The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-15

wheat. And the boy took an the fancy
courses and trimmings az college. Inc
old man was mighty proud of JIM
Wanted him 90 bee a literary fellow
But old Durham found out what every
one learns who gets his ambitions
mixed up with No. red-that there's a
heap of it lying around loose I'm the
country. The bears did quick work and
kept the cash wheat coming ga SO lively
that one settling day half a dozen OF
us had 90 get under the market 90 keep
&C. from going 60 everlasting smash.
That day made young Jim a candl-
date for a sob. DO didn't take him long
20 decide that the Lord would attend
70 keeping up the visible supply or
poetry. and that he had better turn his
attention 20 the stocks of mess pork.
Next morning he was laying for me
with a letter OF Introduction when I got
90 the office. and when he found that
wouldn't have "A private secretary al
any price. he applied for every other
position on the premises right down
10 office boy I told him ] was sorry,
but I couldn't do anything for him
then; that we were letting men go, but
ia keep him IN mind and so on. The
fact was that I didn't think a fellow
with Jim's training would be much
good. anyhow. But Jim huns on
said he'd taken a fancy 10 the house
and wanted 90 work for it. Used 20 call
by about twice a week 20 find out lL
anything had turned up.
Finally after about a month of this'
he wore me down So that / stopped him
one day as he was passing me on the
street I thought ia find out If he really
vas SO red-hot 90 work as he pretended
to be: besides. I felt that perhaps /
hadn., treated the boy just right as
had delivered quite "a jag of that wheat
10 his father myself.
Hello. jim" L called: do you still
want THAI i0b2"
Yes. sir" he answered, quick as
lightning
"WeU. I tell you how it is, jim"
said looking up al him-he was one Of
those husky. lazy-moving six-footars-
"I Cont see any chance In the Office
but I 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 lugging
beef. or rolling barrels and tierces ZOO
yards or So 90 the cars. But Jim came
right back at me with, Done. Who'll
7 report tO2'
That sporty way of answering, as If
he was closing q bet made me sure:
than ever thar no was not cut ont for
p Dutcuer. But I told him. and off he
=-arted hot-foOt to find the foreman /
5~nt word by another route TO see that
le got plenty TO do.
forgot all about Jim until about
three months later. when his name was
handed up 10 me for "a new place and
q raise in pay. IL seemed 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 "a couple of inches lower than
the other. he got 10 scleming around
for a way 90 make the work easier
and ne hit on an idea for a sort Of
overhead railroad system, by which
the barrels could Doe swung out OF the
storerOoms and run right along into
the cars. and two or three men do the
work of "a gang. It was just as i
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 salary, and made
him am assistant timekeeper and
checker.
Jim kept al this for three or four
months. u-tl his feet began 10 hurt
him. ] guess. and then he was out Of
a job again. To- seems he had heard
something of new machine for regis
Jering the men, that did away with
most of the timekeepers, except the
fellows who watched the machines,
and he kept after the superintendenL
until he got him 60 put them I'M. OF
course he claimed a raise again for
effectiug such a saving, and we just
had 90 allow H.
was beginning to take an interest
in Jim. so ] brought him up into the
Office and set him 90 copying circular
letters. We used TO send out "a raft
OF them 90 the trade. That was just
before the general adoption of type
writers. when they were stlll in the
experimental stage But Jim hadn't
been iu the office plugging away az the
letters FOR q month before ne had the
writer's cramp, and began nOsing
around again. The first thing I knew
ne was sticking the agents for the new
typewritiug machine on 10 me, and he
kept them pounding away until they
made me give them a trial. Then be
was AN up with Mister Jim's job again
] raised his salary without his asking
for Sc this time, and put him out on
the road 20 Introduce a new product
that we were makins-beef extract
Jim made two trips without selling
enough t0 keep them working overtime
al the factory and then he came into
my Office with "a long story about how
we were doing 10 an wrong. said we
ought 90 go TOR the consumer by adj
yeTusiug and make the trade come to
us. instead VI chasing &C. up.
That WAS eo like Jim that ] just
laughed at hesy besides. that sort OF
alyer,is.ug was "a pretty new thing
tneu, and I was one of The 0ld-tuers
who diudt take amy stock IN 30. But
Jim just kept plugging away at me
between trips, and finally ] took him
OF the road and told him 90 go ahead
and Try be- iu "a small way.
Jim pretty nearly scared me 20 death
that first year. AT last he had got into
something that he took an interest I'm
spending mouey-and he just fairly
waliOWcd m it. Used 10 lay awake
nights thinking up new ways of get
ting rid or the old mans profits. And
DE found them. Seemed as IL I couldn't
get away from Graham's Extract. and
whenever ] saw BE- I gagged for I knew
30 was costing me money that WASH
coming back, but every time 4 started
% draw In my horns Jim talked 90 me.
and showed me where there was a for
tune waiting Tor me just around the
corner
Graham's Extract started out by be-
ing something that you could make beef
tea ont of-that was ALL But before
Jim had been fOoling with 10 a month
he had got his girl 90 think up a hum
dred different ways in which &c could
be used, and had advertised them ALL
It seemed there was nothing YOU could
cook that didn't need a dash Of 10. He
kept me between a chill and a sweat an
the time. Sometimes. but not often, j
just had DO grin at his foolishness.
remember one picture he got out show
ing sixteen COWS standing between
something that looked like a letter
press. and telling how every pound or
so of Guhams Extract contained the