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STICK TO YOUR TRADE.
JTAU.I HUM CAl»iI> BY UABB1.ING l>
OFTK1IIK AFFAIKm.
A I.ilflr Advice to IIIOIM* who nro <on
liitually (.'hanging their Mind*.
_____ trade,”
“Stick to yon r says an ex
change, “nine tenths of all the failures
of the last year have come to men who
dabbling in out side affairs.” There
• oouM notin'more truth crowded into a
dew hm-sthan is contained in the above.
As a general thing when yon hear of
the f .lure of a man in business you can
*■( it down that he has been dabbling in
sometliing he knew nothing about, and
hai sunk tin mete v needed in his legit i
Wat - bn ; ... T'.o m-rchant, even in
ae, ...........■>; trvvill.g, V, he attends strictly to
may .□ time lay by a snug
littl.. but as soon as he commences
to,.,. .,te inland, or even trade horses,
.dde at any account time to hear some
iho.g drop on of busings taking the
mom v needed m his for
spo. illative Ill purposes. The farmer who
works hard summer, sows and reaps
• good harvest, and puts the proceeds
of the sale of his wheat into his pants’
pocket and goes to speculating plastered in pork,
mav eventually find n mortgage
•down over his property that it will take
years of frugal industry to remove. Yon
W of the failure of a merchant en
gaged in trade and in nine cases out of
tun you can trace the cause to the fact
that* he had a few thousand dollars in
vested in wheat when tie- pnee tumbled
and the both,in fi ll out of his scheme
for making a little money by outside
apeoulution. A merchant may lie all
right, and level-headed in his trade, he
.ill, weigh out codfish and sugar, or
drive a sharp bargain in buying a load
of green hides or a ton of butter, but
when ho has a few thousand dollars in
•vested in wheat, or drop, pork, he or loses lumber, his head and
the price takes a
>md is laid out colder than a mackerel.
Flic papers in the northwestern part
of the Htate recently related the cireum
irtances of how a minister came to grief
through speculation. Ho was a real
nice man, and a minister, stood high in
tlie estimation of his friends, but when
he got the idea that his salafy was too
small, and that he would invest a por¬
tion of it ill a little outside speculatjon,
and time make a few thousands fora
rainy day, there never was a minister
more sadlv left. Luck of business tact,
and knowledge in the ways of the world
of traffic led him to make wild sjH'cula
tive deals, mid soon the reaction set in.
He could preach eloquently, and hardly
a Sunday passed but what lot ho souls, garnered
into the fold a fresh of but
when it came to garnering unto his
pocket, even a little margin on a pork
deal, lie missed his calculation, and lost
ail he had, and considerable more than
he ought to, as shown by the hills which
came in from around town, wliioh he
had change neglected in speculative while investing schemes. liis “Every loose
man to Uis trade,” is a saying as true as
it is ancient.
There are instances, of course, where
men have left their grocery in the fur¬
row anil took up speculation, and stnick beat
it rich, or where ministers have
their hymnhiHiks into railroad stocks,
and made a fortune at one strike, but
those instances are soaroe—very scarce.
The cashier of a bank, “MJUWl or treasurer of a
for . *• V ' MAJUK up
^'futures, * 'hemes: ” making holding a million, dealing in
or a hundred tliou
•uuul dollars' worth of butter and eggs, for
a rise, am forever coming to grief, while
the men in similar positions, who salt
fifty cents on every dollar of tlieir salary
in an old stocking, and don’t try to heat
the “faro” banks, or own the fastest
horses on tbe earth, get to the front and
become solid men. There are enough
men to do ail the speculating there is
uuy necessity for doing; men who have
become hardened in the business, and
who lose or make thousands without a
blush or twitch of the muscles.
These nit>u don’t, as a general thing,
lose their heads, ami make had breaks.
They are accustomed to the business,
Binl the rest of mankind should be con¬
tent to let them buy all the stocks and
bonds, and wheat, and pork, and make
or lose just us it happens; they enjoy
excitement that would turn some men’s
hair gray in forty-eight hours, and the
business and professional men should lie
content to let them enjoy it. There are
thousands of men bucking against fate,
trying to make a fortune by speculation,
vim, if they hod ten millions of dollars
worth of tilt' best stiH’ks or bonds in the
world, would, in the shortest possible
rime, if they persisted in speculating,
bo laid out, financially, so flat that they
would Ih» obliged to work a luneh route.
