The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-01-28
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A HARD MAN.
BIZ j. A. FLYNN.

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sWife and ten children!' More fool
he! Given them five pounds yourself":
More fool you! Just a trife?' Well,
If do, it's just to get rid of you, and
ON condition that you don't tell any,
one, mind that! You benevolent busy
bodies will ruin me with the stories you
set about.
"'What's the matter?' A good deals
the matter. I'm being libeled all over
the city. Only this morning heard that
COMPOUNDED ass, Green, speaking of me
as the best-hearted fellow alive, talk
ing to that precious tenant of mine at
z, Lime Villas-wretched little house
that barely pays for the repairs. Now
he'll think he can get another quarter
behind with the rent; but I'll show him,
I'll show him. 'Best-hearted,' indeed
the silly idiot. Why, should be ru-
ined if those fellows in the city thought
there was any sentimental nonsense
about me. A hard heart and good di-
gestion-that's my motto. Don't grin
like monkey! Upon my word, Smith.
you're old enough to have more sense.
Perhaps haven't the best of diges-
tons, but I have no nonsense about
heart, whatever you may think.
Brown, my shipping clerk?' There
you are again, the same old story! Now
Ill just tell you the rights of the case,
and then you'll see how these lies get
about. Brown is an excellent clerk and
worth his money-that's my business.
wife and several youngsters-that's his
business. He borrows money from
some internal scoundrel of loan agent
that's his business, too. Butwhen his
dirty Jew money-lender comes kicking
up row at my warehouse-that's my
business, and soon gave him in charge
and showed him up before the magis-
trate. Well, he didn't get much SYM
pathy from the court, which refused to
make any order for payment and bound
him over to keep the peace. So he Of
fered Brown reasonable terms; but
Brown couldn't pay and worried about
it. This didn't concern me; but made
him listless in his work, which did.
''Of course can't be always chang
ing clerks; SO I put it to Brown in a
commercial way. And he saw it, sir;
saw it directly! This is how worked
it out; look here:
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Present to Brown to pay off Jew eaoo
Ten years interest on balance not re-
Profit on transaction. ............,........ $50
e4oo
Cr.
Browns next rise suspended (say s2O
Increase in Browns efficiency (say a@ -"
for 10 years.. ..........................2 200
e4oo
"'Gave him a rise, all the same?'
Oh-er-well, I found he'd improved
more than expected, don't you see?
How about my nephew, Frank?'
Why, another parcel of lies. You must
do something for your sisters son when
he's an orphan. That's business, really;
people expect it of you, don't you see?
And you get bad name if you don't.
And if you employ man you must pay
him fairly-that's business, too; and
you must even give him trifle extra,
proftably. It don't pay to have miser-
'able-lool1ing clerks about you. 49,
"Well, Frank turned out a very good
boy - hard-working, punctual and
smart. Never penny out of his petty
cash book. That's the test, sir! So I
gave him a good rise of salary every
year. Kind of me- Upon my word,
Smith, you're getting in your dotage.
You must pay good man well, or lose
him. Too fond of me to co. Don't I
tell you that never reckon upon senti-
1nent!
"Now, I had to leave my money to
some one; so 1 thought it might as well
go to Master Franz; as anyone else. So
one morning I called him into my pri-
vate room. Look here, you young
devil said, I've told you times enough
that you've nothing to expect from
me- Yes, SIR But you didn't believe
me?' oh, yes, did, answered my lord,
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