The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-05

II will tell you what to write
about" well known professional
RAN announced as a reporter enter
ed his Office. at is How to handle
the central girl and was taught me
by my Office boy--a lesson I have
" Gifted by"
Sometimes would take down
the receiver and have to wait several
minutes before got an answer from
the exchange. Now you know this Is
vexing in cases of urgent necessity
and sometimes a fellow will let his
temper get the better of him and say
things he regrets. Business was slack
and had dozed of on my lounge.
The Office boy thought | was sound
asleep and started for the phone. I
waited to see what he would do. The
phone Is In the rear room but !
could hear distinctly what was said.
lie took down the receiver and i'm
l heard the dull click
made by the central girl breaking
In He got his number Immediately
and after that whenever he had oc-
casion to call up any one, observed
he got his number Immediately
while | had to wait. Look here. boy,
tell me how you manage to do It, n
of him one day.
Dead easy, boss he said. All
you got ter do is to treat 'em right.
Give 'em a little taffy an jolly 'em
along in a mild lovin' sort o. way.
Not be fresh, you know, but Jest
and kind. Then they'll
watch for you, and always give you
The best they have in the store when
you get in a hurry. You see me sis
Ter was telephone girl onct, and
iats how | gets next
IL was on you bet, and didn't
set impatient with the girls again. In
time I found 1t paid, and it's an in
vestment | intend to keep up"
An apprecict.ve erson is a Cod
send to the commur.ty prominent
local physician declared, as a poorly
clad man departed from his office
and the medico turned to the report
err to answer his query for news.
81 don't care a d. how poor a
man is, and how little he pays me,
for II he is appreciative and shows
gratitude for what ! have done for
him. then | feel compensated. Dur
ing my time | have treated thous-
ands of patients and have run across
all kinds of types. Some are a pleas
ure to come in contact with, and
others | would fire out of my office
so quick it would make their teeth
chatter on the least provocation."
"Now. there's a fellow you just
saw going out Of here who has a
large family to support-and he's
sick. You don't know anything about
what that means, because you have
probably never seen anything of the
kind. l do, because I've come in con-
tact with it all my life. have been
treating him for a long time, and
haven't got a cent for II, and don't
expect to, because / know, he hasn't
any money and probably never will
have. | know, however, that II he did
have 1t he would pay me for my SER
vices. | would rather get out Of bed
on a cold night and attend him or
his family for nothing, than to go to
see some people for good fee. He
appreciates my services and now
walks down to the Office, although
hardly able to get about, because he
doesn't want to put me to any more
trouble than he can help. II he ever
has any money, know he'll pay me.
II he doesn't. | don't care, for graft
tude goes a long way towards pay
ing a debt with me-"
1.-The old adage all is fair In love
and war can be in d measure APP
piled to politics in this end of the
state" a politician declared yester-
DAY.
81 remember on numerous occa-
sions the advantages politicians have
taken OF their opponents. but there
is always a chance to come back
and many a trick is turned and the
originator of a joke made the butt
OF il, / remember In one race the
farmers friend, a farmer himself
was electioneering for an office. lie
set out the fact that his opponent
burned electric lights in his stable
ga paducah' Another controversy |