The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-14

| across an earmark OF association IN tho
North which was entirely new to me.
IT was down in Georgia was travelling
on branch rail. DAD At one of the
stations rotund colored NANNY was
selling fried chicken. 1t looked DELI
cious; 1t WAS so Crisp and brown.
had had no lunch. and no prospect OF
getting any. SO 1 bought some of the
chicken. 1t was fine, and after l had
satisfied my appetite I asked the old
nanny where she got her chicken. moro
to make conversation than anything else.
She looked at me In critical. disdainful.
half-insuited manner, and answered me
with the query:
/" Yose from do Nof. aln't yuh,'
Yes l admitted.
1 noed 1t; noed Il: yo sholy mus
be fun de Norf to ask pusson whar
dey gifts chicken!'
She shuffled off with a sniff OF dis
dain, and l was left to cogitate over the
unfortunate locality OF my nativity"
Why They Lost Their Jobs.
5 -Four employees in large office in town
who were dismissed month ago be-
cause the Arm found IL necessary to re-
duce expenses. do not know tNit they
were selected for dismissal because OF
an apparently trivial oversight said a
friend OF the Man OF the Street. Accord
ing to my information. which Is no doubt
true. because / know.5it rryself, there
were about a dozen men in the office, and
the business OF the office did not war
rant keeping more than eight. There was
no complaint to make OF anybody; but
there was the straight mathematical prob
lens-four had to 90. The question was TO
determine who. One OF the partners hit
on this 1ea: In common with other firms,
they have sign over our electric lights
that they shall be turned off when not
IN use. 1t Ia matter over which they
have not been sticklers, however. But
that partner figured that some of the
clerks burned lights unnecessarily, and
often did not turn them OFF when the
days were light. He decided to ..eep
those who looked out for this thing. and
for u week he took notes OF those Who
turned Off the lights when they We're
not needed. The upshot was that there
We're just four clerks who paid no atten-
ton to the sign. If the morning was
murky when they came to work and lights
We're necessary, they never thought OF
turning them off if the sky cleared. or
course, all the clerks were more or less
remiss in this matter, but at the end
of the week. the partner found four who
had been less careful than the rest. and
that Is the way he settled the prop!em.t
That Rotten Banana.
The following story was sent to the
Man of the Street. with the compliments
OF the season:
waiting by the door, L espied a little
fellow with the friendllest smile and the
worst patched trousers I ever came
across. Y. ~ ss az
I'm his hand he held fully q ha-
mana whose stage OF maturity had long
since become but a memory and " lose
Interior gently but persistently oozed out
upon the little hand. Lovingly clutehinE AZ,
!" It's for. teacher he said. smiiing nap
PLY.
".And teacher will like 1t. too, smiled
back at him. 49, ID
"a. sudden swerving from loyalty upon
his part, and. You may have 1t II you
want It.
"IIa was such tiny fellow and his
smile isoSbig and beautiful that weaken
ed at the too evident fattery. OF the words
but that banana! sought subterfu9e
in q lie.
Z" Thanks, dear. but T never eat ba-
nanas.' And then tho friendly little voice
cooed rapturously: Gee, I'm SO glad, for
i, was afraid you'd be mean enough to
take 1t, an I've been sayin II for ages
1T believed him.
Later, I wa ythed him as he swung up
the aisle to the teachers desk, and, rails
ing himself on tiptoes, presented his Of
fering, The few words OF thanks and the
smile that accompanied them warmed
the cookies OF his little heart and his face
fairly radiated sunshine for the remainder
h ar, tba teas.hor the rift meant nothlnr,i