StNicholas [serial] . EIGHT CANDLES. I M JUST AS OLD AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—AND WELL GO THROUGH THE TEENS TOGETHER, TOO ! ST. NICHOLAS Vol. XXXV JANUARY, 1908 No. 3 A DAYS WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT BY CHESTER M. CLARK. Can you imagine being in a position of Presidentof a nation of over 90,000,000 people living on3,000,000 square miles of land ? Can you imaginethose people owning thousands of rich mines pro-ducing over $1,000,000,000 of mineral wealth ayear, great forests giving 35,000,000,000 board feetof timber with which to build, 850 bustling commu-nities with over 5000 people in each—one o
StNicholas [serial] . EIGHT CANDLES. I M JUST AS OLD AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—AND WELL GO THROUGH THE TEENS TOGETHER, TOO ! ST. NICHOLAS Vol. XXXV JANUARY, 1908 No. 3 A DAYS WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT BY CHESTER M. CLARK. Can you imagine being in a position of Presidentof a nation of over 90,000,000 people living on3,000,000 square miles of land ? Can you imaginethose people owning thousands of rich mines pro-ducing over $1,000,000,000 of mineral wealth ayear, great forests giving 35,000,000,000 board feetof timber with which to build, 850 bustling commu-nities with over 5000 people in each—one of themnext to the largest in the world—hundreds of mil-lions of acres of farms with corn, wheat, oats, cot-ton, potatoes, and other crops worth $7,000,000,000in all—and finally 301,000 miles of railroads and9000 steam vessels puffing from one end of theirpossessions to the other? Such a President must,indeed have a hard time of it. He has. He must see that the laws these people make to govern themselves are carried out. He musttake charge of the massive stock of defenderswho have been selected and trained to guard therights of this great nation, and actual charge, must determine, with his main advi
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