The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-30
The Assistant
 .BOOkkeeper
 - st4L,G GSslIB er# How EdgertOn Got His a1 & Start. Faa
By THOMAS R. DEAN

no mOGnef, DFOtneE or ,hAsteIfi anu AS had noe a hundred dollars in the world. His father told him on his deathbed that he would find ina stocking in the chimney some money that no one but the two of them knew was there. Aft CT the father's death Jimmie found enough to pay his fathers funeral ex- penses and leave a small balance.
 Realizing that he must go to work, the boy went about seeking a posi- tion. He was a delicate looking youth, his features being finely moldsd. EV- anywhere he was told that he was not rugged enough to do hard work, and he noticed that all the positions that did not require bodily strength were given to girls. He kept up hiS hunt for week, then gave 1t up-that is, he gave up trying to get a job un- der his own identity,
 He was not a boy to be discouraged. and if be couldn't make a living In one way he determined to try another. If the only positions for which he was fitted wers given to girls. why not make a girl of himself and get a job as such? He spent the remainder Of what he had found in the stocking in such woman's apparel as he needed and started out again on hls search.
 Jimmie made up as a very pretty girl. He possessed a pair of mild blue eyes, a sensitive mouth, and, his light hair being cut like a mans, he used curling iron to make it waVy. His voice was naturally soft and readily mistaken for girls contralto. He was Of medium height and for boy was very well shaped. One VI ho had not seen him in boys dress would sure ly believe him, to be 8 girl. ,-r- ~.
 Arrayed as a member of the gentler sex, Jimmie, under tue name of Ellen Forsythe. started again on his errand. This time he met with better success A storekeeper, Henry Perkins, was keeping his own books and getting tired of working nights on them. He hired Jimmie to make such entries as would facilitate the work on his books, intending to teach him the principles of double entry. The salary was small, but enough to pay for his keep.
 The only barrier to Jimmie's getting on in his position was that he made too pretty girl. Perkins, who was a bachelor twenty-seve1 years old, em- ployed saleswoman. Sara CaTtright, few years younger than himself Miss Cartright had set her cap for her employer and was much disgruntled when he took into his service the pret- ry assistant, ..-.,
 It was not long before Jimmie found himself between two fires. Perkins be- gan to show him little attentions and to express a fear that he was working too hard. Every attention, every bit of solicltude her employer expressed for the assistant .bOokkeeper was to the saleswoman like <. red rag waved be- fore a mad, bull Then, too. the per formances of a man who supposed his employee 10 be T woman were not only disagreeable to Jimmie. but must re- suit. sooner UT later. In revelation of his sex and a consequent probable loss of his position. ...L
 Miss Cartright made herself especial ly disagreeable to the supposed Ellen Forsythe. If Jimmie made a mistake in an account Mss ,Cartright would make as much of 1t as there was in 1t and as much more as she dared. Per kins would mildly reproVe Jimmie and do what he could to pacify Sara, but be dared not openly defend his book keeper why. no one knew, though 1t was surlnised that. since he had been devoted to Miss Cartright before Jim- mics appearance. he might have been tUo seriously involved with her to shake her of a,f .a.. ...I
 Whenever Perkins would show a dis position to make love to Jimmie the boy. would do what he could to ,stave him of. This only. added zest to Per kins' passion. At last he became SC marked ill his attentions that he brought abom a rebellion on the par' Or Miss Outright, -T. s..-t
 One day Perkins appeared to be much ,disgruntIed, Miss Cartright ap peared 10 be much disturbed, and ar atmosphere preceding storm pervad ed the store. The same evening. when Jimmie was working on the books Perkins came into the store and after few commonplace remarks said:
 Ellen. Miss Cartright has insisted upon my diseharging you" zj -s.ss
 "lndeed!" .--='.,..-. "
 "Yes; she says that either you or she must go."
 Why not send her or instead o1 me-" E 1"
 its a delicate matter to talk about hut if youn promise to, keep the se cret I'll tell you" 5G 20 .
 "l promise"
 Before you came here ] was fool
 .h e.Rugh to. make love to her. she'i jealous of you" a9Es =y.
 What can she do to harm your
 She's got letter from me makinl a proposal. If send her away shei ruin me 5..- -s- sa+ ee
 How?
 "Oh, there are lots of ways a wo man can rnin a man if she chooses t' | -R1l