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Show Anecdotes of Roosmll ("St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Much has been published about President Pres-ident Roosevelt's personality, but perhaps per-haps only those who have seen him from day to day in his family life can realize his extreme simplicity of manner man-ner and conduct. On the last election day, after a campaign of activity that eclipsed the memorable speechmaking period of Brvan. Roosevelt retired to his comfortable home at Oyster Bay and awaited the result of the voters' battle. Awaited, and yet not awaited, for not a single telegraph wire was put in, and the candidate had to depend on his neighbors or the newspaper men for the news. One of the latter a Sun reporter was the first to serve him, arriving overheated and breathless breath-less with the report that there was undoubtedly un-doubtedly another Republican victory, and that he had been elected. President Presi-dent Roosevelt himself responded to the bell ing and came out on the piazza. ' have great news for you, Mr. Roosevelt," said the reporter, panting: pant-ing: "you are electeft vice president of the United States." "1 hope the country coun-try has indorsed the Republican party and its principles, as it should." replied re-plied Roosevelt. "It has," continued the reporter, "and Bryan has lost in his own strongholds." "That's very interesting," in-teresting," said Roosevelt, "but tell me all about the football game. Who won?" And despite the reporter's eagerness to go into the election returns. re-turns. Roosevelt continued to discuss enthusiastically the college contest of that day, until, owing to the lateness of the hour and the pressure of other duties, the reporter retired. Not another an-other -word was spoken about the election, elec-tion, and Roosevelt went to bed with nothing more than some brief telephone and telegraphic reports sent to his home contrary to his instructions. Roosevelt's democracy never failed him. whether he was a student at narvarct or in tne saddle in the west, or a legislator in Albany, and his cordiality cor-diality to the masses was shown to particular advantage in the campaign which made him governor of New York. One evening, after speaking twice in New York, he was rushed by a special train to Yonkers, N. Y., and carried in over the heads of the invited in-vited guests, on the shoulders of Frederick Fred-erick W. Hoi Is, Chauncey M. Depew and others. There was tremendous enthusiasm en-thusiasm bottled up in the crowd, and it repeatedly overflowed to the interruption inter-ruption of the speaker. A red-faced Irishman in the gallery, who looked like a typical Tdmma.nyite of the kind that voted by the thousands for Roosevelt Roose-velt after the Santiago campaign, suddenly sud-denly called out: "Teddy:" "Sh-sh!" said a big policeman with a big club. Roosevelt continued, but the exploding exclamation. "Teddy!" rang out a second sec-ond time-. "I'll put yez out!" said the big policeman to the ojrnder. But the warning if "one of the finest" failed to suppress the interrogator. Just as Roosevelt was dilating on the virtues of the German, whose gemuetlichkeit, he said, could not be translated or understood un-derstood by the other members of our complex population, the red-faced Irishman arose and yelled at full voice: "Teddy, what did yez feed that baste of a mustang to make it throt so in Cuba?" The house collapsed, but "Teddy" rejoined. "The Republican platform!" turned the laugh on the Irishman, and continued his speech. - s During his adminstration as police commissoner Roosevelt met a policeman police-man under the influence of liquor, and determined to discipline him. so that he would never forget his offense. Accosting Ac-costing the policeman, who had been on the force for so short a time that he did not know hi3 superior, Roosevelt stirred him up sufficiently to induce the policeman to arrest him. At the ' station house the officer described in a swaggering manner the misconduct of the prisoner, and during the investigation investiga-tion Roosevelt slipped around the rail and into an adjoining room, and returned re-turned in company with another commissioner. com-missioner. The policeman received a "tip." sobered up very rapidly on learning whom he had arrested, and with tears in his eyes begged for pardon. par-don. 4 v ! President Roosevelt's home life has always been delightful. In his leisure moments at Oyster Bay he has enjoyed the companionship of his family and taken a rare delight in directing the affairs of his small estate. Soon after his return from Cuba his aged gardener came up the walk, hoe in hand, and, tipping his cap, paid: "Mr. Roosevelt, I've ome to finish that talk we had the other day about those onion beds." "What talk. James?" asked Roosevelt, with a smile. "Oh," said the gardener, "you know that the afternoon you received th&t telegram to go to Cuba you and I were standing here and laying out an onion patch. If it suits you, let us plant those onions on-ions now!" And the onions were planted. A. The president has a quiver full of olive branches, and likes children other than his own. Except that he became busier and more inaccessible, Roosevelt carried the same domestic habits and preferences with ;;irn from his Oyster Bay home to the governor's residence at Albany. One" day a clique of New York city politicians who had come up on a special train to see Governor Roosevelt rushed into the corridor of the capitol and upset he office 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 1 him. and after ten or fifteen minutes I he was found, curled up in a corner with one or two neighbors' boys and a i street arab, drawing pictures of ponies 1 and guns on a writing table. The cnil- i dren had waylaid him and begged him : to show them pictures of the guns and i the mustangs he had in the war. At j another time a New York artist found him in the executive chamber, half buried under children -clambering over his chair, while he strove to show them photographs of the scenes of the campaign. 