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HAS RESUMED BUSINESS.
The Affairs of the Government ne.
sumed After a Suspension OF
Three Days.

Washington, Sept. 21.-After a sus-
pension of three days, as a mark OF
respect to the dead president. the
business of the government was re-
sumed at 0 a. IN. Friday.
The train bearing President Roose-
welt and the members of his cabinet
arrived at $50 o'clock, and Is min
utes later the president entered the
White House, and, going at once 10
the elevator, proceeded to the cabinet
room, where President Mckinley was
wont t. do the greater part of his
work. When the new chief executive
reached the White House he walked
briskly to the big front door, which
swung wide open to receive him. lie
spoke pleasantly as he passed to the
Waterman and other employees of the
mansion, and, reaching his office, was
joined almost Immediately by Secre-
tary Long, who did not go TO Canton
to take part in the funeral ceremo-
MES. Soon afterward Senator Cullum
called to pay his respects, and, fol-
lowing him, came Senator PROCTOR
one of the presidents close personal
friends.
Secretary Long informed the presi-
dent as to the condition of affairs in
his office, and was asked as to the
work of the Schley court of inquiry.
With Senator Cullum President Roose-
welt exchanged pleasant greetings and
received assurance of the hearty sup
nar@ Of %hA T11.n0tS cann+nr k.~
With Senator Proctor there was a
similar exchange of expressions of
goods will.
The presidents former secretary,
Mr.. Loeb, Jr., will remain with him,
probably as assistant secretary. Mr..
C~ortelyou, at the presidents earnest
request, will retain his position as his
secretary.
At IL o'clock all the members of the
cabinet had. arrived at the White
House and soon were seated around
the familiar table. President Roose-
welt occupied a seat at it's head and in
the chair long occupied by his prede-
cessor. 1t all seemed strange to these
devoted advisers of the dead presi-
dent to sit ut the table without him
at it's head, and the gloom and solem-
nifty which characterized the meet
ing was not unbefitting the occasion.
Nearly all of the members of the
present cabinet are quite sure to re-
main during MI. Roosevelt's term, but
it is very probable hat Secretary
Long will retire within the next few
months. He feels that he can re-
sign without embarrassment to Mr..
Roosevelt, and therefore it is thought
that within the mex few months he
will ask the president to permit him
to retire to private life.
The cabinet was in session about an
hour and a half, all of the time being
spent in a general review of the
more important questions which will
require the attention of the new
president.
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the regiment came from the hrsI ram
lilies in the east. from ranches in the
west, came from wherever good horse
men, daring men and good shots could
be secured.
Forms Unique Regiment.
The regiment was the most unique
of its kind ever organized. and was
much scotfed at in the beginning. Be-
fore it had been two days in Cuba the
wisdom of its organization was plainly
seen. The men were fitted for any
kind of campaigning. Their colonel
and lieutenant colonel took what they
took. The regimentpractically fora9ed
itself, and was first i'll the field and
first to be baptized with fire. At Las
Guasimas, Kettle hill and San Juan it
gave up its bravest and best and went
on to victory.
Mr.. Roosevelt was its colonel before
the end of the war, and pronounced by
the foreign military attaches who OBJ
served his conduct in the field as one
of the first military officers of the day.
He was in Santiago at the surrender,
brought his regiment back to the Unit
ed States and ~disbanded it at Montauk
point in the fall of 1898. 1t contrib
TO the success of the American arms in
Cuba than any other regiment formed.
Is Chosen Governor.
The colonel became governor of New
York Immediately after his return to
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and the fifth vice president to succeed
to the executive chair. John Tyler was
the first, succeeding William Henry
Harrison. Willard Fillmore was the
second; he succeeded Zachary Taylor.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
brought Andrew johnson into the
white house. James A. Garfield was
succeeded by his vice president, Ches-
ter A. Arthur. Roosevelt has one ad-
vantage over all these -four men in
that he comes into his great Office bet
them. Almost from boyhood he has
been more or less in the eyes of the
public.
This statesman, legislator, author,
student, huntsman, rough rider and
warrior is a descendant through nine
generations from early Dutch settlers
of New York. Along this ancestralline
there have been infusions of Scotch,
Irish and acknowledgement blood. The
present Theodore Roosevelt is not the
first of his family to hold public office.
In successive generations its members
have been called to official duties in
city, state or nation. The father of the
president at various times held public
Office in New York, and invariably re-
fused money compensation for his
services.
OF Delicate Health When a Lad.
Roosevelt was a pale and delicate
boy, the very opposite in health of
what he has since become. Plenty of
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Mr.. R~oosevelt's style is that OF O
plain man telling a straightforward
story. After reading his books you
are certain that he never paid any at
tention to his style, and the evidence
is. not that the style is not good, but
that there is absolutely no straining
after effect. He is essentially a prac-
teal man, but he is we'll endowed with
imagination, and this gives to his work
an occasional poetic touch that ap-
peals to the readers ~sympathies. He
has, too, a power of coming striking
phrases and of putting things in a
way that catches the attention. The
strenuous life" is a phrase with a
meaning hat could not be put again
in 81 few words. In a recent speech
he spoke of our war with Spain as
merely a bit of the police work of
the world" Once before he spoke of
it as "a bit of rough surgery"
1t is no doubt as a historical writer
that Mr.. Roosevelt hopes for-his high
est estimation in literature. 1.-The
Winning of the West" he rightly re-
CARDS as his magnum opus. The best
reason for his doing the work so well
is his thorough sympathy with the men
of whom he writes-the pioneers,
'~'stern, rude, hard, every inch men and
Americans to the hearts core" men
"of masterful SPIRIT who grew
"strong through shifts and wants and
palms." In the preface he mentions his
own experience in the northwest and
says the men with whom he lived and
worked there were precisely the
same type as the ones who began to
spread into Kentucky 125 years ago.
The first chapter deals with the
spread of the English race, and you
realize at once hat here is a man
who looks upon the earth as the nat
ural inheritance of the Anglo-Saxon.
"The westerner," he a y in another
place, ''stood where he was because
he was a conqueror; he had wrested
his land by force from it's rightful
Indian lords and he fully intended to
repeat the same feat as soon as he
should reach the Spanish lands lying
to the west and southwest; he would
have done SO in the case of Louisi-
ana, if it had not been that the latter
was purchased. + y n AS a matter of
fact, it was inevitable as well as in
the highest degree desirable, for the
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A BUT
Their Test, but the Country Wants
~Sureease from Assassination.

