People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — M’KINLEY GOING FOR HIS DAILY RIDE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M’KINLEY GOING FOR HIS DAILY RIDE.

(From a Photograph.)

President McKinley is taking daily recreation in the shape of horseback riding, hoping thus to refresh himself physically and mentally after onslaughts on his health by the long hours of close confinement to official duties. Almost every day, between the hours of 4 and 5 o’clock, Mr. McKinley enters his carriage and is rapidly driven away by Beckett, his coachman. The ride ends at different previously selected points in the suburbs of the city, where Major-General Miles, the commanding general of the army, is found in waiting with attendants and horses. The president jumps from his closed carriage to the saddle of a

white horse, which apparently has become his favorite, and with a few words of hurried greeting, expressed while he is on the move, he wheels the animal alongside of General Miles’, and they, are off for a brisk ride in the country. The return is usually made just ati dusk, the president keeping on hiss horse until the rear gate of the whltej house grounds is reached. He dis-; mounts, and, with a few happy re-j marks, adieus are said, and the presi-i dent walks rapidly to the mansion,' his springy step and ruddy face evi-j dencing the value and health giving invigoration cf his new exercise.