The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eral Topics from
the Capital.
October II, 1908.


or social atmosphere. Every
thing is waiting on the election.
Everybody except Congress and
its entourage has returned to
Washington, but the social sea-
son has not yet begun and legis.
lative activity, which must end
with the 4th of March next, will
not begin until Congress as
sem bles.
1t is true that he who is re
garded as the most conspicuous
aud remarkable person of the
day. if not of the age, is in the
White House, and that everything
he says and does and even looks
is a matter of interesting obser
vatiOn and comment. His life in
Washington and at the White
House is much the same az it has
been during his nearly seven
years. term as President. He is
active in his Office in the early
morning, debating to his secre
taries and receiving such visitors
as have made previous appoint
ments through Secretary Loeb.
Then he exercises every muscle
of his vigorous body on the
tennis courts which are partially
concealed from the White House
grounds. Since no man can play
tennis alone, the President has
most frequently in the game, Mr.
Pinchor. the forester, Mr.. Gar
field, the Secretary of the Inter
ior, and other active players.
In the afternoon, he rides horse
back, usually with Mrs. Roosevelt
and accompanied by a single
orderly, who follows the Presi-
dent and his wife at a distance of
about seventy yards. They ride
through the bride paths of Rock
Greek Park, park of hills and
dales traversed by beautiful
oOi yam. uC ui'CS arc natural
forest and underbrush and in ten
minutes from Washington, the
rider may enjoy as complete Sc
questration aud communion with
nature as iu the forests of the Ap
palachian Mountains.
During the past week, Lord
Nurthcliffe, one of the owners Of
the "Thunderer," as the London
Times, is called, was the Presi-
dent's guest at luncheon, and now
the Times has published a state
ment that the President will visit
England after his African hunt
ing trip or early in 1910. 1t is
also said that he will deliver the
Romanes lecture at Oxford and
that he will then receive the hon
orary degree of ID. 9. L., which
that university not long since
bestowed upon the Kaiser. Ac
cordiug TO the same report the
President will visit Paris and de
liver an address at the SOrbonne.
The exact dates and the subjects
OF the lectures are not given. The
President speaks both German
and French rs well as he does
English aud possibly Reformed
Duich" language. They will at
least understand his English at
Oxford, and If he reads his lect-
ure as he usually reads his
speeches, they will hear mighty
good sermon in French at the
Sorbonne.
Ii is understood that the Pres
ideut will meet Mrs. Roosevelt
at Khartoum on his return from
he hunting trip in the wilder
regions of the Dark Continent.
KhArtoum, as is we'll known since
the remarkable Kitchener expedi
tlon, may now be reached by
railroad, but the usual course is
to sail up the Nile from Cairo to
Assouan and then make the re
mainder of the trip by rail. The
Itinerary of the social side OF the
Presidents trip has not vet been
completely worked out as yet, the
time being too distant to permit
OF more than tentative program.
The London Times, in an editor
ial of the 18th inst, says that
the whole British public will wei
come President Roosevelt with
the most sincere pleasure, aud
then adds, that, it would be dim
cult, ii not impossible, to name a
guest who would be assured of q
more hearty aud genuine welcome
from all classes of the people,"
Washington, notwithstand ng
the dryness of the times as re-
CARDS news, has always within
its boundaries. conspicuous pe0
pie. distinguished for what they
are dong or what they have done.
Admiral Evans, or "Fighting
Bob" as his sobriquet goes, has
placed the Presidents Secretary,
Mr.. Loeb, in that populous aud
swelling division, the Ananias
Club. 1t will be remembered
that Secretary Loeb about the
time of the sailing of the Amer