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like this, standing on the back plat
thermometer clear below zero.
i. \ !.
"Once we had to change cars at a
little station and wait an hour. Ben
King, the poet-humorist, and I discov-
cred pair, of scales and proceeded to
weigh ourselves. The thermometer reg
istered some twenty degrees below and
we we're muffled up in the heaviest ul-
sters we could find.
"tHold on exclaimed Train.
THAT s no way to weigh yourself, with
all those clothes on; let me show you.
Then he began to: strip and If we
hadn It stopped him he would have stood
on those scales entirely naked in that
down to his shirt and trousers and stood
there entirely unconcerned while we
piled on the weights. He never took
cold and had never known a sick day
in his life.
"When he entered a car it was al
ways by the front door. AS he walked
down the aisle facing the other passen-
gers l have often seen him stamp on the
floor to attract further attention. Then,
when the people would look up to see
what the nice looking old gentleman
was making that noise for, he would
say: L guess you don It know me. IN
Citizen George Francis Train.
"And he was just as particular about
the way he entered a hall where he
was to lecture. Say it was here at the
Orpheum. I would be on the door. At
8:15 precisely he would come in and
make me low bow. Then he would
start for the stage, but instead of 60
ing right down the aisle he would go to
Box A, and then salute the audience in
a very stately manner. That would
give him the reception he desired and
when the applause threatened to die
away he would revive it by elm bling
over the box railing onto the stage,
where he would march up and down in
the iauntiest manner ina ginable before
beginning his lecture.
Train g stage costume was as
strange as himself. He always wore a
thin serge suit with a cutaway coat
q, This had velvet collar. On the tails
were six big brass buttons and six more
were sewed on each sleeve. He neve,
wore suspenders, but he had crimson
silk sash that he wound around his
waist two or three times and then lei
the ends hang down on his right leg
On the left side Of his coat he wou16
plaster flowers. believe that if any
one had given him hundred dollars
worth Of roses he would have contrivet
to pin them all on. Then, on the right
side, he wore all his medals.
+ !. !.
''He was very fond of flowers, gequ
inely SO; this was no affectation. VERY
often he'd say to me: when a mai
asks you to take a drink, you 20 out
with him, don It youa Now, when any
man asks you again, you say to him
"Citizen George Francis Train neithe
drinks nor smokes, but you give m,
the fifteen cents and I III buy flowers fo
him. Sometimes, just for a joke
when the man knew both Train and nv
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occupying official positions, especially
to those in the diplomatic service, due
no doubt to the fact that his SON had
started on diplomatic career.
4 j. +
"The most interesting glimpse I have
had Of Henrik Ibsen was at Munich in
1885. AS acting minister for Switzer-
land, which had no representative of its
own at Copenhagen, I journeyed that
year to Berne to deliver my verbal re-
port to the president of the Swiss re-
public. On my return to Denmark, 1
went by way Of Munich, in order to pay
a visit to the great Morse scholar, DR..
Conrad Maurer, who was professor in
the university there.
will understand why I give the exact
date), took cab to DR.. Maurer Is
home. While driving back to my hotel
it came to my mind that Henrik Ibsen
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was soon to see him in different
mood.
It was about 3 o'clock the next
afternoon when my servant at the
American legation called my attention
to a carriage in the street below. The
door was opened by a footman and re-
vealed DR.. Ibsen, who handed out
card to be taken upstairs I hurried
down and greeted the poet with the
utmost cordiality. telling him how glad
| was to see him at my quarters. But
he repaid my warmth with cold polite
ness, acting in marked contrast to his
conduct of the preceding evening. He
followed me ,stifly up the stairs to my
reception room, but declined to be
seated or partake Of refreshments, say
ing that he had merely called to pay
He had nothing to say, and compelled
me to do all the talking His conduct
could not have been more formal, nor
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: "When the landlords charged him So
a day he would protest that it was,
swindle, and would argue to them by
the hour about it. Look here,' I've
often heard him q say, suppose that
Raymond and I go over to that clothing
store. Raymond buys an entire suit OF
clothes and pays SIS for them. l only
wish a So hat. Must pay $l5 for
that, too9'
''Train wore very few clothes, for
that matter. He, never wore under
clothes and his suit was light blue
He had an overcoat, but he generally
carried this over his arm. And his
shirt was seldom buttoned, but gaped
wide open, showing broad expanse Of
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was defeated in 1920, and in 1924 there
was no election at the polls, and the
presidency was settled by the house Of
representatives, which selected Adams,
who was one Of several minority cleo
toral candidates. William III. Crawford,
of Georgia, was another unsuccessful
candidate in 1924
President Adams i'll luck did not de-
sert him during his incumbency Of the
White House, for he was renominated
in 1898, and defeated by: Andrew jack
son, who again started the rule Of the
men Of one name, rule which was not
again interrupted until 1910, when Viii
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Of single name again returned to the
presidency, and they remained there
until the election Of Grant, in 1868.
