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you the course" said the committee
man. Thanks" said Roosevelt, gath
cring the reins and bounding into the
saddle.
The committeeman did not ride
alonGside-for reasons, and all that the
committeeman or the escort ever saw
Of their guest on that ride was a streak
of dust from one hundred to five hun
dred yards ahead of them until after
q ten mile circuit Roosevelt drew rein
again at the starting point.
To be esteemed great among the men
of this day and generation requires
qualities and achievements in excess
of any ever before demanded. AS was
said in substance By a great English
poet, I'VE are dwarfs in knowledge in
our relations to the physical and men
tai universe, but we are dwarfs perch
ed upon the shoulders of the giants OF
the generations which have gone be-
fore and our eyes scan horizon which
theirs could never reach. Those who
can so tower above their fellows as to
define an outline against such Q hori-
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rifice. from care for others. Ir few
natures are to be found poised with
such perfectness apd exactness the po-
etical and the practical elements Of
mind. His early inspirations took
scholarly ways. He liked to unravel
the mysteries of science, to analyze
the legends of history, to untangle the
paths of philosophy. Then he faced
unfinchingly the exigencies of a West
ern frontier life.
He borrowed dignity and grace
from the untamed grandeur of phys
ical nature and courage was his by
instinct and inheritance. His hardy,
hopeful zeal saw high purpose in
every storm that beat upon his cabin.
AS one result of this noble education
he presents his thoughts in English
as terse and vigorous as it is pure. He
takes the model for his expression
from the classic philosophy of the
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zon must be giants indeed.
The proverb which says that some
men are born to greatness. some
achieve greatness and some have great
ness thrust upon them" may be ques-
toned. 1t is doubtful whether a man
who is not born great can ever achieve
greatness. for if fame be thrust upon
a man of common nature he will be
apt to contradict the proverb by prov
ing unequal to the occasion. 1t is
doubtful If circumstances or accident
ever made a great man. They may de-
velop latent genius, but God Almighty
enjoys a monopoly of it's creation.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader of
men, leading not merely by superior
power, but by superior moral qualities.
Men follow him because he impresses
them with the idea that his own pro-
motion is not his first care. His
thoughts take directions from self sac
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thusfastic. earnest. warm-hearted and
dare devil West. it will never be
said OF him. as FOntsnelle said OF a
French statesman. He has as good
heart as can be made out OF brains,
for heart and brains are close part
ners N his makeup.
President Roosevelt is equally well
equipped to dispute with a Harvard
professor on the character OF Pericles
or to engage in a war Of wit on the
hustings He faced the iron hail at
Santiago unhinchingly and a few
months later he extOrted from the
critics unmeasured praise for his his
tOricaI essays on the American revo-
luton.
The history Of his career affords a
lesson which may we'll put hope into
the humblest heart. 1t is the proud
boast of our Government that Il Is
able 10 furnish a pedestal for such
gifts and such goodness as are en-
bodied in the character Of our Pres
ident, and it is a boast not less proud
that the people were wise enough and
just enough to accord to him the po-
sitiOns that he has achieved.
the laurel. but one such selection re-
deems many Of the errors OF our pol
itics and atones for many a corrupt
or cOwardly choice.
The writer Of this article was in
Washington for a few days in the
spring of 1908, and called at the White
House to pay his respects. While wait
ing in the small anteroom adjoining the
Presidents private Office there entered
upon n similar errand OF courtesy the
grand old poet, Joaquin Miller. Joaquin
and my wife and L have been close
friends, in sunshine and in storm, for
thirty years. although we had not met
for some time. We engaged in close
conversation, and did not notice that
the room was filing with Senators and
Representatives who had the privilege
Of entering and who came to see the
President on business.
President Roosevelt entered the room
suddenly and almost brusquely. With
rapid mods and greetings to the occu-
pants he passed them by, and placing
both hands in those of Joaquin greeted
him warmly and engaged him in con-
versation. 1t was hardly conversation.
for it was a monolOgue Of friendly crit
icism and praise Of one of the later ef-
fusions of the poet. Wait a minute.
said Roosevelt. and he ran like boy
into an adjacent room and returned
with a manuscript in his hand See"
said he, Il have quoted these lines OF
yours in this article" And he then re-
cited some verses by Joaquin, while
the old poet stood blushing like boy.
