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him to decide quickly when others hesitate and stumble. The emphasis, 

 the sharpness of his yea and nay, were those of a man who always knew 

 his own mind and knew it instantly. What seemed rashness in him was 

 only the action of a mind of extraordinary quickness nnd precision. His 

 uncompromising character made him many enemies, but without it he 

 could not have been the Roosevelt who stamped himself so deeply upon 

 the hearts and the history of his countrymen. 



" When I think of his death and the great days when such tremen- 

 dous world events are fast becoming history and recall what a part 

 he could have played, had his health permitted, I realise with new 

 poignancy what a loss the world has suffered in his passing ! A pall 

 seems to rattle upon the very sky. The world is bleaker and colder for 

 his absence from it. We shall not look upon his like again." 



Under the heading " Der Noble Roosevelt " the famous " Hans 

 Breitmann " published in Flaxius," 1902, some verses worth reading in this 

 connection ; we quote the following : — 



It is writ in many a story which came from olden time, 

 In legends full of glory, in many a minstrel's rhyme ; 

 Dot he who acted kindly since history began, 

 And gently to all beople, was der truest gentleman. 



And among the very truest of dis kind in der Welt 

 As die Rose among the Ritters, I put der Roosevelt ; 

 For brave in dis, or dat, in deed, is many a king or knight, 

 But Roosevelt's der only von dot's brave in all dot's right. 



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So Gott be help him onwards unto a glorious end ! 

 For de trodden down and lowly efer find in him a friend : 

 Votefer snobs and copperheads against his name may bring 

 Heaven pless dee for dy nople heart Roosevelt my king ! 



The Assistant Editor. 



