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EXERCISINGWITHTAFT Physical Director's Experience Whije Training the President. LIVELY WORK WITH GLOVES. Under Dr. Barker's Tutoring Chief . Executive Develops a Nifty Wallop. : Hard Man to Throw In Wrestling - Bout Gym Work to Reduce - From 305 Pounds to 280 For Coming Trip. Dr. Charles E. Barker of Madison, Wis, has developed another "phenom" In- the pugilistic world. The latest ce lebrity is President William Howard Taft. Dr. Barker is President- Taf t's physical director. The president has been put through all of the gymnasium stunts known to the doctor, who has qualified as an expert. Now the presi dent 19 tpnphincr hia tntnv o r,A n-i.r1.in bim the time of his life for an hour each day at Beverly, Mass. The new "champ" tips the beam at 305, is six feet one inch tall and if it were not for a bulge in front would .have a remarkable reach. His boxing i. partner. Dr. Barker, is a middleweight -oi iop pounds. He stands five feet ten and a half inches in his stockinged .feet and wears au elegant mustache to be aimed at The president's mustache puts him in the erstwhile Champion John L.1 .Sullivan's class. The big blond mus tache of the chiefs executive is a con stant banter to Dr.. Barker in the daily In due regard to social proprieties, nei--- jther the president nor Dr. Barker goes 4or the face, but confines himself to Jody blows. . . ' . f v President Has the Punch. Dr. Barker's experience proves that -'.the president has a nifty wallop in bis -Tight arm and a vicjous whip to the " body with bis left. He is not as shifty -on his feet as the younger and lighter .nui Vint o nniiraa In aliiiritisr 1 ki v I ti . -OJUCtU, U VVU.HV " UUUUVS . WA.U -will help some. Barker is quick, and jthe president has a busy five minutes -WbeA he puts on the gloves with him. The president does not 'desire to pose as a ring hero, and he is not encourag ing ar.v undue talk from the doctor. Incidentally he is not entertuiuiug any bidd for the moving picture rights on juiy of his. bouts. 'Wrestling is another feature of the 'i'aft exercise. Dr. Barker says it takes - a pretty good man to put the president' -oft his back, and a tussle with him is ... like a tug of war with a lot of healthy Bailors. . ' '.' . '. . ;; "-. . ' .Ibe little gymnasium over on the -econd floor of the Taft garage is fitted with several kinds of exercisers. There - re chest .weights, a rowing machine, 3cg weights and a platform punching. Va.g.i The president plays the whole string out when he gets started, and .Robert and Charlie use the gymnasium -when their father is not engaged in isis exercises. , The work in the morning with Dr. Uarker is a routine feature of the day. It begins before breakfast, right after the president has emerged from bis tub. He walks abont 150 yards across ibe t;iwn from his cottage and meets lr.: Barker, who lives in Beverly and makes the trip to the garage in a White House automobile. - Trained" to Finger Tips. ; Once at the gymnasium no time is lost. The physical instructor puts Mr. Taft through muscle exercises even down to the fingers. A rubdown and a thorough kneading follow, and then, to Jooseu up, wrestling and boxing are begun. After this the president takes .Iiis shower and is ready for his breakfast, in the .vernacular " of- the -ring, "in the pink of condition." Golf follows the gym work, and it may be ald that all of the president's waking -time until 3 o'clock in the afternoon is -devoted to getting his body in good bape for his western trip. That Dr. Barker is succeeding is shown by the Indicator on the scales. Jl year ago the president bordered on 350 pounds. Hard work at Hot Springs and Augusta got him down, it is said, to 270. The campaign and the long -tariff siege sent him up to 326 and then a 0. Q. D. message for Dr. Bar iker called the physical director from "Washington. The tramps over the JSssex links, the automobile rides and (the daily work in. the. gymnasium &ae taken off the flesh slowly, but saleadlly. It Is' the hope of the two latktetes that the president wilt be ido.ws to 280 before the western trip begins.' .... --. : Good Body Builder. Dr. Barker's reputation as. a good body builder was started by ex-Senator John C. Spooner. He prevailed on Barker to go to Washington from Madison, Wis. President Taft. while secretary of war, heard of him and got him to prescribe. a diet and a -course of exercises. After the secre tary of war became a candidate for the presidency he sent for Barker again. One other doctor will be called in soon to help the Taft body do its work ia the satisfaction of the president. "This is Dr. J. J. Richardson of Wash ington, a throat specialist He accom panied Mr. Taft on all of his speech . making tours and kept his throat so ' -that it could utter audible sounds. Be has promised to make the western' -trip with the president. Beverly 4M8SS.) Cor. New York World. :. Pillow of Wires. ' ,-. r A wire screen supported at the ends &y curved metal springs has been pat ented by an Illinois man as a pillow, whlch is claimed