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'_TYPIUAL AMERICAN.
A SKETCH OF THE BRAVE LEADER
OF THE cowsov REGIMENT.
Roosevelt is a Man with a Future Who
Learned Human Nature on the Prairie:
and Who Can Turn His Knowledge t:
E Account Upon the Tented Fields.
Theodore Roosevelt has so much en-.
deared himself to the American people
by his cheerful optimism that the
president of his alma mater once saw
fit to make apology for it. The sub-
sequent events have shown that the
student was the master of the sage.
the scholar the head of the school. This
notable circumstance probably had
more effect in shaping Roosevelt’s
public career than all he learned within
its walls, and will certainly do him a
vastly greater service than any parchc
ment diploma which that ancient in-
stitution could offer. For had Presi<
dent Eliot seen fit to land Roosevelt’s
course on the Monroe doctrine instead
of to deprecate it, that plucky young
American might well have asked with
Daniel O’Connell, “What have I done
wrong now?”
Since leaving Harvard» Roosevelt
has been more familiar with the herd
book than with Horace, yet he has
found time while administering law to
,the ranchers and rough riders of the
West, to make more notable contribu-
tions to American literature than any
public man of to-day. But he is no
mere dilletante maker of books and
fine phrases.
Whether as a rancher on the banks
of Bitter Creek, or as chief of that de-
partment at Washington which aims
to purify the spoils system, and to re-
form the public service, Colonel Roose«
velt has invariably proved himself to
be a man of fixed convictions and of
rare courage. “I would rather see this
Administration turned out because it
enforced the laws, than to see it suc-
ceed in violating them," is a. charac-
teristic phrase of the man, and which
gives his character in a nutshell.
Phrases like this might be culled from
his sayings, but it would be only a
rosary of Roosevelt’s manly straight-
forward qualities. He, speaks as
straight as he shoots,,and Roosevelt's
record as a cow-boy is 23 bulls eyes out
of a. possible 25, while astridc 3. runs—
tang in full gallop.
His first step after leaving Harvard
with the blessings of the'faculty, was
to mend New York politics. For two
hundred and fifty years the-name of
Roosevelt has been connected with the
business interests of the metropolis. It
is a name associated with one of the
oldest of New York’s streets, and with
one of the most serviceable of the city’s
hospitals. Colonel Roosevelt-’smdebut'
in public life was conceived .with the
view of making manifest the influence
of the scholar in city~politics; and in
this purpose he succeeded sufficiently
of New York and to take away from
the aldermen the power of confirming
appointments. He was also‘the‘ catn-
didate of the Republican party for
Mayor of New York in 1836, his op-
ponents being the late Henry George
and~Abrani S. Hewitt. '
Col. Roosevelt. however, was destin—
ed to be identified with New York poli-
tics later on. But meantime he was
making the most of his opportunities
to shape his own and the country’s
future. Two years after leaving Har-
vard Roosevelt wrote a history of the
Naval War of 1812. The book took
high literary rank and paved the way
for his entrance into public service, as
assistant, Secretary of the Navy. The
vigorous style of this initial work did
much to arouse the country to the use.
essity for an enlarged navy, and to
quicken the patriotic sentiment of the
country, which was then beginning to
be tinged all over with burnished hue
of gold. A year afterwards he gave
the public some glimpses of his stud-
ies of pioneer life in a. work on ranches
in the West, and of the “Hunting Trips
of a Ranchman," which are filled with
delightful reminiscences of western
life; and in which much that was worth
knowing has been rescued from fore-
fathers cr from mere hearsay and tra-
dition. His experience hunting the
bison or the buflalo, and the physical
wiriness then developed'will prove as
useful to him now in Cuba. as his
knowledge as a. student of naval his-
tory made him an invaluable aid in
the Navy Department in preparing for
the present ‘war with Spaln. He
brought to the navy the experience
and researches of a scholar, and he
now brings to the Roosevelt rangers
the skill, endurance and exploits of a.
horsemen who is as happy in the-sad-
dle as other men are while in bed.