Really In lane.
Home Years ago a rich man's son in
New York fell iu love with the ehamlwr
innid, but, unlike many rich men’s sons
Milder similar circumstances, wanted to
marry her. His family thought this was
going a little too far; so he compromised
the matter by agreeing to go a good
deal farther -that is, to Europe for
two or three years. Having a fortune
of his own he placed the girl iu oue of
the la'st schools, and she, being ambi¬
tious aud devoted, improved her oppor¬
tunities so well that on his return, find¬
ing her more attractive than over, he
married her and she is now a noble, re¬
fined, charming woman.
An indignant landlord writes demand¬
ing the name of the party who til'st sug¬
gested putting coils iff rojv in sleeping
rooms as a protection against ti re. He
mi vs he provided every l>edrix'm in liis
bouse with a coil of rojw', and the first
night throe of his guests lowered their
baggage from the sixth-story window and
skipped, leaving Severn! days’ board bill
anpuiil. He allows that In'ing burned
to death is bad enough, goi<d but deal running a
bote] for fun is a worse,—
r Cost-Express.
A well-known lower Presbyterian clergyman
of one of the Delaware Counties,
somewhat famous as a wit, was ap¬
proached by a Baptist clergyman with
the question: ‘GYell, brother, we’re go¬
ing to have a new la'll for our church.
YFiiat would you iv, emuieud?” There
was a twinkle behind the Presbyterian
parson’s glasses, and he answered
promptly: “By .imertean. ail means a diving-bell.”
—Baltimore
ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
IVrlloa* Foyafit of n JlafTnlo .linn From
Hrd Franclwo to Australia.
voyage of pleasure” to Australia. The
endt in which he sailed was a dory 18
feet long, 6 feet l»eam, register a depth of 2 feet
fi inches and a of two tons.
Oilfpy was the only passenger, and
started with the determination of per
forming Pafific the unparalleled feat of crossing
tbe single-handed in a she common
Bailing-boat. The cutter, for Pacific, and was
little covered more, was named the
was in all over, with the excep
tion of a couple of hatches, one amidship
mA ono ft( t The fore part was used
mostly for tbe water casks, which were
filled with salt water as the fresh was
uw ,i up, and the after part was used as
kitchen, cabin and sleeping room. Noth
ing was heard of Gilfoy iintil the arrival
inSan Francisco of the bar ken t me
Tropic Yance from Tahiti, whose Cap
tain reported that he hail sighted Gilfoy the
Pacific Nov. 10. He hail given
),;« wlTeC t bearings and a quantity of
f ruit , and had learned that after a week
of favoring weather the Pacific had en
countered 29 days of alternate calms and
head-winds, which had driven Gilfoy to
shorten his allowance. He crossed the
U ne in longitude 166 deg. on Friday
Sept. 29. and then met with go,xl winds,
before which he ran south between lati
tudes 5 deg. and 15 deg. south. His
principal discomfort, he said, had Ison
fie too familiar habits of the sharks,
which every night came thumping the
boat with tlieir ugly snouts. To rid
himself of them lie made a harpemn out
of tt boathook, and succeeded in ren
dering them so shy that by proping up
his sliirt at night in the place enabled where he
iuma li y sat by day he was to
take Ids rest comparatively undisturbed.
The conclusion of the Pacific’s extra
iu ft-om
! Ti ’ nt kS ^
her He ! went backward into the water i,’
a »! i u u u, l P\, i,, r
" oflnnHnc nnofior ”
', ,,;,i , if 'i
’
that he was enabled lilt to right • the ( | dory.
No sooner was_sl.e righted than another
heavy sea capsized her a second time.
Again ho nghted her and passed the
night in bailing and the day m making
things as ship-shape as hail possible. things By
the 20th of December he got
ant under weather way again when and the was boat enjoying pierced pleas
was
by a sword ish.
