The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-28
OId Red Whiskered Hunter Dimes
 With the President
IS ALREADY A POSTMASTER
Rural Simplicity of His Old Hunting Companion Greatly Amuses Mr. Roosevelt, and He Invites
 Him to Dinner.


 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 9:30 left for Ban- gor, where the principal speech of the day was delivered at the fair grounds in the presence of an immense audience. The same close attention was given him at Waterville, where from Tar and near came hundreds to see and hear the first President who has visited Maine in many years.
 Just before leaving Augusta the Presi- dent heard that his old guide. Bill Sewell, of Island, Me, who had accompanied him on many hunting expeditions and who had for a time been employed on his ranch in Dakota, was at Bangor. He i'm mediately wired Congressman Powers to 'corrar' him and hold on to him until he reached that city. That the congressman carried out these instructions was fully proven when he produced the tall, raw boned. red-w whiskered hunter upon the Presidents arrival
 ''I am glad to see you, Bill D said the President. whereupon Bill replied: You ain't no giadder than be-" Then 1t was that the President told of the story of friendship of many years ago while on hunting trip through Maine. Owing to shortage in the meat supply they had eaten muskrat together. which the Presi- dent said was the last meat he had eaten in Maine before this trip. The President seemed to delight in the rural simplicity of the man 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 executive of the nation and the governor of his state at the same time.
 Is Already Postmaster.
 While at the fair grounds, some one suggested to Sewell, 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 honor, and said to his inquisitor: "I be postmaster already.
 On the drive through Bangor the Pres- idents carriage was stopped in front of the portico of the Orphans home, where the little ones were assembled, and they greeted him in song.
 Before beginning to speak at the fair grounds, the President, noticing the jamming and pushing of the crowd in front of the grandstand, cautioned the people to be careful of the women and the children, and asked them to show their capacity to manage themselves, which immediately had the desired effect. The platform from which the President spoke was directly in front of the grand stand. which was packed with humanity. Behind him was another dense crowd. On leaving the platform he drove around the race track In response to cries from the audience that he do so. Tonight the President dined here at the home of Sen ator Hale, who accompanied the party from Bangor. At the depot when the train pulled in the President was escorted to a platform nearby and delivered a short address. He left at 10 o'clock for Nashua, N H., and other points in that state, where he will speak tomorrow
 Roosevelt at WaterviIIe.
 Waterville Me, August 27-President Roosevelt was greeted here by large number of people and spoke to them from a stand which had been erected near the depot. He said:
 My fellow citizens: I wish to thank you, and all the people of Maine, for the way in which have been greeted. feel in a certain sense a right to the greeting for at least I am trying to put into practice the principles in which you believe. I feel that the art of sue cessful government in our country Is the art of applying practically the every day principles of decency, moral and common sense which must be applied by the aver age citizen if he is to be a good hus- band. good father, good neighbor and good citizen.
 There is not any wonderful brilliancy or genius in it. What we need is the application of the every day principles that man needs if he is to make his business success, If he Is to do his duty in his own family and to his neigh bor. Now. up here in Maine you are so fortunate as to have a state which, on the whole, represents as well as any other in our union (better than all save very few others in our union) the con- ditions of life, the ways of looking at life out of which such a republican, such a democratic government as ours springs.
 You believe practically that each man must work out his fate for himself; and. vet that the state must be called on to try to give each man fair show in life.
 Little Legislation.
 T passed by your state house in Au- gusta this morning. Your legislature on- ly meets every other year and only stays in session about two months. Quite right. You do not need too many laws. too much legislation. What we need is stabil- ity of laws, fearlessness in applying leg islation to new evils. when the evils spring up, but above all, common sense and self-restraint in applying these rem edies and the fixed and unchangeable be- lief that fundamentally each mans sal vation rests in his own hands. All of us stumble at times. There is not man here who does not at times need a help ing Hand stretched out toward him.
 .Shame on the man who, when the op- portunity to help is given, falls to stretch out the hand. Help the man who stum- bles. Help the brother who slips Set him upon his feet Try to start him along the right road. But if he lies down. make up your mind you cannot carry him. If he won't trv to walk himself he is not worth