The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-01

hardly to be expected, but he does
climb them and with comparative
few mishaps.
Those who have only seen President
Cleveland surrounded by the pomp and
circumstance inseparable from his Of
fee when he appears upon great pub
lie occasions, would find 1T hard to rec
ognize him in shooting costume climb
ing a Virginia rail fence. He goes at
1T in thoroughly systematic and de-
Hibernate manner-not at all as a. boy
does playing hare and hound. There
may be more squirrels than one could
shake a stick at in the adjacent
woodland and their chattering may be
perfectly audible, but 1t will not hurry
Mr.. Cleveland one particle in his fence
climbing to get to them. He approach
es the fences much as a reluctant but
determined bridegroom approaches the
altar. He regards the fence from afar
with eyes of stern comprehension and
estimates its height and strength like
a trained thoroughbred hunter follow
ing the hounds. II there Is a gate or
gap not too far away he makes for It,
but II the obstacle presents an unbro-
ken front he walks to II as he would
walk to the front Of a platform when
about to address a large meeting.
Nicholas johnson. the middle-aged but
agile colored man who always accom-
panies Mr.. Cleveland when he goes out
for squirrels, climbs the fence first as
a guarantee of good faith. Then Mr..
Cleveland follows the good. safe, old
custom of passing the gun over the
fence to his man. This is because 1t
might otherwise ''go off, and hurt
some one. Then Mr.. Cleveland climbs.
First he grasps the top rail and shakes
II a little to see n 1t Is to be trusted.
If not he tries the next section of fence.
Then he places his right foot on the
bottom rail as one would IL about to
step on a basket of eggs. II this rail
proves to be all that is expected the
president draws himself up a notch
and tests the second rail from the bot
tom. Nicholas stands by regarding the
operation with due soaemnity and occa-
sionally offering a suggestion but never
daring to grim
Case yer better. san. put yer fut
'gainst that Their knot, sab, KANT pos
sibly slip from there, sab" or Git er
little furder dat way. sab. mex de mex
lap. sab Looks powerful lot stronger
over dere. sah."
Then II the second rail does not
oreak warningly there is a powerful
swing of the presidents right leg over
the top rail and the right foot rests
beside the left on the second rail, but
on the other side OF the fence. There
Is another powerful swing, this time
of the left, and then a crunching of dry
twigs and leaves indicates that the
chief magistrate has landed on his feet
ON the other side. Then he wipes his
brow. Nicholas says sympa1hetically,
Pretty babe fence. san" and the pass
ing of the fence IS done. 1t Is well
worth a journey TO Washington to See
/ arrived in Washington at $50 a. m.
Saturday morning. and after a hurried
breakfast at Wizards, where I put on
my shooting Toggs. was successful In
securing one OF those verttable Noah's
arzs on wheels that in Washington
rrrane "a -rfa rTN.fa
driven by a colored Noah with whssk-
ers that surely could not have been
shaver since the flood. This genial an
tediluvian, however, knew the way TO
Woodley. and as he assured Captain
Mahar. who accompanied me. that his