The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-11

tha BulIochS She came from the old
southern family of Bullochs which pro-
drced a noted Governor of Georgia and
the builder of the Confederate privateer
Alabama
BOYHooD LIFE.
Mr. Roosevelt was born in the family
mansion at Is East Twentieth street, New
York. on October q. 1858. that he is
now Just forty years old. AS young
HOY he was thin-shanked pale and deli
cate. giving little promise of the amazing
yigor of his later life. To avoid the
rough treatment of the public school, he
was tutored at home, also attending
private school for a time-Cutler's, one
Of the most famous of its day. Most of
his summers were spent at the Roosevelt
farm near Oyster Bay, then almost as
distant in time from New York as the
Adirondacks now are. For many years
he was slow to learn and not strong
enough to join in the play of other boys;
but as he grew older he saw that If he
ever amounted to anything he must ac-
qrire vigor of body. With characteristic
energy he set about developing himself.
He swan, he rode. he ran; he tramped
the hills back of the bay, for pastime
studying and cataloguing the birds ma
tive to his neighborhood; and thus he
laid the foundation of that incompatible
physical vigor from which rose his fu-
ture prowess as ranchman and hunter.
Il was determined he says, ito make
a man of myself"
I spoke to him about being a city boy.
II belong as much to the country as TO
the city," he replied; Il owe all my vigor
to the country"
The elder Roosevelt knew the science
OF bringing DIP boys. 1t may be summed
NO in single woodwork, plenty of
work, hard work. Although the family
was considered wealthy. he taught his
boys-there were two of them and two
sirls-that the most despicable of created
beings is the man who does nothing. He
himself was a prodigious worker in many
different lines.N
Young Roosevelt had few dreams. he
built few air castles. The work that lay
nearest him he learned to do thoroughly
well, and when 1t was done, he was ready
for more. Story books interested him
very little unless, like Mayne Reid Oh
Fenimore Cooper, they treated of hunt
ing, trapping and the wild life of the
West.
Later, after he entered Harvard Col.
lege, where he was a good student, and
for a time editor of the Advocate, he
was deeply absorbed in history and nat
ural history. BY this time he had be
come a good boxer and wrestler and
fair runner, and for a time he was cap
tain of polo club. although he nevel
took any championships.
He was graduated from the universt,
in 1850, Phi Beta Kappa man, and h.
afterwards spent some time studying il
dresden.
EARLY INSPIRATIONS.
after a years travel in Europe and tn
East, during which he scaled the Jung
frau and the Matterhorn and won him
self membership in the Alpine Club O
Lc Edon, Mr.. Roosevelt returned to Ne,
York, ready to begin his life work. H
was now barely 81 years old, a robust
sturdy shouldcred, square-jawed youn
man, born fighter. He had no need
work; his income was ample to kee
him in comfort, even luxury, all his lif,
{ He might spend his summers in NewpoI
and his winters on the Continent. an
, possibly win some fame as an amateu
t athlete and a society man; and no on
| would think of blaming him, nor of ash
ling more than he gave. But he crave
2 the stir and action and heat of publ
2 conflict. His reading was of natur
5 to spur him on to deeds, for he is preen
: inently man whom history has lifte,
D Even in his college days he had been
e close student of the "Federalist," whic
he calls "the greatest book of its kin
ttkth WlittcH. lHutttl, 10 yOuDR Amer
{ can of the time was more thoroughly ia
n miliar with the history of his countr,
!, beth East and West, and with the live
: lof its greatest men, than Mr.. Roosevelt
G He had studied its politics as we'll as Il
t wars, and he knew every one OF the mob
principles on which it was founded =.
I fore he was % he had begun work on h
: Naval War of 1s12.' which has since b.
: lccme the standard authority on that p,
: Rod of the nations history, with COP
:. in the library of every American wa
= ship. In his essay on american Ideals
e one of the richest tributes to patriotis
n in the language, he burns incense to Il
e inspiration of history.
. Each of Us who reads the Gettysbu,
u speech he writes, cor the second inau,
e Iural address of the greatest American
n the nineteenth century, or who studi,
the long campaigns and lofty Statesman
q ship of that other American who w:
: even greater, cannot but feel within hi
: that lift toward things higher and n
n bier which can never be bestowed by Il
enjoyment of material prosperity
u Here was an American stung to actit
}. by the deeds of the two greatest Amer
l leans. He believed in them as models, al
Il h. felt no sentimental timidity in decla
z inS his faith in their ideals.
e For a time Mr.. Roosevelt attempted Il
"a study of the law with his uncle, Robe
: Roosevelt, but with such a trainir
y as he had given himself it was impossih
= fo- him to remain long out of politics
1881 he attended his first primary pl
l. mary of the Republican party. To mai
e bookish young men, acquainted with Z
IN greatest achievements of their countr
II men, such a gathering might have seer
p ed mean, sordid, unimportant; but to N
NJ Re csevelt, who saw in it the foundati
of political system. 1t was as much
y arena for political prowess as the leg
Dc lative halls in Washington.
a MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE.
u He went into 1t, with the earnest int
ton of being useful, and almost before
was aware the Twenty-first District h
elected him to represent it in the Assel
s. big at Albany. When he took the oath
as office in 1882, he was the youngest mel
Of Der of the Legislature. Some of the har
e- sl.elled old political "wheelers' from n.
n. York promptly dubbed him '.silk-stoc
10 Ing" and passed him by as one of t
L. freaks of a popular election. But tn
ty curiously misjudged their man. Mr.. Roc
in evelt has faculty, wherever he is,
n. making himself storm center
rk He studied his colleagues until