The herald., 1898-10-22
STONES OF IlE DAy

l hold IN my nano - OF speciaA veaue 70 msi
j Roossvslt's Sn Towsley, the New
Little 1rssoot Orleans and West
i ern railroad man
hanging up the telephone receiver, says the
New Orleans Democrat. Il went down te
old st. Roch's one day last spring and in
vested in half dozen Of just such speci-
mems as you see in my hand"
"They were black, because the dark ones
lwere recommended to me as being the best.
Well, kept one and sent the other five on
had expressed desire to have some Of these
quaint articles.
I'm week or so Van Nostrand wrote me,
saying just as the postman handed my pack
age OF st. Josephs to him one morning Col.
Teddy" Roosevelt happened in his office.
He opened the package and upon seeing
what the contents were Mr.. Roosevelt ex-
pressed the desire to possess one OF the tiny
images. He said he wanted to carry one
through the war, FOR he was then raising his
famous regiment of Rough Riders. Any
ried it with him during the Santiago cam
paign. l heard yesterday that he had
brought the reverend st. Joseph back to
New York with him and that he attributes
much of his success to the ever-presence OF
| this emblem of good luck. Here is one case
at least where New Orleans st. Joseph did
good service in the Hispano-American war;
| At a little village on the Susquehanna
river met an old soldier who related this
| incident of his cxpe-
Anecdote OF rience with General
Gen. Meade Meade in the civil
| war, says the Pitts.
burg Dispatch. 1t was raw night in Octo-
Der, the wind was rather strong and Meade
had fixed a stove in his tent. The soldier
was the sentry for the general. A puff OF
wind knocked down the improvised stove
pipe and soon the tent was filled with smoke.
The general came out and asked the sentry
to help him rearrange it, The soldier re-
piled that he was under orders and could
not leave his post of duty.
'Yes, yes" said Meade, that is true;
but l would like to have that stovepipe
fixed. You are right" and the general
went at the job himself.
| Il kept pacing my beat" said the soldier,
"and enjoyed Meade's efforts to get the
pipe back in its place. He made sorry mess
of it. Finally he turned to me and said:
Sentry, you will have to help me; will be
responsible for you, and if there is any trou-
BILE about your leaving the beat l will ex-
plain to the commanding officer
| SIN few minutes we had the pipe in
position. Meade disappeared into the tent
without word of thanks, but he soon came
out with jug of applejack and asked me to
| take a drink. Once more l reminded him
l was on duty. Yes, yes he answered. 4
know; but you helped me to fix the stove
pipe
| "He turned on his heel and re-entered the
tent, leaving the jug outside. After time
he came out.
"'Did you drink he inquired. nodded.
"'I knew you would; but I did not
see it,"
In discussing the recent scandals as to
high play among officers at Potsdam, the
| Germania relates that
Rebuked His when a similar rev
Grandfather elation was made in
the old emperor's
time his majesty issued very stringent or
der against gambling in the army.
| This provoked many private remon.
strances on the part of the young guards
men and others, and the venerable kaiser
was disposed to relax the severity of his
decree. He found, however, a determined
Opponent in his youthful grandson, vii
helm, who had recently been made colone
of a regiment.
"Sire," said the stern uphoder of moral
ity, "am l still at the head of my regiment
or not? If l am, l intend to be master; j
not, beg to be relieved of my command"
Grandpa had to give way, and he signifec
to the deputation that he would have yield
ed point, "but the colonel is as firm as
rock" This, at least, is one of those thing,
that Is all to the coloners credit"