The St. Louis Republic., 1901-10-20

wen. 1 tell you how 1t is. JIM | said.
looking up at him-he was one of those
husky. laZy-moving six-tooters-"1 don't see
any chance in the office, but / understand
they can use another good, strong man in
| one of the loading gangs
, thought that would settle Jim and let me
out. for it's no joke Juggling beef or rolling
bhrrcls and tferces hundred yards or so
10 the cars. But Jim came right back AT
| ME with. Done Who'll 1 report to-
mat sporty way of answering, as Il he
We're closing q bet made me surer than
ever that he was not cut out for butcher.
But told him. and off he started hot-foot
10 nnd his foreman. l sent word by an
otner route to see that he got plenty to do.
l forgot all about jim until about three
months later. when his name was handed
up to ME FOR new place and a raise in pay.
IL seemed that he had sort of abolished his
| job. After he had been rolling barrels a
While. and the sport had ground down one
of his shoulders couple of inches farther
than the other, he got to schening around
for a way to make the work easier. and he
hit on an idea for sort of overhead rail-
road system, by which the barrels could be
swung out of the storerooms and run right
along into the cars. and two or three men
Go the work of a gang 1t was just as
thought. jim was lazy. but he had put the
house in the way Of saving so much money
that couldn't fire him. So raised his sal
ary. and made him an assistant timekeeper
and checker. Jim kept Mt this for three or
four months, until his feet began to hurt
him. 1 guess. and then he was out of Job
again. 1t seems he had heard something
about new machine for registering the
men. that did away with most of the time
keepers except the fellows who watched the
machines. and he kept after the superin-
tendent until he got him to put them In. o.
course. he claimed 4 raise again for effecting
such saving, and we just had to allow 1t.
l was beginning to take an interest in Jim,
so l brought him up into the office and set
him to copying circular letters. We used TO
send out raft Of them to the trade. That
was just before the general adoption OF
typewriters. when they were still In the eX-
perimental stage. But Jim hadn't been in
the office plugging away at the letters for
month before he had the writers cramp.
and began nosing around again. The first
thing knew he was sicking the agents for
the new typewriting machine on me. and he
kept them pounding away until they had
made me give them q trial. Then 1t was all
UP with Mister Jim's job again. I raised his
salary without his asking for it this time
and put him out on the road to introduce
rev product that we We're making-beef ex-
tract.
Jim made two trips without selling enough
to keep them working overtime at the fac
tory. and then he came into my office with
a long story about how we were doing 1t all
wrong. Said We ought to go fer the con-
sumer by advertising, and mako the trade
come to us, instead of chasing 1t up.
That was so like Jim that just laughed
at first; besides. that sort Of advertising
was a pretty new thing then. and was one
of the old-timers that didn't take any stock
in it But Jim just kept plugging away at
me between trips. until, finally took him on
the road and told him to go ahead and try
1t in small way.