The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-14

g pera house and is constructing a. fine
business building at Milbank, S. D., is
IS years old, and considers that he has
at least twenty-five years of the best
part of his life before him.
a 81 feel as if I had only made a be-
ginning he says. ''I m no wonder.
Any young man Of average ability who
makes up his mind that he is going to
succeed and then hustles can do as
well, or better. There are more oppor-
tunities in the northwest than there
were dozen years ago. New country
is being opened up, new towns are
building, capital is coming in, the tide
of emigration is steady and strong in
this direction. Poverty ism It handi
cap, but an advantage, if you are young
and ambitious.
+, 81 was born,'' says Mr.. Bentley, Gin
Olmstead county, east Of Rochester,
: this state, Jan. 81, 1870. was the
youngest Of fourteen children, and as
can be imagined, I didn't get much pet
I ting. Ny father died when I was 9
years old. He was farmer and a good
one, but he Endorsed notes for friends,
so he didn' It leave much Of anything
for his widow and family -only tree
claim of 800 acres in South Dakota and
some household goods. =. H.
ttMy mother with her children moved
to the tree claim, lived in prairie
shanty, broke the soil and suffered all
kinds Of hardships for couple of
years, and had to give it up because Of
crop failures. got a start in. the way
Of an education by working for a farm
or two years for my board, so could
go to school, and afterwards as a cham
bermaid in a livery stable for board
and Sc a month.
TO Minneapolis for an Education.
"In 1889, when I was 1S years of
age / had graduated from the high
school, and went into the harvest field
that summer. 7 accumulated $40 and q
suit of clothes, and then headed for
Minnea 7olis to study law. When I ar.
rived I saw for the first time police.
man in uniform. He directed me to the
state university on the other side Of
the river. also saw a streetcar fol-
5 the first time, but I remember that
didn It ride in it, but walked.
CT paid $40 naturalization fees, SIC
for the law school tuition, bought some
books and had just 81 left, I remem
ber I got a room for $3.50 month
aha dlIduSeu W Cd11 uASucS LII 1eSdl
Brothers restaurant on Nicollet ave
nue. four hours day for my board. II
order to get money for other expenses
I delivered papers for the Times over
route that was well toward the out
skirts of North Minneapolis.
Ny daily program was then abou
like this: I got up at o'clock in tn,
morning, hoofed it over the bridge t,
the Times office, got my papers an,
finished my route about 1880, hal
breakfast, and carried dishes from t.
8 O'Clock. The next three hours
would spend in the. law library at TEN
pie Court, where acted as a sort Of a,
assistant librarian in return for tn
privilege Of using the library. The,
Il went to lectures at the university
and at 3 clock was back at the res
taurant, where worked until about
% clock in the evening. Then I woul
go to my room and study, for I ha
taken up several studies in the academ
course besides the law
!" After while was made waite
sat the restaurant and did not have t
work SO many hours. The Evenin