El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-08
THE MAN WHO GOES
Deserves To Have Golden Statue
Erected In His Honor.

Deserves To Have a Golden Statue
Erected In His Honor. 49,.
eff 1 were az rich as Rock efeller,"
said busy New Orleans wholesaler,
81 would erect q golden statue in
honor of the man who goes. l mean
by that the man who has sense enough,
when he concludes q business inter-
view, to pick up his hat and walk out.
1t seems a little thing to do thing
that would be suggested by the crudest
Intelligence and the simplest concep-
ton of the value Of time-but how
many do it? Not 10 SO: no, not in
$50. The man who fingers is the
common rule Ts ia15 - 81 4
! my last caller, for example, was 9
fair specimen of the lingering tribe.
He is the proprietor of q small store
and is considered 8 good, average,
everyday business man. When he
came in it was perfectly plain that
was in the midst of q mass of cor
responsiveness, and lt seemed
he would cut his interview as
short as possible. Well, he sat
down, took out a pair of spectacles,
polished them, put them On and began
To state his errand. What he actually
had to say GOULD have been compressed
into one sentence OF about twenty-five
words. 1t took him ten minutes to get
it out, and then l had to haul him
back to the main track half u dozen
times. At last l found out exactly
what he wanted and gave him brief,
clear, definite reply. That ought TO
have clos ed the incident, but it didn't.
he sat there twiddling d blotter and
gazing into space like COW ruminat
ing. [ waited silently to see. out of
curiosity, how far he would carry it.
'Y' say can have that stuff on ninety
days?' he remarked at last, after long
pause. Now, that was precisely what
ne had come to ascertain. L had al
ready told him plainly, and he asked
the question for absolutely no reason
on top of earth except to kill time.
Yes, said |, you can 'U-m-m,' he
grunted, and again gazed into space.
Finally he laudched another time-kill-
err. Them hams is the same [ had be-
fore?' Yes. 'U-m-m.' There was
because he already understood all
about the quality of the goods. He
simply asked to be saying something.
Meanwhile clerks were continually
bobbing in with letters, bills, invoices
and so on that demanded my immedl-
ate attention. Yet there he sat, deli
berauely blocking the wheels of the
establishment. At last he seemed to
awaken out of trance. We'll, 1
must be going he sighed, and slowly,
reluctantly wandered out. He had
been here thirty-twO minutes.
THAT case was exceptional, con-
tinued the wholesaler, ''only for the
} elson that l let the man play his hand
out. so to speak. 1 generally cut them
short as soon as 1 extract the nature OF
their business, and L assure you deal
with precisely that type of idiocy all
day long, every working day in the
year. Any other man of sffairs will
tell you exactly the same thing. The
man who fingers actually absorbs not
less than five-sixths of the time put in
at the establishment-abso it by
irrelevant conversations: by
wholly unnecessary questions: by hem
ming aud having and gazing classify
into space. Some times be is an old
friend or customer whose feelings [
don't " ant to risk hurting, and then
am obliged TO writhe silently under
the affection, but in any case it is i'm
possible to avoid losing q certain
amount of valuable time-wbich in the
aggregate makes a terrible hole in the
weeks work. 1t is this that b rs made
so many big business men sour and
crusty, and | verify believe that a years.
right here at my rolltop
OesK WOulu ruin the temper OF the
mildest saint that ever trOd the foot
stool?'' '2 90 -tsN.
SHOW about the man who goes?
asked the visitor cautiously.
'Oh, it warns my heart just to think
about him. replied the wholesaler en-
81 have only encoun-
tered one of the species this week, and |
when he jumped up at the con lusion |
Of brief, poir ted talk and made bee |
line for the door-I was so astonish ed |
and delighted that I called him back |
and invited him to lunch. In so doing |
l probably spoiled him, but really
couldn't help it. The experience was
so delightful l temporarily lost my
head. New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat