American citizen who has ever been
called to the head of our nation. He
was born in New York City, October
27, 1858, his father, after whom he was
named, being a prominent merchant,
a patriot, a philanthropist, and a mov-
ing spirit in the Civil War. The elder
Theodore Roosevelt went to Washing-
ton after the first Battle of Bull Run,
and warned President Lincoln that he
must get rid of Simon Cameron as Sec-
retary of War, with the result that
Mr. Stanton, the" "organizer of vic-
tory," took his place. When the war
was fairly under way, it was Theodore
Roosevelt who organized the allotment
plan, which saved the families of
eighty thousand soldiers of New York
• State more than five million dollars of
their pay; and when the war was over
he protected the soldiers against the
sharks that lay in wait for them, and
saw to it, that they got employment.
Through his influence the New York
newsboys' lodging-house system and
many other institutions of public bene-
fit and helpful charity were established.
There were four children in the Roose-
velt family, of whom Theodore was the
second. There were two boys and two
girls. A younger brother was killed in
a railroad accident, and the hopes of
the father were centered on Theodore.
At the age of five or six, Theodore gave
little promise of maintaining the pres-
tige of the Roosevelt family line.
~he ~re.ttden#'m Eorly ~oyhood.
He was a puny, sickly, delicate boy.
Sonic one who knew him in those days
of the Civil War described him as a
"weak-eyed, pig-chested boy, who was
too frail to take part in the spdrts of
lads of his age." When he arrived at
the age of six, he was sent to the
famous old McMullen School, wher~ he
remained for eight years. It was not,
however, in New York that the boy
Roosevelt spent with most profit the
months to which he looks back with
pleasure. The elder Roosevelt believed
that children best thrive in the coun-
try. He selected a beautiful spot near
the village of Oyster Bay, on the north
shore of Long Island, and erected a
country house which well deserves its
title, "Tranquility." Here it was among
the hills which border the sound and
the bay, that Theodore Roosevelt and
his brother and sisters spent the long
summer months. At fourteen Theodore
was admitted to tJ-~ Cutler School, a
private academy in New York conduct-
ed byArthur H. Cutler. Here he took
the preparatory course for Harvard
University, making rapid advancement
under the careful tuition of Mr. Cutler,
and graduating with honors.
Become.s an Athlete.
By careful attention and plenty of
gymnasium exercise and out-of-door
life his frame became more sturdy and
his health vastly improved. It thus
happened that when young Roosevelt
entered on college life at Harvard, in
1875, he suffered little by comparison
with boys of his age. While he did not
stand in the front rank of athletics, he
was well above the average, and had
no reason to be ashamed of his physi-
eal prowess.
Never for a waking moment was he
idle. It was either study o'r exerc',se.
In addition to his regular studies and
special courses he took upon himself
the editorship of the college paper, and
made a success of it. He was demo-
cratic in his tastes and simple in his
mode of )ivlng. Theodore Roosevelt
was graduated from Harvard in 1880
with high honors. In spite of severe
study, his health was but little im-
paired, and he at once started on a
foreign Journey in search of instruc-
tion, pleasure and adventure. He dis-
tinguished himself as a mountain
climber, ascending the Jungfrau, the
Matterhorn and many other peaks, and
was made a member of the Alpine Club
¢f London.
~inm ..~udJr of Late.
On his return to America he studied
law, and in the fall of 1881 he was
elected to the State Assembly from the
Twenty-first District of New York,
generally known as Jacob Hess's dis-
trice.
By re-electlon he continued in the
body during the session of 1883 and
1884. He introduced important reform
measures, and his entire legislative
career was made conspicuous hy the
courage and zeal with which he as-
sailed political abuses. As chairman of
the Committee on Cities he introduced
the measure which took from the
Board of Aldermen the power to con-
firm or reject the appointments of the
,£.~yor. He was chairman of the noted
legislative investigating committee
which bore hla name. In 1884 he went
to the Bad Lands in Dakota, near the
"'Pretty Buttes," where he built a log-
c~bil, and for several years mingled
the life of a ranchman with that of a
literary worker. From l.is front door
he could shoot deer, and the mountains
around him were full of big game,
Amid such surroundings he wrote
some of his most popular books. He
became a daring horseman and a rival
of the cowboys in feats of skill and
strength. In 1886 Mr. Roosevelt was
the Republican candidate tor Mayor
against Abram S, Hewitt, United
Democracy, and Henry George, United
Labor. Mr. Hewitt was elected by
about twnnty-two thousand plurality.
