Show U little LUHe Stories Which Bring Out Ont d f lt 4 Un t J I l S V V the Character of the Man lan l St S1 Louis Much has been published a ath hut ut Pre Pf Pry lent Hent J ent personality Uty but pet pei only thoe who have seen bin biD from day to day d y in his family life Ufe can real reaU se his extreme simplicity of ot man manner manner ner her and conduct On the last day dav after a campaign of or tha eclipsed the memorable speechmaking period of ff Bryan Bry Jn Roosevelt sevelt retired to tobit his bit comfortable home nome at Oyster Bay and awaited the result of or the voters battle Awaited and yet not awaited TOJ i not a single telegraph wire was put Iut In and the candidate tad Jad to depend on his hiM neighbors neighbor or the newspaper r men for the news One of o the latter lattera a Sun reporter was the first t to sew serve Bel him bim arriving and breath with the report that there wa wea un unU und U d lly pother mother r noth r Republican victory and that he had been elected Pre l dent Roosevelt himself responded re to th the belt bell ring and came out on the I plazas piazza I 1 have Iff great eat news for you ou Mr R Rotes o velt vela sold said id the reporter panting pant panting I ing you ou are elected e ter vice president p ident of f fth the th United States 1 J hope be the coun cun countr country tr try ha has indorsed floreed i the Republican party p and W it II principles principle a at as h ii should re replied plied pIk d evelt It has hall continued th the reporter and Bryan has bas lost Jo t in his own strongholds stronghold vrr v ry in interesting said al 1 Roosevelt evelt but tell me all about the football game Who won And despite the reporters reporter re s if s to go into the election returns re return turns turn noo evelt continued to discuss dl ent iM t Ja the tile college cOlleg contest i t of f that 0 day iy until owing to the lateness of the hour and the pressure of other duties the reporter retired Not an another other word was spoken about the elec election election I tion and Roosevelt went to bed with nothing noth more than some brief telephone arid t graphic reports sent Bent to o his home Contrary on to his Instructions o t Roo R e pits democracy never failed aUed him whether he e was wall a student at Harvard or In the saddle in the west westor or a legislator gi in Albany and his cor cordiality n the h masse was shown to par cu tn in the campaign which ride U ld him governo of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York One evening after speaking twice in New York he Was Ras rushed malted by bya a special train to Yonkers N Y T and in over the a of or the in invited Invited invited guests on the shoulders of Fred W Holls Chauncey M Depew and others There was wan tremendous enthusiasm en enthusiasm thu m b tied up In n the crowd and It repeatedly overflowed to the inter interruption Interruption of ot the speaker A Irishman in the gallery who looked like a typical of the kind that voted by the Uie thousands for Roose Roosevelt Roosevett Roosevelt velt vett after atter the Santiago o campaign 1 sud suddenly suddenly suddenly denly called out ent Teddy said a big policeman with a a big bis club Roosevelt continued but the exploding exclamation Teddy rang out a sec second second second ond Untie Mme Ill rn put yea out said Mid the big biK policeman to the th offender But the i warning of one of the finest failed to suppress the interrogator Just as was dilating on the virtues i the German Gennan whose kelt te e said could not be translated or un nn by the toe other members of our population pop the arose and nna yelled at full voice Teddy what did yes feed that baste of a mustang to make it so in Culia Cuba The house collapsed but Teddy rejoined The Republican platform turned the laugh on the theIrl Irishman Irl hman and continued his bs speech cODO q 0 During his as police Roosevelt met a police pollee p nau tt tinder the influence of liquor and d tei mined to discipline him se I 8 that he would never forget his offense Ac Acting ting the policeman who had been on the force for so short a q time that he did not know his superior Roosevelt stirred him up sufficiently suf to induce the po to arrest ar cst him At Atthe the station house houle the described dese in l a swaggering manner the misconduct of the prisoner in l during the Investigation in tisa tion Roosevelt slipped around the rail raH and sad into an au adjoining room and re turned in company with another com commissioner missioner The policeman received reL a tip sobered up very rapidly on learning whom he arrested and with tears in his eyes begged for par don S President Pre home life Ufe has haa always been delightful In his leisure lel e I moments at Oyster Bay he hay ha h enjoyed the companionship dot at his and taken a 8 rare delight in directing the affairs affaire