T H E N EW BERO QRAPH 1 C, December n , 1910
CORDWAINERS. /
CAUGHT IN A BLIZZARD.
SPENDTHRIFT BALZAC.
A Hardy Sheep Harder’s Remarkable
Feat of Cnduranoe.
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Kxtravagano« t t th « Man W h# Had a
Mountain of D«bta.
The life o f a sheep herder is the
life o f the sheep, writes G. W. Og
den in Everybody’ s Magazine. It
is full o f hardships and dangers.
His home is a sheep wagon, and
he seldom sees a human being.
Crouched in his wagon on a winters
night, with the incessant whoop of
the wind in his ears, he knows that
miles away another solitary figure
is anchored like himself upon the
plain; beyond him, again, another
ind another, then leagues o f empti-
iess. An adventure o f one herder,
Arthur Chenoweth, is related, which
s one o f the most remarkable feats
‘it endurance remembered in a land
j f hardy deeds.
Chenoweth was running a flock
o f sheep north o f the North Platte
river. He had taken off his shoes
one night and was sitting on the
bunk, coat off, preparing to go to
bed. The wind began drumming a
new note on his wagon cover. With
the intention o f seeing whether the
sheep were resting quietly the ^herd
er slipped on his shoes and went
out, hatless and coatless, to the hill
side, where he had bedded them for
the night. The sheep, as if con
scious o f danger, were moving off
slowly before the wind. Shouting
and running among them, he tried
to turn them back and get them
under the lee shelter o f a hill. But
an avalanche has as much reason
as a flock of* sheep on stampede.
Chenoweth drifted with them, bela
boring them with fists and feet—
drifted away from the bedding
ground out upon the range. -
There the storm got him. It
came, as those terrific pelting bliz
zards come, with a whistling o f
sagebrush and a roar, as suddenly
as if the wind sprang from the flat
earth. Sense o f distance was con
fused and sense o f direction lost in
the .shrouding curtain o f driving
snow.
The wind blew toward the river.
Beyond the river miles away was
Casper. When morning came, if
the storm ceased so he could see,
he might make the town.
He
worked free o f the huddling, slow
moving sheep and ran desperately
before the wind. Hours passed.
Casper mountain stood sharp and
dark on the horizon south o f him,
and in a direct line between the
mountain and the river the town o f
Casper lay. Shaping his course by
RM M uring.
the
mountain, he pushed on and
“ Doctor, what’s the matter with
reached
the river at last.
m e?”
In
.
the
few hours which had
“ How do you feel V*
passed
since
the storm broke the
“ Awfully sick at my stomach.”
“ It is probably a disturbance con shallow river, gorged with snow and
fined to the interior o f the principal ice, had blocked and frozen. He
enlargement or dilatation o f your passed it safely and at 3 o’clock
alimentary canal, Superinduced by in the morning staggered into a sa
the introduction o f some uncon- loon at Casper. Hands, face, arms
enial substance or by the undue and feet were frozen, but they heap
istention o f its tissues in conse ed snow upon him and thawed him
quence of a superfluous agglomera out gradually, thus saving all but
tion of otherwise innocuous mate the tips o f his ears. His flock per
rial and necessitating as a remedial ished in the storm in spite o f their
measure merely abstention from the thick coats, but he went through
deglutition and absorption o f nu with no coat at all.
“ With Balzac’s rising fame rise*
the mountain of his debts,” writes
a critic. “ These, starting from his
two disastrous years o f printing and
publishing in Paris, accumulated un
til at the top o f his literary renown
he had to hide from his creditors
in a garret under the name o f his
landlady or his washerwoman. In
1837 Balzac, at that date the best
known and the most debated novel
ist in France, owed 162,000 francs
(about $32,500). Then he must needs
buy a cane which was the talk of
Paris, some gold buttons fo r a new
eoat, a ‘divine opera glass’ and a
dressing gown beyond words and
give a dinner to the dandies o f the
ra respecting whieh Rossini said
open
that ‘he had not seen more mag
nificence when he dined at royal
tables.’
“ Balzac three times a millionaire
would still have buried himself in
debt, for the mental exaltation of
his creative hours was reproduced
when he broke loose from the gal
ley bench. He lavished in anticipa
tion the wealth he had dreamed
would be his. This gone, he bor
rowed anew or devised another of
those schemes that were to enrich
hipi beyond the possibilities o f lit
erature.* His schemes were essen
tially a part o f Balzac, the sover
eign, unconquerable visionary.
“ He would transport oaks from
Poland to France— nothing like
oaks from Poland to make your fo r
tune three times over! Behold him
again gravely working out his plan
to make a corner in all the arts and
putting up the A pollo Belvedere for
competition among the nations—
to act as auctioneer to Europe—-the
‘child man,’ as his devoted sister,
Mme. Surville, used to call him.”
History of Th is Anolont Croft of Work*
ore In Leather.
Of the- ancient and influential
guilds o f London the cordwainers
have a history second to none.
They were first incorporated by
Henry IV . in 1140, and in 1439
their charter was made to include
all workers in leather within a dis
tance o f two miles o f the city
boundary. Later their control was
extended over the London leather
markets.
Cordwaining means working in
Cordovan leather. These artisans
had gathered themselves into an as
sociation at an early period. They
were originally located on the fringe
o f the old city o f Londinium when
the Boman power was predominant
in Britain. Here they remained for
many centuries, their industry
forming one o f the staple trades o f
the country. The craft had long
been recognized as an important
factor in molding the municipal life
o f English towns. For instance, the
Gilda Corvesaorum o f Oxford in
the twelfth century was successful
in obtaining from Henry I. a royal
charter upon payment o f an annual
fine o f one ounce o f gold.
