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Did Roosevelt Mean Leonard Wood

Did Roosevelt Mean Leonard Wood? ?
The Forum of March, 1909, had an
article entitled as Our Army Degen-
erate?" written by Col ALEXANDER s.
BACON, now of 81 Liberty street, New
York city, in which Col BACON said:
mo one shou Id be perm tted to hold the position
of General or Colonel or to serve on any division or
brigade stan In the Regular army unless he be
graduate OF the Military Academy or have shown
special fitness during years OF army service and
nave passed a rigid examination In strategy, tac-
Tics logstics and military engineering at least-the
foundation stones OF military learning"
Col. BACON thereupon received the
following letter:
STATE or NEW YORK.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER.
"AInAEY March 8, 1890
"Co'. ALEXANDER S BACON, 80 Wan street. NeU
York cur
my DEAR Col. BAcoS--I have just read your
piece In the Forum. | would give great deal II
every blessed member OF the Cabinet and every
Senator and Congressman could be compelled to
learn II by heart and then forced to apply what 1t
taught
"THEoDoRE ROOSEVELT"
The despat ches from Washingt on have
had it for several days that DR.. LEONARD
WooD is to be -whitewashed.
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mua IN all cases send stamps for that purpose.
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Promptly at I the great audience as
>enbed 40 hear "Parsifal" began to pour
ont of the main entrance of the Mctropoli-
tan opera House
II could hardly be termed procession,
that food of humanity, for the word pro-
cns.lon implies a certain delberation in
gait and Il possibility of breaking through
the ranks to reach the other side. No
such possibility existed in the foyer of
the opera house for at least fifteen minutes.
Those stranded oa one side of the crowd
were forced to remain there until quarter
cf an hour had elapsed,
Nartorially considered, the audience was
interesting. A great deal has been writ
ten and great deal said about the
etiquette of the occasion. from the
point of view Of the wardrobe. One
who was not satisfied with the exhibitio ion
must indeed be hard to please, for anything
you wanted you could find there.
Did you insist upon the regulation
o'clock tea outfit. there it was. Were you
to attend dinner party between the acts
with no time for a change of dress, you
had plenty of sympathizers. We're you
rainy daisy, you could find the short
suit and the abbreviated jacket.
Did you wish to emphasize the fact
that there was a special train in from Chi
cago, there was the red waistcoat with
cable chain attachment for fear it might
get away Were you long haired Angora,
there were others with hair carefully mussed
up for the occasion,
We're you conservatory young woman
with mind so carefully attuned to counter
point that the trifing matter of the adap-
tation Of dress to occasion seemed to you
of little moment, there were others-an un-
limited number of others.
Chiffons and velvets, sables and ermines,
laces and diamonds were side by side with
homemade frocks and hats Of ready made
millinery. Scintllatng tiaras marched out
side by side with locks which in the stress
of emotion had become unmoored from
fastenings and struggled unbecomingly
on either side of the face.
Men with gardenias in buttonholes and
crush hats brothered those in business
jackets and four-in- hands. Trailing opera
coats Of priceless materials half covering
gowns just as Valuable brushed carelessly
against costumes still damp with the Christ
mas eve rain and spattered with the mud
Of Broadway.
Priests and pagans, bellies and beaux,
mon of leisure and busy fnanciers, women
of the home, of the workroom, of the social
whrl, students and operate stars-al
we're there. vast mass of units interest
ing considered as units or as whole.
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Then they came down and fra'ernizcd
vii us. Some Of them had scalps at their
belts tha were still We with blood. Then
they told us they had jus, had glorious
dav
They were returning from II raid on
neighborng Comanrhe camp, and had
taken seven scalps, only losing three Of their
own parry. They felt So good they built
fire and made us cat supper with them
but they couldn't get over laughing al the
scare they had given us.
"Of all the whi,es he Indian loves best
to fight cowboys He admires them. be-
cause they seem 10 enter into the spirit of
il. They have a supreme contempt for
soldiers, because the mill airy have orders
never To shoot unless driven To H.
But if you want 10 see Indian fighting
90 10 Mexico, Every spring the iaquis
rise and 'ear around the country just for
a good time, licking all the soldiers they
come across.
Then. when the Govcrnmen, sends an
army corIs up into the Yaqui country,
they don't find a trace of tho Joyous
warriors They've all gone back to their
farms to ch,Ickle over lhc Joke"
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woman was. with the help of her maid. ;
divestng herself Of her street costume
and putting on an evening gown, which
the maid had brought in huge box. Noses
were being powdered with force and leisure.
so glad I've got plenty of time, to- !
night" said blond beauty, as she dabbed !.
herself vigorously with poudre de riS. Z
Generally have 70 put il on with a rush. .
