Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02

WILLIAM LOEB, JR., who
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OF the west, ana ne TOLD story TO Illustrate
| the former Presidents close sympathy with
| the ideas and ideals of that section of the
country.
A delegation of cowboys called on Roose-
welt in Washington on one occasion to ask
| him to pardon a man who had been sem
| fenced to the penitentiary for life for shoot
| ing mail carrier in the back The chairman
of the interceding committee was introduced
as Mr. Jones' Roosevelt took his hand in
rather a 1istless MANNER for he was busy
looking over Jones shoulder at another
member of the party. Still holding Jones
hand, the Colonel burst out:
"Why, there's Bill Lawton! Bill, haven't
seen you since that night we took the fifty
mile drive in Nevada through the sleet and
snow. Tha5 vas great drive, gentlemen.
The sleet e | hail came against our faces
like small knives, and my features resembled
beefsteak. After about twenty miles of it,
when l thought I'd reached the limit of my
endurance, | remarked
"Id rather be at my own freside to-
night
"And Bill replied sententiously, You
don't git many Il FATHERS" out in this coun-
try.
The Colonel then heard the story of the
crime and the plea for his clemency.
| "You men know" he said with the ner-
vous emphasis that characterizes him when
he feels deeply, that love the West. You
know my heart is out there with the boys on
| the plains. | will hesitate at nothing that
can help or please them. love them ALL
| But, if | ever caught man shooting an
other in the back, here the Colonel held out
his left hand rigidly as if pushing against a
horses side and with his right made three
times the gesture of man Tightening up
saddle girth, "I'd cinch him, and cinch him,
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glass;"
WAYNE MACVEAGH, brother of the
" Secretary of the Treasury, is always
much sought in Washington as a dinner
guest because he is famous as a converse
| tionallst and wit One evening, when he
was dining at the White House, his dinner
companion was the handsome but unin-
formed wife of new Senator from the West
She looked at MacVeagh, who is small and
wrinkled and no longer young, and decided
that he and she could not have many topics
of mutual interest. She resolved to resort to
| the commonplace.
do you dine at the White House often?"
was her first question.
Quite frequently" acknowledged Mac
Veagh.
How often have you been here to din
ner?" she continued.
"Wel," said MacVeagh with a twinkle in
his eye, "Ill admit who was President when
l first dined in the White House if you'll
agree to tell me in what year he was inaugu-
rated"
agreed" said the handsome woman.
Franklin Pierce was the man." declared
MacVeagh
ooh, 60 on!" she ridiculed. There never
was such a President"
1.-THE members of a Greek letter fraternity
from Southern university were being
shown through the Library of Congress.
They were apparently stricken dumb with
admiration of the beauties of the building;
but the atmosphere of awe was dissipated
when one of the party, red headed youth,
exclaimed fervently:
Gee, fellows! Wouldn't this make
dandy frat house,"
| A RTHUR l. VORYS, who used to be a big
politician in Ohio and acted as Mr..
Tafts "chief of staff in the campaign for
the presidency, has quit the game of getting
votes and is now making lot of money in
Columbus practising law.
SENATOR GORE of Oklahoma, the only