The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-03-15

For Shooting at First Bird-Enter-
tanned Him with Corn Dodgers,
Ham, Eggs and Buttermilk.
A story of President Roosevelt has
reached Washington from Quantico.
About a month ago President Roose-
Welt, DIR. Rixey and party left Washing.
ton ON board the Dolphin for a duck
hunt along the Potomac, Chesapeake
bay and Quantico creek.
On their return trip to Washington
the party stopped for awhile at Guam
tico for a hunt on land, says the st
Louis Republic. Late one afternoon
while the president and DIR. Rixey were
returning tired and hungry to the Dol
phin, the sight of diminutive log cab
In situated on the border of the woods
with a thin column of blue smoke ris
ing from the chimney, suggested to the
mind of the president that he would
like to eat an old time southern smack
and that in all probability just such
meal could be secured from the inmate
or inmates of the cabin aforesaid.
"Dr. Rixey," he said, turning to the
physician, 'ff there Is anything to ea'
In that cabin I'm going to have 1t. Lett
try our luck over there"
So the two directed their steps 10
ward the cabin, the presidents mino
dwelling on recollections of fare tha'
he had eaten during hunting excursions
In the west.
knock on the door of the cabin
summoned its solitary inmate, a vener
able negro. The president told him that
both he and DR.. Rixey were very hun
cry and that they wanted something
TO eat, and the old negro, with charac
teristic hospitality, set before them
painful of corn dodgers. some bacon anc
ham and half dozen or more exceed
ingly greasy fried eggs, for all of which
he offered many apologies, saying thai
he was ''pow'ful pore" and that the
food he offered was not "sech ez y'al
been used to eatin'."
He felt reassured, however, when the
president told him that the food was
quite to his liking and still more sc
when he saw his strange guests fall te
and eat like schoolboys. Finishing theii
meal, the president asked the old Negro
whether he had any buttermilk. and
when the latter replied that he had "a
heap of it." the president sent word te
the Dolphin. summoning the rest OF the
party. and on their arrival at the hut
all hands INDUCED in a regular butter
milk feast. This tickled the old negro
immensely.
While the president and his party
were discussing several quarts OF but
termilk the conversation turned on the
subject of wild turkeys, the old negro
declaring that there 'wuz a heap oi
'em around dis place"
The result of this conversation was
that the president resolved to hunt tur'
key then and there. The old negro LED
the way into the woods and dropped
handful OF corn here and there anc
then initiated the wild turkey call. He
told the president not to shoot the hrs'
one because the others would then run
off. The president saw fine gobbler
and could not resist the temptation. sc
blazed away and blew it to pieces.
The old negro lectured the president
for running the gobbler and spelling the
hunt.
The president was so pleased with
his foresight that he asked some ques
tions about other things and found the
old negro was intelligent. The upshoi
of the matter is that the old negro Ii
today working In the government print
ing office as general utility man at o
salary of $50 per month.
He declares that such luck does moi
as a general thing strike ordinary NOR
tails this side of paradise and is very
happy.