Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Legislators Who Show the Effects OF
Early Training.

Early Training.
REPRESENTATIVE TAILOR AND HIS cHARAcrERrs-
rsrIo HABrTs-A STEADY WORKER WHO rs NEVER
DRIvxN-fRox TIE PLOUGH TO rHH pEsK-rwo
PUNcruAL COLLEAGUES AND How rHxY WORK.
The force Of early training is often strikingly
exemplifed in the characteristic habits of the
nations statesmen. The men who assemble in
the halls of the two Houses Of Congress come
from nearly every station in life. representing
the various trades, arts, and professions. One
watching them carefully from the galleries
might almost guess the training and early oc-
cupation Of each.
Three men in the House are always in their
seats in the morning before the arrival Of any
other OF their colleagues. Each of them had
to work on his fathers farm when bow and
each has made money and reputation by his
own exertions. E. B. Taylor is always the first
member in the hall, and Sunday is the only
day during the session OF Congress that he is
not in his seat He arrives always at twenty
hye minutes after nine o'clock, hangs his coat
and hat in the cloak room, and goes at once to
his seat. He never varies from this hour, and
1t is said Of him that he has never been a mo-
ment late at a committee meeting or to meet
an engagement He is not an impetuous or
as soon as he gets to his desk, but he does not
hurry himself. He will stop now and then in
the course of his work to smoke or read paper,
and will take time to talk with any friend or
any sociable person who comes along. without
showing impatience to get back to his work.
He is always taking time deliberately, but by
starting early in the morning he does more
work and gets through it much easier than
most of his, apparently, more active colleagues.
He has mastered the secret of working and ac-
Itch, fo%,< ill
not permit anything to delay his arrival on
time. Once there he is graciously generous of
his time to all who make demands upon it. One
day last week party Of Boston teachers were
visiting the capital. Being Christmas week
there was not much temptation for members to
go to the capitol. and MIR. Taylor was the only
one in the House. One of the teachers was &C.
companied by her little five-year-old girl who
made herself very busy looking at the names
on the desks. "Hon. Amos ]. Cummings"
Hon. s. s. Cox" "Hon. Thomas B. Reed" she
read. and so on from desk to desk until a
deeply-puzzled look came over her bright face.
She looked round for a moment, then, seeing
Mr.. Taylor, ran up to him.
WHY THE BOYS ARE NAMED HON.
"Can you please tell me-" she said, ''why all
the boys in this school are named Hon?"
The member laid aside his work, patted the
child's rosy cheeks, told her why 1.-The boys"
were named Hon., and then entered into a
pleasant conversation with her. He talked
with her all about the school" as he humored
her in calling it, and about how 1.-The boys
learned to speak pieces and all sorts of things,
showing her all sorts of polite attentions.
When finally she was called away he walked to
the end of the aisle with her and kissed her
goodbye. Then he got back to his work again.
No matter whether it is a holiday recess or
an adjournment over for three days, Sunday is
the only day in the week he is not in the House.
ON CHRrSTNAs nay
he was the only member who visited the capt.
toll. At 9:25, as usual. he was there, but he was
delayed in getting to his desk. All the many
into the hall of the House were locked and re-
sisted the pressure he put upon them. None
of the messengers or other employees were
there to open them, and he went all the way
around the big square twice, trying to find a
way to get in. Finally he discovered that one
Of the windows leading into the barber shop
had been left unfastened, and he climbed in
there. For four hours he sat at his desk and
worked without soul in sight or hearing.
Then he climbed out the window again and got
home to his Christmas dinner. He graduated
in law in 1S45. and from that date until 1886,
he says, he never took single days holiday.
During all that time he worked 365 DAYS in a
year, not resting on legal holidays or Sundays.
He rests as he works, never working
very hard and not getting very tired
farm and getting an education. When he grad
uated in law in 1845 he borrowed 500 on good
security, and started off by himself TO build up
a practice. He rented little Office and sat in
it for one year without anyone bearing the
slightest resemblance to a client ever calling
on him. He had to borrow more money. Some
years alter that he had saved about a hundred
thousand dollars. Then he went security for q
man and lost it all, and great deal more. That
left him heavily in debt. He went right on in
oh 1v In had c<art h.
thing he knew he was independent again.
TWO OTHERS.
His two punctual colleagues are Buchanan,
of New Jersey, and S. V. White, of Brooklyn
Neither of them has a certain, precise hour for
coming, but they both arrive not long after the
Ohio statesman. and there is not much varia-
ton in the time of their arrival each morning
Buchanan is a hard and earnest worker. White
is nervous and active, going at everything with
rush. When the Jerseyman first came to
Congress he was placed on the claims commit
tee, and he took hold of the business as if
there was really purpose in Congress that it
should be disposed of. He did the work of two
or three men, only to see the most of it go TO
waste on the calendar. He learned to work on
stony hillside farm in Jersey. His father and
brother being in poor health, the labor of the
farm fell on him. From long before the sun
rose until the stock was fed, after dark, he
worked at the pillow and anywhere else there
was necessity, and all the spare money he got
he spent in books, and sat up until it was nearly
time to go to work again, studying. In this
way he studied law, while running his fathers
farm. Then he started out to put his learning
into practice. BY this experience he contracted
two habits. One was getting early at work and
writing hard. The other was buying books
He has quite an extensive library, which has
its foundation on the books he bought while at
the pillow, and he is constantly adding to it
book or two at a time, buying them just as fast
as he can read them-no faster.
s. V. White got his first experience in early
industry on farm and in grist MILL where
he had to work. His experience was not
widely dissimiar in character from that of the
other two only that he drifted from law into
Wall street. He is now the deacon" of Wall
street, the wealthy banker and broker-mem-
Der of Congress, who delights in a clever
manipulation of the markets. He is richer
and more of the world than the others, and
withal an entertaining and original genius
A Democratic Opinion of Harrison.
From the Brooklyn Eagle 0nd DEM.
1t is pretty well known that General Harri-
son has offered to no one any cabinet position
and he will not do so until February. He is
correctly reported to intend to learn all that
can be obtained on the subject before he acts,
and then to act for himself. There are
other relevations which, although they are of
a negative character, are such as justify a high