Show INDISCRETION OF TAFT Had a Cold and Made Matter Much Worse by Gastro Gastronomic Gastronomic Indulgence THEN HE QUOTED SCRIPTURE You luty hirn a It Tool In iii It Mat MatI I n III hll hll ot l St Paul PattI Minn Juno H It looked for fot a Ns ti It If which was is Riven ti lit In iii i if Seep Scry ot ft oot ht bo Ito graced by the tho of the secre was taken suddenly Ill while tho thu troops nt ot Fort shortly titter noon Tha Thu was Wiled bliP to commence at B 0 but iUt I IWas Was not until that the secretary reached the ito bouquet banquet hall hail somewhat pale hale but with his fites wreathed In snubs the tho secretary of war nat down the long line lino ot of ban bait the tho Rented nt lit the tables and a as many more who tub occupied scats In itt ho the boxes nud balconies rose roselo lo 0 thick their feet uund cheered lustily To the Associated Prea Prest the secretary slot Hint Hinted ed 01 that bItt ho was much better and that his attack wits was a se so sotiro tiro of which been brought on ott by the continuous set setU U los 8 of which had been ten tendered dered him him since he left on his hii western trip hip The banquet tonight which except tot for the tho visit to Fort was vas the tho only function which tha was tibIa able to attend was tins given on the im Ito immense mense stage of the tho auditorium wore ioLe laid for 2000 while the tho boxes rind galleries tho stage were thronged with handsomely gowned women Palms and plants were wIo scattered In It picturesque profusion about the Lito banquet hall hail while thousands of silk Hags float floated ed overhead When Secy Taft raft spoke his Voice wn wee strong and he was heard In all parts of tile thu great lOftt auditorium Ho lie said It has come to be It my portion to the hospitality froth from a great many luau people from those In the Philip Philippines PhilIppines pines many hundreds of miles away from Panama Cuba Porto Rico to have with Senator Clapp at my lay right hand to run the tho risk of several win winters tore In Washington but It has to e for tor mo me to surrender to the tho Twin Cities of the North Seriously the tho condition In which I find myself tonight is my trU own fault anti and t Z can refer to Ireland tot for tho thia truth of the saying that You may bray a tool fool In a mortar among wheat with a and his foolishness will not deport depart from him I dont know knott whether that la is the St James or orthe orthe the version but the substance Is correct Tho Tue fact Is that I f caught a cold anti and added to my Indiscretion by eating too heartily of the cheer pro provided provided vided for me toe at my various stopping places and I am confronted with n a weakness that I ought not to confess I ought not to be hero here now nut but for a to como ond witness the wonder wonderful ful mi greeting and I L want to make this statement Just as till strong as if Jf I 1 were to a speech for an hour which I Ian arr an not going to do I t had to your attention to what has boon been accomplished In constructing the Pan Panama ama canal amid to 10 give you an Idea ot of what we have been doing down there thereon on the tho Isthmus but I J must plead my tn condition and simply give you an out outline line of what huts has been Secy Taft then outlined briefly the plans which w were ero made mado for the prosecution Ion tion of the lie work It Is evidence of progress to get to such u ti state that In itt April we excavated cubic yards Then In itt May wo had hati a strike but that hot hns been amicably settled and we will take out a million cubic yards a month That would mean cubic yards a year and nt itt that rate ne we ought to complete the tho canal In tour four years hut t do not want vant to hold out that hope to you If we complete the tho canal jn fl seven years we te will h vo dem demonstrated In lit record time what merl ran cain energy can do After s q few f of excuse for cut cutting cutting ting his hilt address short Secy Taft said goodbye and then before the cheering hail subsided ha he wa was out of the tho door and Into an on lila hit way to lit tho thic home honie of J 1 C Hill |