The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-27

the wiz neart OF the west, to TURF
cowboy, ranchman and hunt-r of big
game, and to become more familiar,
+ perhaps. win the rugged and stall
wart democracy" of the pioneer from
tiersman than any other Eastern man.
He built a log house on the banks of
the Little Missouri, among the buttes
/. and Bad Lands of northwestern Da-
kota, working on 1t with his own
hands. 1t was a low, rough building
2 with a wide veranda, shaded by leafy
$ cottonwoods and so far from the
/ bounds of civilization that Mr. Roose-
welt tells of shooting deer from the
= front door Here, in a flannel shirt,
sand overalls tucked into alligator
boots, he worked side by side with his
Scowboys during many an exciting
roundup, coming home to sleep on
bcarskins and buffalo robes, trophies
Iof his skill as a hunter
n Here, too, he kept the favorite books
gCt ranohman, the works of Fenimorc
\ Cooper-who has touched the life of
d the pioneer more closely than any 9TH
Yer writer, Mr.. Roosevelt thinits-many
kbooks on hunting, trapping ana natu-
3ral history, and the works of Irving
NHawthorne, Lowell, Poe and few
Sother American writer's. In speaking
Xof Poe, Mr. Roosevelt says: When
4one is in the Bad Lands he feels as III
Hthey somehow look just exactly as
8Poe's tales and poems sound"
d One of Mr.. Roosevelts experiences
Bin the West gave the cowboys a very
Ghigh opinion of his determination, and
Eforever blotted out the implication
that he was a tenderfoot. Cattle hadl
i been stolen from his ranch. He fol-
lowed the thieves with unfaltering per-
stinacity for two weeks, and finally|
Ecaptured three of them and had them
&sent to the penitentiary at Mandan|
&for terms of three years. He hunted
land shot with all the keen zeal of
"a lover of the wilderness. He killed.
as sportsman, not to make record
3for killing, and usually only when hisl
4camp needed food
In the midst of his intensely active
life Mr.. Roosevelt has found time to
lido considerable literary work. The
year after he was graduated from col
lege he published his Naval War of
1872" in 1886 there came from his pen
Va Life of Thomas II. Benton" pub
lished in the American Statesmen Sc
. ries; the following year he published
Ia Life of Gouverneur Norris" which
WAS followed in 1883 by his popular
Ranch Life and Hunting Trail" In
p 1889 We're published the first two vol
Uumes of what he considers his greatest
+ work THE Winning of the West" II
+ 1890 he added to the series of His
u toric Towns" History of New York
ECity." Essays on Practical Politics. .
Unpublished in 1892 was followed the
next year by THE Wilderness Hun
ter" while in 1894 he added third
volume to his Winning of the West"
4 In 1898 he collected a volume of es-
&says, entitled American Political
HIdeas." Since the Spanish War he has
written a book on The Rough Riders"
Eand a series of articles on Oliver
HCromwell by him has been appearing
~ in Scribner's.
81 In 1856, Mr.. Roosevelt married Miss
Is Edith Kermit Carow, and they have
Hfve children, three sons and two
daughters. Their home is at Saga
more Hill about three miles from Oys-
ter Bay, on Long Island Sound. A big
roomy, comfortable house stands on
1.-THE top of the hill. Wide, green vistas
open in front so that visitor sitting
F. in one of the hospitable chairs on the
veranda may see miles of wooded, wa
tered country, view unsurpassed
anywhere else on Long Island Sound
The rooms within everywhere give evil
dence in the skins of bears and bison
and the splendid antlers of elk and
deer. of Mr.. Roosevelt's prowess as a
hunter. The library is rich with the
books of which he is most fond--hs-
tory, standard literature, and hunting
Portraits of the three greatest Ameri-
cans, Lincoln. Washington and Grant,
have the place of honor over the cases,
and there are numerous spirited ami
NAL compositions in bronze by Kemys
the American sculptor Here Mr..
Roosevelt lives and works. He never
Shas been much of a society man, but
The has drawn around him a society OF
4his own, of men who have accomplish
He'd things in the world. He Is a mem
Der of the Century Club, the Union
League, and other clubs, and he Is the
lorganizer of the Boone and Crockett
AClub, OF which he was for a long time
the president.
u In Washington as Vice President,
Mr.. Roosevelt had quiet home near
Dupont Circle. and while his was not
1 the most fashionable home at the capt.
\ tai, 1t was one noted for it's elegance
, and the excellence of the entertain
ment. Mrs. Roosevelt is essentially
the mother. and her home circle is her
kingdom.