Grant was reelected in 1872, and in
1876 and 1880 came Hayes and Gar
respectively. Then, in 1884, came Grover
two-name president since inc I'll that I've year.
Cleveland in 1884 defeated two-name
candidate, James G. Blaine, then the
most popular man in American public
life. Garfield, four years earlier, had
defeated General Winfield Scott Han
cock, a gallant union commander. Nc
Kinley twice defeated man with two
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have elapsed since any man with q
double given name has been elected
president. OF the twenty-five men who
have been president, only seven have
had this double name, and three of them
came into office on the regulations they
had secured as union commanders. Three
of the others came into office between
1924 and 1874. The seventh was Ches-
ter A. Arthur, who succeeded to the
presidency on the death of Garfield.
All the presidents whom the Ameri-
can people most admire were men of the
single given name Washington, Lin
coin, Mckinley, and now Roosevelt.
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soonest set Of razors I ever saw In my
life. There was one. for every day in
the week, and the handles were gor-
geous in the extreme. Some English
he thought no end Of them. He was
quite fellow for trappings Of this
sort.
"He used to carry silver manicure
set around with him with silver-topped
perfume bottles, and would you believe
it, a silver mounted powder puff I'll
bet there ism It society girl in town
who has one-half SO fine. This was
business on Bills part, however. He
claimed to have invented what he called
'The Quick. Shave or the Lecturer g
Friend When I'VE had been travelling
all day and would get into a town just
in time to get on the stage, Bill , would
a thick coating Of powder, and from
the front he would look like a man with
a wedding shave. ~ r.
CHOW Nye, carried all these things
in little valise. It had a lot of other
truck in it, too, for he was always buy
ing little fancy things. Well, one night
we had to take a train at 2:30 am.
after the show, so we didn It 90 to bed
at all, but sat around the hotel until
~ w GA44C w AAAO oOW II W UuO DUO
ton. The carriage man was late and
we started down at a rafting pace.
Our luggage was on the front seat with
the driver. 49, .. IS.
can at once we felt jar, just as
if the carriage had run over something.
The drived pulled up, got down, got up
again, dashed his horses and away we
went again. + = =. =.
Il guess he dropped his whip ven
"We had just time to catch the train;
looked down upon the valise he was
carrying and observed that the top was
badly wrenched. ..., rs
"'That black imp Of porter must
have let the bed down on it, he re-
marked. While we were specializing,
the train came along and, with the
valise out Of his hand the subject was
dismissed. But that night after dinner
there was an awful uproar in Bill IS
from would have shamed sea-faring
parrot. I rushed to the center of dis.
turbance and found Bill contemplating
the contents of his pet valise as they
lay upon the bed. Not an article re-.
manned whole. The manicure set was
smashed to smithereens, some beautiful
meerchaum pipes Of which he was par
t1cu1arly proud were In bits, the powder
puff was no more and the razors ground
all out Of shape.
: ''The hackman had not run over his
whip the night before-he had chosen
Bill's valise.
s'Then and there Bill took mighty
oath that he would never shave again
He would raise a beard and be indie.
pendent Of the BARRIERS and careless
drivers. He was terribly in earnest, as
he was in everything he did, and he
did grow a beard. But it was more
terrible than his determination and he
had to part with it..
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The fact that only seven men wearing
double given names have ever succeeded
in becoming president is not an indica-
ton that such men have not from the
very beginning sought the office. Fol-
lowing the retirement Of Washington,
Carolina, came into evidence as a CAM
didate, and he was nominated four sue
cessive times, disappearing as candi-
date in 1908. The men with a single
name had full control Of the presidency
until 1924, when John Quincy Adams
came into office, and Adams had good
deal Of trouble before he succeeded. He
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given names, William Jennings Bryan
while Mr.. Roosevelt, last fall, defeate,
Alton B. Parker.
Thus does history establish the rult
of the single-name presidents, suggest
ing that the chances of men bearing bui
one name are much better than those
bearing two. Mr.. Root is the onls
single-name gentleman thus far men
toned in connection with the republiE
can nomination in 1908, and the fact
that he is otherwise available, lends ad
ditional weight, some of his friends be
lieve, to his position as a prospective
candidate.
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me, who had gone down to Paterson to
meet him, and he settled down in his
seat and didn't speak again until we
got into New York. I still have the
return ticket which the conductor failed
to collect from Bill. It. is New York,
Lake Erie & Western ticket, and bears
the date stamp Of Oct. 20, 1895. That
Bill Nye did.
