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ogE TEDDY AS A SCHOOL BOY
TERRIBL
An Admiring Friend Who Writes of Him Shows That He Was In
clined to Be a Bully Even in His Younger Days. Beat
Man With a Reputation as a Fighter,
«He became instantly a favorite with
pis class of one hundred and seventy
odd,” aYS Jacob Riis in the Outlook,
writing about Theodore Roosevelt's
career at Harvard.
“They Jaughed at his oddities, at his
unrgprvssvd enthusiasm, at his liking
for Elizabethan poetry, voted him
imore or less crazy’ with true Harvard
conservatism, respected him highly f?r
his scholarship on the same solid
ground and fell in even with his no
:1'0115 for his own sake, &s afterward
ome of them fell in behind him in the
jush up San Juan hill, leaving lives of
elegance and ease to starve with him in
the trenches and do the chores of. a
trooper in camp under a tropical sun.
«;¢ is remembered that Theodore
Loosevelt set Harvard to skipping the
rope, & sport it had abandoned years
pefore with knickerbockers, but it suit
od this student to keep up the exercise
gs a 4 leans of strengthening the leg
muscles, and rope skipping became a
pastime of the class of 'BO. In the
oympasium they wore red stockings
‘\E\tith their practice suits. Roosevelt
pad bappened upon a pair that were
striped & patriotic red and white, and
pe wore them, at first to the amaze
ment of the other students. He did
not even know that they had attracted
attention, but when some one told him
he laughed and kept them on. It was
what the legs could do in the stockings
he was there to find out.
wTwenty years after I heard a police
man call him a dude when he walked
up the steps of police headquarters,
New York, with a silk sash about his
waist, something no man had been
known to wear in Mulberry street in
the memory of the oldest there, and I
saw the same officer looking after him
down the street as long as he was in
sight the day he went and turn back
with a sigh that made him my friend
forever, ‘There won't such another
come through that door again in my
time, that there won’t.’ And there did
pot. The old man is retired long since.
“He joined the exclusive ‘Pork’ club
and forthwith smashed all its hallowed
traditions and made the Porcellian
blood run cold by taking his fiancee to
luncheon where no woman ever trod
before, He simply saw no reason why i
a lady should not lunch at a gentle
men's club, and when the shocked bach- ]
elor minds of the ‘Pork’ club searched
CONGRESSMAN JIM GRIGGS.
Second District Member Again on
Campaign Committee.
From the Macon News,
Hon. James M. Griggs, congressman
from the Second district, has been
unanimously re-elected by the Georgia
delegation in congress the member of
the congressional campaign committee
for Georgia. This is an honor worth
ily bestowed. As chairman of the com
mittee two years ago Mr., Griggs ren
dered splendid service. His able and
faithful work was highly appreciated
by democrats everywhere. There is a
desire to place Mr. Griggs at the head
ofthe committee again, but owing to
t_he sickness of Mrs. Griggzs, so we un
derstand, Mr, Griggs may not be able
Waccept the chairmanship, as it wouid
entail great labor upon him and pre
vent him taking Mrs. Griggs on a
Western trip during the coming sum
mer, which is essential to her health.
Lt is very vrobable that Mr. Griggs
will be re-elected to congress this year
Without oppos'tion. He has made a
faithful representative and deserves
the endorsement,
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NEGLECT CAUSED EPIDEMIC.
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A'bany Responsible for the
Spread of Smallpox,
PD":“. H. F. {Harris of Atlanta and A.
- laylor of Thomasville, members of
the state board of health, have been
Z(i)t Albany to study the smallpox
: U"atlon, and they state that the
]*9‘l9}Bo‘s epidemic is due to the care
i;bnfiss of the authorities 10 not tak
wfl(dfl necessary steps to check the
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
J. A. HORSLEY,
DAWSON, GEORGIA.
WE BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE.
In Town and County on Commission. ‘
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Correspondence solicited. Office Baldwin Block.
the horizon for one to confront him
with they discovered that there was
none. Accordingly the world still
' stood, and so did the college.
