Show SENATOR A BUSY MAN IVIAN it if senator lawrence Y sherman the junior member from illinois li is not AS als busy as aa a bride on her wedding morn ho he la Is grieved lie he has haa been in public life ever since 1830 1896 with the th exception of about two years and he be became known as such an indefatigable worker that the voters and public with appointive jobs on 04 their hands just kept handing h him im something now alt all the time in 1898 1896 he entered the lower house ho use of the illinois legislature from 1900 alo until 1904 he was speaker of that body then he was elected lieutenant rh governor and presided over the upper house until 1903 scarcely had he be reached home and begun practicing law when governor deneen dene en appointed him president ot of the board of administration all he had to do was waa direct the work of eighteen state institutions which had just juat been consolidated sometimes he be would not work more than sixteen hours a day that was not hard on the senator who started us a lann farm hand among the institutions under the boards control were the state hospital tor for the insane at kankakee and the deaf wid dumb school at jacksonville one day an inmate ot of the hospital called sherman aside and unfolded a groat great scheme to aid him 1 I 1 would su tug gest the patient said that you teach the barber trade to one of 0 the mutes in the jacksonville Jacksonv llla school and put him in charge of the hospital shop A silent barber would rest the male inmates minds greatly sir sherman responded you arent crazym and a month later the was discharged as sane |