Some women had their hair down. and
were carefully arranging it and two or
three had solved the problem OF dress
by divestng themselves of yoke and sleeves, !
leaving underneath the guimpes. Sleeves
less evening corsages
The entrace had been advertised to
last an hour and three quarters and about
fifteen minutes beforehand persons beganto
straggle in.
For a quarter Of an hour there was a
Kaleidoscope panorama. The returned had
on their faces the expression Fate cannot
harm me, have oined." Some of them
it was evden, had dined and wined az WE'LL p
Two men. chappes of the chappiest
type. embraced each other vigorously.
Game to see Pdrsifdt get the best OF tho
girls" one announced 81 hear he won't (.
listen to one of EN-: never came from dear
OH New loTh, ulu NJ, cHdppf'
"Or from Chicago, either answered
the other I'VE haven't any modern Par d.
sitols out there any more than you have
in New York" Il
Apparently No 2 considered it neces-
sary to stand by his native place under
all circumstances. p"
To dress or TO dine that had been the =
quest ion. and each had answered it accord"
ing to individual preference There were =
plenty of stunning evening gowns, but
they were more than balanced in number
by the dinner dresses and the street cos q
tunes .
Apparently the ma jority Of the audience
had attended dinner parties AZ some of
the neghboring restaurants. There was
a no, Ceablo lack of diamonds in the boxes
when Tie house was again filled, but there
were few vacant chairs, and the criticism
that the fashionable people attend to outdo
one another in dress and jewels would seem
TO be disproved
One mat ron, interviewed on the question
of her method Of spending her hour and
three quarters, said
Il went home, rested for quarter Of an .
hour and had cup OF bouillon served while
| was changing my gown. Our party will
have late dinner after the performance.
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the joker is used. it is always the best
trupon and ranks above th q right bower.

the Joker is used. it is always the best
trump and ranks above the right bower.
Five or six persons is the proper number
to make up table, six making the better
game. The cards are either cut or thrown
round for the first deal and choice of seats,
the highest card having the choice In
cutting, the joker is the best card in the
pack, but the jacks rank between the queen
and ten, because there are no trumps in
cutting
Five cards are dealt to each player, two
al a time the first round and three the next ;
or three the first time and two the next.
1t is misdeal if the same number of cards
is not given to every player, including
the dealer on the same round,
The top card of those remaining in the
stock is turned up for trump. If this
happens TO he the joker it may either be
previously agreed that certain SUIT,
usually spades, shall always be the trump
obliged to name suit before looking al
any of his own cards. The first method
is the better.
The trump turned, each player in turn
beginning on the dealers lett, must declare
TO pass or to order up the trump. III all
pass. the deal ler can either take up the
trump card and discard one from his original
hand, or he can turn it down.
II any player. in his proper turn, orders
up the trump, the dealer must take i: into
his hand and discard, and the person order
ing up becomes the player for that deal
If all pass and the dealer turns down he
trump, each player in turn, beginning
on the dealers left. has the privilege of
passing again or naming any one OF the
three other suits for a trump. IT no one
will name a new suit, the hands are aban-
doned, and the deal passes to the next
player.
When player has ordered up the trump,
or takenit up If he is the dealer, or named
a new suit after the first has been turned
down, he may either play his hand alone
against all the Others AT the table or he
may call on the best card of any plain suit
for a partner the cannot call on the best
trump, and the player called on cannot
refuse, but he does not disclose the TACT
that he holds the card called on
A great many Observation-Disclosures arise
from the confusion between the name OF
the game, call on the ace" and the actual
fact that il is not the ace, but the best card
of the suit. which is called on. The ace
may not be ip play. although 1t is Is TO /
that Il; is in six hand
With only five in the game, there are
six cards left in the stock after turning
up the trump, and il is not very rare for
to be all among these cards. In such a case
the player holding the jack would be the
one called on as the partner, but, of course,
he would haV" no idea of il until the suit
was led.
1t is evident that player calling on the
best card of suit may discover that he
holds the best of it himself, and is there
fore really playing alone. This often hap
pens when the caller has king or queen
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toward the dressing rooms of the stars
and chorus. All is quiet there. Some OF
the cast are outside for their suppers.
but the majority are resting quietly in
their rooms. The gray uniformed attache
of the theatre, willing to do his part, raises
himself by the hands and peeks through
the window into one of the dressing rooms.
