Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-30
SOME STORIES OF ROOSEVELT.

Some additional anecdotes Of Roosevelt
as a soldier and as a political campaigner
are told by the New York World:
When the Rough Riders, after their
Cuban campaign, first landed at Montauk
Point from their transport and marched
the soldiers was to see Roosevelt.
The next day Colonel Roosevelt walked
through the camp. He stopped at every
tent and looked in.
Don't get up, boys he would say;
'lie STILL All. Jim. how's your leg feeling
today? Getting better? That's good.
You'll soon be all right now. Billy.
hope your back doesn't trouble you so
much now. You'll have 1t easier here
And so II went all along the line. He
had a word for each man and he knew
each by name. He even knew just what
allied each one.
Colonel Roosevelt was shown a picture
Of himself during the war. 1t showed
him waving a sword and dashing up hin
on horseback in one of the fights in
Cuba
as it a good picture?" he was asked.
Yes" he replied. Its all right, ex-
cept that my sword is still wrapped up
in a bundle in Tampa and 1 didn't ride
horse. Otherwise it's all rightE'
-
Tenderloin one night and had been point
ed out to a number of policemen. one OF
whom was patroling his beat just behind
the commissioner.
II feel like the caHph of Bagdad.. said
Roosevelt, laughingly, TO his companion.
''Begorra,' said the patrolman. that
man thinks he's Haley, of Bagdad. Com
mish or no commish. I'd better be run
ming him in for a crazy man.
Before Santiago Rev. Peter Mcqueen
approached Colonel Roosevelt and said.
well, you're getting TO be quite a gen.
eral now arn't you, colonel2"
mot a bit of it," replied the leader Of
the Rough Riders. I'm just getting to be
a middle-aged military man."
AN UNMILITARY SENTRY.
It is told how at one of the camps in
the south, not long after Wood and Roose-
welt Joined the Rough Riders, cowboy
was on guard near Colonel Woods tent.
Colonel Wood was sitting at the entrance.
and the, guard was at the regulation dis
lance pacing up and down.
Suddenly the sentry walked straight up
to the colonel and said: You're Colonel
Wood. all right, amt your
Eyes. sir; am Colonel Wood" gasped
the astonished officer. WELL" said the
sentry, 81 want to tell you the boys didn't
much know what to make Of you and
Roosevelt when you first came down, but
we've been sizing you up and talking Il
over, and we've about made up our minds
you're both white. and I reckon most OF
the boys would go plumb to hill for you
now
During the campaign Of 1900. one day
the train bearing Roosevelt was halted
within calling distance Of that from which
William Jennings Bryan was making
enoorH1c RaOcaUalf
ognized his political opponent and called:
Hello, Bill!' Hello. Teddy!'' came the
Democratic candidates answer.
Flows your voice?" s}a
"About as strong as the Democratic
platform" shouted Roosevelt, hoarsely,
land yourS?"
oh, wheezed Bryan. mines in about
the condition of Republican promises
And the trains passed on.
The remarkable popularity Of Colonel
Roosevelt among newspaper men is said
to be due to his unfailing good nature At
the end Of an exhausting day Of speech
making the colonel, so the story goes, had
retired early to his room He had been
sleeping soundly for some time and the
house was very quiet. when he was
aroused by a violent knocking on his
door The colonel FASTENED to open the
door and modestly poked his head around
the edge He saw there solemn individ-
ual who said that he knew 1t was late
but that he did desire very much to take
a fashlight photograph Of the candidate.
But said the colonel. II am just go
ing to bed, and a blush mantled the sun
brown cheeks. The photographer was not
in the least abashed. Far from It. His eye
lit up with JOY
THAT would be fine said he.
Anybody else but Colonel Roosevelt
would have either got mad or would
have made the photographer mad. They
parted. however, on the best Of terms
though the photographer, when he came
down stairs and told about it, still SEEM
ed to think the colonel was strangely
modest man.