The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
MAKE YOUR OWN WAY.

plate on the mahogany 61Q0DOarQ. But,
for that matter, he was an incongrUity-
q little, communicating man, not very
well dressed. Certainly very wide con-
trast to the handsome, stylish-look1ng
young fellow who interrupted his revere
by q very frank and noisy
"Good evening, uncle. Can I talk a
while with your"
"That depends, Robin, on what you're
gaun to talk ABBOTT.
"You know, uncle, that Aleck Lang
and have long been friends"
CT have heard so; don't know it."
"Well, we have. To-day Aleck came
to tell me that he is going into the car
pet-weaving business in Kilmarnock. He
intends to buy Thomas Blackie out"
''He'l 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 been wi
Hastie %
Give 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 presents
had to give, and other expenses, my
Savings all went away"
"Humph p
CT thought, perhaps, that as the bust
ness was such an old, sure one, and as
both the Langs would be interested in
it, you would lend me $4,000 for such
wonderfully good chance"
6 [ have made it rule never to lend
money to young men,"
GA very unkind rule when it touches
me, uncle. You were never unkind to
me before"
g am not unkind to you now either,
Robin.
"Only $4,000, unclel And such a
chance p
Gould heavens, hear the lad 'Only
twa thousand |! Did we ever earn twa
thousand pounds? Did We ever save
twa thousand pounds? When ye have,
Robin, come to me, an I'll talk WI We
about lending We the sum-"
"But, uncle, the thing is not a new
venture; it is sure to pay"
sc It is gaun to haze new masters: an
men at so are ia sac sure about things
paying as lads of 5-and-20 are"
So the young man went away much
disappointed and not little angry; but
other friends looked more favorably on
the plan.
The go, 900 were borrowed, and Robert
Rae and Aleck Lang bought the old-es-
tabished carpet-weaving house.
The first year the concern, in spite of
falling prices, did very we'll. Roberts
share Of profits not only gave him good
living, but paid his interest, and allowed
him to lay by nearly 9100 toward clear
ing off his borrowed capital; and the
next year things were still brighter.
In the fourth year of the enterprise
Robert Rae called again on his uncle.
Good evening, uncle"
Good evening, Robin. How's bust
ness"
g First-rate. / don't come tonight
about business"
"What for, then?"
e [ am going to be married. WANTED
to tell you about it.
"That's mair kittle risk than Black
les business, Robin"
81 think not, uncle"
Whats the lassie ?"
- Jessie Lorimer."
What fortune has she ?"
"Just her beauty and her noble ma
ture; she is of good family, too, and has
had the best of education. Why, uncle.
she can do most anything = paints,
draws, plays the harp, sings like an an
gel, and -"
Elm feared she'll be kind O. matri-
monial luxury, Robin. But she's bon
ME lassie; I haze seen her. Yet I doubt
If she's fit for a puir mans wife,"
You'll come to the wedding, uncle?"
"Surely, surely"
1t was very grand wedding, and Da-
vid Speers made quite q sensation by
giving the bride check for $500. In
deed, Jessie seemed to have quite capti-
waited the old bachelor, and he soon be-
gan to spend a great many of his even
ings in her pretty home.
Three years passed happily away.
In Roberts home there had been some
pleasant changes; and his uncle danced
a pretty baby Jessie occasionally on his
knee, or looked admiringly and won
deringly at his own wee namesake in his
cradle. Down at the mill things were
apparently equally prosperous. All the
looms We're at work, and the very well
fare OF Kilmarnock as community was
sensibly connected with the business Of
Lang 4 Rae's Carpet Mill" But a
great deal of this success was only APP
parent, for it hung upon chances entire
ly beyond the control of the young part
ners In it.
They had been compelled to borrow
largely, and had big interest accounts. to
meet, and great deal of their paper be-
ing from houses unknown to local bank
ers, had to be cashed at very heavy dis