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Show BOaiAUTIC CAREER OF CONOnESSMAN LOnlMCR OP ILLINOIS. Xrnm Tiawittoy anil llnntMaftc to roalllnn m One of Ihn allon'a l,auni In I'ollllea and hutraiuaualiln Ills Among tho many romantic careen of prominent American! few stand more conspicuous than that ol Con gressman William Lorlmor of tho ec-oiul ec-oiul Illinois district, llo la tho rccog-nlicd rccog-nlicd leader of tho republican party In Cook county, a potter In itato ami national politics and ono of tho strongest strong-est men In tho liouso of representatives. representa-tives. When a mere child ho was thrown upon hla own resources amid tho tollers of Chicago With perscver-anco perscver-anco seldom equaled ho has fought hli way to tho front William tarltncr was born In England Eng-land lu 1801 When 5 years old bo came with his parents to this country. After being In a number of places, tho co.vanisMAN vt LOimtnn elder Lorlmer, who was n I'resbytcrlan minister, moved with his family to Chicago Chi-cago In 1870. Tho following joir he died, and his family una left In almost destitute circumstances Tho present congressman was then n boy of 10 years old, and ho was nnxlous to aid In supporting his mother, brother and four later?' The family IheJ in a neighborhood whero all tho people were comparatltcly poor and many of tha boa sold newspapers They told young "'Hilly" Lorlmer thnl ho could raako money If ho would start out and hustlo In selling newspapers llo heeded tho advice, and tho first day made 1 clear profit This was tha first money that ho had ever earned, and ho took It homo and gave It to his mother, Later ho secured n boot-blacking boot-blacking kit and aoon did n thriving business among tho sporting men of Clnrk itrcct. Aid. Michael Kcnna, known aa "lllnky Dink," remembers him aa n bootblack When ho was 15 ho gavo up the bootblacklng business and worked ru clerk In different places, Including Armour . Co mid Nelson Morris Whllo In thcto last two places' ho learned alt branches of tho packing business nnd became an expert In each. While with Morris his health commenced com-menced to fall, and ho secured n position posi-tion as street car conductor and worked on tho different car lines for tiro years. Whllo In this position ho ahoned hla nullity as a leader and organizer, or-ganizer, for ho was tho moving spirit In forming tho Street Hallway L'm-plo)N L'm-plo)N Hcnctolcnt association In every position that ho lias held and In any business In which he bni been engaged, ho has been an Indefatigable Inde-fatigable worker, or na hU friends say, a hustler, lie was successful na a real estate dealer nnd ns a coal merchant Ho Is now successfully engaged In tho manufacture of brick, and for tho past few ears has mado many protltablo Investments In stocks In congress ho has distinguished himself and has so- cured the passago of many measures of great Importanca to Chicago and Illinois, Illi-nois, and lias bun prominent In debating de-bating soma of the great national questions llo does nOk.tiao tobacco In nny form nnd la an absoluto teetotaler. Ho never uses profnno language and no one has ever heard him utter n vulgar word. Ho has a remarkably even temper, tem-per, and If he does get mad no ono ever knows It, for bo ahona no sign of anger. an-ger. Ho la always for conciliation and harmony If posslblo, but If thoy cannot bo secured, then ho U for war to the knife, llo never went to school a day In his life, but Is, nevertheless, a flno scholar. Ho lias n largo nnd well-selected library nnd Is n great reader. Ills fnvorlto books are thoso written by Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo, nnd ho has reread them many times Ho likes these authors becauso they portray tho phases of humblo llfo with which ho was acquainted In hla youth. Mo Is devoted to his family, nnd his lelsuro tlmo la spent In the company of his wlfo and two boys and six girls Ho still takes raro of his mother, and every comfort tbat hU means elll allow al-low Is afforded her His most prominent promi-nent characteristic Is his dotation to his frlsuds. He never forgets n favor, or a kind, honest word |