The Washington herald., 1907-10-30
BY FREDERIC }. HASKIN.

Whether the Presidents recent poor
success in bear hunting was just plain
hunters luck or was due to the fact that
he hadn't the Souths one-time prize pack
of bear dogs, has been a matter of much
discussion down i'm 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 70 the
sound Of fierce combat, and old IolI'
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 Tennes-
see, but not until they had caused their
old owner TO acquire fame in a new d.
rection.
When the President was on his former
bear hunt in Mississippi and the South
was not then inclined TO be so hospitabIe
as now, his hosts We're casting about for
the best of everything possible 10 help
entertain him. Col BObO's bear dogs We're
well UP toward the top of the list, and
after the President was in camp a Wire
was sent 10 Col Bobo at his North Mis-
stssippi home, asking the loan Of his dogs
for the Presidents use, and stating that
special car would be sent for the dogs
their master, and their trainers. The
reply fell as q bOmbshell in the camp.
FOR. far from appTeciating the compli-
ment paid him, the doughty colonel lacOn-
ically replied that his dogs shouldn't
hunt with any BANKED Republican Presi-
dent" The hunt proceeded without them,
but it is believed that the bears sUf-
fered less uneasinesS than before, and the
expedition brought as unsatisfactory re-
turns to the Republican party as an cleo
ton IN that quarter would have done.
The raising Of the Turkish mission 10
an embassy and the recent arrival OF the
ambassador. Mehmed Ali Bey. I'm 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 Jimmy O'Neu was a
porter at the White House-the famous
Jimmy O'NeH who persistentiy refused
20 be fired-a new minister from Portugal
was accredited to the United States.
Louis AIcLane was then Secretary of
state, and the new Minister was to
meet him and be taken 70 the White
House. Through some misunderstanding.
the Minister from Portugal went on To
the Executive Mansion alone. and was
met by the redoubtable O'Neil The Min
ister spoke only his own tongue and
French. O'Neil spoke only English, richly
favored with County Cork. They had
tHiafr4sTtr- IN, T1r-Fos-afrey .--+r----
but as the word "Presidente" reached
O'NeiIs ears several times and there was
little fear of anarchists in those DAYS.
the foreign gentleman was taken into the
Presidents private Sanctum, where that
worthy sat in his shirt sleeves, smol-
ing a cob pipe, Understanding was
no better here than in the vesJibule. so
the President, in despair. sent for his
French chef 90 act as Interpreter The
Minister from Portugal had not under
stood the message. and was TighteOusly
terrified when the door opened and the
chief, 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 O'NeiI blocked the
way ANY one who insisted in a "haythen
tongue on seeing the President should
see him. and O'Neil would see it done
AS he held the struggling Minister, a +
bTeathiess messenger entered, followed by /
q no less breathless Secretary of State
The new envoy was rescued, and amid
many explanations and apologies inter
national relations were restored 10 their /
former serene footing,
One Of the most interesting person !
alities in the government service to-day |
is DIT. Harvey ". Wiley. chief chemist
of the Department Of Agriculture. He /
is a man with a purpose. and that pur- !
pose is TO see that the folks Of America |
get good things 10 eat, or, at least, that /
what they get through interstate COM /
mcrce shall be wholesome His crusade |
for pure food and pure drugs has given |
him the hearty enmity of those who do /
not approve OF such a crusade Ord
narily. Dr. Wiley does not seem to lose |
any sleep over what his opponents saw.
but occasionally he sees things in his
dreams as a result Of their railing at /
him. He confessed as much to a party
Of friends few days ago, when he gave /
the following account of a dream he had
had the night before:
Il dreamed" said nc. that nv head
began 10 hurt me, and that 1 went TO 1
rub IL. In so doing, I rubbed up a piece
OF skin. and then another and another. 1
after the fashion Of an onion. until I
got right down to the brain. Then I /
pulled the last layer of. and To- there /
was a cavity without bit of brain sub
stance in it-nothing but a literal aching
void And then / began to feel that what /
my enemies have been saying about me
was true. I awoke and felt that some
power had indeed given me the gift TO
see myself as some others see me-
To land in a strange city in ones stock
rs feet at early dawn is not nearly SO