The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-12

bler's trade in an obscure Welsh vil- lage.
 Reared by Shoemaker Uncle.
 William George, father of David Lloyd George, was not successful in a business way. At one time he was master of the Hope-st Unitarian schools at Liverpool. but from there he drifted about. and was at Man chester when David was born there for the famous reason given by the Scottish schoolboy for the birth place of Mary, Queen of Scots-"Because her mither was stayin' there at the time."
 Shortly after the birth the family moved back to Wales and there the wife penniless, with three small chill months old.
 It was then that her brother. Rich ard Lloyd, travelled from his humble home in Llanystumdwy to the village where they were and took his sister and her little ones back with him. He was very poor and his house was small, but he felt it his duty to de- vote himself to her and her children.
 Every penny must be counted to feed and clothe the little family, and as Lloyd George recalled years aft CT, the last sixpence needed always seemed the hardest to get.
 Together on the Road of Knowledge.
 The fare in this humble home was the simplest. Meat was seldom seen on the cobbler's table, and one of the luxuries of his childhood remember cd by Lloyd George was an egg serv- ed to him on Sunday-which he was obliged to share with his brother.
 With high faith in the value of character, the worthy shoemaker strove hard for the careful upbring- ing .of his sisters young children. She was not spared many years to care for them, and when they were orphaned, the shoemaker's trust be- came the more solemn.
 Tn the bright mind of David the fond uncle detected 8 treasure to be handled with particular care. Had he known he was rearing future head of the nation, the good man could not have done better by the lad.
 When the time came that the boy must learn Latin and French in order. to enter on his legal studies, the wor- thy shoemaker studied with him by the light of the peat fire in his cot tage home, laboriously spelling out the words from grammar, or, in by times. in the course of his days work, writing them out with chalk on the bits of sole leather on his bench.
 Thus the boy and the man travel ed the road of knowledge together, until Davil went away, on his uncle's earnings. Then he wrote daily to his uncle" he Grand, Old Man at home." he called him--a "cutom he has maintained these many years since entering Parliament.
 Tn Conflict with the Church.
 David Lloyd Georges boyhood was not remarkable. He was small, lively. inquiring lad. acquisitive, and apt at disputation. It chanced that his uncle was an ardent Nonconform- lst, preaching at Baptist chapel every Sunday, for the love of 1t, and holding theological debates in his shop with whomsoever wished to crobs wits with him.
 Another disputant in the village was Hugh Jones, the blacksmith, and with him David had some hot argu- ments on theology. at times nearly unhorsing his opponent.
 The Nonoonformist atmosphere of his home shoped the boys religiois views. and some of his youthful es- capades were in rebellion against the rules of the Established Church. In one instance he led a silence strike against saying the catechism at school; in another he abetted com panion in taking to the woods on his day.
 One of his first battles as a man was against the local clergyman, who denied the body of a Nonconformist, burial beside his daughter in the burying the man in the space reserved for suicides.
 Lloyd George led a party which dug up the body and buried it in the prescribed place. against him, which he fought through several courts, finally win ming the case. H. Church made him locally famous, and afforded him capital in his first election to Parliament.
 Early Days in Parliament.
 At this time Lloyd George was d lawyer with small practice in a l country town in Wales, Portmadoc. He had been admitted to the bar as l solicitor in 1884, when 21. He was shortly elected to the Carnayoa County Council.
 His election to Parliament came in | 1890. when he was 27. He ran against 1 he local squire, a man of means and influence. and, muck to the squirc's won handy:
 From that moment public lifej claimed Lloyd George. With his wife he went to London-he had | married Margaret Owen at Cricceth | n 1888-and together they took up l heir abode in dark little set of l awyers' chambers in Essex Court. 1 The Temple, that dingy and ancient | pile of red brick between the Strand | md the Thames. that for centuries ,as been devoted to the bar
 Here Lloyd George prepared his maiden Parliamentary speech-sub- hitting it, as he has all his important | 'peeches since, to the kindly criticism # his wife. It was good speech, md attracted attention. and praise rom such g valued judge of oratory Is MT. Gladstone.
 Oddly, 1t was on the subject of axation, destined to become the ,oung orators speciality.
 Lloyd Georges rise in Parliament vas not rapid. He was active and to the government, 'estiferous. His brilliancy was ad- nitted. but his opponents called him