The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
Stray Topics From New York
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 New York. Oct. si--(speciall-- Scarcely a week passes that not some one. endowed with more than the or dinary share of imaginative power. ventures to inform the world what President Roosevelt will do when he has completed his term as wielder of the Big Stick" There may De few things he has not been accused of as contemplating. but 1t was merely an oversight that they were not mentioned with the rest, According to one story the President intended to retire from public life after leaving the White House and to live the simple and strenuous life of a farmer. awaiting, like a second Cincinnatus the time when he would be called away from his blow by the will of the people 10 serve another term as President.
 Among the professions selected Tor him by imaginative writers were those of a professor, a lawyer, an explorer. hunter of big game, lecturer, manufacturer, a mine-owner, a bal loonist and 8 professional trustbuster. According to the latest yarn. based upon. "excelent authority" President Roosevelt has already signed con- tract with a certain publishing com cern to become associate editor or LnElT U1dkdZlHG. II 11 1AAtSd Oh NsA1 same authority that the President. while in Africa. will not devote him self altogether to the shooting of big game but that he will penetrate Into the wilderness of the Congo country, to investigate the conditions existing there in behalf of the magazine with which he is to be associated.
 There Is no doubt. that MT. Roose- welt would make just as able and NurifaP Qa hn made a President and. if the story is actually based upon truth, the periodi- cal literature of the United States is to be congratulated to the acquisition. Judging from the anaemic and hystert- cal character of the American maga- zines of the present day. a little in- fusion of fresh and healthy blood would be highly acceptable. But after all, why don't they give the poor man q rest. He surely has deserved it
 The Elkins-Abruzzi comedy has reached its climax and the psycholo- gical moment for the denouement has arrived Ssr--'s -4 r After the latest announcement. that Miss EIkins Is to be elevated to royal rank before she is married to the Duke that the King and the Queen of Italy are at last ready to receive her with open arms and that the Duke is coming to the United States to claim his bride. has brought things to the point where one of two things Is bound to happen: the report has to be confirmed or nailed down as a lie.
 This uncertainty is getting on the nerves of New York society and should not be tolerated much longer If these foreign correspondents of yellow hue continue to send such yarns. half the society girls on this side of the Allan tic are liable to come down with ner- vous prostration.
 great deal of fuss has been made over the alleged fact that the wife of former United States Senator from one of the western states Is grown rich by inventions which never valuable inventions which did not originate in her own mind hut were inspiration.
 There Is nothing particularly re- markable in that. There are quite a number of men in this city who have groin rich by inventions which never originated in their own brains. They also received their ideas by way of revelation. but in their case the revela- tions were not of the transcendental kind It was not a case of heavenly inspiration, but of plain stealing. The Ideas were revealed" to them by al together too trusting and unsophisti- cated inventors. who had tried to in terest them In their inventions with a view of obtaining their financial aid in bringing out the invention. Some of the wealthiest men in this part of