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Show ROOSEVELT AND THE BEARS. Chief Executive Safe in Promising Them a Position. Two bears, one real and the other an impersonation, looking for the president,' pres-ident,' were features of the Gridiron club dinner at Washington a few weeks ago. The guests were informed by one of the bears that they were from Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. As the president had not found them they decided to find the president. This mild allusion to the president's hunting trip pleased the executive immensely.- "If they call on me," said Mr. Roosevelt, "I can do something for the real bear which I cannot do for the impersonator." "And what is that?" asked 'the gentleman, gen-tleman, who had told him about the dinner. "I'll give him a cabinet position," explained the president, smiling, and then, by way of explanation, added, "after he is stuffed." |