Heppner Gazette

Worship Roosevelt's Picture.

San Francisco, Dec. 15.—Americans think a great deal of President Theodore Roosevelt, but it has been reserved for the Russian peasants settled in Eastern Siberia to reverence the well-known picture, which shows the gleam of teeth, as that of a saint. That they do so is asserted to be a fact by Alexander G. Denbigh, who arrived on board the steamer Siberia, and is now staying at the St. Francis Hotel.

"The people there are of the lowest class of Russian peasant and know nothing about the outside world," said Denbigh.

"In every house, no matter how poor it may be, there is sure to be an ikon of some kind, and if it is possible for the owner of the place, he also has a picture of a saint. The picture of your President has gone over the world, and can be found in many queer places. I remember asking one of my men from the Ural mountain district, who had never heard of Roosevelt, what picture he had in his tent. He at once told me that it was one of St. Peter—without the beard and with specs on. Curious to see such a picture, I went to the hut and found that it was a chromo of the President of the United States. The man assured me that he had the best of good fortune since he had obtained the picture of the 'holy saint.'"