The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-01

In Ills Hut-Ap Amusing Story of
 President Roo.cveIts Recent sho ot
 ing Trip Along tho Potomac -Darky
 Now Government EnipIoye
 An amusing story of President Roose- welt has reached Washington from
 Quantico, which sounds more like a
 narrative of the doings of Heroun AL
 Raschid than it does like some story of
 the doings of latter-day rulers About
 one month ago, President Roosevelt,
 Dr Rixey and party left Washington
 on board the Dolphin for a. duck hunt
 along the Potomac, Chesapeake bay and Quantico creek.
 On their return to this city the party stopped for a while at Quantico for a hunt on land Late one afternoon while the president and Dr. Rixey were returning, tired and hungry, to the Dolphin, the sight of a diminutive log cabin, situated on the border of the woods, with a thin column of blue smoke rising from the chimney, sug- gested to the mind of Che president that he would like to eat an old-time south ern shack" and that in all probability just such a meal could be secured from the inmate or inmates of the cabin aforesaid.
 pr. RiXey," he said, turning to the physician, If there is anything to eat in that cabin, I'm going to have it. Let's try our luck over there," So the two directed their steps toward the
 h t1,o, ! ,Jx recollections of fare that he had eaten during hunting excursions In the west.
 knock on the door of the cabin summoned it's solitary inmate venera- ble negro, to the outside. The presi- dent told him that both he and Dr. Rix- ey were very hungry, and that they wanted something to eat, and the old negro, with characteristic hospitality, set before them a painful of corn dodg- CTS, some bacon and ham, and q half dozen or more exceedingly greasy fried eggs, for all of which he offered many apologies, saying that he was "puW'ful pore" and that the food he offered was not ''sech ez' vail been used toe eat in.''
 He felt treasured, however when the president told him that the food was quite to his liking, and still more so when he saw his strange guests fall to and eat like two schoolboys. Finishing their meal, the president asked the old negro whether he had any buttermilk, and on the latter replying that he had "a whole heap of it," the president sent word to the Dolphin, summoning the rest of the party, and, on their arrival at the hut all hands indulged in reg ular butterrnilk feast. This til1led the old negro immensely. While the presi- dent and his party we're discussing sev- eral quarts of buttermilk, the converse tion turned on the subject of wild tur- keys, the old negro declaring that there "wuz a whole heap of 'em around dis place." The result of this conversation was that the president resolved to hunt turkeys then and there.
 Following the old negro into the woods, the president and Dr. Rixey sta { toned themselves behind some blinds | which the host had erected for his own | use, while the old negro, with a hand- ful of corn, started in a circuit through | the woods, initiating the wild turkey call, and dropping few grains of corn at distances of from two to three yards l apart.
 Before the hunt began the old negro had cautioned the president not to shoot | the first turkey that came in view, for the reason that the rest of the flock , would soon follow, and thus give them a chance to kill several birds, instead | of the one leading the others, but when | he completed his round and sat down behind the blinds to continue initiating the wild turkeys note, the old negro was thunderstruck to see the president | elevate his gun on the approach of d large gobbler the leader of a flock fol- lowing at some distance in the rear
 "HoP on, w'ite man, doan shoot jes' yeti" he begged under his breath. "De | whole bizness will come long toreckly, |, an' ef yo' shoots now, yo'll skeer em all | off, sho's yo' bonn. Yo' bet min, dey'll ! Ill run off, jais' laik tells yo'" I
 NO" he said, I'm going to have that bird right now. I intend to make sure If one, let the rest come or not" and he blazed away, at such close range that | MT, Wild Turkey was simply blown all 70 smithereens.
 "Unm-m m mumphnh, now see what yo ! lone! I kep, a-tellin' yo' toe min out. Now yo done ruin't yo tuhlSey- y-huntin', 'ho' huff. Tain no use to stay hyeah 10 mo- he declared; "de res ob dem ,uhds has done runned off"
 President Roosevelt was so impressed with the old negro's foresight in the natter of wild turkeys that he thought
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