Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-24
THEIR FIRST DOLLAR.


 The new congress has more than the usual number of new members ana among them the full proportion or self made men. That is one of the significant things about congress. Glance through the biographies in the Congressional directory and you Will appreciate how much more representa- tive Is the highest legislative body III the land than the law-making body or any other nation. There are no hered- itary law makers. Most legislators began active life with a hand on the blow or taught school to earn living in the interval of law studies.
 The case of Kittredge Haskins of Vermont is typical. T was born and reared upon one of the hilI farms of Windham county" said MT Haskins, when asked how he earned his first dollar. My father, having older boys at home, he consented. when l was about F years of age, that l might drive oxen to blow for one of the neighbors who was not blessed with boys. I received l21s cents per day for my work. While 1 was studying law I worked at times peeling hemlock bark and cutting cord wood at 90 cents per cord, and also in the hay field at the then going price of $1 and $1.2o per day. I have always felt great interest in the farmer and his work. '
 E. $. Candler, jr, is q new member of the Mississippi. delegation. Mir Candler is a lawyer, like MT Haskins, and, like the Vermont member, he be gan serious life behind yoke of oxen.
 T made my first dollar hauling cord wood to a country town and selling it.'' said MT Candler My team was a yoke Of oxen, with which I contin- ued the business of wood hauling for some little time and so accumulated the first sum of money ever had which I earned by my own efforts.
 Charles F. Scott of the Kansas del egation is an editor. He is not new in Washington. for he spent three months of 1899 in the press gallery at Washington for the Topeka Capital. MT Scott made his first dollar elerking in grocery store at 90 cents day.
 J. Ross Mickey of Illinois is 9 law yer. T never had a dollar given me- said MT Mickey. T was raised on a farm and l earned my first dollar drop ping corn on an old fashioned corn planter"
 John ". Cassingham Of Ohio, bus mess man, had a start very like that of MT Mickey. His first dollar was earned as hand on | farm at the age of sixteen.
 T remember well how I earned my first dollar" said W. ". Skies. an other Ohio congressman, who is ,sery- | ing his first term. T earned it in as eli inn s1a 71,fx .l< droyer for several days.'
 Elias Deemer is a wealthy lumber merchant of Williamsport, Pa. The first dollar MT Deemer earned was as clerk in general country store.
 Joseph B. Perkins is an author congressman, though a lawyer by pro- fession. The first money earned 2 he said, twas for copying papers in the law office where I was student
 T. L. Glenn of Idaho is another of the many lawyers in the new congress. T am not sure just how I earned my first dollar, he said, but if my mem ory is correct 1t was driving yoke of oxen for man named Manion who was building levee on the Mississippi river at Cairo, Ill, in 1S56.''
 My first money was made by or dinary manual labor," said Joseph T Johnson of South Carolina Mir John son is too modest man to tell all that this represents of hardship and struggle, but Dr Smith, his family physician, has told the story of his early struggles. His father died when he was years old and his moth CT when he was 14. T have always understood that he cut cord wood picked and hood cotton, and did wha1 work he could get to do on Saturdays and in vacation, says pr. Smith. T have seen many q time the oxen ht drove through the streets of Due Wes1 mornings and evenings before an6 I after college hours, in order to make money to pay his expenses. That ht succeeded in getting splendid educa ton no man will deny. He has made a special study of economic questions and, in my opinion, is the best inform ed man in the state.''