The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-05
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away home, never to annoy him again
President Roosevelt has a mind of hi:
own, and does not hesitate to make i
/ known bunch of prominent polltl-
clans. together with a college presiden
and a personal friend. called upon hin
in Washington to urge the appoint
ment of a certain well-known naval Of
ficer to the eastern naval station. I'VE
are very glad to see you, Mr.
/ Secretary they voiced together
bat. quick as flash. Roosevelt, swing
ing i'm his chair. said: We'll. I'm no
at all glad to see you. least of all to-
day You've called at very bad time
for I've got some business to attend Il
that calls me away at once l mus
bid you good day." In few minutes
! Secretary Roosevelt was with the late
president and Dewey had been prac'
tically decided upon as the officer to o'
sent'to Hong Kong.
President Roosevelt was once trav
cling in Idaho. and passed book store
in the window of which was copy OF
his Winning of the West Going
into the book store, he inquired w nc
is this author, ROOSEVELT oh. sale
the bookseller, hes a ranch driver.
And what do you think of his book?
asked the president. Well said the
dealer. slowly and deliberately. I've
always thought I'd like TO meet the
author and tell him that if he had
stuck to running a ranch, and give up
writing books, he'd have made pow
erful more OF success at his trade.
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This reminds one of another story,
equally good, that the president de-
lights to tell On one occasion, when
he was speeding over the Pennsylvania
railroad. en- route to Washington. a
fond father held his boy in one arm
and a copy of Judge in the other A
cartoon of an Irishman on the war
path, knife in hand, and savage teeth
displayed, doomed up before the small
boy. ''I know him." said the boy "Oh.
I guess you don't" said the father
suspecting nothing and seeing no cause
for alarm. Eyes. I do" persisted the
bad boy; 81 know who he is and what
he is! He's called Teddy Roosevelt.
and he fights the Indians standing on
horseback, and what he can't cut to
pieces he tears with his teeth"
President Roosevelt is a religious
man, and wherever he goes stands well
in the estimation of his neighbors for
his active participation in works of re-
ligion and mercy. He carries portly
pocket of loose coin, an equally we'll
proportioned purse and a CheckboOk
that rapidly becomes q package of
stubs. Yet his habits are so regular
that the least irregularity in bust
ness transaction attracts his attention.
For this reason department employees
have always felt the pressure of his
watChful oversight, and household ser
wants, always long in his employ
while realizing the freedom they en-
joy, give the closest attention to all
details of their stewardship. A friend
accompanying him on a jaunt about
the portmonnaie of a solicitor for a
well-known charity in the same five
minutes that the president called at
tentiOn to an overcharge of cents. A
bOotblack, taking advantage of the
presidents haste. tried to satisfy him
with nickel less of change, but the
eagle eye of the public administrator
detected the petty swindle.
Especially with newspaper men has
the new president been popular. Dur
ing the campaign in which he was
elected governor of New York, jour
nalistic headquarters was established
at Oyster Bay. l.. l., and the newspaper
evening, when all was dark and still
and it is pretty late, or. rather. early
in camp of newspaper men when it
becomes still enough to sleep-a noise
was heard, an alarm raised and the
word passed that an intruder was pres
ent. I'm the culprit, boys" rang out
the familiar voice of Candidate ROOse-
Welt, match in hand. ''I just ran in to
see how you are getting along. or if
you are not getting along at all. How
goes it, and who is very thirsty after
his day of toil?" Every head was up.
and for half an hour Mr.. Roosevelt
stayed with the boys and CheeTed them
up, laughing and talking, compliment
ing and thanking, so that it would
have been difficult for a stranger to
have told who was the candidate and
who was the scribe.
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The dispatches tell us that the vice
president had gone off on a climb in the
when he was summoned
back by the increasing illness of Pres
dent Mckinley. Mount Marcy is an
Did camping ground for the president,
and he is an experienced hunter and
for the guide. The best of
t is that in all his experiences in the
woods Roosevelt is as helpful to the
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shown not merely in his knowledge of
general conditions attending hunting
md camping, but in his personal at
ention to those in perplexity. fatigue,
Illness and distress. A number of in
'idents are known to the friends of
he president when the president as
listed at first hand and enthusiasticaI-
Y in cases of accident so that the
tories of his personal attention to the
lying and wounded on the field in San
Tuan need excite no wonder. President
Roosevelt is as active as humane, and
IS humane as active, and probably does
lot known a conscious ten minutes
hat he does not live with all his su- /