The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-16

4 TREMENDOUS EATER.-On wager
William Laduke, of Ncrgenncs, VT, un.
dertook 10 eat in ten hours two pounds
Of pork steak, four large potatoes, one
halfa pie, two slices Of whca. bread,
each one and q quarter inches thick, one
quarter of pound of butter, half n
bnshcl of apples, and to drink two cups
of tea. AT seven o'clock in the morning
he began his task by eating five apples.
He then ate one pound Of pork steak
two large potatoes, one slice of bread.
one quarter of n pie, one eighth pound
cf butter, and drank one cup of tea.
The remainder oftnc forenoon was spent
in walking about and eating apples, of
which he had dcvourcd twenty three at
~ O'Clock. At noon he ate one pound
of pork steak, Two large potatoes, one
slice Of bread, one eighth pound of but
ter, ard drank two cups Of tea. He was
then weighed, and found to have gain
cd seven and ODc-half pounds. For the
next three hours lie averaged about two
apples per hour. AT half past 5, p. M, lie
ate the last apple and wen the bet with
half an hour TO spare. His weight when
he began WAS 145 pounds, showing Il
gain of eight pounds III nine and one-ha'f
ho,rs. Seven and one.half pounds of
this he acquired in the first five hours,
the last five hours adding only one half
pound to his weight
The half bushel of apples was heaping
measure, and numbered just sixty-fiv
apples. Ladukc is twenty-six years old,
five feet seven inches in height, and has
never experienced sick day in his life.
He is thin, spare man, and has always
worked out for his living. usually among
the farmers. lie experienced no unusual
difficulty from his square meal, and Of
iered to bet five dollars that he could cat
another peck of apples the same evening
BYTHE RoADsIDE.-As one walks along
the roads in the country, if he is an OBJ
servant man, he may learn many les.
sons Of value. The dwellers along the
roadsidcs may not suspect that their
characters may be read very plainly by
the condition of the road in front nf their
homes, and the appearance of their sur
roundings. But it is go, and every man
has n certificate OF character, exhibited
ut his door, or upon his fence, for the
passersby TO read. For instance, lust
now we may see roadsides white with the
wild carrot or other pestiierous weeds.
This shows that the owner is careless and
thriftless, because he is suffering in
furious weeds to multiply. and lay up
future trouble fer him; that he is selfish
and regardless Of what is due to his
neighbor, because he is actually inju-
ring the iatter's property by stocking it
with weeds, and laying up trouble for
him as we'll as for himself; also that he
is not n law abiding, or at least, that he
is thong htless citizen, because he OBJ
serves neither the written law which in
nearly every State, obliges every owner
or occupier of property to destroy inju.
rious weeds upon his premises nor the
unwritten law of justice and kindness to
his neighbor. which would impel him
TO edo rs he would be dune by.'' So it
is with everything about the house, the
garden, the yards, barns, stables, and
fields. A mans character is set forth by
these rs plainly as if it were printed in
the largest type, and hung up Tor public
inspection upon his front fence. Ac-
tions speak louder than words, and by
our works we SHAH be judged.
The moral of this little homily is so
plain that nothing further need be said
as to its application. Let every man
judge himself by it, aud not his ncighbor.
Then some good may result. And this
is the very time when action in this re-
gard will be most efieclivc.-R -Rurui Ne,v
Yorker.