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The Washington herald., 1907-08-18
President RoosepeIfs Interesting Intimates
Chief Executive Has Special Friends in Every
Department of Human EndeapOr- Diplomats,
NaturaHStS, Editors, and Medical Men Are
Close to Him and Are Often Consulted by Him.

between the President and DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. president Of Columbia
University. Along certain lines the ad-
vice Of both Shaw and Butler Is sought
more frequently by the nations Chief
Executive than that Of any other man.
John Burroughs, the Bird Lover.
Last in this list, although not the least.
in the friendship Of President Roosevelt.
is John Burroughs, the naturalist who
backed UP all that the President had to
say about "nature-fakers" a few months
ago.
Burroughs not only agreed with the
President in this matter, but he anticipated
the famous Presidential denunciatlon by
almost four years His protest was made
in 1903. and wss- inspired by the outgiv-
ing Of the writing individual who had his
name changed from Ernest Seton Thomp-
son to Ernest Thompson Seton because
Thompson was too commonplace for his
taste. Burroughs Is a much older man
than most Of the Presidential intimates,
being seventy, but he is a husky chap at
that. and in 1904 when he made his famous
trip to the Rocky Mountains with the
Chief Magistrate, stood its hardships as
we'll as Roosevelt, which is saying a good
deal
Burroughs was a schoolmate OF Jay
Gould, and the only one now known 10
fame. They sat on adjoining benches in
the district school at Roxbury n. Y,
where Burroughs was born. He Is as
good a friend Of ex-Judge Parker, who
ran against Roosevelt in 1904. as of the
President. In Walt Whltman's days Bur-
roughs was an intimate OF that writer Of
''barbarie yawp," although the style and
the substance Of their writings is as far
apart as are the poles, except that the
beauties OF nature oftenswere the subject
Of Whitmans writings, as they are Of
most OF Burroughs. II was Burroughs.
indeed who discovered Whitman.
Burroughs is almost the only one OF
the Presidents friends who is not a col
lege man. He did manage 10 get through
high school, but that was as far as he
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Paw University. at Greencastle, Ind He
worked his way through and was gradu-
ated with honors in 1855 Then he went
West for a while, living on a ranch TO re-
gain his health. which had become i'm
paired somewhat, but which he recovered
in Kansas. Then he returned TO Indian
apolis
His preparation for college Included a
few terms at the Sullivan Qil) High
School, and at one time he served IN a
certain Indianapolis law once He be-
came a United States Senator in 1893
when only thiTty-seven IN 1903, when he
was fighting the late Senator Quay's
Statehood bill, 10 admit Arizona and New
Mexieo-still Territories. by the way
Quay was reminded forcib!y Of his sue
eessfUl young opponents rise IN the
world.
Beverage was doing all sorts Of things
to Quay's pet bill in the best style OF the
Beverage brand Of oratOry and QUAY
was doing his best not 10 seem annoyed.
/ Senator CullOm. OF Illinois. sat next 10
| Quay and apparently sought TO divert
the Pennsylvanian's mind
DO you remember Mcdonald. OF Indi-
ana?" questioned Cullom In the old
days he used 10 sit in the very seat you
are occupying. He used 10 tell me about
an Office boy he had who insisted on
studying law with him. who, he said,
would be a big man some day"
/ Quay listened, but wasn't diverted as
/ Cullom expauated on McDonald's Office
/ boy. Finally the Pennsylvania became
impatient and asked what IcDonolds Of
/ fee boy had 10 do with the Statehood
/ bill
"Oh, not very much. maybe" was Cul-
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chief of the bureau. having laid out a
comprehensive plan for a system of Unit
ed States forestry reserves meanwhile.
PinchOt. like 50 many others of the
Presidents friends. is an expert lawn ten
mis- player. and belongs 70 the Presidents
lawn tennis cOterie, but he is a man Of
physical might In other ways than as a
wielder Of the racket He is an expert
axman, qualified long distance pedestri-
an, and great hand for roughing it.
AS chief forester he has charge OF 49,
100000 acres Of forest reservation: an area
larger than that of the entire German en-
pire and about FIVE times as large as the
State Of New York. AS it takes virtually
all his time to attend TO his job properly.
be cuts out most of his recreations. such
as automobiling. yachting. foreign travel,
and the Ike, all of which he could well
afford, by reason Of his great wealth He
did leave his job long enough in 1896, at
the Presidents earnest request 10 be his
personal representative in the Chicago
packing house investigation, and he drew
the Beverage BILL so called.
