El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-10-09
IT RS Neighbor
IN the Bad Lands;
81 . "Reminiscences

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rt's thifty.six years now since
first met MI. Roosevelt. had =,
log cabin three niles south OF thl
Chimney Butte ranch, UP the Littl,
Missouri, where / was living with nj,
husband and children; and one day IL
the fall, riding south for. d buffals
hunt with Toe Ferris, he stoppes
there.
Joe Ferris comes to the door ahd
says: Good morning, Mrs. Roberts
Come out here and-shake hands with
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt.
/ came out and there he was, q
mighty fine looking man as / remem'
Der straight ard slim, with Biz
glasses which made him look queer
at first until you got used to them,
He was very pleasant spoken. and
after that he used to stop In to see
me every time he rode By on the way
to on from his hunts. / was told
that he had come out for his health,
but he never looked sick to me. He
was always full of fun and life and.
except for his glasses, no different
from the other boys. He was Just like
one Of NJ
One Sunday the boys from the
Maltese Cross-R0osevelt and the
Ferrises and Merrifield--roda DIP to
my cabin and said: Come along,
Mrs. Roberts. We're going up To
Deacon Cummins's. just for the fun
OF 1t. We haven't desecrated Mrs.
Cummins's Sabbath for so long, shen
think we've reformed
I said: Boys, lin with YOU
IL vas Just a matter OF two miles
or so to Mr.. Cummins's and a merrier
party Of sabbath breakers you never
saw than We were, all in our Sunday
~go-to-meeting clothes, when he rode
into the Cummins's yard. We thought
the deacon and his lady would be
prayer books, but they were
INTO. The deacon was out iii the gar
den planting potatoes and the dea
cons wife was doing her Saturday
jobs, baking. cleaning house and max.
ing the dust ny.
Mrs. Cummins, = ! says, pretending
to be shocked, don't you know this
is SundayT
This isn't Sunday" says she, this
Saturday
Well | says, 4 tell you this is
Sunday
She looked at the boys, all dressed
up and shaved; and a more surprised
and Inundated woman you never
She called to the deacon and
made him come out OF the garden
she wouldn't let him finish planting
The potatoes.
ITO think that l should let my
seif be Influenced so Boon to lose
Of the days Of the week" she
iaid in a kind OF wall. she didn't
have quite SO much to say about
breaking the Sabbath after that.
But she kept making a nuisance Of
herself IN other ways. She tried to
improve the cowpunehers' parlor man
lers; and MI. Roosevelt was in on
hat. 1t happened this way: One
lay she invited the boys from the
Maltese Cross, Joe and SyIvan8 and
Verified and Mr.. Roosevelt, to din.
Ter, SO they got aIicked up and went.
t was I'M the summer and naturally
hey we're all in their shirt sleeves,
CT nobody thought OF wearing their
IN the summer time. That was
part Of the western freedom.
When dinner was ready, the boys
came in just as they we're. Mrs.
says; We'll! | notice that
on men have not got your coats on"
nd, Of all things! went and hunted
p some old coats Of the deacon's.
The got one for Joe and for Sylyane Il
lid one for Mortified and one for 4
lrJ Roosevelt. The deacon's best
oat was none too fine, and his extras !
a pretty diIapidated looking lot.
They were all pretty sore. They {
Iere too polite to show it, however, /
nd they made a joke Of 1t. But {
hen they went away, Mr., Roosevelt 1
poke up and said in his best man Z
er, Mrs. Cummins. the next time Xix
ONE III wear my dress suit which \
leant that he'd never come again; k
nd he never did. Il
Mr.. Roosevelt was an easterner;
ut no n would have known 1t. He q
tipped right into the western life }
Ike the me who didn't have educa-
on, but just strong arms and a head I
Of common sense. His education
idn't set him apart. Almost all the I
Ihef ~easternors were like Mrs. Cum e
inns. educated, but at bottom just {
Gin ordinary fools. 9
sAr. Roosevelt loved 1t here; and Is y
any wonder =? There were good n
eople here in his day. There are 4
bod people here yet, but the west I
ou see today is far different from y
le west / lived in. G
i didn't see Mr.. Roosevelt for many
sarB. Then one day he came down y
le Northern Pacific on a special Y
ain When the train 1
In, there were a couple Of ,
lousand people down to the depot to !
Get him che was now the president =
the United States) and says to :
.yself, There's SO many here, what !
III ! dot He won't have time to y
link about me- .
The crowd was calling for 4 speech, y
ID says ! to myself, This Is the end
me, after telling all these people
w well | knew him. He'll not have
me to bother with an old woman !
Ike myself
He stood on the platform and raised
b hand for the crowd 10 be quiet, Il
Id then he says, Does anybody here 4
low where Mrs, Roberts ISL? ii
Somebody near me shouts, Here q
10 Isl" 81
The crowd began calling for ali,