TN
inthe Chimney Corner.
FREDERICK EB. WEATHERLY.
What do you see in the fire my darling:
Golden haired lassie beside my knee?
Is it a castle in Eldorado,
18'it a lover from o'er the sea?
Leave the castle for others, lassie,
Let the lover come whence he may;
Love is love tn the humblest cottage,
Never mind what the world will say.
What is there in the flames, my darling?
Do you wonder what 1 can see?
Tae old white house and the little garden,
Oh, how It all comes back to me!
Oh, the sound of the mill wheel turning?
Oh. the scent of the lilac tree!
When I was a girl like you my darling,
When your grandfather courted me.
You will grow old like me, my darling;
Time will whiten your golden hair:
You'll it at eve in the chimney corner,
Dreaming and watching each empty ehalr.
You will not weep as you sit and ponder 3
You will remember granny's smile:
For we know that the hearts that are gone, my
darling,
Are but lost for a little whiie
7 wn
SLOW AND SURE.
—————
James Lingard, an old and solid city
merchant, had in his employ two neph-
ews, who every opportunity of
studying in counting the
sgcret of a successful business career,
These were John Warren and Stephen
Both attained the age of 20
thie same ye.r, and both on the first of
May were summoned into Mr. Liug-
ard’s presence, fle thus addressed
them:
“You have t
Ly
had
the room
Grer,
een in my employ e ght
years, you kuow Low my business is
ted, and I
tent to manage a business of your own.
Though 1 should be glad to retain you
longer
way
coudu consider you compe-
advancement, 1
redit of
er's the sum of £35,000,
r
Ok YOULL
placed to the ¢ each of you, at
This
my bank
will supply
for
business,
(ing in
wl judicious management
eed, Success to Yo 312?
the old
moment's
speech for
a
one thin
more LO say.
3 f %
purpose to Go 10r you. or
x t a
times the capital 1 started
i with it must sink
have my
you
Or
’"
You best
mt need look for furt
BO 1UIL
pecun‘ary aid.”
His nephews thanked h
m heartily
took measures to go {
John
and at once
business,
inio
Warren secured a
moderate rent, and
determined to business on a cash
basis, contenting himself with
stock as his own capital would buy, He
made his purchases
modest shop al a
do
such
judiciously,
overlooked every detail of his business
personally.
stephen Grey bad
larger | leas.
hired a shop ut three times the rent,
pushed his credit to the utmost, and
msde a great show at the outlsel,
baoti
ference was manifested,
soon married,
hired smal’
ist out of
John Warren a t
cotiage |
nished it in a cheap, inexpensive man-
ner
who t
Oue servant only was employed,
gether with a boy to run errands,
was found sufficient
lishment. But Stephen Grey turned u
his nose at the cottage, and hired a ci
larger scale of expend ture,
“I'm: not going to
be said loftily,
“But you cannot afford such
house, Stephen?’’ asked his cousin,
My business profits will be much
greater than yours,” he answered.
begin will be
hence,’
“Perliaps 80,” said John shrewdly,
“hut where will you be then?”
Don’t of me,” said Stephen
confidently; “I'm ashamed of you for
not showing more enterprise. You've
immured yourself iu an obscure shop,
where you will do next to no business,”
“1 don't know about that, I'd
rather be slow and sure. It's bettac to
hug the shore than get wrecked in m'd-
¥
live like
per,’
whera you five
years
fear
ocean,’
“Perhaps so, but I know I am on
the way to fortune, Teun years from
pow 1 shall have turned my five thou-
sand pounds into a hundred thousand,
while you may possibly have fifteen.”
I see you are not to be convinced."
“*Nor you, I suppose.”
“No, my motto ia, ‘slow and sure.’
“And mine, ‘nothing venture, noth-
ig have.”
“Well, the futare can alone decide
which of us is right.”’
