Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-02-24
METHODICAL MAN.

said by various wise men before the
present writer manipulated the sentence
on his typewriting machine.
It is remarkable that the I. p. (menn-
ing the tender PASSION should have
turned the methOdical mans methodic-
'alness to his undoing, as nearly hap
pened in the case Of Mr.. George Peters.
Love should have nothing to do with a
man during business hours. There ought
to be a placard to this effect hanging up
in all well regulated business houses:
Clerks in love arc requested by the
: management not TO think Of the adored
/: object between tho hours Of Qa. IN. audG f:
p. m. BY Order.
Now George Peters was a very me
thodical person for so young u man.
When a letter got into Peters hands it
went through a certain routine, and the
answer departed from him TO tho copy
ing book, and from the copying book to
the envelope, ana the envelope, letter
and all, with Enclosures marked, went
into the letter box with a regularity that
nothing but the office clock could emu
late, and even chat, the clerks said, was
not as regul9ra as Peters, for they claimed
it was always fast in the morning and
mighty slow in pointing TO 6 o'clock.
1t is littlo wonder. then, that Peters
stood so high in the confidence Of OLD
man Bentham. Bentham was Benthom
Bros. & Co. There were no bro.l.ee,
and no comp8ny-that was mer,lg tao
firm name-it was an Bentham. Per-
haps there nee were brothers and per-
hap5 there was once a company, but
that is all ancient history anyhow, and
has nothing to do with this strictly mod
ern story. And it ala not interfere with
the fact that old Bentham's name was a
lovely thing to have at the bottom of o
large check.
The clerks never s|peculated on the
probable effect of love on Peters because
it never occurred to them that such a
thing as Peters falling in love was with
in the bounds Of possibility. Love, they
argued, was not an article that can be
docketed and 6cketed and referred back
for further information and entered in
the daybook and posted on the debit or
credit side OF q ledger, so what on earth
could Peters do with it if he had 1t:
Manifestly nothing. If they had known
as much about human nature as you or /
they would have surmised that when
Peters dld idll 1t was time to stand from
under.
And who should Peters fail in love
with but the very woman Of all others
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