On Christmas Day lie found bunsc f
near Hunter fclaiid, a barren rock, ^!: with
$ i ; r ™o“eS “ wx : b
.
of corned meat, two cjuarts o! alcohol,
and fifteen gallons of water. He then
tried to mako for New Caledonia, but the
wind and current were against him, and
on the 14th of January he ate the last of
his meat. Two days after he lost liis
rudder, and had to rig up a makeshift,
and from that time on he had to subsist
on whatever fish ha caught or birds he
shot. On the 20th of January he ate
h is list ...p cooked m-oken meal, a bird singed over
_ he .. suoked t the barnacles. “mutter that
days in which he k._ Tb en
came, nothing
and cared notliing, steeriug
here and there. Just as the last hope
had fled he sighted the Alfred Vittery
on Monday, Jail. 29, bound for Mary¬
few borough. minutes The after Vittery Gilfoy saw saved. him and He a
was
was then but 1(J0 miles off Handy Cape,
and, after being extraordinary fed, told the singular
story of an feat so nearly
accomplished. his arrival at He Maryborough, was kindly eared the for
on hut
latest news reports him as being down
with hardships. typhoid lever, the result of exposure
and
Clilnpsc Shrewdness.
The San Francisco Vail says: The vice
of gambling Chinese lias such a strong hold upon
the that they will play for money
despite the best efforts of the police to
suppress the games. Every time an ar¬
rest is made in the Chinese quarter for
violation of tin' gambling law and a con¬
viction follows, the accused and their
friends watch the case closely to ascer¬
tain what evidence the officers secured
and in what manner an entrance into the
gambling place was effected. This they
do for the purpose of guarding in the
future against surprise by the police.
Recently u case was dismissed against
gamblers who werti tried in one of the
police courts liecanse the officers had
foiled to discover the implements used
in the game of chance—an indispensable
link in the chain of evidence to secure a
conviction. The Chinese having oh
tained knowledge of this point iu their
favor at once set themselves to devise
menus to have the evidence put out of
the way when officers enter the premises.
In this they have been very successful,
for within a few weeks Sergeant Birdsall
and liis men have raided a large number
of gambling which and lottery places, in everv
one of they found a number of
Chinese, w ho apj>oared to be as innocent
as a number of Sundav school children,
but they were unable to discover any of
the implements of the game. The other
dav raid Officer Trovers, while assisting to
a lottery shop Ohinamen, on Jackson street, iu
which were two hut no evi
deuce of a lottery iu sight, accidentally
overturned a small wooden bench, and as
it struck the floor the top flew off, dis
closing a shallow drawer, in which had
been stored lottery tickets, Chinese ink
and brushes. The top of the bench was
so arranged that it could lx» raised, the
evidence thrown into the drawer, the top
replaced and fastened by a spring lock
in such a manner that no one would sus
poet that it could be raised. The offi¬
cers then visited a number of other lot
terv shops and gambling places, and
found in each a bench fitted up iu the
manner described.
other day, said: “I shall dismiss every
case of woman-insulting where it can be
shown that the woman first flirted with
the accused, ” should be promoted to the
Court of Equity “masher” if it can himseli be proved that
lie is not *
A Little Difficulty Settled.
The Boston Opposite Herald is responsible for
this story: a Herald man, a
a table in a Comhill restaurant, at dinner
the pair began to tidk about their former
highborn in a most farm bar way. “Yes
recked ‘Samwas the m many Cambridge respects gentleman different
^ he rest of the boy^ You remem
her who lie married ? Well when the
old man, his father found that he was
round with her, he calledhim
one day in the barn and said: ‘Ham,
dye intend to marry Leckie. Ham
never said a word, so the old man said:
‘Me boy ye know all about them I
can t tell ye nothin . Ye know how the
waters has turned out, and not one of
them is now hvrn with their husbands
Sam was as mum as a pantomime, and
pmt as soon as he was ready, him and
Beckie got tied.