In 1889 Roosevelt was appointed by
Prsaident Harrison a member of the
I
.2 6 pRESIDENT,of U. 5.
United States Civil Service Commie-me afterward that the man had come
sion. His ability and rugged honesty
in the administration of the affairs of
that office greatly helped to strengthen
his hold on popular regard.
~olice Commimmioner in .Nero
Nor~,
Roosevelt continued in that office un-
til May 1, 1895, when he resigned to
accept the office of Police Commis-
sioner from Mayor Strong. He found
the administration of affairs in a de-
moralized condition, but he soon
brought order out of chaos. Says James
A. Riis, who is an intimate friend of!
President Roosevelt:
W'e had been trying for forty years to
achieve a system of dealing decently with
OUr homeless poor. Two score years be-
fore. the surgeons of the police depart-
ment had pointed out that herding them
in the cellars or over the prisons of police
stations in festering heaps, and turning
them out hungry at daybreak to beg their
way from door to door, was indecent and
inhuman. Since then grand Juries, acad-
emies of medicine, committees on phil-
anthropic citizens, had attacked the foul
disgrace, but to no purpose. Pestilence
ravaged the prison lodgings, but still they
stayed. I know what that fight meant.
for :I was one of a committee that waged
it year after year, and suffered defeat
every time, until Theodore Roosevelt
came and destroyed the nuisance In a_
night. I remember the caricatures
of
tramps shivering in the cold with which
the yellow newspapers pursued him at
the time, labeling him the "poor man's
foe." And I remember being Just a little
uneasy lest they wound him. and perhaps
make him think he hRd been hasty. But
not he. It was only those who did not
know him who charged him with being
hasty. He thought a thing out quickly--
yes, that is his way; but he thought it
out, and, having thought it out, suited ac-
tion to his Judgment. Of the consequences
he didn't think at all. He made sure he
was right, and then went ahead with per-
fect confidence that things would come
out right.
Z'li.s AdVice 1o Organizsd Labor.
Mr. Riis says he never saw Roose-
velt to better advantage than when he
once confronted the labor men at their
meeting-place, Clarendon Hall:
The police were all the time having
trouble with strikers and their "pickets."
Roosevelt saw that it was because neith-
er party understood fully the position of
the other, and, with his usual directness,
sent word to the labor organizations that
he would like to talk it over with them.
At his request I went with him to the
meeting. It developed almost immedi-
ately that the labor men had taken a
wrong measure of the man. They met him
as a politician playing for points, and
hinted at trouble unless their demands
were reef. Mr. Roosevelt broke them off
short:
"Gentlemen!" he said--with that snap
of the Jaws, that always made people lis-
ten~'°I asked to meet you, hoping that
we might come to understand one anoth-
er. Remember. please, before we go fur-
ther, that the worst injury anyone of you
can do to the cause of labor is to counsel
violence. It will also be worse for him-
self. Understand distinctly that order
will be kept. The police will keep it. Now
we can proceed."
I was never so proud and pleased as
when they applauded him to the echo. He
reddened with pleasure, for he saw that
the best in them had come out on top,
as he expected it would.
Attacl(Fd by "'yello~J,'" .Ne~m-
/Japers,
It was of this incident that a handle
was first made by Mr. Roosevelt's ene-
mies in and out of the police board--
and he had many--to attack him:
It happened that there was a music-
hall In the building in which the labor
men nret. The yellow newspapers circu-
lated the lie that he went there on pur-
pose to see the show, and the ridiculous
story was repeated until actually the
llars persuaded themselves that it was so.
They would not have been able to under-
stand the kind of man they had to do
with, had they tired. Accordingly they
fell into their own trap. It is a tradition
of Mulberry Street that the notorious
Seeley dinner raid was planued by hls en-
emies in the department of which he was
the head, In the belief that they would
catch Mr. Roosevelt there. The dinners
were supposed to be his "'set,"
Some time after that, Mr. Riis was
in Roosevelt's office when a police of-
ficial of superior rank came in. and re-
quested a private audience with .him:
They stepped aside and the policeman
spoke in an undertone, urging something
strongly. Mr. Roosevelt tlstened. Sud-
denly I eat him straighten up as a man
recoils from something unclean, and dis-
miss the other with a sharp: "No, sir! I
don't fight that way." The policeman
want out crestfallen. Roosevelt took two
or three turns about the floor, atrugglinK
~lenUy" with stro~ disgust~ He told
to him with what he said was certain
knowledge that his enemy could that
night be found in a known evil house up-
town, which it was his alleged habit to
visit. His proposition was to raid it then
and so "get square." To the policeman it
must have seemed like throwing a good
chance away. But it was not Roosevelt's
way; he struck no blow below the belt.
