Show r II I to I D a rag J JOSEPH KUN INSTALMENT 14 The Panama treaty treat President noose noose- Roosevelt velta velt's bold bohl step tow toward rd the construction of ot the canal was wall pending pending- when the following fol tol lowing letters were written It was charged charred that the president had interfered In behalf of ot Panama In lt its Ita secession from Colombia Bitter words were launched against him trim in congress Representative Patterson of ot Colorado at about this time compared Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt to Mahomet et Joseph Smith the Mormon leader and Dowle Dowie declaring he had an exalted notion of or his hla own powers art importance arid The president was wall making enemies enemies and and by friends by the tho wholesale The The Editor AND TAFT While White House Feb 6 6 1904 Dear Dea r Ted I was glad to hear that yon were to tobe tobe tobe be cont confirmed Secretary Root left on Monday and Governor Taft TaCt took his place I have missed and shall miss Root Hoot dreadfully He has been the ablest most generous and anti mo most t disinterested friend and adviser adviser adviser ad ad- that any president could hope to have and immediately after arter leaving he rendered me a great service bV by a speech at the Union League club in which he said in most effective fashion the very thinKs things I should have liked ht him m to say Hay and his words moreover moreo carried car car- ried weight as the words of no other man at this time addressing such a an n audience could have done Taft Tatt is a a. splendid fellow and will be an aid and comfort In In- every WA way But as mother mothe r says he is ill too much like me to be bo able to give me as ao good advice as Mr Root Roo t was able to do because of or the very differences dif dit- of character between us If Ie after fully thinking the matter matte r over you remain firmly convinced that tha t you want ant to go Into the army um well an and d good I shall be rather sorry for your you yourd d decision c because I have great confidence con con confidence in you rou ou and I believe that I in n civil cl life you jou could probably win In th the tho e en end a n. greater eater prize than will be op open n nto I to you jou ou If It you go to Into the army though of course coure a man can do army I wellIn well wellIn wellin I In the arm army I r Know perfectly w well ll that you will have hard times Umes in civil I I life Probably most young fellows when they have graduated r from college colleg e ef or from flom their post graduate course i If IC f they take lake any feel teel pretty prett dismal fo for forthe forthe r rs the first few years In ordinary cases case s it at first seems as th it lr efforts wore were not leading anywhere as if fC the pressure pressure pressure press press- ure around the foot of or the ladder wa was s too great to permit of getting up to th the e top But I have faith in your our energy your perseverance your ability and your power to tor force e yourself to the front when you have once found ou out t and antl taken your line However you and andI I and mother will talk the whole matter matter matter mat mat- ter over when you come back here o on n Latter SENATOR HANNAS HANNA'S DEATH White House l Feb leb 19 13 1904 I Dear bear Ted Poor Hanna's Hannas death was a 1 tragedy At t the end he wrote me a a. note th the thelast thelast e I. I last the he ever lr wrote which showed himat him himat himat at his best hest and which I much appreciate Ills death was very sad for his family and close friends for he ha had d many large and generous traits an and d had made a great success in life lire b by y his 1118 energy perseverance and burl burly y strength Buffalo Bill DUl was at lunch the other othe r day together with Willis my old hunter Buffalo Bill Dill has always been bee beena n a great friend of mine I remember when I was was running for vice president I struck a Kansas town Just when hen the tho Wild West show was there He lie go got upon the rear rear platform of my car an and d made a brief speech In my behalf ending ending end end- In ing with the tho statement that a c cyclone clone from the West had come no wonder the rats hunted their cellars cellars' S SAs As for tor you jou I 1 think the West Point Poin t education is of course good for any man but I r still think that you ou have ha too much In you vou for me to be glad to toRe tone ne see Re you go JO Into the tho army where in I I I I time of peace progress is so much a n I matter of 01 routine IRRITATING REMARK BY QUEN QUEN- TIN White Unite House Feb 27 21 1904 Dear Kermit Mother