“He played polo, did athletic stunts
with the fellows and drove a two
wheeled gig badly, having no end of
good times in it. When he put on the
boxing gloves he hailed the first comer
with the more delight if he happened
to be the champion of the class, who
was twice his size and heft. The pom
meling that ensued he took with the
most hearty good will, and, though his
nose bled and his glasses fell off, put
ting him at a disadvantage, he refused
grimly to cry quarter and pressed the
fight home in a way that always re
‘ minds me of that redoubtable Danish
sea fighter, Peter Tordenskjold, who
kept up the fight, firing pewter dinner
plates and mugs from his one gun,
when on his little smack there was left
but a single man of the crew, ‘and he
wept.” Tordenskjold killed the captain
of the Swedish frigate with one of his
mugs and got away. Roosevelt was
bested in his boxing matches often
enough; but, however superior, his op
ponents bore away always the impres
sion that they had faced a fighter.
“But the battle was not always to
the strong in those days. I have heard
a story of how Roosevelt beat a man
with a reputation as a fighter, but not,
it would appear, with the instincts of
a gentleman, , I shall not vouch for it,
for I have not asked him about it. But
it is typical enough to be true except
for the wonder how the fellow got in
there. He took, so the story runmns, a
mean advantage and struck a blow%
that drew blood before Roosevelt had
got his glove on right. The bystanders
cried ‘foul,” but Roosevelt smiled one of
his grim smiles.
“¢‘l guess you made a mistake. We
do not do that way here,’ he said, offer
ing the other his gloved hand in formal
salutation as a sign to begin hostilities.
The next moment his right shot out
and took the man upon the point of the
jaw, and the left followed suit. In two
minutes he was down and out. Roose
velt was ‘in form’ that day. All the
fighting blood in him had been aroused
by the unfairness of the blow. I have
geen him when his blood was up for
good cause once or twice, and I rather
think the story must be true. If I were
to fight him and wanted to win I
should shun a foul blow as I would
the pestilence. I am sure I would not
run half the »'<k from the latter.”
AGAINST POLICY; NOT LAW
Married Wumen Should be Per
mitted to Teach School.
Attorney General Hart has rendered
an opinion at the request of State
School Commissioner Merritt, on the
right of a county board of education to
make a rule that married women shall
not be eligible to teachers’ places.
The case arose over the fact that in
cone of the counties a voung woman
teacher married secretly because of
the existence of the rule.
When it was discovered that she was
married it was proposed todismiss her.
Judge Hart holds that such a rule is
arbitrary, unjust and uureasonable.
Though the board may not haye tran
scended the letter of the law in adopt
ing it, he says, if the board will not
abolish the rule the people ought to
abolish the hoard.
WHEN STOCKS WILL sBOuUM AGAIN.
When every “short” has “covered,”
And every lamb’'s well done;
When every cloud that hovered
is banished by the sun;
When things are not ‘‘congested,””
And each crop killer's dead;
Yhen nothking's “‘undigested,”’
The last false rumor spread; :
When every hostile raider iy
Has taken to his hole,
And every short side trader
Has climbed the nearest pole:
When every strike is settled,
And ‘“‘Joseph’ gets his crown,
No more will we be nettled
With *“‘good stocks’” going down.
When all the wheat's transported,
And all the crops are *‘moved;"”
When all the gold's exported
And all false tales disproved;
When every “bear’ is banished
Into some desert grim,
And each canard has vanished
In darkness after him;
When every loan is floated,
When every bond is sold,
And every scheme promoted
Turns out as good as gold;
When stocks have reached a level
From which they cannot fall,
And prophecies of evil
Are turned toward the wall;
When every corner’'s busted
And bank reserves are high,
“The public,” now disgusted,
Come rushing in to buy—
Then in that glorious season
(Don’t wake us from our trance)
We think we see no reason
Why stocks should not advance.
—H. D. Carman in Torontc Star.
EVILS OF COTTON GAMBLING.
Balfour Promises to Consider
Proposed Conference.
