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i 8o My Brother Theodore Roosevelt

I never can get on in politics" was soon to be refuted, for hardly had he arrived at Montauk than the politicians flocked surreptitiously to sound him as to the possibility of his running for governor of New York State, but that's another story !

The throb of parting from their leader was soon to be experienced by the gallant men who had followed Theodore Roosevelt so eagerly in the Cuban jungles. Picturesque to the end, the mustering out of the Rough Riders, under blue autumnal skies at Montauk Point, was the culmination of its romantic career, and many a ferocious fighter and wild bronco-buster turned from the last hand-clasp of his colonel with tears in the eyes which had not flinched before the fiercest Spanish onslaught.

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THE ROUGH RIDER STORMS THE CAPITOL
AT ALBANY

THE MAN WHO CAN
(Old Saxon for "The King ")

WRITTEN OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT

How shall we know "the man who can"? (That was the Saxon phrase, they say.)

Nay, perchance we shall find the man Close to our hearts and lives to-day !

Soldier and patriot, strong of hand,

Keen of vision to know the time, Quick and true to the hour's demand,

Poet, too, without rune or rhyme

Poet, because through mists of sin

He finds the best as it yet shall be. Faces evil, yet dares begin

To live the good that his soul can see.

Speech like an arrow, swift and straight,

Strength that smites to the core of wrong; Smile that mocks but an adverse fate,

Heart of a boy, that leaps to song.

Honor scornful of life or place,

Courage brightest in sordid strife; Such is the man whose first, best grace

Was the simple crown of a stainless life !

-Marion Couthouy Smith.

I T could not have been a pleasant thought to Mr. Thomas Platt (the acknowledged Republican boss of New York State, and a most interesting and unusual personality) when he realized that the tremendous popularity of the colonel of the Rough Riders would force him to accept the suggestion of

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