So the two cousins separated,
1 am bound to confess, though my
own feeling ia that John was right, that
cireistances seemed to justify Ste-
puen in his course. It so bappened
that the particular classes of goods of
which he had bought so largely, rose
rapidly, owing to a state of things
which peedn’t be explained, and as his
stock wus large, his profits were also
very large. lndeed, notwithstanding
his personal expenses were three times
as great as his cousin’s, bis balance
shee: showed, at the end of the year, a
clear profit of £5,000, Iu other words,
he bad doubled his capital, and was
now worth £10,000, John had profited,
too, by the rise, but on account of more
limited extent of his business, advanced
to but £6,000, But with this he was
well pleased, and counted himself fort-
unate,
‘‘How about our different matters?’
said Stephen one day about this time,
in rather an insulting tone, to his cou-
sin,
“[ have no reason to complain of
mine,” said John, ‘it has served me
well,”
“But not so well as mine,”
“It is hardly time to feel sure of that
yet,” sald John,
“] don't agree with you,
keep on as I have begun. Indeed, 1
shall extend my operations. Iam in
treaty for a larger store, and ——
“For a larger store?"
John, surprised.
I shall
more enterprise,”
“You can’t expect things will always
last year.”
“We must taks things as they come,
the time to make hay."
“I hope you will make plenty of it,
and be ready for a if that
shou!d come.”
“Trust me
I’m about.
example."
shower,
for that. 1 know what
You'd better follow
“How, move in'o a larger store?’’
“Yes, take this one which 1 am about
to leave.’
John shook his head,
“It 18 too large for me,” he said. *‘l
am not yet ready to enlarge ny opera-
tions beyond my present limit."
“Well, advice m
you, whether yom take it or not.”
it’s good ! giving
“I've no doubt you think so, Stephen
I hope you will meet with
to shake your faith in your motto.”
no reverse
So the two cousing azain separated,
dd
to do business
Not did
8 business expenses by occu-
in
his own way. only Stephen
increase h
pying a store at
: § }
a higher rent, requir-
additional number of clerks,
into a larger house
nn extent an
cleared an
he was worth fif-
The ti
nave
ie had
, and he taken in
But this he saw no necessity for
doing. So for two years longer he kept
on his way. In that time goods fell
very considerably. His stock was very
large, and his losses also very large. His
property bad shrunk to eight thousand
and he was now the
John felt au-
in renting a somewhat larger
whil remained In
nine thousand,
richer of the two,
thorized
shop,
OW
e Stephen his
able, nor woul
he
i“
be
to
I shall not
interestirg, detail t varying
Suflice 1t
tat at the end of ten years John
worth fifteen thousand pounds,
and was carrying on a safe and profita-
Stephen found himself at
where failure inevitable
immediate
H is per-
was
obtain the
housand pounds,
could
use of ten t
this,
In this dilemma be bethought him-
way to
room,
He made his
the well known counting
was shown into Mr. Lingard’s private
“1 hope everything Is going well,
Stephen,’ said the merchant,
“0 " said Stephen, ‘‘that 1s,
But to tell the trath, I'm
in a tight place just at present,
“Indeed: I'm sorry to bear it,’
“You see my operations are pretty
yes,
suspend unléss I ean raise ten thousand
pounds within a week.”
“That's a large sum,”
“Well, my business is large.”
at?"
“Twenty thousand pounds,”
Will ten thousand pounds set you
free entirely?”
“wNo." said Steplien reluctantly, “I
have bills to the amount of eight thou-
sand more maturing in six mouths, *’
“Deducting the proper margin, it is
doubtful if your assets equal your Lia-
bilities,”
“A loan of ten thousand pounts
self. Will you come to my help, Mr,
Lingard?’
The old gentleman shook his head.
“Franklysno, I resolved when I
started you in business to leave you to
yourself without further help. Ob-
serving how you started, I foresaw how
things would turn out. You have held
out longer than I anticipated.”
“Then what am I to do, sir?’’ asked
Stephen, gloomily.