“They lived on a farm, and , everything ...
went on smooth for about a year, and it
came to hog butchenn time. Sam got
already to have the usual party for the
occasion, and just as he was sharpemn
”P the knives Beckie come out and said;
Ham, I amgoin home. Sam protested
hw 9“* wa L 1mt u< ? ™ e > B0
J»e said . lie d get a man to row her across
the Hhesaid: pond. It No, was about half yell a mile over,
ye wont; row me
over yerself Sam fold her that said: he
cmddn t and Beckie fired up and
‘Then I 1 drown meself. Ham said he d
g° the boat b was <* lf got sb « ready, te she ^ to got * in, bat and - "
hey rowed out till the water was twenty
cct deep Then Sam stopped and said:
Well, Beckie, this is a good place for ye
to drown yerself! waited blie while didn t and open then her
mouth He a
8l “ d ; Come, Beckie I m m a hurry to
g»t bade. She never looked up. Sam
V* <lo w “ tbe oars - «™R W bo1 ? of ber
and pitched f her , he in. wouldn She grabbed let lier . for
the boat, but t get
and entertained the giiests. They’re
now ,learl Y ei g bt v and you never saw a
lmppier couple—did . Idon’tthink
you? that duckiu’
they day ever she spoke goin’ of drown herself.” since
the was to
* _
“ Mickey» Sheridan as a Devil.
-
Years and years ago there walkcd mk
Judge Sherwoods printing office in the
little town of Somerset, O., a ragged but He
bright ami mischievous looking boy said
walked boldly up to the Judge and
to bun.
learn to , , be pnutei • . •
I want to a in
your office.
^ ru * ^ . J u!
.
“ Well, they say I am a devil at home,
but I don’t care what you call it, so I can
get a chance to learn to be a printer.”
“What is your name, my son ?”
“ My name is 1 Mickey ’ Sheridan.”
“All right,” said the Judge, “I will
try you.”
The Judge took “Mickey turned ” him out into
the composing room and over
to the foreman. Time rolled, on and
“Mickey” learned rapidly, bift was a
’
■■
w* oI
that- il.
_____ .M-nially „ playing , . tncks . , vliody , ,
on S in
the “dice, even the Judge.
After he had been m the office for two
years the Judge concluded to put him at
school He hud not been in school more
than two months when the teacher sent
lum home with a note to his father and
the Judge that lie was too bad for any
use; that he was the terror of the whole
school; that he kept every other scholar
from learn iug.
The Judge and “Mickey’s” begged father
called on the teacher and of him
to take “Mickey” if back. The back teacher
said to them that he came ho
would treat him well, but he would be
pleased if he would stay away—he was
too bad for any purpose.
“ Mickey ” went back, however, and
from there to West Point. Now, who do
you suppose, gentle reader, “Micltey” he
Sheridan was ? Who do you suppose
is? The 'Critic will tell you. He is
Lieutenant-General Phil Sheridan, the
General of the United States Army upon
the retirement of General Sherman. .
Lames „ of _ ( nance,
'
d h? 80 " , bo games of chance are
! ,HUa v , “' ateu ' n tb ® ® nd Ihere has
.- -
been in New York but one notable ex -
ception to this rule. Dancer died a mil
l °Maire, and hail made it all as adiro
'* iu iker. ‘About a year ago, says a «>r
respondent of the Chicago Ifrr aid, “two
) ol ing men of education and respechtile
'anulies concluded to go into gambjng
deal as , ft of mtemess. Tney the had lost a at
rnouey at front side of the
S ro< ?n table, but dul not doubt that they
could get noli at the back side. They
'earned that the house m which Dancer
' rtm lus mast prosperous game could
, a 'ey reasoned that the dead
Snmbler s good lack would remain on
tbe premises. During several months
©▼ Diet with encouragement. Tlieir
thousand , dollars of qmwtal multiplied to
fifteen, and they were living like lords,
lhon oaluo tb< ?. movement against all
forms , of gambling. For ninety days not
d , turned faro table except
1 ” ar on a
V-I t' n ' ® * 1!S "itorval of idleness
Dancers , luck , must somehow have es
f a P°d from the building. It was certain
Jn Tbe g° no " iel bankers ' the doors found were their reopened, pile of
vouu g
.
money less at every day’s counting, and
'* length the last dollar was paid out.
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Two “commercial tourists” met in the
depot the other day. “Hello, Charley,”
says No. 1, “haven’t seen you iu au age.
