The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-01-28
Sons of ~. Crispfn.
GREAT MEN WHO WORKED AT THE
CoBBLER S BENCH.

GREAT MEN WHO WORKED AT THE
CoBBLER's s BENCH.
Charles v was in Brussels in 1858
He found, as he walk, d along the
streets, unattended, thai one OF his
boots needed mending. He knocked
at the cobbler's door. 1t happened
TO be the eve of St. Crispin's Day,
and the cobbler and bis friends were
rev,li e
Friend" said the man laughing
"w here have you been born not To
know ST. CrIspln's day If you
were Carl the Kaiser himself |
would not sew stitch for YOU.
Come in an have a glass, and we'll
be as merry as Emperors"
Charles sat down a. once and
took his wine as the Others did The
coboler proposed the healGn of Char
les '. do you like hiuI 7" asked the
Emperor
"Do | like Long Nose? OF course
| do: but | should ike hlm better If
be should lower our taxes
When the Emperor took leave be
thauked the host who would nOt
work, even for an Emperor, on ST
Crlsplns's Eve. Next day Cnarles
sent tor the cobbler. When the poor
man recognized his guest he grew
pale aud trem oled. Charles again
thanked him for his hospitality, ana
told him 10 ash for what he most de
sired aud II should be bis He beg
ged and got day 10 thiuk the mat
ter over. When be returned at the
set time, his request was that the
cobblers OF Flanders might hence.
forth bear tor their arms boot with
an Emperor's crown upon iJ. TnIs
was granted, and Charles desired
him 10 ask again.
Let ii be decreed,p said the cob
bier, that Ia future the company af
cobbler5 shalt take precedence uf the
Company of shoe claksrs"
! IL was 50 ordered, aud both cls.
toms prevail at The present tine ln
Flanders The cobbler would accept
nothing Tor himself. Charles Y ex.
pred September 81, 1858, in the lifty-
nihlh year OF his age, leaving behind
him The reputation OF having been
the greatest monarch, on Vt the abiest
military commanders, aud perhaps
The wlsest, buG yet the most blgoted,
statesman of his time His early
years were passed 10 Flanders,
where he Was also educated. Rich
ard Brlnsley Sheridan, CramatIst
aud Statesman was for manY years
Que OF The members OF ParllmeuJ for
the borough of Stafford. Wholesale
snoe-makIng is almost incorporated
iu the town OF Stafford. Ga one oc-
caslon when be dIned with his con-
stltuents, he was called upon to give
a toast, aud continuing bis conversa-
zion width the Chairman, was re
minded that be must say omelnlog
Ia petuient manner, as II Offended,
he exclaimed IN loud voice, MAY
the manufactures Of Stafford be trod-
den under foot by the whole world !"
For few seconds there was conster-
natlOn on the counieIsnces OF the
Sons Of Cri>pin. They wondered
whether Sheridan meant to insult
them. Soon however they took the
joke and vehementIy applauded it for
its wit. The patient aud comtempla-
tive craft of shoe-making Is rich in
names which have become, iu great
er or less degree, household property,
among which may be found Hans
Sachs, the poet OF Nuremberg and
tie friend OF Martin Luther Jacob
BJhemeD, the well known German
my stl3 from whose works Sir Isaac
Newton is believed to have derived
some of his ideas on gravitation; The
eccentric Lsckington, who erected
aud owned the Temple of Muses."
an immense bookstore in FInsbury
square, London; Linre., the great
Swedish boianIst; George WiDkel-
man, the great art critic and antigua
ry, of whom Germany IS justly proud
the poet Bloomfield, whose principal
work is poem entitled The Farm.
er's Boy," which pleasantly depicts
the scenes OF his own early life, aud
displays great genius: Richard Saw
age and whole constellation of mi
nor bards; Sir Cloudesly Shovel, the
redoubtable Admiral; DR.. Samuel
Drew, the merspbysiciao Thomas
Holcroft, the able novelist, drama
list and politician George Fox,
founder of the Society OF Friends
and writer on religious liberty, slave
ry, the treatment of prisoners. capi-
tai punishment &c. Vim. Gfford,
traaslator of "Juveuai,n aud success
sive eoItor of the Anti acobin aud
the Quarterly Reviews-he used.
when apprentice, TO sir up halt the
night working out aIgebraic prob
lens on small pieces of leather Sir
William Read, the Radical HARDY,
the astrolOger Partridge, Sir Simon
Eyre, John Pounds, William Hun
tington, Hans Christian Andersen.
DR.. Morrison, DR. Carey, DR. Eoe-
nezer Henderson, DR. John Kttto,
aud many other, all belonged to "the
gentle craft Henry Wilson, late
Vice President of the Uoited States,
once occupied a shoe maker 8 bench
in the town of Natick, Massachu-
setts
The rage for pottery painting has
had its day. Alter all, the iiue 1stbe-