelts personality had
over his men an influence that welded
a thousand or more independent cow
punchers ranchers and athletes into a
fighting machine Youve got to per
form without flinching whatever duty
is assigned you regardless of the diffi
culty or danger attending it No mat
ter what comes you mustnt squeal
These words of Roosevelts became al
most a religion with his men To do
anything without flinching and not to
squeal was their aim and to hear
the colonel say Bully was reward
enough
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GOVERNOR VICE PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
Colonel Roosevelt returned to the
United States to find that he was al
ready talked of as the next governor of
New York But his regiment which
he had breathed and eaten with for
three months was still on his hands
and he had no time for anything but it
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QUEXTIN ROOSEVELT
Presidents youngest son
Not until he became a plain citizen on
Sept 13 would he talk of politics and
then he found the tide of events bear
ing him along inevitably and irresisti
bly
The eighth stage of Roosevelts ca
reer began with his assumption of the
office of governor of New York state
and the ninth with his inauguration as
vice president of the United States
March 4 1901
A tenth phase is just opening for him
as the chief executive of the greatest
nation in the world
President Roosevelts ancestry and
his rearing and education coupled with
an excessively aggressive nature mani
fested unmistakably even in his very
early boyhood seemed to presage for
him a more than ordinary career
ROOSEVELTS ANCESTRY
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Theodore Roosevelt was born Oct 27
1S3S in his fathers house 2S East
Twentietli street in New York city In
that quiet region around Gramercy
park the home of many families bear
ing names held in high honor and es
teem there was none bearing a name
more highly honored and esteemed
than the family into which Theodore
Roosevelt was born For six genera
tions his forbears had been prominent
as citizens of New York and distin
guished in the councils of the city nis
father James J Roosevelt was alder
man in 1S2S 1S29 and 1S30 assembly
man from 1S33 to 1S40 congressman
from 1S41 to 1S43 and supreme court
justice from 1S34 to 1SG0 his grandfa
ther James Roosevelt who was a mer
chant was assemblyman in 179G 97
and alderman in 1S09 his great-grandfather
Cornelius C Roosevelt likewise
a merchant was alderman from 17S3 to
1S01 his great-great-grandfather Cor
nelius Roosevelt was alderman from
1739 to 17G4 his
John Roosevelt also a
merchant was alderman from 1748 to
17G7 and his
Nicholas Roosevelt was
alderman of New York city in 1700 01
Sueli was the life of the sturdy Dutch
ancestors from whom Theodore Roose
velt inherited his name But although
his name is Holland Dutch Scotch
Irish and French Huguenot blood min
gle in his veins in equal measure with
that of his Dutch ancestors and ac
counts to no small extent for the per
sonal qualities of the man his energy
nimanrm
war would follow and that shortly and end perseverance his Impulsive not to
ins energies were bent with redoubled
force to getting the navy ready When
war did finally break out Mr Roose
velt was for rushing matters for tak
ing navana at once and dictating
terms from there
say fiery temperament and his viva
cious mode of expression With the
impetus of family and the favorable
material conditions In which he found
himself as well as by the force of his
own personality Roosevelt might have
advanced rapidly in any path he chose
whether it led toward brilliant social
success or the making of a large for
tune That he chose a career oL public
service Is characteristic of the man
the more so in that he saw in the
course ho had marked out for himself
small chance of pecuniary remunera
tion and a struggle for principle that
might jeopardize those rewards that
are the politicians Once decided he
never swerved from his course For
more than twenty years he has been
before the public eye as an aggressive
political force
THE ROOSEVELT HOMESTEAD
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Vice President Roosevelts homestead
near Oyster Bay N Y Is an ideal
country seat and the Roosevelt fami
ly is a very old one In the neighbor
hood The house is large homelike
and countrified quite unpretentious It
crowns the very topmost peak of Saga
more hill
The approach to the house through
forest and meadow Is beautiful and
refreshing in the extreme But it is
not until after one reaches the top of
Sagamore hill that the full beauty of
the magnificent panorama Is revealed
The view of the bay the headlands
with the Long Island sound and the
Connecticut coast stretching for miles
and resting against the deep blue of
the sea is so restful so altogether
lovely that it cannot soon fade from
the memory
The library which Is a splendid
room directly off the main hall con
tains about 5000 books The Interior
is one of enchantment to the genuine
book lover A big open fireplace
stretches across one end of the room
Above it is a magnificent display of
the heads of deer rams antelopes
mountain sheep and other trophies of
Colonel Roosevelts skill as a hunter
The floors are covered with rugs
made of the skins of lions bears buf
faloes and panthers all victims of the
vice presidents gun In fact the whole
house is adorned with trophies of the
chase
Here it is that most of his books and
articles of which he has written many
were brought into being
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Is the most
enthusiastic admirer and ardent helper
of her husband in his political career
She Is absorbed heart and soul in her
husbands success as she has been
from the time they first knew each oth
er as children Mrs Roosevelt who
before her marriage was Miss Edith
Carow possesses great intelligence a
remarkably fine education and a won
derful power of effacing herself and at
the same time exerting a great influ
ence She is very pretty slight of
medium height and has dark brown
eyes and hair She has not gone much
into society since her marriage as she
has been more or less an invalid and
she has devoted herself entirely to her