^ ffat are you doing now ? “Oh, I mm
the same old line,' rtspends No. 2.
“With the same house?” “Yes, same
“‘rv•
01 » interest “Is that so? How
l° u 8 since?” “Since the first of the
month.” “Let me congratulate you.”
“Yes, the old man told me I’d got to
take an interest in the business this rear
quit So I took the interest'
Col. Fanning's Horse.
fFrom the Austin (Texas) Siftings.
Not long ago three or four gentlemen of
were comfortably seated in front the
and come very near dying m the Con
federate Army Each 1^1 sonudli ng
interesting to tell about battles m which
he had been engaged There was m e
exc^phon. Col. John Randolph Fanning,
a.Virginia gentleman who ha dns
anguished himself on the held, lis.ened
to what to others said hut did iot
volunteer to impart any of his own ex
peneuce. _ time, Colonel ,,, , „ smd
‘‘Now it is your
Major Rapgoon, of North Caro ma
“Can’t you give us ^methmg startling?
Toll us about the Federal battery you
captured at Chancellorsyille.
‘Since you insist upon it, gentlemen „
htOeinc^nt rephedCol. Fanning connected “I^l^latea with the capture
of that Yankee battery. It stnick me
as being vei 7 singular The stoo ls
about my horse Black Hawk He was,
as some of you know, a jet black-not a
white hair on him excep a star on his
forehead. He was a Bpkmd.d rKlnig
anuflCI hut he was o desenbed p • by . Job.
hke the animal
He was more of a lady s horse than a
war steed. W hen he sniffed the battle
rom afar and heard the shouting and
he noise of the captains he didn t say
- Ha ha ! as Job s charger did. He
wasn t that kind of a horse
“Probably his heart was not m the
struggle ported t Northern He may horse luweja'en with abolition a m;
tendencies, suggested. Major : Rangoon,
“ No, it wasn t that said the Colonel,
He was naturally a timid ammal This
was-fire first time that I had ridden
Black Hawk mto battle, and the poor
brute trembled all ovei. I received an
ord <? ad ™ nc e under cover as near as
possible to the . battery and charge Just
before -we made the charge a shell from
I was lending mv regiment in a headlong
charge on the battery, with shells ex
ploding over and on every side of us.
Odly one-tliird of my regiment survived
t’uAt fearful capturld charge. After the battery
ha d been I noticed that all of
my > men looked very strangely at glance me and
happened to at
the animal, > and, gentlemen, £ what I am
amazu .
J’ ,of / JJ beine {f on the * ^ back LrL, of a
n( °
■ .... hl h d hair
white—all except the little star on his
that ha d turned as black as your
hat. I never heard of a similar occur
*• - **—*•
a ’ ”
Brief Information.
SOME THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW.
That Ba lt fish are quickest and best
freshened by soaking in sour milk,
That cold rain water and soap will re
move mac hine grease from washable
f a brics.
That ,aippiMKj-;m fish may be scaled much easier
into boiling water
. mute, . *»
That fresh meat beginning to sour,
wifi sweeten if placed out of doors in the
cool air over night.
That milk which has changed may be
sweetened or rendered fit for use again
b st irring in a little soda,
That addition boiling starch of is much orsalt, improved
by die little sperm dissolved, or both,
or a „ mn al . abiC;
That a tablespoonlul of turpentine,
boiled with your white clothes, will
greatly add to the whitening process.
That kerosene will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by water,
and will render them pliable as new.
That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains. Pour the water through the
stain, and thus prevent its spreading
over the fabric.
That salt will curdle new milk, hence,
in preparing milk should porridge, be gravies, added etc.,
etc., the salt upt until
the That dish is prepared. will
kerosene make your tea-ket
ile ns bright as new. Saturate a woolen
rag and rub wiili it. It will also remove
stains from the clean varnished fiuni
ture.
That blue ointment and kerosene,
mixed in equal proportions and applied
to bedsteads, is an unfailing bug rem¬
edy, and that a coat of whitewash is
ditto for a log house.
That beeswax and salt will make your
rusty flat-irons as elean and as smooth
as glass. Tie a lump of wax iu a rag
and keep it for that them purpose. When the
irons are hot mb first with the wax
rag, then scorn- them with a paper or
cloth sprinkled with salt.