Washington, Sept. 21.-About 1880
o'clock, shortly after the conclusion
of the cabinet meeting, President
Roosevelt left the White House to GO
to the residence of his sister, the wife
of Commander Cowles, of the navy,
for luncheon. Disdaining a carriage,
he walked swiftly and alone. No one
had known when he would leave his
office and as he passed briskly out of
the grounds of the Executive Mansion
he attracted little attention, scarcely
anybody recognizing him. He crossed
Pennsylvania avenue into Lafayette
square. and hence up Sixteenth street
to his destination. In the course of
en- hour and a half he returned to the
White House still alone and still walk
ing.
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an outrage to discriminate against one
who has become an American IN good
faith, merely because of his creed or
birthplace"
Of caste he has written: LAS for the
upper social world, the fashionable
world, it is much as it was when por-
trayed in 'Potiphar Papers, save that
modern society has shifted the shrine
at which it pays comical but sincere
homage from Paris to London. Per-
haps it is rather better, for it is less
provincial and a trifie more American.
But a would-be upper class based main
ly on wealth, On which it is the eXcep-
ton and not the rule for a man to be
of any real account in the national life,
whether as a politician, a literary man,
or otherwise, is of necessity radically
defective and of little moment"
He is an intimate of Jacob Riis, the
tenement Sums reformer of New York
city; of Frederick Hollis, secretary
of The Hague conference, and
Henry Cabot Lodge. His habits are
simple, his life most He
does no know the meaning of the word
"idle," or of "misapplication." He has
often been called a typical Ameri-
can" The phrase fits him.
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continued his studies at Dresden and
then travelled in Europe and the east.
Roosevelt Enters Politics.
In 1881 Roosevelt, % years of age.
began his active life in New York. And
with him activity was activity. His
father had instilled into his mind a
contempt for the man who drifts
through an inactive life of comfortable
self-indulgence, achieving nothing.
He tried a plunge into New York
politics. In his city district was a re-
publican machine combination that
showed no disposition to recognize his
desire to become a member of the leg
%islature. He fought the machine and
defeated it.
In 1884 he appeared before the ma
ton. His health troubled him and he
sought a new life at Chimney Butte,
Oak, where he grazed cattle and led
the life of a cowboy. He became known
from Medora to Dickinson as the bold
est and bravest cattleman in the re-
gion. He did what the cowmen did.
He lived as they lived. He commanded
the respect even of the desperadoes.
His lungs expanded, his body devel-
oped and he gained a reserve of health
that seems to have grown every year
since.
Turns to Literature.
He lost money on his cattle venture,
but he returned to New York a strong
man physically, and he made the race
for mayor of that city. He was de-
feated, but he laughed. He understood
that the corrupt elements of the city
would not tolerate him, but he waited.
Meanwhile he wrote books-books on
hunting, books on western life, books
on eastern cities. His style in liter
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this country. AS governor he stood
for radical taxation legislation and
state control of the trusts. His term
vas marked by a pronounced fight on
his part against the New York repub-
lican machine. He did not seek the
vice presidential nomination last year,
but had it forced upon him, and he ac-
cepted at the last moment. During the
campaign he made a trip of over 81, 200
miles, speaking for the ticket, and was
received everywhere with popular ac-
claim. Since his Inauguration he has
presided yer one extra session of the
senate, and made several trips
throughout the country, attending
public functions.
As to the real Theodore Roosevelt,
authentic things that he has said give
ample revelation as to what manner of
a character he will bring to the presi-
dency. On "Americanism," in an inter-
view in 1898, he said:
81 naturally disapprove of the half
conscious sp~read-eagle Americanism.
which is ever ~exerting itself at the
wrong moments. | dislike it, of
course, when it is put forward as a plea
to excuse moral shortcomings of a
kind usually connected with public af-
fairs. Nevertheless. in spite of this
abuse, l am sure that no man can well
play his part in our life who is not hon
estly American in heart, belief and in
stinct.
Adnlirer of P~arIxman.
III one wishes to find a typical Amer
lean, one may consider Francis Park
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and all reflect in some name the
paterna1 characteristic.
The oldest girl is Alice, dark and
serious looking. She rides her ia
theirs Cuban campaign horse with fear
1~essness and grace. The next olive
branch is Theodore, Jr.. or young
Teddy the idol of his fathers heart,
and a genuine chip of the old block.
Young Teddy" owns a trusty shot
gun and dreams of some day shoot
ing bigger game than his father ever
did. He also rides a pony of his own.
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Served az

