Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-04

| AT TvENTY-FOCR HE VAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
 children were born to them. He died when tho youngest child was p months old, leaving l, 900 acres of land and 30 slaves
 Thomas at this time was II years of age, with thick rcd hair. He attended William and Mary college two years and then studied law four years under :coryc Wvthc at Williamsburg.
 At the age of 24 he was admitted to bar. Gtorgc Wythe, under whom
 studied, also gave Chief Justice
 lrshall ard Henry Clay their clear and accurate notions of law. Thomas Jefferson also studied the violin, and after reading that flaw is rule of action, prescribing what is right and prohibiting what is wrong" he would turn to his violin, eXpectorate on the keys to keep them from slipping while tunin- up, and then practice, so his biOgraphvr says, for three hours at q time.
 And yet he got votes enough ill after years to Grct him president of the United States.
 Thomas Jefferson was eminently suc- ccsSful at the bur for eight years, start ing i'll with 6S cases the first year and gradually working up to 430 cases in his fourth year of practice. He studied hard at the law even then, and it is S;Uid that his industry as a student was something truly remarkable all his life
 When his father died, Jefferson went at once to tn" store and bought 20 gal Ions of midnight oil. Igct this informa- ton from Joseph Jefferson, who has given me many of the points and con siderable of the data used in this little sketch of tl4o early life of Jefferson, the statesman.
 Thomas earned at the bar as high as e5O0, which was regarded in those times as a great income. He was very economical, and out of this income he managed to save enough for the pur- chase of 5000 acres of land, according to James Parton. i'll addition to what he already owned.
 | NIT. Jefferson ill 1112 married Martha Sk"lt,4I, q young, beautiful, wealthy and childless widow. who died the fol- i lowing year, and thus doubled MT. lief | fcr>on < income.
 l Ill l.G9 h" entered politics, having been elected member of the house of bUrEc>>c>. These burgesscs were men who met occasionally to discuss the i previous question. He was noted for his 1 libC rality and for his disapproval of ] slavery. H. Was not so ultra antislavery as John Brown, whose soul is at present 1 engaged iu marching on. but he regarded the institution with grief and solicitude for the future.
 Though strongly attached to the mother country, ho united with Patrick Henry and the Lees in denouncing the course pursued by Great Britain toward the culoni<t>. He expressed himself many times both by voice and pen rela- tive [" this matter i'll no uncertain tone, and the same spirit actuated him in his early efforts as is brcathed ill such glowing language and soul stirring sen timcntS as We find in the Declaration of Independence ill later years.
 IL iS said that Jeffcrson's ill feeling toward tho mother country originated i'll ITO, when a representative of King George visited this country and was in trnduCcd to Jefferson at plain Virginia dinner of fried chicken and beaten bread. The Englishman's name was Sir George Attorney, and he had n pompous way which Jefferson did not like and could not tolerate.
 At the dinner, ill conversation with Jefferson, Sir George, who had turned up his nose at the simple food offered him by his colonial friends, referred tc his ili health, and Jefferson asked him what his .ilmcnt was. Sir George re piled that lie suffered great deal from insomnia.
 ''I used 70 have that a good deal my. self. said Jefferson, especially while i'll college. but one day went to bed and slept it GIT. Dad yoI UT try that, Sir Geurgc:"
 It is said that Aldcrncy wrote home to one of the papers i'll London regard ing the above incident, giving it as al illustration of colonial ignorance. Thi! made MT. Jefferson so mad tha throughout his long and useful life h. never forgavc the mother country.
 After the dinner was over it is report ed that Sir George actually took Jeffer EOn aside and said to him: 'I beg par don, MT. Jefferson, but you know couldn't go away without telling yol that you made a terrible ass of yoursel at the table just now, and rather thal see you repeat it, you know, I though would call your attention to it. "You know, I understand, of cawse that you have had few advantages her among the savages, and so you know very little of the use of words, and s' you made a very serious erraw just now You remembah that I referred to tn fact that was troubled with insomnia dear boy, and you told me that once yol had it in college. And, me Gawd, Mir Jefferson, you said you went to bed ant slept it hoffl
 Don't you know th.-t .be very trou ble with insomnia is that yUS cown' sleep it hoff?"
 ''Is that possible?" said Jefferson with we'll assumed horror. "Why, l thought it was something like colicI''