The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-19
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story of scotch Lad Who Was Determine
TO Elise ftl the Xsra-ld

Story of n Scotch Lad Who Was Determines ID
TO Rise in the World.
The following is one of the tradi-
tions OF a manufacturing firm in GIas-
gov. Scotland Thirty years ego. a
barefoot. ragged urchia presented him
self before the desk of the principal
partner and asked for work as an err
rand-boy.
There's a deal O running to be
dune, said Mr. Blank, iestingly. affect
ing a broad Scotch accent. Your
FIRST qualification wud be a pair o.
shoon
The boy. with grave nod. disap-
peared. He lived by doing odd jobs
in the market, and slept under one of
the stalls. Two months passed before
he saved enough money to buy the
shoes. Then he presented himself be-
fore Mr.. Bland one morning, and held
out package
Il have the shoon. sir he said
quietly.
oh" Mr.. Blank with difficulty re-
called the circumstances. You want
a place? Not in those rags. my lad
You would disgrace the house.
The boy hesitated moment, and
then went out without a word. Six
months passed before he returned. de-
Gently clothed in coarse but new gar
ments. Mr.. Blanks interest was
reused. For the first time he looked
at the boy attentively. His thin,
bloodless face showed that he had
stinted himself of food for months in
order to buy those clothes. The man.
ufacturer now questioned the boy care
fully. and found to his regret that he
could neither read nor write.
1T is necessary that you should do
both before we could employ you in
carrying home packages. he said.
1--WE have no place for you"
The lads face grew paler; but, with
out word of complaint. he disap-
peared. lie now went fifteen miles
into the country. and found work in
stables near to a night-school. At the
end Of the year, he again presented
himself before Mr.. Blank
81 can read and write,n he said
briefly.
ployer said, years afterward, with
the conviction that, in process of time,
he would take mine, if he made up his
mind to do it. Men rise slowly il
Scotch business houses, but he is now
our chief foreman. ~ Western Record
1t is not generally known that {
finger lai1 upon any floating object
like IA log, an overturned boat, or ever
an oar, viii sustain the body in smoott
water sufficiently for the head to bt
kept free for breathing and seeing
Many persons are drowned becaus,
they exert themselves wildly wheI
thrown into the water suddenly, yet
boat half filled with water, or witt
even little more than the gunwhale,
above the surface, will support a.
many persons as can get their hands
on it, if they behave quietly.
Cardinal Manning recently apolO
gized for being late at public dinner
'The only excuse | have to offer TO
being late, he said, lis that / wa
very busy. | am always busy. Witt
me the sun never goes down on tn
finished work of a day."
"A hotel keeper of Rhode Island
who is an Englishman by birth, ha
paid seven thousand dollars for a cop.
of the famous painting which show
Lord Nelson dying on the deck of hi
flag ship at the battle of Trafalgar. ]
adorns the lobby of his hotel.
l T o,,fS asf =
ssWhat did you think of Hamlet" las
night?" St. Louis Citizen Immense
II that feller Shakespeare kin write
few more plays like that and let
whisky alone he'll make money han
i over fist. Epoch.