| Show CONTINUED rno fRO CO gol autobiography or oeda oyda A VEGE TARTAN bid 71 7 1 i NARRATIVE NA VE OF or A eul rul CREER r corid reported adier adfer by ci 01 i A 0 broom nalie avier apier ff me r E GS N A 1 I 1 f the sailors hilled and roasted two to kids kida the smack put eus ius us ashbro tat at dingle bay and after a months travel in ireland we returned home I 1 and heard that our sailors bal Bai lors taking advantage of our absence rib tib sence had arund too much of the store of rum they had provided at their own expense for the tho voyage and that the vessel becoming unmanageable had capsized the two men and pilot being drowned the boy alone escaping and clinging to the heel keel of the yacht he was wa s picked up a few hours after the yacht was righted by bome some fishermen and eventually brought to the isle of man where she was claimed by ber bar owl ors or who had to pay a salvage of As this incident had scoured during my hiring of her I 1 recouped d them of part and received bk ni my y baggage not so very much injured 4 ag I 1 expected at the bottom of or curbox box of provisions were some rome sleds seeds from our garden which we vre were carrying to distribute amongst the poor door irish at cit the places where wo we landed ao thinking that some future ship shipwrecked wrecked wanderers might be thereby I 1 cleared a patch of ground groundland and planted carrot p parsnip and cabbage seed hoping the goats would leave leavo the tender vegetables unmolested 1 I had been married about six teen years when I 1 resolved to print a pamphlet on the subject of vegetarianism tarlan ism giving my and choso of my wini wife and famil tamly J I 1 gave away two thousand copies oples and with somo some result for they v wore oro ore the means mimbs of adding over forty fort to the vegetarian flock in this orini orani phiet I 1 propounded a henni sc henns for the renovation of my nl hood on vegetarian principles at this time I 1 empio employed J ed about ciplet ser eer maia roalo and female in the tha house hoube and garden I 1 gaye gave the men 14 a week to find themselves ves ies and allowed a certain proportion of such common vegetables as potatoes carrots turnips tur hips and onions free being married men uhe they y ha had deach each a distinct cottage large and anti comfortable with an orham ornamental ent flower garden in fron front tanil and a fruit garden at the back they were bu built bulit it inthe gothic style after my oa 01 own design eael each cf ef them hopt kept bees and fowls jor for their own profit their style of living was the envy of ail all their neighbors I 1 allowed none of tham tham them to taker lod iod lodgers eks ers and insisted on cleanliness zo no rooms were wore pape papered reds but all were whitewashed annually during the many years that have elapsed since the first cottage was built accord ing to this plau plan I 1 have added to them until the number has reached fourteen they are mostly inhabited habit babit edby by seo beo Scotch men they are temperance all men anti tobacco and mostly vegetarians I 1 do not give a man a cottage to himself until he is married to a clean orderly industrious woman my laborers children turn out well veil onu ono cottage is Js inhabited by my wy gardener and his wife without children she teaches the boys and girls of the fhe other cottages and has done so for twenty years yearb s I 1 pa pay her 30 a asean year she was a trains trained schoolmistress before bedfor 0 married wy my head gir gardener deher deber is a religious man roan i j and holds divine service in ono one of my tny barns for about a hurl huri hundred dred persons connected with the estate it is 1 like a mothers meeting children if bofill lil ull ages being present I 1 ani am not orny orry rorry for this t is for the parson of the neighborhood ia is a great man for beet beef and Pie ile be erand crand erand his influence I 1 dread on my little arcadia my head gardener now and aud then gives 1 a i lecture on vegetarianism in schoolrooms school rooms and we two have dran drawn up a table tabie suggestive su of for rich a and esi esa poor out ot of hla hia wages he 1 keeps heeps riis flis his hia father allf anu inot mother lier iier and two maiden aunts aunt comfortably at an expenditure of about aa per week ho is an man and about forty years of deage age 1 I hope his hia eldest son will become an hn eminent mahand man mau and J I 1 am paying 1 for tor his edu cati one of the L eu universities n ivers ties on account of jils extraordinary ability and nibe flee natural ha tural disposition and also oil oll on account of the respect which I 1 feel for his hia father who wll wit 0 has helped meto mato me to carry out my principles on my fe state estate this inaura parents and aunts live in aberdeen shire and have never been on the parish the laird gives them tum three rooms over an outhouse at ad a wp ipek ak they spend as a week wetah on oatmeal and Is 19 a week on nille they grow vegetables enough to make a edw for d dinner I 1 uner I 1 Is s worth of 00 them a meal of ot bre bread ad in III tho ohp evening til tit they ey eat their without hatter batter but with their vegetable made roade either elther of peas or beans ad buys what condi condl meriu merits i or groceries they require jhb they are always clean and tidy and gather what fuel they neej need need from froin the pent peat on tho the moor the blind aunt aunts are very stron strod strong whereas the father ig is very feeble they work the tho garden and collect the wood ho he going with them to lead them on orf their way my bly gardener has drawn up a talle table showing how an adult man may supply himself with wholesome food lod iod lodging glog and clothing at as U od por per week on vegetarian Vege tege principles becan he can got a room unfurnished for la Is a week he can get attendance to a certain extent for Is a week extra III lif his bread bill need not benigro be moro more than IL g ad per week Is ad for greatt vegetables including potatoes potatoe pot atoe gd for butterby butter bf or oil 61 tor for coe coo cocoa da and od for groceries gul gui for clothing ad d for washing was liing go so the motley money is spent bome somo some of my ity gardener sons trained on the estate spend no more when they go away from it in of them named dickenson X always taken a great interest as he was tile first born on oil the est estate ate a and nd for a humn working workingman mali mall maii man ho ja has h s had bad a g glorious arlom career at sixteen I 1 gave him igoa igsa week geek for jor or attending to in jr stove plants pl ants At fourteen he had a week when lie he was eighteen a nob lemans sti steward bward saw him himan and jd offered bim him a week to superintend a great stove house As t r could such wages I 1 let jet mm film go gg but with great reluctance H heip heti wrote rote to his father that although he gol gob a week and many per qui sites kites yet ho he limited his expenditure to 3 until they of him and house him bim when vh he lla 6 cui cul dofan his expenditure 16 16 33 0 a week ho he could haye hayo hag had lf the tho best of meat ineat but he ie still mu preferred t the lie diet and nud h he 0 induced two of the oher other c who much troubled with indigestion to be conlo conle vegetarians eget arlaus arians this vegetarian movement jn thee the servants servant shall shail hall hali attracted trae trac tio tic 0 notice of the nobi nobl nobleman emall email who was waa much plea piea plead md to hear or of I 1 ib it by tho the tb gresteri grea krea teri ute iuso of vegetables bresth than had beenu one form formerly ehly etly especially by ithe the introduction ol 01 potatoe rie pie haricot bean stev abd aud macaroni as every levery everyday day disho disbo in the servants hall a saying of 1300 per annum was stas effected meted t in the co m ii of the vast establishment the therefore the nobleman was well satisfied and presented dickenson v ith a gelid watch anti and 0 wl wih h ati an inscription acknowledging his hia economy and lide floe fidelity lity dickensons Dicken dieken sons head head lead was not turned by all this although his wages were soon after raised to za 3 per week and all food found when ahen the nobleman died his hia successor presented dickenson with accompanied by a flattering letter and retained him in his hl service at ata a salary of a year dickenson Dic did kenson benson still living asi he d did d beare before after eighteen years ser ber i pensioned 69 with loo per annum and now lias has a nursery of 0 his ills own and Is reputed to he ie worth between alid and although he gismot more than fort forty y years of age he has married lately a most frugal but accomplished governess who lins his h hns is lived dived 2000 she was wis wi a vege vegetarian tartan tarlan when be he married her but is sq now pow I 1 am as proud if dickenson a if f he was vay iny own ipa son hil Hii sister is A a most exemplary vegetarian vere vege tarlan governess sh she 6 has bas induced no less lesi than eight rd milles families with whom sho aho has lived to become vege vegetarian vegetarians tarlan and from her economy in her dress she ahe has saved in hi the course of twenty years of gover govern essing loo on OIA her showing me her bankbook bank bauk book I 1 added 1100 loo to it and said if ir she saved 1000 during my lifetime I 1 would add MO to it she ia la trying hard bard and her brother has given her ilo iio towards it my eldest oldest unmanned daughten daughter F keeps my domestic accounts most mo st beautifully and audits those of any of the people I 1 empl empi employ 0 1 F with the object of impressing on them the 1 advantages of or economy I 1 havern timatea to my children that in proportion as they gave eave they shall inherit thi this may bo be an hu excess of parental government in the tho eftim atlon ationo q many but it has had bad a most beneficial effect my faill family Y are so methodical and self denying that they are said to realize some peoples peopled idea of quakers but I 1 have had little intercourse inter courso with that peet feet the success of my own offspring and the prosperity of my household and establishment as you du remarked to me seem to be due ue to an exceptional con conna ilir iti itt i of qualities and circumstance is u j my bay wide wife and myself in ift the flatt instance stan e and secondly in thesel those employ who are somewhat like bay uny myself seif self this is true I 1 will admit but it does not mill militate tate against the grent great principle aa as laid down in the tilt bible that the hand of ortho tho the diligent mabeth rich 9 that