The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-28
MET HIS OLD GUIDE
PRESIDENT CIIUMS WITH BILL Sc.
WALL, OF MAINE.
"l'M GLAD TO SEE YOU, BILL"
"You Aint No G1adder Than 1 Be-"
Bill Replies.

tween Roosevelt and Friend of
Hunting Days-Speech of the Day.
In Country Must BE Sought Those
Primal American Attributes That
Have Made the Country Great.
The Road TO Right Living-Moral
Must BE Raised Above Material.
Journey Through Maine.
Ellsworth, Me-, Aug. 27.-The Presi-
dents second day in the Pine Tree
state was full of interest. Starting
from the governors residence at an
early hour he was taken for a short
drive about the city of Augusta, and
at $3.50 left for Bangor, where the
principal speech of the day was de-
livered at the fair grounds in the
presence of an immense audience,
which listened with marked attention
to his address.
The same close attention was given
him at Waterville, where from far and
near came hundreds to see and hear
the first President who has visited
Maine in many years.
Just before leaving Augusta the
President heard that his old guide,
Bill Sewall, of Island Falls, Me, who
had accompanied him on many hunt
ing expeditions, and who had for
time been employed on his ranch in
Dakota, was at Bangor. He immedi-
ately wired Congressman Powers at
Bangor to Corral Bill and hold him
he hof oif
congressman carried out these instruc-
tons was fully proven when he pro-
duced the tall, rawboned, red whisker-
ed hunter upon the Presidents ar
rival.
The Presidents Greeting.
II am glad to see you, BILL said
the President, whereupon Bill replied.
You amt no gladden. than I be-"
Then 1t was that the President told
the story of his friendship of many
years with the old guide and hunter,
and how, many years ago, while on
a hunting trip through Maine, owing
to the shortage in the meat supply,
they had eaten muskrat together,
which the President said was the last
meat he had eaten in Maine before
this trip. The President seemed to
delight in the rural simplicity of the
mar, and insisted that he should sit
down to dinner with him. Bill there
fore had the distinction that comes to
but few, of dining with the chief exec
utive of the nation and the governor
of his state at the same time.
While at the fair grounds some one
suggested to Sewall, who was seated
on the platform with the President,
that he should go to Washington and
secure an appointment as postmaster,
but Bill had already received this hon
or and said to his inquisitor. 81 be
postmaster already"
Before beginning to speak at the fair
grounds in Bangor, the President, no
ticing the jamrning and pushing of the
crowd in front of the grandstand, eau
toned the people to be careful of the
women and children, and asked them
to show their capacity to manage
themselves, which Immediately had the
desired effect. In his speech the
President said:
The Old American Spirit.
During the century that has closed,
the growth of industrialism has neces-
sarily meant that cities and towns
have increased in population more
rapidly than the country districts. And
yet, it remains true now as it has al
ways been, that in the last resort the
country districts are those in which we
are surest to find the old American
spirit, the old American habits of
thought and ways of living. Con-
ditions have changed in the country
far less than they have changed in the
city, and in consequence there
has been little breaking away
from the methods of life
which have produced the
great majority of the leaders of the
republic in the past
ut must not be understood from
this that there has been no change in
farming and farm life. The contrary
is the case. There has been much
change. much progress. The Grange
and similar organizations, the farmers
institutes and all the alliances which
promote intelligent cooperation and
give opportunity for social and intel
lectual intercourse among the farmers,
have played a large part in raising the
level of life and work in the country
districts.
Farm Science Advancing.
"In the domain of government, the
Department of Agriculture since it's
foundation has accomplished results as
striking as those obtained under any
other branch of the national admins
tration. BY scientific study of all mat
Ie1S connected with Tie advancement
of farm life; by experimental stations,
by the use of trained agents, sent to
the uttermost countries of the globe,
by the practical application of any
thing which in the ordinary use has
been demonstrated to be efficient, in
these ways and in many others, great
good has been accomplished in raising
the standard of productiveness in
farm work throughout the country.
I'VE live in an era when the best
results can only be achieved If TO in
dividual self-help we add the mutual
self-help which comes by combina-
ton, both of citizens in
their individual capacity and
of citizens working through the state
as an instrument. The farmers of the
country have grown more and more
to realize this, and farming has tend
ed more and more to take its place as
an applied science-though as with
everything else, the theory must be
tested In practical work and can avail
only II applied in practical fashion.
Country Develops Citizens.
But after all this has been said, IL
remains true that the countIyman, the
man on the farm. more than any other
OF our citizens to-day is called upon
20 exercise the qualities
which we like 10 think Of as typical OF
the United States throughout
rs history-the qualities Of
rugged Independence, master
ful resolution and individual
energy and resouroefulness. He works
hard (for which no man IL 70 be pitt
ied) and often be lives hard (Which
may not b. pleasantly, but his life II
passed ln healthy surroundings, sur
rOundlneB which tend 70 develop q fne