Life — April 9, 1908 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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and, well, those animals made coasid- and the gentleman next “What! Not Mr. Plater! Why, he's a hard-headed, practical business man. He knows the value of experiments, I'm sure,” “Well, may be But he didn’t like it much. He came over and asked me what I was doing and when I told him he was terribly angry and he said he was thoroughly disgusted and he’d put a stop to it; and besides, after what he said, I began to feel ashamed.” Harold’s papa showed his disappoint- ment in his face. It was a cruel blow. “Well, my boy,” he replied, “I've always been afraid that you wouldn't amount to anything. But to think that other people could be sonarrow minded Our President as He Is Seen Collected by Our Special Correspondent from the Newspapers and from the Confidential Reports of Persons in Private Life. ¢ does. (Special Correspondence oj the New York Moon) ASHINGTON, March 10, 1908.—By request of the entire Cabinet, private- ly conveyed to the Keeper of the Backstairs, safety razors were substituted to-day for the old-style ones that the President has hercto- fore used. Since he threatened on Tuesday to disembowel Railroad President Smith if he said anything more about reducing wages, the Cabinet has felt timorous about meeting him. (Wall Street Rumor Gathered by Hand) Mr. Britton, of New Mexico, who lately saw the President on business connected with the new issue of bonds of the El Paso and Chapultapec Railway reports him as declaiming that federal troops (‘‘my troops, he called them) would be called out to sup- press any railroad that dared to issue a bond, or even a ticket, without first obtain- ing the written consent of the Chief Execu- tive, as well as the permission of the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Mr. Britton had it from intimate friends of the President that he has an illusion about wolves and sees one always crouching in the chair opposite to him. (Special Correspondence of the New York Moon) There is no longer any reasonable doubt that the President is determined to run again and is using Taft as a blind. His inti- mate friends admit it in private conversa- tion. ‘LIFE « 385 LILY OF THE VALLEY (Dr. Albert Gallatin Monroe in the Won- der Monger Magazine) Neither Caligula, Nero, Rienzi, Peter the Cruel, Philip the Second, Charles Twelfth nor George Third were quite right in their heads. Bughouse in high place has caused the human race great in- convenience in the past and it is not un- likely to do so again in the future. (Private Rumor) Buggins, of Colorado, who called at the White House to ask for a pardon for an un- fortunate man who had been circulating obscene literature, reports the President as extremely violent. Buggins is convinced that he has taken to drink again. The Presi- dent’s intimate friends regretfully admit that itis so. (Special Dispatch to the New York Moon) The President's intimate friends admit in private conversation that the President has worn a wig since last October, having pulled out every spear of hair he had in a paroxysm of impatience with Mr. Edward Henry Harriman. (Private Rumor by Wireless) It is well known in Washington and re- luctantly admitted by the President's inti- mate friends that nothing but the impas- sioned protests of Secretary Root and Judge Moody, both of whom got down on their kne iled to induce the President not to ¢ Washington and take part in the New k to Paris automobile race. The Presi- dent at first said that he would stay at home if the Chief Justice would resign so that he could put Kenesaw M. Landis in his place. This condition failing to connect because of the obduracy of the Chief Justice, Judge Moody offered his own place for Landis, but aftera good night’sslcep the President aban- doned his purpose without that sacrifice.