The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-03-27
Bill Clerk S
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BY KENNETT HARRIS.

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pondepce course In civil engineering
announced the bill clerk.
"A very good idea, Johnny" said
the cashier approvingly. III ever We
extend our business. so as TO make IL
necessary to rent promises across the
alley, YOU could mako a plan for
bridge and save us the expense oil
hiring an outside man.
"If got that far along I wouldn't
he here said the bill clerk. I'D be
out West somewhere. building rail
roads and digging canals. drawing
down big salary and getting COM
Portable rGkc.off from the contractors
who furnish the material"
rs that it," querled the cashier.
II thought yon were actuated by
desire for knowledge. not lust for
| gold. 7 suppose YOU mean TO daily With
rhombolds and isoceles trlangles, and
here YOU arc figuring on filthy peli.
! But why not take course in paint
ing-or plumbing7 Why not learn
| how to engineer corner in some
staple2 II it's money You want.
should think that would be about as
! rcmuneratIvc as anything you could
tackle"
"a Fellow Can't Know Too Much"
II might take that on. too. said
| the bill clerk "A fellow can't know
too much
1T depends said the cashier Peo-
| 90 laf Of
through knowing too much both in
and out of the forestry service. l..
myself, was once tempted 10 total tho
sum oi human knowledge and trans
fer 1t TO my individual account, but
thought better OF it, and satisfied
myself With the ordinary attainments
o. continental courier. added to the
eimdition of the average college pres
iGent ] had a warning in the career
OF boyhood friend OF mine
How was that" asked the bill
clerk
He was too good. replied the
cashier.
"He was Il good deal of an athlete.
He could get pretty close to the rec
ords In most OF the stunts. He could
run and jump and throw the hammer
and swim and ride, and he knew hall
dozen languages and could play the
fiddle and the mandolin and sew
patch on a pair OF trousers, so You
couldn't find It without a maguifyins
glass. .f
'Hc knew forty-seycn different card
tricks and could make his scalp
move up and down and lead the ger
man He had read law and had a
pharmacists certificate. and he knew
more about landscape gardening than
the man who invented It,
He, Was Waiter in 4 Restaurant.
I'm not sure whether he knew
anything about civil engineering, bu,
suppose he did. He was certainly
and accomplished person.
What became OF him Querled the
hill clerk
"He was waiter in German
, restaurant the last ! saw of him. an
] swercd the cashier but | wouldn
wonder II he was chauifeuring some
body's motor car now and drawing 7
paltry hundred and fifty month and
board, which ] who had not greathl
advantages than he in the beginning
have climbed TO the giddy cminenc'
yen now behold.
4 1t certainly Is lQltys agreed th'
bill clerk. cyeing the cashiers stool
u should think the old man might
let you have a roll-top desk with you'
name on bronze plate To one side
OF II II pou asked him. II seems tC
4 mo. though, that you've bit OF more
knowledge than you can chew Will
4 comfort II YOU knew more abou
! your own business and less abou
\ other peoples you'd do fine"
I'M doing very nicely as 1t is. dc
\ cisred the cashier I'm not rcpinins
4 in tho least But Johnny, my son, yoS
don't seriously Imagine that you cai
learn civil engineering. do YOU? NO
4 seriously"
4 why not?o demanded the bill
clerk
4 IT'S tho civil part OF it that seems
4 TO me insurmountnble," said the cash
n ior. Il can imagine you acquiring
4 certain sympathetic dcXterity in tn
a management of a donkey engine, bu
a You would not do IL with any degre'
q OF suavlty or polish. No. urbnnity 1
not your strong point. Johnny"
Il You're another" said the bin cler
4 IT'S where / shine"