The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-26

father had a lot of money till he start
ed out to buck the universe and corne
wheat. And the boy took all the fancl
courses and trimmings at college. TIT
old man was mighty proud Of Jim
Wanted him to be a literary fellow
But old Durham found out what every
one learns who gets his ambitions
mixed up with number two red-tha1
there's a heap Of it lying around loose
In the country. The bears did quick
work and kept the cash wheat coming
in so lively that one settling day halt
a dozen of us had to get under the mar
ket to keep 1t from going to smash.
That day made Jim a candidate for a
job. 1t didn't take him long to decide
that the Lord would attend to keeping
up the visible supply OF poetry and
that he had better turn his attention to
the stocks of mess pork. Next morning
he was laying for me with a letter Of
introduction when l got to the office,
and when he found that l wouldn't
have a private secretary at any price
he applied for every other position on
the premises right down to office boy.
l told him l was sorry, but I couldn't
do anything for him then; that we were
letting men go, but I'd keep him in
mind, and so on. The fact was that i
didn't think a fellow with Jim's train
ing would be much good anyhow. But
Jim hung on-said he'd taken a fancy
to the house and wanted to work for 1t.
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find out If anything had turned up.
Finally, after about a month Of this,
he wore me down so that l stopped
him ne day as he was passing me on
the street. l thought I'd find out II he
really was so redhot to work as he
pretended to be; besides l felt that per
haps | hadn't treated the boy just
right, as l had delivered quite a jag Of
that wheat to his father myself.
Hello, Jim." l called; do you still
want that jobp
Yes, sir" he answered quick as
lightning.
'Well, I tell you how it is, Jim," /
said, looking up at him-he was one Of
those husky, lazy moving six footers-
81 don't see any chance In the office,
but | understand they can use another
good, strong man In one of the loading
gangs"
1 thought that would settle Jim and
let me out, for it's no joke Juggling
beef or rolling barrels and tierces 6
hundred yards or SO to the cars. Blu
Jim came right back at me with
Done. Who'll l report tor
That sporty way of answering, as 1
he was closing a bet, made me sure
than ever that he was not cut out 70
a butcher. But l told him and of b.
started hot foot to find the foreman.
, sent word by another route to see tina
he got plenty to do.
l forgot all about Jim until abou
! three months later, when his name wa
handed up to me for a new place and
, raise in pay. 1t seemed that he ha
) sort Of abolished his job. After he ha
! been rolling barrels awhile and th
ders a couple of inches lower than th
other he got to scheming around for
way to make the work easier, and he h
9 on an idea for a sort of overhead raj
] road system by which the barrels coul
; be swung out of the storerooms an
run right along into the cars and tw
or three men do the work Of a gang. ]
. was just as l thought. Jim was lazy
but he had put the house in the way Q
saving so much money that l couldn'
fire him. So l raised his salary an
n made him an assistant timekeeper an
checker.
Jim kept at this for three or fou
months, until his feet began to hui
a him, l guess, and then he was out Of
Job again. 1t seems he had heard som
thing Of a new machine for registerin
the men that did away with most {
the timekeepers, except the fellows VIII
watched the machines, and he keI
u after the superintendent until he &c
. him to put them in. OF course b
claimed a raise again for efectin
such q saving. and we just had to a
q low it.
/ was beginning to take an interei
In Jim, SO I brought him up into tt
d ofice and set him to copying circulf
letters. We used to send out q raft {
/. them to the trade. That a just b
fore the general adoption Of typ
writer's, when they were still in I'll
experimental stage. But Jim hadn
been in the Office plugging away
d the letters for q month before be ha
the writer's cramp and began nosir
around again. The first thing ! kne
. he was sticking the agents for the ne
typewriting machine on to me. and
kept them pounding away until the
made me give them a trial. Then
was all up with Mr.. Jim's job agai
% l raised his salary without his askir
for 1t this time and put him cut on Il
road to introduce a new product TIL
we were making-beef extract.
Jim made two trips without selliI
n enough to keep them working overtin
i. at the factory, and then he came in
my Office with a long story about no
we were doing 1t all wrong. Said v
ought to 60 for the consume by a
' vertising and make the trade come
us instead Of chasing 1t up.
That was so like Jim that l in
laughed at frst. Besides. that sort
Advertising was a pretty new THU
then, and I was one of the old time
who didn't take any stock in 1t. B
Jim just kept plugging away at u
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