Pinchot shone as an athlete at Yale.
where he was an immense favorite. There
have been many rumors that he was 10
succeed James Wilson as head of the De-
partment of Agriculture, eventually He
has predicted that soon after 1910 the
American forest reserves will be self
supporting and that the planting and
preservation Of the forests on the water
sheds will cause the streams to flow more
steadily and make irrigation more ef-
fective. He foresees the dav when
through the perfection OF his plans. the
great forest fires which now do so much
damage will be done away with almost
completely.
A Few Points About Beverfdre.
The beginnings Of Senator Beveridga
were about as different from Pincbot'S
as can well be imagined.
Beverage Is only forty-five. His father
was an Ohio farmer, who went to the
front in the civil war. few months be-
fore the son was born. After the war the
family was in straits. owing to the de-
probation Of farm properties, and re-
moved 10 Illinois. AS soon as he was big
enough he went to work. BY the time ne
was sixteen he was a lumberman. and
from then until twenty-one he worked
days and studied nights. with hardly a
vacation worth talking about Among
OF Ger things, he helped grade railroad
and did all sorts CT farm work. Then he
entered college, choosing Asbqry, now De
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Mrs. Halifax has got a son who's
been a Western Union messenger for
year, and she knows. The strikes
all on account OF the union you saw
As If I didn't know. I suppose you
mend like 10 take all che credit for
unions, but I guess II was women who
first invented union garments. I wish
the strike had come months ago. then
maybe we wouldn't have had so much
in the papers about the Thaw case.
Well. thank heaven, don't expect
any kilograms. anyhow,
Most kilograms are all lies, 7 be-
lieve- You are not going TO sleep.
say they're most all lies; DO you hear
me. Be q good thing II they did stop
EN- for a time I know there amt
no truth in those kilograms about the
war with Japan. and you know as well
as / do that Il amt so. The only rea-
son President Roosevelt's sending
them ships Of ourn around the Cape
Of Good Hope TO the Pacific Ocean
though why Pacific I never could under
stands simply TO get 'em out Of the
way OF the jamestown Exposition. As
II ] didn't know. Most all Of our
sailors and marines are starving 10
death down there. because the restau-
rants won't let EN- eat with their uni
forms on. Nonsense, I call it: and
you remember they wouldn't let YOU
eat in that place in New York with
your coat off. on or on. it's only
question o clothes, and what they
want to talk about war with poor
little Japan for, is more than I can
understand. kilograms. indeed,
Have you noticed what A lot the
papers are saying about Morocco?
Half-past one, What do I care what
time IL is; surely you can spare a 1t
tie time 70 talk to your lawful wife
when you've been out half the night
You're not talking? Well. YOU talk
enough III the daytime. Morocco.
was talking about; and that re-
minds me we've got 10 have the
big chair in the parlor renovated. OF
course. We can't afford morocco
leather but they make good limitations
nowadays. I don't see what the
French want to fight the Moors for
nasty black fellowsi TIL only Moor
ever heard OF was Othello. and the
way he treated HIS wife was shameful
The foreigners are no good anyhow.
i was plumb ashamed when I read
the other day about the Car of Rus
STA a-kissing the Emperor OF Germany
and the King Of England a-kissing the
Emperor Of Austria. Mighty hard up.
these monarchs must be, 10 go kissing
one another with their nasty boards
and tuTned-up mustaches. I'd like 20
hear OF you a-kisslng one of your man
clerks-or a woman either. for that
matter-but. laws! there amt going 10
De no other woman such a fool as I
was And 1 used to think you was
handsome. as young man, too.
JOB! Job Shrew! will you wake m,
Hus-s-hi What's that noise down
stairs? Did you put the cat out he
Tore you came to bed? It's burglars
then. Listen! II you was half a man
you'd get out o. bed and see what's
the matter. Oh-h. we'll all be mur-
dered IN our beds-you cowardly hruta
you-yOu-'
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love OF II. Born rich, he wasn't Obliged
10 work at al, and that was one great
reason for his becoming a forester, since
the pay attaching to his present place
as chief even is not large. tie was born
at simsbury, Conn. in 1865. and therefore
is only two years over forty now. His
grandfather was a soldier under Napo-
leon Forced TO leave France, he came to
this country. and settled al what is now
Milford, Pa. where he went into the
numbering business as a pioneer. and
where the Pinchot estates now are.
