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LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
A liusy Career as an Author, Soldier and
Statesman.
lie (s a New Yorker Born and Bred.
T IIEODORE ROOSEVELT, the
twenty-sixth President of tin*
United States, has for some
years been one of tin* most
Interesting ligures in public life. He
lias been politician, statesman, author,
soldier and public speaker. Mr. Roose
velt belongs to one of the oldest fam
ilies in tills country and for two cen
turies nine of the name and family
have held prominent and important
place in public life, philanthropy,
finance, commerce and politics. Ho
was born in New York City October
27, 1858, and wns educated in private
schools and at Harvard College. Ilis
father, whose name was the same,
was n sugar refiner, a man of wealth
and learning, but with little or no
taste for public life, liis mother was
before her marriage a Miss Bullock, of
Georgia, member of a famous family
of Scotch descent, ller great-grand
father was the Revolutionary Govern
or of that State.
As a boy Theodore Roosevelt
sickly, hollow chested and rather
dersized, but he possessed
nervous energy and early in life de
termined to become physically strong.
When he entered Harvnrd College he
went in for athletics an?i began a sys
tematic course of training to build
himself up. ,
Soon after leaving Harvard Mr.
Roosevelt made a long trip through
Europe, where he proceeded to do
things and see things in his own way.
In 1881 Mr. Roosevelt returned to
New York and entered politics. He
was nominated and elected to the As
sembly and was re-elected for two ad
ditional terms. lie was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention of
1884 and took a prominent part in the
proceedings. In that year he retired
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from active politics and, going West,
bought a ranch on the Little Missouri
River in Western Dakota. There he
hunted big game, tried cattle raising
and devoted his spare time to study
ing the country and the people and to
literary work.
From boyhood, Mr. Roosevelt had
been a close and interested student
of American history. In 1881, when
he entered politics, lie wrote a history
of the naval war of 1812. This was
followed during his public career by
lives of Thomas H. Benton and Gouv
erneur Morris, “Ranch Life and Hunt
ing Trail,” "Essays on Practical Poli
tics," a “History of New York,”
“American Ideals,” “The Wilderness
Hunter,” “Hero Tales from American
History,” “The Winning of the West,”
classed as his greatest literary work,
and later a life of Oliver Cromwell.
In addition to these books he wrote
cxtensively and on a variety of topics
for the leading magazines and re
views.
Mr. Roosevelt did not remain out of
politics. In 1S8G lie was the unsuc
cessful Republican candidate for
Mayor of New York. After that ex
perienee lie devoted himself for three
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years to ranch life, study and litera
ture. In 18S9 President Harrison ap
pointed him a member of the national
Civil Service Commission, a position
be held until May. 1895.
In May, 1895, Mayor Strong appoint
ed Mr. Roosevelt President of the
Pioard of Police Commissioners of
New York.
In 1897 President McKinley appoint
ed Mr. Roosevelt Assistant Secretary
of the Navy. He provided shot and
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shell and enforced ceaseless practice
and drill on the ships of the navy.
From the time lie entered the office be
seemed to realize that war with Spain
was inevitable, and he set himself to
the task of getting the navy ready for
that war.
When war was declared Mr. Roose
velt promptly determined to reach the
front. He proposed to the President
to raise a regiment of mounted men
to be composed of men who knew how
to ride and shoot. His offer was ac
cepted, and at liis suggestion, Dr.
Leonard A. Wood, an army surgeon,
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was appointed Colonel of the regi
ment with Roosevelt as Lieutenant
Colonel. The Roosevelt Rough Rid
ers was the result. He became Colonel
on the promotion of Wood to he a
Brigadier-General,
When he returned with his regiment
In August, 1898, the demand for liis
nomination as a Republican candidate
for Governor was great, He was
nominated on the first ballot by a vote
of more than two-thirds of the dele
gates of the convention and was elect
ed.
When the Republican National Con
vention of 1900 met in Philadelphia,
the demand for the nomination of
Governor Roosevelt for Vice-President
was irresistible.
Throughout his public career, which
in a few short years has been crowd
ed with more stirring events than usu
ally fall to the lot of one man In a
lifetime, Mr. Roosevelt's chief and al
most only boast with ills friends has
been that bo was first and always a
family man.
President Roosevelt is happily mar
ried 'and his children not only lovo
him, but make him their playmate
and companion whenever he is with
them, which is every moment that his
public duties will admit. He lives in
a beautiful home just outside Oyster
Bay, L. I., and ids home life is in
every way ideal. In this home he
has a splendid library and many rare
trophies of the hunt.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Presi
dent, represents a high type of Amer
ican womanhood. She was Miss Edith
Ivermit Carow and was born in New
York City, of a well-to-do family. As
a girl she knew young Theodore
Roosevelt. It has been said that a boy
and girl sentiment existed between
them before he went to college; but
soon after his graduation from Har
vard he married Alice Lee, of Boston.
Miss Carow tvent abroad to supple
ment her education by a course of
study and travel.
When Roosevelt had lost his girl
wife and was seeking solace in a Euro
pean trip, he met Miss Carow. When
lie returned to America they began a
correspondence. Their engagement
followed and they were married in
1880.
