Show I Stories of Secretary of War Taft Roh Robert I Lee LN Dunn special sper-jal n nw v t paper correspondent pon nt photo W I grapher with the tile Taft party pArt on their theli trip around arounI the world I IB Is re responsible for tor the tho following stories I b bearing upon 1 the tho secretary o of war and which hlen show how I many Interesting Inter sidelight V vIews view WM of or the thc I big hh secretary's characteristics I One day Judge Jud e Harlan of o th th Supreme court who Iv lives n nr Secre Secre- I I tary Taft faCt at al his hh summer ho home in Canada was as twitting t the big man hum uj on I Ihl hl health I I saw the doctor going over to your our place ye yesterday Taft raft drawl drawled cd the tho old Y e the secretary You ou nee gae I had a stomach ache and ns fiS ft m my moth mother PI t I Is 18 th the on only I one ont who can I euro my ny stomach when Its Irs unruly i and ancl as n the she ih Isn't here here h why I r had d a n doctor In to v u about It IL Stomach ache roared the tho old oti I Had to have a doctor to cure ire rt a little stomach I ache aciz Taft faCt unbuttoned l his coat The rho action ac ac- ac- ac tion lion was wa When I have a ache Judge Julge Harlan Hallan he Mid In hi hl most mOlt serious tone you ou cannot you must not nn call it a little stomach folio A a n leaker 1 1 At t St ft Paul lInn Minn when Secretary Taft faCt was waR waiting for a n. deputation of o welcoming citizens li h he happened to see ee a n. little hub ho bo boy go by ly riding on a n non on Jonk Ii y That reminds m mo eald ald nh he turnIng turnIng turn turn- Ing In to the mayor mo or of the town townS of ot turn turn-I arTIo a 0 1 t once had luul In the tho Ph Philippines III p I had liati to get et up p to a village on the side shie Of ot a n. mountain about 12 miles distant and the on only I animal I could find t Lu III 1 rido wa wan a n diminutive t burro scarcely halt half as large a as that on one I there v 1 TlC The mayor gazed at the tho pound narrator tor WWI with a suspicious y r-y eye DIdOU Did you OU ride rido him he hl li asked ed Certainly pursued t Mr Taft Tart easily I 1 rode Io e him up there in some 1 s like halt half Then thing an nn hour and a having transacted m my business 1 I turned the animal about and anti went on further up up- up J I Just t a 0 minute Interrupted th the ma mayor or How hIlow bh big wn was this donkey anyway R Oh I. I should judge that hla ith t head would 1 reach about to my vest cst est pocket And ho h weighed d Oh about ISO lO pOUn B The rite mayor mayo did some mental arith Taft TaCt he Ii announced tl at length you EYOU OU are arr a n nature faker Sound of I Boom Boo Secretary Taft TaCt in Is not letting out much Information as yet concerning possibilities of or a n Taft presidential boom hut but a n good story Is told b by n a l New Nt York attorney who re recently re- re had hud occasion to visit Mr 11 Taft at Murray Murro Lay P eO Quebec ucb cOn c. c On the porch of the secretary's summer horn homo said RaId tho the lawyer there Is h a large piece of ot matting malting pl pro pro- ie- ie j In I him by ly th the I Filipino in III j memory of ol the days da wh when 11 Mr r. r Taft raft W was president of th the Filipino commission com coin mission into this matting malting I noticed lI were tero woven wo tho worth words AI I j Pre sl Mr dr Ir Taft Wore trl you ever 1 a u president I r In n I d him casually I once tJ lC was ns tic the laconic reply J Ami how It ft found In to b hH 14 cae l Tuft J I continued c 4 y- y J lint I J was waR on the trail rail nf Or I h forum MIM the man nian who lIo n Li aptly Little It K doesn't sound halt half tS so flU bail fl OM the word Welcome over 11 lh the tho door of or a n Jail Considered as Hoo a ui un n Artist When Secretary Taft raft was In Iho Middle West Vet Il recently h he ht delivered i I ono one one of o his famous speeches to a 0 large cr crowd of oC admiring miners An amusing am 1 lu incident occurred Just jUt after he ho had ha hecl speaking Two Tho vo miners of or the n audience who had listened its lis to him had hod adjourned to an in institution In- In where here the they could wet their whittles when they th y got Into an on argument about Mr Mi h Tafts Taft's personal y accomplishments One of or the disputants disputants ants was a Cockney Englishman r Eo Ee as fiS ts more eart eort In im than henny lOnn mon man hi ever see sel