In the old days the cordwainer,
the tanner and the currier had sep
arate rights in the preparing o f
alum leather, tan leather and work
ing cowhides. The cordwainer was
to make boots and shoes o f calf’s
hide. No master was to keep more
than eight servants, and the carry-
o f shoes through the streets for
le was permitted only before din
ner.
The first ordinance establishing
th e ' Cordwainers' company was
granted in 1272 by the will and
consent o f the mayor and the other
barons of the city o f London “ for
the relief and the advancement of
th e whole business and to the end
that all frauds and deceits may
hereafter be avoided.” In the fol
lowing reign the prices allowed to
be charged fo r shoes were 12 cents
for a pair o f shoes o f Cordovan
leather and 10 cents for a pair of
cowhide shoes.
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Nowadays the Cordwainers’ com
pany exists primarily to keep up its
traditions, give its members ban
quets and incidentally to promote
technical education and contribute
to charities. Its income is $46,500
a year.— Baltimore American.
S
trient articles until amelioration su
N ««d «d th « She« St or«.
pervenes.”
A
Quebec
shoe dealer received
“ Gracious sakes! Is there any
the
following
order from a French
cure for that?”
Canadian
customer:
“ Oh, yes; just go without eating
“ Y ou will put some shoe on my
until you feel better.” — Chicago
little families like this and send by
Tribune. . ______________
Sam Jameson the carrier: One
man, Jean St. Jean (me), 42 years;
Mott Valuable Faculty.
“ The late William James,” said a one woman, Sophie St. Jean (she),
Bostonian, “ used to smile at the 41 years; Hermedes and Lenore, 19
brain fag that so often attacks the years; Honoré, 18 years; Celina, 17
American business man. Professor years; Narcisse, Octavia and Phyl
James had his own opinion o f the lis, 16 years; Olive, 14 years; Philip-
i, 13 years; Alexendre, 12 years;
average business man’s hard work.
osina, 11 years; Bruno, 10 years;
He thought that brain fag came
.more frequently from an excess of Pierre, 9 years; Eugene, we lose him ;
whisky and tobacco than from an Edouard and Elisa, 7 years; Adrien,
excess o f mental application.
6 years; Camille, 5 years; Zoel, 4
“ Apropos o f this he used to tell years; Joseph, 3 years; Moise, 2
• a story about a little boy who asked years; Muriel, 1 year; Hilaire, he
go barefoot. How much ?”
his father:
“ ‘Papa, what is executive ability?*
“Choio* Bouquat.”
‘“ Executive ability, my son,’ the
father replied, ‘is the faculty of
An interesting story o f Horace
earning your bread bv the sweat of Greeley, the famous journalist, has
other people’s brows.’ ” — Washing been revived for a new generation.
He was presiding at a dinner given
ton Star.
by the press in 1868 in honor of
T h « Bayaux Tapaatry.
Charles Dickens, and, while Dick
The famous Bayeux tapestry is ens partook freely o f the wines,
supposed to have been wrought by Greeley did not turn his glasses
Matilda, queen o f William I., or, as down, but thrust them out o f his
is held by some other authorities, to way with a single exception, and in
have been made under the direction that he placed a beautiful red rose
o f his brother, Odo, bishop of Bay that had been furnished for his
eux. It is twenty inches wide, 230 boutonniere. During the dinner he
feet long and is divided into sev lifted his glass to his nose as often
enty-two compartments, showing as others raised glasses to their
the events from a visit of Harold mouths, and the fragrance o f the
to the Norman court to his death at rose was all the stimulant he
Hastings. The tapestry is in the needed. ________________
public library o f Bayeux, near Caen.
S
T h « R «««on.
Worse Than Ha Thought.
“ Now, don’t tell me any story
jout misfortune and wanting to
3 a hard worker and all that,” said
woman severely to a beggar. “ I
in see through you.”
“ Gracious,” exclaimed the mendi-
int, “ I know I ain’t ’ ad miffin' to
it for three days, but I didn’t
now it ’ad thinned me like that I”
-London Mail.
Stupid and useless questions
nmetimes exasperate to the point
B’ rudeness.
The Los Angeles
Times tells o f a cake where Smith
met Jones one day with the in
quiry :
“ Hello, Jones 1 You wearing
glasses? What’s that fo r ? ”
,
Jones, annoyed at the foolishness
o f the question, answered irritably,
“ Corns r
A Motorcycle Pared«.
The Curbstone club members
were discussing the speed o f m otor
cycles when -the ancient carpenter,
who had just come in, joined in the
conversation.
“ Talking about motorcycles,” he
said, “ I took a count o f them in
front o f my house the other even
ing.
“ I noticed that a continual string
o f them seemed to be com ing by
the place» so I started in counting.
“ By. the time I had reached 987
I made a peculiar discovery. I hap
pened to notice by a mark o f the
tire o f the wheel that it was the
same- motorcycle that I had been
tallying.
‘T h e rider went so fast round
and round .the block that I mistook
him fo r a parade.” — Youngstown
Telegram.
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In an English camp a battalion
was being instructed on how to
take a convoy through open coun
try. One company was told off to
represent a convoy, the men being
instructed that they were to repre
sent horses, cows and wagons.
After being halted a short time
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