pointee on National Civil Service
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
President Mckinley made him as
sistant secretary of navy, 1897.
Organized the rough riders and
fought at their head at San Juan.
Was elected governor of New York,
1898; plurality over Augustus Van
Wyck, $4,000.
Was elected vice president, 1900.
Took the oath of office as president
of the United States September IA,
1900.
Married Miss Edith Kermet Carow
in 1886. Has six chi1dren-four Boys
and two girls-and lives at Oyster
Bay, Long Island, New York.
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trymen there is one point upon which
/ wish to lay especial stress; that is,
the necessity for a feeling of broad,
radical and intense A-merieanism, if
good work is to be done in any direc-
ton. Above all. the one essential for
success in every political movement
which is to do lasting good is that our
citizens should act as Americans, not
as Americans with a prefix and quail
fcation-not as Irish-Americans. Ger
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Some of His Works.

These ~utterances reveal the man.
He has written much. The titles OF
some of his best works are: Life OF
Thomas Benton Life of Governor
Norris Ranch Life and the Hunting
'The Winning of the West"
"History of New York City" Essays
on Practical Politics. 1.-THE Wilder
ness Hunter" Hero Tales from Amer
lean History, - Naval War of 1872"
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THE PRESIDENTS FAMILY.
Mr.. RooseveIt's Domestic Life Is an
Ideal One.

MT. R0OseveIt's Domestic Life IL an
Ideal One.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been married
twice. His first wife was Miss Alice
Lee, of Boston,; the second Miss
Edith Carow, of New York. He is the
father of six children, ranging from
16 to 3 years of age.
His domestic life is ideal. Whether
ensconced in winter quarters at AL
bany or New York, or at the famous
Roosevelt summer home at Oyster
Bay, on Long Island, he is an indul-
gent father and romps with his chill
dren with as much zestlas the young
est of them. The youngsters are
known as thu Roosevelt h~alf-dozen,
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outdoor air and physical exercise soc
began to give him a good degree of
bodily vigor, and in his college years
he became skilled in boxing and
wrestling.
In Harvard university he held good
rank as a scholar, giving especial at
sention to natural history and gem
era historical subjects. After his
graduation from Harvard in 1880 he
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The Weeks Failures.

New York. Sept. 21.-R. G. Dun 8
c., report:
Failures for the week numbered
I59 in the United States againsr FL
last year. and 26 in Canada against 81
last YEAR
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Treasury

Washington, Sept. 21.--Yesterday
statement of the treasury balance in
n general fund, exclusive of the
s15o,oo0,oo0 gold reserve in the division
OF redemption, showed: Available
cash balance, $1s7, 400, Ola; gold, $685.
649, 795.
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bridgeport. Conn.,, Sept. 21.-Kath-
crime kupfer, a young artist whom the
tate deorge +. Gilman b~efriended, yes
terday filed q claim of $4,000 against
his estate for services as an artist for
six years.
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CABINET.
McKinIey's Councillors VIII Stand by
the New President.

the New President.
It is almost certain that the cab
met of President Mckinley will be
the cabinet of President Roosevelt.
He not only requested them to re-
main, but stated to them that thew
were his choice for the positions
which they were occupying. All of
the members including Secretary
Hay complied Internationally. In
the event of Secretary Hays retire
ment (sooner or later) it is altogeth-
er probable that Secretary of War
Root will succeed to the state port
folio. This will make an opening for
at least new man to take charge
of the war Office. No other changes
under present circumstances are even
remotely likely.
