Show Tire World has n dispatch from Washington Wash-ington saying that President Roosc volt la going to keep as fine a stable of good horses as any former occupant of the While House I calls to mind that Washington was accounted the < most accomplished horseman of his time lie was fond of foxhunting too I Jefferson and Monroe were also enthusiastic en-thusiastic bellevera In the theory that outside of n horse Is good for the Inside of a man The reserved and studious Madison was the only one of the earlier Presidents who was not an I I exnert horseman Jackson the World thlnlcy was perhaps the nearest all around prototype of Roosevelt He rode a horse superbly and made the eight hundredmile Journey from his Tennessee home to Philadelphia to attend at-tend Congress In 1790 entirely In the saddle Moreover he was 1 good boxer and wrestler 0 fine sprinter and n crack shot Grant and Garfield were both flno horsemen Grant was the student at West Point that was always called unon to ride before visitors when there was tall and lofty Jumping to bo done When a Lieutenant in the Mexican war he rode n horse up and down a long flight of stairs In the City of Mexico The World thinks that Garfield was perhaps the greatest all around athlete of any of the Presidents since the war Arthur Harrison and Cleveland were all patrons of the rod and gun but not of general athletics Roosevelts lessons cover the whole school and he sounds the tun gamut unless It be fishing We do not believe he could stand It to wail for a fish to bile unless it was a whale |