1 advise you to call your creditors
and make a frank statement. If they
allow you to go on, contract your opera-
tions, take a smaller store, and begin
over again. If you prefer, however, 1
will give you a clerkship at five hun-
dred pounds salary. I presume my
partner will not object.
“Your partner, sir? Have you taken
one?’
“Yes, | find 1 am getting old an
need rest." 4
“May I ask who he is?”
“it is John Warren,
Steplien sprang to his feet in amaze.
*
ment, anger and envy. John Warren
to b= placed so far above his head!
“Why is this?’ he asked in an un-
steady volce,
“Jt 18 because John Warren is a
good, reliable business man. Had you
shown the same good judgment, sagac-
ity and moderation I should have taken
you also into partnership; but I tell you
frankly, 1 cannot trust my business in
your hands.’
Stephen left the oflice abruptly, angry
and mortified, He was glad eventually
to accept the clerkship, being utterly
John Warren 1s
at this time, his uncle beiog deceased,
the head of the great firm, and a very
rich man. Stephen is a disappoluted
man® but he has only himsell to thank
for il.
wy ——
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The reports
Mr-, Deecher
denied,
Harriet
ale
nothing more. Mrs, Stowe is seventy-
like all person of
extremely
i such an age, is more or less
broken down,
But to SAY
sav what is not true,
is demented is to
She is not at all
that she
umes in the possession of her mental
powers to the extent of bein? able Lo
3
write vigoroasly upon any topic; but
of the letters has writien
within the few
strength not to despised.
about the
iy
gine
Some she
months show
she delights
in neighborbiood
when the sha fre-
the greenhouses of Mr. Clem -
few doors away,
hours looking at
any
past a
ug
weather 18
stroll
and
quent 4
lives but «a
11
iis
ens, who
where she Ww IAsS
nd
will immediatel
the flowers, a jut
word
esas]
self}
to « ymplete
simyply broken
the ace
person's de
fully cared {
ters, who resid
erty luterasts
wii, the
now in Florida
Flies
iwi hv,
posing of her prope
A Pretty Amarican Countess.
anothe American
r y
wat kn [ hold 11
I met her with her husband
] saw at
whom © Wing, 1 hagh
regard
mus faced sister o
and a rie { charity
looking at the pathetic inscriptions in
the quaint sur
ls th
cemetery which
Hofkirche I had
I speak of as she sat
OH
with rapt attention in the soft twilight
of the id ¢
grand organ as its music pealed among
Her strong refined
soft gray
lim hurch, listening to the
8 gray arches
with
sir under her
arcut features,
black hat,
against
1
Cie
and a plain
dress outlined s great stone
yr. made a striking picture as ahe
her .
strongly knit, soldierly German w
+11
Friis
sat besids straight,
ith
isa
husband,
gray hair and a stern face
1 hie ¥ the
Waldersee. He
ge neral and Von Moltke's successor as
staff of the
femneror,
bronzed by
exposure. were Count and
Conntess is 8 great
f of
ambitious
and
chi young
abe the bes
CGierman
friend of
tha vonino om
the young «m
press,
A New Side to a Vital Subject.
At a entertainment in New.
ark, most desirable
young society men, were regaled with
by the first young
Each bad prepared
and the
The
course ;
recent
a dozen ©
viands prepared
ladies of the city.
her special dish,
beantifully done.
meant for a joke of
full of significance.
cooking was
matter
but the
Why
was
affair was
education?
a late bride of last season.
“she explained” by superintend-
her own cooking, and even our
ing against her, was sensibly
secret so few wives fathom, that love
minus the well compounded vitalizing
food which puts “‘iron into the muscle
and crystal into the brain!” That it is
holy
duties of home mimstration sre re
legated to people, ignorant of the first
Not only that, but they are prone to
assume superior knowledge upon the
most essential points, and presume to
insult the mistress, who dares to, assort
her authority. ‘How is this ham eook-
ed, Mary?” mildly questioned a lady
friend, of the girl who placed before
her a tarry mass, smelling of burned
ease,
“It in just cooked right Mum." The
answer blurted ont with expanding
nostrils and arms akimbo meant ‘‘war
to the knife;” but my friend being mis
tress of the situation quietly dismissed
the domestic vampire, and took the
lines into her own fingers; finding ex-
perience 8 boon. Many another wo-
man would have been at the mercy of
the menial, to whom the duties of her
wition were a sealed book.
