The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

on the business career which eventual.
~ made hiln the head of the largest
shlppIng corporation on the Pacific
coast. And at Oroville he married, and
ever since has spent every spare after
noon and evening at home.
See him on the docks of his steam.
ship line, and you d take the stocky,
brown beard streaked with gray, TO
be second officer of one OF the big
liners. But at home he is only dad !"
TO his three daughters and one son.
And his only blush is when Mrs. Per-
kins tells of her early romance. 81
fell In love with George" says she,
''when ] saw him climb pole in Orc.
vile, He had been a sailor boy, you
know-and You can't imagine how
Neither can Senator Perkins.-New
York Globe.
So Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is not
to return from Africa; hey? Oh. very
watch his smoke fourteen months hence.
when he comes tearing out OF the jun
gle dragging n bunch of lion pelts, a train
Then, Professor Starr, IT would seem the
part of intelligent activity for you to
climb a tree. He's been a little too busy
yfn %Ren he on wTtes sVe his IS
story OF the African hunting trip, II he
doesn't elect you to the position Of hered-
magazine Will pay his price for the story.
For the colonel has always been
ready writer, from the moment he first
learned that magazines pay with real cash
for bunting stories until his last parting
wa!lop at covering congress. His plan
was a very simple one. First go do some
thlns-or somebody-then write about H.
Write about 1t. anyway. No chance 70 go
wrong there. For seven clamorous years
he has been sandwiched between the eggs
and the breakfast food in every we'll
has not merely ''hogged' tho spotlight.
but he has Invented and pperfected
other monarchs looking like collar but
ton salcsmcn on a side street. He has
been one OF the principal reasons for the
continued existence OF the morning news
forms OF publicity than any other white
man since Nero the Fiddler, 1t isn't any
the dock at IobolScn this morning, Flow
crs for the colonel-tcars for Africa.
And he'll get the lions. too. He always
docs. He squInts through thick glasses
but he always brings tho meat 10 camp.
Hes llttlc out Of practice just now.
hunt for some time has been congress
and congress has been IN risor mortis for
seven years. up TO the moment when Its
leaders secured affidavits from the Ham
burg American line that Colonel Roose-
welt was actually going TO sail. Even
now. II he were to change his mind and
start toward Washington tho new sT.O0O.-
900 station would be rhoked with states
men going away from there. II Isn't that
they fear him. Mercy. no, only they
don't like TO he mixed up In an unccn-
tlemanly dispute. And " Roosevelt wcro
ono of the parties II would be unEcutlc-
manly UP TO and including tho ultimate
limit lie never thoroughly enjoys him
self until he let's down his back hair and
scratches, anyhow.
That's tho way he started In politics.
Hes hardly hfty-one years old now--for !
he WAS born in October. 1858. In New !
York Clty-but he's had Il perfectly cork |
Ing time. His first chance came In his J
first Office, when he was a green mem-
Der OF tho New York legislature The |
nickel steel old politicians only laughed /
when he mado that first speech But |
when he repeated It seven times In seven |
days. each time hollcring |
louder and calling ugIier names: and when
he began TO give out interviews and write |
investigated the judge that he said was
rotten. Anything TO keep The young man /
nuict, What really happened was that ,
they put him wise Ia the way 10 get I
what he wanted In politics. Aud he Ger.
tain-ly has got the ccr- -taln-ly has. Hc't !
bocn getting IL that way ever since.
Every ono knows the Dornybrook oI
n time hc had in the White house. Whcth-
or he was always right or not he was
always riotous. Whether he was lead.
ing few criminal malefactors OF great
wealth over tho jumps or starting q
South American republic on its way with