The Nevada County picayune., 1912-01-12
Makes His Purchases Like an
 Ordinary Citizen.
SHOPKEEPERS WELCOME HIM
eook-Shelves of Present President and .tis Predecessor Contrssted-An. other Sorrow for Mrs. John 4. Logan In Death of Her
 Grandson.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

casionally goes downtown afoot to do hi3 odds and ends of shopping He has !made seversI trips to the business center recently. mingling with the street ard the shopping crowds and do Ing things generally like the ordinary American citizen When the presi. dent goes into a store. Of course. hc instantly Is recognized and there Is evidence Of anxiety on the part of each clerk that at his counter the president shall do his shopping.
 Mir Taft makes liberal purchases and as lis patronage carries with 1t something in the nature of an adver- tisement storekeepers hail his coming with good deal of satisfaction. Busi- ness comes pretty near to standstlll in the smaller shops when Mir. Taft ap- pears. and this Is not the fault or m. attentive clerks who. after the hrst minute of the presence, turn oack again to their ordinary customers who prefer to turn from the counters to watch the president while he buys things It must be rather q trying po- SAILOil III q way DuI dohbN'S'H ~
 time the president is used to it. It IS his custom to make liberal purchases and this custom waJ carried out 10 the full during the days just before Christ mas, and even now MT Taft Is making up for certain forgetfulnesses before Christmas by laying in greater store of presents to send to friends.
 Books of Two Presidents.
 Theodore Roosevelt used to go shop ping in the same way that William Il. Taft does The former president bought all kinds of things, but his fla vorite shopping place was certain book store where he would go and spend an hour or two every little while looking over the new books and old books, giving perhaps a greater part of his time to ancient volumes, many of them secondhand. in the hope Of finding something of interest not only because of it's text. but because of it's rarity
 President Taft's White House office library consists almost entirely Of law books There were not more than two or three law books Tn the office of for mer President Roosevelt, for he was no lawyer and was willing to admit it. In the White House proper today in the study of Mir Taft there are books of all kinds, poetry fiction, history, essays and miscellaneous works On the same shelves when Mir. Roose- welt was president was great col lection of nature books. He had works on birds, mammals, mollusks and in fact on every form which living nature assumes, including vegetable life It must not be supposed from this that Mir. Roosevelt did not have poetry, fiction. history, essays and mis- cellaneous works, for 1t Is generally admitted that he was the greatest reader who ever served as president of the United States and he had and has a remarkable faculty of remem- bering everything that he reads.
 Mrs Loean's Afflictions.
 The body of Captain Logan Tucker Mrs. John A Logans grandson. who died in New York the other day. has been buried in the tomb of his grandfa- ther General Logan, in the Soldiers Home cemetery Mrs John A Logan who was in a good many respects the strong right arm of the general during his lifetime, still lives in Washington She writes for the press and the mag azfpes occasionally and despite her years is still an exceedingly active woman. She has had more sorrows in recent years than ordinarily fall to inc lot of womankind Her only son was killed in battle in the Philippines Mrs. Logan accompanied the body to this country Now her grandson. also an army officer. is dead. Mrs. Logan is deeply interested in everything con Dected with the armed services of the country Her hair Is pure white, but she keeps the appearance of youth.
 Plans of National Press Club.
 One of the thriving Washington institutions Is the National Press club in which virtually all the cor respondents and local newspaper men have membership, with a great nonresident list on which the names appear of hundreds of the well-known newspaper men of the United States. The club has had a great holiday time of il in properly quiet way. Hospital ity has marked the season as 1t should
 During the next few months there will be many entertainments at the press club. and they promise to be oi a character which will excite country wide interest Last year at the club there was debate as to the compara- tive merits of whiskers and bald heads as aids to statesmanship. Columns were printed about this affair, with Jo- seph c Cannon, former speaker of the house of representatives, leading one side of the debate on behalf of whis kers and Representative Nicholas