The sun., 1889-03-31
4 FEW MORE HAnD WoRnERa
stage Driver Rasreir- Rudd Recalls some
who Lived In New Jersey,

who Lived In New Jersey.
LAKEWOOD, March 30-"This talk about
some Connecticut men having 10 work 80 hard
to get living is oil iudgol"
The speaker was liassolas Hudd, and he
laid copy OF tho Sunday Sun across his knees
as he braced himself against tho counter OF
Johnson's grocery preparatory to relating n
few facts for the cdlAcntion of number OF
| auditors. Mr. Rudd is an old-iimer in this VI
cinity He has driven stage between Lakewood
and New Egypt good many years and knows
people from one end OF tho eighteen mile road
to the other. llo has to pay 10 cents for n copy
OF the Sunday Sun, and ho values it Accord
ingly. 1t kcops him. ho snys. in reading mat
ter pretty nigh all the week" ard he has
never been known to 90 to sleep in his st age
Since he began regularly 10 rcad The Sun.
| " soc In here" he began. that one Thomas
| Norman has walked eight miles day for four
months TO teach country school, and that his
pay Is s25 or $50 month. Why. between you
and me" ana he selected the cheese cago In n
far corner for the object of his remarks to keep
his mind in the traces, that's nothing You
don't remember. Joshua Brown Well. l do.
Joshua Brown Walked ro TaIheF Se TO mesS aas
Bridge morning and night. teaching school six
hours hours g day, and taking an hour for incoming.
It's foot. and the round trip Is thirty miles
BY easy reckoning Joshua brown did that
succession, You know they .didn't have school
In this SECTION more than three months IN
S'9 %Es or and Hns Eo9a he sSG ycsa
month Of s or f&sn.s w5In M pay vas Srs
found himself, besides once ia while throwing
In copyb0ok made OF, foolscnp paper. and
Brown was a good toacher in his day. but he
gave up teaching before he was 45 years old.
sehod Se hesh sF hS 9n ks
ber him yet might tell you that ho died Of
@ osOos Of s6Rsss bRs wVs p, hsea he adp b sS fs
houses SO much closer together than they ns wers
they go, IN SO many Yankee teachers aiter
awhile that could add fractions and that sort
Of bs and
looking over his audience, returned lis gaze to
enough to remember the time whenJ Jontyd oble,
county. walked ten miles day. from Burrsviiie
to this town to teach sch9ol Jonty walked y five
then as strong as his voice. and there amt any
thing mean about his lung power. ns every
/ remember one day was driving into town
and was lust coming down the hill this side OF
pond as Jonty was going up. There was about
a foot Of snow on tho ground; He saw me and
il them horses didn't shy out Of the Psi road and md
come near rup1ning me into the pond. they were
that SCARED. You might haye lot of a double
wouldn't have behaved worse. Jonty Goble
only onEysDs S0t $50 MONTH but he never threw In
There was another momentary pause, dur
cheese E tss BIT
Yes. and there's TIP Bennett--Wiliam H.
Bennett as they called, him when ho was elect
ms 10 t. Tas ans h
teach b, school q from the first Of September 70 the
s25 month. He did this for two winters, and
MIXED and an foddered ID the COWS morning and
up half the night studying hard to keep ahead
OF sGPe OF ne smnrt boys and girls In that
twice q day. four miles each way. for the |
Th as so"d as s tbs In
mo that fe never ielt better in his liio' than han
late at night He had pretty good learning |
when a,t! he went to the war. and was mado an
q good hand and was quick at fisures'
M NJ RrTd 3D., having M finished Is his mid day lunch.
through his glasses and continued: A'''A'
could match that ,hIef fi that Stole lsl
recall ANYBODY who could beat that Upper Sfys.
tic n man a at cutting and splitting WOOD. but for
Joshua ! Brown I've lust been telling yop about
sns e Mrs. BewD Is ff s Snr a%
are are to substantiate what I'ye said about them.
engaged teaching school and partly working In
? charcoal l,e burning and they were both trying
bought about ten acres OF new ground two |
miles or SO from Goshen. Mrs. Brown n1 was asa
Ssa and ES5er 0 YOU s nss s
ground in the morning and then
sash there? %?AP from Ct ocodEF 1Eht & w1s csee
leres OF that new ground in less than three
months for dollar week and her board. She
only got her board BY working late at night
d9ps heas sSo Xs s hs Il
hoe @ her h Ss sSSss ss Wa whh %sss s
boards for house. The lumber | was delivered
~ the sawyer, and she and her husband soon
'himney. it was the custom then to build the
'thimpney tiimpne on the outside Of The house, Well.
yak on to Cedar Bridge e miles away, borrow
sSShias son ss5oSl and and thsn waIk Ssai sgsin
NJ nan R1awn as ever dfoHe stag nd With
lefore the 1st OF November she had built O
himpey for that house with her own hands,
ived there until they went to Keeping store at
ioshen. II you, don't believe this get into my
tage and ] will take you and show you the
louse. for its standing there yet.
".Mebbe." concluded Mr.. Rudd. as II he didn't
eel that he had done his best, but possibly
hink 1t over l. can match that Connecticut
rindstone thief y And he gathered up his
Jun and went over to the Post Office after the
ioshen and New Egypt mail bag.
SALTING A TENDERFOOT
In Illustration OF tho Fact that Providence