St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-05

of application, gained IN the felt and
forest, served the student in good stead.
In such school, also, one natures early.
When his sixteenth birthday had come
and gone, young BoieS began TO enter
tain thoughts of leaving home; he
would 20 out and see the world at any
rate. Somewhere, he believed, there
WAS place and honor for every honest,
industrious, fairly capable yonng
man. Why not for him among
the rest? One morning. early in
the second summer month of Boies
seventeenth year, lake boat touched at
Racine, Wis, and Boies stepped off.
His entire earthly possessions, except
only 70 cents in silver. were done up III
a red bandanna handker. hief which he
carried by his side. On the second DAY
after his arrival he found work with a
farmer at S12 per month. The country
was new, and not entirely unlike West
ern New York. There was plenty of
timber scattered thinly over rich prairie
land-burr-Oak openings such places
were called. 'My father" said Mir.
Boies, and smiling grimly ut the recol-
| lection. especially cautioned me to
make no contract for wages that did not
include MY
WASHING AND MENDING.
So got these in that contract. |
uIOSC Il leCtiIl tillu NOJhCu Ill TIE HpiQ OH
| fair days; when rain fell, in big ditch
| the farmer was making. This ditch
was just wide enough to work in easily,
| and from four to five feet deep. The
| soil was heavy, black loan. Before |
| had worked an hour in the ditch [ was
! daubed from end to end with that black,
| sticky mud. That was hard work with
| vengeance. At length the month
ended and my time was up. When l
asked for my pay, my employer said he
could pay me only $40, because his wife
had decided to charge me 80 for my
washing. But | said, you agreed to
mending besideS.' i know he replied
but my wife says there was
too much ditch mud on your
| clothes.'" Here narrator and lis
tener joined Ill hearty haugh at the
| misadventure of the young traveller.
Did you finally get the other S2?'' was
asked.
mo, did not. They kept them; l
couldn't do anything in the matter, and
| didn't want 10 stay there any longer.
! They half starved me. l was never al
| lowed to come to the table with the
| family, and my meals-they were all
| alike--how well | remember themr' A
half-QuizZical, dreamy look crept into
| the speakers eyes as he continued: 81
| can see it nova bowl of milk. slice
| of bread halt as big as NY hand, and a
| doughnut." The quiZZical look deepened
| into a smile, and then Mr.. Boies laughed
softly. His laugh is always soft, and
| not nnmusical, and he employs very
pleasing, gentle tone in friendly con-
versation. 'Be sure, told my friends
nothing about my troubles. just ell
dured them
IN cDTNT SIR ENru
When left that place | was almost
sick. By chance found only short
way off, a family that had once lived in
our neighborhood in New York, though
they had moved away out West before
| was old enough to know much about
them. When | got there | fell sick
abed, and was very low for three or
four weeks. No boy ever had better or
kinder care tnan those folks gave me.
tell you, I'll always have a mighty
tender spot in my heart for that good.
health young Boies returned home and
| entered an academy, situated twenty
miles from his fathers farm. 1t was a
school of very good standing in that
day; and after graduating there, BoieS
began the study Of law. He was adj
mitted to the bar in Buffalo, n. Y, in
1852. From that day to the present.
except only two terms service Ill the
legislature of New York, he has con.
tinued steadily in the practice of the
law. to-day being considered one of the
ablest criminal lawyers in the West
In 1867 he came to Waterloo and asso
ciated himself with Hon. Fl. B. Allen
This partnership continued several
years, when Carl f. Couch vas admit
ted to the firm, Mr.. Allen retiring. Six
years ago Mr.. Couch gave up his prac
tice to accept district judgeSlIip. Two
years later, James Hustled, the second
member of the firm of Boies. Hustled
Boies, was taken into the partnership
The junior member of the firm i:
Lewyllen Boies, eldest son of the gov
ernor-elect, and young man who ha:
already demonstrated the possession o.
very considerable ability. Gov. Boies
FIRST MARITAL. VENTURE
was made in New York, shortly after hi