Railroad Bulletin from Wichita, Kansas • 7

WILLIAM H. TAFT A BIG MAN SPORTS AND ATHLETICS Cornell has again demonstrated that she is able- to turn out better nxvers This adjective was the one considered most fitting when the death of lamented John Hay brought before the public probable men for the post of secretary of state; it was agreed that the president would have to look out for a "big" man. Since Mr. Taft became secretary of war (1903), he has discharged not only the duties of his office, but has had close association with affairs belonging to the state department, among which mention may O'er Land and Lale in the Canadian Woods Being an Account of a Canoe Trip in the Beautiful Muskoka Country of Ontario. be made of insular.

matters and the Panama canal. If decision of character is a salient part of Secretary Taffs "bigness," his handling of En gineer Wallace adds to his reputation to no inconsiderable degree. than any of the other colleges. In the annual regatta-jn the Hudson, at Poughkeepsie, the greatest rowing event of CUe Jelil, Cioiue.l easily won the 'varsity and freshmen eight oared races, while Syracuse took the four-oared 'varsity races. Twenty-five who has been enjoying a morning nap Mr.

Taft was selected for the war portfolio be cause of his knowledge of Philippine matters. From i9dl to 1903 he served as civil governor of tne Pnil-ipnines. and Droved the man for the place, dealing ONO BILL pushes the canoe from shore with the blade of his paddle and settles down to that long, easy swing that always outdistances his competitors in a day's paddling. We are off liberally and wisely with the natives and at the same time protecting the interests of the United States. Mr.

Taft was born in Ohio, is now not quite 50 years old. His father is after a breakfast of fruit. I am not aware of hi presence until he rises ou his hind legs directly in front of me. and so near that I can almost touch him. You.

whose only acquaintance with bears has been with those beaind the caged bars of a circus or the park zoo, cannot realize how big a bear can be when you come face to face with him in his native haunts. I cross tne portage to Crane lake in record time. I think not of following Bill's trail, but only of putting as much distance between that bear and myself as my legs will permit and the bear is try Tecorded as "jurist, cabinet officer and diplomat" and the son has followed fast In the parent's footsteps. Mr. Taft from 1S87-90 was judge of the superior court of Ohio, solicitor general of the United States 1892-1900.

He has been a cabinet officer, as we mentioned, since That he has good rignt to the name of diplomat should pass without question; it is attested by his skill in dealing with the Filipinos; his conduct of isthmian difficulties; his direction of affairs chas. Courtney, thousand pet sons saw the contest and, according to tne reports, the Ithaca eight completely outclassed Its rivals. Charles Courc-ney, the noted oarsman who coached the crew, also produced the 'varsity eights that won the races in 1901, 1902 and 1903, while the Syracuse eight, coached by Ten Eyck, took the event of state during the absence of Secretary Hay. He is a man of mark, looked for a25-mlle journey that Is to take us through one of the most beautiful of the many beautiful sections of Ontario. A section from which civillzatloa had not driven the deer, the moose, the elk, the black bear and the other anlma! species native to this portion of North America when it was but the home oi the red men.

Just ahead of us Is Long Bill's cousin. Short Bill, and my fishing upon as a very possible presidential candidate at the next quadrennial election. Those who doubt the presidential bee in his bonnet, affirm his goal Is the high seat of chief justice, assert lie gave up his very lucrative practice that he might some day arrive at this honor. But he once sacrificed preferment leading ing to do the same thing in the op thereto that he might help in the satisfactory solution of the Philippine prob lem. posite direction.

It is still a question in my mind which was the most frightened of the two of us. THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE Bill, in his quaint way, laughs my fears away to some extent, as we push across Crane lake toward Black-stone. A trolling line picks up a fair-sized musky on the way over, and it is not so fortunate as was the pickerel in Six Mile, for I land him after a stubborn fight. Then for an hour the steady dip, dtp of Bill's paddle tells of progress across the lake. As we near the opposite shore I prepare to alight on land again while Bill shoulders the canoe for a "carry." But such la not the programme.

