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Show President Roosevelt's Good Nature. President Roosevelt had moro fun than a schoolboy at tho wedding of Senator Cockrell's daughter Joked with tho girls, shook hands with tho matrons and exchanged "Jollying" ro-marks ro-marks with tho young and old men. At tho wedding brenkfast ho mado a short speech, ln which ho astonished ovcrybody by saying that although Missouri is a splendid stnta ho could not think of living thoro. "No," ho said, with n twlnklo in his oyo, "I wouldn't llvo thero if I could, becausb I think so much of Senator Cockrell nnd ndmlro him so greatly that I don't sco how I could keep from voting for him, nnd ns he ls a Democrat, you know that would nover, nover do." |