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Show GENERAL WOOD ALWAYS READY Qualification That Earned Hla Advanctmant In Brief Tlm. Ray HtiimiHrd linker wrltea A moat liilerrhtlna akelrh of (jen. I.ennnrd Wood In Hi American Miimitlne, part tlf whli h la iuoled ii follows : "Muny (hern nro who nave attempted to account ac-count for tho alnrtlltiR rlao to power and fume of Gen. Leonard Wood. Twelve yeura Ann ah aaalatiint aurKeou. wllh little or no regular mill' fury truliiliiK. how la It poaallilo thet todiiy at th AatnulaliliiKly youthful nKft of r0 Hie wna burn Oeioher ll. IKiilll, lie vheiild be the ranking iniijor xenernl und chief of atuff of thu army uf tha l lllted KtllteaT "Hoinew hero In one of hla caauye Kmeraon oh' ervea of a certain cttriionlliiHry mail that hn waa prepared fur hla aue.' No better deaerlpllon of tha aucceaa of (lenernl Wood could poaallily be written. Without eapeelally brilliant qualltlea to rommend hltn, with little promlae In hla earlier yeura. he haa been, At every crlala he haa had (o meet, Iiecullnrly the man who waa ready. Ther itood I.eouard Wood- prepared. !t wua not that he aoiiKht the plucea which he haa filled ao auc reaiifully. but thut he waa aupremely the man who taa ready for them. "Al the very beillinln of hla caieer In the A . .,., - .,.,.,. aimy, ultliouiih only a auraiuii. he Kiia uanlKtied to tend a di'tiii'hmenl of aildlera In puraiilt of fieroiiliuo'a Apnihe wutrlora. fur down umunK Hi miiiinluliia and eueiua deaerta of Old Mexico He performed Hila dllllcult luak with mrli roiirnKo and eltlclem y that he wua i hh i Inlly i uinini iiili d by hla cuiiiiiuiuiliiiii n' ln nil himI icwuriiid hy con itrna with one ol lie rure mediila. Tlni'dme Houiievelt auld of him: "'No aoliller could oillwulk hllu. cuulil Ihe wllh arenier liidlffereiice on hurd mid n unty fare, could eniliue hnrilalilp Ih Hi r nr do helli r wltlmul fleep ' "At Ihe bi-KllllilliK of the Hpmilhh nnr. when It w na priipiin d In rmae a ri Kliin nl of ruuch rldi ra. Hie mini tintiiriilly i hoaen to lend mi thla mine retlnnt, low apnki n. well prepun d mmy nirKimi lie him int. colonel uuil Ini the ruiiKli rldera on the bloody lilll or l.aa Ounaliniia. After that, when the IiIkIi out a nt Waahlnirtiin luoki d nhnul theiii for a mun to comuiiiiid the (iiniiiienil province of HuutlaKO. there atood l.eiitiard Wood ready. Ha proved un admliahla colonial admlnlatruior and from that moment onward lie hud been the 'Imminent man' In connection with the moat difficult diffi-cult problema of our furelicn dependenclea. Ha became novernor of Cuba, then he went to the Pnlllpplnea. "Ae he ha held more and more Important po-altiona, po-altiona, performlni each taik with that bleb aort ol tpiiet lllc'ency which Americana adtnlie. I, a I. in. iihiii. nutiirully. In runk In the army, until in. lie I chief of naff, with heudipiuriers al Wnl.iiiion " |