which sometimes lasted ten and twelve hours without a mouthful of food. The horses struggled through the snow up to their saddle girths. Ranchmen came from miles around to "see the President kill a bear." The pack of hounds, with their marked individualities, interested him not a little. But even the most intelligent among them would persist in chasing porcupines, and then "we had to spend many minutes in removing the quills from their mouths and eyes." A white bull terrier would come in "looking like a glorified pin-cushion."

All the life of the wilds appealed to the spirit of the naturalist in the President, and a catalogue of the creatures that did not escape his observation would include tiny four-striped chipmunks, whitefooted mice, a bushy-tailed pack rat, snowshoerabbits, woodchucks, rock squirrels, eagles, ravens, sand-hill cranes, blue jays, magpies, nutcrackers, whiskey-jacks, blue crows, hawks, flickers, robins, bluebirds, chickadees, kinglets, towhees, willow thrushes, meadow-larks, finches, blackbirds, and owls. One night as he sat at the head of the supper table he said, "I heard a Bullock's oriole to-day.” "You must have been mistaken, Mr. President,"

one of his companions, with a long experience in that country, said; "they don't come for two weeks yet."

The President felt sure he was right, but bided his time till he could gain some evidence in his support. "Look! Look!" he cried in triumph the next day, as he pointed to the bird perched on a near-by shrub. Nothing in the course of his trip pleased him more than this vindication.

On Sunday the President and his party rode several miles to a little blue schoolhouse, whither a minister came some twenty miles or more to minister to the ranchmen and their families. The presence of so distinguished a communicant drew a congregation too large for the schoolroom, and the services, therefore, were held outdoors.

Only so much has been told in this chapter as would suffice to show the character of President

Roosevelt's sportsmanship. sportsmanship. From his boyhood wanderings in the groves of Long Island and in the woods of Maine to his latest hunting expedition in the Rocky Mountains, his steady purpose has been to build up his body and to train his mind, to gain the self-reliance of the primitive man. How well

and how early he succeeded in this ambition was shown by an experience of many years ago. He was hunting with an old mountain guide in a strange and remote part of Idaho. The guide was so rheumatic and crabbed that he was a most trying companion. Finally, when he got to drinking to excess, the young man would put up with him no longer.

He took his horse, his sleeping-bag, a frying-pan, some salt, flour, and baking-powder, a chunk of salt pork, his washing-kit, a hatchet and his wardrobe, which consisted of a few pairs of socks and some handkerchiefs, and boldly struck qut for himself. He had now only his compass for a guide through a region unknown to him. There was virtually no trail. When night came he would throw down his sleeping-bag on a mat of pine needles beside a crystal brook, drag up a few dry logs, and then go off with his rifle to get a bird for his supper. Once, while on this long and lonely journey homeward, he encountered in the fading light of day a big grizzly bear. In the combat that followed, the savage beast charged straight at him, roaring furiously, as it crashed and bounded through

the bushes, its mighty paw barely missing him. The intrepid rifleman won the battle, and the next morning, after his regular plunge in the icy waters of a mountain torrent, he laboriously removed the beautiful coat of his fallen foe, and to this day it is a cherished trophy at Oyster Bay.

A WORLD FIGURE

Tributes to Roosevelt, the peacemaker, from the princes and peoples of the world. The press of Europe filled with praise of the American President as the foremost man of the day. Foreign nations send their best diplomats to Washington. The Roosevelt way of dispelling the one war cloud of his administration. March 14, 1907, novel method of making peace between Japan and California. His efforts to pacify Cuba. The olive branch as well as the big stick for South America. Securing the neutrality of China. - Settling the Alaskan boundary dispute. Starting the movement for the second conference of the nations at The Hague. - The Nobel peace prize of 1906 for President Roosevelt and his characteristic use of the money.

We are too near the man and his work to pronounce a clear judgment on Theodore Roosevelt. In some eyes his virtues may be magnified, in others his faults. Distance is required to give the true proportions. I have tried to represent only the man of action here, the man as the vast majority of his countrymen see him; to tell how and not why he "does things." In this closing chapter I shall merely offer some foreign views of