That is all that 1 can stand at one
time. Mr.. President" said the poet,
"Good-b by" and with a parting wiring
from Roosevelt's hand he started for
the door.
And the Senators and Congressman
waited and listened and looked, and 1t
seemed to be gradually dawning upon
them that there are nearly 500 Of them,
all told. in this republic Of ours. and
only one Joaquin Miller.
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This was agreed upon and the guest
was taken in a carriage to the rooms
Of the Alta Club, where, after a lunch
and handshaking and speechmaking,
the chairman of the committee-himself
one of the Rough Riders, and accred-
tied with being the best horseman in
Utah-said to the guest: IF you do not
feel too tired to take a ride about the
city now, your horse is at the door, and
l and a few of the boys will escort you
and show you the way"
Roosevelt accepted and his animal
a magnificent bay-was led to the front.
Mount" said the committeeman to the
escort, and twenty cowboys leaped into
their saddles. Shall I assist you to
mount, Colonel Rosevelt?H said the ur-
bane committeeman. 1T will not,
think, be necessary said the candidate
for Vice President, placing his glasses
in. his pocket and buttoning his coat
II will i.de alongside you and show
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less satisfaction than the more quiet

less satisfaction than the more quiet
self-tones.
Broderie d'Anglaise is the modern
name for the old-fashioned button
hole or eyelet work, with which the
new embroiderer's great grand
mother decked her bridal trousseau.
The pattern, a simple, conventional
design, with large, pronounced detail,
IS stamped and worked before the
cloth is cut away, to leave a ford
applique effect. The pattern is first
traced in stout thread to brace it, and
this in turn is buttonhole stitched,
so that the knotted edge of the stitch
es forms the protection when the
cloth is cut away. The buttonhole
stitching is then connected by simple
cobweb or other lace designs, of open
work, each thread being strength
ened by buttonhole stitches.
Sometimes this drawn or open work
effect is exceedingly ornate, though
as a rule best results follow simple
designs y distinctive feature is the
number of small eyelets, also button
hole stitched, scattered like French
knots through the design proper.
When all the handwork is done, the
NLOIH 10 Nul dWdy dllQ llOIlQ open
effect is secured
This work lends itself to all the
heavier silks, to pongee, broadcloth,
lansdown, sicilienne CLOTH etc, and
like the Hardanger lace is elegant
and effective i'll self tones. 1t is used
for yokes; shirt-waist sets, shaped
berthas and entire bodice fronts.
If lace medallions are to be intro
duced, they are first arranged on the
pattern, and the chiffon folds are
basted so as to make each lace
medallion the center of a pattern in
openwork, not unlike a renaissance
effect. Sometimes the note of gold
is not introduced in the form of
French knots, but the heavier portions
of the lace pattern are run or out
lined with gold thread.
A blouse of tucked mousseline with
yoke and bertha in mousseline motif
and openwork will be one of the ex-
travagances of the coming season,
unless the family can boast of an up
to-date embroiderer. who really does
not en1broider, after all She Just
sets dainty stitches as Dame Fashion
commands
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handwork, with the machine-made
dots softened by the floss. AS a re-
suit, the younger sisters suit lost its
bargain counter air, for at the head
of each plat in the skirt. on the box
plated band down the, front of the
blouse, on cuffs, collar and belt were
what passed for handworked motifs
in silky floss.
For porch work, the family en-
broiderer delights in marking hand
kerchiefs, and here she INDUCES a
fad. Instead of having a monogram
or conventional letter stamped on the
linen, she stretches the handkerchief
over her embroidery hoops, and in
the very center, or in one corner, she
writes, in delicate hand, the Chris
tian name of the owner. This she
covers with a solid satin stitch in
white mercerized cotton, if the hand
kerehief is all white. If the hem OF
design is in pale colors, such as blue
pink, lilac, or green, the name is en-
broidered in corresponding tint.