to. be cool, comforta ble and sanitary. - HAY FEVER MEN'S SNEEZEFEST Thirty-sixth ' Annual Gathering to Be Held In Bethlehem, N. H. "Od to Bedlehem, Dew Hampshire!" Is now the slogan of members of the United States Hay Fever association. The thirty-sixth annual sneezefest will be held in Bethlehem," N.H.. be ginning Friday, Aug. 27, and lasting until the supply of handkerchiefs is ex hausted. William M. Patterson of New York, the secretary, or main sneeze, announced recently that all arrange ments had been completed and that the meeting would be the most interesting ever held. - ' Secretary Patterson says that one of the most important contests this year will be over the selection of a floral emblem. Many of the delegates favor the water lily, while many others are partial to the onion. Prizes will be offered for the best sneezes in the dif ferent classes. . There will be $50 in gold for the man who can' send his silk hat the highest on the. first Wow and a box of silk handkerchiefs for the man who can break his shoe strings with one sneeze. Powder puffs will be awarded to the women mem bers who show the greatest proficien cy. -, According to the annual . report, there are 3,000,000 on the eligible list. Candidates have to undergo the strict est kind of an examination before they are admitted. They are compelled to perform before the testing commit tee, which Is composed of the cham pion sneezers of the United States. The dues are 25 cents a year, which puts it within the reach of all. This money pays for the convention hall. There Is no other expense. The mem bers furnish their own music. The association . was formed for the purpose of getting information on the subject of sneezing from sufferers In all parts of the United States. At the annual convention views and sneezes are interchanged, and Jn this way the members learn how to get the loudest reports with the least physical effort. Besides Mr. Patterson the officers of the association are Samuel A. Harlow, Grafton, Mass.. president, and Clayton E. Delmater, Providence, Jl. il., vice president. - "... V BALLOON EXPRESS. South St Louis Aero Club Soon to Start a Line. YOu can go up into-the clouds .'n a special car and express flier or an ac commodation when the South St. Louis Aero club's equipment of balloons is complete, says a Stf Louis dispatch. The Jat rate for sky tourists will be $20. . M. A. Heimann, president of the club,' said recently that the two new balloons, the South St. Louis, -with a capacity of 78,000 cubic feet, and the South St Louis, Jr., 17,000 feet, will be finished within a few days. In ad dition to these "the 39,000 foot Melba will still be in commission. The tariffs will be so arranged that each member of a party of five will pay $20 to ride in the largest balloon. Each member of a party of two will pay the same price for an ascension in the Melba. The South St Louis, Jr., will carry one passenger at the same rate. This Is the result of the' recent cut rate, war between the Sout" St. Louis club and the Aero Club of St. Louis. The prices originally were $45 a passenger. . GODDESS TO BE SCARECROW. Stone Representation of Justice Pur chased by Nebraska Farmer. For twenty-five years a stone God dess of Justice, twelve feet high, has purmounted the dome of the Douglas county courthouse in" Omaha, Neb. In a short time the goddess is going to be out of the job she now holds, for a new courthouse is being erected. The goddess will be taken out into the cornfields to engage in the humble oc cupation of posing as a scarecrow to frighten the birds away from the gram of. the farmer who has pur chased her. . -. The county commissioners tried to sell her for lawn decoration purposes, but there were no buyers. She is too big for a house ornament. The ques tlon of her disposition was solved when George H. -Giles, a farmer resid ing a few miles northwest of Omaha, appeared before the board and offered, $10 for a bit of property that original ly cost $500. - - Paris School of Aeronautics. In November a high school of aero nautics will be opened in Paris under the direction of Commandant Eoctp, who will be assisted by MM. Leeornu and Painleve and Commandant Re- nard. The instruction will be on prac tical lines, the idea being that a pupil after leaving theordlnary polytechnic or technical college requires more spe cialized instruction if he is to take up aeronautics thoroughly. Former pu plls of these institutions will have the right to enter the high school, but other applicants will be required to Dass an examination. The cours at Instruction will extend over a year and will cover the whole field of aeronau tics, special attention being given to the practical side. " Peaches on Indiana Grapevine. Mrs. Anna Anderson of Greensburg, Ind., is exhibiting peaches on a grape vine, accomplished, by nature in whimsical mood and which Is aston lshing persons of Greensburg. A large grapevine grows in Mrs. Anderson yard and near it a peach tree.. In some manner a section of the -vine is now producing a shoot on Which Is a. clus ter of tiny peaches. A few are large enough to show.. , when, cut -open, the single seed forming, which resembles In every, way the- full grown peach seed. '" - THE TWO PATHS. ' ' By F. A. MITCH EL. Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso- . elation. J - . A gentleman with an artistic cut of beard crossed the " famous ' Signorla square in Florence, Italy, and turned Into the entrance of the Uffizi gallery. Passing through the rooms, he stopped to look at the half finished copy of a Titian.. The copyist, a shabbily dressed man, looked up and, divining that the visitor was a capable"" critic, asked In good American English for his opin ion of his work. 'TV. "You being a fellow countryman of mine, replied the other, " will give you a truthful opinion.' You are mak ing a botch or it. The copyist sighed. Let me take your, seat and I will help you put" f '-" In half an hour under the visitor's touch the copy was an exact replica of the original painting. - "There!" said the man who had fin ished It "Come and dine with me this evening at my hotel. Nothing remains to complete the work but to take the freshness out of It" : ' The stranger accepted, ate the first good dinner he had had in a month, drank 'a quart of Wine, " lighted a Havana cigar and asked: To what do I owe this Interest from a stranger?" - Sympathy. I was once a strug gling artist myself." " 'And bow. 'may I ask, did you come to prosper?" "By painting pictures." ' ' The guest removed his "cigar from his Hps and looked at his host in as tonishment "Your name?" "Tom Barrens." "I confess I never heard of you." V "I have a great many aliases, all of which you have heard often. , Listen and I will tell you the story of my success. Having a fancy for art, I became, a painter. Having struggled for recognition for ten years without getting it, I began to ask myself why. The answer was that I could -originate nothing. Then I started in to make a living copying noted pictures In .for eign . galleries. I discovered that I could not only copy; I could Imitate. "Not long after this an art dealer i Paris announced that an original Giotto had been discovered in a se cret chamber of a building that was being torn down. He had purchased it and offered it for sale. I shall not mention the exact price he got for it but it was a ' fortune for any . man. One day an Italian from Florence ar rived In , New York with a Titian a head Of a ''girl, stiff as a fourteenth century girl, but lovely under a head of sunny hair. He sold it to a mer chant prince for a fortune. StilMat- er. one of , the -London - picture shops stumbled on.a-Guido RenL There was no one In England rich enough to buy It, and a subscription was started to keeD it in the kingdom. The crit ics vouched for its genuineness, and thousands of pounds bought It An art journal published a long article by a struggling critic enumerating twen ty-four points in the picture that were found in all Guido Renl's pictures. This-, critic is now the Ruskin of Europe. This wine is not to my taster Let us try champagne. That's better. At intervals original Correggios, Rembrandta and pictures of other fa mous artists were found In .out of the wav nlaces, most of them incrusted with the dirt of centuries and the names of the painters partly illegible. They were always approved by critics, though on some these gentlemen air fered. Nevertheless they were snapped up at enormous prices." The speaker paused. "And you are", ' "' "Giotto, Guido RenL Rembsandt and a lot of others who liy,ed before men had learned how to paint. "And you perpetrate these?" "Only as accessory before the fact I painted the pictures, the dealers did the rest." .". There was a long silence between the two, after which the seedy man said I have a 'garret across the Arno with a number of my unsold pictures In it Will you go with me ana iook at them?" "With pleasure." Arriving at the room, the occupant displayed one painting after another on an easel. When the last had been seen the rich man said: "You have what I lack, originality. while I "have what you have not the power of imitation. Besides, you are a genius. Possibly had you been born in some village near Munich or Dres den you might have been one of the great modern painters. - As it Is you must continue to be a baa copyist. Fine pictures to be paid for in Amer ica must bear a" foreign stamp. " To produce a fortune they must bear the name, genuine or forged, of an artist who has been dead three or four cen turies." ,. ; "Give me an opportunity to soothe my conscience by accepting a gift from me." "What gift?" ' "It may not be too late for you to achieve that success . which your abil iTiea are caoable of producing. I will furnish funds to introduce your wares. The seedy man drifted away Into thought Finally, returning to his sur roundings, he said: ""I do not condemn yon for follow ing the path you saw before you lead ing to success. It Is the path of a man of business -ather than an artist As for me,' my path, though it leads to failure, is the one for me. The good God has glen me a gift that