The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
A Misapplied Sobriquet(
Which Caused Some
Trouble.
WOMAN TO THE RESCUE.
A Sagebrusher" Who Stood
With Much Patience Some
Very Cruel Sport.

In one of the large shoe factories of this
city tale of patience, love and woman's
ability to do the right thing at the right
time has, through the City Hall marriage
records, recently found light. Here it is:
A young fellow from Nevada. who was
shoe-cutter by trade and an expert at the
business, came down to this State in the
hope of being able to secure better en-
ployment, and incidentally putting few
extra shekels into his pockets. When he
had looked around he found that things
were not particularly lively in the shoe
trade, and ''slim" is what his chances for
getting good job seemed to be. Many
better man than West-for that is the
"Sagebrusher's" name-has got discour-
aged under less adverse circumstances
than he had 10 contend with and that he
gave way 10 the cup which cheers'-and,
incidentally, kills--ls not too surprising
He had quite little stake" but drink
and things worse soon commenced 10 de-
plete the hoard. He awoke to the fact,
that he was getting ruined, and that only /
added mental worry 10 a system which 4
had already been undermined bv disease
but that's another story" He had gotP
down to his last "clatter out OF the box
as he facetiously terms it, when he go. a
job as helper in a sawmill. 1t was work
tAdI AC hdS To-
and his tired, weak and altogether I'M
strung nerves were unable to stand the
pressure. If he was spoken to be would
Jump like man shot; If plank fell near
MIN he would shiver in fright; going UP
the stairway to the upper floor he could
scarcely hold on. and indeed his nerves
got into that condition that his fellow
workmen began to tease him and call hun
Jumping Jack" and occasionally Jack
in the Box" by way of variation. Luck
favored him one day, though for he got
position in the shoe factory above re-
ferred TO at his old business and of course
at good increase in pay. But somehow
the sobrlquet followed him into the shoe
factory, and Jack in the Box was rallied
and ieered about his wreIched state of
nerves till further orders. One noon, how
ever. a change came ''o'er the spirit o. the
dreams" of the brutes who tormented him
to the verge of insanity. An Irish girl
with beautiful bright auburn hair-some-
times wrongly called red-walked up to
the man whose bench was next to Vests
and remarked In a voice the meaning and
force of which could not be misunder-
stool: 'Jerry, if you're anything of
man you stop that Jack in the Box talk
or I'll stop you. Mind me, an if you
don't lick the next man that says it-Why,
l will. And you bel l can" That settled
it. No one yet had dared to offend the
SOOu-HdbuTcu WHO HdQ III bulS very
forcble way expressed her disapproYal of
cruel chaff. But that wasn't all she did,
not by good deal She told him a Jew
days after that she wanted to speak to
him, and though it was in shame-faced
way, she said, you're SICK, amt yer"
"Well, l guess I'm pretty near dead" was
the awkward reply. who's doetoring
ye?' came next. "Nobody-quit doctor
ing.p This in a very decided tone.
Read this when you get time. They
fixed my brother, and he had give up
hope" What she handed him was one of
the circulars about the unquestioned
merits OF the "Great Hudyan," which
the world-famed doctors OF the Hudson
Medical Institute, at the corner of Stock
ton, Market and Ellis streets, send free to
all inquireTs.
\
The sequel is soon told. West is a per-,
fectly we'll man. He has been for months,
and the auburn haired Irish girl is good
wife who no longer works in a factory.
Four months ago he went to the Chief
Consulting Physician of the Hudson Med
ical Institute and asked him if he was well
enough to get married. He was advised
to wait little longer. The permission
was given only little while ago, and he
said in half comical way to the great
specialist "Whom do yon think 1 m going
to marry p OF course the medical man
had no idea. 'I'm getting the girl who
first sent me here-the girl who gave me
your circulars when they used to call me
Jack in the Box