The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-05-13
Especial letter.

Especial letter.
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.saxm HE Presidents old rough
rider comrades are a
~ source of keen delight to
him. They have in
/ creased in numbers since
4 last September, like Aus
tralian rabbits or coun-
try mushrooms, and
they spring up unexpectedly from
every hole and corner in the Union.
The President is always awfully glad
10 see them. asks them to lunch and
gets great deal of fun out of talking
over old times. He rarely gets impa-
tient, no matter how pressing the de-
mands OF his old comrades are, and he
receives their requests with good ma
ture. even though 1t is impossible often
to act upon them favorably. Some OF
these gallant fellows, as the President
often explains to his friends, are, to
say the least. trough diamonds" but
he win not admit that any of them
are really bad and always presents
them to the public In the very best
light possible.
The strained re-
Senatorial lati ons between
c Senator Vest of
Missouri and Sena-
tor Morgan of Alabama are we'll UNI
,derstood in Washington. The other
day Senator Clapp, who is newcomer
and consequently not well informed re-
Igarding the feuds and animosities ex-
listing between the members of that
body, approached Senator Vest just
after a third senator had stirred
Clapp's ire. The Minnesota statesman
said to Vest:
isn't Jones the worst ass that ever
broke into public life?"
"Well," said the frail and withered
statesman from Missouri, 81 can't say.
You know am pretty thoroughly COM
mitted on that proposition to Morgan"
Mrs. Roosevelt is
Rraise Mrs. Rooss-a delightful con-
al. versationalist, but
she is not great
Italker. She sees and hears everything
that passes around her, being very OBJ
will is strong and her reason and in
telligence are well poised. She is cool,
calm, intellectual. One cannot by any
freak OF fancy imagine Mrs. Roosevelt
closing her head" or having Mysteries.
She is born manager. II Mrs. Roose-
welt were a poor woman she would
manage somehow to keep out of debt
and educate her children, and both they
and she would be neatly dressed. She
is not sentimental or emotional, but
she would die for her children none
the less because she Is their wise train
er and the director of their education
while SO far as her own personal ambi-
Itions are concerned she has simply
lblotted herself out and merged her ex-
Iistence into that of her husband. She
lis linguist musician and woman
lof literary tastes. She has singularly
graceful and dignifed carriage and q
low, cultivated voice. She has two pc
culiarities-a sense of humor and nc
: fads.
Senator Perkins
tThoughs He wouldof Californis
MA thought he was go.
ing to die the Other
might. He had twinge of intercosta
rheumatism which caught him in the
vicinity of the heart, and, as he says
he thought the time had come to pass
in his chips. He was telling a trient
about it: II got up" said he, "anc
prepared a telegram to the governor IL
regard to appointing a successor to fl
out my unexpired term. thought If
were going to have to quit in this sum
mary fashion, the least favor the gov
ernor could do me would be to let m'
make an Endorsement of the man t
carry on the work. Bat when the doc
tor came he said the telegram would
be premature"
Mrs. Kearns, the wife of the senate