The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-05

Il hear that BiIkins has been pro-
NOTED again." said the young man with
the partly colored meerschaum pipe.
HE must have plenty of brains to get
Along SO fast"
"Oh. I don't know" said the youth
who was Ianguidly smoking a cigar
cite "Bilkins always was lucky
chap"
But argued the young man with
the partly colored meerschaum pipe,
you surely won't attempt to explain
away all bis success as due to mere
luck According to the dope handed
out by our successful men, Ii takes more
than luck to succeed In business"
"Oh, forget it. All it takes is a com
bination Of luck and brass. went to
school with Bilkins and worked in the
same Office with him for q while. until
l got tired and quit because there was
no chance for advancement there, so /
ought TO know to what he owes his rise.
Even as far back as our kid school days
his luck was In good working or6er"
He had quite reputation as a stu
dent said the young man wi the
partly colored meerschaum pipe. Guess
thar wasn't due to luck huhY'
''There you go! He had a reputation
--os course he did. Our teacher was a
sentimental young woman with
strongly defined Partially for blondes,
and you know what light curly hair and
innocent blue eyes Bflkins has. We
hadn't been In the room n week before
she was clean gone on him. But that
wasn't all. Along with his pull with
the teacher. Bilkins was chocl, full Of
conceit and took every possible onpor-
tunity Of showing off,"
at was nervy OF him to try when he
did not know" commented the young
man with the partly colored meer-
schaum pipe.
"Well, / suppose you can call Ii that"
said the youth with the cigarette, but
/ should say 1t was just plain case of
luck and brass And the same COM
bination has been In good working or
der ever since he entered business.
From the first day he entered the Office
Of that electric company, little better
than an Office boy, he showed the same
brass that characterized him at school.
He made a perfect nuisance of himself.
When he wasn't busy with his own
work he was Fostering the clerks with
questions about their work and details
Of the Office that were 10 concern of
his"
Didn't the boss ever call him
DOWN."
"Oh. no. That's where his luck came
In. He hadn't been i'm the Office more
than three months before one of the
clerks quit and Bilkins was given the
Job"
$50 that's how he got his first post: 2
grunted the young man with the part
" colored meerschaum pipe.
"Yes.' continued the young man with
the cigarette "And II came near being
bis last, too. The work was hard and
Bilkins was pretty green at it, and II
II had not been for his pull with the
head clerk he would have been canned
In short order. The head clerk helped
forced to work like fun to keep up Will
the procession. When 1 came down II
the morning he was hard at 1t, ant
when I left in the evening he was still
working.
'sThe boss was so struck with Bilkins
industry that he appointed him private
secretary. What % you know abot'
that? Promoted to soft snap becaus'
he had to stay overtime to keep up witt
bis wOrkt =
"Huh!' grunted the young man witt
the partly colored meel-chaum pipe, a
he puffed out a cloud Of smoke. "
thought Bilkins had some ability. Any
body could get along with little o
his luck"
..Sure." assented the youth with tn
rigarptte. .sBillSins had cinch. -
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