The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-04
HROWNOUTOFAJ JOB
HOW A DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIFF
FERErIT MEN IN A BIG CITY.

do not hinge upon your competency,
and we take occasion to thank you for
good work for US, wishing you we'll"
Joe thought 20 hide the message from
John as he passed out-John had worked
at his elbows for months-but he didn't.
John followed him ont and said:
Stout heart. old fellow. You'll have
a better job in a week. If can do you
a favor, call on me. My turn next,
imagine"
Joe walked the streets for hours, then
went home to his a. and babies not
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,
a trifie 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 Il
child rs herself, and his wife watches it
all from her sewing table and wonders
if she was ever as happy in the old
counting days as she is now.
And Joe's heart is heavy under it all.
for 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
off 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
know she must believe me all | seemed
to be-
WORK AT LAST.
He looks for work ten hours a day for
A week and doesn't find it. Saturday he
pawns his watch for a weeks wages and
carries it home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that he had a clew to the thief and that
Inspector Byrnes would catch him in a
few days. He says to himself hat fate
stole it from him, but he keeps up the
play bravely and with fortitude answers
the evening queries Of the home e
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 a friend.
Every morning he starts ito work" ut
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 Il
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 a
little harder and don't reply ever in
thought.
His encyclopedia goes next. He loans
it to Il 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 lightheartedness some
thing like a brute would d~o-stoically,
unmoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
of tea; he has no appetite, and don't want
it. Then he is for the first time III 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 Il heavy weight slowly
settling upon his brain that he cannot
understand the meaning of.
Next day he finds another position, and
his wife doesn't understand why he gives
way SO completely for the first time in
his life and cries like "A child while tell
ing her of it
OTHER TYPES.
There are Just Il few Joes in this world
not too many
Clarence Harvey tells his wife about
it as oon as he gets home. He is sure
he knew the Internal job wouldn't hold
out long anyhow. Plenty more, though
you just have to have IA little gall; and
next day Clarence has another job. A
little less pay, to be sure, but then" he
argues. its only for a week or so--In
strike a better one the first thing you
know. You don't down me-not this
Jim Burton, the clerk, loses his Job.
He pitches into the whole family and
tells them that there must be no more
money spent for anything ut all. I'm
derstand: The goodness only knows
when you will get any more from me, so
make this last as long as it will" He
goes down town, gets a job, tells them
at home that he has not yet found one. |
and so spends the entire pay for two
OH himself, the while ostensibly |
searching for work, and making the home |
ones pinch and worry with the lesSening |
cash Then at the critical moment he
suddenly finds work" and tells them
he had TO take II 1t seven dollars Il week
or nothing when he really receives
Jimmie's friends down town
call him smooth"
Harris Russell, who writes shorthand
a job because he is Il bad Speller.
He studies up on his spelling. answers
advertisements, gets a few encouraging |
and after moving to Il cheaper
room nee and going it for "A week on 1t
diet of crackers and milk-uccaSlonallv |
a nickel's WORT of not waflies = he gets
another place at one dollar "A week more
and determines that he will not
founder on the same old reef a second
time. Harris is an average boy IA typ
ical case.
EmMons Holman, bookkeeper, learns
hat he Is to he dispensed with soon. so
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