Show autobiography OF or A vegetarian A true tsue OF A SUC 10 ESS f I 1 J n eul FUL CAREER sepo nepo 1 arted rt d by 0 0 groom nae mt nar pier of fp 0 js after the reading of tuy thy paper on the vegetarian c cure eure u re for intemperance before the bristol mei mel meeting eting ef bf the british association in 1875 1 I was addressed by an elderly gentle munk mun and his wife who sald said my views were strictly in iti accordance with their some conversation we adjourned to his hotel botel where he hospitably entertained me and gave me ine a narrative of his life with i per missi onto publish it in the interest of the good cause suppressing his name arid abode as he said he was particularly shy land jand retired in his habits andlar a great objection to see his camb in print he spas born in the north of eng laud land laudan jn 1811 but although his hair was w a s grey L rey he otherwise appeared b better betten ot ter ten preserved P reserved by fifteen years than t n most persons persona of his age Ms bla futher jEather was a minister of ofa religion elig I 1 and andee juo jno was the eldest of twelve children he ancient and distinguished rather lineage but as his ather father bever never had more than a year gearhe ye arhe ha was obliged to send his children ou out early into the world andio and so at fourteen he was put into a house of business ina lna in a great north ern town i for the first three yea yen years j be lie ha had d nothing but his board with one of the senior clerks but at it the end of that time he gotas much drybread dry bread and water wirter for his lunch ashe ache aa be could coald take and ten aen a week to board and lodge himself he accidentally ci obtained some works on vegetarianism and was revolved ved to put in prag PrAd practice tibe what he be had rea mead read d ug aw otherwise e j wise he found he could coula not support and clothe himself decently I 1 will wiil rive give now his own words as nearly as I 1 can recollect 1 ill III I was seventeen years of age y feet eight inches high and strongly hullt built L lad I 1 iad fiad but bub ton ten shillings a week jor jol lor averyt everything h inh ind best lay it gut guv ou rele thie senior benior clerk ook me as a lodger ab at eighteen teen pence a week for foi one good there was a bead stead in anit iti but bedding no 0 or other furniture 1 I was resolved to do d 0 whit best beit I 1 could cold 4 and oyo P BO 0 man mau madany anything thing some canvass coverings which my epo gpo d pother dother had dut out round my pac pae packages ages served me to make a mattress when allied with hay for the first eight weeks I 1 slept jn in my an oldest clothes on this mattress my wy diet was ample ampie and nourishing but very ehla cheap a day lias was about one pound of leand eans which did dia nat emi moro more ingro ingre than a penny half a pound of bread dally dalty and two ilai lial penny cabbages cabbage and three pounds or potatoes in the week wea worth of seed ped oil one pound of swope u ny rice rice in id archip of tar tat tart from the w wine ine casks constituted my very nourishing diet when f my parents sent me ine a baske basket t of fruit ii 1 indulged in it freely bilt bill buti but 1 did rd diot riot ot eare care for it unless tie the the carriage was paid which was nott noti always the case casee thus Is ad for my food and Is ad for my lodging and gid for my fuel and light left me ass lid iid for other purposes af thi gid fid of fhi tho the t tal e d I 1 was ia of ab ahdout jeby it at took bl se elief ellef nearly ully this thir hum sum ui to purchase OR a straw bian blan blankets ketel hetEl sheets aad aud an d platow pillows secondhand second hand I 1 persevered for another year en this diet mid and found myself self seit in poh possession session of about 4 12 11 0 As I 1 had some re spectacle spec table tabie acquaintances in the he town I 1 resolved on ep ap ending piling this thia sum in hurn lurn furniture iture in order that I 1 might have a decent room in into to which to ask moy toy visitors taking a lesson from the poet goldsmith I 1 had ca bed by night and a chest of drawers by day a so 0 that my apartment alternately sitting room and bedroom was suitable for lady visitors J I 1 often invited tha tho lady you see sitting opposite to you tob to take tea on sunday with me and then go to church she was my own ago age exactly and was the prey pray of a craul cruel stepmother she in fact a sort of cinderella in a la larger 1 rge family her stepmother aimed 4 at marrying her to a widow 0 forty r five with beven even children but this thi 6 my young girl of eighteen objected to her father at arst first sanctioned ouren oun our engagement gag 1 but when a suitor in a goott position came forwarder his daugh daughter erho he forbade me the house and ana made her walk dally daily with the gentle nian whom we nicknamed inu number forty five live tre ire T resolved io marry ranry her hir as soon as I 1 could furnish i more wore loom rooms and ind hadl laid paid ida in lua a lood good stock of clothes my ydun gindy glady aldy redy studied ray uny etar etarian iala laia book and determined not t toi tos eat any meat at fib home bome all ithe the family laughed laugho dat at her but I 1 sufficiently resolute to withstand ridicule she told her father that