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The Washington times., 1902-07-06
THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY

Schaicks. Van Aliens, Van Hornes. and a
list page long of other Vans are to be
found among the Roosevelt kinfolk.
AS every biographer of the President
has noted, his ancestors were men who
were very apt to be doing something in
the world. and who possessed to great
degree that public spirit, activity of in
tellect, and versatility which mark the
latest and most distinguished represent
ative of the name. II may also be seen
that they were people apt to have
picturesque and interesting connection
with the rest of the world, going afield
pftentimes for their wives and their
fortunes. A book such as this is inter-
esting chiefly for what can be found
between the lines, and there is much to
be found there in This case. CHartford.
Conn, J: B. Burr & Coz
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have said. If we cannot do up your
why. get some soap ard water, and
starch, and an iron, and learn to laUn-
der your own collars. and keep on laun-
dering them until you can do them better
than ANYBODY else."
Gsnuineness. simplicity, earncstness.
thoroughness-these are the foundation
stones of this mans teaching. in small
things and in great. He has his own
definition Of that mueh-diseussed word,
gentleman and this is 1t:
"A gentleman means simply this:
generous person; one who has learned
to be kind; one who has learned to think
not of himself first, but of the happiness
and welfare of others
And this is another passage. which in
n way strikes the keynote of the book
1t is taken from the talk on negro
music. The Tuskegee students make
the singing of the old plantation meic-
dies a part of their musical education.
as also do the Hampton students. II
this connection Mr. Washington says of
leadership:
THE life of the child is founded upon
the great ard inmutable, and yet
simple. tender and delicate laws OF ma
ture. There is no pretense. There Is
no moekery.
There IS an unconscious. beautiful,
strong clinging to truth; ard it is this
divine quality in child or IN man. in Jew
or Gentle. in Christian or Mohamme-
dan. in the ancient world or in the
modern world. in a black man or
white man. that always has led men and
molded their activity. The men who
have been brave enough, wise enough,
simple enough, self-denyins enough to
plant themselves upon this rock of truth
and there stand. have. in the eud. drawn
the world unto them, even as Christ
said. 1 will draw all men unto me- +"
Incidentally. 1t might be noted that it
was of this man that Senator Tillman
said that "a thousand niggers would
have TO be killed as a result of his
dining with the President. Il would be
rather instructive to compare the prac-
tical value of Mr. Washingtons speeches
and Mr.. Tillman's as solutions OF the
race problem. Perhaps one of these
days somebody will
These are the concluding paragraphs
of the work on er-building at
Tuskegee:
I'VE want to be larger and broader
than the people who would Cypress US
on account of our color.
NO one ever loses anything by being
a Gentleman or lady. No person ever
lost anything by being broad. Remem-
Der that if we are kind and useful, il
We are moral, no matter what people
say about US, they cannot pull US down.
But. on the other hand. if we are with
out the spirit of usefulness, il we are
without morality. without iiberality.
without economy and property, without
all those qualities which go TO make q
people and nation great and strong no
matter what we may say about our
selves and what other people may say
about us. we are losing ground. Nobody
can give us these qualities merely by
praising US and talking well about us:
and when we possess them. nobody can
take them from us by speaking i'll OF
us (New York: Doubleday. Page &
Col
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much. There are people in the world
who never think. who never map out
anything fo- themselves. who have to
wait to be told what TO do. People OF
that kiEd are not worth anything. Tn ~
really ought to pay rent for the air they
breathe
| Again:
II want you to see, as think you will
see. that having hard time. running up
against difficulties here and there, helps
to make an individual strong, helps
| to make him powerful. This is the point
l want to make with you that one OF the
reasons you are here is that you may
learn to overcome difficulties. / have
named some that you may expect to
meet, but have not named them all
They will keep springing up all the time.
Just in proportion as you learn to rise
above them and trample them under
your feet, Just in that proportion
will you accomplish the high pur-
pose for which you came here and help
to accomplish the purpose for which this
Institution exists"
Here are two or three bits of advice
which deal with details:
Il remember that once | was intro
duced to a company of about sixty men,
and out of the whole number there were
only six who were not doctors. profess
sors. or colonels, or who did not have
some title. l must say | thought more
of the six who were just plain misters
than l did OF all the rest. for among the
others there were some very hard look
ing doctors and professors. An over
desire for these things shows 4 shallow
ness in us which makes US ridiculous
We want TO stop making that kind OF
mistake. If you are mister. encourage
people to call you by that title"
Again:
II want to see you own land I want
to sec you own a decent home And let
me say right here that your home is not
decent or complete unless it contains a
good. comfortable bathtub. OF the two.
believe would rather see you own a
bathtub without house than house
without a bathtub. II you get the tub
you are sure to get the house later So
when you go out from here buy bath
tub, even if you cannot afford to buy
anything elese."
And here Is a shrewd comment which
contains whole volume OF implica-
tions:
I'VE want to be sure that We remain
simple in our dress and all our outward
appearance. / do not like to see a
young man who Is poor. and whose tut
tion is being paid by someone. and who
has no books. sometimes has no socks.
sometimes has no decent shoes. wearing
a white. stiff. shining collar. which he
has sent away 10 he laundered. do not
like to ask people to give money for
such younS man as that. 1t is much
better for young man to learn to laun-
der his collars himself than TO pretend
to the world that he is what he is not.
When you send a collar to a city laun-
dry It indicates that you have bank
account, 1t indicates that you have
money ahead and can afford that luxury
Now, | do not believe that you can af-
ford it; and that kind of prctense and
that kind of acting do not pay.
Get right down to business, and, as
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A thin volume in brilliant scarlet
cover contains an immense amount of
information about the Roosevelt family.
compiled By Charles Barney Whittlesey,
of Hartford, Conn, and published under
the title, "The Roosevelt Genealogy,
1649-1902."
The founder of the family in this
country was Claes Martenszen Van Ros-
onfelt, who came to New Amsterdam in
1649 During the two and half CEN
turies since that time, his descendants
have intermarried with practically ev-
cry family of note in the old aristoc-
racy of New York, and the names OF
these families dot the pages as they
do the map of New York. De Peysters,
De Reimers, Van Cortlandts. iryinss,
Lispenards. Livingstons. BleecEers.
stuyvesants. Van Beekmans, Van
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THE WORK OF BOOKER WASHINGTON