A cable from England says: Before
leaving Manchester Mr. Balfour re
ceived a deputation of representatives
of the cotton trade, who presented
‘their views on the eyils resulting from
gambling in cotton
Mr. Balfour, after listening to’the
views of the representatives, said he
was satisfied that the evils complained
of were matters of the most serious im
port, and he inquired of the deputation
as to whether the information could be
obiained by which statistics of the
probable cotton yield could be compil
ed. He said the proposal for an inter
national conference tn examine the
question of gambling in futures should
receive careful consideration.
A YEAR OF HORRORS.
Calamities Predicted by Astrolo
gers for 1904,
The papers in Paris are commenting
gravely on the unanimity of the astrol
ogers, magicians, elairvoyants and
trance mediams in predicting a year
of horrors for 1904, says the New York
World. A leading astrologer named
Jacob sizes up the situatior. ast follows,
and the others agree more or less as to
detail:
“Here is the heroscope for 1904, made
at the moment the sun entered the sign
of Capricorn. It indicates a year of
great immorality in London. The vice
roy of India abdicates; the United
States has grave quarrels with Russia
and Germany; Roosevelt falls sick, and
a conspiracy is hatched against him;
serious financial disasters in America.
‘“The emperor of Japan has a grave
accident.
“An attempt on the life of the em
peror of China.
“Voleanic shocks in Censtantinople,
Chile and the Philippines.
“A year of unhealthy literature and
unlimited materialism.
“The French cabinet fails between
April 7 and 19.
“A panie in a musie hall, grave acci
dents and popular disturbances in Rus
sia; an attempt to poison the czar; se
rious dissensions between Russia and
Austria.
“England loses prestige; the cam
paign in Tibet falls through.
“Tremendous failures in Calcutta and
the Transvaal.
“Anarchist troubles in Spain; the
government threatened.
“In China women massacred.
“Everywhere crimes of passion, mys
terious deaths and strange phenomena.
“The year 1904 is an anagram of
1409, the date of the birth of Joan of
Arc. This year a wonderful child will
be born with a high destiny, showing
its power in 1924, an anagram of 1429,
the date of the apogee of Joan of Arc.”
Cured After Suffering 10 Years.
B. F. Hare, Supt. Miami Cycle &
Mfg. Co., Middletown, O. suiffered for
ten years with dypepsia. He spent
hundreds of dollars for medicine and
with doctors without receiving any
permanent benefit. He says: *‘One
night while feeling exceptionally bad
I was about to throw down the evening
paper when 1 saw an item in the paper
regarling the merits of Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure. I concluded to try it and
while I had no faith in it I felt better
after the second dose. After using two
bottles [ am stronger and better than
{ have been in yeers, and I recom
mend Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to my
friends and acquaintances suffering
from stomach trouble.” Sold by
DAwsoN DruG Co.
Georgia As a Marhle State. |
As a marble producing state Georgia
may rival Vermont. The marble belt
is about sixty miles in length, extend
ing in a southwesterly direction from
the North Carolina line through Pick
ens county. The supply is practically
inexhaustible, as the depth of the de
posit in many places is over 100 feet.
Both white and colored varieties are
found. The characteristics of the Geor
gia marble are purity of chemical com
position, uniform texture and peculiar
crystalline structure, rendering it re
markably durable because of its slow
absorption of water.
The Difference in the West,
The prohibitionists, who will hold
their national convention in Kansas
Civy next June, will find, if they care to
make an investigation, that the chief
difference between §Kansas and Mis
couri is that here the drinking places
are called saloons and in Kansas they
are called ‘joints.”—Kansas City
Times.
A Life at Stake,
If you but knew the splendid merit
of Foley’s Honey and Tar you would
pnever be without it. A dose or two
will prevent an attack of pneumonia
or la grippe. It may save your life.
KENDRICK’S DRUG STORE.
Mexican Yolcano for Sale.
The voléano of Popocatepetl is offer
ol for $5.000,000. It is expected that
‘he world will yet look to Popocatepeti
‘or a 1 lnrge portion of its supply of sul
phur instead of to Mount Etna, in
Sicily. from which nearly all the sul
ohur now on the market comes.