ho he having once sanctioned her engagement to me she must bo be bound to me and could not accept any one else her father remonstrated with her but it was avanof of no he use at the endom end of the two years when I 1 had bad just lust passed my twentieth birthday I 1 called on her father and said 1 I have llave now three rooms well furnished and am able to keep your daughter E want you to fix a day for my marrying her he pressed my hand warmly and said eil eli ell I 1 elgain wull will give you yoa my blessing into the bargain 1 he was a man at the bottom but too much ruled by his wife he gave mij my wife a good large outfit and of ZIO 10 and her stepmother evah even ewen gave hor her 2 and her brothers and sisters bought her a family bible and find one ope of them wrote falt fait in it at tat the ena of ten days theng tholf coulten ances anees did appear fairer and fatter of flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the kings lilacs ineat daniel danial I 1 15 1 1 the old oid gentleman laughed very much when he told me this thia and bald said that the vegetarianism of danel lel iel had been the text of maue many a sermon which he had preached to td his children who profiting by so goo good d an example were all rians i nat bat to resume ol found myself married and very happy but with ten shillings a week only N V vo 0 laid out our money as follows we wo paid three and sixpence far three roots rooms ohe one hilling chilling i for fuel fuei ardd arid faille ibrie ahree and sixpence fol foi food and had lad two shillings for other con contingencies gen cies cles our or food consisted of bean stew three times a week potato piet lo 10 twice a week pt puddings iddings without eggs a week cir carrots rots turnips or somo some gre green on vegetable dally daily our bria breakfast ichisi was porridge either of corn 0 rn wheat or oatmeal we vve ate br a with it amis c cation catlon olon and r rendering bt butter beitter itter itier in mrik milk ilk yih uia hia ea coffee br or cocoa unnecessary we sometimes took 1661 tea in the ervan ing ng but oftener cold witted wa ve formed then thea the acquaintance of a vi fru merchant who though laughing atour abour at our vegetarianism of ten sent us basket caskets of fruit lva I 1 was married in december and hud in the 06 following Nov november ember amber my wife wine had bad a son boll in a few days the wife of the the firm paid us a visit andee and the next day I 1 was informed theft that my F salary be raised to eighteen shillings a week iwas awas I 1 was before this ingream in great difficulty do aa I 1 did not much alka like my wl wife bein wein a 13 the sole nairse nurse of hen her child refo reio belore before to this she h had a d attended to all our our wants I 1 now took an irish h servant girl who was willing to be a bege tarlan and rec receive elyo elve sixpence week q in wages for the first year j jr kwasin tw asin in possession at the tho end of my second yean year ban bar life ilfe of cf 10 sterling I 1 will thil now how I 1 Invest invested edIt it our firmy was both speculative and ing and employed some hundred workmen who purchased the tools they required strather at rather high a agh prices s n the ascertaining that hat the tools might be had cheaper at air pir inkham and sheffield eld eid I 1 went in myself and laid in a sma small I 1 stock mock which I 1 coid cold within week a to thia workmen a at t eighteen per cent profit bubb but still ten per I 1 cent under what they were in the habit of paying being offered ofle red a months credit I 1 received a consignment of tools from birmingham and sheffield at the end aud of a year I 1 found myself ln possession of lao iao which I 1 had bad made bj by the sale of these tools to our eun own hands my wiro wife kept my books and this little b the thel hiring of another anotnie 1 k room but idd lri other respects thia thib great grea ine inc of income didiot donot did not indaco indu ceus u to io enlarge pur expenses foreman lost loht his 4 9 gil an ati accident and und ivas wasl wasi iuca luba incapacitated pacitA ed for work vork I 1 made beainy him my 1 traveler to call cail c i all ali at t other ther ark eli eil gell heil 1 tools to workmen the firms firmi at birmingham ind and had bad me int I 1 obtained credit anore word mord largely I 1 on engaged gated a warehouse and a clerk clark at the ena end of my fourth year yeal of marriage I 1 was in possession of 1 l by the sale of these tools I 1 now thought of a bold I 1 was a capitalist I 1 went to the headon head of our firm and said eaid siy my sly wife is carrying on ou 1 a business which seems likely to produce us 1500 a year clear elear pro profit nit fit I 1 have no wish to leave your service but I 1 shall certainly tain lydo do so unless my salary Is raised to a year this sum bum being rheed on I 1 was contented for the present we wb now kept two servants and lived in fil two moors over our ware 1 house bouse and had two children 1 I had been married about hix bix six kix years and had three child children ren ran continued the old vegetarian when my warehouse se and all M my y furniture were totally destroyed hy y fire fortunately tuna tely they were werd ins for about As this was wag another crisis in my career J X went to the firm and said 11 1 I now know about as much of