That Colonel Roosevelt understands
the west and its matters, and appre-
ciates them, is proven by the “hearty
manner in which he has elucidated its
phases in his many works. And in
nothing is this broad and American
view so well borne out as in consider-
ing the number of those works which
treat of the noble examples of the west,
and of the bounding nature of the
hackwoodsman that Roosevelt has
given to the reading communities of
the East. In the view of this descend-
ant of the early Dutch settlers of New
Amsterdam, the winning of that vast
Empire nursed by strong men, and
taught by fate to know Ichoval’s Dial1
“That man’s devices can’t make a
man” ought to be the great theme of
our. statesmen. For it is upon the
character and prosperity of the west
that much of our future as a nation
depends. Colonel Roosevelt, there-
fore, is never weary of telling in the
eight volumes of his entitled “The
Winning of the West,” of, the part
*WhiChi‘the; frontiersm‘an- has played,
and of the part which his descendants
Will Play all through the coming years
in shaping our national future. Hav-
4 ing thus thoroughly familiarized him-
self with the West and having ab-
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to give increased power-to the Mayor ,
corned of its large sympatlil‘é'svana or
its buoyancy and dash, Roosevelt was
no less successful at the Natidnal Cap-
but not the man. He wasas popular
in Washington as he was in Dakota.
and when he bade good-bye to his col-
T HE A v ANIN G GA ZE T TE ‘
leagues recently, to actively enter into _
the Cuban campaign, his office at
Washington was strewn with flowers.
and there was scarcely a dry eye
among those various ofiicials who call-
ed to say farewell.
It is Frederic Harrison who says5
that “the man of culture in 'politics'is
one of the poorest mortals alive." But .
001. Roosevelt has shown that the man
of culture can wield great influence in
Political life; and that men of culture
have as~ great opportunities
them in American as in European life.
His the lot of too many men of so—
called culture that they really are not
men of culture at all, but that the?
before ,
belong to the affected class of men;
Whom Matthew Arnold called “our
barbarians."
cal, lellme class, who are steeped with
an insousiance proportionate to their
desire to patronize the plain people,
only learnt the wisdom that Roosevelt
l could teach them it would not be so
difficult to reconcile politics and the
scholar, in this country. '
When Colonel Roosevelt was asked
one day what he would do with the city
young men if he had the power, “I’d
order them to work,” said he as quick
as the. snap of a gunlock. “I have
tried to dO-thlS by example,” contin~
ued he, “and it is what I have preach-
ed; for myself I’d work as quick be-
side Pat Duggan as with the last de-
scendant of a. patroom; it literally
makes no difference to me as long as
the work is good and the man is in
earnest.” No such wisdom as this was
learned ,at Harvard. And it is no
small tribute to the confidence which
this man is capable of inspiring even
in men who never saw him—and most
of whomwere also aware that he had
never been in action—that volunteers
from every part of the Union more
freely staked their lives upon Colonel
Roosevelt’s judgment and were less
afraid to die if necessary in his com‘
pany, than if he were a West Point
graduate and a full-fledged military
commander.
Roosevelt is a man with a future
who has learned human nature on the
prairies, and who can turn his knowl-
edge to account upon the tented fields.
If the war progresses he is also mor~
ally certain to make a creditablerec—
ord there. He is no mere canting
theorist, but -_a broad guage practical
man whose education in the world he-
gets the highest-confldence in his ca-
. pacity to face the future—a. future that
is quite likely to have no room'for
mere menof leisure. but which may
be depended upon even to put itself
to somerinconvenience in order to
make room for men of the stamp of
Theodore Roosevelt. , ,
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. Spanish Cruelties.