A prudent person is this LADY, OF
the needle, for with her summer ward
robe complete, she sets dainty
chiffon and cloth, which will appear
later in her fall blouses. In the
cretonne-covered basket at her elbow
are stamped collars and cuffs, or per.
haps a girdle or bertha, and be.
wilderingly beautiful collection O.
mercerized floss and heavy silks-al
to be woven into sartorial treasures
by this practical summer girl.
The handwork fads of the momen
are the broderie d'Anglaise or eye
let embroidery, the Hardanger lace
and motifs built of chiffon and fagot
ing, all of which will play large
part in the building of fall blouses.
Hardanger lace is a quaint combi
nation of sampler stitches and drawn
work. 1t will be much seen on wolfe
and etamine blouses for early fal
wear, as it can be worked only or
materials possessing a clearly defined
mesh. The designs are square or dia
nond shaped, and threads are drawn
as for regular drawn work. The
hollows or squares thus formed are
outlined with heavy buttonho1t
stitch in mercerized floss. Smaller
squares are then formed within thi:
large one by separating the uncut
threads and bracing them with liner
thread No. so. If desired, these tiny
squares may be filled in with single
lace stitch in the linen thread, such
as is employed in drawn work The
designs are simple and can first be
tried on Hardanger canvas, which
comes for the purpose. or on ordinary
r.,
grandmother's sampler.
Hardanger shows to best advantage
when worked in self-tones; that is
for pale gray etamine the stitches are
worked in floss of the same tone OF
a trife deeper, and on champagne
wolfe, champagne floss is employed
For young girls, Persian and Bull.
garian co1ors are also used, but the
correct mixing of the colors compli-
Gates the work and in the end gives
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A Clock of Books.

One of the novelties of the summer
is a clock which literally illustrates
the old saying, Time flies It stands
about six inches high and looks like
two open books with pages an inch
square On the upper book the hour
is indicated and on. the pages of the
lower book are the figures of the min
ute. Every minute lower page flies
over and displays the next figure, and
every hour the upper book turns a
page.
The clock ticks like an ordinary
timepiece, and is red and gold, en-
cased in glass. Above it is the injunc-
ton in old English script, Watch
! time fly
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Breakfastless Shoppers.

Department store restaurants COM
tnand peculiar morning trade. Few
of them advertise the breakfast, yet
there is quite brisk trade drawn
from women who come downtown
very early in search of bargains. A
shop which features Monday and
Tuesday morning sales usually has
rush for the bargain counters the
moment the doors are opened
Mattresses in the restaurants say that
very few women who attend these
sales stay at home to eat breakfast
Many do not take even cup OF
coffee, and once they secure the COW
eted bargains they adjourn to the
restaurant, eat light breakfast and
then continue their shopping system
atically.
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mings provided, a vest and stock of
crean-colored chiffon, embroidered in
small silk disks, shading from cream
to golden brown and dashed here and
there with gold. To outline the vest
was galloon of ecru lace, showing
daisies, the hearts of the flowers en-
broidered to match the disks in the
chiffon. The lace for the wrist ruf1es
had the principal design run in gold
thread. A crush girdle with a gold
buckle was added, and, thanks to the
family embroiderer, mothers gown
of inexpensive silk was transformed
into CONNECTION" merely by we'll
chosen and excellently executed hand
work.
The up-to-date embroiderer is
above all things adaptable. She can
make the best of things and the most
of them. One of her kind came home
from weekend party recently to
find her younger sister in tears. The
family dressmaker had come and
gone, and left an unsatisfactory me
mento of her stay in the form of a
linen shirt waist suit for the younger
sister. The color was porcelain blue,
and the decoration hollow squares
built of the machine-embroidered
dots which can be purchased at
eighteen cents a yard-dots less than
half an inch in diameter and detach-
able, very popular mode of garni-
ture for linen frocks this summer
at does look so cheap, just as if it
had come off bargain table" walled
the younger sister.
The elder sister could not contra
dict and be truthful, so she did some
thing better. She babe the mourner
wipe her eyes and buy two dozen
skeins of mercerized floss, and the
two set to work energetically on it.