V'nr» e hive *’■• '’old Feet.
The toikenng remedy for cold feet is
—'commended by the Fireman’s Journal
sedentary sufferers, as well as policemen,
car dri ver?, and others who are exposed
to tfie coid- All that is necessary is to
stand erec* and very gradually to lift
one’s self up upon the tips of the toes,
so as to put all tendons of the foot at
full strain. This is not to hop or jump
up and down, but simply to rise—the
slower the better—upon tiptoe, and to
remain standing on the point of the toes
as coming long as possible, natural position. then gradually Repeat
to the
this several times, and, by the amount
of work the tips of the toes are made to
do in sustaining the body’s weight, a
sufficient mid lively circulation is set up.
A heavY pair of woolen stockings drawn
over thin cotton ones is also a recom¬
mendation for keeping the feet warm,
and at the same time preventing their
becoming tender and sore.
A Health Cure.—A n extraorilinary
health-cure has been discovered in a
rural town in California. A girl, whose
constitution had been hurt bv too much
devotion to the piano and tile-painting, in
was induced by her mother to engage
bunting squirrels, the reward offered be¬
ing ten cents a scalp. Last week she
slaughtered eighty-five squirrels, and
the out-door exercise demanded is re¬
storing health.
LIFE IN DARIEN.
A Few of the Pests Oue is Sure to Meet on
the Isthmus.
The smaller pests are numerous and
annoying; Earth some are air dangerous with to human
life. and teem insects,
and therefore the isthmian forest is a very
paradise for an enthusiastic entomol.-gist.
tte well taownohiBgo (commonly called
that if it be neglected, the insect will m
1
pressed at once if you wish to avoid per
manent trouble. The Bohoca fly, forml too,
attacks both man and beast, and
a sub-cutaneous nest, and there operations lays an
egg. He is so neat in his
that he has an egg under your skin be
fore * you know i it. -i mi The first n i indication • j - of r.
its presence is a slight swelling, which
rapidly increases to the contained si^e of a watout,
In this will be found, in a sac
a large, disgusting-looking worm, which
must be squeezed out when it reaches
maturity an operation attended with a
gooddea of pain. Then comes the scor
pmn that breeds in the rafters o the
lightly-thatched native huts, and drops
dovvm on you m the mghh He is fond
of the blankets Or he will crawl into
the toe of your hoot and wai for you t
mommg One has to be “on guard
night and day in Darien against these in
sects, and woe be to you if you retire
without first examining the bedclothes,
or put on your boots in the mornmg
without a previous vigorous shaking.
The centipede is a cousm-g t Tman to the
scorpion. Then follows the goosana
black the con'adille, ant with a gan-anetas sting m his tarantula^and tail which,
although not as -ong as a flail, makes
it warm for any one to whom lie may pay
attention. We had come near forgetting
the vampire bat, which was supposed at
one time to be a mere travelers fiction.
Heis hot a fiction by any means, in the
wflcls of Danen, but a most unpleasant
reality. Vampires are numerous, large
and very troublesome. As the tired
traveler lies m the slumbers of midnight
these emissaries of evil come silently to
lus couch, gently make an moLsion m
any exposed part of the body, and then
commence to gorge themselves w ith
blood. No pain is felt, and with then -
large, leathery wings they fan then vie
tim into a state of delightful coolness;
tot when the vampire has left his horrid
least, the subject of this phlebotomy
awakes with a start to find himselt in a
pool of gore from the still bleeding
wound, and so weak as scarcely to be
able to rise.
Wanner than the Country.
Those who happen to live at a little
distance from the heart of a city, says
Science, must frequently have noticed a
lack of accord between the readings of
their own standard thermometers and
the published observations of the Signal
Service observer of their locality. The
reason of the discord is plain; viz., the
perturbing action of the heat which the
city emits; and, however gratifying find himself it
may be to the outsider to
superior to the Government observers,
it is very little to the credit of the
Weather Bureau that this particular
source of error avoided.'* was not The iong since recog¬
nized and remarks of
Professor Whitney bn this subject, as
applied to observauf a.* made at London,
arc “It pertinent is well and t&vincjng. He says:
a known fact, that cities are
considerably thinly inhabited warmer than the otherwise more
under climatic country,
similar conditions.