Id the governor's chair afterward he gave
the politicians whom he fought, and who
fought him, the same terms. They tried
their best to upset him, for they had
nothing to expect from him. But they
knew and owned that he fougtlt fair.
Their backs were secure, lie never
tric~xed them to gain an advantage. A
promise given by him was always kept
t~ the letter.
Ammt.rtan# .~ecretary Of" .Na~Jy.
Early in 1897 he was called by Presi-
dent McKinley to give up his New
York office to become Assistant-Secre-
tary of the Navy. His energy and
quick mastery of detail had much to
do with the speedy equipment of the
navy for its brilliant feats in the war
with Spain. It was he who suggested
Admiral Dewey for commander of the
Asiatic station.
Dewey was sometimes spoken of in
those days as if he were a kind of
fashion-plate. Roosevelt, however, had
faith in him, and while walking up
Connecticut avenue one day said to
Mr. Riis: "Dewey is all right. He has
a lion heart. He is the man for the
place." No one now doubts the wis-
dom of his selection, and naval officers
agree that the remarkable skill in
marksmanship displayed by the Amer-
ican gunners was due to his foresight.
He saw the necessity of practice, and
he thought it the best kind of economy
to burn up ammunition in acquiring
skill.
A characteristic story is told regard-
ing Roosevelt's insistence on practice
In the navy.
Shortly after his appointment he
asked for an appropriation of $800,000
for ammunition, powder, and shot for
the navy. The appropriation was
made, and a few months later he asked
for another appropriation, this time
of $500,000. When asked by the proper
authorities what had become of the
first appropriation, he replied: "Every
cent of it was spent for powder and
shot, and every bit of powder and shot
has been fired." When he was asked
what he was going to do with the $500,-
000, he replied: "Use every ounce of
that, too, within the next 'thirty days
in practice shooting."
Hi~ Cuban W~ar "Record.
Soon after the outbreak•of the war,
however, his patriotism and love of
active life led him to leave the compar-
ative quiet of his government office for
~ervice in the field. As a lieutenant-
colonel of volunteers he recruited the
First Volunteer Cavalry, popularly
known as the "Rough Riders." The
men were gathered largely from the
cowboys of the west and southwest,
but also numbered many college-bred
men of the east. In the beginning he
was second in command, with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, Dr. Leonard
Wood being colonel. But at the close
of the war the latter was a brigadier-
general and Rodsevelt was colonel iu
command. Since no horses were trans-
ported to Cuba, this regiment, togeth-
er with the rest (~ the cavalry, was
obliged to serve o~ foot. The regi-
ment distinguished itself in the San-
tiago campaign, and Colonel Roosevelt
became famous for his bravery in lead-
ing the charge up San Juan Hill on
July 1st. He was an efficient officer,
and won the love and admiration of his
men. His care for them was shown
by the circulation of the famous round-
robin which he wrote protesting
against keeping the army longer in
Cuba.
Am Go~ernor ,off .~e~ ~org.
Upon Roosevelt s return to ~ew
York there was a popular demaud fo~
his nomination for governor. Pre-
vious to the state convention he was
nominated by the Citizens' Union, but
he declined, replying that he was a
Republican. The Democrats tried to
frustrate his nomination by attempting
to prove that he had lost his legal resi-
dence in that state. T~at plan fallad
nor Black. The campaign throughout
the state was spirited. Roosevelt took
the stump and delivered many
speeches. His plurality was 18,079.
As the campaign of 1900 drew near,
the popular demand that Roosevelt's
name should be on the National Re-
publican ticket grew too imperativ~
to be ignored by the leaders. The
honor of the nomination for Vice-Pres-
ident was refused time and time again
by Roosevelt, who felt that he had a
great duty to perform as governor of
New York state.
Says Cal O'I,aughlin. apropos of tl]e
Republican National Convention,
which was held in Philadelphia on
June 19, 20 and 21, 1900:
.Nomtna~ion a# ~hiladel~hia.
