The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-08
Falls into The New Sever and Thinks
That Satan Has Caught Him.
SAYS he WILL WHEEL BRICKS
Earns seventy-Five Cents, Enjoys Him.
self Like y Live Prince" sleeps 1t
the Bethel. and Passes . Whole Day
In Deep Thought.

AS jim walked uOWn street Iue8u6y
afternoon after his woodward feast, he
thought, aud thought. aud thought-but
1t bore no fruit.
IL he had had quarter in his pocket he
would have strucS out for his saloon.
his stamping ground" and stirred up
the dry cob webs OF his brain with few
beers. But g. day before. for the first
time in his life, Jim had stood up the
bar" for n drii ik. and he hadn't "the
face" TO do it again. Whatever may be
your opinion of Jim, you can rest assured
that he Is no. bar-room- beat lie still
reiains little self-respect.
So he wandered aimlessly about,
vaguely wondering where he would
bring up." Across Crawford street
bridge his feet took him; through an
alleyway to Weybosset street, from there
TO Turks head. up Westminster to Dor
rance, from Dorrance TO Exchange place.
Nothing attracted his attention until
he reached the latter point. Then, IS he
attempted to cross over in the dir c;ion
OF city ball he became aware OF tie fact
that there was big hole before him.
That hole was the new s,wer.
Dropped Into job.
He saw few planks spread over the
hole. and he was rash enough to suppose
that they were pl ICED there to walk on.
So he wake on them. He stopped a
moment to gaze down into what seemed
to be the bottomess pit. He lost his bal
ance, pitched forward and found the
bott mless pit han "A bottom.
lie landed on a pile Of losoe bricks, but
for n nom mt or two he tn ,u4 ht he was
in the midst of a shower of shooting stars,
or something Of that sort. Some one
grabbed him by the shoulder In no gen.
tie manner, and shoute in his ear:
"What der ye want down here, blum
derbuss? ?"
Jim's mind was trifs befo2ged. and
he thought that perhaps he was in Hades
aud that the devil himself had him in his
clutches but Jim is not u coward and ne
never sails under false colo S, and in re.
sponse to the query be said:
81 East a jj9bl T. II ~ sayv-w weed or wheel
brio s."
"welI, ef yer wants job, g, up where
de boss am aud arsk him for IT," said the
bricklsyer, "and don't be potherin' me-"
Jim got out Of the hole, with little
assistance. and, to show that he really
wanted a job. he hunted up the boss and
asked for work.
money In HIS rocket Again.
The boss hired him. lie WAS promised
$3.50 day. There did not app ar to he
anything difficult about the work. All
he had TO do was to put hook attached
to long rope over the b Ill of n pail that
was filled with stuff that looked like
mud. cali out "Cemelt" aud let the pail
drop dowl the hole as the rop played
through his fingers Yes. that, alll
jim became intereste in his new work
AMI for time everything went along
snoothl the word Cement |" being
hurled in a loud voice at the men below
as each pail was swung from the pla *.
But after while Jim grew thought
less, occ ,sionaliy forgetting to give
the warning until a pail went crash upon
the head, back or feet OF one of the
bricklayers. Whenever these mishaps
occurred, volumes of profanity were
thrown ut po1r Jim by his victim but
each time he would apologize and the
work of building the great sewer would
be re umed.
When it came ii ne to "quit work ;" the
brick;ayers ca ue out OF he hole, swear
lug they would never go back IL jim was
to handle the pals. So the boss gave
Jim seventy-five ce Is for his afternoons
WOrK, ana tOlu nlm ne WOulu wall MIN
up in the sewer IL he ever came near it
again. With both hands blistered, his
arms sore aud his back feeling as If 1t ha
been under pile driver. Jim pocketed
his wa, ,es an disappeared.
Happy as a Prince
Jim "made tracks" for the old saloon.
got permission to wash up" paid Tom
for the Labor Day glass OF beer,
bought several more beers, took
whiskey-straight at the ex-
pense Of friend, shook dice
for three milk punches, winning each
time, heIp.d himself literally at the free
lunch table. aud at 10 o'clock he conf
deutially informed everybody present
that he had thirty five cents in his
D, cket and was as happy as a live prince"
Then he staggered out, boughta 10 cent
bel at t, Bethel aud went to sleep.
Yesterday morning he got his breakfast
at the saloon free lunch table, bought a
beer. went into one of the -ide rooms and
bowed his head OIL the table. Evsry hour
or so he bar ender wou,d 60 1 and say:
"Come, come. Jim, VIII us the matter ?"
E,ch time Jim would reply: "Dou't dis
turb me; I'm thinking"
At a late hour in the afternoon Jim
was still In that sile room with his head
resting on the table. AND he had % cents
a., b,s pnckat