Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
A QUIET SUNDAY.

ed comparatively quiet Sunday in
Paris. Accompanied by Ambassador
Bacon in the morning he attended ser
vice in the American church in the
Rue De Berri and listened to the ser
mon of the Rev. Chauncey w. Good
rich, who preached from the Gospel of
ST. John. Xvii:16. Mrs. Roosevelt. ac-
companied by Kermit and Miss Ethel,
attended the American church in Az
enue De L'Alma.
Col. and Mrs. Roosevelt lunched with
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand, the
other guests including Premier BRAND.
NJ Rarthou, minister of justice; Con
sui General Mason. Anatole Leroy
Beaulieu, Albert De Coubertin. Count
De Lasteyrie and Count De Pourtales.
IL The afternoon there was an auto
mobile trip to St. German, where Col
Roosevelt visited the chateau of Hen
ry ". In the evening the Roosevelts
dined quietly with Ambassador and
Mrs. Bacon at the American embassy.
Although the general elections were
held today in France, Col. Roosevelt
did not take the trouble to visit the
voting booths, saying he hadn't time
to investigate matters which did not
concern him directly. Besides. he sup
posed that the election machinery of
France was neither better nor worse
than that in the United States.
Col. Roosevelt tomorrow will he the
guest Of the municipality Of Paris. The
city fathers. in solemn session. will
receive him at the Hotel De Vile.
where luncheon will Re served in his
honor, after which he will sign his
name in the "Livre Dor which con
tains the signatures of all the mon
archs and noted persons who have
been the guests of the city.
In the evening he will dine with
General Brugere and from there will
go to the opera. where he will occupy
the Presidential box. "Salome" was
the bill but by Mr. Roosevelt's ex-
pressed desire, Saint SaenS "Samp-
son ana Delilah" will be produced with
ballet.
At the close of Mr.. Roosevclt's lee
ture in the Sorbonne yesterday, some
one i'm the gallery Kissed, but this pass
ed unnotced in the applause. 1t mas
since been learned that it was an
Egyptian. who afterward explained
that he desired to protest by this
means against the speech which the
President delivered ut Cairo.
Mr.. Roosevelt's lecture has created
a tremendous impression in France.
The newspapers. despite the TACT the
electoral campaign closed last night.
devote an immense amount of space to
il and Cot. Roosevelt's doings.
with the exception of some hooking
criticism by free lanceS. such as Henri
Rochefort, editor Of Patrie, and Ernest
Iudct of EClair. the papers of all shades
of opinion ring with approval OF tn"
doctrines of civic morality extended by
the ev-Presideut. Some Of the ultra
Catholic organs are silent. hut others
dwell especially upon Mr.. Roost veits
definition of the rights Of the minority.
The Temps declares that the impress
sion produced is all the greater because
Mr. Roosevelt did not present theories
that he conceived, but experiences that
he lived 1t finds many lessons therein
for France, and concludes with an ap-
neal to France to take the advice of
an honest man whose deeds and life
during 30 wears qualify him to speak
The Journal Des Debats says that Mr..
Roosevelt's words are the echo Of the
old puritan spirit Whlcn ildue n tol-
uuering England. and bear strange sig
niffcancc when he breaches sane and
vigorous life, of which he is the en-
hodinlent, to so many unbalanced peo-
plo. probity to politicians and common
sense to those who are seeking after
Utopia.
our great democracies," says the pa
per- are experiments. From the be
ginning they leaned toward corruption
Roosevelts simple and energetic Ian
suace is that of Hercules, armed not
with Z club. but broom at the door
of the Augean stable"
Libcrte, under the caption of "A mag
nificent lesson says.
I'VE have few men in France with
energy equal to Mr.. Roosevelt's, but
thousands upon thousands who think as
he does
The Paris Journal says:
NO nobler lesson of civic duty ever
fell from human lips"