On the evenlng of the first day of the
convention, Roosevelt saw Plate. "My
name must not be presented to the con-
vention," he told him. Plate was mad,
and mad clean through; but he acquiesced
and ]Roosevelt returned to his apartment
to run into the arms of the Kansas dele-
gation. "We do not request you to ac-
cept the nomination," said State Senator
Burton; "we do Ilot urge you-to accept
the nominatiou, but we propose to issue
orders to you, and we expect you to obey
them." Throughout the delivery of Mr.
Burton's remarks, Roosevelt stood, with
shoulders square and feet at right angles,
his chin occasionally shooting forward,
as if he were on the point of objecting to
the argument that he alone could rescue
"bleeding Kansas" from demagogism and
populism. But he waited patiently until
the address was ended, and then appealed
to the gansans to take his words at their
face value, and vote for some one of the
candidates. But his appeal was useless,
for Senator Burton, grasping his hand,
congratulated him "in advance upon his
nomination and election," and the dele-
gation enthusiastically approved the sen-
timents. So certain was Kansas that
Roosevelt would be the choice of the con-
vention, that it had printed a huge plac-
ard, bearing the words in large, black
type:
"KANSAS DELEGATIOI~"
FIRST TO DECLARE FOR
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT."
And, when the nomination was declared
to have occurred, triumphantly carried it
about Convention Hall.
After his nomination, Roosevelt
said:
I held out as long as I could• ~ had to
give in when I saw the popular sentiment
of the convention. I beheve it is my duty.
Now that it is all over, I want to say that
I appreciate fully the sentiment which
accompanied my nomination. The unan-
imity and enthusiasm of the convention
for my nomination never will be forgot-
ten by me.
During the political campaign which
followed, he traveled 16,100 miles,
flashed through 23 states, delivered 459
speeches, containing 860,000 words,
and made his appeal directly to 1,-
600,000 persons.
Hi, r Capacity for Word(.
Mr. Rils says that the thing that be-
clouds the Judgment of hls critics is
Roosevelt's amazing capacity for work.
He says:
He can weigh the pros and cons of'a
case and get at the meat of it in tess
time than It takes most of us to state
the mere proposition. And he is surpris-
ingly thorough• Nothing escapes him.
~lis judgment comes sometimes as a
shock to the man of slower ways. He
does not stop at conventionalities. If a
thing is right, it is to be done--and right
away. It was notably so with the round-
robin in Cuba, asking the government to
recall the perishing army When it had
won the fight. People shook their heads,
and talked of precedents. Precedents! It
has been Roosevelt's business to make
them most of his time. But is there any-
one today who thinks he set that one
wrong? Certainly no one who with me
saw the army come home. It did not
come a day too soon. Roosevelt is no
more infallible than the rest of us. Over
and over again I have seen him pause
when he had decided upon his line of ac-
tion, and review it to see where there
was a chance for mistake. Finding none.
he would issue his order with the sober
comment: "There. we have done the best
we could. If .there is any mistake we will
make it right. The fear of it shall not de-
ter us from doing our duty. The only
man who never makes a mistake is the
man who never does anything."
Enforcing #he La~
Referring to Roosevelt's strict en-
forcement of the Sunday excise law,
the Sa~ Francisco Argonaut's New
York correspondent, "Flaneur," wrote
under date of September 2, 1895:
The law is not a Republican law. It
was passed by Tammany, as a means of
blackmailing saloonkeepers who refused
to yield up tribute. It Is a Democratic
law, was introduced at the instigation of
Tammany, was passed by a Democratic
legislature, and was signed by a Demo-
cratic governor, David B. Hill. Senator
Hill is now trying to make political cap-
ital by abusing Roosevelt for enforcing
the law, but he places himself in a very
questionable position. When a man is
the leader of a party in a state, when his
party passes an excise law. and when he
himself signs it as governor, he certainly
stultifies himself when. to embarrass a
political opponent, he fights against tile
enforcement of the very law which he
himself passed. The opponents of en~,orc-
lng the law are having a rather nard
time. Nobody denies that the law exists;
all that they say is that it is "a hardship
to enforce it." But who is to decide on
the relative severity or mildness of the
laws? Commissioner Roosevelt himself
frankly says that he does not believe in
such a severe Sunday law, but as it is the
law, he is going to enforce It. And he
Is certainly doing so. There is a good
deal of humor in the American people,
and in this great city there are many
thousands who are smiling sardonically
over the plight of Tammany caus@d by
enforcing a Tammany law. For ~Tam-
znany's revenues come largely from the
blackmailing of liquor saloons.
