Untitled - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

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THE REAL ROOSEVELT.
lessly. He has been so often seen in pictures
dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel
sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit
Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo
Bill yet he can not eat his soup until he
puts on his glasses.
TO ABOLISH WHIPPING IN RUSSIA.
OTHER HUMANE MEASURES EXPECTED AT CHRIST-
ENING OF HEIR ON AUGUST 23, 1904.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16. One of the acts of
grace signalizing the birth of an heir to the
throne will be the total abolition of corporal
punishment in Russia. A ukase to this effect is
expected- to be issued to-morrow.
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We want Perdicardis alive or Raisuli dead.
The man who caused that, message to be sent
to the convention that was nominating him for
President of the United States wou'ld, if elected,
consider himself the Czar of the United States.
Thenceforth, on his birthday, or on the birthday
of his wife's guardian saint, the American populace
might expect some startling ukase, with the
difference that the Czar's is in mercy and
Roosevelt's would be in rigor.