A New Light on Roosevelt
The current issue of the Amer
ican Magazine publishes an ex
cerpt from a letter which shows a
side to the character of the Pres
ident, with which the public is
unfamiliar. Because we believe
that the men of America cannot
see this wonderful character from
too many angles, we publish the
letter:
“We didn’t get to the discussion
of his plans until very late—near
ly midnight. For the first time
in my experience of meeting him
(President Roosevelt) he seemed
tired. He said several times:
“Weil I’m through now, I’ve done
my work.” His chief idea seemed
to be that he wanted to get away
—out of the country. “I want
to get away so that when the
new administration comes in my
opinion will not be asked, nor my
advice sought. If I talk, people
will say that I am interfering
where I have no right to inter
fere. If I refuse to talk, they
will say that my silence is disap
proval. The best thing I can do
is to go entirely away for a year
or more—out of reach of every
thing here, and that is what I
am going to do.” He said it was
the last thing he would care to
do, to repeat Grant's adventure.
He has had enough of public af
fairs; he wanted to be alone and
quiet.
“He said he would like to meet
William of German}- if he could
do it man to man. but he could
not think of attempting the cere
monies incidental to a formal
meeting. The thing that at
tracted him most in Europe was
the invitations of the King of
Italy and the Emperor of Austria
to go hunting with them. He
said he would like to see how
they did it in the old countries of
Europe, but he felt that he could
not do this without attracting too
much attention. He had conclud
ed, therefore, to go to the wilds
of Africa, a thing he had really
long wanted to do, and to hunt
big game. He would sail as soon
after March 4 as possible, going
from here to Italy, there trans
shipping for the Suez and Italian
East Africa. Here he would take
the railroad which runs inland
and jump from the end of it into
the wilderness. His son Kermit
will go with him, and, as I gath
ered, no one else, save, perhaps,
a secretary. He said he was
looking forward to the recreation
of the voyage and to getting ac
quainted with his son. “All that
country beyond Italy,’’ he said,
“will be new to us both, and I
look for a great pleasure in see
ing it with a boy's eyes. Kermit
will have his book of poetry and
I’ll have my hunting books. We
shall have a great time!”
“I have never seen him in a
more human mood; nor have I
ever been more impressed with
his bigness and breadth. Once
when he said, “Well, I’m
through;” I suggested that the
people might not be through
with him, that four years hence
they might be clamoring for him
more intensely than they are to
day.
“No,” he said, with a curious
finality, a sort of sadness, a note
which I never before heard him
strike, “revolutions never go
backwards. New issues are
coming up. I see them- Peo
ple are going to discuss economic
questions more and more: the
tariff, currency, banks. They
are hard questions and I am not
deeply interested in them; my
problems are moral problems,
and my teaching has been plain
morality. ’’
“He is certainly a very extraor
dinary character-about the great
est of our time. He has the cur
ious flashes of genius, in which
lie sees himself truly, more truly
than anyone else does. And I
believe more than ever before
tjf.at he put aside a third-term
nomination, which he could have
had at the turn of his hand, from
the highest conception of his
moral obligations. 1 know, lrotn
my talk with him last wintei,
that he was tempted almost to
the point of yielding, that the
pressure had been tremendous
(far more than any ordinary man
could have resisted), but that lie
has asked himself simply, “What
is right in this matter?”—and the
thing he thought right, he has
done.”
It may have been the vexations
of the day; it may have been be
cause the hour was late; but
whatever it was, the letter tells
of a tired man—of one whose was
done and who was ready for rest.
Yet will the inlluence of this re
markable man’s work abide with
our people for a century to come.
The greatest thing of his admin
istration has been to make hon
esty, honesty in business, honesty
in politics, honesty in the every
day affairs of men, popular.
The Kansas City Star in com
menting on this letter has this to
say:
"People are going to discuss
economic questions more and
more: the tariff, curency, banks.
They are hard questions, and I
am not deeply interested in then;
my problems are moral problems,
and my teaching has been plain
morality.—In an interview in a
private letter.