Guess we can't go in, he explains tersely'
They're dressing"
1t is his habit apparently to assure him
self Of the propriety Of entrance in that
way. 1t certainly saves time.
Asked as to his opinion Of "Parsifal,'
he announced that Its all right. Con-
ried knows what he's about, guess
From the stage, over trap doors. again
under dangling ropes, up and down queer
stairways, through masses Of blackness
and dim rays of light the path leads anew
to the empty auditorium,
There are only few who have remained
out of tho thousands who were sitting
there about half hour before These few
are esconced in out -of-the-way corners
and for a little while the eye does not dis
Germ them. 1t is impressed only with the
restful silence after the bursts Of applause.
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IN THE OPERA CLUB.
the dist racton of rapidly moving scenes,
the storm and stress of vocal passions.
The deep red hall, softly glowing, seems
still resonant with the sound of PdrsifdFs
voice and the, wailing of the orchestral
accomplishments 1t seems waiting, too
in the hush that precedes all great en-
deavor for the final scenes and the triumph
OF the s pirit over the flesh.
Little by little, as the eye becomes ac-
customed to the place, you can see stray
groups sitting on the floor of the asles and
in the back, munching sandwiches and dry
cakes out of paper bags or bits of news
paper. They are very careful of the
crumbs, too in which they differ from the
normal picknicker who is joyously oblivious
of rubbish.
The parties become friends as they MUNICH.
One of them has been to Bayreuth and COM
pares the difference.
1T is all in the atmosphere" she AYERS.
1T is something you feel. you cannot eX-
plain 1t is like the sens alton that you have
at the Passion Play of Oberammergau.
-Bayreuth means 'Parsifal,' and as soon
as you get of the cars you think it and
you live it. And then there is Frau Wag-
ner, too, and she is so in teresting.
How I would like" she continues as she
helps herself to a second course of sand
wich "to see the old lady and Conred to-
gether having it out! l don't suppose [
ever will" and she sighs deeply.
A step further and you nearly fall over
two clerics back to back busily studying
the score,' sitting on the floor near the rail
to avoid trampling. Their specialized heads
are ensconced between pages
Il can't make up my mind" says one in
response to the inevitable question. ITO
me il seems wonderfully reverent, and even
the scene of the Holy Eucharist did not
offend, for | assume that it is the spirit
with which one views it that decides its
righteousness or not. | can unders and.
though, how the severely orthodox might
cavil at it. However. you know, the letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth life
The second was even more enthusiastic.
What difference does il make where a
mans soul is uplifted, so that it is uplifted
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! of the suit he calls on and the higher card
is not in play.
II is also evident that person who is
not the maker of the trump cannot be sure
that he is not the partner called on simply
because he does not hold the ace OF that
suit. His king, queen or jack may be the
best out
If he fancies the ace is out, he will play
against the maker Of the trump, Of course.
IT he does not think it is out he will play
as his partner and the difficulty of the
situation often adds greatly to the interest
of the game.
The player who makes the trump may
call on the best card of suit of which he
has none himself. so that il the best card
played 10y his partner. Is trumped, ne can
overtrump. IL it is not trumped, he may
get rid of doubtful card
He NAV also call for the best of suit
when he holds the ace Of it himself, which
is simply another way of playing alone.
Tho result is precisely the same as If he
had called, expecting to get an ace to help
him, and found his own card the highest
If the maker of the trump does not call
| on any suit. he must declare TO play alone
| The difference in the resul, of playing
alone or, with partner is in the scores.
The object Of the player who makes the
he makes three or four, but not five, he
scores one point toward game, whether
he has partner or not. If he has partner
each of them scores one.
IL ne ana MS partner Set HNe 'rlchs'
| they score points each. If the player is
alone, and wins all five, he scores number
equal to the number playing 5 points in
five hand game, u point in six hand.
II the maker of the trump and his partner
| fail to get three tricks, they are euchred.
| and their opponents score points each.
| Ii he plays alone and fails to get three
| tricks, all the others at the table score 2
| points.
In case he is euchred in the first three or
| four tricks, the hands must lie shown, in
| order o sec whether or not he had partner,
| if he called on one.
the play stops Immediately, and the side
which is not in fault scores If the player
is alone and one OF his adversares revokes,
| the hands are abandoned and the player
| scores !, or points, as the cnse may he,
even il he has already lost trick. If he
! maker of the trump or his partner should
| revoke, all his opponents score 2 points
! each, the same as for a euchre, and the
| hands are abandoned
/ When player orders up. he should he
| careful, before calling on a partner, to see
/ that the dealer has discarded Otherwise
| the dealer may discard the suit called on.
so as to trump it.
