Show AT PT Ar THE TH E NATIONAL CAPITAL President resident Roosevelt Roosvelt was telling a a friend frend about abut his mail mai which averages 5 or or WO G letters a day da the most remarkable letters letar 1 I ever received ho said arrived on the tho morning the first frt full ul accounts ot or o the Martinique disaster dister were printed In the thene ne v naner The writer wrier s said aid sid no Jie 10 saw zaw W that the American consul ons at Martinique had hat been burned burne to death lie He ap for the place and wound up with wih this thi sentence I make m ko this early earb application so as to get in ahead of those ho e creatures the office seekers seekers Another curious letter continued the president p came from a member of the Union League club in few ew York It I be fair to tell tel his bis age name name This man wrote me that he had met a traveled German Gera coming cominS from Europe to the Deutschland and that the tae German Geran had confided to lam him m that in the of Nicaragua there ther was a a t lake 1 miles mies long and thirty miles wide that hat was wa deep enough for tor or navigation He lie hastened to tell ten me this important news inasmuch as he thought it would be be well to have the lake lak looked up as a part pa o or of orthe the route of pf the isthmian canal He was wis In ln earnest earliest eret too said paid the president president regard ogar Jess 1555 of ot the te fact act that Lake Nicaragua has been ben the basis bais of the Nicaragua canal plans for lor the last last half hair century 0 r more and appears appear on every eer real map mapo or of toe the te coon coun cu try tr ever made roade rade One ot of the most harrowing experiences I ever e er had hadin hat hadin in the way of ot letters letter though said sid the te president was ws shortly after I 1 came me Into office Some devilishly inge ingenious Democratic newspaper correspondent sent out a ator aStore Store tor In which h he said I J was wa anxious to have hava the peo people po ponte ilc advise me on public questions He said sid I 1 was thirst ine ir 11 for advice The result was continued the president with a shudder r ot of horror that In n two days my mall mail mat doubled doubled in size and in a a week quadrupled The people evidently had advice on tap tp Judge Eppa Hunton Hunten told this story sor He was wa Vac once In making i political speeches and came ce t to a 3 little littletown town in the mountain moun In region There TherE was no hotel and ana analie andIe lie he Ie accepted te the th Invitation of a a farmer aner wa to have hac supper and stay sta alt all night night Before Before supper the host told Judge Hunton that ho be had just put in a barrel barel of Rood good whisky and him a a drink The judge took the drink and took two twe or three more morg The whisky nisky wik was excellent Two weeks week later Judge Hunton got back to t the te same town He remembered his friend and went to his house He was wa cordially cordral received and invited to tos supper acain No whiskey was offered After a time the judge felt fel the need of a little stimulant and said sail By the way that was ws remarkably fine you youve rave cave ve me when I was wag here her two weeks ago Yes replied the host so It was wa but I am sorry sor to ear sav is its al all gone gone said Judge Hunton Hunton astonished You ou dont mean mAan to tell teU tel me inc you have used a barrel barl of oC whiskey in inid two Yes said id the host host I r tell you Mend friend whiskey dont last l st long lon when you oU have a big family o ot of children and you o cant dant t get any milk mUk mik |