!. + +
HQuite the opposite type. Of 2 man
Train, who used to startle the public
at frequent intervals. Train was no
more crazy than you arc. I had him
and the late Ben King on tour several
weeks, was with him nearly all the
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self, I would deliver this message, an
we seen man 60 out and buy him s
worth Of flowers, just as he would fl :
his best girl. !
"Besides his love for flowers, Trai
was very fond of little children an
these he would allow to approach hiI
and shake hands and play with hin
Grown up, people stole his psychic pov
er, he said, but he got power from chi
turing would be spent on the childre
he met on his travels. He would bu
them flowers and toys and very Otter
if it were a little girl, expensiv
jewelry. He didn't care to save hi
money, for he was rich man. Jus
how rich, he would never say. But b
WASH allowed to handle his money
When he was pronounced insane, afte
that Ludlow street Jail affair of his
New York, all his property was put i
the hands Of trustees, and they Above
need" he used to say, look at N
at the Continental hotel, my meals cos
me 10 cents each, 80 cents day, $2.1
a week. That's $40 all told. So
have more than I really want
"Train used to spend considerabl
money while I was with him on book
and papers and magazines. He had
lnvariable system about reading then
First he would write his name acros
the upper right hard corner. Then h4
would run his eye up and down ever
column for some mention of himset
notice out and throw the paper on tn
floor, where the curiosity-seekers woul
fight for it. All these scraps wer
pasted on big sheets Of MANILA pape
not nicely, but higgledy-piggledy, an
when he got back to New York he ha
them bound.
"Here Is a little incident that wi
show you to what lengths Train woul
60 to attract public attention. We wer
dining one evening in southern hote
Train had an empty soup place befor
him. He called for the water bottl
and filed the plate full Of water. The
he deliberately washed his face. I sal
nothing then, because row, with it
lighted his soul. But when we wer
alone called him down in fine style
and, mark my word, he never repeate
this face-washing trick.
Train is no more crazy than you
I. All his .eccentricity and wildness
put on for effect. He would talk jus
as sensibly as could be to me when W.
were alone, but let stranger approach
and he would begin to make his grand
stand plays. He was the most enter
tanning man l ever met. Many tim.
| have gone back to the hotel with hiIt
after a lecture and sat up till break
fast listening to him talking of hi
travels and his experience. His wor
pictures were as beautiful as paintings
he had been everywhere and seen every
thing, and remembered everything. An.
he never told the same thing twice. T.
full men Of the day. Earl c. May.
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liam Henry Harrison was elected. Har-
rison, like Adams, had his own troubles.
He had been an unsuccessful presiden-
tial candidate in 1885, when Martin Van
Buren, was elected, and, died within q
month following his Inauguration in
March, 1841. In 1886 two other double
name candidates were defeated with
Harrison. They were Hugh L. White,
Of Tennessee, and w. F. Mangum, Of
North Carolina.
James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay
in 1874, which is notable exception to
the rule which it is the purpose of this
article to point out. In 1856 the men
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corner, some one would. shout at him.
so, you, got it good, didn't you9'
and all that sort Of thing. This simply
drove. Bill daffy. The matter was Of
especial interest to me, because I was
to take him thru the latter half Of that
season 8 tour. And then he went over
to Paterson, came on the stage all
f aased dnd LIE after bucking and keeping
me. refused to wear his glasses, stun
bled on the stage carpet-and the New
York press just threw itself wide open
with the lying story Of his gross intox-
ication in Paterson. To make matters
worse, q mob of toughs threw. rotten
eggs. and vegetables at him as he was
leaving the theater.
!" This will be the finish, he said to
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BY w. W. Jermane.
Washington, Oct. 10.

MT IS an interesting fact in American
politics that the man with two given
names has not Jared nearly SO well,
Il SO far as presidential aspirations
have been concerned, as the man
with one name, and it is upon this fact
that some of the friends Of Elihu Root
are pinninp their faith that he will sue
ceed in capturing the republican presi-
Dental nomination in 1908, and after
wards the office itself.
In 1908, just twenty-four years will
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time, and soon
learned that he
simply craved no.
torietY and would
do anything to get
it.
"We engaged
him just at the
close Of the Chi
cago world g fair,
when everybody
was talking about
him. You remem-
Der that he an
nounced his pur-
pose Of saving the
fair by his won
drous psychic force
and that he went
on to Chicago ex-
pressly for that
purpose. It was a
most singular coin
cidence that the
attendance began
to :. increase the
very day Train
reached Chicago
some time in July
and that when he
left in October the
fair went to pieces.