4 desire to Impress that individuality on
the reader.
| The second salient quality in the work
Bis its optimism. There has been good
t.dear of optimism directed at the Ameri
iican negro, and some of 1t has hurt him
sbadly, for people who expect too much
tof man are apt to conclude. when he
does not meet their expectations, that
l'they were wrong in hoping for anything
i.at all, and something like this reaction
is now taking place in the Northern at
i'titude on the race question. But here is
Twas born, who began life as a ragged.
Ipenniless, friendless boy, without even
! a knowledge OF the alphabet. who
started his school teaching in a shanty
that leaked so badly that he had to sit
under an umbrella when IL rained. and
school of over 1000 students, which
owns property worth many thousand
dollars, but has practically made that
school what 1t is. If anybody has a
right to be optimistic on the subject OF
the negro, he IS certainly the one. Yet
his optimism has nothing unreasonable
in it. 1t amounts practically to this:
I'VE have come far, in spite of all the
difficulties that can be named: we shall
go farther, but it will take time
Meanwhile he is looking with all his
faculties for the shortest road, and thus
J far he appears to have found it.
! On every page the direct and practical
value OF the work is shown. Here is a
chunk of common sense which appears
to have been overlooked by other educa-
tors:
What we should do in all our schools
| is to turn out fewer job-seekers and
more job-makers. Anyone can seek
job. but It requires person of rare
ability 10 create job"
And here is another:
81 know that many of you boys had
rather I would tell you how to go to
Congress than how to become success
ful mixers. Inasmuch, though, as
suspect good many more OF us will
have to'milk cows than can go TO Con-
gress, ! think 1t Will not hurt us to talk
about milking. II the boy who milks
cows now does that thoroughly, by
doing 1t he may lay the foundation to go
to Congress later. The point is that we
want to be constantly on the lookout for
ways OF improving whatever work we
are engaged in. whether that work be
milking cows or doing something else.
I'm whatever you are doing there are
great many improvements which you
want TO become acquainted with. If your
work is dnirying. read the dairy jour
nails. Get hold OF every book or paper
that you can which has anything 20 10
with your line OF work. Be sure ,tha
you know all-or as nearly possible all
there is to be known about milking
cows
Considerable talk has been made Of
late about the folly OF giving money to
educate the negro when there is a white |
man in the same section who needs the
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There have been perhaps half q dozen
public men in American history who may
be called great originals, and the coun-
try is gradually waking up to the fact
that Booker Washington is one of them.
No one can read his latest book, Char
acter Building. without arriving at
some such conclusion. There is more
sound. hard common sense in it than in
any other book that has yet been writ
ten dealing with the race problem, and
yet there IS very little race problem in
it. 1t is a remarkable piece of work.
The autobiogrsp ply of Mr.. Washing
ton. published under the title up From
Slavery" was widely read, more on ac-
count of the unique facts which it re-
corded than because of its literary
merit. although the latter was by no
means small. THE Future of the Amer
lean Negro" attracted attention be-
cause 1t was the utterance Of a recog-
ent on such subjects. The present work
is of different nature. 1t goes down to
bed rock and grapples with realities. Il
is made up mainly of the Sunday even
ing talks given by the principal OF Tus-
kegee TO his students. There is not
much waste time on Mr.. Washington.
and ne had not spent any --me on mer g
creation of literature which might have
been spent on his school. He is man
OF one idea. and that idea Is Tuskegee;
but 1t possesses so many aspects and
phases that there is nothing narrowin
about 1t. All that he does in the waF
of writing, speaking. travelling, or study
is carefully considered in its relation TO
this one end; but a man who takes a
raw plantation negro, often hardly more
than a savage. and tackles the problem
of making him an educated being who
can earn a good living in 4 civilized
city. is not likely to find his work
dwarfing his faculties. That, as all the
world knows, is the task which BoolOcr
Washington has set himself: and the de
velopmcnt OF his own nature and intea-
lect. through many years OF such work.
is unconsciousiy shown in many of
these short discourses on the building
of character. The book is the work of
a man who has travelled farther in one
life than some races are required TO
travel in several generations. Tuskefse
IS not by any means the only school oil
its kind; there are half dozen otIeer
Institutions in the South where the sa rle
sort OF trai.,ing is given, but there Is
only one man who is generally regarded
as its embodiment, and that is ;.he
author CT this book.
The first thing which one notices in
the book is the absence OF the personal
eirnoHs. The first personal pronoul Is
not otter used considering the fact ..at
the chapters are In the form o. address
es; thc look is dedicH' ;p tic cG.Csrs
and teachers Of Tuskegee, and zhe
frortispiece and only illus ..aticl i : !.
picture of one of the school buildings,
not a protrait of the author. It is cnri-
ous to find a book SO permeated with
the individuality OF one man, yet w:th-f
out the slightest eviieace OF 0 oohsc los
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this initial idea. 1t should be the start