Between Alice Roosevelt—the only
child of the first marriage—and her
father’s second wife there has always
been the warmest affection; and her
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husband’s sisters have been Mrs.
Roosevelt’s most intimate friends.
Like her husband, Mrs. Roosevelt
has a pronounced literary bent. She
lias nice brown eyes, and she wears
her brown hair parted and carried
back loosely from her temples. She
dresses with a simplicity that is be
coming.
Mrs. Roosevelt will have the assist
ance of a charming girl, Miss Alice
Roosevelt, when she takes up her so
cial duties at the White House. Miss
Roosevelt is about eighteen years old.
She lias been bridesmaid at the wed
diug of a Boston cousin, and on sever
al other occasions has been seen in
society, but she has not been intro
duced formally. That probably will
be a White House affair.
President Roosevelt has two sisters
who will he prominent in the new Ad
ministration circle. The older one,
Mrs. Cowles, lives in Washington.
She is the wife of Commander W. S.
Cowles, of the American Navy.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, the other
sister of President Roosevelt, lives at
No. 422 Madison avenue, New York
City.
Two Very Little People.
Nineteen years old and nineteen
inches high. Such are the age and
stature of Fatua, the famous East In
dian dwarf. His weight is thirteen
pounds. Srnaun is his little sister. She
is one year younger and one pound
lighter. These creatures are veritable
pigmies and quite different from some
dwarfs, in that their members are
in proportion to their size. Fatna’s
head is about the size of an orange
and his arms are the size of broom
sticks. In fact, he is a man in minia
ture. with none of the false propor
tions of infants.
BURGHERS ATTACK
CAMPS OF BRITISH
Onslaught Fierce and Gory
While It Lasted.
ACTIVITY WORRYING BRITISH
Boers Adopt Open Tactics In
Seeming Reply to Kichener’s
Plaint ot Guerilla Methods.
Lord Kitchener reported to the war
office in London Wednesday that two
officers and tnirty-one men had been
killed in an attack made on Colonel
Kekewlch’s camp at Moedwill. The
Boers, who were under Commandants
De Larey and Kemp, had fourteen offi
cers and 114 men wounded after two
hours’ fighting, when the Boers were
driven off.
The Boer attack at Moedwill occur
red September 29. The Boers are re
ported to have been 1,000 strong. Lord
Kitchener, in his dispatch, says the
British repelled the attack with great
vigor. Colonel Kekewich was slightly
wounded in two places. He says that
all ranks behaved well. The wound
ed were taken to Rustenburg, half way
between Pretoria and Mafeking.
Lord Kitchener confirms the heavy
losses of the Boers, about 250 killed
and 300 wounded, during their attacn
on Fort Itala and Fort Prospect. He
says the guns recently captured at
Viakfontein have been recovered from
the Boers.
A telegram from Bloemfontein indi
cates that the guns Lord Kitchener re
ports having recovered were dug up,
the Boers having buried them.
A mixed column under General
Kitchener, Lord Kitchener’s brother,
has been sent to relieve, presumably,
Natal from Commandant General Bo
tha’s iorces. It has reached Cryheid.
The casualty list shows that in the
fighting at Caledon river last Friday,
Colonel Plumber lost two officers kill
ed and ten men killed anu wounded.
For months past we have been
told,” says The Daily Graphic of Wed
nesday morning, “that if the Boers
would only abandon their elusive tac
tics and come to close quarters wo
should see what we should see. The
Boers have taken us at our word, and
the results are certainly not encourag
ing.”
The chorus of dissatisfactien with
the inertia of the government is daily
gathering force. Winston Churchill
member of parliament, speaking at Old
Flam, described the situation in South
Africa as “serious and disquieting.”
He Eaid the war could not be ended by
proclamations or threats, but only by
vigorous military operations.
The Daily Mail and the Daily Chron
icle comment upon the fact that the
huge British army is seemingly only
able to remain on the defensive.
It is believed that the government
at last recognizes the necessity of
meeting the renewed Boer activity. Pre
parations ara being made to replace
Lord Kitchener’s exhausted men by
fresh drafts. An order has been is
sued rendering it impossible to obtain
discharge by purchase from any of the
army reserves, sections of which are
being prepared for mobilization.
Lord Kitchener has sent home a
fresh batch of imperial yeomanry suf
fering from organic diseases, unfitting
them for life on the veldt, together
with a strong protest against the waste
of public time ana money in enlisting
such men.
There is further evidence of the se
riousneEs of the situation in Cape Col
ony The cape premier, Sir John Gor
don Sprigg, has gone to Johannesburg
to meet Lord Kitchener and Lord Mil
ner in conference, probably on the sub
ject of declaring martial law in cape
ports.
Moedwill, the scene of the bold at
tack by Commandant DeLarey on Col
onel Kekewich’s company, is 75 miles
west of Pretoria, and 15 west of Rus
tenburg. As the wounued were being
brought back to Rustenburg, it looks
as though Moedwill, which is close to
the Magatos Pass in the Magaliesberg
range, has been abandoned.
