The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-03-05
Thrown JOB
now A DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIP
FERENT MEN IN A BIG CITY.


Heroic Struggle Of "SOe," Who Is but a
Representative Of the Average Unfor-
eunate Fellow Looking for Work-How
Others Take the Sad News
Joe's envelope said simply:
'"The house regrets it can no longer
offer you employment, but it's reasons
i DO not hinge upon your competency,
and we take occasion to thank you for
good work for us, wishing you we'll.
Joe thought to hide the message from
John AS he passed out-John had worked
ut his elbows for months-but he didn't.
John followed him out and said:
Stout heart. old fellow You'll have
better job in week. If can do you
Q favor, call on me. My turn next,
imagine"
Joe walked the streets for hours, then
less surely years older than when he had
left them in the morning He has fixed
his purpose, and will hew to it. he
takes the usual trinkets to the children,
Q trlie of some sort to his wife, and
gives her, as is his rule, the weeks earn
ings Then he acts for the first time in
his life-he romps and carouses with
Flora until she believes he is as much a
child as herself, and his wife watches it
al from her sewing table and wonders
II she was ever as happy in the old
SQUIRTING days as she is now.
And Joes heart is heavy under it all
Tor he determines that they shall not
know of his bad luck until he has anoth-
er job He is hurt, Inundated, repulsed
he feels that the house has clipped him
OF because it could spare him more cas-
lily than any one of the hundred odd 9th
ers that it has retained
But that little wife sitting there with
her head full of belief in me mustn't
to be-
WORK AT LAST.
He looks for work ten hours day for
week and doesn't find it. Saturday he
pawns his watch for weeks wages and
carries it home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that be had clew to the thief and that
Inspector Byrnes would catch him in
few days He says to himself that fate
stole it from him. but he keeps mp the
play bravely and with f0rtitude a;.,Hers
the evening queries Of the home ones
about whether they have found the
watch. The next two weeks are tided
over by selling the Building and Loan
stock. Then he borrows another weeks
pay OF friend
Every morning he starts Ito work" at
the regular hour; every evening he re-
turns. They go to the theater; they buy
some needed and long promised clothes;
they pay their regular missionary money
and church fees--for Joe Is playing a
I, desperate hand now, but with an Insane
sort of GOODNESS Something asks him
over and over again every day, Where
will it end?' but Joe just sets his lips
little harder and don't reply even in
thought.
His encyclopedia goes next He loans
1T to & friend down town at the Office, SO
he tells them at home. Joe can't eat
heartily this week He watches his wife
and children's ghtheartednesS some
thing like brute would do-stoically.
unmoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
of tea; he has no appetite, and don't want
it. Then ne Is for the first time in his
life affected with satan's specially ex-
ported article of disease-insomnia He
sits for hours watching his family as they
sleep and he feels heavy weight slowly
settling upon his brain that he cannot
understand the meaning Of
Next day he finds another position, and
his wife doesn understand why be gives
way 50 completely for the first time in
his lite AID crles like child while tell
ing her of Ii
OTHER TYPES
There are lnSl a few JOes IN this world
moi too many
Clarence iiarnev tells his wife about
1t a. soon "a he gets home lie Is sure
ne knew the internal jolt wouldn't hold
ont long anyhow. Plenty more though
You JlSt have TO have a little gall; and
next day Clarence has another Job. A
little Jess pay 10 be sure but then, he
4 argucs its only for week or sO-IU
str1ke Il irftel- one the first thing yo,l
= know iou don't down me--not this
year.
Jim Burton the clerk. loses his job.
: He pi'cncs INTO the whole family and
tells !isa,n that there must be no more
money spent for anything at all. 'Un-
derstand, The goodness only knows
when you Will get any more from Inc. so
make tins last az long a. II will. de
goes down town, gets a job tells them
ct home that ne has not yet found one,
and SO spends the entire pay for two
weeks on himself, the while ostensibly
searching for work, and making the home
enes pinch and worry with the lessening
eash. Then at the critical moment he
suddenly finds work, and tells them
he had to take it at seven dollars week
o. nothing when he really receives
tweIye Jimmie's friends down town
eall him smooth"