Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-06

NO. I guess with your advantages you
| vouldn,t he contented with US very long.
is fellows that have begun at the bottom
are willing TO sing small for awhile Dut
with YOU it's different"
Hang the advantages!" thought Morris
savagely. -
when he reached his boarding place at
which he carefully avoided the eye Oh uiie
Iandlady. he found a letter lying on MS
table. The hand seemed rather familiar
but he couldn't place it. The letter reau'
my Dear Mr.. Morris:
~ happened, in glancing over an ola pa
ner to-day, to see your name in the list OF
arrivals. 1 very much hope TO see you II
Won should be still in town when this let
fer reaches you. Very truly your friend
civilian L. CRIMMINS.
The heading of the letter bore the name
Of his uncle's partner and representative
in that city, Job Kingsbury,
"Bv Jove"' said Morris again. III
hunt the old fellow up
He found the address in the directory
and found the house after the longest walh
he had taken since the days he had dab
bled in athletics. 1t was an unfashionaple
hut homelike house, and the woman VINO
onened the door was a motherly looking
person. He was shown up 10 modest
anartment on the second floor, ana met
nv Crimmins. who was quite eruslve, 1or
him The little mans somewhat dry
pbrases were inspired by real anectlon'
and he wrung Morris hand in way that
said volumes.
And what have you been doing since
we metz" asked Morris, who particularly
wished to avoid answering that question
himself
well. I have been in this business al
most from the first" said Crimmins'
tboughtfully. 1T IS not at all the bust
ness / was thinking of. 1 meant to teach
perhaps or to work on a newspaper. But
no opportunity offered, so just took the
first thing that did offer, and il has turn
ed out really WELL
Il should think it had turned out well
said Morris. when he had heard the result
of some Of his friends investments in real
estate which had turned out luckily
Crimmins was evidently a trusted man
and in the line of promotion. But how
how did it happen to offer?'
ooh. I knew Mr.. Kingsbury. / was his
office boy before he ever went into TINS
business" said Crimmins, with unusual
franBness. He had never talked very much
about his antecedents. He said then that
I was a worker and should have good
place If l ever wanted II. ] haven't given
up DOING something in Intellectual work.
I read a little and lind that all sorts
of scientific and economical knowledge can
be made Of use in business. College is a
great thing. a great thing" and Grim
Minis loked awed at the thought of 1t.
1T seems to me, Crmmins." said Nor
ris. that your advantages as you call
EN-. are not so much what you got at
college as what you took there
ooh. no. said Crimmins quickly col
lege did a great deal for me. 1t helped ma
/ to know myself; to work with trained
mind. and, more than all that, to see
what / was working for. Why Morris
when / see some of these men who have
grown rich in such hurry that they
don't know what to do wththeir money
except TO race horses and buy diamonds.
pity en-" And the little mans face
flushed to quite an unusual extent in his
earnestness.
so far as I am concerned said Morris
the advantages have been mostly dis
advantages" and he found himself quite
willing. somehow or other, TO tell his
story 10 Crmmins.
What would you do If you were in my
place." he asked, when the tale was
finished.
"Wen." said Crimmins, after some
thought. cts hard to tell about
that. You are $50 much more brilliant
than l. it's hard for me to realize that
YOU had any difficulty of this kind. But I
think if you should go back to Mr.. Phil
potts and tell him that you had recon-
sid5red your decision he would give you
another chance, and then. after you had
got on a little way, you would be able
to secure time and money for your own
pursuits"
And that was what Morris did. But he
found. to his cost. that he had TO begin at
the beginning and to learn at twenty-three
what Crimmins had learned at twelve
punctuality. thrift and business sagacity
and he still thinks that Crimmins' ad-
vantages were not all gained at college.