American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-17

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trivance to work mischief and advised that it
should be torn down as the only means of Sc
curing the lives and property of the citizens
from the occult witchcraft which he believed
to be at the bottom of it. The young Dutch
man was suting his action to his words when
Nicholas Pelt appeared and demanded him to
desist. A quarrel ensued, and the school mas
ter hurled Hans to the ground. A regular
pitched battle with "broken noses and cracked
crowns" would have taken place, had not the
cobbler himself rushed between them and pre-
vented the continuance of the affray. Another
paciicator also appeared in the shape of tile
fair Ellen herself, who, when she was by Mr..
Jonas Jones, Immediately created a violent
sensation in the region of his heart, and caused
the cobbler exquisite to eXclaim, "My heart!
my eyes! what demd fone ge-irl."
When order was restored, and the business
of the day begun, Caleb Van Dyke found that
the plan of Nicholas had succeeded. Gus
toner after customer came in to purchase a
pair of new boots or shoes distinguished by the
original maize of mems conscia rect. The
cobber was complimented for his work; the
people thought there never were such elegant
stitches, such capital leather, or such a capa-
city for fit! 1t was prosperous tide in Ca
leb's fortune; he grew fat and facetious, and
made presents to his family, till the minister
had to preach to them about worldly vanity
All this from the mems conscia rect With
Van Dykes success the rival house of Jonas
Jones s. Co., were sinking into obscurity, and
the unfortunate senior partner was smitten
with the charms of Ellen Van Dyke. Mr..
Jones, found himself compelled to immediate
action; he thought of offering himself as part
ner with Caleb, and then being Yankee, he
was struck with freak of fancy; he procured
an immense board and a pot of black paint, and
shut himself up for some days mysteriously.-
One morning Caleb Van Dyke looked up the
street, and behsld great crowd before the
Yankees door, staring at gigantic sign board
inscribed in quaint characters:
JONAS JONES & co.
MEMS AND woMEN's coNScIA RECTI.
Adjusting his spectacles to reassure him
that he was not dreaming, he called the school
master and directed his attention TO the rival
sign board.
"Well, WE'LL" said Nicholas, "nobody but
Yankee would ever have thought of that
They are very bright over there, they have
translated Latin Inscription into English in
manner truly original. | confess | never
thought Of that before; we will see however,;
we will see." And Nicholas went off in a
Drown study 10 MS school room,
Not single customer called at Caleb's that
day, nor the next, nor the next. Crowds
thronged Mr.. Jones', and the gentler sex were
curious TO see that particular fashion of shoe
called "women's conscia recti" Meantime
Nicholas Pet was very grave, and spent all his
leisure time in his chamber; and at the end OF
a week, during which CaIeb's shop had been
entirely deserted, Nicholas had the satisfaction
of showing to his host sign-board larger,
longer, and more imposing than all the rest, JIM
scIbed-
MEMS, WOMEN'S, AND CHILDREN's,
CONSCIA RECTI.
1t is needless farther to pursue the ebb and
flow of popular favor between the rival cob
blers. Yankee had met Yankee in the con-
Aict of intellect, and fortune had smiled upon
the schoolmaster. In a very short time Mr..
Jonas Jones and Company pulled up their
stakes, moved further west, and were never
heard of afterward.
Hans Keiser forgot his old love, and welded
a farmers daughter, and Nicholas and Ellen
were married, rejoicing that their Gloves
young dream" had been realized out Of the
Yankee scheme of the mems conSciG reCti, a
story related with infinite merriment at the
wedding party. Nicholas soon informed his
! father-in-laW that he was cobbler as we'll as
school master, producing as proof Of this a
pair of strong shoes made by him when a
quondam pedagogue. Caleb took him into
partnership, and the firm of Van Dyke s. Pelt
fourished like green bay tree. The old sign
board was replaced by another executed by the
gifted Yankee with this well known inscrip-
! ton:
elbow. blow, ys winds and breezes,
All among the leaves and treeses;
Sing, oh sing, ye heavenly muses.,
While we make both boots and shoses."
The posterity of Caleb drive to this day the
old family carriage which has painted on the
PANEL Of each door an odd-looking pair Of
shoes of the last century's fashion, beneath
which are inscribed in antique characters the
magical words
MEMS CoEsCIA RECTI.
School EXAMINATION. "John, how do you
parse grandmother -
81 doesn't pass her at all always goes