Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23
SHE SAID FINALLY, "ABoUT THOSE BONDS
BROUGHT CHECK AROUND"
BONDS.

inner, Consulting Chemist, did not wait for
the little building to be torn down; he
moved from there some time before the
happening of that event. He is. neverthe-
less still in the land of the living.
A consulting chemist is one who Is con-
suited; he is who gives advice. Any
chemist whose training has been of the
best, whose knowledge is large and gener-
al. Is a consulting chemist. Consulting
chemists, however, in this country, usually
occupy offices in some huge skyscraper;
they assume the appearances. as far as
their surroundings go, of lawyers, brokers'
and other business men. The consulting
chemist does not keep a shop; the drug
gist does that for him
But John Lorimer did keep shop, for all
that he was a consulting chemist. And for
all that he kept a shop, he was neverthe-
less. In sooth, consulting chemist. He
had been consulted, now and then, just
enough to keep him going. And he under
stood his business. too. And his chemicals
were good, and he had them In variety
He did not do drug store business, but her
was patroniZed by a few who appreciated
the quality of his wares. And when the
physicians Of the town desired to mix
some important and elaborate prescription
| they went to Lorimers for their drugs, or
| told their druggists to.
The inside of the shop-half Office and
half salesroom it was-was quite as quaint
and old-fashioned as was the outside. There
was evidence of up-to-date business meth
| DDS, combined with an air of comfort.
One entering this shop, judging from it's
! exterior land interior, would expect to find
| In the chemist an old. shriveled specimen of
| mankind, with mysterious manner and
| sharp eyes peering over the rims of green
| or clouded spectacles There was no such
| chemist there.
John Lorimer. consulting chemist, was a
young and business-like individual of some
| twenty-five years He wore no snectacIes
| His eyes were just sharp and shrewd
| enough to make him interesting without
| spolllng his attractiveness. His nose WAS
prominent and his chin good. He had
| plenty of back to his head He had the
clear eye and the healthy complexion
| neither white nor pink-of a young man
] who takes care of himself
! There was charm about him that was
! due to the fact that he was lust a bit
| different from the ordinary run of men
| He parted his hair far down upon one
| side, and it fell over far down upon the
| other side, diagonally across his forehead
| This made him look something like the da-
| guerrotypes of long ago And he did carry
| out to some extent In his manner and ap-
| pearance the quaintness of his shop He
| was well built, young men CO. and he
! wore a smooth face.
| Lorimer chemist for many rea-
| sons. The chiefest of these was heredty
| His father and grandfather before him had
| been chemists, and he had been born and
| brought up In an atmosphere of chemistry.
| His grandfather, in an age when the drug
store was unknown. had made money; his
| father, who had lived upon his father
| money, kept up the old business after a
| fashion, but had not pushed it, At his
| death Lorimer found out that the money
| was all gone; while the business was prac-
| tically nil. Fortunately for Lorimer--or I'M
| fortunately, 1t was hard to tell which-dur-
| ing his fathers life he had been well in
| structed in, not one, but two, of the COM
| pletest courses of chemistry in the world.
| He was a chemist through and through
But what of it, after all. To be a good
chemist is one thing. To get patronage
| and business in this world is quite another
| In all professions, all trades there is but
| one ability, 1t seems at times that counts
| that is the ability to get the business If
| a can get business and control busi-
| ness he can hire experts aplenty to trans
| act 1t for him; experts who cannot get bust
ness of themselves.
John I.orimer had found 1t so. He was
| poor. The little building that served him
| as an office and a shop served him as a
home ALSO. Few knew this. and fewer
cared. Yet he had some reputation in
Monroe. Many people knew him as an In
dividual and as chemist. and respected
him: but few had occasion to patronize
him. This Is an age of enormous output
and Of output which Is claimed to be chemi-
cally pure and chemically exact. Great
food companies. asphalt concerns, mining
corporations are constantly employing
chemists of ability. Lorimer was 8
chemist of ability. He had made the at.
tempt, not once, but many times. to swing
| himself into something that was worth
while: that would not only pay him, blu
would advance him. But though he still