James W. Pinchot, son OF this French
soldier and father OF Clifford Plnchot, be-
came d New York merchant and increased
the family fortunes so materially that he
has been able TO give many thousands Of
dollars for public purposes He gave
$4,000 70 establish the Yale Forestry
School and has founded a summer for
estry school and experimental station al
Milford, Pa. so that the son comes nat
urally by his enthusiasm for trees. James
". is now seventy-six. retired, lives in
Washington. and is nightly proud Of
Clifford
Clifford Pinchot was educated at Yale,
and before embarking upon his forestry
career at home. studied forestry in
France, Germany. Switzerland. and Aus
tria. where they have 10 nurse their trees
or go without them. He became so i'm
pressed with what he learned abroad that
he resolved 10 devote MS life 10 American
trees. and had his first chance 10 show
his ability in laying out the forestry
scheme for George W. Vanderblts North
Carolina estate at Biltmore. This was in
1892. and his work there was so much
talked Of that Cleveland made him a
member Of the Forestry Commission. For
years he was known as probably the
richest man IN the most minor position
under the United States government
In those days the commission was not
OF much account. and as forest commits
sioner Plnchot worked daily at a modest
desk. in mean quarters. which we're in
almost startling contrast 70 the Rhode
Island home Of his millionaire father,
with whom he then lived. and still lives.
being unmarried. In 1895 he was made
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Suffering for Sins of PIunderers.

From the Springfield Republican.
The country is not going to the dogs
simply because of an effort to enforce
laws which all concede to be wholesome
and desirable, and those with faith to
believe as much as this will be those to
profit and not lose from the present col
lapse In the security markets, We suffer
at the moment for the sins OF these pre-
cious plunderers who are trying to start
the people on a false scent toward Wash
ington. and not for efforts 20 uproot the
evil
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4 Ions reply. only It's that Office boy who
| is speaking against your bin just now
Senator Beyeridge won cash prizes for
oratory. which he needed when in col
| lege, and he has delivered many impor-
tam addresses aside from his speeches
/ IN the Senate He writes extensively for
the periodicals and is one Of their highest
/ paid contributors. lie has written book
or two also
Won sternburg a Brave Soldier.
Won sternburg Is half scotch-his father
being a naturalized citizen Of Great Brit
Notwithstanding his intense Teuton-
ism. and was born IN Leeds, England,
! hfty-ive years ago. despite his boyish APP
pearance. HIS mothers maiden nnme was
Martha Shaw. But lis fathers family
/ is one of the most distinguished in the
German empire
! Herman Speck Won Sternburg entered
/ the army when a mere boy. fought
/ through the Franco Prussian war as a
member Of the Second Saxon Dragons.
| and at seventeen was decorated for per-
sonal bravery In 1850 he was made mil
itary attache at Washington. and In
/ Washington he first met Roosevelt; In
! Washington, also, he met Miss Langham,
Of Kentucky. whom he married later In
/ London. After leaving the army he
Joined the diplomatic service OF his cOun-
/ try, being attached successfully TO the
legations at Pekin, Brussels, and the
! United States. He left this country In
1900 to serve 10 Ceylon and India. and
came back as ambassador IN 1903 to sue
/ coed the laundering. unlucky Won Hole
1 ben
| Having been a close friend OF Roosevelt
when both were younger. and when the
! Their Civil Service Commissioner was
eager TO learn all the then German at
tache could tell him about military af-
fairs, the baron was received with en-
/ thUsiasm by the President. and has been
/ persona grata 10 this government ever
! since He came when the trouble between
| Germany and Venezuela was az its
height His predecessor. you Holleben
/ had bungled the matter, so that Il looked
as If the United States and Germany
might have a row over It, but Won Stern
burg fixed 1t up promptly and neatly.
Naturally this increased ROOsevelts. as
well as the EmperOrs. regard for him and
| gave Baron Speck unusual standing
among the diplomatists at the Yankee
capital
He is as fond Of horses as OF lawn ten
nis-ip fact, their mutual horsiness had a
good deal 20 do with the original good
feeling between the President and the
baron The latter has taught the Roose-
Welt boys more about riding and jump
ing over barriers than the President has
/ found time 20. yet as ali the world knows
the baron has found plenty Of time 20
look after German interests here.
