The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-05

The Hon. James G. Blaine was gradu-
ated at the age of Is years, and took up the
birch almost ediately afterward. He
succeeded as a teacher, just as he has sue
cesded as statesman, author, ana hnan-
cier. During the last Presidential canvass
| friend asked him, playfully, how he ac-
CURED all his personal magnetism. I be-
lleve," he replied, laughing, "that the nee
essity Of controlling kentucky urchins in
my teaching days brought to the surface
the so-called magnetism, and which might
have otherwise lain forever dormant"
MIR. Blaine has more than once, IN addresses
before colleges, said that he attributed his
earlier successes in public life to the pa
tience and self-control he acquired at the
Kentucky school,
Congressman s. S. Cox of New York,
tried to pound knowledge into the heads OF
young Buckeyes, in Ohio, before he entered
public life. His versatility was not equal
to MIR. BlaineHs, however, and although he
has been a success as a legislator and III
literature, he was dismal failure as
teacher. His career as a pedagogue is said
to have come to an untimely end. There
Is legend that he resigned at the urgent
request of all the school trustees, backed
by almost every taxpayer of the village
where he taught. STILL with his custom
airy geniality, he delivered a touching fare
well address at parting, begging that the
villagers should not Unfortunately mourn his
loss, and declaring that nothing in the
world but the most urgent demands for his
presence elsewhere could force him to give
up the companionship of mis- loved scholars
and neighbors. For O long time afterward
it was a mooted question among the VII
layers whether the young teacher had been
poking fun at them. Ever since that time
Mr. Cox has been warm friend OF the
teachers, helping them publicly and pri-
vately whenever opportunity offered
Every one knows that Mayor Hewitt
earned by teaching, the money paid for his
first trip to Europe. He partly supported
himself while at college by coaching"
other young men, and he proudly tells, in
the Congressional directory, Of his labors
at teaching. The mayor, like Speaker
Carlisle, is fond of attending teachers con-
ventions and school commandments to this
day,
Senator Ingalls,, the republican leader
and president of the United States Senate,
has presided on the school house rostrum.
After being graduated at Harvard College,
be went TO Kansas, expecting that his
Massachusetts culture might be at once
coined into dollars. 1t was slow work, so
Mr. Ingalls, resorted to teaching until he
could earn a subsistence by the practice OF
the law. He taught. with great success,
and at this period acquired the distinct ar
have since made him the first orator in the
Senate.
Senator Hawley of Connect cut, taught
for some years before he entered college.
Ex-senator Mitchell of Pennsylvania, was
a teacher when the civil war broke out.
Senator Riddlebe rger of Virginia taught
school before entering politics. Ex-senator
Camden of West Virginia earned in the
school house the dollars which laid the
foundation of the millions he owns to-day
Senator Kenna of the same state, had :,
school on the Kanawha while be was study
ing law and farming He was once offered
the presidency of the West Virginia State
university, but preferred to go to congress.
Senator .Cullom of Illinois managed a
school ten years before the civil war. He
is to-day type of the old-time backwoods
teacher. Senator Vest of Missouri taught
school in Kentucky He then became re
porter, and as an Inevitable consequence of
this second evolution, a great statesman.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon was a school
teacher for many years. He attends all
the school commencemepts while he is in
Washington, and likes to tell what he
knows and what he does not know about
the art of teaching.
United States Justice Lamar was a pro-
fessor in the Oxford, Miss, university
when he was elected United States Senator.
Secretary Villas once taught the young
idea how to sprout and blossom in the
bleak backwoods of Wisconsin. Congress
man Reed of Maine, the republican leader
of the House of Representatives, also
welded the birch many years ago.