'"He was always
, fighting the land
lords, while we had
him on tour, be-
cause Of the rates
charged him. Train
was then about rs
years old, I should
say, and b i s
strength and en-
durance were phe-
nomenal. He would
ride all day, lee
ture from two to
three hours-it was
often almost i'm
possible to choke
him off-7and then
would sit up in the
hotel all night tell
ing stories or get
ting off his strange
theories. And all
this on the SIM
plest diet a man
could live on. At
every meal he
would have one
cup of coffee and
two rolls-no> more,
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"a good lie lasts
q long time. and I
have heard so many
lies told about Bill
Nye's death that 7
always like to tell
what I know about
it when I get a
chance. Bill died
Of a broken heart,
and nothing else in
the world. Dab,
bling =; with play
writing did it. Paul
Potter got him in
-terested in a. play
and Bill promised
to .collaborate, and
he did,. as far as his
other work. would
let him. But he
was writing a his
tory Of the United:
States. a history Of
England, preparing:
for his tour and do
ing a lot Of other
stuff and it, was
Potter who wrote
the play.
: 1T am satisfied
that, had it been
the best play in the
world, every critic,
in New York would
have jumped on it,
with the exception
Of the World g
man, because Nye
was the biggest
thing in the papers
then and the World
had him all by it.
self in New York.
This, then, was the
other papers, first
chance to get at
him, and how they
did trim that Nye-
Potter ,playl' All
except the World,
which gave it two
columns Of extrav-
agant praise.
g It so happened
that Bill was lee
turing in a n ID
around New York
for three or four
days, and he simply
couldn' It get away
from it. Every time
he wOuld tnrn q
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-yE WERE sitting In the cozy liv-
NAV ing-room of the home Of Rasmus
WV B. Anderson, the Morse scholar,
w author and diplomat, at Madi.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-24
Indians as Soldiers.

The recommendation made a few days ago by Commissioner Leupp that q part of the male Indian students at Carlisle be trained for positions in the military service is a novel idea, but there is no reason to suppose that it would not be practicable. MT. Leupp proposes that the young bucks" at Carlisle, and perhaps at Haskell and other Indian schools, be given the same training that is given their paleface brethren at West Point, with the ob- ject of utilizing them in the regular army service.
 If racial inclination is to be consid- cred. the Indian ought to make a pret- ty good soldier. for he is first, last and always a fighting man, but it remains to be seen whether he will be amen able to discipline. This term. as it is understood in military circles, is ut terly foreign to the savage mind, for
Arizona republican., 1905-02-24

ly perused all of Edmund Spenser's s poetry? What does he know, from his own reading, of the Advancement of Learning?" Has he read all of Sir Thomas Browne's prose and John Donne's poetry? And the great Eng fish pulpit orators. Jeremy Taylor Full Ter, South and Barrow, has he master ed their sermons?
 Can he truthfully testify that he knows all of Swift, Johnson and Burke all of Bishop Berkeley. Daniel Defoe; the novels of Richardson, Field ing. Smollett and Sterne; the histories of Hume, Robertson and Gibbon. and also Hume's philosophical essays; the prose of Coleridge. Wordsworth "E,x- cursion." all of Shelley. Jane Austen's Maria Edgeworths and Disraelfs nov els? These are English classics. books which no gentleman's library should be without, and with the contents of which a well-read man ought to be acquainted.
 One would wager much against little that the ordinary man who calls him. self well read has not read 50 per cent of the classics here enumerated-Sa Francisco Bulletin.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-24

the Indian in his native state fights according to a code all his own. But the results attained at Carlisle show that the red man Is capable of assim- Hating civilization to an extent un- dreamed of a generation ago. and per haps discipline can be drilled into him 1 in the same way as the three r's. The greatest difficulty encountered in educating the Indians Is not in ''stay taught" The school graduates attain a considerable dgeree of schoI- arship and in addition are taught trades which would make themselves disappearing in any community. So long as they stay away from their own people. the savages who still live on the reservations, the habits of industry which they have acquired at school re- main, but once they get back among the old associations they Immediately forget all about civilization and revert to the lazy. shiftless ways of their for bears. It is argued that if instead of sending the educated Indians back to the reservations they can be placed in the army. the constant associations with white men will tend to make permanent the habits of industry ac- quired at school.
 There is story of foreign military attache who, after observing the negroes in the American army in Cuba, and the efforts of the government to induce the Indians to cultivate the land in their reservations. remarked on the absurdity of trying to make a sol dier of the negro, who is naturally a farmer, and a farmer of the Indian. whose hereditary liking is for war. Perhaps, if Commissioner Leupp's recommendation is adopted this incon gruity will be remedied, as least so far as the Indian is concerned. At any rate it would be an interesting experi- mont