The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-12


| didn't want the young man to "git.
AS long as he retained his government
| Job they felt that they had at least 4
remote chance of finally getting some
| thing on their bills. But off the gov
eminent payroll and probably out OF
| Washington he was flown bird
So the bunch of creditors, who had
| been, fguratively speaking, bowling
for the young examiner 5 heart s blood
| but a few moments before begged the
Secretary to retain him in the service
How am / going to keep the man
| tary. - Are you sure you want this
resignation to stick3' he inquired of
| the examiner.
;" m already off the payroll, sir. -
replied the employee, determinedly, and
| with bow he was out of the room.
| He left Washington that same night,
with only a few dollars in his pocket.
just two years later his salary as
patent man for a Cleveland manufac-
turing concern was $4,000 ger annum.
He returned to Washington in due
time, and in person paid up every
silver he owed.
A rather cowed looking and shabby
man was hailed before another Secre-
tary for his failure to pay a doctors
bill of long standing'
What's the reason you don't pay
this medical mans bill?" demanded
the Secretary, a rather violent man on
occasion. rs there any good reason?
How many besides yourself have you
got to support??'
Eight, sir" replied the man, hum
bly, The two Oldest. and three sets
OF twins"
What" demanded the Secretary.
rising from his seat. How far apart
were those sets?"
About a year and a quarter be-
tween each batch, SIR replied the
carpeted clerk
And did the doctor who sends this
collector here officiate on all of these
interesting occasions
Yes, si--that's mostly what his
bill is for. SIR replied the shabby
clerk.
Get out of here, you!" stormed the
Secre tary, bearing down upon the bill
collector. And you go and tell that
Internal doctor man for me that he
ought to be blamed proud of having
OBLIGATED at the making of a record,
much less hound the man who shares
in the glory. Here. Wait a minute:
Dash me, I'll pay the bill myself How
much is it?'' and the Secretary. grab
bed the bill out of the scared collect
or's hand and looked it over Then he
dived into his pocket and paid the
amount out of hand
Now, you go back to your desk.
old man. said the Secretary to the
shabby, cowed looking clerk, land in
the future every time there's dou-
Bile visitation in your family send the
bill to me-
Hereupon TIL Secretary grlnned af
fably. The JOB you ought to have,
my man." he added, lis Superintend-
ent of the Census
One of the Secretaries still in Of
flee received boarding by telephone
a year or SO ago from a young man |
he had had up for chronic indebted |
ness.
A lot of complaints having reached |
the Secretary that this young man |
wasn't paying or trying to pay his |
bills. he sent for the delinquent
Il understand that you gamble your
money away" said the Secretary, who !
had not long before issued a special
order to the effect that gambling
among the employees of his department !
was not going to be tolerated, and in
timating that employees who attended |
the Bennings races, particularly, would /
be liable to find themselves in con-
siderable disfavor. What form of .
gambling do you mostly indulge in?"
PLAY a little poker sir, OCCASION
ally replied the young man.
DO you bet on horse races asked /
the Secretary.
When L think I know something"
replied the young man.
"Um-when you think You know |
repeated the Secretary.
And how do you generally come out
on these occasions when you think
you know something"
Il generally find that I don't know
anything" frankly replied the young
man.
so / should imagine replied the
Secretary, and then he lit upon the
young man good and hard. He told
him that he'd have to begin to pay
what he owed che very next pay day,
and that if he, THE Secretary, 50 much
as heard of his visiting the racetrack
again-the Bennings races were in
progress at the time-the young man
would lose his job the instant the
news reached the department.
And l have a little way or two OF
ascertaining these things" added the
Secretary, warningly.
The next pay day was only two
days later. On that pay day the
young clerk who had got the drubbing
| from the Secretary thought he knew
| something again. He drew the $50
coming to him for the half month, put
F., in a time slip for the afternoon and
mixed out to the Bennings racetrack.
/ He knew that his job was as good as
pulled from under him and he resolv-
| ed to take q big chance with the last
money he had on earth. He slapped
| the $50 on the thing he knew some
| thing about, which stood at so to 1.
| The thing that he thought he knew