I he writer of the letter from
which this quotation was taken
said of the President: “He has
the curious Hashes of genius, in
which he sees himself truly—
more truly than anyone else does. ’
Surely this view of himself is dif
ferent from the common view.
No other who has spoken or writ
ten of the President has put him
in just this light. Yet this touch
of introspection is not in discord
with the conclusions of common
observation.
“It will be agreed that if the
President has been systematic in
anything it has been in that he
has steadfastly aimed to uplift
the standards of social, business
and political life and customs
and methods. He has persistant
lv aimed to establish better moral
standards. Even when one con
templates the practical things he
has done or has urged, he is
struck by the fact that the in
spiration was the morals of the
thing, rather than the economics.
“Honest public service, honest
railroading, honest food making
and food selling, honest relations
between employers andemployees,
honest use of nation s resources—
these things, rather than the
specific means by which they
should be accomplished, have oc
cupied the President’s thought
and directed his action.
“His indifference to economics
as a concrete subject is only a
comparative indifference, for he
has shown that he can devise and
champion means to the end, but
his impulse is to insist that the
wrong thing be abolished and the
right thing be done, and to leave
the final method to the collective
wisdom of those whose business
it is to study deep'y into all the
j ramifications of separate prob
lems.
“The Roosevelt mission—the
unremitting effort to uplitt moral
standards, has been accomplished.
It is for the country to live up to
these 'standards, to adjust sys
tems to them and to exalt them
still more.
“With Taft the next President,
the country will have a Chief
Magistrate who has understood
President Roosevelt better and
valued him more accurately than
has any other publif man of prom
inence—a Chief Magistrate who
would follow the moral teachings
of Mr- Roosevelt, and would sup
plement them with the extraor
dinary executive capacity that he
has splendidly demonstrated in
the public service.”
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REVEAL THE TRUE CHAR ACTER
Typewritten Pages, It Has Been
Proved, Convey Sense of Indi
viduality to the Expert.
Experts in handwriting are often
called on to read in it individual
traits of character,*and there is no
doubt, that they can do it. Type
writing has now become so common
that similar tests arc being applied
to it. Her. is a case in point : , I a a
law suit in England recently, ex
perts showed that one of the pages
of a long typewritten document had
been substituted for another. They
found the difference in the spacing,
the punctuation, the paragraphing
and the appearance of the letters, the
latter depending on the touch of the
fingers. The experts further said
that the writer of the substituted
page was a young woman; that she
was nervous, not strong, of only fair
education, and a beginner in type
writing. Thus, you see, no matter
what we do, wo leave a sort of char
acter-trail behind us.
ONE ADVANTAGE.
Now that women can't clincn and
kiss, trains can start on schedule
time.
THERE’S NOTHING BETTER.
“I crossed the Atlantic last month
with that beautiful young singer,
Miss Geraldine Farrar,” relates a
Savannah banker.
“At dinner one night the captain
of the ship ^rave a loud laugh, and,
looking at the rows of pretty female
faces in the salon, he said:
“ ‘Why do men never kiss one
another, while women continually do
so?’
“Miss Farrar answered.
“ ‘Men have something better to
kiss, but women haven’t.’ ”
NO JESSE JAMES.
“What are you looking so sour
about, Petey?” asked the lanky mes
senger boy.
“Aw, Fm disappointed,” grum
bled the short one.
“Disappointed ?”
“Sure. 1 put in two whole hours
squeezing through a fence to see
what was billed as ‘outlaw races’ and
when I got inside 1 got walloped wid
a club and J ain’t seen any outlaws
yet. Wish I’d stayed home and
bought a dime novel.”
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CHARITY WORK FOR WOMEN.
Deports of local happenings in pa
pers in all parts of the country show
that women are actively engaged in
charitable work, and society women
seem to have little time for anything
else a great part of the year, so ab
sorbing are the interests of the char
ities in which they work. The la
mentable condition of the poor chil
dren of the East side in New York
has aroused great interest among the
society women of that city.
HOT ALCOHOL FROM TABLE.
