Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-30
LIKES THE ARMY LASSES.

Millionaire Manufacturer Says TheS
Are His Mascots.
"Here, miss, take this money! 10
the love of heaven, don't go away
without taking this money"
So yelled J. C. S. tombstone, Min
neapolis manufacturer, as he rar
through the corridor Of the Auditor
ium.
"Have you seen her?" he demanded
as he rushed to the desk and accostec
Clerk Shafer.
'Who?" inquired the latter.
"Why, the Salvation Army miss that
just passed through"
went over to the Annex" answered
the clerk and the Minneapolis man ran
through the tunnel.
"Have you seen herr" he queried OF
the first bellboy he met.
"Who?" inquired the bellboy in
amaZement.
1.-THE Salvation Army lass that col
lects money"
Just gone up the street." answered
the latter, and the man from Mime
apolis might have been seen chasing
up the avenue a minute later.
He caught her just as she reached
Jackson boulevard.
''Here take this dollar" he said as
he pushed a bill into her hand. II
don't know what l would have done
if hadn't caught you," and then he
returned to the hotel.
''Pd been a pauper In twenty-four
hours if hadn't given that girl some
money" he explained to the people
who had watched the chase. They're
my mascots, those Salvation Army
lasses. know that would have been
hoodooed if 1 hadn't caught her. Ia
been broke sure"
He was silent long time. Haven't
seen one in ten years without giving
her money"
"Superstitious? 2" inquired one Of his
friends.
Call it that if you want to, but it's
a conviction with NE. l was sitting
right here about ten years ago when
one of them tapped me on the shout
der and asked me for a contribution.
Had dime i'll my pocket; 10 more,
and no job. Hungry and room rent
staring me in the face. Wondering
what 1 would do with that dime.
Didn't see why l shouldn't as well be
| broke as have a dime, so 1 turned 1t
| over to her.
"That left me without a cent. The
Lord won't forget" she said.
"'Neither will L. l answered, only
| l meant that l wouldn't forget that
was broke. A man had just turned me
down for a Job. Turned me down cold.
was worrying, but l had time to
watch that girl. l saw her strike thir-
| teen men without getting q cent, and
/ saw the fourteenth man give her 81.
| There was lesson for me. l got up
| and tried that same man again. had
resolved to try him fourteen times, if
necessary. But it wasn't. He gave
me job because he liked my nerve,
and l want to tell you that / have
been mighty prosperous ever since"
almost a millionaire now, amt
you"
"Well, close onto it, and all because
that girl happened to strike me that
afternoon. And since then no Saliva
ton Army girl has ever gone away
without money when l was III the
neighborhood.
thereafter l won't go to sleep when
| I'm in this neck Of the woods" he
continued. "That girl came near get
| ting away from me. If 1 hadn't cought
her 1 know that l would have tele-
gram telling me that my factory had
| been struck by lightning. Well, fare
you-well," he said, as he walked away.
"But, say, any time that you see
one Of those girls give her something"
was the final injunction. "Best in
vestment you ever made."-ChicagO
| Chronicle.
Road Across the Desert.