There is no denying that the service
question is the bane of American
homes; and it certainly behooves lady
martyrs of a miserable method, to ay
vigorous hold of the horns of this di-
lemma, and demand from the stand
int of practical knowledge, some-
ing more they are
to receive at the hands of helpers, to
whom we gn the most important
duties in our lives and homes.
8. J. B
SNAKE-POISON AS A MEDICINE.
A Man Who Considers Cobra Ven~
om an Antidote for Cholera.
An editorial on the experiments mace
in the United States with the venom of
cobras and rattlesnakes appeared in
| F. A Perroux of Cooper’s lane, Cal
| eutta, East India, Mr. Perroux writes
{ that he has called the possible therapea-
| tic effects of cobra venom to the atien-
| tion of American and Earopean Gov-
| ernments, some of which, including the
| United States, ate now condueting ex-
| gestions,
{ in small quantities.
death in cholera
| lation of the
He
dus
that
it~
believes
is to of
blood: that *‘ptomaine,’
| or a venom similiar to that of poisonous
snakes, Is a normal constitue t of the
human blood, necessary to keep it firm,
and that in cholera this constituent is
separated, and ‘*‘localized,”’
injection of the venom of such snakes
as the cobra. 111s education, he
1s “entirely lay.” Helis t a biologist,
and *‘the advance. d
|
come of
adds,
no
is the ou
theory {
yy
purely synt »
suggested hy what
hetic processes
he sales 68 a 1a!
that cobra venom Iwop rly
i 3 J
1 cholera,
Even if this is i ct
injected 8
an antidote 1
it is too exira-
to be acc
emonstrated beyond
{ ordinary pted before it has
been d
tut, aside from it, the
greal interest in col
Perroux's theory
Experiments u
show that snake ve
| od
30h # me '
powerful solvent, it
nto the human bl
composes {he inlegumments io
APEX A 1
ison glancs,
on itself may Le a process
t
I
composition and recombination, chang-
ing altogether the character of the sub-
stance itself,
If this is what really takes place, Mr,
Perroux’s theory natural y
solvent for the
blood remains undemon strated and pro-
bab y But if ti
decom posi-
of
venom
existing as a necessary
undemonstrab e, e
ith
vesom is secreted without
tion and recombination, hie has sugges-
ted a long line of
coveries. ‘The
fact for the
siall
most important dis.
actual basis of ob erved
suggestion is as yet very
First, we have the alleged fat
that the venom of the cobra will jre-
vent death from cholera, and, support.
ing this, the fact tat a substance called
“ptomaine,” resembling serpent blood,
bas been found in human blo by a.
alysis. This proves for the
first inference 8 that snbstance,
nothing,
this
i.. 18 the result of disease,
not
fais
iMag
when =o
fermentation, or putrefactior
of portoal anima chemistry.
So little is Kkuown
, and
The
of a i chemis-
try'and the possibility of astonishing
discovery in it is so great that it would
be absurd for any one ‘layman’ or
biologist, to make any assertion of pro-
bability or improbability in advance,
It is not antecedently probably or im-
| probable that a man will die if a poison
or *solvent'’ corresponding to the pols
on of the cobra or rattlesuake is with-
{ drawn from his blood,
| may exist in the blood as a result «f
| the healthful chemical
| which perpetuates life.
’
combination
1t may exist
only as a cause of dea'h, or it may not
exist at all in “'liviag’’ blood, but appear
| only after putrefaction. Where so little
1s known probability or improbability
| scarcely figures at all on any question of
unknown fact. For all science knows
to the contrary, such poison as that
mal life.
