Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — Robert Collyer’s Boy. [ARTICLE]

Robert Collyer’s Boy.

In a lecture entitled Anvil to Pulpit" Rev. RobertCollyeris&ys: “My father had $4.50 a week to keep his family on,and we got on with surprising regularity. I was the eldest of the familyof children,and was always glad of that. At that time provisions were not nearly so cheap as now; there were ho cheap schools, and the schools then were not very common, and such as they were you' had to , pay for them. Yet that good mother made that income stand good enough for aU. We lived on oat meal and milk in plenty, with just a bit of meat when we could get hold of it; , a mug of tea and white bread on Sundays, brown bread the rest of the time. My mother would make soup on Sundays, and would say to us boys, ‘Now, boys, he who drinks the most soup shall have the most meat.’ We would drink as much as we could carry; then she would say, ‘Well, you can’t eat any more; we will save the meat until to-morrow.’ With such a training as this it is no wonder that I hardly know what you mean by indigestion .— Cinchvna ti Co m mere i Al. The official bullet.n of a great victory over self is written in indelible ink on brain and heart.— Barbers’ Gazetie. . . Although every Tom, Dick„ .or Harry can open a beer saloon, it takes a “Jimmy” to open a bank. t ,