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Show ROOSEVELT IS PRACTICAL. Whatever opinion one may have formed of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt when he occupied the office of President Pres-ident of the United States, whether hi3 attempt -i to regulate everything that the sun of heaven shines upon be considered fanciful or whether the reforms he advocated be declared chimerical by our political economists, that he is a practical man, a man of sound sense and good judgment, we suhmit. New evidence of this was brought out last week Ly a dispatch from New York concerning hi.s son, Theodore, jr. Theodore, jr., fell in love some time ago, and got to writing poetry, some of which came into thf possession of Theodore, sr., whose discriminating sense and discernment immediately told him it was of the quality for which $1 a column would not In-paid In-paid by the most inexperienced editor, and for which any ordinary magazine would have charged $1 a word to print. The sentiments were stale, the feet were flat, and the whole business unprofitable. So the influence of the President were exerted upon a carpet factory in Tompsonville, N. Y., and the young man got a job at which he works ten and a half hours a day for $18 a week. If that doesn't take the poetry out of him in a very short time, nothing will. If he withstands the test we may look for the name of Roosevelt, Theodore, jr., in the list of primal poets of America ere many years roll round. That Roosevelt, sr., is a practical man his most pronounced political opponents will now havo to admit. |