The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-29
PLaSING 10Th SIDES.
The End or n NoraI Tale and an Explanation
OF N Historic Fact.

you ever read n Sunday school book T.
he asked at the club.
To my SORROW | did, said one OF tho group;
and most Of the others thereof whispered sadly
that they. zoo. had done so. For this was not n
remarkap Die cluh, be it understood. Men in this
club didn't drink eight or nine rickcys in tn,
course of u beiorc-d!uncr talk; there was no old
looking youth who could land would. which was
worscl reel or mile after mile OF carefully bal
anccd sentences on a flfth.sccond notice by tho
s~;op-watch. In this club the members were not
all meE ahont town or noted clubmcn this WAS
lust a good cllL. ana though it had so'ao black
sheen and sad dogs am NJ its members, mos; OF
the men that composed 1t were gentlemen by
manners and by instinct at ali events. In that
fact 1t differed from most clubs-at east II some
newspaper writers ulways write the truth.
That being the state Of things. it was not
strange that most OF the group had read Sunday
school books.
We'll" said the first speaker, with some
establishment, I'm surprised twice, first. that
the Sunday school habit should havo been 30
prevalent. and second. that the habit Of telling
the truth should sun cling TO SO many OF
YOU
After the necessary supplies had been pro-
cured, he continued more carefully:
do you remember, in ono of those books, tho
btDTy OF TWO u IutntcIh 'HIpioSNh " pul4l suIlb
little she'd or other The elder saw the younger
planning both sides OF a board. and went for him.
.Whadyer dom that iorf he asked. Nobody
secs thnt side According TO tho story the
Young carpenter explained that he did 1t because
IL WAS right; because, even IL only one side of
the board was seen by men, a higher power
could SEQ both sides, and would Judge him ac-
corilngly.
child; and when | frat struck out for myself l
determined 10 plane both sides, so to speak: !
got a lob pretty quickly tat the time ] said that
I had consented 10 accept a situationl; really.
my people got ii for me-. At any, rate, | was
soon in a position TO plane both sides. l did,
most carefully; but In d mighty short time com.
plant WAS made that ! wasn't doing my work
properly, and was called up by the manager;
, into your head I he added. and, with much con.
fusion. | told him.
"'Look here, my boy he said Tim quoting
other. and / think you're The sort of fellow that's
worth learning 1t now. DID, you ever hear Tho
end OF that s~tory,-thet moral taller Isaid that
hadn't. Well said he. tho contractor came
! along and saw The Sunday school boy planning
both sides OF the plahks, and saw tho old ear
penter whom the lad had converted doing the
II what he said was charged up in the hereafter
against tho Sunday school boy, who'd really
made him say il. | wouldn't want TO Insure that
"".TThon. When he'd got calm. the contractor
explained that these two men were on a lem.
porary job, and that they were Just wasting
good. rich time planning both sides; that, what
was needed was u certain, job done, and then
more hands on another job and so on. And
the manager explained to me that until I got
opened the door, and said 'Gitl' and as / got.
he kicked me; and I've remembered his advice
ever since. o.n -.
man in the corner. Some of the group nodded
"Well. Mcclellan tried to plane both sides OF
the board, said the oldish man.