The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-14
North Fasteners Taking the Shine
Out of the South Benders.
Mighty Massachusetts HOnOring
Her Most HOnOred Son.
THE CORRUPT CONGRESS- DENOUNCED.
Exciting Speeches by Puritan Patriots
Music and Mirth.
NORTH EAsroN, Mass, March 10, 1873.

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NORTH EAsTON, Mass, March 10, 1873.
To THE EDITOR or THE HRRALD:-
Cakes Ames wholesale dealer in shovels and
Congressional memorandum books and all arrived
to-day. The trip hammers office and shovel
factories made such catter that the villagers
cosld not hear the train, and Cakes slid almost
unObserved through the sush and mud to his hum
BILE but vrtuOus dwelling, to await the evenings
hOnors II the villagers heard the train they were
too busy fixing the pies, music, flower pots and
rhetoric Tor the good mans reception this evening
TO meet him at the depot North Easton is not a
city with churches and billiard saloons and print
ing offices and aldermen, like South Bend. It
is little hamlet, stuck down IN the mud
the houses only lay around loose, in
handy proximity to the shovel shops.
The residences of the Ameses are palatial Oliver,
the old President Of the Union Pacific Railroad,
lives in beautiful house near the works. while his
son Frederick lives in a lovely stone villa on the
side of the hill. 1t has French roof, serpentine
walks, stable OF horses and conservatory Of
flowers, with blossoming peach trees.
OLIVER AND CAKES
look alike, but they are different; Oliver and his
son Frederick are "grederatesn of Harvard while
Cakes and his sons-Oliver Second and Cakes S.
have been brought up without education and work
in the shovel shops Both are meE of tremendous
constitutions, and thirty years ago they were the
king wrestlers on training day for forty miles
around Plymouth Rock. Old settlers here say
that neither OF the brothers was ever thrown. 1t
seems plain now how in the late Congressional
wrestle Cakes has been able 20 throw the whole
Fortysecond Congress. Once Cakes and Oliver
wa m oil % tha fha tc In
the wrestling championship between themselves;
but when they came back they never divuged the
result, so each still wears the champions belt.
They certainly wrestle well, whether they are
wrestling with railroads or Congress. Cakes lives
like Cincinnatus, in simplicity, IN his fathers old
house near the shop.
HOW OAKKs GAMBOLED.
Here in rustic innocence he used to gambOl on
the green fitting himself for the time when he
should gamble on Congressional credulity and
virtue Here he raked innOcently in his
father's garden. preparatory to raking in the
Christian legislators; and here he shoveled the
meay ground and spread the warm fertilizers, IA
in after years he sh0velled his Credit Mober into
Congressional pockets and spread 1t about among
Christian statesmen ''where 1t would do the most
good"
HOW HE LOOKS.
In appearance the Puritan martyr is tall and
sturdy, six feet in his number twelve shoes; his
Roman nose hangs down like q parrots hooked
bill, while his mouth backs away to let the chin,
from which radiates straggly gray whskers, come
up il. His eyer are small and blue MS hair silver
gray, and his tall body bends beneath the load OIL
sixty-eght years. His conversation il quiet, re-
served and logical, and his general appearance
ls that Of a good old Hardshcll Baptist minister
In habit, like all the Ameses, he ls strictly tenn
perate, and ut his reception supper tonight cham
payne is superseded by cold water and New Eng
land pies.
HE MAKETH A SACRIFICE.
Over thirty years cakes used tobacco and SNUFF
Finding it expensive and Objectionable to his fam
lily, he made bargain with Mr.. Andrews, one OF his
fathers head men, that neither should chew tobac
co again. 1t was agreed that the one who took q
chew OF plug or cavendsh first should forfeit tC
the other S.. Weeks went on, and Cakes, though
furnishing Tor his navy plug" kept the bar
gain. He used to carry half plug
round in his vest pocket, and when he
came near william Andrews he would take out the
delicious morsel, hold it up to Williams nose and
say, "Ahl william, how do you like thatP Isn't il
beautiful ~ But william stood firm to the bar
gain, determined that If either OF them should
break 1t and forfeit the So It should be cakes.
lie SETTLES DIFFICULTY.
one DAY OakeS came up 10 Wllllam ana sad
obi. can't stand it no longer. Now I've cut
this piece Of plug into two pieces. You take one,
and | will take the other at the same time then
neither will first break the agreement" SO they
both saved their IS, and each placed the tobacco
where 1t would do the most good.
When cakes gave the Credit Mobilier stock to-
Colfax he played the same trick. They both broke
the law, for they were the brber and the bribed
and they were DO tn liable to the same penalty
cakes then referred to this in his Washington
speech. In his simple, blacksmith way he said =
'ibeg, gentlemen, to note the entire section care
fully and critically and verify the assertion no"
make, that every penalty denounced upon hin
who shall promise, offer, give or offer to procure
TO be promised, offered or given any valuable thine
TO any member of Congress with intent to inndenc'
his vote on any matter pending or to be brongq
before him is alike punishable with impartial Sc
verify against any member, officer or per
| son who shall in any wise accep
or receive the same. Mark the language-and the
member, ofiicer or person who shall in anywise &C
cept or receive the same or any part Thereon shal
/ be liable to an indictment as for high crime an'
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction Thereon
| be fined not exceeding ten times the amount s.
offered promised or given, and imprisoned In
Penitentiary not exceeding ten years"
NO MORE CHEWING AND sNUFFING.
cakes once made a pledge that he would reaii
give up tobacco If Harrison should be electe
President, and few years after he pledged hin
self to giving up snun if General Taylor should b
elected. So Harrison's and Taylor's election
broke up Oakes' chewing and snuiiing, and takin
his old snuG-pox and pieces OF plug tobacco, q
'paced them where they would do the mos
gOodn-down the drain.
found cakes Ames, the martyred Puritan states
man, this afternoon, quietly resting In the parlo
of his little wooden cottage. Fit had heen later
the Spring suppose Ho-Axe would have been raj
ing in his garden with all the simplicity Of the sag
OF Chappaoua. He don't ike chopping wood, an