Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-07
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON.

hundred years.
Fifty-nine years of age, but he is
far from old. Physically, he is TO
bust. Mentally, his mind is more ac-
tive than the brains of most men many
years his junior.
Recently, the colonel provoked a
congressional dispute by trying to or
ganize a brigade to go to France
Then he came back on the front page
ty entering into a severe period of
physical training, from which he
emerged a stronger healthier man.
Then he elected more headlines b.
announcing that for ten years he had
been minus the sight of one eye, due
to a blow received in a friendly box
ing bout More recently, he has been
making anti-Tammany speeches in
New York. Only short while ago
he toured the country delivering anti
German addresses. Every day he
writes an editorial for a Kansas
City paper.
One may boot at his political
theories and censure his mel hods;
gasp at his overwhelming egotisn
and admire his superb nerve; de-
clare hin back number, call him
an intrguer and denounce him as a
grand stand playing politician; and
then all that is said, one must ac-
knowledge the mans prodigious
mind and and abnormal capacity for
wonderful and varied activity.
When president, Roosevelt was an
incessant worker, and he wanted those
about him to work 1t was believed
that he would so exhaust his energy
that upon retiring from Office he
would spend at least several years
in recuperation from his labors. But
a tranquil existence was never in
tended for him He engaged in
strenuous African big game hunt and
capped this with a notable Euro
pean tour. AS everyone knows, his
return to the United States was fol-
lowed by another period of strain
and labor not the least of which
was his phenomenal organization of
political party and his unprecedent-
ed campaign for the presidency. On
top of that, he received a wound
that in many cases would have prov
en- fatal; survived it, and is now as
vigorous as ever before. At the same
time, as side issue, he participated
in an absorbing libel suit.
Every year finds him doing some
thing, usually seven or eight things
coincidently, Five years ago he went
to South Africa on an exploration
tour, and discovered a river, one
that somebody else had discovered
years before But the original dis
coverer didn't tell the newspapers
about it, and that is where the Colone>
won out. While on this trip the
Colonel wrote a book, prepared ad-
dresses, continued his editorial work,
composed essays on animal life ana
a treatise on the clay-eating Indians,
and kept up an enormous personal
correspondence He is never con
tent unless he is investigating some
thing, lighting something, studying
something, doing something. One
hears, too, of the Colonel participant
ing in social affairs, wearing dress
suits, and otherwise living the lite
Of an ordinary person.
Only once in a century or so is
a human being gifted with such al
extraordinary mentality Caesar was
one of the first and most notable
in history. He wrote classics, IL
GLIDING poems; conc acted the most
arduous campaigns of which the world
fas record. and acquired domination
over the greatest empire of his tin1S
simply by sheer energy Napoleon
was another of the same type, doing
an amount of work that when SUI
ticiently comprehended now is enough