New-York tribune., 1909-03-07

.syye left c;rahannviIle and bought farm in the
famous 18th District Of Ohio which was repre-
sented in Congress by Joshua R. GiddinSs. ana al
8 latter day by James A Garfield. and which was
also the home OF Senator Benjamin F. WADE the
curious abolitionist. We were very poor Money
was scarce Markets were few and far apart
Farm products had to be traded TO merchants lot
calico and other goods. got little money oy
neelinx apples and drying them in the sun
MIXED dve COWS twice a day. and walked three
miles TO an academy at Kingsville one winter
did chores at mans house for my board Iheh
7 got a room at the academy, sweeping the ouild-
inc and ringing the bell for my tuition MY notheF
gave me bed and box stove, and did my own
cooking. .
ION Wednesdays had rhetoricals teacher
named Drake seemed to take pleasure IN cr1tclslns
and humiiatng before the students OF oO'h
sexes l was ignorant, vain and sensitive one
dav opened on Drake in long and outrageous
speech He ordered to the platform, following
the command. when didn't go. with a push Inc
girls screamed and the boys laughed Then went
outdoors and finished speech on the renee
After WY, exunlsjon attended an academy at Aus
tnburg in the same county. teaching school during
the months Of winter as did my sister and five CT
my brothers. .
Il worked hard but it was contest with pow
erty all the time. The young men OF to-day don
know what it is to fight for an education ana
those who are clothed and fed and given every op-
portunIty by their fathers are utterly unapprecia
tive. I found that was making no head~ay ana
went q jefferson, the county seat Nnefe L "aS
engaged as principal Of the village schools The
children OF Wade and Giddings were among my
n,,nIs as were the sisters and brothers OF William
Dean Howeus the novelist. My salary was TOO
small 10 remember 1 read law at Jefferson ana
there I was married. After my school closed II
summer I found work with neighboring farmers
with letters OF recommendation from Giod1nss
and other prominent citizens. 1 set out Tor iowa
where I meant to settle. On the way stopped al
Richland in Kalamazoo County, Mich to visit my
vifes uncle. On being offered a teachers place IN
an academy at Richland accepted it. 1 read the
statutes of Michigan. and. having passed an exam
nation in Detroit was given license TO practice
7rhen the North and the South went to war about
slavery. I made patriotic speeches and helped in
the work Of recruiting
In 1852 7 was elected captain OF a company or
infantry in which were many of my former stu
dents and went to the front with my regiment
taking part In such battles as South Mountain
Fredericksburg Vicksburg and Antistan- My vile
died in 1864, leaving little daughter, and / re-,
signed nv commission. I opened q law office in
Kalamazoo. At the end of three months man
paid me 81 so for writing a legal document That
was nv first fee Soon afterward l went into
partnership with Henry F. Severens now United
States Judge in the 9th judicial Circuit. When
came to CongSess in 1873 we we're dividing slo'oo
year between us-
And public Office" said. broke up your bust
nsss?'
oYes. entirely Ii has been thirty years since
/ tried a lawsuit"
(copyright, lsOs. By James B Morr0w.l