Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-03-01
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

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washington. = President Taft oc
casionally goes downtown afoot to dc
his odds and ends of shopping. He
mas made several trips to the business
center recently. mingling with the
street and the shopping crowds and do.
ing things generally like the ordinary
american citizen. When the presi.
oent goes into store. of course, he
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.
Mr. Taft makes liberal purchases
ana as lis patronage carries with it
something In the nature of an adver-
usement storekeepers hail his coming
with good deal of satisfaction. Busi-
ness comes pretty near to a standstill
IN the smaller shops when Mr. Taft ap-
pears, and this is not the fault of in
attentive clerks who. after the first
minute OF the presence" turn back
again to their ordinary customers who
prefer to turn from the counters to
watch the president while he buys
Things. 1t must be rather a trying po-
sition In way, but doubtless by this
time the president is used to it. 1t is
MS custom to make liberal purchases
and this custom was carried out to the
1ull during the days just before Christ
mas. and even now Mr.. 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 H.
Taft does. The former president
bought all kinds of things, but his IA
vorite shopping place was a 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 its 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 in the Office of for
mer President Roosevelt, for he was
no lawyer and was willing to admit 1t.
In the White House proper today in
the study Of Mr.. Taft there are books
Of all kinds. poetry, fiction, history,
essays and miscellaneous works. On
the same shelves when Mr.. 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. 1t must not be supposed from
this that Mr. 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 remarkable faculty of remem-
bering everything that he reads.
MRS. IOgdnS AITiICtlOnS.
The body of Captain Logan Tucker,
Mrs. John A. Logan's grandson, who
died in New York the other day, has
been buried In the tomb of his GRANDPA
ther, General Logan. in the Soldiers
Home cemetery. Mrs. John A. Logan,
who was in 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.
azines occasionally and despite her
years is still an exceedingly active
woman. She has had more sorrows
in recent years than ordinarily fall to
the 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-
nected 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 great holiday time
Of It in properly quiet way. Hospital
ity has marked the season as It
should.
During the next few months there
will be many entertainments at the
press club. and they promise to be OF
a character which will excite country
wide interest. Last year at the club
there was debate as to the compare