Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15


definite contrary information he put down the
failure to realize his ambition to lack of education
business methods, which he forthwith determined
to secure.
A magazine. left by of the summer boarders
on top of cracker barrel, contained an attractive
picture of youth with trousers in need of pressing,
reaching out from little siX-foot cubbyhole, ex
actly like Bagbys Office. to take the fifteen hundred
dollar salary of fine managerial position. 1t was
being handed to him in buckskin bag, with the
numerals the outside, from OF the many
windows of imposing correspondence school
Jonass ambition fired. He too would double
his salary. yes, treble and quadrupe it, by becom-
ing office manager He sent for literature, for
warded cash for instruction, and began his cam
paign of education.
To set down the ungossed truth, Jonas had never
been able to convince Old Man Bagby that he was
harboring in embryo successful engineer of the
great of trade. Once he spoke to Bagby about
it. The old man replied heartlessly:
Guess ye're better fifteen to vigate o,
them durrigible hot balloons they tell about.
Might be able to startle the financial frnyment
eff ye was to go UP an bust. Ie won't never
do it any other way"
Old Bagby had some for, between the
bots and erasures. he had hard work to square his
business by Jonas's bookkeeping So it was not
and. explaining to Bagby the value of System
and the advantages he would derive therefrom
should be install Jonas Office manager, struck for
that position with doubled pay. that Bagby averred:
Il never had no need fer manager but jest only
once, an that was when l lowed myself to hire
you. An as fer system payin' cash an takin cash.
good enough system fer anybody
Nor was it strange that Jonas Immediately there
after, having let loose hot word or two. emerged
from the office he had aspred to manage with a
rapidity that made the wind whistle through his
coattails.
Now, except for the fact that Old Man Bagby
continued to drive a brisk and thriving business
after having been deprived of Jonass services,
as before, he has further interest for the readers
of this narrative.
But Jonas not the youth to risk his all on
the power of 4 single boWstrng.
Mr. Jonas Albright who has studied for an office i?
dapoma last week. has resigned head bookkeeper
liable hs with the
goes same "a touch of correspondence school erudton)
I've PREDICT rapid rise for our talented Young towns
man in the mercantile and financial world
little item that Jonas himself carried to the office
of The Cleaner" that afternoon and sub
stantially the same manner it appeared i'll type on
Saturday morning. But that not the fault of
the correspondence school.
And it indicated further that. while Jonas
by nature poor speller, he was endowed with
can supply where Nature herself has failed, namely
tle,-and that at time when his horn needed
blowing he was not the one to let it lie silent for
lack of wind. The "responciable" job in James
Sawyers office which he got the strength of his
diploma, and of being local product, brought him
ten dollars week
river, which rapidly. growing to the dimensions
of an important manufacturing plant under the
shrewd management of its owner, practical wheel
wright, who had wide reputation for honest
pair work before he became a manufacturer.
Between Saturday, when The Cleaner" ap-
peared and Monday. when the Sawyer factory
to acquire his valuable services Jonas went around
in his best clothes receptive of congratulations As
the only youth in the village who had taken the
correspondence school, as the natives put it, he
felt entitled to distinction All Sunday he dis
COurSed.