A command from President Roosevelt once said Elihu Root was the ablest man In the service of the nation. After Mr. Root's retirement from public life, a couple of years ago. his iiHnie was repeatedly suggested for this high office, then for that higher office. And now he gives up a wonderfully fine practice-said to have brought him this year over $200,000 for a cabinet, position with its modest salary of Some report his ambition to be president leads him to make the sacrifice, others call his motive noble patriotism, and still others consider it the personal friendship for Mr.

Roosevelt that influences him. He will find his new duties pressing. We quote from an editorial In the Ohicauo Record-Herald: "The department of utaie. in view of the delicate and intricate questions with which it is called upon to deal I Itusso-Jananese nence conditions the future Si hi in c. last year.

Courtney has always advocated the low stroke in rowing, especially in long races, and is a jreat stickler for form. Knights of the oat may be Interested in what he says In this connection knows that there is a fundamental law of rowing. The crew that is trained to carry out. the elementary principles in tho smoothest and most effective way will win. There is no 'Courtney' no Hanlan' stroke, no 'Ten Eyck' stroke.no anybody's stroke.

I do not believe in a crew's rowing faster than 30 strokes to the minute, if as high. By rowing a low stroke in as perfect form as possible, the men, I think, can get a sreat deal more power than in a high one, and in consequence tan travel down the river smoother and faster than another crew which is rowing a niucti higher stroke. Just for a moment consider tbe difference in actual wear and tear on the men. Take a crew that is rowing 28 to the minute and one that is averaging :4. In a four-mile race this means that one crew takes auout 120 strokes more than the other.

In the strain and fight of a four-mile pull these additional strokes are going to count. Then again a crew rowing a low stroke can obviously row in better him causes me to duck my head beneath the boughs of an overhanging tree and our canoe shoots into a seething mass of foam, down a sharp incline, and we are afloat on the placiJ waters of Blackstone. Over at our right a sparkling spring bubbles Horn the ground, and here we stop our noonday lunch and to await the coming of Short Bill and Yorker. As our canoe grates on the saaJ of the little beach on the eastern shore of Blackstone, and 1 look at the towering wall of granite above me, I won of China and of the open door. Morocco San Domingo.

Venezuela and South America generally), will have full need of the breadth, the energy, the grasp, the skill and the discretion which we have learned to expect from Elihu Root." Mr. Root Is a famous corporation lawyer. He has been counsel for the sugar trust, for Xew York street railways, and for various railroads. It is said his name has appeared in nearly every celebrated legal case in the business and political world of New York since he left the war department. Mr.

Root served as secretary of war from 1899 to 1903. In which office he was distinguished for administrative ability, and progress! venss; he planned the new war college; mollifications in the rules of promotion, wherein seniority should cease to be the whole claim: and another reform brought about by his efforts was the institution of the peneral staff. His career as secretary of state is looked forward to with interest. der how we are to pass it. But uill knows, and without a word of corn PRESIDENT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION ment he turns the canoe over his nead PICKKD IT A "Ml'SKY." panlon.

Yorker. We have given t'vm a few minutes' start of us from Moore's camp, on Kah-pee-kog lake, as hnori Hill is not the noted paddler Lone; Bill Is. and we wish to reach the first nonage together. Those who have not expetienc.f! the pleasure of being alone with na. ire.

this nature the north woods of the Mu-koka country, with the gnat pines to. ring 100 feet and better into the air. its granite Ixjund lakes, who.se sh res ha.e been virtually uu-toui lied i white man. and whos waters teem with the gamiest of lisii. it and begins the ascent.

Picking hi way carefully, finding footholds 1st th crevices of the rock where it seems a thenah nothing but a mountain goat could climb, he gradually works hi form than one which is yanking its way along. Form counts tremendously in actual results, or at least I tbiuk it does." And. according to the crewb he has turned out from Cornell in tho past, there seems to be considerable truth in his theork-s. In the twenty-fifth annual rowing contest between Vale and Harvanl over the Thames river course at New London, Yale beat Harva-J by three-fourths of a boat length, he-race was over a four-mile course ami the time of the winner was 22:33 2 5. Harvard's time was 22:36.

way to the top. and I follow closely behind remembering distinctly my The new president of the National Educational association is an e.lurator. clergyman, author and Journalist, l'rof. Nathan Sclui' ffer is an eastern man; he was born in Pennsylvania, received his early education at a college in Iili aster, that sa'e. and later studied divinity at the theological seminary of the (icrrnnn Reformed church, lie continued his studies in rmatiy.

