The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-30

"0iC NlsSohSFSQ anu IuluteSSAy SEpdFd~1 ted. The young woman, however, took this so much to heart that she was really thought to be in danger of dying. WbereupOn, the stern parent was com peiled to capitulate, which he did upon his own terms. His son-inlaw was to abandon the stage utterly and never aIlude to his connection with it, and in return was to be permitted to marry the girl and receive a yearly allowance. Although he would have infinitely pre- ferred to fight his own way, the young man was conquered by love and femi- nine tears. His efforts are spent in at tempting to write piays, but so far the efforts of a desultory life have not re- suited either in great success along this line or in an oVer-abundance of happi- ness.
 Two brothers living in small town inherited alike small fortune from their father. One, who was conven- tionally respectable, used his money and his efforts to get into society better than that to which he had been accus- toned. The other spent his money, drifted away from his birthplace, and finally went from one shiftless occupa- tion to another until he was reduced to keeping soul and body together by doing stunt of the commonest variety in the lower vaudeville houses. ....-.
 Appeals to his brother availed little until one day the latter was put up as a candidate for congress from his dis trict. The young man, who was not NNrsff |, la portunity. He acquired the sales rights to a certain proprietary medi- cine and appeared at the public square on the evenings when outdoor political meetings were held. In the lulls be-
 tween political speeches and music by the band" the young man began to hawk the qualities of the medicine,
 which he emphasized by executing his song and dance, from as elevated a position as possible. The result was
 that he was speedily established in a legitimate business by his elder broth CT, who was quick enough to save him. self and even increase his own popular. ity by his act. > t~:. T would never have thought of the
 dodge if it hadn't been for the rfdicu- lous sensitiveness that he had about my letting anybody know what I was doing, and the fact that whenever I touched him for loan he only respon- ded in the most stingy manner possi- ble,' said the young man, who was not without a sense of humor. '"rhe pa tent medicine scheme, however, worked even better than I expected, There is one other and entirely differ ent case, where one of the least pleas ant traits in human nature resulted in
 the gaining of competence. It was, unfortunately. resulted in the giving up of a career. A girl who was making a reputation as a concert singer was as- tonished to receive a notice from q firm of lawyers that a comparatively large annual income would be at her disposal if she would retire into private life. After consideration she came to
 the conclusion that a moderate certain ly was better than the alluring but pre- carious promise of what she herself could earn, and she accepted the terms
 and the money. She never knew until long afterward that 1t came from a rel ative with whom she had not been upon the best of terms and who, jeal- ous of a career which she herself had longed for, but which. she had not had talent or beauty enough to fill, had talk
 en this method of preventing her young relative from shining in it,