The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-10

- canning here two hours late. sncaEIug
If al 10 O'Clock when you ought 70 have
been here at So This is the third time you
have been late this week les; l know 1
can dock the two hours, but how about
nv work. There have been halI dozen
men kept waiting because you are TWO
hours late. 1t ISN'T your work only your
work never was worth anything; II was
only balf-hearted work at the best-lt
was the work of the other fellows Who
we're haneine about waiting for YOU 10,
I'm not going to look it over on you
go"
1T shall not happen again, sir Il over
soversleDt yourself! Got drunk. you
nsan. overnight. and couldn't get up ~
The morning! ! know all about that sort
of thing. You can't take me in men
fellow who comes up here from the coun-
try spends all he earns at music mans
and theaters. 1 know what TO expect I've
seen too much Of it not to know Lale
hours at night mean late hours m the
morning: getting fuddled with smoke ana
drink overnight mean headache ana uui
brains in the morning. 1t means scamp
ing the work and getting through
ANYHOW. or not getting through II
At an. 1t means getting all You can
whether you earn it or not, 10 spend on
your amusements; 1t means sticking AZ
nothing when the craving for excite
1nent is on YOU not at Goctoring the ae-
counts ana robbing the till The descent
is swift and easy when you've once begun
10 20 down that hill you can't stop your
self: down you go. whether YOU VIII ~
not. I'm not going to give you the chaAee
of
I'LL. on you GO+ ~ -.
M word. II yCuu look over u inns ni4ie
il shall never happen AGAIN
Your vordt WHAT'S the word OF a 1ei-
low who spends ms evenings IN music
The speaker who was the principal Of
a large city warehouse, turned ON ms heel
ANA went into his counting mouse anu
shut the door behind him, ana leil nls
companion outside on the mat. he ana not
leave MIN alone.
The eyes of an the men employed in the
ward were upon him; they had heard every
word the master had said. AS the young
man turned away with Whlte scarce
face and a mist before his eyes ne saw
an the other fellows watching nlm, ana
he flushed up guiltily Ike girl, ana tne
tears came into his eyes lie cpuld nav
borne his disgrace and discontinue but
he could not bear them 10 be witnesses
He was a tall. fair foolish youth from
the country, with soft iresh-coloIed
his face; he had not got used 20 bedIltls
things. AS he was turning away from inc
closed door of the counting mousse, sulu-
ing through the yard with hurried uneven
stems. in a zig-zag way, as ii he We're
walking in a dream, the door opened anu
a clerk called after him
He turned round quickly with a sudden
light in his blank face, and went lew
steps forward to meet him.
Had the governor reiented?
Tie d
had come back to his lips. surely the
governor had relented!
i've brought your weeks screw the
other said, loosely, and the guv'ner says
you're not TO refer TO MIN LOT a ehatac-
Ierrars took his wages without a word:
he could not trust himself TO speak. His
mouth was working, and IL was as much
as he could do to keep back his tears.
They would have brimmed over in a mo
"Its deuced hard luck said the young
clerk, with a laugh. Il hope your soon
get another berth"
and shut the door; but he did not take
his seat at the desk; he went to the VIM
been dismissed. He was sun standing
where he had left him, with his week
wages in his hand, looking back at the
counting house, as If he We're expecting
20 be called back again.
When he saw the lace of his fellow clerk
at the window with the SNUG self-satis-
ned grin upon II, ne Slf1lS ntEHeQ HlilSelL
and pulling his cap down over ms eyes,
and strobe out of the yard with his head
erect, and his heart bleeding, and every
nerve in an agony.
II was an over, he told himself as he
went out of the yard and down the street
back to his lodging; he had had his chance
and he had lost it,
His Iandlady was surprised to see him
come back to his rooms in the middle of
the morning.
said you don't look well this morning;
you've Tot looked wei the last day or
"0h. I'm all right" he sad. with an
attempt at a laugh. but l m down on my
luck. I've got the sack
Got the sack?"
Yes. The Guv'nor met me going in
at 10 this morning. and he gave me the
sack. i couldn't explain TO him that l
had headache; that ' couldn't lift my
head off the pillow when ! awoke this
morning; that it was as much as l could
do TO dress and drag myself down to the
understood IL had told him; he would
not have believed me; he would have
said it was staying out late at music
''You went to a music hall the other
night-the night you stayed out late the
landlady said sharply. She hadn't any
sympathy with people who got the sack.
Yes, I went with Jones. He took me-
he said there was no harm in it. All the
fellowsw no come to London go there
after work. / have been there several
times; ! went with him each time; he goes
there every night 1 suppose he must have
toG the guy nor; no one else knew that
had been. He brought me out my screw,
and l saw him looking out OF the window
after me when l came away. II he had
said he was sorry for me l shouldnt have
felt it so much, but to see him laugh
ing"
The landlady was not interested in Mr..
Jones: she was thinking about her rooms.
What win you do about the lodgngs?f
she said sharply. You won't be able TO
pay the rent now you are out Of work.
Moo" he said. with sigh; Il shall
have to give them up, suppose. l m sure l
don't know where l shall 20. l haven't d
friend in London"
Z had chance of letting them this
morning, if I'd known. not an hour ago, "
the landlady said, ignoring the appeal to
her sympathy, and keeping 10 the main
question. 1T mayn't be too late now; the
party was to call again. If you'd like to
give them up at once Ia say nothing
about the weeks notice; there's two weeks
owing rs it is
Give them up to-day?" he said, turning
pale. II have nowhere to go. Couldn'
! stay until tomorrow
THAT would be running into another
week If you can't pay two weeks you
can't pay three. I'm letting you off a week
as it is
He turned away from her with his
white stricken face and the tears in his
eyes; he was such a boyIsh fellow, he was