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Show Prodigal Parent Col. Roosevelt, one evening In Marquette, Mar-quette, told a group of newspaper correspondents cor-respondents a number of stories. "If more of us were materially, but not mentally, like the Arkansas backwoodsmen, back-woodsmen, It would be well for the nation," said the colonel. "Once, while traversing Arkansas. I dismounted at a log cabin and asked If I could have dinner. Yes, they said, I could, and while I waited on the bncb before the door I noticed a baby playing with a loaded revolver. "'Goodness me!' I said, you shouldn't let that young infant play with a loaded revolver. What a terrible ter-rible risk!' "'Risk?" said the backwoodsman. 'Aw. I dunno. I got 'bout fo'teen mo' ' calllun round the place somewhere,'" |