Statistics prove this to be true; and
there could be no doubt that such would
he the effect of au immense aggrega¬
tion of population within a limited space,
even if there were no statistics bearing
on this question. Many millions of tons
of coal are burned in and about London
during every year; and the whole mass
of brick of which the city is built is
heated during the entire winter, and
more or less in the summer, many de¬
grees above the natural temperature.
There can be no question that conditions
such as are here indicated vitiate all ob
seevations made in or near large cities,
with a view to the determination of any
possible secular variation of the tem¬
perature.
Encouraging a Young Man.
A young man, twenty-two years old, a
resident of Detroit, had, by strict
economy laid by a couple of thousand
dollars. Feeling that he needed advice
as to how to invest it, he called at the
office of a capitalist and philanthropist,
and stated his case.
“Yon have done well—exceedingly
well,” replied the philanthropist, suburban “you
should invest that money in a
lot, and profit by the rise.”
“ I’ve thought of that; but where can
I find a lot?”
“Oh! that’s easy enough; in fact, I
have several lots myself in market, and
I will give you a bargain. ” when
The map was consulted, but the
young man saw the location of the lots,
which had a soap factory on one side
and a tannery on the other, with a ravine
at the back of both, he thought @2,000
too great a price.
“ But ' the title,” protested the
philanthropist—“the title is without a
flaw. There is where you gain. ”
“How?”
• “Why, when you come to that me sis
months from now to mortgage lot
for @1,200 it wouldn’t take us over half
an hour to complete tbe whole business.
As a philanthropist I’d advise ytm to in¬
vest in solid real estate. As a capitalist
I’m always tiie willing to take a mortgage
where title is perfectly clear.”
Brown struck an iev place in the side
walk, and down he went all in a heap.
4 g gentleman stepped fee^ ^liteV up and helped
Bro wn to his remarktog
“It is quite slippery, sir.” Brown was
so mad he forgot to return thanks.
-WL.I i. ..mate did h. ™* to tell
M More lie told me r'-Botm Tran
script ,
What was Found. — Recently an
at work artesian well alx/ut t
augur os an
three miles from Fresno, CaL, brought
to the surface from a depth and of 320 feet
particles of wood, charcoal nutshell.
—--
TRADES FUR AMERICANS.
A te\V IM'HHKSTINR FACTS.
utiy oft American liny Will Not I.earn a
Trade—Wlmt lie Does Seek.
[Frnm the New York Tribune.]
T or three weks ago a careful in
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nimber ol tor-
1
L, ± ,, j s startlil A
p eepeeieHj U ,e 0 =
*- c °icii Inshn.<. , ■• u S1
own P eo P le ^togctlier out of almost . .
every such ^cupa on The American
b who ?T 8 were coul learning , J b „ C the “ l trade i ‘ of weaving
m lire the gi'eatwoolenandcarpet stoiv toRl tiiG factori^ cottoii
^ saiup wns in
’ h atoekin loomB . Yet tlle
, vage ^ s ^ paid to these skilled workmen are
^ gtea( j ^arns y . Tlle Scotchman or
Iltthman from J @18 to @20
% k m Plliladel)llliai \ OWJ Ms
Ue dwelli alK br i hi ngs up llis sou
h same trac te which own father, o^
t probab]y ^ / Tlle fol]owed ^ Glasgow
Londo de ^ American boy has
d SUT ’. slow road tocom
rfc from hlg fathu There was the
‘ t from manufacturers of pa
Cuiidersf soa shopa , dotlu s, furniture, industrV, sliip
^ cutlem-every The in
ghort b t two< American boy ol
^ class wh ich docs not enter the pro- ^
fes8iong iR not fonnd iu t]le trades
ly beca use he is bamvl out by the trades
’ bnt move i, ( . can8e be does Dot
chf ; 0fle to illto th( , m . To this general
^ there are, however, two notable ex
oeptioIls; ^ ^ printing ° and machine shops, ^
o{ t fli1rs is crowded
na ti V8 American apprentices. “We turn
J” .. said {he s ,„ lpl .intendent of a great
^ works. “ hundreds of applicants
for - ivlium we cim ^ no
,
b ^ here is sig nificant hint of
ow a na
ebaraotel .. \ Ve are perpetually
k)ld tllat tbe American lad of the par
jjally educated class refuses to learn a
j. ra( j e an( j becomes a salesman or clerk
Qn a migel . ab]e salary, considered from the snobbish,
vu] £ degire to be a gentle .