The family embroiderer filled in the
hollow squares with the simplest of
basket weave stitches, the floss woven
coarsely in and out, until each square
was solid mass of quickly wrought
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THE inhabitants of the World
Verbal are people who intel
l. ligently, though involuntarily,
appreciate words per Sc.
To them word is not merely a
combination of letters expressing a
thought; it is distinctive thing, and
possesses definite characteristics, such
as beauty, weight, value and some
times even color and shape, though
the latter are arbitrary and variant.
To the World Verbal a word, even
in its essential verbality, and entirely
aside from its meaning, is of interest.
For instance, from sheer sensuous
delight in its beauty, the World Verbal
enjoys the word Alabama and 1
once knew verbal enthusiast who
named her daughter Constellation
Marmalade" because they were the
most beautiful words in the language.
Euphony appeals even to the ig-
norant, and, without an inkling of
the meaning of either, the unframed
nearer would prefer the word Rive
derla" to the word "Haggithrite." But
to the World Verbal, euphony is an
intellectual enjoyment, and fully ap-
preciated one. Indeed, it has been re-
duced to an exact science, but that is
outside the limited scope of this dis
sertation. One recently discovered
rule, however, may be noted.
Two words whose initials are con-
secutive letters of the alphabet will
always form a euphonious combina-
ton
1t is to this fact that Bliss Carmar
owes his beautiful cognomen, as does
also Arlo Bates. Other examples are
Little Mary, Marechal Neil and Violet
Water.
Thus we see that euphony, so salts
fying to the World Verbal, is by nc
means dependent on the intent of {
word, but merely on its physical form
Lalla Rookh, with its delightful IS anc
its touch of mystery limited at by 1T:
final h, is as precious to the Worle
Verbal as alfalfa or "vaseline. .
but though the lIlIldDlldlltS VI LIN
World Verbal enjoy words alone, still
more intense is their enjoyment O
words in relation to their meanings
The use of an adjective is Joy t.
them, and carefully selected adverb
delight their very souls.
- This way madness lies, for over
indulgence in adjectives and adverb
causes one to become a superlativ
person, which is grave calamity. In
deed, extravaganza in language i
necessarily followed by word-penury
and he who designates ordinary thing
by extraordinary appellations will
soon find himself bankrupt of word
for really great occasions. This by
path of the World Verbal leads, sadl.
enough, to drawing on ones stock o
Intersections to help out the MISSING
adiectives, and the downward pat
through the explosives leads through
mild explanation to profanity.
Superlative persons are also prom
to words that can only be describe
bv the term "hi-falutin'
This is a mistaken verbality, an
is consequent upon an ignorant or pei
verified taste. Those who indulge in
are in a class with those who croo
their little fingers when drinking thei
tea, or who wear diamonds of morn
ing.
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II Little Nonsense for the Wise
BY CAROL YN Wells

These misguided takers fussily re-
tire instead of going decorously to
bed; they stand on neither limbs in
stead of sturdy anatomical legs; and
finally they pass away instead of de-
Gently dying.
But it is sad truth about the
World Verbal that its inhabitants are
liable to stray into many devious
paths. Foreign words are a tempta-
ton and a snare to some of them, and
though the real lover of English
scorns any admixture, yet there be
those who love to mention "la grippe"
or the "hoi polloi." For these per
sons, technical terms also have won
derful charm, and, even though in
correctly used, afford them much sat
isfaction.
Another snare for them is the sup
posed elements of the polysyllable.
Instead of more simple statement,
it pleases them to remark that the
celestial lurninary, the lambert orb of
night is composed of coagulated curds
tlnged with an emerald hue.
This taste is only pitiable, not repre-
hensible, for it is merely distorted
10TH OF verbal Indulgence.
But the Cognoscenti, the real arts
tocracy of the World Verbal, have no
measuring tape and care not a dot
whether word contain two letters or
twenty-five if it express the meaning
intended.
Terse or diffuse diction matters not
to them; with unerring instinct they
pick out words that are as gems in
their sentence-settings and they gloat
over them as a collector over his
| jewels.