IDlS lIiIldt iutd. IL SllOulu DS ltt start
ing point.
"Second-The greatest trouble. If not
peril. being constant source OF anxiety
and disturbance. is from Fenianism.
which Is excited by the British dag in
Canada. Therefore the withdrawal Of
the British flag cannot be abandoned as
condition or preliminary of such a
settlement as is now proposed. To make
the settlement complete, the withdrawal
should be from this hemisphere, includ-
ing provinces and Islands"
This proposition. in the condition in
which international relations hen We're.
could be calle1 nothing less than as
founding. Mr.. Adams calls 1t IAN icy
douche" to Hamilton Fish. He suggests.
however, that 1t is possible that the
proposition did not appear as odd in
1871 as It does now. for the reason that
Great Britain then held her colonies at a
considerably cheaper rate. A further ut
terance of Mr.. Summers, hoHeve-, de-
fines more accurately his position with
regard TO Canada. He wrote 10 his
friend DR.. Howe at about this time:
II look to annexation at the north.
wish to have that whole zone. from
Newfoundland to Vancouver"
He believed that the ultimate with
drawal of all European flags from the
Western Hemisphere was near at hand,
as the logical outcome of the Monroe
doctrine; and the utterance above quot
ed suggests comparison with Cecil
Rhodes laconic remark when looking at
the map of Africa: II hope to see all
that British" and with Kipling's poetic
definition OF Rhodes ideal.
"One land
From Lions Head TO Line
1t is quite safe to aver that nobody
ever thought of Sumner in the light of
Cecil Rhodes. and. in fact. he was
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Lee at Appomattox. and Other Pa
book by Charles Francis Adams, in
which are gathered, if one may use TIE
phrase, several essays on American po-
litical history. There is history which
deals with personalities, and other his
tory in which military and public events
are recorded and described; but there is
a third variety in which the author dis
cusses not only important events, move
ments and persons, but the political re-
lations which each bore to the other,
and the underlying causes which de-
veloped the leaders. started the move
ments. and precipitated the events witt
which we are all measurably familiar.
This sort of history is written in mucf
less volume than the other two kinds,
because, in the first place, it is not pic
turesuue, and therefore appeals only &c
the intelligent public; and in the second
place. there are comparatively few mer
who can even attempt to write 1t. Mr..
Adams is one of the men who can not
only attempt, but accomplish such
task.
Interest in sthis kind of history has
grown In recent years, and there are
probably more people who are interest
ed in it now than ever before. This is
due to several causes. The general
awakening of the American and English
public to the Importance of the question
of territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT has had
something to do with It, since, with
the discussion of various questions con-
nected with this subject, even the man
in the street has come to see that not
persons. but forces, shape the life Of a
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LITERARY NOTES
A Genuine Compliment.