ABOU SOCIETY LIFE,
Brazillian Women.
middle and the lower classes. The
ladies of the upper class are undeniably
beautiful. They have raven biack hair,
white teeth and perfect forms; and if it
were not for the enormous amount of
plaster-of-paris enamel witht which they
cover their faces they might have love.
ly, oreamy complexions. But their
wondrous eyes are the chief and never-
ending charm--large, dark, lustrous
and fall of expression, throwing more
meaning into a single glance than an
hour's conversation could possibly eon-
vey; for though attractive and captr-
vating in their simplicity and grace,
they may not be able to write a single
sentence correctly-—for the eduoation
of women is not considered essential to
their happiness. They learn embroid-
ery and music indifferently, and spend
their lives in rocking chairs and bam-
mocks, never reading a Look of any des
oription.
The girls are very fond of their
dolls, taking them wherever they go,
oven to church; and never give up
playing with them until they are mar-
ried, which is generally between the
ages of twelve and sixteen years, thus
early assuming the important and re-
sponsible duties of life, Young moth-
ers, little more than twenty, with four
or five small children are no uncommon
sight.
Brazilian ladies never go out, even
in daytime, without the family or &
They do not have gentlemen visitors,
and if a young man who has been as
sociated with a girl in childhood, or
who by some accident 18 allowed to
risit the family,
| immediately excluded from the house
becomes a lover he 18
and the courtship proces eds from the
the IH
it
| balcony to street, notes are
exchanged in done
through the mail
the firs
opera or
Often a gentleman
ons bal.
and
sees a lady for
the
tune
ch ireh
A courtship
gony, ot at
falls
1:1
Ane
in love
the
engaged,
with her
above they becom
freq OWIng
each other than 1 y can learn
know not
| other's minds, tasts,
I was
thus courted
£4
] left her
| from inquiry;
id
a gin
positions
Who
Iria
If
re.
a Brazilian girl sh
wot her
Sade
etures have
PT thay
pny ILE, Vaey
get |
the orynuster
shows the
what he
0 res tw
CHa present as to what his
LiONns ware
sult
11 $1
jcrous and iaughabie,
supposed to have |
re being in
ILANY Cases
ind and
the fun of the 3 It 3
Le CeRSArY that a person shall |
herein is
Hall
draw in order to take part in
, the worst
dy lead to the greatest
paps I's Are being passed
y one sees what Lhe
others have
-
A Valuable Machine,
There is now on exhibit
will enable American cotton p auters to
1 $25.000,0 0 worth of cotton-seed
which bey cannot sell now for want of
amarket., The inventor of the machine
thus explains its uses: ‘There
nually 2. 0, 000 of
wasted, because there is no market,
the seed could 1
oil mills would gladly buy i,
they cannot get enough from Egypt,
their present sole source of supply.
The seed cannot be exported, because
the cotton fibre which surrounds it,
after be ng gioned, heats in the hole of
the ship and rots, Ti
the fibre from the seed and leaves it as
clean as a grain of wheat, In which
condition it can be exported.
posed to establish mills at the various
seaports of the cotlon States and begin
are an-
tons cotton seed
because
seed. The cleaved seed will
£30.20 per ton in Liverpool T e en-
tire cost of putting it there would be
| $20.10, leaving a clear profit of $10.10
| on every ton of seed. If wa cleared
| only one-tenth of the seed now thrown
| away, the profit would be $2,000,000
for one scason’s work. The English
method for manufacturing oil from
| eotton-seed is far superior to the Am.
| erican system, and they pay more for
| the seed, realizing better resuils from
| the process,’’
Sm— ins
Works Though Over a Century Old.
Captain Jack Haynes, the engineer
in charge of the elevator engine at the
Fagan building, is 102 years old. As
he stood in front of the stracture the
other morning no one would have
placed his age st over 65 years, and
there would even have been some mis.
givings as to his being quite that ven-
erable. Nevertheless, it was in 1787
that the old engineer came into this
world, his birthplace being Tenneesce.
