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Show at three years old waa left fatherless, and as a child of ?vcn was actually driving driv-ing a plow; and vet. while still a young-man, young-man, he repre-nts 14. wo electors at Westminster and has tna.le one of the most Impressive maiden ape. hea delivered de-livered in recent years to the "most crlt-. crlt-. al audience In the world " Of school-In school-In an a hnv Mr. Ward hH1 none, and he first learne.1 to re.1 when he bad born working for years an a nawy. rthm Henderson, who represents the Barnard Castle division of Durham, waa 11'tle less handicapped than Mr. Ward at the start of life, for he was but ten yeara old when his schoolboy davs came to an end arvl he beran to earn his living a an errand bov In Glasgow Two years later ho commenced his apprenticeship as an Iron molder at Newiastte. spending his scant v leisure at night schools or with his books. In teaching in the Sunday-school Sunday-school and qualifying himself for work as a local preacher In thos. daVs of oh-sciiritv oh-sciiritv and struggle he little dreamed that before he w;is far advanced in the forties he would be a countv councillor. Justice of the peace and member of parliament. LIVES OF BRITISH LEADERS. If the full story of the life struKKlcg of the labor members now In the British Parliament could be written. If would certainly make one of the most remarkable remark-able human documents ever presented to the public; for there Is scarcely a life among them nil that does not exhibit a maamlflcant triumph of pluck oer almost Insuperable difficulties The International Labor News Bureau will, from time to time, publish short biographies of the most noted. Their triumphs should prove an Inspiration to American worklna-men. Take, for Instance, the record of John Wwrd M P for Stoke-upon Trent, who |