Evening star., 1897-04-17

| senator F01rDlnkS.
| Fairbanks. II have often noticed how care
! full he is of the comforts of others. re-
| member being on the stump with him at
one time. We were to speak together at
| Washington Court House. Mckinley was
| then candidate for governor, and he was.
| of course, the lion of the occasion. When
| we arrived the committee of the town had
| carriage for him. and they were about to
send me off with one of the lesser lights.
| Mckinley however would not permit it,
| He took me in with him, and l shared with
| him in the honor of the OCCASION" .fg,
Studying Law.
How did you come to go to Indianap-
| oils senator?' -..l---. .., -- -..c
Il thought the town was a good one I
| was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta
| College fraternity, and my first visit to
| Indianapolis was to attend fraternity
| convention. l also had friends there, and
| have never regretted that | chose the To-
cation
DO you like the law. senator?"
Yes, indeed | do was the reply Il
| think it develops a man in an all around
| ay better than any other profession. l.
| fits him for any place in which his lot may
! lalh ! believe Mckinley is a better Presi-
| dent for having been a lawyer and that
! Harrison was the better fitted for his ca
| feer by his law practice
| law"
Yes. 1 think every man should study
law If he is q business man he should
Know a great deaf of the law. The law
| comes into every act of mans ,ife and
the education which leaves the law out is
deficient"
Then you believe in every man being
| his own lawyer senator?'
NO, not that, fer, You know. it is said
that the man who is his own lawyer has a
| 1ool Tor his client 1 mean that every man
| should have a knowledge of the general
principles of the law. and should So study
that he would almost intutively know
what the law ought TO be. If he should
have a law case on hand. however, ne
ought to get a cd lawyer to help him.
DO yea think there is as much chance
OF success at the bar as ever?'
Yes every bit for the right man. The
Practite has to certain extent been d.
Vided up into speciaities, but there is as
muc1 chance for young men as in the
past"
How about the farmer boys senator?
Do you think they have as good a chance
to succeed in the world as the richer boys
of the city,"
Yes better" replied Senator Fairbanks.
1t needs hard knocks and hard work to
develop character. The boy CT the city
does not have enough difficulties TO CON
tend with. The rich father cannot give
/ them 10 him. l don't think it any advan-
| taSe for a boy to be born rich / remem-
Der nearing of party of successful mel
who were telling how they became ricn
and famous. One after another described
| the trials he had had and the stems bv
| which he had climbed from nothing to
success. Al last time came for the story
OF the most eminent of them all. He said:
| 1 think am entitled to more credit than
any of you, for l was born rich, and have
succeeded in spite of my riches -
! How One Boy Got Education,
| 1 here asked Senator Fairbanks to tell
me something about his family, saying 1
! supposed he was related to the Fairbanks
scales people. He replied that he did not
Know; mat his ancestors came from Eng
| land to Massachusetts and thence to Yer
| mont. Said he:
My father was born in Vermont. hut
when he was {, boy he moved to Lowell
| Mass. where he had a brother who was
wagon maker. He worked for some time
| at Lowell in wooden mill but AT sixteen
| years OF age he struck out for Ohio II.
| did there what he could find to DO cutting
| timber and other work of that kind His
wages were 3I1s cents day. He soon saw
| that In the tTen new state of Ohio there
was a good demand for wagons and Il.
| concluded to so back 10 Massachusetts.
| learn 10 be wagon maker in his brothers
| shop apd again come west TO practice his
| trade He dld this, and when he returned
10 ONO he got work an cmploye under a
| wagon maker IN Union county. He served
| MS master so well that he was soon taken
| into partnership. ard the old wagon maker
| gave him his daughter in marriage. The
| young couple lived together with the old
| folks in their log cabin home. 1t was in
| that leg cabin that | was born and near
| there | spent my hoyhood. Father stop
| ped making wagons after time and
! bought some lard. 1 think he had .,D
| acres 1T first. 1t was all timber and he
had to clear it. AS l grew older ! helped
| MIN, and l thus learned to do all kinds of
! farm work. My father taught me also
] now TO hdrdle tools, and later on | found
this of great value. 1t helped me 10 get
! through college, for / was able to put in
| my Saturdays in doing carpenter work
for which l got sl25 day"
| Did you work your way through school
| senator?'
Yes and no. was the reply. my father
| gave me some of the money 1 needed AID
| l earned some. / made some as | told
! you, on Saturdays. and / earned something
! during nay vacations Delaware at that
! time was a cheap place to go to school, l
| remember one term cost me just about
| ST."
How could you live so cheaply, sena-
| tori
We'll, the tuition was very low, in the
| first place. Then. l had a room mate and
| together. we paid only $3.50 a week for
| our room. We did own cooking Our
| homes were about twenty miles away and
| we could bring our supplies from our own
! farms We had plenty cf bread, which osr
| mothers baked. ard We learned how to
| make :nush. We could boil potatoes and
when some one started our batter for buck
| wheat cakes we could add to the batter
| from day TO day and keep it alive so that
| we had fresh buckwheats every morning
All this cost very little, and still we lived
| fairly we'll"