The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-29

tired me all out, and toward night be-
gun TO feel like asking him TO be little
easy on me.
He got lost that night and had to sleep
out. We couldn't find the trail anywhere.
but we unsaddled and lay down I'm the
brush and made our supper off some bis
cults we had in our pockets. During the
night our horses broke away and stam-
peded. We heard em go. and the only
thing TO do was to follow them up, be-
cause there was no telling how far away
they might get before morning.
''As luck would have IL we stumbled
on to them after a short tramp and
brought them back, made them secure
and then rolled up in our blankets and
slept like babies. In the morning we
breakfasted on the rest of those biscuits
and toward night we found the camping
outfit and got good square meal.
What took the boys mostly with
Roosevelt was the easy way he had OF
getting in with them. There is always a
sort OF opposition or resistance or cool
ness. whatever you call it, among all
kinds of men when a stranger comes
among them, and cattlemen are about
as sensitive 10 intruders as anybody else;
but somehow or other Roosevelt could
adapt himself TO all kinds OF circum-
stances. and made himself one OF them
without any fuss or friction and without
asking or getting any instructions.
He just did ii naturally. He just nat
urally fitted in with everybody. no matter
what was going on, whether il was a
roundup or a dance. lie was always well
come and he always had good time.
mo. Mr.. Roosevelt never killed his
man; that is a mistake, a newspaper
yarn, like one i read the other day about
the cowboys fooling him by shifting his
saddle with the pommel to the tail OF the
pony. Nobody ever fooled Theodore
Roosevelt about horse. He arrested
some thieves here once.
''He followed them down the river and
camped for three or four days before he
caught them, and then he marched
through the snow for three or four days
more until he landed them In the jail at
Dickinson. and he may have drawn his
gun when IL was nescessary, but he never
shot any one.
"A drunken tough once fired at him in
barroom here but Roosevelt took no no.
tice of IL, and acted as IL the shot was
meant for somebody else. He had a good
deal OF tact in getting along with such
! critters.
Yes continued Mr. Ferris, there was
| little incident as you suggest. One OF
| those drunken desperadoes tnat disgrace
! every new cattle ground, a BAD man from
| Bitter Creek, aid Try IL on him one night,
Dul uOu lSAlCinDtf the circumstances.
L WASH present at the time and heard
| two or three versions OF IL afterward.'
| "As near as 1 can remember, this tough
| thought he would make some trouble Tor
/ Roosevelt by insisting upon his taking
| drink with him at the oar lie knew
that Roosevelt didn't like whiskey and
never drank in such places, ana conclud-
ed to make him do IL. But he didn't know
his man.
Fls.ta ka .apInt .ir
| set out drinks for the crowd and invited
everybody IN the room TO join him Roose-
| welt was the first person 10 step forward,
| and look The tough so by surprise tnat
the fellow was Instantly ratified Roose-
| Welt offered to snake hands with him and
said; 4 don't know YOU stranger. but
! you seem To DC "a good fellow, and |
think We might be friends. 4 never drink
| II a bar and 1 don't like whiskey, but
| | vil join in this time solely out OF re-
spect aud admiration for you The by
| standers saw the sarcasm and got the
! laugh or the tough, but he was one OF the
best friends Roosevelt had here after
ward"
when the war with Spain broke out"
continued Mr. Ferris. "Sylvanus uuder-
| took to raise a company for the Nough
! Riders and every cowboy I'm this part OF
! the country enlisted"
| YES" said Sylvanus; 81 got letters and
telegrams from people 500 miles away
| who used TO live here and knew Roose-
| welt. and wanted me to put their names
down. but when they found that they
could not go with Roosevelt they wouldn't
| go with any one else and the company
| disbanded. Yes. they would follow him
! anywhere. for they knew the man"
How about the election up here
| "Wcll every cowboy in this part OF the
| country will vote for Roosevelt. and 80
will every man that knows him. IL any
votes are cast against Theodore Roose-
| welt I'm this section OF Dakota or acros,
the line IN Montana" said Joe Ferris
"they will be cast by strangers. by mer
who have come into the country since I'D
left"
Enjoy the Water Breexe