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Mr.. Roosevelt has been known to the
public principally as a writer and a
rough rider. 1t was therefore singu-
larly appropriate in at least one re-
spect hat it was in the musty atmos-
phere of old books that he took the
oath TO faithfully execute the office
of president of the United States" and
to the best of his ability to preserve,
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and should never know they are OBJ
jects of public interest, especially
during a political campaign. She is
careful to screen her children in all
ways possible from photographers,
and likewise shuns publicity herself.
She declares children, if promiscu-
ously admired, become s~elf-conscious,
vain and conceited, and lose their
traits of innocence and loneliness.
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became a national civil service commits
sioner in 1889.
Once at Washington, he commenced
an enforcement of the law of the most
vigorous kind. He made himself dis
liked among the spoilsmen of both
parties, but he held to the line OF his
duty. He took the law as he found it,
lived true to his oath of office and made
the measure respected in many quar-
tiers where it had been sneered at be-
fore.
Shakes Up the Police.
From Washington he passed to a po-
lice commissionership in New York
city. His peculiar ability to work, and
work on right lines, gave the corrupt
police force such a shaking up as it had
never had before. He was police COM
missioner in every sense of the word,
unbribable, unapproachable, fair to
the fair-minded, severe on the GRIM
inal. His books continued to sell in
increasing number, and the public
through the press, began to have q
broader view of him.
When the Spanish-American war
came he was assistant secretary of the
navy by the authority of President Nc
Kinley. He had much to do with the
organization of the navy for the con-
fict, and it has always been believed
that his influence largely contributed
to the sending of Admiral Dewey to
Hong-Kong, and thence to Manila
bay.
When war became a certainty Mr..
Roosevelt resigned his position in the
navy department, and with Gen. Leon
ard Wood organized the First vo1un-
teer cavalry, better known as the
rough riders. Gen. Wood was colonel
of this regiment and Mr.. Roosevelt
lieutenant colonel. The members OF
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and ten. only a little more than a third
of his period of maturity has passed.
And yet IA volumes stand to his credit.
And if we add the books in which his
name appears as editor and contrib
utor, like THE History of the Royal
Navy" and the book of which he and
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge are joint au-
thors, the total number of his books
is 21.
This would be remarkable in an
author whose sole occupation was
writing. 1t appears still more so in
a man to whom authorship is but an
incident, when we recall that he has
served three terms in the New York
legislatures; that he was for five years
a member of the civil service commits
sion, and for three arduous years pres
ident of the board OF police commits
sioners in New York city; that he has
been assistant secretary of the navy,
commander of a regiment in the war
with Spain, governor of New Yorkand
vice president of the United States.
Furthermore, to appreciate fully
the size of Mr.. Roosevelt's product as
an author we must bear in mind two
more things-the character of his
work and the diversity of his sub
jects. Most of his books are not such
as could be written of-hand. His His
tory of the Navy in the War of 1912"
andh his Winning of the West" involved
a great deal of searching among
archives and old manuscripts in state
and national government offices, in
libraries and in private collections.
His subjects include naval history,
military history, frontier history, mu-
nicipal history, sport, biography. BIZ
ology, politics and book reviews.
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MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

