Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — The Statesmen’s Start in Life [ARTICLE]

The Statesmen’s Start in Life

Chicago Nojrs. Senator Plumb was a typesetter. Boutelle, of Maine, was a sea captain. Secretary Bayard was a clerk in New York. Speaker Carlisle was a country school teacher. Tom Reed, of Maine, was a paymaster in the navy. , (. Senator Kenna was once'a coal-miner |1 51.20 a day. Iceland Stanford was a country lawyer n Wisconsin. - ■ Senator Morrill, of Yermont, kept a country grocery store. Ben Butterworth used to be a plantation boss in Virginia. Civil Service Commissioner Oberly was a Chicago Times reppjter. Senator Cullom was famous as a comhusker in early days in Illinois. Darlington, a Pennsylvania member, was a reporter on Philadelphia dailies. Senator Sawyer “bought his time” when eighteen years old, and ran a mill. John McShane.the millionaire Omaha Congressman, was a penniless cow-boy in 1871.

Felton, the Catifornia multi-million-aire, was a chore-boy on a farm in Erie county, New York. When a person is in good health, items concerning the merit of a remedy are of little interest. However, it is wise to be prepared, and our readers should not. forget that the most reliable tonic and blood purifier is Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. This remedy is a simple vegetable compound, and is harmless to the most delicate individual. Try it when you feel unwell, and enjoy its revivifying effect. At tnis season it will be well to ring the wild belles, and the ones, too.