The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

he had to cut himself off to a large extent |
from society for he scorned to accept invi-
tations which be could not repay in kind. !
There is nothing of the aristocrat about |
PETER. He is quiet Woodworking every |
day man, not at all brilliant and as far as l
can see not at all distinguished save that he |
is an Alliance member of the United States
Senate He has a thin narrow face, blue
eyes and thin hair which is combed up from
a low and rather narrow forehead. His
face is not strong one and I should i'm
agine his chin must be small though you
can see nothing of 1t nor of his mouth for
the great brown curly beard which reaches
to his waist and which forms predominant
and striking feature of his anatomy. This
beard is fully twenty inches long. 1t con-
tains about two thousand hairs and if these
could be plucked out and tied end to end
they would reach almost from the
capitol to the White House or If tied to the
end of a stick the beard would make q suit
able whisk brush for old Father Basset to
dust off the desks Of his brother Senators.
This beard restsson Senator PETERS ado
men when he sits down. 1t will take the
place of chest protector If he wears a
dress suit, and 1 note that he keeps his
vest unbuttoned almost to the waist and
lets it's beautiful silky BROWNIES stand out
the better against the white background of
his boiled shirt.
SENATOR PETERS BoYHooD.
l asked Senator PETER as to his career
and he told me some interesting stories of
his boyhood. Said he:
II come of German parentage on both
sides of the house and my family is from
Hesse Darmstadt. l was born on farm in
Pennsylvania within sight of the capital,
Harrisburg. My father had farm Of about
one hundred and fifty acres which was
very fair farm in that part of the country,
and the farmers were in better condition at
that time than they are now. We made
nearly everything that we required on
the. farm. We Wove our own clothing
and made nearly all of the articles we con-
sumed. Wages were very low | remem-
Der the first money that earned. 1t was
for thrashing. We thrashed our wheat by
throwing the sheaves on the barn floor and
riding horses around over it to tramp it
out | was boy at the time and hired out
to do this riding. | got six and one-fourth
cents day for 1t. Some time after that
had my wages raised so that got ten cents
day, and finally when l was about seven
teen years old and could do mans work
received thirty seven cents a day and
thought was doing well. | got my educa-
ton at the country schools and at fifteen
began to teach school. My wages were six
teen dollars month and boarded myself
and paid four dollars a month for my board
In the meantime naQ saved lJtl6 money
and when L was still very young man 1
married and went to Missouri and got o
farm there. The panic of 1857 made times
very hard and 1 moved from Missouri to
Illinois and was there at the time the war
broke out | enlisted as a private and be-
came lieutenant. l studied law while [
was in the army and after the war was over,
settled in the South at GAINESVILLE, Tennes-
see. 1t was not pleasant for my family nor
for myself and moved to Kansas and pre-
empted farm. Now there was a news
paper in the town near which lived which
was not run at all to suit the people. I went
into town one day and bought the man out
though I had not dollar to pay for it, and
then went around to the merchants and told
them that was going to run clean paper
and that they must support me. They did
support me and continued editing, practic
ing law and farming until l went to Topeka
| to edit the Kansas Farmer"
SENATOR PETERS, GREAT SCHEME.
The conversation here turned to politics
and the Alliance legislation Of the coming
session and Senator PETER said:
81 have always been Republican and
j was really anxious to have Senator Ingall.