announced the Art rt asked ell the tho other Why I didn't know he lie knew about arl art Art did you say Yes eart cart Plain old day eart that's wot What liat does docs he paint 7 Paint Ho ITo dont don't paint Him a s I talk In about cart eart Yell Well som I. I Arts Art's art If Jr he hc I t ill hi- mu iU mut t write then ihn A teller feller that's long on art An hoc has got gOl to d do methin like that And Anti the two t n never n understood cacti t-a t h othI other at all until the man who dropped droppel hi his hili h h's hs announced that Taft raft wa a LM 1 tJi oa t man mart he had JUH p Ir fO vr r I heard Rp speak ok In public Jl Pl in III till the Secretary See tAry of WIll War Taft latt and harlan of If the court whit recently playing a game of ot golf on the thc Murray Day links link near Tafts Taft's summerhome summer homo home were approached b by a photographer photo phOl- grapher who rt requested the two to coil mi to folt lt and pose pOI for Cor a plo pie I ture ulIe together tog Harlan removing ng hi h I cap disclosed lI n a thou thoughtful but tie do- bald anti and shiny shin dome You want to look out ju Judge said i 1 Mr fro Taft TaCt fog tie the plate Sp Speaking o of togs fog said snit the lIH old oh I reminds me of tile the game game- of or golf I once played at Chevy iasi- iasi a links It Wit was a thick mU muggy g murk murl morning with a heavy hen fog Cog rolling in ill Impenetrable banks acro across the lawn I 1 drove f oil off 0 straight Into one of ot tho opaque clouds ln Ha Having a general ense of ot I the hr d direction the lie ball laiI had taken by the thea a way It wa waa headed to toward towards to- to wards ward the tho desired green freen I walked on onan and an on on probably a hundred and fifty lift yards or more At last I came camo up Ur to tom tomy tomy m my little negro caddy ca y m my ball JacJ Jackson Zon 1 I I R asked ked Fob Foli do d Law Massa ra M Harlan hit lone gone In do di he exclaimed Anti And concluded the lh Judge jUll c with a winkle In III his eye e you 1 0 ma may Imagine my uy surprise e when I found round that such su h ivis WUI actually the fact There Ther was wall an nn ominous silence at lost last by Mr tr Taft clearing his hl- throat anti beginning Your re remarkable re- re performance pc In this fog fo Fudge rudge reminds me Inc of or something that Occurred d to me rue m one misty mist mist morning lot not on the the- golf link links but with Rh a hook honk LOll and Jine line The hl story has Ilas ben been told and aint In man Illan many sections of ot this pros pros- erous and veracious country but I J Ira was was' ra the original orl fisherman to whom he following happened in ill Fo Fos As A you iOU know lenow my favorite fishing place Is some fome five and a half hail miles mile from here on the river ilver and m my favorite favorIt favor favor- ftc ite It hour for this titis sport port I Is before sunrise sun sun sun- un- un rise pursued th tho secretary in a soft of confiding voice I 1 therefore t or on onto en night had hud all arrangements ma made tunde e. e a and buggy ready and left a l call to bo liti awakened at the thc next morn morn- ing lag On g getting up I fOund und the tho whole I countryside id enveloped tn in a gra gras fog hilt but as I was vas familiar with eer foot Coot not of the tho way wa va I 1 drove dlo un ur daunted taunted At 4 o'clock I concluded I had reached m in dc in fact I d dimly an old tree treo In iii thi n neighborhood I drove up n a little cl closer cliser Ic to 10 the iho bank hank hutted m my hook nut and east cast blindly from my wagon seat out Into tie tio fog fo or 01 tip tb- rivet river Luck Lucle was waR with mo inc from th the tho start I yanked In a 61 big big- five pound bass in inside In- In stile side of two minutes In Tn another believe judge I minute I J had believe had me ne landed a fino I trout rout Next camo canue a bouncing e Chr fter Iliad hut the thc fishing fish fish- h- h ing us as they thay sty 11 In lii tlC circles c va t ant jIH and furious In less than Juan two I hail hillel completely tilled d mv huggy with th lieu tho most catchI catch I itty 1110 Hf r lo c. c rs int I J t.- t. JI y ll IJ nt nl nl l. l hut nul that 11 it not nol all N the thc fog Co CO Taft At st o cleaved cleared 1 I found that r over half hal a rt untie from Crom tho hue river an and had been het n fish fi flatting h Ins In I the tho fog all an the iho lim time |