Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-01
of Congress Who Have Found Country Land

where. all told. he knew about three
families. and by the time he got there
few smattering words of English. Forced
to secure employment. he worked several
months in a lumber mill at a small sal
airy. Then. when that closed. he became
assistant In a store. Those who know
New FORKS Ghetto. for instance. can
picture such a store as that in which Mr..
SABBATH worked. Part OF it was indoors,
but part also was draped upon the curb,
where passing purchasers haggled long
and heatedly over small amount. BUT
Adolph persevered. When he was twen-
ty-one he was manager Of this same es-
Establishment, receiving q salary OF 70
week.
But Mr.. SABBATH had not been devoting
his entire time to this store. He studied
hard. going to business college, AZ
nights he would sit up until and in
the morning, a Bohemian dictionary at
one elbow, his English dictionary and
school books at the other. Shortly after
he became of age he entered the real es-
tate business for himself and succeeded to
the extent Of being able to put himself
through the Chicago College OF Law
During this period of study he added
Latin dictionary to his collection.
OF the As per cent Of his class who
graduated from the law school he stood
among the first ten. Then he took up the
practice of law until 1898. when he was
made judge and magistrate Of the munich
pal court, which office he held until 1907
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress
and has served ever since, in the last
election having received more votes than
the total cast for all other candidates.
The story Of such accomplishment as
this, however, does not complete the story
of what Mr.. SABBATH did, for it leaves out
perhaps the most interesting portion OF
all. He was the eldest of eight children,
and after he had been in this country a
few years he brought over his mother and
father and three brothers Today all OF
his brothers and three sisters are here.
His father is dead. but his mother still
lives in the home he made for her, and as
a result of his help one of his brothers
is a municipal judge in Chicago and two
II was born at Cape Breton. n. s..
said Representative Philip 1'itt Camp
bell. "a portion Of Nova Scotia settled
entirely by Scots. My grandparents new
Sunday our old Presbyterian preacher
would deliver a two-hour sermon In
Gaelic. and until l was three or four l
never knew any but Gaelic words. MY
father was born in Nova Scotia Of Scot
parentage. but my mother came to this
country direct from Scotland.
when I was three years old we went
to Illinois, where we stayed year, and
then started to Kansas We drove from
Illinois to Kansas In a prairie schoon-
err and l remember the trip well-fa-
Their and mother and several small chill
dren I remember that as we went on
we met wagonload after wagonload of
people coming back. Gaunt. dust cover
ed, weary, they one and all told us we
would be doing the same thing soon.
You can imagine how encouraging that
must have been to my mother and ia
Their. But we kept on. and finally, after
having left the beaten wagon route
about mile or two behind, threw down
the reins and unpacked There we made
our home, practically alone.
Three years later my father died. My
older brother and myself did all we could
about the farm to help mother When
my brother grew up he left to find other
employment. l stayed"
Here Mr.. Campbell paused and then
continued, slowly: There is one part of