New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-08
ROOSEN

i doesn't make bit of odds
What other fellows DO
am going to vote for Theodore
The brave, the square. the true.
Do you suppose he thought Of votes
AT Santiago Hill
Whom twas raining Mauscr bullets
Which the Spaniards shot to kill?
Say-do you think stand
So near the Pearly Gates.
And count Governorships and things
Held 'or him by the Fates?
God. That's the style Of man like.
of and grit
Who holds his life nothing when
His country calls for it:
man OF sturdy. sterling worth
A mans man, through and through.
a gentleman. a Thoroughbred
one Of the mighty few.
As Kipng pours out poems from
\ mind with genius stored.
So Roosevelt writes eplcs with
The bayonet and sword.
And ne shall ind his pathway paved
Along Fames bright, broad way,
With myrials Of true mems votes
on this Election Day
Knew How It Worked--"No. sir" he said; Il
don't want word said about the robbery at my
but it was particularly fragrant affair. WASH t
il? should think you would report 1t 10 the po-
Not bit of it. Why, il reported 1t to the po-
lice the newspapers would get H.
what of that, Why. it such bod affair
that the papers would be sure to roast the police
for not being able to prevent IT, and then the ponce
would blame for it all. and they d tramp
through my house twice day for week treat me
contemptuously and generally make NE burien
for me until some one else was robbed ana they
without being treated as II you had thrown your
things into the lax Just to make trouble Tor the
police. "-(Chicago Post
Here are some stories Of children from THE
Chicago News:
Don, mind. Tommy. don't mind said SYM
pathetic little girl to her hye-year-od brother VINO
had been chastised by their mother. ! d-didn l.
sobbed the little fellow, and that's w-why s-got
licked"
.'How do you Ike mammas new bonnet. dear
asked a fond mother OF her sx-year-old daughter
ooh" replied the little critic II like 1t pretty well
all bur the color and the trimming and the
shape"
Eddie aged four had just returned home after
his first morning at the kindergarten We'll, Ed
die" asked his mother how did you like it?'
"Dldn't like It AT all" he replied. THE woman
nut me on "A chair and told me to sit there for
the present. "WeL" Interrupted his mother
wasn't that all right" But" continued Eddie
''she never gave me any present
Good Boy-Mother says can't go out on my
bicycle this afternoon; I've got to stay In the house
Bad Roy-Aw shucks' OATS de way wild some
women Doy'd sooner have DER kids grow up ter
be reconcentrados dan rough rders-(Judge.
This is how Sam Jones. the evangelist. ex-
pressed himself the political situation in Louis
Vile the other day: president Mckinley is not
only 4 good clean Christian man. but he is good.
clean safe conservative President. The Repub-
leans will nominate and elect him again. II he
has made mistakes and don't say or believe that
he has in the coaduct OF the war. they are not
his. but his friends and advisers lie has been
careful conscientious. exact The party cannot
AFFORD to nominate any one else. Roosevelt Is A
good man. He'll make good Governor OF New
York As Police Commissioner he made 1t possible
to revolutonize Now-York city. He did revolu-
tlonze IT, lie Il ham of backbone and after all.
a man. mind you. Is about % per cent backbone.
with little hair brains and flesh thrown in. Hen
be President after kinney II be keeps up his gait.
| see no good reason why he should not run with
Mckinney two years hence as Nice-Presdent.
They'd make great team
Graham-By the way, when you were abroad,
didn't Won MID ii difficult talking French
was To- make people understand 1t Boston iran
script.
Says the Editor of The Lost Creek tCol) Lyre'
We were kept at the lodge on business Tuesday
night until the bowling coyotes announced the
coming Of day and In the resultant, dispute with
our worscr half received the facial blemishes which
our dastardly enemies attribute to a less worth,
cause. WAR is hell" "
Il gee It is becoming the fad to have your we'd
hut fcler doesn't have TO have his courtship
cinema tographed thank Observation-Disclosures
Journal