He never criticises this country OF its
people, as Won Holleben used to do. Not
70 put too fine a point upon H. Won Stern
burg is a great jollier Of all Americans.
and he is particularly fond OF jollying
American newspaper men, whose keen
Judgment he declares. has always
charmed him.
Copyright, 1877, b. Dexter Marshanl
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sMOKELESS CITIES OF TODAY.
Freedom from SCOT Now Possible in
Every Municipality.
lrge 3. walsh. IN Haper's Weekly.

George E Walsh. IN HarpT's Weekly.
American cities Of the first class have
been engaged in a campaign against the
smoke nuisance for the past five years.
with a result that is little short Of mar
velous. They have achieved their point
to a degree that makes the smOkeless city
Of the near future an assured fact.
Smoke is an unnecessary curse Of national
prosperity. Formerly il was considered a
badge Of great prosperity TO have for
ests OF tall chimneys belching forth clouds
of sulphurous smoke. The factory which
did not thus proclaim its activity was
looked upon as a losing investment Or
ders were slack and business tagging.
A strange revolution has been silently
worked through the activity Of those en-
gagged in suppressing the smoke nuisance.
They have demonstrated their earnestness
in pushing the campaign. and science has
come TO their aid. The steam engineer
has recognized the hOpelessness Of his case
and has proceeded 10 devise methods 10
suppress the smoke without limiting the
capacity of the plants. The result is that
smoke Is now considered poor economy.
1t indicates imperfect combustion and
waste Of fuel. which should be avoided.
The smOkeless-factOTy town is the most
prosperous community.
The number of devices invented for pre-
venting smoke loss is so great to-day
that It is more a problem with manu-
facturers to make a choice out Of many
than TO find any at all. These devices
are chiefly found in improved mechanical
stokers, which give automatic and uni
form action, so that sudden changes in the
draft cannot send up great CLOUDS OF
smoke; In improved furnaces. with down
drafts of air which carry the distilled
gases of the fuel down through the coal
when in an incandescent condition, and
not up through the chimney; in improved
air fiues bridge walls, and gratebars. new
kinds of colling arches. and dead plates.
where the coal is warmed and partly
cooked before being spread over the crate
surface.
Some preventing devices are being used
by the large plants voluntarily. The CAM
paign against the smoke nuisance does
not affect them. From an economical point
of view they are doing away with beich-
ing chimneys. They know too well that
great clouds Of drifting smoke indicates
/ poor economy Of operation through i'm
perfect combustion. The smokeless stack
is au indication OF careful firing and per-
| feet combustion.
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Maria'S Midnight Lectures.
LECTURE NO. /.

Nearly a quarter 10 twelve, Mr..
Job Shrew! A nice time for RAN Of
your age, and the father OF a family,
TO be coming home. / only hope the
children. blessed dears. did not hear
you climbing the stairs sat up.
reading the papers and waiting for
you-yes. waiting for you. say. Oh.
what fools We women are. Shaving
night and day for a man who spends
his evenings away from home and IS
hardly on speaking terms with his
own children
Nice state Of affairs. indeed. You
stay out half the night, and when you
come home I'm not to have the benefit
Of few minutes rational converse
ton with you. because you want 10
sleep.
mo, I won't hold my tongue. so
there! want you 10 know that while
you've been fTitteTing away your time
I've been reading and finding out
about things I read a fine article
copied from The Commoner. written
by Mr.. ". J. Bryan. You can saw
what you please: I think he's lust
grand. You may make fun OF him. II
you like, but I guess he's got IS much
right TO the Presidency. II he can get
II, as an other man. only wish the
women Of this wide country had
chance to vote. Mr.. BryanW get my
vote. ] can tell you that. II I ever
have a vote.
Yes. yawn II you like; that's always
the way when I want a few words
with you. I guess I've got the right
to talk, and I'll talk, and I'll not talk
TO a sleeping man. either. Mr. Bryan's
as good as any Of the rest of them,
even II he doesn't get to the White
House. The best Of the lots Mr.. Fair
banks. TO my way of thinking. He's
a perfect gentleman. He don't 20
around the country talking about the
trusts and abusing the poor railroads.