John Gilmer Speed discussing the
Spaniard says of them: “Still, after
all that can be said for them, it must
he confessed that the Spaniards as a
whole are cruel and bloody minded
judgedby our standards. They may
‘notbe unkind parents, or, among the
peasantry, unkind husbands. But what
no-English speaking people can stom-
achxis the national passion for the
bull fight. No passion or sentiment
anywhere in the world is so compre-
hensively and intensely national as the
passion for “tauromachia” is to-day in
Spain. There was a. time when bull
fighting had a. comparatively slight
hold on the northern provinces, but
that time is past. Just as the broad
“faja,” or girdle, is the one article
of dress which is worn by all the com-
mon people of Spain, otherwise as
various in costume as all the rural
populations of France and Germany
put together, so are they all united
in their love for this amusement. The
man who will not save up all his pen-
nies to pay for admission to a grand
Sunday or Corpus Christi “corrida de
toros" is either an inveterate spend-
thr-ift or no Spaniard; and if he leaves
his wife at home he is a. bad husband.
What we Americans cannot and never
will understand about bull fighting,
even when we have managed to master
all the intricacies of the game itself,
is how a gathering of both men and
women canlaugh and cheer, and clap
hands, and throw their hats into the
ring when a living disembowelled
horse is making his screams heard
above all the uproar. On the whole,
we would rather not understand it.
There is one Spanish woman for whose
memory all Americans feel some rev-
erence-Isabella the Catholic, who
pawned her jewels to fit out Cristobal
Colon—and it is pleasant for us to re-
member that Isabelia the Catholic set
her face sternly against bull fighting,
and would have abolished “in her
dominions if she could, but even Isa.-
bella. was not strong enough for that."
Equal to the Occasion.
Err-Secretary William M. Evarts was
for a long time the most skilful of all
public men in polite and pointed repar-
tee, says the Ladies’ Home Journal. At
a reception in W'asilington he was~once
drawn into a discussion between two
women.
“Mr. Evarts,” said one, “do you not
think I am right in saying that 3. WO-
man is always the best judge of an-
other woman’s character?”
“Madam,” replied Mr. Evarts, “she is
not only the best judge, but also the
last executioner.:’
speed ,0! the Gulf Stream.
Three miles an hour is about the
average speed of the Gulf Stream. At
certain places, however, it attains a
speed of fifty-one miles an hour, the
rapidity of the current giving the sur-
face when the sun is shining, the ap-
pearance of 'a sheet of fire._
And if this lackadaisl-,
Smart Traveling Gowns.
The navy and army blue serges, fon-
lards, mohairs, and light-weight cos-
ital. ' Thére the scenes were changed I tume cloths are. made into stylish tai~
lor-costumes for traveling and general
wear, that hold their own against all
the endless smart and novel gowns
which the present season has produced.
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A Clever Ruse.
At Scotch weddings, some years ago,
it used to be the custom to batter the
hat of the bridegroom at he was leav-
ing the house in which the ceremony
took place. On one of those occasions
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a newly married couple—reéatives of.
the bridegroom—determined to carry
out the Observances of this custom to
the letter.
The bridegroom heard them discuss-
ing their plans, and despatchedva mes-
senger to the carriage-which stood
waiting—with his hat some time pre-
vious to his departure. Then donning
the hat of a male relative who had
plotted against him—a new silk chim-
ney pot of the latest style—he prepared
to go out to the carriage.
No sooner'had he got to the door
than hishatwas furiously assaulted,
and almost destroyed. He walked out
of the house amid» the laughter of the
bystanders and entered the vehicle;
then, taking the battered hat- from his
head, .he. threw it into-the hands of its
proper 7 owner, Aexclaiming: ——
“Hey, .McDougall, there’s your hat!" ,
and donned his own, amid the cheers of
all ‘ present. a
Fancy Grenadines.
The fancy grenadines are lovely this
year, as indeed are all the new grena-
dines, for never was there. such a won-
derful and beautiful variety. Very
elegant, also, are the silk nets, and dif-
ferent importing houses show different
treatment of these handsome textiles.
At one establishment the black net is
in princesses form, over a sheath-
shaped slipcf cherry-red moire. At
another noted house the beautiful black
net has a foundation of ivory satin
with bodice trimmings of white lisse
glmost covered with black guipure lace
sprays and insertions. I third gown is
decorated all overwith cut jet bow-
knots, garlands, arabesques, and
scrolls. This :gown is made up over
nastu-rtium satin, and the collar and
girdle are‘of brillant orange velvet.
