Show HAD LITTLE SCHOOLING Many of Nations Great Men Have Been Pittsburg Dispatch h hA A strangely dominant note nole In the biographical sketches found in the new Congressional Directory written by as many men is their apparent glorification tion in the absence of early education educational al advantages The s man Is in demand po says the Chicago ald aid He arouses the enthusiasm of a hard working constituency whose own sons must In so large a proportion of instances struggle for themselves on the road to fame and fortune Listen to the th confessions conf of small opportunity in early life Ufe which our lawmakers now willingly make John N Bankhead of Alabama one of the recognized Democratic leaders records that he was is isa isa isa a farmer served four years in the con confederate confederate confederate federate army being wounded three times Senator Perkins of ot California asserts that he attended time tile public school in his Maine town until his thirteenth year when he shipped on board a sail sailing sailing sailIng ing vessel for New Orleans and there thereafter thereafter thereafter after followed the sea until the autumn of or 1855 when at the age of 16 he em embarked embarked embarked barked on what became a business and political politic career Leonidas F Livingston of Georgia the ranking member on the appropriations Committee has several titles to the inheritance of ot the meek He says that he was educated In the com corn common common cornmon mon schools of the county which must have been pretty bad years ago and that he is a farmer by occupation occupation occupation pation and has always lived on his farm a home thrust upon those pre pretended pretended pretended tended farmers who study agriculture from luxurious city homes And final finally finally finally ly that he was vas a private soldier In Inthe Inthe inthe the confederate army from August of 1861 to May lIay of 1865 a service in which most men who were in their rose roseto roseto roseto to distinguished commands often to brigadier generalships Joseph G Cannon the speaker makes no mention of his early education education education tion skipping in his biography from his birth on May 7 1836 to his election as states attorney In 1861 But Abraham Lincoln Brick of In Indiana Indiana Indiana diana relates that he was was graduated from the South Bend High school and later attended Cornell Yale Tale and Michi Michigan Michigan Michigan gan universities giving him im an aston astonishing astonishing astonIshing variety of academic experience William P Hepburn known as Un Uncle Uncle Undo cle do Pete tells that he was taken to the Territory of or Iowa when he was S years old that he lie was educated in inthe inthe inthe the schools of the territory and in a printing office William A Reeder of Kansas tells teUs how at t the age of o 14 he began bogan teaching in the public schools a vocation which he followed until he was 30 years old Victor Murdock of Kansas began the printers trade during vacations at atthe atthe atthe the age of 10 years became a news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers reporter at 15 and at 20 moved to Chicago three stages of or life separated separated separated ted by periods not Included In seven ages of man Mur Murdock Murdock Murdock dock seems to have been generally pre precocious precocious precocious he was married when 19 and at 23 became managing editor of the Wichita Daily Eagle and at 32 was elected to congress Russell Alger relates eates that at the age I of 11 his parents died and that the fol following followIng following lowing seven years ears he labored on a farm attending att ending the Richfield academy I winters and that he subsequently taught in country schools I James A Tawney the new chairman of the appropriations en entered entered entered I his fathers blacksmith bl shop as asan asan asan an apprentice at the age of 15 and later learned the trade of a machinist He was 26 years rears old when he began the study of law n rt the office of Bentley I Vance of Winona Mimi Minn I General Charles H Grosvenor of the tIn speakers committee on rules maKes out a pretty good case for himself as asa asa asa a man explaining that at the age of 5 his father carried him from Connecticut to Ohio but there was no school house near where he settled un until Until til tit he was 14 years old when he at attended attended attended tended a few terms in a country log school house in Athens Athen county Ohio With this education however he hf taught school and studied law Arthur Pue Gorman says that he h at attended attended tended the public school In his native county for a brief period and that when 13 years old he was made a page in the senate continuing in the service of that body for the e next fourteen years rears Senator Berry of Arkansas relates that he received a limited education at a private school at Berryville Ark ArIco and as this was nearly sixty years ago his estimate of the educational facilities facIlities facilities ties there is probably correct Senator McLaurin of Mississippi tells that he was raised on a farm and sit fit tended the neighborhood schools occa occasionally occasionally occasionally until 16 years old when he h joined the confederate army anny as a private private private vate John Sharp Williams the Democrat Democratic ic leader evidently as a rebuke to the aspirations says that he re received received a fair fall education and then re relates relates lates that he attended private schools at home the Kentucky Military institute institute institute tute near Frankfort the time University of the South at Sewanee Tenn the University Univ of Virginia at ville yule and the University of Heidelberg in Baden Germany German and then gave a j j hardly less extensive list of ot places where he studied law Representative Brownlow an East Tennessee Republican says he attend attended ed the common schools three years and that on the death loath of his father when he was 10 years old he began to earn his own living Thomas Beall Davis Dals of West Virginia Virginiaa a brother of Henry Gassoway Davis the late vice presidential candidate is isnow isnow isnow now near 78 73 years old and beginning a career in the lower house to which he was sas chosen last summer He relates I that he received such education as a athe the common schools at that time af afforded afforded forded I |