indus ry has its sure reward and that i hose who honor their parents dudl receive blessing I 1 have done mole mote for my parents parenius than all moy toy bragers br ahers and sisters united and I 1 ha hae hau received mere more blessing than all ull my rity brothers and sisters united pard a my egotism 1 I will give you a few facts of vegetarians vege tariana in our A squire and magist magistrate fa te wid uld ih i h 2000 a year used to spend 1500 us as a flesh eater cater he now spends llao ilao 1150 and is more moro comfor comfortable table tabie as a vegetarian A barrister whose doctor assured him bith that ho he should take tahe three meals of meat and a bottle of wine daily for his health healtha healt hs lb sake now finds buds that by a vegetarian and temperance diet his expenses are reduced more than one hain half his health is bette better and there 1 is a cor cpr increase of vigor and find power of sustaining labor such as he never before benoie knew A struggling clergyman whom custom in deuced lie he pall called edib edit it compelled to take three meals of meat daily was wab under this system always in debt and obliged to send the church eha ehl wardens round every christmas to ask for means to to pay his way now on tilo the vegetarian diet lie ho balances his income and expenditure and is able tb carry forward a few pounds every quarter I 1 believe from more moro than forty bofty years experience of the vegetarian diet thit hat were it generally adopted nine tenths of or the pauperism and prune ime would disappear that would bo tk able to supply herself with all the home growa grown corej corn wheat wheat she require lequire and that the national debt if desirable could be paid pid off in thirty years 1 I regularly rith my parent aits and they hearie heaning hearing I 1 was wag getting into comfortable clr cir ir frequently write mo me complaints of poverty TOL to these J responded by remittances of modey money and aud at this thia timo time wrote to my father saying I 1 would allow hlin him 2 a year and wid my mother a similar amount I 1 visited my father about once intro in two years but always pok ook a lodging and took my meals apart from him for be was an inveterate smoker and aud a great beer drenker ard and filled his snuffbox snuff box three times timea weekly I 1 onee once made a random calculation that he had wailed loo on stimulants ja his hia ilfe life these reflections prevented me from being more liberal to h him im if rf ahad I 1 had given him a year I 1 only L know now ho he would have spent more on cigars ho he would have bought wine at 63 61 a bottle anti and perhaps haye have increased his consumption or of snuff on getting a legacy of 75 once 10 of it went to pay his publicans public pubIc ans bill one day my father wrote ask ash asking nig hig me to accommodate my youngest brother and two sisters a few weeks that they might seo see the sights of the town and gei get ket change of air I 1 wrote to my father that my wife and X would be very glad to see them but hut they must not expect us to make any change in our vegetarian and temperance diet but hut at the same time intimating that our style of living was very comfortable fo for able table there was vas an ark amount V of formality between me and my father fathey he be would sometimes call me in derision the joseph of the tho family because I 1 went away from the got rich and I 1 held his ills liis ill lil s success in fit lifo life to bo be owing to his improvidence and self indulgence and feared ho be might want me to keep the tile whole family in in idleness accordingly I 1 was not very much pleas d 1 at hh its proposal to send my etters and younger bromer bromen to me ine llo lio however Wever I 1 assented and dud they came my elder sister mary biary ann anti was one of those sulk sulky yvain vain indolent natures which neither my wife nor I 1 can sympathize with at all public op opinion 13 ion ton was her god and mrs urs grundy grimily her godmother one day she said to my wife wide 11 1 I wonder you can call e endure to 11 live as 3 you do with your means it strikes mo me as being very poor ana and miserable most people of your means have three meals of meat a alay da y do you yon never feel tired the vegetable vegetables 7 my wire wife said no and that she aho did not think could preserve the samee health strength on a meat diet my aly rg rose ge at six and went to bed at past ten whereas as mary tod iod her sister could get down to breakfast till ten ton home hornet but when tiie tile they were with up li we took care to hayd have tho the breakfast cleared away at eight so that if it thov they came down at feri ten they th had tow to wait vait at it till lunch before th they e got an anything to cat cit this strict commissariat missa riat roused mary zap aap two hours sooner than usual biary mary blary anil anti was fantast fantastic le in her dress and talked a great deal of nonsense to the servants servant endeavoring to make them discontented with the vegetarian diet and ane one on of them gave notice to leave in consequence so I 1 thought it was time to settle with my tl sisters and I 1 placed them in a lodging anu and gave them ja 4 a week to feed themselves as they chose but they were welcome to 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