df my business as I 1 can learn slid and arld haye a large connection I 1 am offered credit if I 1 will embark my capital td open a business in opposition to yours but I 1 do not want to do so it you X 9 div riv e me a liberal iw nt 2450 a year and I 1 will 1111 ca carry rry nry on my bUsI busl business noss in in tools in my leisure hours as bato beto before 1 e my terms were accepted I 1 wah was 4 assigned a se separate p arald office and five clerks were ht mn inrid every ietter letter to me nin was now liow addre addressed sled sied esquire formerly chely I 1 was only mr at least to the firm r got myram lly ily arms engraved on arseal a seal ibe I 1 began to dregs dress better I 1 kep kept t three raa ran mald maid id servants and anda a page arid lived in nin hia a house honse out of town fown own a roadside villa with good vegetable garden bringing m i y expenses within the 1150 ayeal a year profit my blu business sines s for tue the th e my capital i the heads df the the tho nirm firm 6 brothers paid to areland ireland eland elaud i and oom com ink back a h terrific josel et they d of fathe deck deer of the steamer and drowned leaving luf itt the form firm only the junior tiie tile son of the elder oder brot hers bers tera young man of atwon twenty ty years twits xit uden sas his capacity habits not very regp larthe trustees of the two deceased partners of their own accord i proposed ithac I 1 should deceiver per annum take the entire charge of tho the ahe dusi bud besie bests nes and abd s tny uly tay an haur longer than hit hinto biff bu arter after bli bil months finding that abbit I 1 lo 10 lost st rather than gained by the arrangement as it encroached ed on thee tha aibe albe aime time I 1 had bad hitherto devoted s lo 10 iny my private business f plainly told the trustees thail must be taken into partnership ori eri aba abandon dadou daou the tho theon bon con c ern and establish a which guich might very selio sailo seriously lial dam dain aret aget theirs they that I 1 a should 0 uld be partner for life with 1 ZI l toon loon boo a gearas year as lafirst a first charge anthe on the profits of tho the business but should h bivoino bi i velno veino right lo 10 iea lea veany venny part af pf ot it td tomy n iv family but should have 6 two the as survia ing iri lii the gith oath death bf the presen thead of odthe firmly ufa out children A deed was executed i ta to emb amb embrace race these chese I 1 bound enter enten into any other business bu which would alato riv rival ai that firm nirm on 04 this I 1 teoka tooka superior hous house bous di kept a horse and 0 open per ca carriage two gard gardeners eneis eners and aud d at mt the rate of about 1200 a a year my ky wife now retired entirely from business which she he ilna lairid seen seeli after fot fok about the half of three days iii in the week about four years after thilo W my sorrow but hut at the tamel same time irae pecuniary advantage the young man raan my senior senion partner died after a few days illness from pleurisy brought on orf by b lhing ahing his constitution ution was mainly finly built up on ber beer beet beef and tu bacco I 1 a vegetarian ib was neven never ill lii arter after after bathing at hing this young man was a martyr martyn to the abuse of stimulants whom his foolish doctor encouraged in their use I 1 have made my m y wiil will and none of my children shall inherit a penny if they are not at the time of my death vegetarians vego tariana and aud total abstainers abstain ers ors wel wei wa had been so absorbed in business since we were mar married that we had not for ten years taken a seaside holiday so in tho the sum mer of IM 1816 we determined on ort a yacht voyage to last two months from may way ish to july round round the coast of ireland we hired a yacht of fourteen tons four men and a boy my wife and three eldest children and self wenton wanton went west on board at liverpool and we wd had a most benj enjoyable syable sail sall sail sall until we reached the northwest coast of ireland we landed lande dand and explored many rocky bays and I 1 collected many beautiful sea birds eggs and shot many of the more uncommon of the sea jowl fowl of which I 1 have a at t present a trophy of stuffed birds nine feet long in my hall ball wishing to see the wildest part of the irish coast we sailed for the atran arran isles igloo and atil tiding landing la there spent some days in examining curious atones stones for which those islands are famous some there therel spoke of au an isolated rock the sea xea about i a quarter of a ix long very high with a cavern in it as the haunton haunt of myriads of pf seafowl some of species spec fear Jear found no noi 1 where else la in the same abundance with oneff one oue of these fishermen us as ofir our pilot wo a reached the spot there thera was a heavy swell round this island rock I 1 and we wo had great difficulty in landing land ng we determined to anchor the yacht about half a mile afrand oss off and proceed to the island in the boat with two olour of our men thinking we might like ilke to spend theda thada the tha da day there we took with us two bags of bf rice a basket of oranges some loaves of bread some peas and hud beans for fon acup and utensils and wood for 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