The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-04-09
THROWN, OUT JOB
HOW a DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIFF
FERENT MEN N a BIG CITY:

Representative OF the Average UnfOr-
tunate Fellow Looking for Work-HosS
others AXE the Sad News.
Joe's envelope said SIMPLY:
The horse regrets it can no longer
offer yon employment. but its reasons
do not hinge upon your competency.
and we take occasion TO thank you for
soo! work for us, wishing yes1 we'll"
Joe Thought to hide the message from
John rs he passed out-john had worked
at his elbows fUr months-but he didn't.
John followed him ont and said:
Stout heart. old fellow. You'll have
a'oetter JOB III il week. If | can do you
u tayor. call on me My turn next. |
imagine
Joe walked the streets for hours, then
Went holne to his wife and babies not
less surely years Older than when he had
left them III the morning He has fixed
his purpose. and will hew to it. He
takes the usual trinkets to the children.
a tl1t1e Of some sort to his wife. and
gives her, as Is his rule, the weeks earn
lngs, Then he acts for the first tine in
MS life-he rolnIjs and carouses with
Flora until she believes he is as much d
child as herself, and his wife watches it
ali from her sewing table and wonders
II she was ever us happy III the old
counting days as she Is now.
And Joe 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
ne feels that the house has clipped him
off because it could spare him more cas-
lily than any n of the hundred odd 9TH
ers that it has retained.
But that little wife sitting there with
her mead 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 1t home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that he a a clew to the thief and that
Inspector Byrnes would catch him in a
few days. He says to himself that fate
stole it from him, but he keeps ND the
play b~ravely and with fortitude answers
the evening queries of the home ones
abont whether they have found the
watch. The mex 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" at
the regular hour; every evening he re-
turns. They goto the theater; they buy
some needed and long promised clothes;
they pay their regular missionary money
and church fees-for Joe is playing a
desperate hand now, but with an insane
sort of GOODNESS. Something asks him
over and e again every day, Where
will it end?' but Joe just sets his lips a
little harder and don't reply aver in
thought.
His encyclopedia goes next. He loans
it to a 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 do-stoically,
unmoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
OF tea, he has n~oappetlte. and don't want
1t. Then he Is for the first time in his
life affected with satan's specially ex-
ported article OF disease-insomnla. He
sits for hours watching his family us they
sleep, and he feels Il heavy weight slowly
setting 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 III
MS life and cries like ii child while tell
ing her of it.
TYPES.
There are Just Il few .Joes in this world
not too "a
Clarence fiarney tells his wife about
1t As soon us he gets nome He is sure
ne knew the Internal Job wouldn't hold
long anyhow. Plenty more. though
you Just have TO have a little gall: aud
next day Clarence has another lob. A
little less pay. to be sure. "but then" he
argues, its only for a week or so-Tn
strike a better II the first thing YOU
know Sou dom down me-no this
jim Burton. the clerk, loses his lob.
He pitches into the whole family and
tells them that there must be no more
money spent for anything at all. I'm
The goodness only knows
When you Will get ANY more from me. So
make tins last aS long Us 1t Will" He
goes Iowa town gets Il job. tells them
III that he has not vet found one.
and So spends the entlrt pay for two
weeks OH himself. the while ostens1Ely