Show L Q Lift Ie Stories of Roosevelt t Incidents in His Career Sized Shed Lr Light bRt f on Character user o ot Man Malt T Who 1 lio lJ Was as Once Olice Albert ca s Idol BY JOHN F F. F H H. MELLEN f fON r rn ON a western trip when I was a n candidate for Vice price President cut on once e. e n Mr 1 reminiscently tI a a member of t the Ike c Hough Riders Fleets n was alou along on the train with will me got sot into a discussion u ion with a Pc Populist 1 illi s t cd cotta who had expressed an unfavorable estimate of my InY character char and nna in iii m the tLc coo of or the discussion shot tits tile ed editor tor but not fatally II I Wo We 0 had hall to lo leave lea the tho man to bo ho trl tried As ho he had hat no money I left lert him to hire counsel having borrowed the money Irons from Senator Wolcott of at Colorado who was with me inc After Alter election I r received cel from m my friend aletter a 1 letter saying Dear Colonel I find I 1 will not have to use the tho HiO you as ns wo we have elected our candidate ato for for district attorney So I have ha used It to settle a horse transaction In which I unfortunately nate became Involved Involve A few weeks later Inter however I re received re- re a hearted broken loiter letter setting forth the tho face that the tho district attorney whom he Ile evidently felt to be a cold cold- blooded formalist had put him bins In Jail Then tho the affair dropped out of or my mind mint until two or three years cars later Inter when as President I visited another town In another state and tho the leaders of oC the tho delegation which received mo ino Included both my correspondent and tho editor now editor now fast friends and both of or them ardent supporters of or mineS mine VAS S 1 TOM 0 01 1 OI OP in 1111 ii M Sg I want to ask rl right hl here whether Bill BUT Sewall o of or Island Falls FaUs Aroostook Aroostook Aroos- Aroos took County Me Is In Jn the tho crowd If he la Is I want him bins to como come and have lunch with me These were tho the words President Roosevelt addressed ed to a l la large assembly assem assem- bl bly bh of or eastern Maine Maino people who gath gath- ered to erect greet lJ him lm m Ln o ot of 1 w when he hen he lie visited Bangor Dans Me e t Sewall was waa n the hotel J watt aRat an opportunity to greet the 1 A row few ow minutes later he was greeted b by the Pre President The warm forme guide lIide and hunting c companion of or t tv President lunched with the party and antl accompanied that it St that otter t r noon noun to Ellsworth Ensworth Me iM wh inhere rc re t l' l President I dined with United Staff Senator Eugene Hale In the late lite evening w en guide Juldo and t thy the c President ehL were here t C part t compau after atter company man many protest protesting of or friendship the am going to o have you ou and ii your jour visit me sometime at tho the W vi Whit House OH t Dill rowa one of or the Cic M most j characters in Maine M-in M and Jr typical woodsman ot of the Pine PineS state with hl his hili wife was a Tr i President Roosevelt Roose the following Feb F i at tho the White House and a tofi reception was there given him i HAl HAD n TO 1 ItY Y FOU t TM G MAT When he lie was ws governor o of o New Xe Tork Roosevelt regularly regularly- with the ine champion middleweight wrestler of ol f. f America The bouts took P place J co In t 1 e. e state tato house With regard to tlc the bouts he had hall a difficulty with wIto t tho c York ork stale sta comptroller The latter re r rV e fused to audit A bill hll Hoos ea ct put fo f fn for 01 a wrestling mat Billiards wa iras tee rec- ns is 8 a proper amusement 1 amusement but e g wax was Wa not Governor Roosevelt Roose had to lu pay for h hi own ma mat i ItT A ll H 11 When hen he was a member of ot the hey X York State Le Legislature all the he got got vas cas as boxing and wrestling to several fe weeks his sparring Ii i iwas ii was v a s second class the prize I fighter tighter thi son of ot a former boxing teacher Th nit r young oung n man suddenly I stopped r td comin c n st st. M a L w 3 from h onn him written In tIle the Jail ail In c Z 1 me t upon this In his ph phi Phy Roosevelt said I found hat b be il was b by profession a burglar and afI merely followed boxing as 8 an amu- amu mu ment In his lighter moments and business was slack TWO TRA X I. I I. J- J P Sl SID n Two translations of or his Ills little ota olora entitled The Strenuous Life t ei J ei-J pleased Mr r. r Roosevelt 0 was b by a Japanese soldier who I English well wen and fled who had carried th If l I essay through h the L' L cats cab cam campaign pal n. n and later translated it for Cor th benefit of or his countrymen s v The other translation was vas by br aa as' 1 Italian lad lady Wh whoso SO brother an officer officer in the army armr liked the and carr fd d it about with him In InI I I translating the title the lady render rendered It in in an Italian as Vigor Isor dl Vita yita Sir Roosevelt thought this translation A a I great improvement ement on In the er original a ands always as regretted he had not nol used The Th be I I Vigor of or Life LICe as a heading to j I sate cate what he was trying to preach la- la II lai III I j l i stead of or the heading he actually did dul use iL I if I V H HIM 1111 fj- fj V IA After ACter being being- graduated from Harvard Roosevelt elt serious seriously intended to become become- the time he II vu a lawyer Even at t 1 Vice President t he thought to P PP P f for the bar liar but the will of destiny provided otherwise c jAt JAL the time time ht bb stood as a candidate for the New Nei Tor Assembly in his college collego mate a ana nd lifelong tong friend Charles G G. r j Of Worcester wrote rote role him a letter Jetter cO con containing taming a Jocular charge that he n Roosevelt ft replied re replied re- re become ome a politician Mr Jr plied as follows Too roo true too true truc I have ha become political hack Finding It would could PO Interfere much with my law lai I J the nomination to the tho Asser III see 1500 majority was elected by b SOO 00 votes otes But don t tI t to think the ticket by b y 8 I am going to g go o 0 into politics al this year ear for Cor I am not riot M that induced Tiling Th The Influences lull I had hack In J become a political Jack II III I his life liCe as a j spend eau call caused ced ed him to 10 artist of the highest t type Pe t C. RIG Ole IX IN rr after Roose Roosevelt's Its It's t re- re 4 For a long Jong time to 0 b Ii ho he was ns referred S turn from Africa JUrIca veld runny many paperS paper through throughout oot the Vol OM a. a the Ram That was ine Tumbo Bwana the natives tl CS of or A AU IC w wand iron ghen to him b by and means BI Big Chic Chief jand j- nl ins T SIO 11 hB that t thad I. I etc It was as known of or Roost J Hoj u He lIe co Cou could dr i- i temper had R a quick of Pa 1 harsh arsh words In the heat t CJ nut But hrs his n were are not excited W R when he was Wa d an a t t I Py By George f Jove love y J 1 FOUND KOUM r U. t N XI- XI 1 11 On his lon long railroad n a h if d te lt elt always carrIed r l Th Tb rC rca books c. c lie He was a n tl tireless l nF coat o t ot h his or of locket o thumb pocket std side e 1 well sto u bound oun Held one o L CS bool book book-a a cop copy of or ofa and to tours rs On I d h he often took a a. j Jaunts ta or of Plutarch clo I volume lume little Hula 0 read this d da dR Ive on one c s saId old 3 times he f thousand a but bUl it is ever De new nen |