Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Not Ashamed of Him. [ARTICLE]

Not Ashamed of Him.

An Englishman named Crowe was a fine classical scholar and a distinguished orator. He made bls own position in life, even at a time when classes were far more seriously regarded in England than they are at present. His father was a carplenter, working in the town of Winchester, and on the most loving terms with his son. One day the son, then an eminent man, was standing near the catnedral . door, talking to the dean and warden, when his father passed by. The old’ man was in his working dress, with his rule sticking from his pocket, and was evidently willing to spare the .son a salutation. But ths younger called out in gooff Hampshire dialect: “Here, fayther! If thee balnt ashamed of 1, I balnt ashamed of Companion. A new cotton ginning machine enables two men to gin 4000 pounds a day, and under the old system they could turn out less than a hundredth part in the same amount of time,