If spots are left on your table
from hot alcohol in your chafing
dish, try the following remedy: First
rub in well a little wood alcohol;
then to remove the resultant whitish
mark wet a piece of very soft Hannel
with camphorated oil and rub the
spots thoroughly. Leave the sur
face very oily for several hours and
finally polish energetically with a
bit of chamois.
HIS ALREADY.
It was Eugene’s third birthday
anniversary, but the man next door
had forgotten.
“’Gene,” he said, “you’ll have a
birthday pretty soon, won’t you ?”
“Nope,” answered Eugene. “I’ve
get it now.”
THE BACHELOR’S OPINION.
Niece—Uncle, they sav that there
are more marriages of blondes than
of brunettes. Why is it, 1 wonder?
Uncle Singleton (a confirmed
bachelor)—H’m! Naturally, th<
light-headed ones go first.—Stray
Stories.
SOME ONE HAS FOOLED THEM
English People Who Have Strange and
Wonderful Ideas as to Clang
Used In America,
The sea was turquoise, and in
their deck chain the sehoolmarms,
laying down their novels, talked of
the little island country they were
soon to reach.
“What a muses me,’ said the gray
sehoolrnarin, “is the English idea of
American slang. An English pliilo
logian at a dinner at Oxfbrd once
gravely tried to talk to me in our
own easy colloquialisms. The tilings
he said:
“'Hut now I’m shouting turkey,'
was one. He thought it meant talk
ing nonsense. Flowers he called
‘blummies.’ He didn’t ‘care a lmte,’
he said, for ballooning. A neat jaw
son was ‘gin and tidy." A friend of
his had ‘seen the elephant’—that is,
had gone bankrupt. So lie rambled
on, tickled to death with his clever
ness, as proud of his American slang
as a Hoorge Ado. Where did he get
all that nonsense* of ‘blummies,’ and
‘shouting turkey,’ ‘gin and tidy.' and
‘earing a hate?’ ”
THE DOOR TO INDIA.
The British have' placed at the
entrance of Khvber Bass signboards
with the words: "Open to traffic on
Tuesdays and Fridays only!” One
might think the pass a hack street
in some city. However, it is the
northwest portal of India, a natural
gash .‘13 miles long in the towering
Hindu Kush mountains. It is tin
door connecting the bleak heights of
Afghanistan with the fertile plains
and tropical country beyond, and
the landed interests of India did not
care to have it too much open. Fierce
and hungry tribes dwell on the
Afghanistan side. Therefore, sol
diers are on guard to see that the
regulations of the signboards are
observed. If the hungry natives try
to break through on Wednesday, the
heliographs and telegraphs send
word to the British garrisons, and
reinforcements are detailed to guard
the pass.
SHOULDER BLADE A NUISANCE.
Peter Stroup, who lives in Ger
mantown, has an inconvenient shoul
der blade, says the Philadelphia
North American. Yesterday he
threw it out of joint for the hun
dredth time.
The elusive bone reached its cen
tury accident mark while its owner
tried to tie his shoe. But Teter does
not need a shoe for an excuse to
play hide and seek with that shoul
der blade. It’s all the same whether
he reaches in his hip pocket for his
bandana or lifts his knife to his
mouth at the table. Every time the
shoulder blade takes a notion, it
slips its trolley and then, until the
doctors patch it up, its ]>ower is off.
ISLAND’S PLAGUE OF RABBITS.
Rabbits have of late increased in
numbers so enormously in the north
ern portion of the Isle of Man as to
constitute a menace to agriculture.
Recently the house of keys passed
a bill having for its object the aboli
tion of the pest. The bill treats rab
bits as vermin, and empowers occu
piers of land to carry a gun without
license for their destruction, and to
authorize other persons to carry guns
without license for a like purpose.—
London Standard.
NICE BOY.
Sister—Tee, hee! Did you see that
fellow smile at me just now?
Brother—Smile? I saw him laugh,
if that is what you mean!
A BAD BREAK.
Wife—Why did you give that
phonograph away just before we
were married? Didn't you think I
could use it?
Husband—My dear, I gave it
away to keep peace. Don't you
know that no house is big enough
for two talking machines?
And at the last report he was still
trying to square himself.—Detroit
Free Press.
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