Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-11
MAKE YOUR OWN WAY.

David SpeerS was taxing ms afternoon
smoke. Perhaps the long clay pipe
looked a little homogeneous with the
handsomely furnished room and the
massive silver plate on the mahogany
side. board. But, for that matter, he was
an incSngruity-a little, common-losk-
ing man, not very well dressed. Ger
tainly a very wide contrast to the hand
some, stylish looking young fellow who
interrupted his reyery with a very frank
and noisy
Good morning, uncle. Can | talk a
while with your"
Chat depends, Robin, on what you're
gaun to talk about"
" You know, uncle, hat Alex Lang
and have long been friends"
81 have heard so; | don't know
We'll, we have, To-day Alex came
to tell me that he is going into the car.
pet weaving business in Kilmarnock. He
intends to buy Thomas Blackie out"
"He'll need some bawbeeS for that"
" His father will help, and he asked
me to join him. What do you think
about it,"
How long have you beenwi' HASTE ~
Five years"
And how much have you saved ?"
Well to tell the truth, uncle, moth,
ing at all. What with Jessie marrying
last year, and Rosa this, and the present,
! had to give, and other expenses, my
savings all went away"
"Humph p
81 thought, perhaps, that as the bust
ness was such an old, sure one, and a
both the Lang3 would be interested in it.
you would lend me 81, 900 for such {
wonderfully good chance"
81 have made it a rule never to lenc
money to young men,
"A very unkind rule when it touche
me, uncle. You were never unkind t,
me before"
II am not unkind to you now, either
Robin"
"Only two thousand, uncle An,
such a chance ~
Gould Heavens, hear the ladI 'Onl,
twa thousand ? Did We ever earn tvs
thousand pounds? DID We ever save tw,
thousand pounds? When We have
Robin, come to me, and I'll talk wi y,
about lending ye the sum-"
"But, uncle, the thing is not a new
venture; 1t is sure TO pay"
{" 1t is gaun to haze new masters, an
men at sixty ate na sac sure ABBOTT thing
paying as lads of five an twenty arc. ;
So the young man went away mucE
IiuD ,,Vpipta,l md mot "a 1ittIA nrrnp H.,
other friends looked more fayorably 81
the plan.
The .f2,000 were borrowed, and Rober
Rae and Aleck Lang bought the old es
tabIished carpet weaving house.
The first year tie concern, in spite 0
falling prices, did very we'll. Robert
share of the profits not only gave him
good living, but paid his interest, an
allowed him to lay up nearly 200 towar
clearing off his borrowed capital, and tn
next year things we're sill brighter,
In the fourth year of the e%nterpris
Robert Rae called again On his uncle.
Good evening, uncle"
GOOD evening, Robin. How's bus.
ness ?"
"First-rate. | don't come to,nigh
about business
"WLat for, then ?"
81 am going TO be married. ! wante
TO tell you about it,"
THAT'S mairkittle risk than Blackie
business, Robin"
81 think not, uncle"
"Who's the lassie %
Jessie Lorimer."
"What fortune has she ?"
Just her beauty and her noble nj
ture; shc is of good family, too. and hi
had the best of education. Why, uncl
she can do'most anything-paints, draw
plays the harp, sings like an angel, an
-p
'Tm feared she'll be a Kind O. matr
monial luxury, Robin. But she's a BOZ
ME lassie | haze seen her. Yet | doul
it she's fit for a puir mans wife"
You'll come to the wedding, uncle
"Surely, surely"
1t was a very grand wedding, an
David SDeers made quite a sensation b
giving the bride a check for $500. Ii
deed, Jessie seemed to have quite capt
waited the old bachelor, and he soon bega
to spend a great many of his evenings
her pretty home.
Three years passed happily away.
In Roberts home there had been son
pleasant changes and his uncle dance
a pretty baby Jessie occasionally on h
knee, or looked admiringly and wonde
ingly at his own wet namesake in h
cradle. Down at the mill things we
apparently equally prosperous. All Il
looms were at work, and the very welfa
of Kilmarnock as a community was Sc
sibly connected with the business
Lang q Rae's Carpet Mill" But
great deal of this success was on
apparent, for it hung upon chances e
tirely beyond the control of the your
partners in it.
They had been compelled to borrc
largely, and had big interest accounts
meet, and a great deal of their pan
being from houses unknown to loo
bankers, had to be cashed at very heav
discounts. All these things were mu,
against them, yet 80 great was their i
dustry and energy that they might ha'
turned all happy circumstances" al