I. One of the prettiest al truest COM
plinents ever paid to great poem is
that of Richard Watson Glider. on the
coronation ode of William Watson 1t
Was published IN the New York Even
ing Post and there are only six lines
Of il. They are as follows:
TO WILLIAM WATSON.
On His Coronation Ode.
In this high ode with its great shadow
kings,
More real than real things;
In this proud pageant Of imperial verse
That nobly doth rehearse
England's true glories. for the world to
read.
The King is crowned indeed.
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Mr.. Garland.

- Hamlin Garland has been making
lectures before the University Of Chi
cago He has asserted that Shakespeare
was not great that Longfellow and
that American poetry is very nearly non
existent. The only definite result of all
this. however. is that the Chicago papers
are calling him Ham,
The Washington times., 1902-07-06
The Undaunted Caine.

Fancy Hall Caine writing a Life of
Christi" Yet VIC learn that this is to
be his next important literary under
taking
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
Dirt In Dainty Cmrueta.

For housewives who pride them.
selves upon the spotless floor coverings
The Druggists Circular gives the fol-
lowing recipe for removing spots Of
dirt from carpets:
Make suds with good white soap
and hot water and add fuller's earth
to this until the consistency Of thin
cream. Have plenty of clean drying
cloths. a small scrubbing brush. large
sponge and pail of fresh water. Put
some of the cleaning mixture in bowl
and dip the brush In 1t. Brush a small
piece OF the carpet with this; then
wash with the sponge and cold water.
Dry as much as possible with the
sponge and finally rub with dry cloths.
Continue this till you are sure that all
the carpet Is clean; then let il dry.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
Redta En

How many people use the expression.
"a regular Redam" without knowing
Bedlam's W here or what" Bedlam
was the popular corruption OF Bethle-
hem. the name OF an insane asylum In
London. first established in 1923. Ow-
ing 10 the prevalent ignorance of that
age, it was place of chains and man
acles and stocks and finally became so
filthy and loathsome that no man could
enter it, 1t was rebuilt several times.
but even as late as 1912 the institution
was marked by it's cruelty to inmates.
The poor lunatics were chained ana
f1ogged at certain stages of the moons 8
age. Treacherous floors were arranged
that. slipping suddenly, precipitated
the unsuspecting ones into baths OF
SURPRISE a
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
E4pen.lve smoking. AsAA. -.

