Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17

Says many a boy well started in his teens
to his father about this time of year:
"a don't want to go back to school"
What" exclaims the parent. We'll, L
Just guess you WILL and you'll be there the
first day, and on time. too
But. 1 tell you. I'm tired of school,.
Think you know more now than the
teachers can ever tell YOU eh2 Feel that
you've got all the education you'll need
eh?' Then. playing the SLY dog: Why
don't you want to go back to school this
year?'
Because 1 want TO go TO work"
"Cn that's 1t, Ell? Got an idea that you'll
make fortune the first year or two l sup
pose. Um-m Wants to go TO work. Wen.
II he's got that idea as strong as his daddy
had IT once upon a time. it'll be a waste OF
time TO send him back. Um-m! See here,
Young man, are you in earnest about want
ing to go to work? You are, eh? Well,
YOU can 90 to workout understand, you've
got to get a job yourself I'll not lift
finger TO help you. And If you can't get
work In mighty short order. back 10 school
you gO,'
or perhaps the family finances are such
that the boy must be kept out of school
th!s year and started at work, that he may
live. Or the college graduate, his summer
it's high time for him 10 begin turning his
higher learning into good golden dollars At
any rate IS Is the month OF the year
more tua- any other, when thousands or
persons who have never before taken an
active and steady part in the worlds work
seek for their first jobs. Perhaps in this
very lnth years ago you yourself started
out 100 ok for your first job. and what's
moro landed g.. Were your experiences
anything like these which befell real flesh
aud blood boys and young men known to
the writer?
Biny Jones was fifteen when he set
about his nrst Job. Previous to that time he
had earned several dollars a week by SELL
Ing copies of his towns evening newspa-
per after school. But not In the usual way,
on the streets When he learned that a
newsboy had got leg cut off by hopping
on a moving train at the town depot. In
order to make a SALE and that as re-
suit all newsboys had been forbidden to
enter stations or trains thereafter, ne
sought out the roads superintendent
MIR. Johnson" he said. II want to sell
papers TO passengers here in the station and
GA the trains.
brief and energetic reply Don't you know
I've just kicked out all newsboys ON ac-
count OF the accidentT
eS, but see mere 4 IL give 9ou my WI"
of honor that I'll not hop on or OF NOV
ing train IL you'll let me sell. And. MT
johnson. people when they travel want to
read they've got to pass the time some
way. You'll make lot OF your passengers
mad by shutting or their papers.
The superintendent looked at the boy
he was then twelve-in establishment
Il guess you're right. sonny. Well, go
ahead and seil-on your honor not to gen on
OF of moving train"
For three years Billy Jones enjoyed q
monopoly by reason OF his ever constant
Soncitude for his word of honor. Then,
firing of school and having won his parents
permission 10 go to work in earnest, he
gave up selling papers.
But he did not straightway go into the
first store before his nose and strike the
'.boss'' for work. His idea was to start
for himself in New York He went to the
leading physician OF the town. who was
also something of local politician and had
been a delegate to several state eonven-
tons.
Doctor" he asked, you know some OF
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