! 1t is just possible that the dealer may te
the makers partner and can discard 70
! advantage, but the odds are against il.
| When the dealer takes up the trump him
! self, he has the advantage of the discard,
especially for lone hands
No matter who takes the trump, the
player on the left of the dealer leads for
| the first trick. When partner has been
called for. il is usual to lead the suit called,
so that this partner may be discovered,
II it so happens that the original leader
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in Chicago! Came on in a special? You
don't say! Come and have bracer"
These were a few of the comments over
heard
The last straggler has gone. The outer
doors are closed. The foyer is left in pos
session Of the uniformed attendants with
the gilt letters IN. o. H." on their caps,
of the burly policemen who waste no airy
parsihage on those who attempt to break
into the auditorium, of the boys still shrek
ing "librettos" and of the few at the box
Office buying seats for other "Parsifals.' v
The great entr'acte has begun.
Upstairs in his private office sits Heinrich
Conried He is all alone. There is nothing
in the serenity of the room to suggest the
hurly- burly of the event 1t is as quiet
and serene as a lady's parlor.
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Later, in the sitting room of the Opera
Club he is imperturbable, suave and COM
posed as he listens to and answers the
congratulations Of those who surround
him. For the moment he permits him
self a lapse.
Il am tired" and he shakes his long
hair and the blue eyes grow deeper. Il
shall sleep all right tonight when 1t is all
over, but now" he extends trembling
hand, look at that. | am trembling for
every chorus girl, for every stage carpenter.
/ am carrying the weight Of everything,
and it is no light weight"
Still master of detail he calls boy to
show SUN reporter all over the building
to watch the matters Of interest taking
place there between acts.
Looked at from any point of view, the
auditorium of the opera house is huge
place, but from the stage height and depth
seem almost overpowering. You wonder
how it is possible that the human voice
can reach to the topmost part of the top
gallery, where real music lovers sit night
after night.
1t would seem as if shrek here would
become a whisper before it reached that
sky line. To appreciate the tremendous
work of Pdrsifol and Kundrv in the long
acts of the music-drama, one should see
that vast expanse of space.
On the stage the carpenters are setting
the scene for the Garden Of Delight, Great
masses of rose trees are sprlnging up on
either side, and even near at hand in the
dim light and the masses of shadows they
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The INDIANS LOVE OF BATTLE.
A THEORY WITH 4 LN'EEI sonar
TO DEMONSTRATE 1T.
No Special Grudge Said to Isc Borne 10y
Indians Tow ard white MCn--Thc'r Pref
crences In the Way OF Fighting-An-
nuai Outbreaks Of the laQuis.

"'The Indian fights Just for the fun of il, "
said the Colonel from the West "Only last
year had an experience that was as warm
an affair as ever had in the early sixties.
II was down on the ella River looking
O yer piece of land wanted to buy for
sheep raising | liked the place all right RE-
water and pasturage just suited me so |
began 10 consider ii seriously
Ever have any trouble with Indians"
asked the old pioneer who owned the
la nd.
"'Wall.'" he said. Injuns do get a little
restless now and agin, hut it don't mount
to much. jest liVens up both parties
enough to give 'en new zest,'
Il didn't consider that the old mans
point of view might not be mine, so men
tally made the note. Indians not trouble
some
Next day | proposed We go out on "A
hunting trip, and the old man agreed
Some neighbors of his Joined us, and We
set out on horses, Just ten of MS.
we struck trail into the hills. About
noon we discovered a big grizzly waIlow-
ing in pool OF water, and advanced on foot
to interview him.
I'VE had just spread ourselves out in
fine style to open fire, when "A shot rang
out in chaparral above us, and we heard
the spat of bullet as it hit the rocks just
where our game was. The grizzly let out a
grunt and looked up.
Then we opened fire. The bear lust
rose from that pool like small mountain
in eruption and with just about as much
noise. He came right for us, and the rife
cracks sounded like a fu-sized battle
But just as the bear was coming close enough
to make consider ullicL bn
fell dead.
"We all rushed up with a whoop. but
about the same time there was another
whoop from the chaparral and four Indians
came pelting down on US. They reached
the bear just as we did.
Then followed an exciting debate
couldn't understand what they said. but
the old man evidently could, for he an
swered them back in their own tongue II
seems they claimed the bear because they
fired the first shot, but the old man wouldn't
have it that way, He told them to git and
RS we outnumbered them they got. but
they were pretty sulky about il.
"We skinned the bear and were hitting
the trail back to camp. Suddenly we