went ot off for or three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took Instant advantage of her absence to fall sick sickness was surely due to a a. riot in candy and ice cream with chocolate sauce He was wasa I Ia a very sad bunny next morning and spent a couple of days in bed Ethel as always was as good as gold both to him and to Archie and largely relieved re relieved re- re me of or my duties as vice mother I got up each morning in time to breakfast breakfast break break- fast with Ethel and Archie before they started for lor school and I read a certain amount to Quentin but this was about all I think Archie escaped with a minimum of washing for the three days One day dav I asked him before Quentin how often he washed his face whereupon Quentin Interpolated Very ery ery I seldom I fear which naturally produced produced pro pro- from Archie violent recriminations lions of a strongly personal type Mother lother came back yesterday having thoroughly enjoyed All AU the horses continue sick JAPANESE WRESTLING White House March 5 1904 Dear Kermit r I am wrestling with two Japanese wrestlers three times a week I am amnot amnot not the age or the build one would think to he be whirled lightly over an opponents opponent's opponents opponent's opponents op- op op op- head and batted down on a mattress without damage But they areso are so EO skilful that I have not been hurt at atall all ail My Iy throat is a So little sore because on one once when one of ot them had a a. strangle stranglehold stranglehold stranglehold hold I also got hold of othis his windpipe and thought I could perhaps choke himoff him himoff off oU before he could choke me However be he got ahead White House April 9 3 9 1904 1304 Dear Ted TedI I 1 am amery v ery q glad I have been beep doing this Jap Japanese nese wrestling but when I am through with it this time I 1 am not at atall all sure I shall ever er try it again while I am busy with other work as I 1 am now now Often by the time I get to 5 5 t o o'clock clock In the afternoon I will be feel feel- I Ing like a a. stewed owl after atter an eight hours hours' grapple g with senators congressmen congressmen congressmen congress congress- men etc then I find the wrestling a a. II trifle too vehement for mere rest My Iy right ankle and m mj my left wrist and one thumb and both great toes are swollen swollen swollen len sufficient to more or less impair their usefulness and I am well mottled with bruises elsewhere Still I have ha made good flood progress and since you vou left they have hae taught m three new throws that are perfect corkers LOVE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE White House May 28 1901 Dear Dear Ted TedI I am having a reasonable amount of ot work and rather more than a reasonable reasonable reason reason- I able Roble amount of or worry But after all I life lite is lovely here The country is beau beau- and I do not think that any two people ever got more enjoyment out I of ot I the White Whito House than Mother and I I. I We e love the house itself without and within for Its associations for tor its stillness and its simplicity Ve We lov lovi I 1 the garden And we liko I we the almost always take our breakfast on the 8 south Juth portico now Mother looking look I ing ver very pretty and dainty in her summer summer sum sum- mer crier dresses s Then we stroll al out tile the I garden for tor fifteen Ift n or twenty minutes looking at the flowers and the life fountain and admiring the trees Then I work I until between four and five fl usually aIng av- av i ing some office P people ople to lunch now lunch now a i couple of senators now a couple of ot I ambassadors now a literary man now nowa a a. capitalist or a labor leader or a scientist scientist scientist or a big game hunter If 11 Mother Moth Moth- er wants to ride we wo then s spend nd a coupie couple couple cou cou- pie or hours on horseback e We had a lovely ride up on the Virginia shore since I came back and yesterday esterday w- w went w-ent nt up Rock creek and swung back home homet b by the roads where the locust trees treel were most numerous numerous for for they are now white with blossoms It is the last great burst of bloom which we shall I see this year sear except extent the laurels Rut runt j there are plenty of f flowers in bloom or Just coming out the honeysuckle most conspicuously conspIcuous The south portico is fragrant rant with that now The Jasmine will be out later If It we don dont don't t ride I walk or play tennis But nut I am afraid Ted Tod has gotten Jotten out of ot his fathers tather's class In tennis tennis' To be bo continued |