The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-13

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Loyalty 10 ones employer IS q
most ceTnmsn dable quality, said the
lnfn nth the curly hair. retiectissly
sit ought 10 be the most general OF
human attributes. too. for its beaus
Ties are dinned into our ears enough.
When you begin 10 do stunts with
your copybooks. way down in the
primary grades. You have maxims
about ii on page after page When
you get a little bigger your gray hair
ed old uncles and neighbors take you
up on their knees and make you
promise that you will ever and always
Keep the principle in mind.
ITS the same way all through life.
Lecturers ring the changes on it, and
preachers will elaborate on 1t from
secondly clear through to fifthly.
Newspaper photographers join in the
chorus, and-occasionally you don't
object TO taking little whirl at the
advice game yourself. Very probably
it's this repetition that keeps so many
of us from practicing it the way we
ought to. Sometimes fellow gets
so Interested in contemplating a
theory that he never stops to think
about its application, Sometimes did
/ say? Usually is what meant
Now and then. however, you'll
come across man who is too loyal
IL isn't often, l know, but there are al
ways exceptions and generally they're
more Interesting than the rule. ANY
how as Bobby used to say, I've got
& case in mind that shows the other
side of this loyalty business. I've
always remembered it, because had
Il part in 1t myself.
up in Buffalo few years ago
there used to be pool room run by
man named Casey The boys that
liked the runners used to spend a
lot of time there and Casey did a
great. business. At the time I'm
speaking of, Casey's telegraph opera
| tor and announcer was long, lank
chap known as Red. He was about
six feet four, and what little hair he
had was Titan. He was a good man
at the key and Casey himself wasn't
more Interested in the way the po-
MES went than Red was.
Reds key was up in kind of lit
tie tower, 10 or IL feet high and
right in the middle of the room. He
used to curl his long legs around his
chair and all he had to do, when he
wanted to make himself heard was to
lean over and about two feet of him
would be over the rail that ran
around the little platform, When he
took deep breath and cut loose you
could hear him for block.
"one day l dropped into Casey's
and found the bunch in an awful state
CT mind over horse called Foolish
ness. | don't know where the dope
came from, but it took, and fellows
were selling their shoe laces to get
more money down on the mutt. His
price was mighty attractive, and
even when I got around he was 10 to
i. AT that figure got a fimuth
down on him and then sat by TO
watch the fun.
Casey stood TO lose about $4,000
before he got the outfit choked off,
and although he was game to his
pores you can imagine that he was
doing some pretty tall guessing while
he waited for the race to start Up
in the crows nest Red got wise to
what was going on. and he had Casey
faded to summer mornings mist
on the worrying proposition. I saw
him get out a pencil and do some fig
nring on the back of an envelope and
knew just what he was about. He
was trying to fix the spot where the
boss would land if Foolishness got
there first
well, the race the gold mine was
in finally began to come over the
wire. Reds face was picture, 1t
was as long as one of his legs, and
even down on the floor you could see
that he was SO nervous he couldn't sit
still. We could hardly hear his first
call, his voice shook SO.
They're off in the fifth race. and
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