The morning news., 1897-03-07

Ihe pay was to be 30 cents an hour.
ana mad to eat. When a man has money
IN his pocket you can't stop him from eat
ihg' ana l resolved that l would earn a
rev Gay forage or die j told the boss
/ that this was picnic-that 1 had worked
Tor years on sky-scrapers in Chicago and
mat he could set me right to work. go
away and trust in my skill and dexterity.
he was easy. He said / seemed to know
my business and departed. Then I set
10 work Twenty times / came within an
inch of falling Off into the street and final
ly, scared to death, | simply laid th,sa
1901 boards criss-cross, up and down, any
Old way and drove spikes into them.
NoDody came near me, and, regaining
bit of confidence. 1 grew exuberant I
made funny designs of boards and spikes
oil over: I constructed a pretty fair Iiv-
ing picture frame and a pedestaI for a
clog dance. At last, having used up all
my materials, gazed across space at n
CLOCK In tower and found that 1 had
been working seven hours.
Descending, ! met the boss coming up.
l told him that / was through for the
day; he complimented me on my speed
and paid me $210 without a murmur. Then
he went on to view the work and 1 trot-
ted groundwork.
''As l reached the bottom landing
heard an awful cry. Looking be-
hind me / saw the boss de-
seending at a tremendous pace and
his face red with rage, while his fists
were tanning the air like windmills and
his voice was reverberating hideous pro-
family. OF course. he couldn't have meant
MS anger for me. but hate noisy. rude
fellows of that pattern and so [ lost no
time In going around the nearest corner.
I'm sorry It turned out that way
said the proprietor, mournfully. 1.-THE way
you started out l thought you were CO.
ing to show yourself a skilled carpenter.
and was going to give you a lob re-
pairing basket-horses In the prop room
Actors will work when they have to-
began the manager. reminiscently In
fact, know they WILL for only this morn
ing saw one of them laboring Three
weeks ago bright-looking young man
approached me and asked for a Job; said
he was a melodramatic star Of the first
degree. l couldn't use him, so he went
sadly away. Yesterday wishing to see a
friend Of mine, who is at the Palmer house,
went over there and who do you think
took my card up to the room and after
ward brought the drinks when we pushed
the button? No one on earth except the
bright young man who wanted to be a
star In my new company"
Il think can raise you two blue ones"
said the advance agent. Last summer I
happened to stop on business at xenia, o.
When got into the dining room of the
chief hotel found that there were no
strels had been through the town a day
before and had carried away the six fair
| demoiselles who hustled orders in the
dining room. But, as 1t CHANGED, Cushion
| Barke's Shakespearean Interpreters had
stranded In town that same afternoon and
| the proprietor of the hotel. being a phil
| anthropist, an admirer of Shakespeare and
| man with an eye open to the exigencies
| Of the hour, had told the tragedians that
| he would board them till they could get
| their fares home IL they would walt on
the tables. Well, It Jared me a bit, SO
to speak, when, as l seated myself at a
table, big man with blue face, . long
coat and heavy stride, thrusting his left
hand In the bosom Of his coat ambled
statuesquely up to me and said:
=" We have r-r-roast beef, r-r-r-roast
mutton, boiled cabbage and co-o-old
tonguev
Il let go one awful yell and broke for
the bar room"