The Red Cloud chief., 1881-06-23
!llustriOus CObblers.

No one but n shoemaker could have
thought Colcridgc serious in his strange
saying that the shoemaker's bench hal
produced more eminent men than any
other handicraft. The Shoe and Leaihcr
Rcporter has. however. compiled n bill
Of particulars" in the shape Of n list Of
famous cobblers. which seems TO act as
IN effectual estoppei on all jealous
craftsmen. Hans Christian Andersen.
who needs no introduction. may head
the list, and Hans Sachs. of Nuremberg.
who, though he made shoes all his life,
yet also made 5000 poems, PLAYS, farces
and rhyming fables, may be put next.
Sir Cloudeslcy Shovel was a shoemaker
until he enlisted in the navy, and so
was Sir Christopher Minis. another
English Admiral. John Hewson. one
of Cromwelrs Colonies, and = signer
of Charles Is death warrant; Samuel
Bradburn, the ''Dcmosthenes of Meth
Odism," rs well rs q Bishop: James
Lackington. whose catalogue of publ
cations reached the total-enormous
for that time-of thirty-seven volumes
in l7S7-all these were cobblers NJ first.
il not AT the last. Continuing the En-
glish list, William Clifford. whose MEM
DRY is preserved by a complimentary
allusion in Byron's English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers" and whose
body is buried in Westminster Abbey;
George Fox, the arch-Quakcr; William
arey. a missionary famous n century
ago. and who read the proofs of the
Bible in t~wenty-seven Oriental Ian
guages; Samuel Drew. 1.-THE Locke of
the nineteenth century," whose expert
encc rs an author led him TO formulate
the sad truth that 'the man who
makes shoes is sure NJ his wages. but
the man who makes books is never
sure Of anything" Thomas Holcroft,
whose name is not nearly so well
known as that of n single one Of his
plays, The Road to Ruin" the
brothers. whom Byron thus
apostrophized:
i" We tUneful cobbiers still your notes prolong,
COmpos.s al once a slipper and a sDnz.'
John Pounds. whom school children
at being turned away from-all
these, and lesser lights too numerous
10 mention. were English shoemakers.
to our own country. Roger
Sherman. one Of the '.signers.' leads
the list in time. but Vice-President
Wilson in rank. Besides these
Congressman Shelley and Noah
founder Of the Aasssehu-
sets Peace Society. Aud eX-Goyern-
ors II. p. Baldwin. of Michigan, and
William Clafin. of Massachusetts,, il
never made shoes, AZ least dealt in
them largely enough To be named here
the list il sufficiently i'm
and convincing to justify = yer-
iict in favor of Coleridge's saying.
On q postcard on view ~ an eI-
in Germany there had been
in . German system of short
iand the large number OF 5000 words
Subsequently Mr.. Hurst. of Sheffield in
England. the publisher Of the Promo
a shorthand magazine. offered
for miniature shorthand The
Iys,em VA to be Pifmau's. the writing
o be legible TO the naked eye. and 10
,e on one side Of an English postcard
which Is considerably smaller than .
German card; $500 words On the
ormer being reekoned ~equivaIen. to
100 on the latter. The frst prize 10 {
his competition was awarded 20 c. II
davidson. whose postcard contained
,, 1858 words, including the whole d
"She Stops 20 Conquer" q
n essay on John Morley. and hall Of 9
I~oicrost's Road 70 Ruin"