President Roosevelt has been a stu-
dent of political economy since boy-
hood. He has been an omniverous
reader, and has pursued his studies
with the same zeal and energy that
have characterized all his acts in civil
and military life.--San Francisco Ar-
gonaut.
AWAKENING OF JAPAN
REAR ADMIRAL BEARDSLEE TELLS
OF NEW NATION
That Was First Heseued from Jts Slum-
bers by the Perry Expedition--The
Building of the Monument at Gora
Hama--American Had Been Forgotten.
Special Letter.
Rear Admiral Beardslee has recently
arrived home from Japan, where he
devoted much time to promoting the
erection of the Perry monument at
Gora Hama. As he is the only survivor
of the expedition of the American
squadron that went to Japan in 1853,
under the command of Commodore M.
C. Perry, he found it devolving upon
him to push public interest in Japan
along to the completion of the me-
morial.
He also made a study of Japanese
comditions of today as compared with
those of half a century ago. They
I~roved gratifying to one remember-
ing the day when representatives of
America's navy first set foot, against
much opposition, on the land where
now a monument is raised in their
leader's honor.
Some" of his observations and con-
clusions are set forth in the following
letter, together with his account of
the unveiling of that monument on the
14th of last July. It was the work of
months to get the Japanese interested
in the plan; that work meant the raiS-
ing of a large sum of money. The way
in which it was accomplished is re-
lated here.
Letter of Adn~lral Beardslee.
The first thing that I did after ar-
riving in Japan waters was to hunt
up the exact place where the landing
was made. There it lay, the .quiet Gora
Hama, a smoothly curving shore
backed by hills and facing the blue
water. It recalled that day when, a
peaceful welcome having been assured,
the Japanese scullers guided the Amer-
ican officers into the harbor. Guns
boomed then as they boomed the other
day when the celebration was held in
honor of that early event. Captain Bu-
chanan, in command of the early par-
ty, was literally the first of them to
put foot on shore.
I paced the ground there and re-
called it all. The~ I mingled among
the people and tried to find some rec-
ollection of that day. It ~ gone com-
pletely from their minds.
The place there had not changed es'-
REAR ADMIRAL BEARDSLEE.
peciallly in those years, except that
there was no hostility to the advances
made by Americans--no great curios-
ity even, for American tourists are by
no means rare. But the people in those
out of the way places have not taken
up European customs as those of the
larger cities have They sit on the floor
and wear kimonos as' much as ever and
give never a thought to chairs and tail-
oring.
PexlT Forgotten at Germ Hama.
It seemed strange enough that I
could not come upon old residents, and
plenty of them, who remembered Per-
ry. But in all the course of my travel-
ing in Japan I found almost none upon
whom the eommodore's landing seemed
to have made any impression. One old
man of 90 and his son of 70 appeared
before the conclusion of my visit--men
who had seen Perry, remembered him
clearly and realized what he had done
for their nation. They are the two
whom you see standing beside the
monument. They are both, father and
son, fine specimens of Japanese old
manhood. Finely knit and erect of car-
riage they look many years less than
they are.
It gratifies me to know that I had a
hand in raising that handsome, monu-
ment as a memorial. I thought my
task was a hopeless 'one when I first
set about it. It was a long time before
I could arouse any interest in the mat-
ter, but at last I contrived to gain the
assistance of some influential Japanese.
They were of the Beiyu Kyokal, or
"American' Friends."
Up to that time my talking had been
of no avail, although I was received
most hospitably, being entertained In
princely manner by men of great dis-
tinction. My appeals had fallen upon
deaf ears. But when the right men took
hold of the matter it was hurried
along with admirable execution.
Hard to Raise Fand~.
Even so, the raiMng of funds took
nin'e months. The monument cost $25,-
000, which means 50,000 yen to the Jap-
anese. This is no small sum to them
and it was only by patient colleeting
that the thing could be accomplished.
Finally the Japanese and American
~overnments assisted in making the
celebration at the unvailing a very me-
morahle occasion, and all of us who
had worked hard for suec~ felt.that
'it has achieved a fitting climax when
the 14th of July arrived.
There at Gora Hama, in the same
waters where Perry's squadron had ar-
rived, lay eight .war vessels belonging
to the two governments now in such
friendly relations. There was no longer
any of the suspicious and cautious
character shown in their relations that
had been in the first place. Instead
were open rejoicing and friendliness
over a common cause. Torpedo boats
were there to help along the celebra-
tion. There was a booming of guns
and flashing of day fireworks. The
splendid monument was unveiled amid
the rejoicing of two happy nations.