took post-graduate courses at the universities of Berlin, l.cipsic and Tue-bingen. Personal experience as a teacher was gained at the Franklin and Marshall college in Lancaster, at which institution he was otu a student, and in 177 he was made principal of the Keystone state normal school. For tho last VI vears he nas served as state superintendent of pub experience with bruin in the morning seeiiis to nie nave not seen We as the Once at the top we follow a rocky -iv jj sjT Creator we should see it. but gentle slope down on the other side to Burnt lake. Here the waters Dipping into the dark waters of Kah- flow east into the Muskoka chain in pee-Kog, add tne strengin or my soil stead of west Into Georgian bay.

We muscles to that of Ixing Bill's hard ones, and we shoot out through the nar push through a deer trail into the wa lic instruction. Prof. Schaeffer has been especially prominent in eastern educa tional circles. He has held office in various educational associations, and as row that divide a pretty bay from tne ters of the lake, and surprise a lawn that is seeking refreshment from tho main lake. Ed Parry, of Oskaloosa, the giant weight man of the University of Chi editor of two educational publications has taken active part in bread educa tional matters.

heat of the noonday sun. but it brave Not infrequently the battle for the presidency of the National Educational association Is a big one. and this year it has raged hotly. Dr. Schaeffer repre sents the "independents." who are arrayed against the so-railed machine that cago track team and 'ackle on ihe foot Vial! team, has been elected to captain the track term of 1906.

Parry is a junior in college and an ath-lete who has shown wonderful development during his college career. He was the first man to has been such a power in the association. His election makes for the divided victory of the independents. It was back in lS.ri7 that the National Teachers association was organized. It was incorporated under its pnseni name In The early association did not grow rapidly, but in 1S7' it combined with the American Normal association and the National Superintendents' association Hiid its work began to be specialized.

The reports of annual show that the various departments of the present il" there are now. I believe i are doing much for the advancement of teaching as a profession. The active membership Is over 10.000. but the annual meetings are attended by both associate and active members, many thousands of teachers gather from all part? of the country. And now the nose of the canoe inn up to a fallen giunt of the fores luai serves as a landing place, for a portage is necessary before we get through th little channel.

In front of us the water tumbles over a small precipice iha Is too high for the canoe to shoot, and we must "carry" around it. Out comes the canoe and Bill turns It over his head as though it was but a featherweight, and in five minutes we are afloat again, gliding out onto the waters of Six Mile with its islands, its deep bays and frame of green pine foliage. A likely-looking spot ahead causes me to drop my paddle and pick up my rod for a cast. Out noes the line to the accompaniment of the singing reel, and almost before it touches the water a sizable pickerel has grabbed the en-iking bait and Is away with it The nght is fast and furious for a few min tm Aral! k'l1-" i THE GALLANT SURGEON-SOLDIER successfully throw the hammer with ED. I'ARRY.

one hand. In 1902 he surprised the local high school boys by winning tha hammer throw In Stagg's lnterscholas- Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood Is back again in the states, come from labors' in the Philippine on the unpleasant mission of consulting a physician about bis health. Which reminds us that the major gen-1 a nhvsician himself, served as a sumeon in tic meet, using but one hand.

Athletic experts declared that he would neve." army ere he made a name as a soldier in active service. be able to throw the 16-pound weight successfully In college competition, rit upset all of the predictions, however. utes, and Short Bill and Yorker get up in time to see the finish a broken iine, a hook gone; but I remember not so much the lost fish as the keen enjoyment of those few minutes of combat with a worthy adversary. With a deft twist of the wrist Bill and at the western conference meet defeated Thomas, the Purdue star, in the hammer throw with a magnificent throw of 156 feet. John De Witt.

th9 In 1884 be graduated at (be Harvard medical school and the enstiing year became a contract surgeon In the regular army. The next year he served In the campaign against famous old Geronl-mo, was medical and line offlcr in the expedition, and for his gallantry in this campaign received a medal of honor. When the Spanish-American war called for men of soldier ability, Leonard Wocfl and Theodore Roosevelt organized the First 8. Volunteer Cavalry, the famous regiment of "Rough Riders." with old Princeton star, who witnessed the lays the canoe alongside the shore and we have crossed Six Mile. Crane A "CARRY." a ly takes to the water, and In a short time disappears from view around a point of land.

