The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-22
nebulons brain, however, has never
taught him The stern fact that he must

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do some n thing we'll and not fool
away his time doing everything badly.
Then he must storm the citadels where
that particular thing is being done UNI
til he gets it to do. and, when he has
got his situation, he must do his work
so well that his employer cannot afford
to do without him.
give here a conversation which has
no particular point to it and whose
only merit is that it is a fair specimen
of some hundreds like it that 1 have
taken part in.
Ny Office boy brought in to me the
other day the card Of q man whose
name / had a dim recollection of hav-
ing seen somewhere before. There
was a vague something away back III
my mind, as ii l had read a book by a
man of that name, but as I had useless
~ lost so much time of late in seeing
people, I said t. the boy:
Ask him what he wants."
"He refuses to say what his business
is" answered the boy.
Very well, 90 and tell him that he
must say what his business is before l
will SEE him."
After a few moments the boy re-
turned, saying: "He says he knows
you, but that perhaps you won't re-
member him. He says he's from Amer
ica."
"Oh, very well, them" 1 said, .show
him in"
The moment he came in l remem-
bered him. Some three months before
he had called on me and wasted the
best part of an afternoon while l ex-
planned to him that I had no situation
to give him and l did not know anyone
who wanted a handy man who could do
everything.
He placed his hat on a table, his UNI
brella in a corner and greeted me with
great cordiality. A happy, optimistic
air pervaded his manner toward me.
making n feel a cynical brute for not
being able to place him in q pleasant
and lucrative situation at once.
y g that you do not remember me-"
he said. 8
'Oh! yes, I d." I replied. ''Have
you found q situation yet?"
"No, notyet; but I have two or three
people looking out for me, and I have
no doubt l will land on my feet yet all
right. You see there are SO many
things l could do. I can do q little
shorthand, and have worked the type
writer a bit. l am a good salesman,
and understand three or four lines of
business. I can keep books, and under
stand banking. so some of my friends,
I have no doubt, will soon place me. I
just dropped in now to see if you had
happened to hit on anything. anything
in II reporting n on some of the
dailies, for instance"
II told you when you were here be-.
fore that I don't know anybody con-
nected with any daily in London, and
at the same time 1 think hat I venti-
lated my theory that no man can help
any man but himself"
ooh, yes" he replied cheerfully, "but
a word in The right place often puts a
man in a good situation. It's all Tom
my Rot to say that situations don't go
by favor"
''They DON'T" l replied.
well, I've knocked around the world
too much to believe that. There's
Blank. Now, couldn't you give me a
letter of introduction to him?" He
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VINO had receuv.y acquired u paper or
his own.
II never give letters of introduction
to anybody. l never use a letter of
introduction myself. so l don't see why
| should infict them Oh my friends.
Besides, know that Blank has ten ap-
%plications a day for situations, and
more than that when he has luck. ALI
the situations he has to I'LL are filed, so
a letter will do you no good"
'I'd be willing to try it," said the
young man; cit isn't much to write a
letter that may help a fellow, now is
it?"
but you forget hat | don't know
you at all. l can't conscientiously rec
ommend a man that l know nothing
about"
"Well, I suppose you are right, but it
seems a little hard from my point of
view. I'll drop in and see him and tell
him that l am a friend of yours. You
wouldn't object to that, l suppose?'
"Oh, l object to nothing. Try it if
you think 1t will do you any good. l
may warn you, though, hat he is not
such a fool as l am, and that you may
find it a little difficult to drop n"
The young man laughed. II am not
so easily discouraged as you may inn
agine. called up here several times
during the last three months and they
told me you were away, but I didn't
believe them"
II vas away"
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