Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-31


 pile of letters he held.
 "Chn," he exclaimed You hcre?"
 The other, a youth Of 1S. stood si-
 lently before him. one hand still on
 the knob of the door His lips trem.
 bled and tears shone in his eyes
 They were brothers
 I'm discharged" |" sobbed the youth
 sinking into a chair, crossing his arms
 on the stenographer's slide and sob
 bing like a child The expression in
 the deep gray eyes Of the man at the desk grew tender, and he gently
 placed his arm over the shaking shoulders of the younger brother.
 Come, he said. Tell me about it."
 There's not much 10 tell. sobbed the other. My first month would have been up tomorrow, and I-" His sObs interrupted him. Alter a time he continued.
 Tt was like this. There was man that kept calling around, and the boss got tired Of his coming. and told me to tell him the next time he came that he was out I can't lie. Bob, ] could. m be liar; so when the man drop ped in next time. ] just said the boss couldn't see him. When he asked me why, | stammered out something. and then he walked right into the inner of. i flee unannounced
 The boss blew me sky high when ne got at me after the man had gone, and l told him straight out why I had. n told the lie-because ] couldn't. He got Ted in the face and told me that fool knew more about business than ! ! did, and that a fool would make a be-. l ter business man, and then l lost grip I on myself and said a fool would were i the fool liar
 With that he flew up and said heI wasn't used to being called a liar by a | sniyeling little upstart, fresh from Sun day school, and sent for the bookkeep- CT and paid me off and"
 The man reached into lower draw. CT in his desk, selected a cigar. lighted it. and sat for some moments in si fence. watching the rings of smoke drift up towards the ceiling.
 We'll he said finally, you did strike hard TOW of stumps for a be glnner. He laid his cigar down and leaned back in the great leather chair
 Your beginning and mine were pretty different. l wasn't loaded down with morals when ! started in, but acquired them with old age. I'll never forget my first job. l knew just about as much about work as you do about dis. honesty. was good and green from college, and college can give a man about as thick a coat of yerdancy as any place.I know Of, anyway. if he ex. pects 10 rub up against the mone5 prop.
 My idea of getting a job was to have plenty Of letters Of recommenda- ton, SO got enough 10 bury me. The faculty gave me one. our family doc. tor and all Of my fathers friends II found that they were about as easy to catch as the measles, and nearly as useful You can no more tell a mans character by the letters he presents y'ou than you can tell the character D. a cheap restaurant by the menu chalked up on the board in front.
 Well, when I found there was a va cancy in the office Of a concern thai my father had had some dealings with went to apply l trembled as sa. there in the private office and began 10 realize that it's not as easy as IL looks tS dinkey 9 man into giving yod he place. The man was self made. with the brand yelling at You. wasi supposed to be a stenographer. as { had taken correspondence course minus the study
 There's no better way to learn s than to take one of these ! courses if you'll buckle down and ( make good, but I wasn't that kind. ! lad the theory down Co a fine edge put had TO more practice than ar I ,isht months lawyer. a T was sitting across the desk from S he man about like you are now, and h he questions he put to me would ! nake a civil service examination look t imple. I answered as best l could, O md what ! didn't know I guessed at n md l don't believe he knew the differ. nee. l informed him what a great V hing 2 was, and how I'd mastered the t urves and tiny circles quicker than q ny man on record. l told him of the C mooth flowing hand ] wrote, and how L was this and wasn't that. and would 't be the other, but E He began to be impressed, and q old me the salary was small to begin I nth. but at this I just shrugged my O hOulders and told him the salary was h othing to me; ] just wanted to show I i'm what l could do. He said that 7as the proper kind of talk for him, - nd that he would expect great things V rom me. Then ] knew J had hooked r.