Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-10
Om. lime Of Dress Goods and Suks
Augusta, Maine.

and the head of the firm indicated the
man on whom this praise had been be-
slowed.
HE doesn't look it,
mo, nor anything like it, yet believe
that his appearance is about 80 per cent.
of his stock in trade. Just size him up.
Did you ever see more ingenious face?
He got his job just as he gets money
from debtors that are bad pay. He came
right to me and asked for employment. l
told him we were not in need of any one
and followed the usual form in telling
him'to call again. He took the invitation
literally, walked around the square and
dropped In to make another application.
You told me to- call again., he said.
Want a good man.? did the usual thing
once more, carelessly asking him to call
again. Another trip around the square
and he put in his third appearance once
more informing me that he was a good
man in search Of a job. tried him again
and he proved four time winner.
Then 1t struck me that he would make
a collector il he carried his persistency
into his work. and he has proved a. Won
der. He has realized on old accounts
that We had given up as hopeless, long
ago, simply wearing debtors down to
where they would rather pay than be
bothered any further One sharp rascal,
who makes nopretense of paying his debts,
told our phenomenon that he would have
to get up very early in the morning TO
get anything out of him. Our man was
at that fellows house at 2.30 A. NJ, rout-
ed him out and actually got the money.
He never tires and never let's go. An
other maddened debter told him to sing
for his money and Old Reliable simply
took stool in the Office and sawed
away on Old Grimes is Dead till he got
the cash. He's an odd stick. but he's a
world beaten
A friend of mine is the possessor of a
large black ca" said a railroad man.
yesterday, (which he would not part with
for love nor money. No matter what
the cat does it is overlooked. Early in
the spring his wife became tired of the
animal, and asked her husband to get
rid of it. After thinking awhile he took
the cat to the Union station, and there
turned it over to friend employed as a
baggageman. who was going to Bangor.
The cat was tied up in the car and the
man saw the train leave the station. He
returned home and told his wife the good
luck he had in getting rid of the cat.
This was on Monday. On Wednesday he
lost sum of money, and on Friday
ruby stick pin. Bad luck seemed to come
his way. On the following Tuesday who
walked into the kitchen but the cat OF
course he was welcomed. That afternoon
the man hunted up his railroad friend
and asked If the cat arrived in Bangor
His friend told him that the cat was on
the train at Freeport but after that he
missed him. The man then told him of
the cats return. He went home and told
his wife, and they decided to keep the cat
for better or worse
Two Hallowell girls were hurrying
eastward for their ear on Water street In
Augusta one day recently. One of them
in pulling her handkerchief from ner
shopping bag tumbled big square letter
out on to the muddy pavement. She did
not notice her loss, but small ragged
little boy did. lie was teasing a friend
at the time, but he left his friend in
stantly, swooped down on the letter AMI
scampered at the top of his speed after
the gir4s. 2ss
Hi, LADY," he called "Youse dropped
somethin'." ~ s1
The girl in the dark blue costume who
carried the shopping bag turned and the