Through Burnt and Robinson and Little Robinson and uitc Portage lake the never tiring swing meet, declared that the new Msroon captain would break the world's amateur record with the hammer before his college career is ended. Coach Wood colonel and Roosevelt lieutenant colonel. For gallant services at Lai Guasimas and San Juan he was made brigadier general 1 S. Volunteers, and In Stagg believes that his youthful giant will be able to hurl the weight 170 feet. 1901 he was commissioned brigadier general In tne 1 8.

army lake Is a good mile away with the densest kind of underbrush and nrass-Ively towering pines and spruce and hemlock between us and Its uhlmmer ing waters. As Bill adjusts the canoe on his broad shoulders snd settles down for a long walk and fight with tbe overhanging boughs and laigka bush, be says: i When Santiago surrendered (ISM), be first held command of the city and then the district of Santiago. He succeeded Gen. Brooke as governor general of Bill's paddle pushes us. The sun has almost disappeared behind the towering pines to tbe west as we beach our canoe again at the eastern shore of Portage lake.

Another half mile "carry" will put us Besides winning the hammer thro he came second in the discus, thus winning seven points for his team. Parr of tbe Island of Cuba, and proved very successful in his administration of affairs. tn 1903 he was placed In command of a division of the army In tbe Philippines, and the same year is the date of bis appointment to the rank of major once more In the midst of civilization, is not yet 20 years old. When a fiesh-man Stagg decided not to use him in eeneral In the regular army. Maj.

Gen. Wood Is still quite a young man. Is "No trail. Keep close or you'll get M(J OBto the Ufger water, Bf Uk a seph of the Muskoka chain, peopled by JSJW "-sand. "er pleasure only 45 years old.

The Law of Sale. attitude. In either cam the best means from Canada and the states. besides there is the other Bill ana civjlkatloI1 thousands of people Yorker coming along bebind. But the tf m1 yet nthpr Hill rhncMiPS fa land In annthor A specialist who has made a stndy of of attracting attention, arousing Inter est and Intensifying desire is the first- the mental attitude of the consumer class daily newspaper, which covers th field no other medium can reach.

weMand tor a last glance backward S'mtol the way we have come there fj II. I I no vestige of It "What a country of for athletics on account of his youth. As a result the big fellow has two more years of college competition left for him. Speaking of records, it is Lucres ting to follow the rise of the hamme' throwers. In 1901 B.

C. Short, the Michigan man, carried off a first with 117 feet The next year Pell of Drake took first with 119 feet J. H. Maddocav another big Michigan football man, humped his shoulders and hurled it 12' feet 2 inches. In 1 1904 came Thomas throw of 1S7 feet 1 Inch, a gain of 27 feet 11 Inches.

Parry, to keep tip the march before he quits, should get it op toward the advertiser formulates what he calls the "law of sale" as follows! "Attention, properly sustained, changes to Interest; interest, properly augmented, changes to desire, and desire, properly Intensified, changes to resolve to buy." Often the reader passes through il tbese mental changes, remarks tbe thought does not worry me. there Is the broken underbrush where my guide and the canoe have gone through, and I can follow that. So It Is that I run onto an adventure. contrasts." I think. "All about the lakes and the wilderness; the hj tints of the deer, the black bear, the moose, and yet within another 15 minutes we are to be la the midst of what men call life." All days must come to an end, and so did this as we roll Into bed at tha Three Wishes.

"You have served your country nobly," said the mikado. "Anything you may ask will be granted." "I have but three requests," answered the Japanese naval hero; "don't erect a triumphal arch, don't present me with a house, and don't let the girjs kiss me." Washington Star. -Philadelphia Record, In the perusal of loiter by the way enjoying especially the abundance tf wild berries, and It is while wandering about through to 160 feet, though critics may loubt his ability to do It with his one-arm. a single advertisement; wmeumn mo cumulative power of a series of "ads." sla necessary to bring him to the final little hotel at Barnes tie. i at cirnm mic patch of them that I ran across company la the shape of a black bruin WRIGHT A PATTER.

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