For Slender Women.
Less of the opaque white fabrics are
shown amongthe season’s patterned
transparents than those in cream,
canary, and Spanish yellow, willow
green. ciei blue, rescda, rose, and vio-
let in exquisite timings. In making up
these textiles the greater portion show
an airy‘overd-ress, loose from its gored
underskirt, but united at the top, one
belt holding both skirts. Loss diaphan-
ous looking toilets for rather stout wo-
men show the outside skirt sewed in
"with each gored breadth of the un—
derskirt. The very popular frills and
fiounces must likewise be eschewed and
the narrow ruche substituted; for none
but tall, slender WOmen look well in
frilled skirts.
‘ Rain ,Water for Blankets.
A city housekeeper contrives to have
rain water to wash her blankets before
putting them away for the summer.
She does this by tapping the eaves-
pipe, using a large clean barrel to hold'
the water. It should not be put under
during a shower, but after a steady rain
has washed the soot and'dirt from the
roof, and the‘water is flowing clean:
Nothing is better than this kind of
water for the blankets. It is easy to
manage their washing athome with a.
little care. Some housekeepers put
them in a. pair a week, but if an odd
day towardsthe latter end of the week
is taken, it can all be done at once.
The Winn Post.
This is the moment when in coun-
try homes a little preventive action
will be productive of much comfort in
relation to the wasp pest. These bel-
ligerent little insects have by this time
appeared and located themselves in'
their nooks in the crevices of piazza-
railings and stone house foundations.
In one of the tracts issued~ from the'
Entomological Department at Wash-
ington, it is advised to watch when the
hole is full at night, of the wandering
insects and then pour a generous dose
of chloroform into it. This will ex-
terminate the colony at onepblow.
: The marine lamprey’s adhesive pow-
cr is such that 121 lb. may be raised
without forcing it to loose its hold. It
is so tenacious of life that its head re-: ,
mains for hours, attached to a. stone
when its body is severed..
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Titan-is WEEKLY MENU 3 »
"’ TMONDAY.‘ ' ~ ’
Breakfast—Cracked 'Wheat, Sugar
and Cream. Dried Beef in Cream.
Fried Potatoes. Toast. Coffee.‘ .
,Luncheons—Thin Slices Cold Meat.
Creamed. Potatoes. Apple Sauce.
Cookies. Tea. 1
Dinner.—0nion Soup. Sirloin Steak.
Baked Potatoes. Spinach. Lettuce.
French Dressing. Wafers. Cheese.
Apple Pie. Coffee. ‘
TUESDAY.
Breakfast—Blueberries, Sugar and
Cream. Boiled Eggs. Creamed Pota-
toes. Toast. Cofiee.
Luncheon.—-—Smoked Salmon. Potato
.Salad. Brown Bread and Butter. Stew-
ed Prunes. Iced Tea.
Dinner.~—-Cream of Spinach. Veal
Cutlets. Potato Balls. Asparagus with
Cream. Sauce, on Toast. Lettuce and
Tarragon Salad. ' Pineapple, Sliced.
Cake. Iced Coffee. ‘
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WEDNESDAY. ‘
Breakfast—Raspberries and Cream.
Fried Hominy Cakes. ,’ Ham and Eggs.
Rolls. Coffee. .
Luncheon—Cold Roast Beef, Sliced.
» Brown Bread. Radishes. Cocoa. Apri-
cots.
Dinner—Bread Soup. Sirloin Steak.
Mashed Potatoes. String Beans. Let-
tuce and Tomato Salad. Raspberries
and Cream. Cake. Cafe Noir.
THURSDAY.
Breakfast—Sliced Tomatoes. Wheat-
ina, Sugar, Cream. Salt Mackerel,
Broiled. Coffee Rolls. Coffée.
~ Luncheon—Boiled Ham, Sliced Thin.
