Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19

The occasion was a campfire of one OF the
Washington camps of the United Spanish
War Veterans several evenings ago and the
soldiers of 1898 were telling their ex-
perences in the Santiago and Philippine
campaigns. During a lull In the talks the
form of brawny fellow who had carried
n Krag in of Uncle Sans regular In
fautry regiments doomed up in the sur
rounding clouds of tobacco smoke. After
giving several vigorous puffS at mis- penny
pipe he began:
Boys. I was on the shooting line when
Col. Teddy Roosevelt was hit by the frag-
ment of Spanish shrapnel down Santiago
way. The SpaniardS were VOlleylng at US.
and the Mauser missiles they passed
overhead sounded for all the world like the
swshng of new and stiff silk goods of the
kind the women folks make their skirts.
We didn't know at the time that Col. Teddy
had been hit, but that night a trooper who
had been doing orderly duty on the star
came over to see his old 5'bunky, Mike
OLcary. who had joined the 'doughboys,
and told us all about it He said the shrap-
mel came like lightning and thunder from
q clear sky, and after the explosion he no.
ticed that ii had knocked over several fell
lows. Capt. Bill English of Indiana was
under his horse. the animal having fallen
upon him after big splinter of the shrap-
mel had split open the beasts neck. hurry
ing to his help the trooper saw Col. ROOSe-
Welt pull off his blue Rough Rider necker-
chief and tie 1t about his arm. from which
small stream of blood was trickling. A
fragment of the shot had hit him, and.
while it only made a scratch 1t was an
honorable war wound, and I'll bet dollar
to a bareback that the President wears
that scar today and that no price would in
duce him to part company with IT,
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There is certain gentleman Of parttcu-
larly refined instincts and manner in Wash
ington who abhors the idea that his young
son will become generally acquainted with
the language of the street. The other after
noon when he had just finished admonish-
ing the boy that he should not play polo
in the streets while roller skating he got
a shock. The youngster had been told
that sooner or later he would find himself
in the station house. when he suddenly in
terrupted.
Pop. did you ever see cop running after
a man." ,.... ..
The proud parent replied that he had
never seen a local policeman at full speed
after a prospective prisoner. but added
that he believed there were any number
of the force who were good speeders.
Well" continued the youngster, 1.-THE
bicycle cops is the boys nowadays. 1 be-
lieve the cops that walks have all got the
rheumatism. and with cops with bum feet,
pop l will run the risk OF being pinched.'
The father gasped. at the mixture Of
street hurled at him, and then remarked:
Il don't think there is any use of you go
ing out into the street to skate" Straight
way he issued orders, and his young son
now skates in the back yard.
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Deaf people are the ones who most
greatly appreciate the invention of the tele-
phone remarked an operator in one of
the local exchanges of the city recently. 1T
is not generally known, but people who are
as deaf the proverbial post can hear
very well over a telephone I know one
case OF a friend of mine. / have to talk
at the top of my voice when l undertake
to say anything TO him face to face but
he hears as well as any one on the phone.
The fact is. l make long reports to him
al times concerning matters of mutual In
terest and | invariably call him up on the
phone In order to do SO.
Il have heard of people who have hest
tated about calling their friends on the
phone because they are deaf l came across
deaf man recently who told me he had
never attempted to use a phone because
he supposed there would be in so
doing. | strongly advised him to attempt
It, and he was surprised to discover that
he could hear apparently as well as any
one. II you have deaf friends cali them
the phone and give them the pleasure
of a natural talk They will appreciate it,
Public opinion, as II is uttered by LIENS
of smaller growth who are found in the
parks and open spaces of the city whenever
the weather permits, is pronounS Z. on the
subject of the proposed new police regula-
ton to keep roller skaters off the sidewalks.
These little boys and girls do not make
very elaborate argument on the question,
but what they say is weighty and unan-
swerable Where they to their
skates. they ask IL they are not allowed to
be the sidewalks? Certainly not the
streets. where they would be liable to be
run down by vehicles of different sorts, that
keep older persons alert in order to avoid
being overtaken and surprised.
These young citizens who use skates see
nothing in the prospect for them. in the
event such regulation is enforced, but to
give up skating entirely the risk of
the dangers of the streets to which they be
driven.
One of these little fellows when told what
the Commissioners were being asked 10 do,
inquired: Il wonder If the Commissioners
remember what they did when they were
little boys?'
THE Army Register for 1907 now being
compiled remarked veteran army officer,
shows radical change in the important
military matter Of precedence. In the