Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-14

the wealth was lost, since 1t gives the world
more good of him. To do Justice. the older
generations Of his house had very little nom
sense about them. Think of Blanoue's
grandfather getting up before dawn and
making his own fire aud coffee, not to dis
turb the servants ia his eagerness to pursue
ms experiments, or mounting his horse and
going off through the Carolina mountains
alone with his gun and saddle bags. hunt.
ing and botanizing by way OF spreel
Blanque Is possessed of his pharma-
cology as musicians and painters are of
their arts, and he spoke with something like
lmpatlence of the necessity of setting his re-
searches aside part of the time to make
money, correcting himself the next minute
as il is for his invalid sister he must make m
He has enough for himself ana his studies
| In an economical way, and might live in
New York and 60 into society with his
simple bachelor needs, but the loss of her
little fortune and her health together impel
him to work to give her the comforts her
case requires. Few men not born to trade
grasp its requirements better when once
presented or have such keen insights into
practical needs. He has half dozen COM
binations to perfect, any one of which is a
modest fortune, properly carried out, and
such man will not want for backing.
THE PIRATES OF THE CITIES.
"He is very glad to be out of the way of
town interruptions, men who want him to
study out some trade process for SIS, from
which they will make S25, 900, or to tell
preparations which cost 8 cents and sell for
So, or people who want to nose about his
Laboratory, take up his time and pick up
ideas for nothing. One has to run the
gauntlet ofall this in any trade from politics
to preaching.
''He breads nothing, however, like writ
ing since his hand was hurt in the railway
accident which nearly cost his sisters life.
He can weigh, stir and drop liquid in his
work, but signing his name is task with
cramped and quivering fingers. His sister
desires nothing so much as to get we'll
enough to be his secretary. She is so bright
she shows little of the invalid except the
wasting cheek and ner stirlessness, half w.
ing in her India chair. The brother cares
for her, with the help of the woman of the
house, moves her, wheels her about for air.
and keeps her amused, and she looks the
sweetest, merriest bit OF woman alive but
for the paleness of her cheek. II is no
wonder she was unwilling to lose her COM
plexion and become withered before her
time, for it must have been exquisite in
health.
COSMETIC WITH ROMANCE.
"Was ever such romance tackled to a
The two had lots of iun telling
me how the cosmetic was Matched, the two
women sitting in judgment, debating what
was needed, what they wanted and how it
was to be perfumed, comparing notes after
nights and fortnight's trial, the friend
who chased them out OF New York into the
country for the invalid's health decreeing
the new preparation was too good to be kept,
drawing out the idea, bringing it to a focus,
coming over from her workshop to give the
first batch stir for luck and demoralizing
the whole bench Of bottles in her researches.
1t seems so happifed, you two neighoors
shut up in your own pursuits, living such
simple, wholesome. busy lives, so full of the
best interests. / wish was well enough off
to have $500 year and a studio workshop
in spicy unpainted pine, ten miles off, three
good Libraries, and such neighbors to COM
pare results with. All, 1 have nothing but
to go back to New York, as jobber of linens
and China silks, and MAKE SIS, 900 per
annum without quarter the happiness you
people have. 1t leaves me intensely enyious
and disgusted with making money, and
grudge you this good letter 1 have been
writing you. Do you ever realize that YOU
are rather fortunate in your selection OF
friends?
'Blanque says it was an exceedingly
fortunate move which took them out of the
city. Not only the sisters health improves,
but he is delighted with the freshness, the
leisure and solitude of their byroad. The
days seem so much longer, he saws, than in
town; is greatly cheaper and comfort more
real with such treats as wood fires. evergreen
and fragrant forest things, absolute secIusion
and freedom, and perfectly fresh eggs, with
which elegant and eloquent perorstion
withdraw" SHELLEY DARE,