The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-29

fopuFge0il 5 sermons with such wonder
ful effect that three old deacons for
got their tobacco chewing, swallowed
their guilds, and fell asleep. Now what
happened that nighta He came into
the meeting to see what was going on.
lie had evidently coached his hopeful
and not content with that, when his
son sat down, he took up his side of
the question and laid us out cold. To
say that we were mad don t tell the
story. We couldn say a word. He
dldn t realize what he had done, but
that young scamp sitting behind his
father grinned and pointed his finger
at us IN our discomforture-the be-
ginning OF political career. It is
forgiven but not forgotten.
There was the incest lot of old boys
about town that ever got together
their locks more or less gray, but
youth in every feature; Deacon Quar-
les, T. ". Lyman, Henry Lines, Cyrus
Lewis, William Bone, N. R. Allen, Gen
eral Levi Grant and others. They knew
all the boys-we knew them, and I
was as free and friendly with them as
with my own father who was one of
them.
70 return to the men and women
who had established this school and
given us such rare opportunities. I
nave said they were men of character
= should say exalted character.
There was no railroad in. those days.
The schools and churches were the
social centers and good scholarship
and good record in school were the
passports to society.
Among these men were inventors
and men who originated new ideas.
&c. Latham Sholes invented the tyne
writer. lie showed me his first per-
fected machine, years after, in the old
Chicago Exposition. G. c. Sholes and A.
p. Smith built the Wisconsin Tele-
graph lines, afterwards owned by z. G..
Simmons and by him transferred to
the Western Union Co. Underwood
perfected the first match machine
where block Of wood fed into one
end came out complete box Of fin
ished matches, at the other. We could
see his factory from the school room
window.
Leander Stone reported stenograph-
ically the irts national convention ever
so reported.
Young men, if you would succeed
and win wealth, go out and find a real
want and supply it. I could give you
many instances of success along thees
lines.
There was in that decade series
OF events having their influence upon
us and the little city. The presidential
campaigns 1852, 1856, and 1850
The birth of the Republican party.
the defeat of Fremont, the election
of Pierce and Buchanan, and final sue
cess of the party in the election of Alb.
raham Lincoln. That year father
again took me to Chicago to the conyen-
ton and left me there so it was my
great pleasure to be present when Lin
coin was nominated. The incendiary
fire, destroying the City Hotel, Durkee
House, Franklin Hall and MANY other
buildings at one end of Main street;
soon after followed by another destroy
ing the Runals House, the Runals home
and other houses at the other end of
the street.
The advent Of the railroad. Do YOU
remember, boys, how the first whistle
sounded just as school was closing and
we ran nearly two miles to get our
first sight Of a locomotive? The abo-
lltion movement and the part some of
our citizens took in defiance Of the in
iquitous fugitive slave law. The chol-