The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-04-12
The River Press.
Published erery Wednesday Morning
by the Rirer Press Publish
ing Company.
THEP RESIDENTS VACATION.

The warm greeting extended to Pres
ident Roosevelt by citizens of Ken
lucky and other states is a tribute tt
the great popularity of the nationa
executive. 1t is the usual thing for
guest of honor to receive fatterins
compliments from reception commit
tees at public functions, but when Gov
ernor Beckham, of Kentucky, re-
ferred to Mr.. Roosevelt as M who,
next to Abraham Lincoln, stood clos.
est to the hearts Of the American peo.
pie, he made a statement which will be
corroborated by popular demonstra'
tions wherever the president may APP.
pear during his present trip.
The president proposes TO have a
good time during his vacation, and the
Roosevelt idea Of enjoyment, com.
pared with that of European poten-
tates. is thus described by the New
York Sun:
The senate off his hands aud the Big
Stick laid aside, the president can
look forward with delight to the
Rough Rider reunion at San Antonio
and the wolf hunt in the wilderness Of
northern Texas, to be followed by a
season Of roughing it in Colorado
among the bears and cougars. Per.
haps his bag will not be a big one
compared with the game loot of Kings
Edward and Carlos or of Emperors
William and Franz Josef, but he will
have ar incomparably better time. and
there will be the spice of danger which
is absent from the sporting dissipa.
tiOns of the European rulers.
The Prince of Wales, according to
an English publication, killed $1,000
birds last season., which does not
prove, however, that he is the best OF
royal shots, for Carlos Of Portugal
can break glass balls by the bushel.
shoot TO kill with either hand, hit the
mark in any posture, and his aim,
using a mirror, is said to be deadly.
The King Of England has probably
the best record for shooting from O
cushioned chair At birds paraded past
him in clouds; and pictures of the En-.
peror William after a great hunt show
him looking over a rampant of mis-
c%ellaneOus game, from stays to rab.
bits, with q feather in his TyrOlean
hat and an arsenal of guns ready to
his hand for the battle. William Is a
fine figure of a sportsman who shoots
to massacre. The record of Franz Jo-
SET is not as shining. Indeed, there is
q story that the Emperor of Austria,
in days when govt had not invaded
his joints, took his pleasure in the
Tyrol with rifle and hound like a
landed proprietor who asks no odds of
the creatures in his forests, that he
rOughed it and allowed no one to hunt
him with a camera.
The way of the American ruler is
different from the standard European
method. A bad quarter of an hour
would the beater of game have who
provided easy sport for Theodore
Roosevelt: and the game he kills on
his southwestern outing would not
look impressive in a photograph. The
president will take pot luck with his
Texan hosts in the thicket and sleep in
the open: if anybody can outshoot him
the president will be 'de.lighted ~
What dangers are to be run he will
impulsively embrace. The Colorado
cougar may not be man.eater, but
he will get a square deal" from the
head of the American nation. 1t is Il
genuine call of the wild which Theo.
dore Roosevelt will respond to, and
he will be happier roughing in Il ilan-
mel shirt and sombrero than he ever is
in a frOck coat and a high hat as the
first citizen of Washington and the
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