Arizona republican., 1920-01-05
INSTALMENT THIRTY-FIvE

dent Roosevelt reversed himself at this time. He had taken a stand against the motto, Tn God We Trust" on coins, insisting that such use degraded the sentiment. A storm of protest arose and, in deference to the many requests poured in upon him, the presi . dent signed the. bill and the motto stands. The republican national con- June IS. 1908. Taft was Roosevelts candidate, but a stampede for the nomination of Roosevelt himself was attempted.-The Editor.
 John Burroughs and Flying Squirrels
 White House, May 10, 1908.
 Dearest Archie:
 Mother and I had great fun at Pine Knot. MT. Burroughs whom I call Dom John, was with us and we greatly enjoyed having him. But one night he fell into great disgrace! The flying squirrels that were there last Christ mas had raised a brood, having built a large nest inside of the room in which John Burroughs slept. Of course they held high carnival at night time. Mother and I do not mind them at all, and indeed rather like to hear them scrambling about, and then as sequel to a sudden frantic fight between two of them, hearing or seeing one little fellow come plump down to the floor and scuttle off again to the wall. But one night they walked up John Bur roughs and he spent a misguided hour hunting for the nest, and when he found it took it down and caught two Of the young squirrels and put them in a basket. The next day under mothers direction I took them out. getting my fingers somewhat bitten in the pro- cess, and loosed them in our room, where we had previously put back the nest I do not think John Burroughs tad h h iC mic 70 squirrels were more active than ever that night, both in his room and ours, the disturbance In their family affairs having evidently made them restless!
 Beauty of White House Grounds
 White House, May IT, 1908.
 Quentin is really doing pretty we'll with his baseball. and he is perfectly absorbed in it. He now occasionally makes base hit if the opposing pitcher is very bad; and his nine wins more than one-haf of it's games.
 The grounds are too lovely for any thing. and spring Is here. or rather early summer, in full force. Mothers flower-gardens are now as beautiful as possible, and the iron railings of the fences south of them are covered with clematis and roses in bloom. The trees are in full foliage and the grass bril- liant green, and my friends, the warblers. are trooping to the north in full force.
 Quentin and Beehive
 White House, May 30, 1908. Dearest Archie:
 Quentin has met with many adven- lures this week; in spite of the fact that he has had bad cough which has tended to interrupt the variety of his career. He has become greatly inter ested In bees, and the other day started down to get a beehive from somewhere, being accompanied by a mongrel-look- hnx rp xxyhn I ivt- quired. When repeated by Quentin it was obviously an Italian name. | asked who he was and Quentin re- sponded: "Oh, his father keeps a fruit stand" However. they got their bees all right and Quentin took the hive up to a school exhibit. There some of the bees got out and were left behind ("Poor homeless miserables," as Quen- tin remarked to them), and yesterday they at intervals added great zest to life in the classroom. The hive now reposes in the garden and Scamp sur veys it for hours at time with ab- sorbed interest. After while he will get to Investigating it, and then he will find out more than he expects to.
 This afternoon Quentin was not al- lowed to play ball because of his cough, so he was keeping the score when a foul tip caught him in the eye. It was quite a bad blow. but Quentin was very plucky about it and declined to go in until the game was finished, an hour or so later. By that time his eye had completely shut up and he now has most magnificent bandage around his head over that eye, and feels much like a baseball hero. I came in after l dinner to take a look at him and to my immense amusement found that he was lying flat on his back in bed say ing his prayers, while Mademoisele was kneelinE down. It took me a moment ]