| Show arv ya W W AS atif E IKE BUYS FOILS FOR ROOSEVELT professor pave e imports from italy steel for fenc rg lesions president roosevelt Roo evelt has arranged with prof generos Gene roo pavese to re sume his fencing lessons immediately t after his return from the western trip the president showed great en thusia sm and told the professor be he ex pecked that other members of his fam lly fly miss alice roosevelt especially would take up the tolls foils prof pavese has ordered from italy P probably the handsomest pair of foils ever made including mask and gloves they cost the professor expects to give them to the president and he hopes therefore that the customs bials will wilt relieve him of the 35 per cent duty the law imposes the foils will be for orli ornament ament pavese has or dered another set tor for the president for practical use the pro protestor festor says he finds mr 1144 1 9 GEtE BOrO paz sa roosevelt Boo sevelt one of the keenest sportsmen he ever met popular method of suicide TYPES OF PECULIAR PRAYERS cation of pol pot ticiano make amus ing read ng the philadelphia record recalls some political prayers made by chap lains of legislative bodies it was I 1 inoffensive but in poor taste when a chaplain in the delaware legislative prayed oh lord thy servants are in a deadlock give them the key during the last cuban insurrection a 4 chaplain in a legislature prayed that the united states might supply with arms it if necessary those in cuba who were struggling for liberty and that we might insist upon upholding the monroe doctrine the chaplain ot of the illinois house prayed god to con y tract the capacious maw of the penal reformatory charitable and aduca lional institutions of illinois may they learn to be content with less money and may we who refuse to worship a golden calf also refuse to worship gol I 1 in any form the chaplain of a list convention in arkansas prayed 41 that the state might be delivered from democratic control in the colorado ja legislature dean peck prayed that the populists and democrats might be resigned to their fate A populist chaplain in kansas prayed god to palsy the brain and still the heart ot of the treasonable conspirators to wit the republicans in a massachusetts campaign a minister prayed for the triumph of righteousness and then broke out oh lord what s the use of beating about the bush give us briggs for governor GERMAN OFFICER STIRRED UP count resents observe eions made by admiral dewey count an officer in the prussian army has been greatly up by the dewey interview and in an article published in berlin makes a warm retort among other things he says the american navy Is yet an infant and could not cope with the warships of his country willing to saarif sacrifice ce one one of the late tom reed needs s friends and colleagues was telling a story the other day illustrative of the distin distill gulshen speakers opposition to the spanish war and interference in cu ba about the timo time war ar was declared reed came out of his hotel one morn ing boiling mad to a friend he de dared I 1 would not give a drop of american blood for all the dagges and negroes in the island of cuba I 1 would not giva givel the life of one ameri amerl can to save 3 of them io no sir I 1 would not except perhaps here a a smile spread avei his big face and ie he relapsed rel aped into his iown lown east drawl yes I 1 believe I 1 might sacrifice sen a ator tor cand he named a senator whom he held responsible cpr pr much of the ue being that rt suled in tho the war r with spain |
