The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-30
STORIES IF NOTABLE AMERICANS  ROOSeveIt's Recent Hunt Recalls
 Earlier Incident NEW STORY ON DR. WILEY How Miss Dromeoole Lost Her Shoes In Kentucky and Found Herself
 / Stranded in Stock.
 ing Feet.
NEW STORY ON DR. WILEY
BY FREDERIC j. RAsKIN.

BY FREDERIC J. RASklN.
 Whether the Presidents recent poor suc- cess in bear hunting was just plain | hunters luck or was due to the fact that he hadn't the South's one-time prize pack of bear dogs has been a matter of much discussion down in Dixie. Greater weight is given the theory involving the dogs and old hunters sigh as they recall the days when Col. Bob Bobo was alive and the Mississippi bottoms echoed to the sound of fierce combat and "Old Moll' and her invincible pack kept bruin and his clan in constant terror. The pack was sold few years ago to do duty in the Whitney game preserves of west Ten nessee but not until they had caused their old owner 10 acquire fame in a new direction
 When the President was on his former bear hunt in Mississippi and the south was not then inclined 10 be so hospitabie as now, his hosts were casting about for the best of everything possible to help entertain him. Colonel Bobos bear dogs were well up toward the top of the list, and after the President was in camp d wire was sent to Colonel Bobo at his north Mississippi home asking the loan of his dogs for the Presidents use and stat ing that a special car would be sent for the dogs their master and their trainers. The reply fell as d bombshell in the camp, for, far from appreoating the eompli- ment paid him the doughty colonel la conleally replied that his dogs shouldn't [ hunt with any blanked republican Presi- dent The hunt proceeded without them but it is believed that the bears suffered less uneasiness than before, and the expedition brought as unsatisfactory returns to the Republican party as an election in that quarter would have done.
 The raising of the Turkish mission to an embassy and the recent arrival of the ambassador. Mehmed Ali Bey, in Wash ington, ready to present his credentials to the President, recalls the fact that as careful as are diplomatic functions in general, they are sometimes fraught with amusing incidents. When Jackson was President and when Jimmy O'Neill was q porter at the White House-the famous Jimmy O'Neil who consistently refused to be fired-a new minister from Portugal was accredited to the United States.
 Louis McLane was then secretary of state, and the new minister was to meet him and be taken to the White House. Through some misunderstanding the min ister from Portugal went on to the Ex- ecutive Mansion alone and was met by the redoubtable oNeiL 1Ne minister spoke only his own tongue Arrf French O'Neil spoke only American richly fla vored with County Cork. They had dif- ficulty in understanding one another, but as the word "presidente reached O'Neils ears several times and there was little fear Of anarchists in those days. the for eign gentleman was taken in to the Pres idents private sanctum where that worthy sat in his shirt sleeves smoking a cob pipe Understanding was no better here than in the vestibule, so the Presl- dent in despair sent for his French chef to act as interpreter The minister from Portgual had not understood the message and was righteously terrified when the door opened and the chef startled at so unusual a summons, appeared in big white apron with a cleaver still in his hand The minister fearing he had fallen in the wrong place and anticipating foul play attempted to flee. But the sturdy ONell ! blocked the way. Anyone who insisted ill a "haythen tongue on seeing the Pres ident should see him, and O'Neil would see it done. As he held the struggling minister breathless messenger entered, followed by a no less breathless secretary of state. The new envoy was rescued, | and amid many explanations and apoo- | gies International relations were restored to their former serene footing.