Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-02-25
Maine Trapper and Guide and Party
Of Friends Entertained by Presi-
dent at Reception.
is WELL KNOWN IN THE WEST
Thinks Roosevelt Tires Of Washing
ton-sewell Comments on Incl
dents Of Early Days.

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president and is stopping at the Ok
ford hotel. He is accompanied by his
wife. his daughter, Miss Lecretla
Sewell. and his son. FRED l.. Sewell,
his intimate friends, Fleetwood Pride,
Mrs. l.. A. Pride, Wumot E. Pride and
Wilmot +. MOVIE. The party came
here especially to be present at the
congressional reception held at the
white house.
When the president was a delicate
lad at Harvard he was sen by his
father TO the Sewell farm near Ban
gor. Me, TO spend the summer. So
beneficial did the first trip prove that
he went TO the Sewall farm every
summer until his twenty.first year.
After the presiden took up ranch
ing heal Medora, S. d., he sent for
Sewell and his wils 10 take charge OF
his domestic affairs. Until last sum-
mer, when the president visited Maine
he and his old friends mad not met
for years. He Immediately asked
Sewell when he and his wife and some
of his n~eighbors would like TO come
to Washington. After thinking 1t
over. Bill, as he is called, concluded
that he would sooner attend the re-
~ception to congress. Bill Sewell is
widely known as a 'rapper, guide and
hunter.
What do | think of Washington
he said. We'll. | will have to get
home and quietly think ii all over.
Last night after the reception the
president sa,. to me: We'll, BIZ,
how do you like a reception at the
white house. Do you think you
YOU would like to go into so
ciety?' and | said to him, L am glad
that | came to go and that ! saw 1t
once. but for me. | would rather go
fishin'.'
THE president laughed and laugh
ed. and then Mr.. Theodore said: III
tell o something, but don't let on.
| would like to also But that amt
true about Mr.. Theodore. He could
never keep still long enough to fish.
He likes to get out with a gun. |
knew him when he was a s%toop-shoul-
dered. peeky boy of is, and he always
liked TO go out with a gun. but was
no good at fishin. Don't you know
he never shot a deer until after he
was u, just because | could never
get him to wait long enough
Did the president keep the horns?"
Bill vas asked.
1T didn't have no horns. 1t was
nothin' but a fawn. May be he's got
the skin but il didn't have horns.
When he said he would sooner go
fishin' than into society | told him
that was not so. because he couldn't
wait long enough, nut Mr., Theodore
said. sort o. queer like: Bill. have
learned to wait since those days, and
say. don't you know. | think the presi-
dent don't half enjoy .mself like he
used to with us. Something is weigh
ing ON his mind.
one thing about Washington
went up in the monument yesterday.
ana the men down on the ground
didn't look bigger than my finger. /
have been mp on mountains and look
ed down on things but they didn'.
look like that. | guess it is the city |
that does it, with all the street ears
and houses, and things don't look
natural,
The %ueighbors are just waiting for
us 10 get home and tell them all about
il, but | don't think | can tell them
anything until | have thought about II
for n week. This thing is different.
/ eau walk forty miles al home and
be- fresh, out every night here | am
just played out, and there amt no
hills Iu climb. These cities make
things different. | will take n week
to think things over before | can tell
the folks. [ told the president when
he first took me through the white
house, Mr.. Theodore. this here's the
finest camp you eve was in. amt
it?' but ! don't know about that now,
and | don't believe the president
thinks 50 either. We had a better
time our west
Bill Scwcll is the typical Maine
wuodsman. Tall. lanky, with sandy
beard aud a soft, gentle voice. which
nearly always marks the lonely hunt.
His wife is a little woman, very
dclicat" looking. with a Kindly face
and The same gentle, d%eprecating way
OF speaking. Her affection for the
president is very genuine, and. like
her husbands. dates from the days
when be was a puny lad
What | have enjoyed most" she
lis seeing Mr., Theodore. / nev.
or met any of his children until II
came 10 Washington, and this has
been a great pleasure, too. | cannot
tell you how kind Mrs. Roosevelt has