Arizona republican., 1898-05-19
THAT WONDERFUL DEWEY.
People Who Knew Him as Boy in
 Vermont Not Surprised.

/; New York, May 18.-To have known
 Commodore Dewey is a claim to pop
 ularity that doesn't fail in these days The man or the woman with Dewey ! "reminiscences to tell is always sure of listener. An old lady from Vermont 1 found this cut the other day.
 Know George Dewey?" she said Well, I guess I did. My, but he was a mischievous boy, And a schooner? We'll, I guess one of his teachers found that out It was in the fall of the year and the apples were ripe on the trees. There was one orchard with a particularly fine tree in it and the boys they did banker after that fruit. I don't know as I blame 'em for it either.
 "At any rate, George Dewey he put two of the other boys up to helping him and they just pretty near cleaned out all the apples there were or that tree. Mad? We'll, you never saw a man as mad as the owner of the or chard was, and he run right off to the school teacher to complain. The | teacher thought he'd be real smart. so when the boys were all In their seats he told about the apple stealing and he said:
 Now, I want the guilty boys to l understand that I know just who did this and that they will be severely punished if it happens again
 ] "But law! he couldn't fool George Dewey. George never blinked, but he made up his mind he'd show that | teacher thing or two. So he kind of started rumor that there~wa going I to be another raid on the orchard that | next night, and then what do you
 think he did? We'll, he and those
 other boys got an empty hogshead,
 and they put it under the tree with
 the applies. The next night they hid
 in another tree and watched. Sure
 enough the teacher came stealing 1 along, and when he spied the hogs head he crawled into it so as to have a good place to wait for them. Just
 as soon as he had got in, the boys
 sneaked up behind the hogshead and ! tarted it rolling doUr the In4i, teach
 1T and all, humpity- y-bump-bump! My.
 By the time it had stepped and the
 teacher had managed to get ont the
 bcys were pretty nearly home and he
 hadn't any more id1a than the dead
 who'd done it. You can just be sure Ludt IL NdSu the tSdcnGf that tOIG 1 that story.
 l "Oh, that George Dewey was a funny boy! I remember about his taking a
 neighbor's baby out in it's little car l riage. He wasn't nothing but a, lit | tie shaver, but you couldn't get ahead l of him even then. He got to running
 the baby buggy up and down the walk just lickity-split, and the first thine
 he knew he ran off the walk and spilled out the whole business. Well, he just
 grabbed up the baby and the covers
 and the pillows and was just dumping
 them into the buggy when the baby's
 mother came rushing out. That boy
 never blinked. You'd have thought
 he was the lord mayor of London
 CT haven't any more time to givi to the baby now, Mrs. - he said just as pompcus as you please. Wi you please take her into the house? And he stalked away as if he hat never gone off a walk in his life Nc
 sir. The folks that knew George Dew ey when he was boy in Vermont weren't surprised at his victory.
 guess they wouldn't be surprised al
 anything George Dewey did,