Just because he is a plain man, not
strenuous, Ike Roosevelt, why. they
didn't even give him credit for risking
HIS life the other day to save
woman. I know why. She was a poor
waiter girl. Yes. that was IT, II she'd
a-been a chorus girl. the papers would
have been full OF It. I'd like to see
that fat Mr.. Taft saving anybody.
He couldn't get through the water.
What right has the President to say
who shall succeed him, I'd like 10
know.
What DO I know about Taft? Well,
I know that It amt necessary to stop
at Columbus, Ohio. 70 make a speech
just because you're going to the Phil
ippines Why can't Mr.. Roosevelt make
his own speeches. That's what I'd
like to know. Let Judge Taft go out
and give them poor Filipinos justice
A Filipino parliament. indeed! won
der how Mr.. Taft'd like TO have to SIT
through a session Of parliament with
out any more clothes on than them
Boleros, or whatever you call 'em,
wear. should think the splinters d
make EN- mighty uncomfortable,
don't you?
Now, you needn't think I'm going
to let you go to sleep. What about
this strike OF the telegraphers?
heard a good deal about It, because
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Monopoly Selling Ahronh-
From the Philadelphia Recort

4IOiu NE Fhiadeipnia Record.
Commissioner Smith finds that the
Standard Oil favors the foreign buyer
and uses monopoly profits here to under
sell competitors abroad Manufacturers
universally are doing this. The Steel Cor
poration, the combination Of typewriter
manufacturers. the watch trust, the sew
ing machine coordination. and all the rest
OF them get lnordinate profits at home by
means Of the tariff, and then sell at cut
prices 10 foreigners.
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Not So bad as THAT.

From the New York sun
In the absence Of any well-founded
Of aggression on the part OF
Japan some of US may doubt. as meas
ure OF naval strategy, the expediency OF
transferring all our battle ships to the
Pacific Prof Starr, however. stands
alone in opposing the movement on the
ground that our battle ships would sim
ply demonstrate how inefficient our navy
is. and would invite Japan To gobbla
them Up.
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From the indianapolis News.
The grocer and the butcher are also
pretty good at busting trust If you
don't come down pretty promptly when
they send their biz around.
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Among the Possibilities.

From tho Pittsburg Dispatch
Is 1t possible that the governors Of both
North Carolina and South Carolina prsII
In the near future be compelled t. ..arch
clear through Georgia to get Tx histor-
zeal drink7
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Tomorrow Bread from stones
and Cloth from Afr.
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Il wish 1 had fallen in defense of my
country were the words said by a hero
who fell at Bladensburg seven years later.
This was Commodore Stephen Decatur,
who was mortally wounded by James
Barron. a disgraced officer. who had
asked to be reinstated in the navy, and
VINO blamed Decatur for his failure 10
be taken IN. Barron, too, was badly
wounded, and as they lay on the ground
waiting for their carriages 10 come, they
deplored the matter and forgave each
other. Henry Clay was something of a
fighter. His first would-be duel grew
out Of a case he took for poor inn
keeper against a prominent Kentuckian.
Col. Joseph Hamilton Daviess. at that
time district attorney of the Federal
court The lawsuit provoked personal
controversy, a challenge was given.
they met on the field. but the seconds
secured a more peaceful settlement. II
was Clay's devotion TO his theories on
protection that caused his second en-
counter. The embargo act was the chief
subject of comment In Kentucky. and
Clay appeared in the legislature dressed
in homespun. and recommended that al
members of the legislature follow his ex-
ample. Humphrey Marshall, a Federal
list, denounced him as d demagogue. and
the matter was settled on the field of
honor by the exchange of a couple of
shots His most famous duel was with
John Randolph Of Roanoke. The quarrel
assumed national Importance, but neither
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Gard Of Thanks.

| can give only feeble acknowl
led gment Of the graft tude and appre
citation my heart feels for the lavish
|ministration of friends to my deal
|wife in her last illness and the innum
|erable evidences OF heartfelt sympa
thy and interest in me and my dear
little children in our great affliction
|If it were possible for human kind
mess and sympathy to remove a
sorrow, then mine would be removed.
1 pray that time may deal gently
with one and all and that each one of
may be spared the agony 1 am en-
iu lng 10 the numerous ones who
have expressed generous sympathy
Joy telegram and by letter / am deeply
grateful and pray that their woes
may he diSsIpated by a generous sprink-
ling from the mercy seat, ere they
reach them. Gratefully,
0. f. Lawrence.