Expressive words are the delight OF
quick intellect, and for this reason
the World Verbal appreciates the
value of slang.
Slang, of itself, and with the mere
intent of being slang, is an abomina
ton, but certain slang words are EN-.
dowed with an absolute expressiveness
that more polite combination of let
tiers would fail to show.
In small but popular book recently
published, the verb ito hiper' was
used, meaning, to hurry lest one be
late for school. To the World Verba
no previously known word was hall
so efficacious, and it was Immediately
incorporated in their bright lexicon.
But slang words always prove theii
own degree of worthiness. The fit
test survive, and perforce win the
sanction of the World Verbal.
Another proof of valuable verbalit,
is its quotability. The best known
bits of our great authors or orator.
are often more dependent on thei,
sound than their sense. Quotation.
that are remenlberable (rather thar
memorable) are marvels of pictur
esque diction, ALTERATION, or rhyme
Mute inglorious Millions NAV thinl
great thought, but it is only a geniu.
!; who can transcribe them in words tina
will appeal to the World Verbal?
; Greater even than the wisdom O.
beauty which may be. diffused bv
pure and perfect sense of verbality i
the humor which appeals only t.
, word lovers. Far removed from ordi
/ nary puns is the word-play of the ap
preciative verbal mind. The flash o
wit, the perfection of the instanta
, neous jest. the exquisite fun of tn
| inevitable, all reach their highest de
gree in the World Verbal
And for this reason, if for no othe,
its people are happier, better and NOR
/ lovable than their fellow citizens VIII,
, live. in blissful ignorance of words AM
: wordvalues.
u
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short of inspiration when new gown
is to be planned, or new bertha or
stock is required.
The mother of four grown daugh-
tiers, each of whom considers herself
something of critic on dress. re-
Gently purchased for her best summer
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The fourth girl sat with her head
on one side, studying the silk and
lace, and said nothing. She was the
family enbroiderer. But when the
house-to-house dressmaker appeared
on the scene to make up mothers
gown, she found, among the trim
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frock simple checked silk in brown
and white, with FIVE yards of ecru
lace for ruffles in the sleeves.
Mother" cried three of the girls
in chorus, chow could you get any,
thing so oheap-looking, and for best,
too?"
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6)1f f9nlIAT G1ffPf We will of three vol
umes all charges prepaid receipt of 81 co.
you do not like the books they
and we will the $o If you do like month
for five months On will
at subscriber for additional for either
IIARPERs MAGAZINE or HARPERs WEEKLY In writing,
which periodical Address
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BY G.
THE WORLD VERBAL.

.HE inhabitants of the World
Verbal are people who intel
L ligently, though involuntarily,
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Copyright, 1904, by Carolyn Wells.)
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-12-21
BANKS ARE ARMoR PLATED
Repositories Of the Northwest Are
Fortified Against Attacks
from Bandits.

The First national bank, of Lander, is
little steel fortress The counter is
faced with solid metal, and the teller
does business from wi; hin a coming
tower. When you &c into the bank,
says Scribner's Magazine, you cannot
see anyone, and it is so arranged that a
band of hold-ups could be rddled from
front and flank.
One of the worst bandits that ever dis
turbed Wyoming bankers used to be a
small ranchman. A big cattle outfit had
mortgage on his herd. They claimed
his cattle were irregularly obtained, and
on roundup they ''vanded his brand"
that is, put mark through it to indi-
cate that it no lungei represented own
ership. Then there vas trouble about
a horse. Discrepancies of brand are
the beginning of canger out there, and
this man served three years.
When he came out he robbed good
many banks in broad daylight, at the
point of pistol. Yet for some reason
half the sheriffs and most of the people
were his friends. AS one cowboy said
to me: "The same companies that make
war on the small owners are the ones
that used to pay five dollars for every
maverick we could get under their
branding irons. They taught us how
to steal, and then prosecuted every man
who did any of it on his own account"
Anyhow, they never got this particular
bandit again. and the banks of the west
are acquiring the armor plate habit