Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — A Hostler. [ARTICLE]

A Hostler.

Tom Johnson had an opportunity to attend school until he was 16 years of age, then family reverses compelled his giving up efforts to obtain an education to assist in keeping the wolf from the door. He began work in a Louisville rolling mill office as an errand boy. His alertness soon attracted the attention of one of the oflScials of the Louisville Street Railway Company, and he was given a clerical position at $7 a week. Two years later he was superintendent of the road. He was married when about 20 years of age.' “What have you with which to support a wife?” his prospective fath-er-in-law asked. .“These two hands,” was the reply. It was characteristic, and it won him his wife.—Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly.