44, THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
N. Smiru, Lexington, Ill. Mr. SANDERS came to the rescue in 
the pinch, and was so successful that his permanence as a live- 
stock writer was assured. With the launching of The Breeder’s 
Gazette in December, 1881, Mr. SANDERS took most active steps 
toward the upbuilding of the new undertaking. He personally 
made a trip to Colorado to secure for $1,500 the invaluable 
collection of old sale catalogs and herd documents belonging to 
GeorcE Rusk that gave almost the week to week story of Short- 
horn beginnings in America. In 1883 he was first charged with 
the entire responsibility of editing and publishing the paper, a 
position he has held unremittingly ever since. 
The national prestige of The Breeder’s Gazette has led Mr. 
SANDERS into many public undertakings. He was one of the 
guarantors of the International Livestock Exposition and one 
of the founders of the SADDLE AND SiRLOIN CLuB. In 1900 he 
was a member of the United States Commission to the Paris 
Exposition, and under PREsIDENT TaFT’s administration was Vice 
Chairman of the U. S. Tariff Board, with personal attention to 
the wool tariff and the wool growing situation. For a number 
of years he was president and vice-president of the International 
Livestock Exposition and for his broad agricultural service was 
made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold by the King of 
Belgium. 
Mr. SANDERS’ personal acquaintance and intimacy with the 
rapidly vanishing pioneers of the Booth and Bates tribes, and 
his hearty co-operation with the builders of the Scottish power, 
brought him in the closing years of the last century to prepare a 
“History of Shorthorn Cattle” which came off the press in 1900. 
For the next dozen years he was so occupied that he did not 
pursue his success there won. Following his release from the 
Tariff Board, however, he again took up his pen, and in 1914 
“The Story of the Herefords” was put forth by the Sanders 
Publishing Company. In 1915 “At the Sign of the Stock Yard 