8 W Some years ago, when President Roosevelt was better known among his friends as a devotee of sport, and a seeker after health in the far west, he met repeatedly in New York City a young man who lost no opportunity to snub him, and who suggested without with-out disguise the possibility of a final settlement on some "field of honor." Roosevelt met him for a while with cool reserve and equally undisguised contempt, but finally astonished the upstart wth a genial greeting, several extended conversations and a cordial invitation to his country home. The carriage was in waiting at the station, and Roosevelt received his guest with distinguished consideration, fed him on trout from the upper Adirondacks, and finally led him into his library i and trophy room. Then, taking down a huge knife, Roosevelt ran his finger carelessly over the edge, remarked that it was the blade with which he had- killed m savage Indian planning an assault upon his person, and handed hand-ed the weapon over for closer examination. exami-nation. After that the president took up a little case, emptied it of a half dozen teeth, and remarked: "This, I'm proud to say, is all that is left of Jim, the chopper, who thought he ought to throw me down Hale's gulch, and fell into it himself. And this," said he, continuing, and reaching for a long, round pasteboard labeled "dynamite," "this is the invention of a friend of mine, and known as the camper's and woodsman's companion a bit of dynamite, dyna-mite, equally handy to blow open tne ice in the winter season for fishing or blow up" The story, as told at Oyster Oy-ster Bay, is that the impudent young cox.comb suddenly beoam ill, excused v . " '.' " ' himself to Roosevelt and hurried away home, never to annoy him again. President Roosevelt has a mind of his own, and does not hesitate to make it known. A bunch of prominent politicians, politi-cians, together with a college president and a personal friend, called upon him in Washington to urge the appointment appoint-ment of a certain well-known naval officer of-ficer to the eastern naval station. "We . are very glad to wee you. Mr. Secretary." they voiced together; but. quick as a flash. Roosevelt, swinging swing-ing in his chair, said: "Well. I'm not at all glad to see you. least of all today. to-day. You've called at a very bad time, for I've goit some business to attend to that calls me away at once. I must bid you good day!" In a few minutes Secretary Roosevelt was with the late president, and Dewey had been practically prac-tically decided upon as the officer to be sent'to Hong Kong. - rN President Roosevelt was once traveling trav-eling in Idaho, and passed a book store, j in the window of which was a copy of his "Winning of the West." Going into the book store, he inquired: "Who is this author. Roosevelt?" "Ob." said the bookseller, "he's a ranch driver." "And what do you think of his book?" asked the president. "Well." said the dealer, slowly and deliberately. "I've always thought I'd like to meet the author and tell him that if he had stuck to running a ranch, and give up writing books, he'd have made a powerful pow-erful more of a success at his trade." S f This reminds one of another story, equally good, that the president delights de-lights to tell. On one occasion, when he was speeding over the Pennsylvania railroad, en route to Washington, a fond father held his boy in one arm and a copy of Judge in the other. A cartoon of an Irishman on the warpath, war-path, knife in hand, and savage teeth displayed, loomed up before the small boy. "I know him! said the boy. "Oh. I guess you don't," said the father, suspecting nothing and seeimc no cause for alarm. "Yes. I do." persisted the bad boy; "I know who he is and what he is! He's called Teddy Roosevelt, and he fights the Indians standing on horseback, and what he can't cut to pieces he tears. with hts teeth!" ? v President Roosevelt is a religious man, and wherever he goes stands well in the estimation of his neighbors for his active participation in works of religion re-ligion and mercy. He carries a port'.y pocket of loose coin, an equally well proportioned purse and a checkbook that fapidly becomes a package of stubs. Yet his habits are so regular that the least irregularity in a business busi-ness transaction attracts his attention. For this reason department employees have always felt the pressure of his watchful oversight, and household servants, ser-vants, always long in his employ while realizing the freedom they enjoy, en-joy, give the closest attention to all details of their stewardship. A friend accompanying him on a Jaunt about New York saw a J100 bill disappear in the portmonnaie of a solicitor for a well-known charity in the same five minutes that the president called attention at-tention to an overcharge of X cents. A bootblack, taking advantage of the president's haste, tried to satisfy him with a nickel less of change, but the eagle eye of the public administrator detected the petty swindle. s t, :, Especially with newspaper men has the new president been popular. During Dur-ing the campaign in which he was elected governor of New York, a journalistic jour-nalistic headquarters was established at Oyster Bay, L. I., and the newspaper 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 newspaper men when it becomes still enough to sleep a noise was heard, an alarm raised and the word passed that an intruder was present. pres-ent. "I'm the culprit, boys," rang out the familiar voice of Candidate Roosevelt, Roose-velt, match in hand. "I just ran in to see how you are getting along, or if you are not getting along at all. How goes it, and who is very thirsty after his day of toil?" Every head was up, and for half an hour Mr. Roosevelt stayed with the boys and cheered them up, laughing and talking, compliment- .ing and thanking, so that it would have been difficult for a stranger to have told who was the candidate and who was the scribe. i 4, ii i The dispatches tell us that the vice president had gone off on a climb in the Adirondacks when he was summoned back by the increasing illness of President Pres-ident McKinley. Mount Marcy is an old camping ground for the president, and he is an experienced hunter and companion for the guide. The best of it is that in all his experiences in the woods Roosevelt is as helpful to the guides as they are to him. This is shown not merely in his knowledge of general conditions attending hunting and camping, but in his personal attention at-tention to those in perplexity, fatigue, illness and distress. A number of incidents in-cidents are known to the friends of the president when the president assisted as-sisted at first hand and enthusiastically enthusiastical-ly . in cases of accident, so that the stories of his personal attention to the dying and wounded on the field in San Juan need excite no wonder. President Roosevelt is as active as humane, and as humane as active, and probably does not known a conscious ten minutes that he does not live with all his superb su-perb intenseness. |