Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Butchering Saved His Life. [ARTICLE]

Butchering Saved His Life.

A Brooklyn man, who had studied for the priesthood, and was just about to take orders, relinquished the idea apd opened a butcher shop on Court street. He is a finely educated man, but ho wears a white apron and cuts up meat from 6 in the morning until 8 in the evening, and has never been heard to complain about the life. When he made the sudden change he feared that he had contracted consumption from overstudy and a general weakening of the system, brought about by confinement and hard work. He took matters into his own hands, and decided that a butcher shop was the best place for a man with weak lungs. There may be something'in his idea, for to-day he is fat and strong, and looks as if he would live for more than the allotted three Bcore and ten.