of his email estate Soon after acter his return from Cuba Cube his aged gardener came cam up the walk hoe in hand and aud tipping Upping his itis cap said sad Mr Roosevelt Iw rv come to finish that talk U k we had bad the other day d about those e What talk James asked R with witt a smile mile OV 0 OI raid d the gardener you know that the afternoon you needed that telegram to go to Cuba you and I were standing here bere and laying out an onion per p If it suits yen let tet 1 plant PInt those on onion onions ions ion TX now W And the onions were planted The e president bas a quiver full tun o olive branches hE and likes children other than that his own Except that he became busier and more inaccessible ble Roosevelt Roo carried the thO same domestic habits and 1 preferences with him from his Oyster Bay home to Ute the governors residence at Albany One day a clique cUque of o New NewYork NewYork ew York city politicians po who had come up upon upon upon on a specie special train to do see se Governor Roosevelt rushed into the corridor of the capitol and upset he office ee boys and secretaries Governor Roosevelt was absent from his room and no one knew Just where he could be found A dozen messengers were sent out in search for him and after ten or fifteen minutes he was found curled up in a corner one or two neighbors n boys and a astre I street t arab drawing pictures of ponies and guns on a writing table The chit had bad waylaid him and begged him 1 to show them pictures of the guns and j the mustangs I he ha h had bad in the war At j another time tim a New York artist found j 1 h 1 in iu the executive chamber hamber half ball burled burIed under children Clambering over his choir chair while he strove stroe to show i ithem them hem photographs of ot the scenes of the th i iC campaign C m ll C 3 S G S I Some years ears ago when President Roosevelt was better known among ibis his friends as a devotee of and anda a seeker after aner health in the far tar west vest he met repeatedly in New Ne York City a young man who lost no nf opportunity to snub him and who suggested with without without without out dJ the possibility of a final settlement on some field of honor Roosevelt met him for a while cool coal reserve and equally undisguised contempt but finally astonished the tha upstart w th h a genial greeting several extended conversations and a cordial invitation to his country home The carriage was in waiting at the station statton and Roosevelt received his guest with distinguished consideration ted led him himon himon himon on trout from the upper Adirondacks and finally led him into hie his library and trophy room Then taking down downa 1 a huge knife Roosevelt ran his finger I carelessly over the edge remarked I that it was the blade with which he had killed s savage Indian planning an assault upon his hk person and hand handed ed the weapon over for closer examination examination examination nation After that the president took up a little case emptied it of a half dozen teeth and remarked This Im proud to say is all that is left of Jim the chopper who thought he ought to throw mg m down Hales Hates gulch and fell Into it himself And this said lie ice continuing and reaching for a long round pasteboard labeled dynamite this js the invention of or a friend of mine and known as the campers cam rs and companion a bit of dyna dynamite dynamite mite equally equall handy to blow open the 1 Ice In the winter season for fishing or blow up The story tory as told at Oy Oyster Oyster i ister ster Bay is that the impudent young coxcomb suddenly became ill excused himself to Roosevelt Roo evelt and hurried away home never to annoy him again President Roosevelt Roo has a mind of at This ilia ia own and does not hesitate to make it known A bunch of prominent politicians politicians clans together with a college president ent d a personal friend called upon him 1 Washington to urge urse the appoint appointment appointment appointment ment of a certain naval of office office office fice to the eastern naval station Weare We Weare are very glad to see ee you Mr jb Secretary they voiced together but quick as ae a flash Roosevelt swing swingIng swingIng swinging Ing in his chair choir said Well Im not at all glad to see you least of or all to today today today day Youve called at a a very bad time for tor rye Ive got some business to attend to that Chat calls me away at once I must bid you good day In a few minutes I Secretary Secret ry Roosevelt was 86 with the late JateI I 1 president and Dewey had ad been b en practically decided upon as the officer to be besent beI besent I sent to Ito Hong Kong KongS KongO I O S J 3 O 8 President Roosevelt was once trav tray eling cling in Idaho and nd passed a book store In the window of which was a copy of his Winning of the West Nest Going Goins into the book