neither the critics nor the public can tko awa? the,, (rift to enjoy the beautiful and some power to portray a. The Baby Turtle. Turtles lay their eggs In the sand ind Jet the sun batch them out They Ip not lay them all In one place prob- bly because they think " It safer 'to jcatter them. . Then, even, though one je stolen or broken, the others may es- :ape. The mother turtle covers them ill carefully up, one after another, with thin sprinkling of -sand and then ap parently never gives them another hought considering her maternal duty lone. Certain it Is that she has never xen discovered going near these egg sables again, and when they hatch at ast the tiny soft backed creatures at Mice begin crawling around in search files and other food as lndependent as if there were ho such thing as a mother in the world. A little girl who found- one of these odd oblong turtle ggs on a sandy liver -bank in Louisi ana took It home and put it In a teacup an the table for safe keeping. A. few hours later a slight noise was noticed that direction, and on looking in the up again she found a baby turtle, full edged, but tiny, scrambling about iraong the bits of Its 'broken eggshell' a-adle. . Ravens and the Hapsburgs. Henri de Weiddel tells the story of the late Empress Elizabeth and the ravens which Maurus Jokel gave In an article at the time of . her majesty's tragic death. Early iu her life Eliza beth wrote some verses in Hungarian sn the subject of the raven, the bird at ill omen, which plays a great part in the history of the Hapsburgs. Ac cording to the . imperial poetess, a Sight of ravens was hovering over Ol tnutz when Francis Joseph received from, his uncle's bands the . crown which was destined to inflict upon him 3ucb miseries. A raven followed Max imilian and Charlotte on their last walk before their departure forJUer ico, and when Maria Christina was starring to receive the crown of Spain. which was one day to be so grievous a burden, a raven flew over the horses heads and accompanied the carriage to the railway station. These incidents were the subject of the poem. West minster Gazette. Room For Improvement. A certain estimable old gentleman is at all times worth listening to. though occasionally his grammar is scarcely perfect. He was dining on one occa sion with the local squire, when, much to the disgust of bis worthy host, a trifling error on the old gentleman's part was pounced upon and loudly re peated by ; the son and heir' of the house. There "was a painful silence, broken at length by the host. , "My son." be remarked quietly to the young fellow, "there are times, I ad mit, when our old friend's speech is a little peculiar. .At such times you might be of mutual assistance to each other." . - " - .i In what way,, sir?" asked the son. Well," was the severe, rejoinder. "you might give Mr. X. a lesson or two in grammar, in return for which have no doubt he would assist you to patch up the boles in . your . man ners." London Tit-Bits. Three Reasons For Declining. Lord Broughton bad a temper which sometimes exploded in a. most discon certing manner. It is related that on one occasion he dined with a large party at Thackeray's bouse, and after dinner some specially fine madeira was produced: In his Usual genial way the novelist pressed this on his guests and, patting his neighbor, Lord Broughton, ' on ; the back,- remarked, Now. ray dear old boy, you must try some of this." A chill fell-on the company when. the noble lord retorted, "1 am not your dear boy, I am not old, and your wine." . ' The Only Thing Left. Jeremiah Jinks is rich and stingy. An acquaintance of his met Jinks' son the other day. "Your father seems to have lost a good dal of money lately. The ..last time 1 saw him he was com plaining and saying be must econo mize." ''Economize! Did he say where he was going to begin?" Yes; on his table, he said." 'Then he must be going to take away the tablecloth," was the filial declaration. Exchange. A Big Birdcage. - A very peculiar ..institution: in the New'.York zoo is what Is known as the flying birdcage." This magnifi cent aviary is the largest of its kind In the world, being 55 feet high, 72 feet wide and 150. feet long. Large oak and other trees grow in this cage, and the birds live within Its wire net ting bounds in the utmost freedom. The .frame of the cage is built of Iron pipes, which are covered over with thin meshed netting.. . . . r . . Literary Note. "You write too much," said the critic to the author. '-- "But my friend," replied the author, "I've got to live." , "How about your readers?" "Ah, well, we were all born to diet" Atlanta Constitution. ,' --:; ' . Parried. . "And that young man kissed you on the Hps! ' Why didn't yon offer him your band?' said the father, .r ."Oh. I didn't have to, papa,, said the girt "He's going to ask, you for that" Yonkers Statesman. A Case For Sympathy. .' The Proud Mother This boy do grow more like 'is father every day. The Neighbor Do e, pore dear? And 'ave you tried everything? London Bketch.. 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