The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-03-30
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The frnt college man | ever
J son. slim That was a good
] many Years aga. when the
! house WAS a much smaller at
] fair, llm's father had a lot ~
] money till he started usit To
J buck the universe and cotner
! wheat And the hay took all
! the fancy courses and trim
! misga al college. The old man
! Was mighty proud OF Jim.
Wanted Him to be literary fell
! low, Hut Old Durham found
out what every one learns who
gets htn ambitions mixed up
J With number two rcd that
J there's heap 81 u WINS
J around iaoae IN the country.
The bears dld quick work aud
] Kept the cash wheat coming In
80 lively that one settling day
J halt dozen Of Us had TO get
J under the market 60 Keep II
from goinE 20 everlasting
J smash.
That day made young Jim
] candidate for Job. II didnt
take him long to decide that
] tho t.ard would attend 10 keep
ins up the visible supply of
] poetry, and that he had better
J turn hls attention. to the stocks
J of mess pork. Neat morning
] he was laying fur mo with
letter OF Introduction when I
got 60 the once. aud when he
] FUND that | wouldn't have a
private secretary Al any prize.
he applied Tor every other post
tion on the premises right down
90 once boy, I told him | was
J sorry. hut | coalant do any
thing for him then. that We
werp letting men 60. bat Ia
] kesp him In mind. and se on
The fact was that didn't think
fellow with inns training
J would be usueh good. anyhow,
Hut Jim hung on said he'd
D taken a fancy 90 the house. and
] wanted o. work for u. Used
J to call By about twice a week
J 10 md out n anything had
J turned up
] Finally. after about a month I
% this he wore ma down -
that | stopped hum one day az
he was passing me on the I
street Thought I'd md ont {
10 he really vas - rcd -hot 10
] work as he pretend sd 10 be- be-
J sides felt that perhaps
hadn't treated the tny just I
risht. a. ! had delivered quite
jag " wheat 10 his father
J myself.
] Hello. Jim. called, do you I
J still Nant that job =
Yes, aiF. he answered. quick I
J A. iixhtninK. I
J We'll l tell you how II l.. I
] iiul.- I aa4d. looking up Al him I
he was one Of shose husky. I
lazy movtnN six. footers a.4 a
J don't 49, any chance Ia the
usfteri but I understands they [
can ufa another stsef. strong I
man In ona % the loading I
J gangs
4 thought that would settle I
] Jim. and let mo out. fof Its no I
toae logging beef. or Ruling I
J barrels and ti~ress hundred I
yards oF 80 Go tbs cara hut
Jim came right back al me I
With. -pous. whs'ii report
] to-
Ttsat sporty way % answer I
Ing. a. u ha VAS closing = bet.
made me suf~r than ever that
] he vas not cat out for A butch
J er. Hut told him. and on ne
started het-foof TO find the
foreman | sent word by an
other route TO ~re that he sut
plenty to do.
forgot all about Jim urtn {
] about three months later. when
! HIS name was hand~d up 60 me
for \ new place and a ralss IN {
pay. After hS had been foiifnr {
harreis a while. and the sport
had ground down enc 81 M.
shoulders a couple % inches [
] ioNeF than the other. he goa 10 I
] szhslniur around cor q way 20 /
make the spfk easter. and he I
hit on an idea for a sort of 1
overhead railroad system. By 1
which the barrels could b. I
swung out Of the atoreru-sfna I
] and run right along into the I
cars. and two OF thrw@ tn~n DO I
] the work Of a ganH II was I
just "a Thought Jim vas lazy, T
but he had pat the hous~ In the I
way ~ saving - mach n4ansr. :
. 'N-"+ = "t@AttftAN NV ANNNfI TO
raisefi his salary. and mate him {
an assistant time-keeper and
] checker. +
Jim kept AZ this fnf thr~e or :
four months. until nj. feet be. {
gan TO hurt him. I guess. and {
then he was ont Of a fob again. 4
u seems he had heard eofne- 1
thing % a new machine fer reg I
tsfeffns the men. that did aWay I
with most ~ the tirnekasr~rs. I
esevpt the fellows who watch {
- the machines. ard he kept (
after the supnrfntandsnt until 1
he got him 20 put than In. OF (
course he claimed RAISE again {
for rff-ctfns such q saving. ard 4
We Just had 10 allow n.
This letter ssill be esneludsd {
In tororross's issus.l {
From Letters from q Reif- I
Made Merchant to Hts son. BY +
OeorEv Horace f.orimer. email.
Maynard q Co. Boston.