The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-03
By James Richards.

inp that Won were discorrteous to her on
March 81 ~ She specifies that she asked you
q question about some connection at Albu-
qucrque, and that You didn't answer her
What's that. sir2l' asked, not because
i didn't hear but because the, accusation
4 azed me. The superintendent took 1t the
other way, however, and he sat re gardng
srnesfor few minutes.
- Say he said at3last. ARE you deaf?,
II am not" r. said, but sometimes can
hear a little better than at others.
4" I,sce." he said, as he scrawled something
on u piece OF paper, # I" Take this Y. 70 room
a."
~ who made a two minutes examinn-
ton OF my hearing.
The next day when l reported for5duty l
received a kind but curt note from 34tho
SUPERINTENDENT, Informing me that on ac-
count OF my deafness heswould have to dis"
%.nense with my services, as much as he mated
to do So &
4EThereGI was in comparatively strange
town with a family on my hands, ired Tor
an SinnrmityS Of which had never suspected lp'tf
myself.
H Finds New Lines OF Work.
Well / didn't waste much time on vain re-
prets or in trying to convince the doctor ne
was wrong You can't get much for argu-I
aments or regrets at the grocery store ana
Il had three mouths to feed besides my own.
II know the superintendent was genuinely
sorry to have to discharge me, as had peeh
Z good faithful servant OF the company, l1e
offered me any kind of letter wanted. put
i could not see how a certliicate ior having HaVs
been a first class car conductor with q sec
ond class pair Of ears could DC OIL any ASSIST As
ance to me.
=, IL n n
7 went home that night, In order that might
lie era cefully TO the family and tell them tina +
In order to be more with them had shirted
4 rrom the railroad to stationary Job.
r was enabled to do this after scarchsof
h,,f 81 day. hired out to disscct old tele-
nhone boxes and rescue the undamaGed parts
a fcr S15Ol per day. There was barber shop
~ the neghborhood, the business of which
consisted for5the most part OF " weekly clean
ups." was a little rusty on my barberlns,
but / knew that the class Of customers that
this place catered to wouldn't mind, so
secured an engagement TO help out on say
urday nights and Sundays inquired that
, this work would add about $3.50 week 70
nv income and wasn't far wrong,
I was getting along nicely at the telephone
sbon learning something every hour and CIV
,nr Tho company the benefit Of 1t. discov-
ared uses for some small parts that before
were being consigned to the scrap pile and
!, nc company showed its appreciation byadd-
Ing r25 cents a day % my wages
'e U * II
Takes UP Another Line.
n,h.. mar from whom rented and still
rent keeps a livery and boarding stable, lie
boards a lot of delivery horses and there IS
considerable work to hosdonc in the early
morning. He was telling me one night that
he was short handed and would like 70 get
somebody 10 give him lift ] told him !
had nothing to do In the morning but sleep
md that Thought my health would be bet-
Ter IL 7 turned out about the next morn
X ing AZ the rate Of rs cents per morning.
ono day the livelyman gave batch OF
Nils 10 one Of those dead or alive COLLECTION
apencies. One of the bills was against ms
he ST Gus omer, which had slipped in by mis-
take. The COLLECTION agency summoned-lhe
hest customer TO appear before u justice az
Niles ut an unear,hly hour, Thereuponl the
hest customer took his four rigs from my
6,andlorCl' S barn a nd no amount OF explaining
could square things.
The hooks of the establishment We're IN
horrible shape. 1t was n simple matter to
straightcn them out, however, as the bust
ness was simple. and | undertook tho work
have been Keeping the books of the livery
stable ever since IT takes only haitian hour
an evening TO transfer memoranda from
scraps Of paper to a day book, and 1t pays
: me SO II week, which is more than The rent
All, this time ! was not ncgecting my
+ music | found IT necessary to jcin the