Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-07
travels on which his parents took the
 children abroad. A porch gymnasium

travels on which his parents took the children abroad. A porch gymnasium at his home provided him with physi. cal exercise with which he combstted a troublesome asthma. His father. a l glass importer and man of means, was his constant companion; he kept a diary; he read so much history and l fictional books of adventure that he was known as bookworn; he took l boxing lessons; he was an amateur naturalist; and at the age of IT he en- tered Harvard University There he was not as prominent as some others in an athletic way as it is not record ed that he made" the baseball anI football teams, but his puny body had undergone a metamorphosis and be- 1 fore graduation he became one of the champion boxers of the college This remarkable physical development was emphasized by something which took place shortly after he left Harvard in 1880. He went to Europe, climbed the Matterhorn, and as result was elect cd member of the Alpine Club of I.ondon-an organization of men who had performed notable feats of adven- l ture.
 | A fey months after his graduation | Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee of Boston. She died in 1884. leaving one 1 child Alice, now the wife of Represen- Itative Nicholas L0ngworth of Ohio. , In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith 1 Kermit CerOw, of New. York, and 70 rhem five c, ildren were born-E.le n,w the wife of Dr. Richard Derby, fnd four sens Theodore, Jr., Kermit, archibald ard Quentin. The public career of the man who was to become President began not long after he left college His profes- sion was law hut the activities that were to come left hin no time In which to practicc t Ia i>@2, 1889 a.l 1884 he was cleo ad 70 the New York State Assembly wher. his efforts on behalf of goou .so Iernm"n; aai civi! ] service iefo'n a;rlcltd altcn'i>n When the Republican National Con- vention of 1884 was held, in Chicago. he was chairman of the New York State delegation.
 After this experience he dropped out of politics for two years. Going west he purchased ranches along the Little Missouri River, in North Dakota, and divided his time between ourdoor sports, particularly hunting, and liter ary work. Here he laid the founda- 1ion for his series of books, "The Winning of the West" which was pub lished from 1889 to 1896, and of other volumes of kindred character.
 Was Defeated For Mayor. Returning to New York he became the Republican candidate for Mayor, in 1886. He was defeated. President Harrison in 1889 appointed him a member of the United States Civil Service Commission and President Cleveland continued him in this of flee, which he resigned in 1895 to be- come New York City's police commis- sioner
 "A thing that attracted me to this office." Roosevelt said at the time he AMERICA MOST-GAL TWO - - aoceped this appointment, twas that it was to be done in the hurly-burly, for l don't like cloister life" Honesty was the watchword of this adminis- tration, and the two years of his occu- II eform he inauguarted attracting the nations attention while holding a position which was obscure in com- paris1n with the events to come. Illicit liuuor traffic, gambling. vice in gen. eral--of these events he purged the city in he face of corrupt political opposition, and the reputation he es- tabiisheG as a refoymer won him the personal selection by President Nc Kinley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, ir 1897. A year later the Span ish American War broke out.
 The Roosevelt temperament did not allow the man to retain a deputy Cabinet position, with war offering something more exciting. Leonard Wood, now a Major-General was then President McKinley's physi- clan and one of Roosevelt's staunch- est friends.
 The famous Rough Riders were or
 ganized by Wood and Roosevelt-a
 band of fighting men the mention ot whose name today suggests imme-
 diately the word Roosevelt" They came out of the west--plainsmen min
 CTS, rough and ready fighters who were natural marksmen, and Wood be
 came their Colonel and Teddy" as he had become familiarly called by the
 public, their Lieutenant Colonel. In
 company with the regulars of the
 Army they took transports to Cuba
 landed at Santiago and were soon en- , gagged in the thick of battle. Among