children and her home She has live
children of her own and there is also a
daughter by Mr Roosevelts first wife
a girl of seventeen to whom Mrs
Roosevelt is the most devoted of moth
ers
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Mrs Roosevelt was a playmate of
Mr Roosevelts sisters and of Mr
Roosevelt himself when they were chil
dren went to the same dancing
class were identified with the same set
in society and there were a great
many people who predicted that as
these children grew up they would
marry However as is well known
Mr Roosevelts first wife was Miss
Lee of Boston and at the time of that
marriage Miss Carow was abroad
where she remained for some time
Mr Roosevelt met her in Europe after
his wifes death and their engage
ment was not announced for some
months When it was announced the
congratulations were most sincere from
assKvtcy
ROOSEVELT LEADING HIS ROUGH RIDERS
every one who knew them and realized
how well suited they were to cne an
other
Like her husband Mrs Roosevelt is
an enthusiastic novel reader but also
keeps well up on all the topics of the
day She is a good French scholar and
also speaks German During the years
spent in Europe she traveled every
where and always kept up her studies
The Roosevelts heretofore have seldom
entertained formally preferring to
keep open house
When they first went to Washington
it was quite a break to leave all their
New York friends but It was not long
before Mrs Roosevelt as well as her
husband had formed a circle of new
acquaintances and their house in
Washington was the center of much
that was delightful and Interesting
When Mr Roosevelt decided to come
back to New York again Mrs Roose
velt felt badly at breaking up iier life
in Washington but as usual said
nothing and allowed herself to be car
ried away by her husbands enthusi
asm over his new field of work and
came back to New York and took up
her life where site had left it befre
As is well known the life here was
short and back again they went to
Washington
But during all these chances and
changes the quiet routine of Mrs
Roosevelts life If it could be a routine
one went on and with the exception
that the place Itself was altered there
was no difference made Every sum
mer has been spent at Oyster Bay
where the life led is entirely an out
door one Mrs Roosevelt there as
elsewhere superintends the education
of her children She does not Instruct
them herself but she makes a Liolnt of
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MR ROOSEVELTS OYSTER RAY HOME
going into their lessons always ence a
week If they are at school she goes
to the school and stays through the
day in order to know just what the
children are studying
The Roosevelt children are Alice
seventeen years old Theodore Jr
fourteen Kermit twelve Ethel ten
Archibald seven and Quentin four
They are all bright and interesting
and as the boys are as full of pranks
as possible and have none of the ex
clusivcncss so common to children
reared in aflluence it is likely that the
grounds of the White House will be
much more lively than they have been
for a generation
The romping outdoor life which these
children have hitherto enjoyed at Oys
ter Bay during nearly eight months of
each year has had the effect of making
athletes of them all Teddy junior is
said to be an excellent boxer a good
runner and jumper a first class swim
mer and a magnificent horseman In
deed all the children ride well for
their father has always held that horse
back riding is the most healthful exer
cise in the world The children have
taken to it mj naturally that a visitor
who saw them some time ago on their
favorite mounts laughingly remarked
to the colonel that if he should ever
conclude to raise another regiment of
rough riders he will be able to get sev
eral recruits without leaving his own
premises Teddy junior is so striking
a counterpart in miniature of his fa
ther that his identity is clear to per
sons meeting him for the first time at
places where they would naturally not
expect to see him His mental habits
and his impulsive manner are also
those of his father who y the waj
is regarded by the youngster as the
greatest man in the world Ills sole
expressed ambition is that he may live
to be as good a man as his paternal
ancestor
Secrets of Coffee Making
Experiment has disclosed the fact
that one fourth of a teaspoonful of me
dium strength vanilla added the last
thing before serving to enough coffee
for four persons improves it 30 per
cent The secret of perfection is to use
enough vanilla to cover the strong cof
fee flavor yet not enough to be de
tected
A pinch of salt In coffee has long
been my secret for a certain delicate
flavor that every one likes but I did
not know until recently that I had in
some mysterious way stumbled upon
the modus operandi which has made
the coffee of Norway superb In
that country the coffee Is roasted fresh
every morning in a covered shovel kept
in constant motion over the fire A bit
of salted butter added after the roast
ing process is begun gives It an Inde
scribable flavor as delightful as it is
subtle
The French too have made their
reputation for excellent coffee by using
butter while roasting it A piece of
butter the size of a walnut with a des
sertspoonful of powdered sugar to
three pounds of green coffee Is the
proportion used This Is said to bring
out both flavor and aroma and more
over gives the slight caramel taste
which tourists remember to have en
joyed nowhere but in France What
to Eat
Women ni Doctors
To go back as far as the end of the
thirteenth century a woman named
j Protula was professor of the art of
neanng at the University of Palermo
and an old certificate in the archives
of Paris shows
that it was a woman
who was called upon to prescribe
for Louis IX on hL return from
the crusade In the seventeenth
cen
tury Oliva del Sabucco a Snanish wo
man was considered an excellent doc
tor and a hundred years later Anna
Manzolini an Italien was professor in
a medical college in Milan Two other
well known woman doctors
were Bar
bara Weintranhein a German woman
and a Swedish woman named Christine
Erxbelen In these days the United
States boasts of more women doctors
than any other
country England fol
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