Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-22
Anecdotes Of Prominent Men.

: If [ will have clear grit and hold n J
own for all time, must commence by
) eating MY fotridge. Franklin said +:
| g SO long as I can subsist OH sawdust
pudding, you may stop your su6scrip-
ton to my paper at any time I" Now
, that was true of Sidney Smiths beauti
ful career. He went into the solitude
of Salisbury Plains and dined on pota-
toes day after day and week after week,
rather thah barter, single atom of his
manhood. The down -trodden masses
found in him q champion to fight
their battles, and he stands to-day as
one of the noblest Englishifie1i of the
last generation, because, when he was
a young man, he could be content with
!, his porridge; !; and this, as we can
easily gather, must be one true reason
why Mr. Greedy, long years ago, was
sable to establish his great journal and
Become the power he has been and is
to-day i'll the Nation; To exchange his
porrid9e for chicken in these times,
[ suppose, was never allowed to come
as temptation under that old white
coat of his: / remember that John
Bryant, Of Princeton, Illinois, told me
that when his brother, William Cullen
Bryant, adopted Spartan habits-Umit-
ting, of course, stealing he would take
a piece Of bread and cheese with water
for his breakfast, do something that
had work in it before he came down to
his newspaper Office, work at his office
all day, and then go back at night to
the same sort of supper. I have no
doubt that William Cullen Bryant owes
his long life to being contented with
his porridge. Sal Lincoln to friend
who came to the White House: ~
should be glad if you would stay and
dine with me, but have do idea what
we are going to have for dinner, be
cause when Mrs Lincoln is away [
just browse around' And this was
the reason for his being the man he
was. And SO, turn where yon will you
encounter this truth, that to make
much or sure OF yourself, you must
make more that you are clear grit,
first of all, in being able to say no to
those good servants but bad masters,
your passions and appetites, and it is
not hard to see the line here again be-
tween the false and the true.
When an Irish gardener was shot by
an Irishman from another country, he
refused surgical assistance on the
ground that he wanted to die in order
that the other man might be hung.
He had his wish; he not only died,
but his assassin was strung up. This
was clear grit, but not the kind that
we would care to initiate England wept
over Peabody, and Victoria honored
him with tokens other regard, but there
was a greater than he, who was not SO
W., Il o11y o,,I x1,bopo tho Groop
did not invite to her palace. Prof.
/ Tyndial has said that young
man, Faraday, who could have made a
fortune, and was then in the receipt of
large income, gave up all to devote
his life to scientific Investigations.
through chemical experiment. He thus
died poor, when he might have left
million [ would not disparage the
benefaction of Peabody, but Faraday
gave up what he might have made
one beaueathed his money, the other
sacrificed his life It was not because
he was Indifferent TO wealth, but be-
cause he was possessed of an enthus
lasm for science.
In one of the terrible colliery ac-
idents in Yorkshire, where / formerly
resided, an accident illustrative of clear
grit occurred. The inundation of bilge-
water in mine drove the workmen
back into the pit. They were mostly
Methodists, and had the Christian faith.
There was one exception, however,
dog fancier-a man Of wild, irregular
life. There was also two small boys in
the party, and after they had been con-
fined some II hours, the boys began to
cry out from cold and hunger. 1t SO
happened that the dogfancier had in
his lunch can a little food, the only
thing edible in the cavern, and which,
if eaten would remove one Of the few
remaining chances of escape from starv
alton. Still the rough man, accustom
ed to find pleasure in the batting of
dogs, could not harden his heart against
the cries of these children, and he not
only divided his portion between them,
but wrapped the smaller boyin his rough
coat, next his heart He could neither
sing nor pray like the others, but ne
could not put aside the appeal Of help
lessness. The party were afterward
saved by-a miracle; and when l revisit
/ Yorkshire, as I hope to do, I mean to
find out this honest dog-fancier, who, [
have no doubt, is just as rough, and
" going to the dogs" just as fast as
ever, and grasp his hand for this ex-
hibit1on of clear grit.
Thus, too, in the Sepoy rebellion in
India, the rebels were. given their
choice of renouncing their religion or
being put to the most painful and ig
nominious of deaths, yet it is believed
in England that not one of them re-
nounced his faith. So, too, have Eng
lish soldiers, though usually rough and
wicked, refused, under similar circum-
stances, to make like remuneration,
but died with the cross rather than the
crescent before their eyes. 1t was clear
grit that made Quaker Allen, in 1776,
say he would use no more sugar IN his
tea until the slave trade was abolished;
and on the afternoon of the day when
that event occurred, 40 years afterward,
he said to his wife: Mrs. Allen, please
put lump of sugar IN my tea. " The
prize of the French Academy was once
given to an old Negro woman in Mar
selles, for perpetrating the noblest deed
of the year Her master had become
impoverished, and she had for many
years supported him without his knowl-
edge or that of any one else, by her
scanty earnings, eked out from day to
day. The fact was discovered after the
masters death, by accident, and all at
once it impressed the French people
that this work of self-denial and hui
manity by the humble Negro woman
was indeed, the noblest heroism, and
deserved the prize.
Rs NEGLECTED COUGHS AND COLDS
ing Cough or Common Cold" in its firs
, stage that which in the beginning would
yield to mild remedy, if neglected, soo1
preys upon the Lungs. Broaon's Bronchid
Troches," or CoUaH LozENGEs, afford instan
relief.
Owing to the good reputation and popularit.
of the Troches. many loorttless and cheap inn
itatioas are offered, aohich are good for moth