Education Advancing Rapidly.
It is delightful to me, now that the
Journey is over, to look back upon
Japan and see the way that it has
grown since my first visit. In the cities
education is advancing and broadening
at a rapid rate. In many ways the
country's civilization is not excelled
the world over. Its courtesy and hos-
pitality are renowned. An American
woman can travel with more safety
than in Paris or London. This speaks
for itself.
Many things are still undeveloped.
All will come in time. If Commodore
Perry could look upon the result of his
mission he surely would find it as grat-
ifying as he could desire.
L. A. BEARI)SLEE.
ABOUT ICEBOATS.
In Holland They Are Used for Business
Rather Than Pleasure.
For hundreds of years past in Hol-
land boats have been sailed over the
ice on the canals. The Dutchmen use
them for business rather than for
pleasure. One may often meet in
Holland little navies of sledges, loaded
with corn, flour or wood, sliding on
the ice, with sails set to the wind. For
ages, too, ice-boating has been com-
mon In Finland. Northern Europe un-
doubtedly is the home of the sport.
Wealthy men of St. Petersburg sail
their ice-boats on the Baltic. On the
fiords of Norway and on the great
lakes of Sweden one may frequently
see the sails of the boats, though lack
of wind and abundance of snow make
ice-boating there a precarious pastime.
England has little chance for enjoying
the sport, though attempts have been
made to introduce it into the fen dis-
trict. Scotland has more chance, and
occasionally an iceboat is heard of on
one of the frozen lochs. In Switzer-
land, at Dares and other places beloved
by skaters, ice-boating is keenly culti-
vated in winter. A serviceable modern
iceboat of best quality costs about
$250. The average length of the best
all-around craft is about 50 feet and
they bear some 1,000 square feet of
canvas. They are very frail craft--as
one cannot help remembering when
traveling at top speed over rough ice--
and weigh about 800 or 900 pounds.
Briefly, an iceboat consists of a trian-
gular timber framework, with a tall
mast rising from the front of thel
frame. She runs upon three steel run-
ners, the after one set crosswise and,
acting as a rudder, all long and curved
fore and aft. The rudder skate is
turned by a tiller and must naturally:
be very sharp to obtain a grip on the
ice. To steer an ice yacht is a matter
of nerve and practice. A calm disposi-
tion and a quick eye are more neces-
sary than on a sea yacht, for the
slightest touch of the tiller will spin
the bOat round. Unless the helm be
turned gradually the yachtsmen will
find themselves overboard. It is re-
markable that an iceboat sails faster
than the wind. She does not sall di-
rectly before the wind, like a balloon,
which consequently can never sail
faster than the wind, but she always
sails at an angle to the wind's direc-
tion and gathers increased speed with
every thrust of wind against her sails.
There is so little friction that, having
gained a certain speed, a forward im-
petus received from the wind does not
go to maintain that speed but to add to
it. Thus It comes about that ice yachts
actually overhaul the wind, so that
their canvases appear as if driving
into its face.--Chicago News.
The Eyeless Congo.
French Congo is without a French
woman, and there is gnashing of
teeth in local official eircles. It ap-
pears that last year the colony was
brightened by the presence of thirteen
ladies, wives of Freneh officials, but
these soon sickened, and the govern-
ment, finding the cost of transport too
much, informed its colonial servants
that they would not be allowed to take
out their wives at the national ex-
pense. Now a decree of December,
1897, states that inasmuch as wives'
ought to follow their husbands to the
colonies, their fares backward and for-
ward would be defrayed by the colo-
nial office. Therefore the recent gov-
ernment order is illegal, and to get
over the difficulty the. colonial office
will be compelled to send out bachel-
ors to the colony.--London Express.
Sale Under Void Judgment.
If a defendant's property be sold un-
oer a void Judgment and execution and
he, with legal notice of all the mater-
ial facts, receive from the sheriff and
retain a portion of the proceeds of the
sale, the supreme court of Georgia, in
the case of Tutt vs. Roney (39 S. E.
Rep., 293), holds that this amounts in
law to a ratification and he is bound
by the sale.
Calendars Caught a Patrom.
"~ow did you happen tu In~ure in
that particular company? .... I consult-
ed the wishes of my wife." *'Of course;
that's very praiseworthy. BUt~does
she know anything about llfe insuranca
companies?" "Yes. She investigated
and found that this one always iuuu
the prettiest calendars.'--t~nd~ Tit-
Bits.