The many friends of G. H. Hausan,
engineer on the L. E. & W. R. R.. at
preseat living in Lima, O, will be
pleased to know of his recovery from
threatened kidney disease. He writes:
«] wae cured by Foley’s Kidney Cure,
which I recommend to all, especially
trainmen who are usually similarly af
flicved.” KENDRICK’S DRUG STORE.
THE WISHBONE CRAZE.
‘Miss Roosevelt Starts New Fad
in Washington.
Miss Alice Roosevelt carried luck in
her hand on New Year's day, and she
has launched still another fad in Wash
ington society, says the New York
Telegram’s correspondent.
Instead of flowers, fan, lorgnette or
dingle dangles on a rope of pearls the
daughter of the president sported a
silver wishbone from the time of her
appearance at the White House recep
tion New Year’s morning till the young
people’s dinner at 8 o’clock, with which
the gayeties of the day concluded.
The wishbone occasioned #& vast
amount of interest as well as amuse
ment, among Miss Roosevelt’s friends.
It wds the one New Year's gift that
especially appealed to the original ‘
young girl, and she explained, laugh-l‘
ingly, that it was to bring her luck
throughout the year. Last spring Miss
Roosevelt set the style of carrying a
gold tipped cane, and the girls of Wash
ington adopted it without a murmur,
appearing on the street and at bazaars
with airy, fairy sticks that quite daz
zled the youth of Washington. Now
the wishbone eraze has set in and
Washington jewelers have booked a
lot of orders for wishbones of silver,
gold and jewel studded platinum.
One attache of legation begged to ex
change a gorgeous diamond order that
decorated his chest for Miss Roosevelt’s
wishbone New Year’s morning, but the
latter declared she would not part with
her lucky charm for the pink pearl
atop of the Chinese minister’s cap.
And still another man—this time an
American—tried to barter his gold set
rabbit’s foot for the much coveted
wishboue. Miss Roosevelt declared that
rabbit’s feet could not be mentioned in
the same breath with wishbones, so
now the college man and the poker
man and the all around sporty man
will earry the rabbits’ feet back to the
graveyard at the dark of the moon,
bury them deep and turm up at the
club with wishbones in their pockets.
Miss Roosevelt’s word is law in
Washington society, and now that she
has started the wishbone fad it is
boungd to boom.
Sent His Picture,
Hon. O. B. Stevens, Georgia’s wor
thy, efficient and distinguished com
missioner of agriculture, is always
thinging of his friends, and is untiring
in well-doing for their many interests.
This time a new year’s reminder comes
to the Times-Recorder from him which
{s most appreciated. It is a splendid
photograph bearing the most striking
likeness to our esteemed friend, Mr.
Stevens, showing that he is enjoying
the best of health and promising many
more years of usefulness to his family,
friends and state.—Americus Times-
Recorder.
, New Type of Engine,
From Germany comes news of a lo
comotive worked by steam and yet in
dependent of fire of its own. The en
gine has just been completed at the
Hohenzollern works at Dusseldorf and
is of a type designed for shunting in
explosive factories. Instead of carry
ing fire in its own beiler it is filled with
steam from stationary boilers and when
so charged is capable of several hours’
work. The first warming up occupies
half an hour, and subsequent recharg
ing can be done in a quarter of an
hour. The apparatus is so simple that
an unskilled workman is able to look
after it. The absence of fire in a place
where dynamite or gunpowder is being
handled is the reason for the invention
of this type of engine.
In Bed Four Weeks With La Grippe.
Wo have received the following let
ter from Mr. Roy Kemp of Angora,
Ind.: “I was in bed four weeks with
la grippe and I tried many remedies
and spent considerable for treatment
with physicians, but I received no re
jief until I tried Foley's Honey ard
Tar. Twosmall bottles of this remedy
cured me, and I now nse it exclusively
in my family.” Take no substitutes.
KENDRICK’S DRUG STORE.
Unexplored Africa,
Today there remains only one coin
paratively small area of Africa which
can be said to be still unexplored, says
the London Post. This area lies be
tween the Sobat river on the northeast
and the main White Nile on the west
and southwest and is occupied by Ni
lotic negro tribes, with the general
characteristics of which we are fa
miliar by contact in the already ex
plored regions of the Nile basin.
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