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Show ROOSEVELT'S LOVE : - FOR LITTLE CHILDREN v . v Pathetic Incident Brings Out His Tender Feeling in a Most - Touching Manner. ' SALEM,; Dr., June 12. When President Roosevelt was In Salem last month he halted his carriage during the parade, alighted and shook hands and kissed a Utile Ut-ile invalid girl who was Suffering from a spinal affliction, arM who was brought out -on a stretcher to see tha President. Rev. w. C.1 Kantn-r, father of the child, expressed ex-pressed by letter his appreciation to the President and today received the following follow-ing reply from the President: "On of my little boys suffered from water on the knee and had to wear an Instrument In-strument for nearly tw years. This has . brought home to me very keenly what it means to-a child to suffer in this way, and still mora to-suffer as your dear little girl was evidently suffering. I .wish it had been- in -my pcrwer to do something that would -have given ner even moment's real happiness. '. ... . |