The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-12

dren to the public schools?" No" she answers, T shall not. You married me, and it is your place to take care of me. never heard this nagging question of money money, money, in my fathers home, and l ought not to hear it now
 The young man staggers on in his strug- 1 gle. He takes to drink. Kind words are now exchanged for angry ones. The do- mestic difficulties culminate in the di- vorce court. Why? The wife was un- 1 willing to go the twain mile for her hus- bands love. On the other hand, the hus-
 band is just as much to blame as the wife. From sickness or overwork the Wife may become a nervous wreck. In | her weakness is he always gentle? Is he 1 always kind? Is he always thoughtful? Does he try to shield her as he ought? Do the two angels Bear and Forbear hover over his freside? Are we all, for our dear ones sake, ready to travel the 1 twain mile of sacrifice?
 | Are we ready to do for our dear ones | what I saw noble friend of mine do for | his helpless. tongued tied and mentally | beclouded wife, who a few months ago | went to her heavenly rest This gentle man, at the time l knew him. had passed his treescore years and ten. His wife had fatal disease creeping over her that was rendering her more helpless every day. Instead of the old gentleman leaving her | at home to be cared for by servants he waited on her as gallantly and devotedly as though she were young girl. He cut for her the food at table. When he had guests she was always by his side to eat with them. When she split her cup of coffee, she sometimes did, he would not apologize to us, but sweetly say to l her: Never mind, Jennie; never mind. | It Is all right" When we went out to hear one of the greatest singers in the world he took her along, because even in | I. ways loved music Then he would say to me: "Ah, if you only had known her when she was welll I can never be too good to her for what she has been to me" Yes, in the home we should never forget what our dear ones have done for us. They have travelled the twain mile often enough for us. Shall we not travel the twain mile for them?
 In Business Life.
 Christ's command applies also to mer- cantile and professional life. Every man to greater or less extent is or ought to be a servant. As clerk he should be a servant to his employer; as a physician he should be servant to his patients: as lawyer he should be a servant to his clients; as a merchant he should be a servant to his customers; as a professor he should be a servant to his students; as ] i investigations. Now, the man in profess sional or business life who works for money alone and who is willing to do only what he is paid to do and nothing more Is very foolish. He is looking at success through the wrong end of telescope. It is only when man works for the love of work and not for money that we can say happy man Is trudging along the high way of true success.
 One day young artist called upon Au- dubon, the great naturalist, and showed some drawings to him. Audubon looked at these drawings a moment Then he said: 'I like those drawings very much, but they are not true. You have painted the legs of this partridge nicely, except in one respect The scales are exact in shape and color, but you have not ar ranged them correctly as to numbers Now, upon this upper ridge of the par tridges leg there are just so many scales You have painted too many Examine the legs of thousand cartridges and you will find the scales always the same In number" Then Audubon said: Young man, 1t Is only when you become welded to your work-body, mind and soul-that you will make a success out of it. You must be willing to work day in and day out week in and week out, year in and year out, to investigate to the mnutest detail; otherwise you can never master
 
 work entirely above the idea of mercen- ary remuneration You must work for love-"
 For Love of Science.
 Did not John James Audubon practice his own teachings? For years and years and years. with gun in one hand and portfolio in the other hand, he wandered through the western forests seeking the haunts of the American birds, to repro hnt t. H. After years of work he went to Phladel- phia with the results of his labor He was compelled to leave the city for a few weeks, and when he returned he found that the rats had entirely destroyed the results of a decade of labor The precious portfolios which contained the delinations of over a thousand rare birds were forever ruined. His portfolios were forever destroyed, as the manuscript of ''rhe French Revolution, of Thomas Carlyle was burned by an ignorant ser want. who threw it into the fire as worth less paper when she was sent into the ! study of the friend to whom he had lent 1t to clean up So great was the shock 1 in Audubon's case that at first he was i flung upon a bed of sickness. where for weeks he lowered between life and death Then he arose and went back to the for est. He hunted up his old friends. the birds. He spent three more long, weary years reproducing what the rats had made nests of And he did all this for the love of science for during Audubons lifetime his printed books hardly paid for the cost of the printing
 What is true in reference to science and professional life is equally true in busi- ness The young man who makes sue cess Tn business is the young man who makes his employers interests his own It IS not the young man who simply does what he Is told to do who is promoted in the store It is not the young man who works with his eyes upon the clock. ready to drop his tools ct the first stroke of the bell, who becomes the foreman of the factory. It is the young man who is perfect glutton for work who finally sits Tn the glass office. It Is the young man who is willing to do what he Is not asked 10 do. and what other clerks are unwll- ing to do, who finally gets the promotion. In other words. the successful man in the mercantile world is the successful man in the scientific or the professional world. the man who for others is ready to travel the twain mile.
 Oh, the neglected opportunities of bus mess, to which some of us shut our.eyest These neglected opportunities are lying about. despised, everywhere around us. The story is told that one day a couple or humorists were wandering through the geological gardens of London. While there | they saw the carcass of a huge lion being dragged rom its cage. In a spirit of fun they bought IL and sent the dead lion IS joke to their friend, Sir Edwin Iand- seer. It arrived at the great artists house early one morning. The servant, in amaze ment, went and woke his master to ask