Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-08

. being gauged by careful housekeeping. It was a sin to gorge the body, and gOdly conversation was better than abundance. Yet the pastors tea table arises with halo around it. The rye and Indian bread, the doughnuts fra grant as flowers, the sparing tea, the ,prim mats which saved the cloth, the wire screen covering sponge cake-how sacred they seem!
 The autumn that I came to Long meadow Napoleon Bonaparte was beaten on the sea by the English, but won the battle of Austerlitz, defeating the Russian coalition and changing the map of Europe.
 felt sometimes a puppet while this man played his great part. It was no comfort that others of my house were nothing to France. Though did not see Louis Philippe again, he wandered in America two or three years and went back to privacy.
 The missionary spirit of Longmead- ! Ow stirred among the Williamses, and many of them brought what they called their mites to Pastor Storrs for my education. IT I were made king no revenue could be half so sweet as that The village was richer than many a stonier New England place, but men were struggling then all over the wide states and territories for ma- terial existence.
 The pension no longer came from Eu- rope It ceased when returned from ! France. It's former payment was con- sidered apocryphal by LOngmeadow, whose very maids, too white, with pink spot in each cheek, smiled with reserved amusement at student who thought it possible he could ever be king. spoke to nobody but Pastor Storrs about my own convictions. But local newspapers, with their cInnisci- ent grip on what is in the air, bandied the subject back and forth.
 We sometimes walked in the burying 1 ground among dead WilliamSes while he argued down my claims, leaving them without a leg to stand on. Re versing the usual ministerial formula. ''If what has been said is true, then 1t I follows, first, secondly" and SO on, he 1 used to say:
 "Eleazar, you were brought up among the Indians. conscious only of bodily existence and unconscious of your origin; granted. v, ney was sent --Iet us say from Europ pa-for your support; granted. Several persons, among them one who testified strongly against his will, told you that you re- sembled the Bourbons; granted. You bear on your person marks like those l which were inflicted on the unfortu- nate dauphin of France; granted. You l vVn ISAvSa ya%Y Yv Y1p7Yc11oH xzzhffn ] abroad; granted. But what does it all 1 prove? Nothing. It amounts simply to this: You know nothing about your early years. Some foreign person perhaps an English Williams kindly interested himself in your upbringing. | You were probably scalded in the camps. You have some accidental traits of the Bourbons. A man who heard you had larger pension than 1 the idiot he was tending disliked you. | You can prove nothing more"
 never attempted to prove anything more to Pastor Storrs. It would have been most ungrateful to persuade him l was an alien. At the same time he prophesied his hopes~of me, and many ] a judicious person blamed him for treating me as something out of the ordinary and cockering up pride. blunter Williams used to take me l by the button on the street.
 ''E1leazer Williams" he would say,
 "do you pretend to be the son of the
 French king? I tell you whatl will
 not let tlla name of Williams be dis graced by any relationship to any
 French monarch! You must do one of two things you must either renounce Williamsism or renounce Bourbon ismy
 Though there was liberty of con- science to criticise the pastor he was autocrat of Longmeadow. One who 1 preceded Pastor Storrs had it told about him that two of his deacons wanted him to appoint ruling elders. ] He appointed them and asked them what they thought the duties were. They said he knew best.
 Well" said the pastor, lone of the ruling elders may come to my house before meeting, saddle my horse and hold the} stirrup while get on. The l other may wait at the church door | and hold him while get off, and after meeting bring him to the steps. This 1 is all of my work that can consent to l let ruling elders do for me"
 l The Longmeadow love of disputation was fostered by bouts which ruling l elders might have made it their busi-