Watercress Salad. Wafers. Blueber-
ries. Iced Chocolate.
Dinner—Tomato Soup. Loin of
Lamb, Stuffed. Potatoes. Cauliflower.
Lettuce and Radish Salad. Raspberry
Ice Cream. Cake. Coffee.
FRIDAY. _
Breakfast. — Apricots. Shredded
Wheat Biscuits, Sugar and Cream.
Bacon and Eggs. Bread. Coffee.
Luncheon—Salt Codfish in Tomato
Sauce. Rye Muffins. Blueberries.
Crackers. Iced Tea.
Dinner.—Bisque of Claim. Broiled
Bluefish. .Riced Potatoes. Butter
Beans. White Onions. Preserved
Strawberries. Iced Coffee.
SATURDAY.
Breakfast. Stewed Cherries. Hominy,
Sugar and Cream. Hamburg Steak.
Rolls. Cofiee.
Luncheon—Plain Lobster. Brown
Bread and Butter. Watercress Salad.
Wafers. Sliced Pineapple. Cocoa.
Dinner.—Lamb ' Stew, Dumplings.
Green Peas. Boiled Onions, in Cream
Sauce. String. Bean Salad. Wafers.
Strawberry Ice Cream. Coffee. ‘
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A Competition of_Noses.
Milan has recently been the scene
of one of the most remarkable competi- .
tions on record. The “Societa ,dei
Buontemponi,” or the “Society of lolly
Boys,” offered tempting prizes to‘the
owners of the most striking noses in
Italy; and scores of competitors .who
were nas-ally gifted above. their fellows
entered the lists. g.,ac:4tnaatp. '
The prizes were awarded at the Della‘
Asse restaurant, in the presence of an
enthusiastic crowd. A long poem, ex-
tolling the nose‘as a feature of great
importance, was read by the secretary,
Signor Brivio; and the vice-president
followed with a learned review of the
influence of noses on human history.
The prizes were then awarded. ,
The first prize fell to the lot of For-
tunate Micheluti, a vendor of “wax
ligh ,” whose nose, of remarkable
length and thinness, was an object of
envy and despair. It belongs to the
pre-Grecian type, and is without a. ri-
val for inserting into “other people’s
business." The second prize _ was
awarded to a Roman nose of such bold
curve and proportions as to make 6
Wellington die of despair. ._r{f,‘
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To Mount Pictures.
The best thing to use to mount pict-
ures is boiled flour paste. .It should be
entirely free from lumps and made
about as thick as boiled starch. In ap.
"plying it, use a flat brush and also rub
the paste smooth in case of any possi-
ble lumps. If mucilage or gum-arable
ind water are used, it should be re-
, .nembered that the picture should be
moistened on the back before the mu-
silage is applied; otherwise they will
dry in blisters. So many good pictures
are in circulationit is a pity not to at-
tempt the mounting of them in inex-
pensive fashion. Passe-partout mount-
ings are within the reach of every one,
and are a. perfect protection to" the
picture as well as an effective method
of displaying them. . .
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.. Dainty Gray Gown.
The gray gowns this year are ex‘
tremely dainty and handsome, and they
appear in every sort of material, from
linen, pique, batiste,'nun’s veiling, and
' cashmere; on through the array of at-
tractive dress fabrics to crisp stand-
alone _taffeta, satin foulard, crepe de
chine, moire, faille, and summer bro-
cade.
Watered Silk.
The most elegant black gowns. just
now shown at the importing houses are
of very lustrous watered silk, made in
princesse style, and trimmed very
elaborately on the bodice portion and
front of the gown with black lace, with
girdle and yoke, bretelle or vest«piecs
of the finest cut jet. ,
Parasols This Season.
There are no surprising novelties in
parasols this year. Chiffon is almost .
omnipresent, and when this is absent,
lace is, found. There are far more
fancy models exhibitedthan those for
, slit: in plain or fancy patterns.
lutility uses, the only serviceablg styles
displayed being those of pongee or of
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