Wiiliam Bayard Hale has been a good deal in the public eye of late be cause President Huerta of Mexico ob jected to his presence in that repub lic. Dr. Hale was a clergyman, but is better known as an editor and writer. He is forty-four years old, and comes from Richmond, Ind. He was educat ed at Harvard, and was in the minis try from 1896 until 1900. Then he became editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. In 1901 he was made editor of Current Literature. He gave up the magazine field in 1902 to become a special correspondent of the New York World. Then for several years he was managing editor of the Phila delphia Public Ledger. Later he was one of the editors of the New York Times, and in 1909 he went to Paris aB correspondent of that paper. He is a brilliant writer. Various foreign governments hare honored him. He is a Knight Com mander of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun of Japan atjd an officer of the uraer oi i>eopoia oi ncigium. tie has been quite a student of history. He wrote the “Making of the American Constitution,” which is ti standard publication. He was associated with Mr. Wilson in some of his historical writings. Most of his articles in the last four years have appeased in the World's Work, of which he is one of the editors. He went to Ma^ico at the request of Mr. Wilson to study the situation there and report conditions. Like Mr. Dodge, he is an ardent admirer of the president, and the president knows his mental attitude and his character * thoroughly It is uo new thing Tor Mr. Hale to enjoy the confidence of men in high places. He is a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and was a frequent visitor at the White Hotise during the Roosevelt administrations. He has the friendship, too, of Kais^f Wilhelm of Germany. WRITES POEMS TO ORDER Handmade verse, insttad of court made law. has been handed out by Representative Edward T- Taylor of Colorado in many an instance where he beiieved he could serve his clients better with common senses than juris prudence. Taylor is on& of the big characters of the mountj.'nous state trom which he conies, and in addition to his knowledge on the subject of ir rigation. public lands and law, he is considered to be a shrewd and far seeing citizen worth while knowing. He had a law case once in which a ranchman named Greenougi rode 25 miles one hot day to iind Taylor in his little office at Eleawood Springs. Greenough's complaint lay ir. the fact that a neighbor's hens would stray across the dividing line an