good of humanity at large, that the
American people should ultimately
crowd out the Mexicans from their
sparsely populated northern prov
inces. = : = The conquest of Texas
should properly be classed with con-
quests like those of the Morse sea-
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French Gold Comfng to America.

London, Sept. 21.-The Statist as
serts thai eagles to the value of ST.
ooo'ooo will be shipped from Paris to
New York to-day, and hat there is
no doubt that this consignment will
be followed by others.
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His Favorite Studies There-History,
philosophy and government.
Elected to State Legislature-1Ss3.
Defeated for Mayor of New York
1886.
Became Noted as New York Reform
Police Commissioner-1s95.
Served as President Harrison's APP
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Alice, the oldest girl, Is nearly II.
She is the only child by the first
Mrs. Roosevelt. Young Teddy the
present Mrs. Rooseyelt's oldest child,
is Is. Then there are Kermit, IL;
Ethel, 9; Archibald, 6, and Quentin, 3.
The First Lady Of the Land.
Mrs. Roosevelt is a handsome
woman, well educated, and thorough
~ familiar with the requirements of
society. She is a warm admirer of
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, especially as a
wife and mother, and warmly APP
proves the declarations of the former
presidents wife that children belong
exclusively to the home and freside,
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man. He always appealed to my admi-
ration, because he made his life work
largely of the description of that from
tier warfare between our backwoods-
men and their foes which has been of
such i~ncalculable Importance in u
lands history"
In n of his published works he
says: "In speaking to my own coun-
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HIS CAREER IN OUTLINE.

A Brief Chronology of Mr. Roose-
velt's Life.
Born-New York, October %, 1883.
Educated-Cutler's private school,
New York; and Harvard. Graduated
from Harvard, 1880.
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allure was vigorous and pleasing. His
books sold well and the magazines
made great demand for his writings.
The public liked his breeziness, his ev-
ident sincerity, his courage, and par
tally appreciated him wen before he
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ROOSEVELT AS AN AUTHOR.

During "a Busy Life He Has Found
Time for Much writing.
1t is now nearly 20 years since Theo-
dore Roosevelt took a place in the
public eye as a man of affairs. Grant
ing him the prophets three score years