The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-24

disrepUle. WHY, II the profession Coh"
tinues to find recruits at the present rate
of enlistment, we shall have legal advice
thrown in with every dinner set at the de-
partmcnt stores.
"Well, you must subdue your profess
sional jealousy this time" said Janet,
"and help young Lochinvar Do 1t for
my sake.
l have taken orders from Janet for so
many years that it never occurs TO me to
question her Instructions So l lent jacob
some hooks, aud when ] found that he had
mastcrc t3yir contents in very short
time 90, re him the privilege Of remain
ing aI 100 in the evening after the
eley So: running and using my
library He reveled in that privilege.
was sitting up at home very lato one night
preparing brief, and found that q most
important paper had been left in my desk
Thorc was no choice but to go down town
and get 1t. The brief must be ready the
next morning, and the paper was locked
in the private drawer of my desk where no
one but me could get it, 1t was nearly ~
O'Clock whom the ianitor let me into the
building. l climbed the stairs to my office
floor There was light in the outer of
flee. THAT'S stupid of johnson" said
TO myself. He has left the gas burning. F"
But when l opened the door, there sat
Jacob, porting over calf bound volume
He looked embarrassed when he saw me.
"Am ! in the wayY" he asked
you're not likely to get much sleep at
this rate, - l replied. "Do you stay up as
late as this very often?'
Almost every night" he answered.
"Do you mind?"
I..4 I I'D A.. 4
stand it, But it is pretty hard life, l
think, for one who has lived in the open
air so much
"The life in the open air stored up just
the sort of vitality l need for this sort of
thing" said Jacob
"You are striking an average, them"
Trying to strike one between the sound
mind and the sound body"
Don't take life so seriously, " said l.
There isn't anything more serious to
me, " said Jacob, and l could not answer
him. l got my paper and started home.
He was leaving the building at the same
time and we walked few squares to-
gether.
"Have you any friends in New York
yet?' l asked. Jacob had never conf1ded
any of the facts of his daily life to me.
II have some relatives here he said.
"They are rich people, though, mother
tells me. She hasn't heard from them in
90 years. may go to see them some day,
but not SO long as I'm only an elevator
boy.
Perhaps if you saw them they could
help you to be something better, though
there is no disgrace in any kind of honest
labor, l fastened to add.
'If l can help myself, sir, F" said Jacob,
II think l would rather do 1t. "
did not believe that there was any
cant about Jacob. 1 rather liked his dec
laration of independence, and on the i'm
pulse of the moment made him a propo-
sition.
lone of my junior clerks leaves tomor-
row. Would you like the placer"
Its very kind of you," said Jacob
Gam l fitted for itS"
"You don't know so much law as some
of them perhaps" 1 answered, "but posi-
bly, your enthusiasm for your work will
ntone for that. Places of the kind usually
pay only in experience, but we will make
the pay the same as that you are receiving
now, and perhaps there will be extra work
by which you can earn it,.
left him ut the corner half dreaming,
| zoo much absorbed to say, Il thank you "
Jacob served three years in my office.
BY that time he was prepared to pass a
very creditable examination for admission
to the bar. had reported his progress tc
Janet from time to time and had received
! her thanks for my consideration, but II
was not on her account now that l was
encouraging Jacob. He earned all the
| consideration he received. He had haC
only two brief vacations to visit his home
and the remainder of the time he had de-
voted unremittingly to study and to the
work which l had given him. He could
do the work of any two or three of the
! clerks in the office, or in the building, fol
that matter. The president of big rail
road with which had some business from
time to time noted Jacobs energy and
commented on it one day
"Send him to me when he is ready to
practice, said he. 81 want such mar
In my office. In fact, want many sncl
men,"
So it happened that when Jacob was
ready to enter the profession a position in
the legal department of this railroad, witt
good salary and fine opportunity fol
improvement, was open to him. And sc
he left me with regret, l think, on bott
sides.
The term of his experience in New York
had done him a world of good. His mental
equipment had been improved of course
but his dress and manner had improved
no less. All of the buoolic air had disap
peared. He was not extravagant in any
! thing. He had no money with which tc
be extravagant, for the surplus of his lit
| tie wages had been sent regularly to his
mother. But he found that he could buy
clothing of modern cut in New York quite
as cheap as he could purchase the ole
style garments of his boyhood in the LITTLE
town from which he had come, and oo
casionally he found an extra job of work
which he did in hours stolen from sleep
which gave him the money to clothe him
self more becomingly than he had done a
the time when l first saw him.
On Thanksgiving evening, the anniver
sary of our first encounter, l met him neal
my home on Madison avenue. He was al
handsome and as nice looking "a man as
would meet on that fashionable thorough
fare. say mice looking because hi
appearance was not fashionable He wa
well dressed, but in an unassuming way