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Show Itoosevrlt and flrant. "President Itooflevelt," said an old resident of Washington, "has many of tho ttustes and trails of (len. (Irant. Of foul so he Is mot e loiltlacloils, anil I do nut doubt tbiit he will make n heller Imlulstratlve oilier, but, like lien. (Jnint, 1 o doesn't wish to hovo a sort of halo (hiown nround him because ho Is the President of the United States. 11m walks to church nnd'lie penults his chlldri n to romp. lien. Grant's children chil-dren were not so young as the House, veil lulls, but Just the antra they ruled the unuitlclnl end of tho Whits llutise. Gen. Grant walked nearly everywhere ev-erywhere he went, and a stranger who had never seen his pur! rait would probably have taken him, on one of his tilpn from the White House to the nipltul, for a countryman seelug the sights. He wo the greatest window-gazer window-gazer 1 ever knew. Anything novol would attract him. I ran see lilui now, In my mind, with the Inevitable, cigar between his teeth, standing In front of some store on Pennsylvania avenue looking ut baubles designed to attract women and children. Aud so democratic demo-cratic wus President Grunt In his habits that the crowd passed him by." |