EoIne men smoke pipe for the sake
Of economy, because they can't AFFORD
good cigar, and other men indulge In
the mcerschaum and brier because they
claim it is the only way TO get the full
enjoyment out of tobacco. The ques-
ton Of economy doesn't enter into the
scheme ot the latter class.
A Walnut street manufactures OF
Turkish cigarettes sells ~ $3.50 O
pound considerable quantity OF i'm
ported tobacco. His customers are con-
noisseurs, and they are men who can
amply afford TO pay this exorbitant
price and say the goods are worth II
Some Of them, to be sure, make it last
longer by mixing 1t with Virginia long
cut, for the Turkish tobacco is exceed
lngly punecnt, and littleuQf 1t VIII
6ayor an equal quantity of W&heaper
weed. 4 novice who was ypgecipg this
tobacco expressed some 'snpASe that
II should he so expensive. 's@
That isn't expensive, MeHpWed the
tohacconlSt. There are TufdGbfobac'
cos that, with the duty added would
cost as much as 500 pound In this
country" Philadelphia Record.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
John Randolph.

The most fragrant bit of diplomatic
jobbery in the history of the United
States was perpetrated by that Virginia
scapegrace, John Randolph of Roanoke.
Randolph was appointed minister to
Russia in 1880. He sailed for his post
in June Of that year, but remained
there only ten days and then departed
suddenly for England, where he raised
high jlnks for nearly a year, after
which, returning home in October,
1891. he drew $2l ,407 from the treasu-
ry with which he paid off some OF his
old private ebts.--New York Press.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
HORSES OF VENICE.
Aefwai C~mAH increases tke TUmboR
90 Fifteen,

Ae&waf C~mnH Imcreases the TamboT
60 Fifteen.
1t is popular joke to say that there
are but six horses in Venice, four over
the portico Of st. Marks cathedral and
two bronze animals of heroic size. one
bestrode by Victor Emmanuel and the
other by General Colleone. But this Is
q mistake. There are four other
horses, also Of bronze, in the Church
of st. John and St Paul. and quite
number Of plaster and marble in the
different public buildings, m1king alto
gether at least fifteen or SiWseen. Rus
kin and other competent critics nave
declared the statue of COlleone to be
the best equestrian monument ever
cast in bronze. 1t was designed and
cast by Andrea Nerrocchio, painter,
sculptor, jeweler, engraver, poet and
musician, man of infinite genius,
whose greatest fame lies in the fact
that he was the instructor of the great
est artists of all centuries Michad
Ang9lo, Raphael and Leonardo da VIM
ci. The statue of Victor Emmanuel is
not so highly thought of.
The horses on the top of st Mark s.
are famous and have had trying ex-
perlence. They date back TO the pre-
historic 20 and are supposed TO be the
work Of a Greek artist named Iyssip-
pas aud designed for Sculptured char
sot They were taken TO Rome during
fhe empire ana first used as ornaments
upon a tr!umphal arch erected by Nero
and afterward by TrajaB. The En-
peror Constantine took them from
Rome to Constantinople, where the
Doge Dandolo seized them as loot and
brought them TO Venice. When Napo-
leon entered the city in 1897, he had
them taken down from the roof Of the
cathedral and shipped them in wagons
over the Alps to Paris. They served
as ornaments upon the triumphal arch
in the Place du CarrouscI till 1919,
when Emperor Francis |. Of Austria
redeemed them, and they were repuc-
ed, at his expense, where they now
stand. These pondcrous animals are
Of pure copper and each weighs about
two tons They were formerly gilded.
but the gold has been worn off by the
weather. and the verdigris which has
accumulated upon the copper gives
them rich green tint William e. Cur
It's in Chicago Herald.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-07
The Der~naamt's Pleading.

In rural district in the west OF Eng
land there lived an eccentric old farm
er who was continually appearing be-
fore the magistrates for allowing his
cattle 10 stray on the highway.
During the hearing of his case for a
similar offense upon the last occasion
he elected much laughter from the pre-
siding gentlemen on the bench and
others.
The chairman. addressing the defend
am. asked.
DO you plead guilty or not guilty.
well. yer 'onor, l expects as he
guilty. But don't be too hard on q
reg'lar customer. Tit Bits.