Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-01

Wise Caution--His strength and His
| shortcomings
Madison, Aug. %.
Thirty years agu this sumner there
| VAS young man of g6 years OF age
walking the streets OF Chicago looking
for work, He didn't find II. He had
| $500 or $500 In his pocket that he had
saved from his pay rs n soldier In the
war, but there seemed to be no way to
| Increase the amount, He was printer
had been foreman VI n country week.
| ~ back In Pennsylvania. hut there
seemed to be no call for his services In
| the big city. This was partly because
| he was a little fellow In sixe and phys
| zeal wreck at that
He Glanced Incidentally to fan in with
man who was In the lumber business
| up In Wisconsin, The wanderer was
offered a job IN pconto and accepted
gladly,
What was the first thing YOU did In
| the millG" asked Governor Sconed,
Carried slabs" he replied.
aiow hig was the payT"
| "One dollar day"
Since then things have hrightened for
the little man, though he only weighs
| lis pounds now, lie Is about complet-
| ing his first term aa governor Of g,0D0,-
| COO people. and has been renominated
| by the Republican party after u sharp
| contest. lic has u salary Of $4,000, but
| the income from the Scohcld y Arnold
| company cor which the governor and
two sons own all the stoek) makes n
| handsome addition to this but set
Governor Sroncld is not u wealthy man,
| az mmhcrmen So, Governor Up
! ham could buy hlm out u number OF
| times over
lie sprung FROM the Middle glasses,
Mr., In Toilette VAS born IN u log
cabin. We Americans are the only peo-
| Pile IN the world who rejoice III careers
| thus marNelouslS built up on nothing
OF earthly advantages, II Is positive
| benefit 10 candidate IN the United
| states to have begun at the bottom,
| Governor Seonell has made HIS career;
| but while no doubt he would be proud
| to have been rooted In pioneer priva-
| tons, the fact IL he was not lis ia
| thor was n farmer on n reach OF leo
acres. bat IN addition he wna a lumber
man. This WIS IN Clearteld, In Penn
| sylvnnla. and Edward was born In tS4s.
understandable timber. The father war
| a substantial man of the middle class
| and II does not appear that the family
| ever went hungry, He was of English
stock. sitting through Virginia, the gov
ernor's grandfather having made his
way into the Pennsylvania town of Clear.
| field and settled there, Tho governors
| mother was lrish--hcr parents tmmi-
| grated In those dark years of Irish dis
| tress and some OF the governors moth
| crs sisters and brothers were born IN
| the Emerald Islc, The nnmc Wna Coli
| Inns, and what uriRtocratic blood the
| Oconto lumhclmnn may claim Ia along
| thIa line, for Pennsylvania now has
good many Collins who nre wealthy
| and people Of note Aud they all take
| to politicH,
Edward has four brothers and
| four pIRtors-a good old-fashoned
| family. or these four have fallen
| by the wayslde, The three
| living brothers are now In Cleartleld,
| the youngest II lawyer, and tho other
| two In the lumber business on mod
est scale The surviving sister In Mrs.
julia Arnold of Denver,
Went to Work when II.
| The resources II the Scoiield family
| were not 20 extended that career ~
| labor was not the allotment of the
| bnys. Up to the nRe Of Is Edward spent
| his time doing farm chores and golng
to school, l1is chief characteristic dur
| ing this lerlud seems to have been u
| fondness FOR horses. aud when he went
| back last year to the scenes Of his boy
| hood the old settlers told good story
Of young scoiield brushing Up an old,
horRc naagd Sage" md Winning n
horse race when no one expected H.
| askcd TIE governor something about
his boyhood, but all | could set out Of
him was that he WIS n good boy"
| This Is what Henry G. Payne aud all
the other notnbles told mo. 80 ! take II
that bad boys die. contrary 70 the
adagc, and that only the good get TO
be prominent In life.
When Edward was 70 years old nd
became printers devil IA indiana pa.
and after three years Of lifting galleys
and general abuse he went into
printing elllce In Brookheld This wag
a couple Of years before the war, and
the year Immediately preceding the out.
break, when he was 10 years old, the
lad worked for 500 year and his
board In his employers tome The lat
ter raised company and young seo-
field carried gun In It, II was Com.
! pany X, Eleventh Pennsylvania re-
serves. aud he served an the way
through that bloody and wenrlsome
chapter Of the nations history. He
evidently was In favor. young as he
was, for he became corporal and ser.
| gcnnt; and April ID. 1863. was made
frtt lieutenant. After the battle OF
| South Mountain he was commissioned
| captain. He was In the thick Of every
| thing up to the battle OF the Wilder
ness. May 5. 1864. when he was taken
| prisoner.
| Lived In Twelve Rebel Prisons.
The news got homo that he was dead
| and there was a nice obituary sketch
In the Cleafheld paper. Governor up-
ham had this same sort OF premature
burial For ten weary months scoheld
remained In the possession ~ the con-
federatcs, sampling twelve different
prisons IN Dixie and was released In
Wilmington N. G., March /. 1855. He Ia