Col. Roosevelt's Kindly act to
Cripple Won Salem, OR
L.H. PEDERSEN.
Pastor. White River Presbyterian Church
"Will you please lift the rope, sir?"
The circuit-rider was startled by
the unwelcome interruption of his
efforts to see and hear the speaker.
It was in the year 1903. A park in
Salem, Ore., had been roped off, arid
the enclosure filled with chi|d-.i
packed densely around the stand
where, accompanied by a few officers,
stood Theodore Roosevelt, talking as
only a great father can to the wriggling mass of pig-tailed, rosy
checked, overcalled, barefooted.
Sunday-go-to- meeting-dressed young;
morning some had left home in the
old family buggy to come 25 or more
miles -that Billy and Sally might see
the president."