store he Inquired Who Is this author Roosevelt Oh said the bookseller hes a Branch anch driver And what do you think of his book 1 asked the president Well W n said the dealer slowly and deliberately Ive always thought Id Td like to meet the theauthor theauthor theauthor I author and tell him that if he had stuck to running a ranch and give up I writing books hed have made a pow powerful powerful powerful erful more of a success u es at his trade tradeS i i S v i I This reminds one of another story equally good that the president de delights delights delights I lights to tell teU On one occasion when he was as speeding speed Ins over the Pennsylvania I railroad en route to Washington a fond father held beld his bis boy in one arm armand armand and anda a copy of or Judge in the other A I cartoon of an Irishman on the war warpath warpath I path knife in hand and savage teeth displayed loomed up before the small I boy b y I r know him said the boy Oh Ob OhI j I II I guess you dont said the father suspecting nothing and seeing no cause for alarm Yes I do persisted the bad boy or I know tn O who he heis is and an d what he is Hes called Teddy Roosevelt I and he fights the Indians standing st on horseback and what he cant cut to pieces he be tears with his teeth I President Roosevelt Is a religious I Iman man and wherever he goes stands well wellin wellIn wellin in the he estimation of or his neighbors for his active participation In works of re religion religion ligion and mercy He carries a portly pocket po ket of or loose coin an equally well proportioned purse and a checkbook that rapidly becomes a package of or stubs Yet his habits are so regular that the least irregularity in a busi business business business ness transaction attracts his attention For this reason department employees have always felt the pressure of his watchful oversight and household ser servants servants servants always long Ions In his employ while realizing the freedom they en Joy give the closest attention to all details of their stewardship A friend accompanying him on a jaunt about New York saw a bill disappear in inthe inthe the th of a solicitor for a charity in n the same five minutes that the president nt called at attention attention attention to an overcharge of 5 cents cent A bootblack taking advantage a of the presidents haste baste tried to satisfy with a nickel less of or change but the eagle eye of ot the public administrator detected the petty dwindle l Especially with newspaper ne men has the new president been popular Dur During During ing fug the campaign In Jn which he was elected governor sovern r of New York a Sour jour journalistic f ur headquarters yas as established at Oyster Bay L lu I ro and the newspaper newspapermen men camped on the lawn in tents One evening when all was dark and still and It Is pretty late or rather early in a camp of or newspaper men when it becomes still enough to sleep a noise was heard an alarm raised and the word passed that an intruder was pres present present present ent Im the culprit boys rang out the familiar voice of Candidate Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt match in hand I just ran in to toBee See gee how you iOU are getting along or if II I you are not getting along at all How goes it and who is very vcr thirsty after his day of or toil 7 Every head Iwas was tops up and for half halt an hour Mr Ir Roosevelt stayed with the boys bos and cheered them up laughing and talking compliment complimenting ing and thanking so that it would have bave been difficult for a a stranger to have bave told who was the candidate and Who was the scribe b l u uThe The dispatches tell us that the vice nice president had gone off ot on a climb in the Adirondacks when he was summoned back by the increasing illness of Pres President President President ident McKinley Mount Marcy is an anold anold anold old camping ground for tor the president and he be is an experienced hunter and companion for the guide guld The best of it is that in all his experiences in the woods Roosevelt is as ash helpful to the guides as they are to him This is not merely in his knowledge of general conditions attending atten hunting and camping but In his personal at attention attention attention to those in perplexity fatigue illness and distress A number of in incidents Incidents incidents are known to the ilie friends of the president when the president as assisted assisted assisted at first hand and enthusiastically ly in cases of accident so that the stories of his personal at att T 1 to the dying and wounded on t l i in San SanJuan SanJuan Juan need excite no womb won I resident Roosevelt is as active as humane 1 and andas andas andas as humane as active and probably does not known a conscious ten minutes that he be does not live with all his su superb superb superb intenseness |