Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-03
THERE'S HOPE fos EVERYONE.

THERE'S HOPE FoR EVERYONE.
Speaker Carlisle was a country school
teacher.
Judge Kelley, father Of the house. WINS .
jeweler.
Senator Pasco was q school teacher at $40
. moRth.
Tom Reed, of Maine, was a paymaster in
tn. navy.
Dousherty, Of Florida, was sailor before
the mast.
Anderson, of Kansas, was Presbyterian
clergyman.
Judge Chapman, of Michigan, was mine
prospector.
Leland Stanford was a country lawyer in
Wisconsin
Senator Kenna was once a coal miner at
&i3D day.
Senator Dawes was school teacher and
country editor.
Ben Butterworth used to be plantation
boss in Virginia.
SAoator Morrill,, of Vermont, kept coun-
try grocery store.
D,le.,ate Game, of Utah. was many years .
th.x,tre manager.
Taulbee, the tall Kentucky member, was Q
divinity student.
Robertson, the new Louisiana member, Ii
college professor
James B. White, of Indiana, was calico
printer and tailor.
Congressman Outerwaite was principal OF
city school five years.
Civil Service Commissioner Oberly was .
Chicago Times reporter
Jn,ee Tarsney, Michigan congressman,
wns steamboat engineer.
Justice Batchford was Governor W. ID.
Sewar1's private secretary.
Senator Plumb was typesetter. Hit, OF
ILLINOIS, was a stenographer.
Senator Sawyer bought his time" when IL
wears Old and ran saw mA.
S-uator Stewart, of Nevada, mined with a
pick and shovel in California
Senator Cullom was famous as q corn
husker in early days in Illinois.
W .F. Lee, son of Robert E. Lee. and
now a CONGRESSMAN, Is a farmer
Darlington, a Pennsylvania member, was
a reporter on Philadelphia dailies.
Clifton II. Breckenridge, of the ways and
means committee, was a bookkeeper.
B.n,tells, of Maine, was sea captain
Plumb, of Illinois, was grocery clerk
Senator Allison was an abstract clerk.
(,uenther. of Wisconsin, was druggist.
;toneis. of Ohio, was a baggage master.
Deacon White, of New York, was miller.
Secretary Bayard was clerk in New York.
Pidcock, of New Jersey, was civil engineer.
John McShane, the millionaire Omaha con-
gresham, was q cowboy without cent IN
1871.
FELTON,. the California multi-millionaire,
was n chore boy on a farm in Erie county,
Ny.
Bancroft, the historian, once thought OF
entering the ministry, and preached several
sermons.
Solicitor General jerks used to be sur
veyt~ Pennington, of Delaware, was
school teacher.
Samuel ]. Randall, whom nobody supposed
had war record was private in a COM
I.ny of cavalry.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was gold pros
rector in California in AZ, and sheriff OF
Tuolumne county later.
Silas Hare, a Texas member, was jay
banker chief Justice Of New Mexico under
the Confederate government.
Congressman Farquhar was typesetter,
and the first president of the first typograph-
ical i,nion in the United States
Justice Bradley taught district school
every winter from his 10th to his 2lst year
and was for some time surveyor.
Se,.ator Blodgett, of New Jersey, was q
locomotive engineer His predecessor, Gen.
Sew III, was once q sailor before the mast.
Senator Dolph was an orderly sergeant in
a company raised to protect settlers crossing
the plains in 1862 from attacks of Indians.
President Cleveland once compiled the
American Herd Book and received $50 for
tho service For a time he managed hotel
Senator Riddleberger has been editor Of
thr..e papers, The Shenandoah Democrat, The
leu on Legion, and The Virginia Democrat.
Frank Lawler, another Chicago member,
was a hricknaker, news agent, learned the
ship carpenters trade, and is now a saloon
keeper.
Sena.or Sabin, with his trousers tucked in
his boots, used to stand on the streets Of
Springfield, Mass, all day to sell cordwood
tlat DO had chopped and hauled twelve
miles.
Justice Field was intended for the mis-
sionary service His sister Emilia took him
to Smy rna when ID years old, to have him
learn the Oriental languages, and he spent
eleven years tsere in study.
George Wet, now millionaire congress
man from New York, was a journeyman
paper maker in the times when paper was
made by the old fashioned hand process. He
recently bought the mill in England where
he learned his trade.-New York Evening