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Show - As Like As Two Apples I IT is true that the Kaiser and Col. Roosevelt have many traits in common. Both are vain; both have plenty of egotism; each has a touch- ing ambition, and each has read about Napoleon's I star until they are certain that when a certain I order of mind comes to the earth the stars are in I accord with them, and that they have that order I of mind neither for a moment doubts. When the I Kaiser, the other day, permitted his tongue to run M away with him, and in a public speech declared that I when ho received his crown, it was a divine gift, I he had the same assurance that our colonel has I when he announces his policies. That the throne, fl hedged about with limitations, came to the Kaiser fl in regular succession does not matter to him; ifl that all his so-called policies have been, in the jfl thoughts of a hundred statesmen and in the fl hearts of milllbns of his countrymen, does not 'fl matter to tho colonel. fl But that the Kaiser has a profound affection fl for fatherland, and that Roosevelt's love of coun- I try causes him to hold honor, fortune and life It- fl self at his country's call, no one doubts. The only H trouble is, each wants to run things his way. fl The Kaiser would if he could abolish the Relchs- H tag, the colonel really cannot see any ubo of fl the Senate, Representatives or even the Supreme fl Court, so long as he is around to direct things. fl The Kaiser loves to mount his horse and put an fl army division through its maneuvers, the colonel fl loves to mount a horse and jump fences, or chase H coyotes. They are a most picturesque pair. f .1 If they had been born horses instead of men, fl they neither of them woufd have gotte"n over their fl coltish capers, even when both were spavined and (fl had splints on both fore legs. fl And the world is not half done hearing from jfl either of them. Wait until the Kaiser gets his jfl fleet of fighting ships ready and Francis Joseph 'fl fh kflMH7Jfl Hi 1 passes away; wait until 1912 comes around and M tho Republican party, distracted with internal B contentions, needs a standard-bearer; and some- H thing will be doing. Will not the Kaiser have to B take a hand in order to secure the peace of B Europe? Will not the colonel again, "against B his will," "be forced" to rush to the rescue? B A |