KING EDWARD HAS CANCER?
Report to That Effect Causes Grave
Apprehension In London.
A London dispatch says: The coin
cidence of the announcement of King
Edward’s indisposition with the publi
cation of revived rumors regarding
cancer in the newspapers of Copenha
gen. from which city his majesty has
just returned, and where secrets of
the British court are most likely to
leak out than elsewhere, is causing
some commotion in ihe metropolis, and
the fact that the customary court cir
cular does not appear in the press adds
to the uneasy feeling.
ORGANIZE A CAVALRY COMPANY
Chattanooga Tonng lien Are Mustered
Inlo the 'ationnl f.'nard.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday
night a company of cavalry, composed
of the leading young men of the city
was mustered Into the National Guard
of the State of Tennessee by Adjutant
General Brandon, who was present in
person as a special compliment to the
young men. As mustered in there were
53 members.
SCRAMBLE FOR PIE.
White Republicans In the South
Want Jobs Heretofore Held
By Colored Brother.
A Washington special says: Presi
dent Roosevelt will have ample oppor
tunity to become familiar with sam
pies of the rank and file of the repub
lican party in Georgia and South Caro
lina while he hesitates about select
ing collectors of internal revenue for
those two states. Collector Rucker’s
term has about expired and the Geor
gia republican organization is urging
his reappointment. There are several
other candidates in the field, who claim
that a negro has had the office for four
years and that now it is time to give a
white Georgia republican a cnance to
see what he can do with one of the
best federal offices in the state. Two
new candidates were formally an
nounced Wednesday. They are W. H.
Wynne, of Atlanta, ana Caster Terrei;,
of Covington. Just prior to the death
of President McKinley the friends of
Collector Rucker felt confident that he
would be recommissionea without se
rious opposition. Now it appears that
a strong fight wil be made to replace
him with a white republican.
In South Carolina the scramble for
the internal revenue collectorship is
even more general than in Georgia.
Many candidates have filed their appli
cations and working hard for the place.
In the meantime Loomis Blalock,
who has been selected for the job, is in
Washington patiently waiting to re
ceive his commission at the hands of
President Roosevelt and proceed home
to enter upon his new dutiea. He had
a talk with General M. G. Butler and
was assured that his appointment is
certain.
Another effort was made Wednesday
in induce President Roosevelt to come
to the relief of Postmaster rair, of
Newberry, S. C., whose removal is re
commended by the postal authorities.
O. L Schampert, of Newberry, nis at
torney, accompanied by General But
ler, called at the white house and ap
pealed to the president not to remove
Postmaster Fair. Without committing
himself the president intimated that
he was not sufficiently familiar with
the case to pass on it offhanded, but
promised to look into the subject at --
early day. At the postomce department
it is said that the report of the post
office inspectors who investigated the
charge against Postmaster Fair recom
mended his removal and the probabili
ties are that their recommenaations
will be sufficient to justify the presi
dent in making a change.
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APPEAL OF TRUSTEES
Of Burned Georgia Soldiers’ Home
For Aid In Rebuilding the
Structure.
In pursuance to a resolution adopted
at the meeting of the hoard of trus
tees of the Georgia Soldiers’ Home
at Atlanta Thursday President Cal
houn, of the board, and Hon. John
Triplett, a member, have prepared an
address to the people of Georgia,
thanking them for past favors extend
ed the old veterans, and requesting
further assistance, since the great ca
lamity by fire.
The press of the state is requested
to copy the address, and assist as far
as possible in placing it before the
people.
The address is as follows:
“The board of trustees of the Sol
diers’ Home of Georgia beg to return
thanks to the people of Georgia for
their ready and generous responses in
the work of rebuilding the Soldiers’
home. With our insurance, amounting
to $21,500, and the contributions al
ready reported, we have as available
assets for rebuilding about $25,000.
This amount falls short of the sum
which will be necessary to rebuild the
home. The people of Georgia from
the inception of the home by the la
mented Grady have shown an interest
in the home for indigent Confederate
soldiers. We feel sure that this inter
est has not lessened, but that with the
lapse of time it has been increased
rather than diminished. The burning
of the home, furnished by the generous
contributions of the people of Georgia,
has appealed to all classes. From ev
ery section of the state have come con
tributions. The board of trustees con
fidently appeal to the generosity of
the people of Georgia. They need
funds with which to rebuild a home for
the indigent soldiers of the lost cause.
It will require about $40,000 to put
these old soldiers in comfortable cir
cumstances. We appeal to the people
in behalf of these wards cf the state.
They are men who responded to the
call of duty when the state needed
their services and we feel sure that
Georgians will respond now that they
are homeless. Let every city, town,
village and hamlet respond to this call.
Whatever is given should be promptly
reported. It is our purpose to rebuild
the home at the earliest possible day.
To this we ask the co-operation of the
people of Georgia.
“W. L. Caihoun, president; W. T.
Gary, president protem; H. W. Bell, H.
H. Penny, A. F. Daley, John Triplett.
Charles M. Wiley, Charles D. Phillips,
W. F. Jenkins, J. H. Martin, S. W. Kar
ris, trustees.”
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