mft Y et the same young fellow in a
printing-office or machine-foundry works
barder and comes out of his daily
drud g ery more mechanic grimy and shabby than
“YtTno ( , thpr amhitioii
for gentflity Blit that
moves him to tll0Ke ptxrsui ts. they
open t 0 b j m possible short roads to suc
cegg . g lVe },j 8 inventive faculties
80me p l a y. It is only one man in a hun
d v ed who out of the composing or press¬
room becomes editor or publisher; of
who turns out to be a lucky Harrison or
Winans in the machine-shop.
But each boy is confident that lie will
be that man. When he “goes into busi¬
ness” as salesman at $3 per week, he
knows he will some day be an Astor Colorado or a
Htewart. When he goes out to
as a cow-hoy he sees in a vision his own
cattle grazing on a thousand hills.
Hence he turns his back on the trades
in which there is no chance for sudden
success, and by which generation the plodding
German or Irishman, after
generation, secures a steady limited com¬
petency. Our lad must put on seven- he
league boots to go to his fortune, or
will not go at all. In a certain sense,
therefore, there appears to be no remedy 1
for this present condition of affairs. The
leopard cannot skiu, change and his the spots vivid, nor inven¬ the
Ethiopian sharp-eyed his American, fond of
tive, squandering in bulk, earn¬ will
ing and money
never be brought to plod and save and
enj'oy life a pennyworth at a time like
his European neighbor, who was not
horn prospective heir to a great estate.
A certain grade of our skilled trades will
always remain, it is probable, in the
hands of foreigners. lad
But one lesson our American must
learn before he succeeds, and as he is ex¬
ceptionally sharp he generally does learn
it when he finds he does not succeed
without it. That is steadiness of aim.
Instability is our national defect. The
American of twenty-four who has made
up his mind as to his business, his poli¬
tics and his religion, who abides by them
for the next ten years, is a marked and
weighty man. Take the crowds of for¬
tune-seekers pouring now into Colorado
or Dakota and you will find that each of
them has tried two or twenty methods of
earning a living before he fell back, like
Autasus, on the bosom of Mother Earth
to gather strength. Two or three names
in each profession, in trade and invention
would complete the list of living Ameri¬
cans who have made a great and signal
success; and they are invariably men of
inflexible singleness of purpose. The
American lad, educated or half educated,
is too apt to scatter his shot and hit
nothing. He would be suddenly rich, he
would be known as a politician, he would
be a man of society. Hence, with a heri¬
tage of natural abilities above mediocrity,
with keen perceptions, fine tastes and a
limitless estate waiting for him to claim,
he fails. It is a story as old as the world.
“Reuben,” said the seer thousands of
years ago, “is the first-born the excel¬
lency oi dignity and the excellency of
power. Unstable as water, he shall
not excel.”
Thurlow Meed’s Modesty.
The Albany Express says:—Governor
Morgan made some affusioii to the unas
smiling aud simple deportment of Mr.
Weed—“a man of such extraordinary
power and influence.” Some years be¬
fore, while a resident of Albany, Mr.
Weed had been asked to be the candidate
for the office of Mayor of the city at a
time when there could be no doubt of liis
election. But he declined the honor.
The committee then called an J urged his
^ J? uo * bear of ***1 *
^ a P?’ a third earnest
1 ^ 011 was made to OTercome bla
„l cnnSnt n re P be d> . 1(T ca ?'
SlTSf. . Tn i-Ul • f
^ — , , b . GoT ,. ra ,^ tr „ m ,
man w ho had the power to make Judges,
Governors and Presidents.
Musicians are in the habit of slurring
some notes; but they all speak well of
greenbacks.
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