The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-02-27
THE JAIL BIRD BOSS

show what he was made az Many
other ]. Rs have made similar re-
solves. After he got out most every
body gave him the Icy Mitt. but finally
he Accepted a Position Cor, as some
might say. Found a Job In Factory.
lie started IN at 81 week, working
with the boys. for jail birds cannot az
ford 10 be either fastidlous or hnicky
They have 20 take whatever offers.
SO the j. D. started TO work.
Now. In every shop or store there
Is always some one-man, boy or girl
who knows where Things are.
III you set ten girls at work In
room, you VIII find by the third day
that nine OF those girls are asking the
tenth girl these questions:
IL this all right?
Where is the thread7
What shall do next?
And the tenth girl tells the others
whether the work Is right and where
TO find things and what they had better
do next. In one week this tenth girl
viii be on hand a little earlier In the
morning in order 20 lay out the work
for the day. and at night she viii stay
a little later In order TO put things
away.
And she will show I'm various ways
that she thinks OF the work outside OF
working hours-between the time she
goes home az night and the time she
returns In the morning
OF course the quihbler will here In
terpose an objection 10 the effect that
the probabilities are that the ten girls
will be equally stupid and one and all
be absolutely llstiess unless inspired
by fear OF the Blue Envelope or the
coming footsteps OF the Boss. think,
however, that the objection need not
be seriously considered, for the fact Is
that at least one person out of ten is
not only loyal. but has goodly grain
OF executive ability that can be cultl-
waited through exercise. Responsible
ties gravitate TO the person who can
shoulder them, and power flows TO the
man who knows how.
And II so happened that before the
]. II. was In that factory n month the
boys were going 20 him, asking him
where things were. When they ran out
OF one kind OF work they would ask
him what they should do next. And
he. knowing the sequence OF the work,
would advise them.
Now, there be employers who are
Proud and overbearing. but Others
there be who have Common Sense
And II so happened that the man who
owned the factory where the ]. b
worked had a modicum OF Common
Sense. Seeing that the j. Il. knew
where things were and what should
be done next and that the ]. II. pu'
the work away at night and got II out
in the morning and planned things a.
home and picked things up instead o.
walking over them or kicking then
aside. why. the Boss encouraged thu
]. Il. and Raised his Wages.
so the j. Il. evolved into a Righ
Hand Man and in time came TO know
n deal more about the details or TN
business than the Boss and ] believ
eventually married the daughter OF tn
Boss. inherited his money and becam
sole owner OF the Factory, but Q
these things l am not certain, so d
not record them. But the little Inc
dent I am about 10 record really haI
pened One day the Boss saw tw
girls who worked In the factory con
ing IN with basket OF Wild clematii
These girls proceeded TO festoon IN
pillars Of the big room with the beal
tiful plant "who told you TO q
thatr' demanded the Boss.
"why. Mr.. So-and-so." said the eirl
referring 10 the ]. =.
'Did you send those girls away du
ing working hours after weedsF asl
cd the Boss shortly after ~ the J. u.
Certainly" was the answer "fo
see. | noticed those particular CIR
seemed very white aud not very stron
and sort 81 nervous and worn-the
say they have thiafs tough az home
and lust thouoht ! would try to II
prove their complc.lons ard spirits
giving them run ont IN the su
shine"
"ohol You thought they were sc
ting Prison Pailor did you!'
"Yes. you guessed II. | was thinkii
OF Prison Pallor"
"And SO contrived an excuse to SCI
the girls on n two mile walk out aero
the neldsY'
Eyes"
HAD Prison Pallor yourself, ehT
Eyes"
used TO look into a pocket MIR
and thought II was a Ghostr
Possibly"
Never saw the blue sky exec
through grating or when walki
iockstep across stone paved cou
wayT"
"You have Il"
"well, look here. J. b.; don't sta
around here keeping me from work.
wish e Lord I could fnd a few m'
]. BIS 10 help run this shebang. Al
say. make little list OF the pale, ne
Gus, yellow and scared girls and 90
them out by turn for clematis when