14 ie nearly all Tennesseans, the cen-
tonarian is a siz-footer, chews tobacco,
and loves a good story. He ws active,
healthy, spare in figure and only slight-
ly bent with his wonderful weight of
from
and very valuable,
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
It iz a grate art tow be superior tew
others without letting them kno it.
Ile who ackquires wealth dishonestly
iz too corrupt to enjoy it.
He who wisely uses his wealth need
not leave it for his tombstone,
Vain men should be treated az
treat bladders—blo them up Lil
bust,
boys
they
We should live as if in presence of
death; we should die as if in presence of
life,
Vanity is a strange passion, Rather
than be out of a job, 1s will brag of its
views,
Wherevir the
takes root it
above the sky,
tree of benevolence
sends forth branches
| Prosperity is like wine—large doscs
| of it are pretty sure to revesl a man’s
true character,
i I hay alwus noticed that he iz the
| best talker whoze thoughts agree with
| Our own,
i
| When the good man
are shed lie
i from flowing,
dies, the tears
which in life prevented
and don’t worry.
Zeal 18 better,
Inepira-
Be earnest
it Work is
Lion iB gf
wist of all.
You can often determine
a rpan’s character {rom
his enemies,
the
the ¢
Yailue
Haraze
of :
after 1
men do lives
vie good
ern,
bu some men do doesn’t Lake
up much room,
Happiness is often
we Msfortur
10 eel Lier,
pass ner
{ and we rush
OY
He who will fight t
own weapons must
itl a1 Overimnalci.
la
Lo
finas i
}
phun but ti
.
animals
ct}
Teel
KS
under cover
abroad in the
iy we are general ¥
t {favors is because we
ill we can get
ture fs
HOW
A a young
spend a
@
‘
w
4 y
A WO LAA
Every man has his secret
! which the world knows no
we Call 4 Inman
only sad.
All sud
ne eve they Keep on
other
BOITOWS
{ »
t: and of ten-
i when he is
times ool
keessful flirts hav sharp eyes—
yu and one 0D the
}
i 16) 5
x
x anity
s yung man;
, Moboddy
asy right
ntricitys when they are natral
Are sun incGikashun oV a superior
mind: those who think different irom
others are apt tew ackt different.
Don’t rever quarrel with a loafer.
Skurrillity iz bhiz trade; yu never Kan
make him ashamed, but he iz tow
{ make yu,
in a great Fortune will
actually bunt for a man, but generally
those who are favored with her smiles
have to woo them,
sure
Once while
It is a great piece of folly for a wan
to be always ready to meet trouble half
way. If he would put all the journey
| ou trouble be might never meet iL
A household without children is a
bell without a clapper. The latent
| sound would be beautiful enough were
| there something to awaken il.
Have a purpose. A worthy purpose
| will speedily free the mind and spint
of the muinps and measles, dyspepsia
{ and languor.
| The sympathies of people are always
wiih the unfortunate, because Lhe
| people know they are sO liable to be
| unfortunate themselves,
| The prizes of life that are really
wrth having are seldom obtained by a
| were stroke of luck. Usually they
nave to be tofled for strenuously and
waited for patiently.
The truly virtuous do not very easily
| credit evil that is told them of their
| ueighbors. for if others may do kiniss,
| then may these also speak amiss; man
is frail an i prone to evil, and therefore
may soon fm] in words,
self forge fulness in Jove for others
has a foremost place mn our weal of
character, and our doep homage, as
representing the true end of humanity.
Who dces upbraid himsef for his slow-
mess in those sympathies which ave as
a multiplying mirror to the § ay of life,
refiecting them in endless play
Deo not worry, eat three square meals
a day, say your prayurs, thisk of your
wile, be courteous to your creditors,
keep your digestion steer clear of
billiousness, exercise, go slow and easy.
Maybe there are other Shingd Sah yous
especial case requires Lo you
py, but these will give you a good
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