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THE OREGON 7 SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON, JULY 2U 1907.
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Among Men who Work with Hand or Brain
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Men Toil in Roasting' Heat;
Steel Trades Pay Well.
By Edward M. Woolley.
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TEMPERATURE of 120 degrees li a
hot on In which to work. Ttk your
'thermometer and hold th bulb under
th hot water up In rour kitchen and
th chances ar that you will find th
temperature of the watar under 120 degrees
If It Is over that no Lett you won't want to keep
your hand In tb water mora than a momtnt.
Teu couldn't take a bath In anon hot watar
without a sensation of sever pa. la. It would
teem to you whan you rot Into the tub that
you wara being fatally scaldadt However,
tb " baatr " In a rolling mill works In rueh
tamparatort for eight consecutive houra
The trad of a haatar is a highly skill, en,
and pays higher wages than almost any other
trad, although thara ara many branches of
tha steel Industry In which high wagta pra
vall. "Best of All Trades," Sari Heater.
" Th eteei trade ere th beat of all calling
for a young man who wanta to laarn a trad,,"
ona worker aald. " Steal la In dmand
In thaaa daya Almoat everything wa
ua la eonneoted In aoraa way with ataal.
althar In Ua composition or In Ita making. Wa
llva In a ltl aga, and thareora tha manu
facture of ateel li aura to baoome a greater
and greater Industry, calling for mora and
mora (killed workera."
A beater In a rolling mill work. In the hlgh
eat temperature of all tha men In the pUnt.
It la bla duty to beat the Ingots of ateel to tha
proper condition for rolling Into rails, or
plates, or other ateel products, and his work
requires tba most exact knowledge. It takes
an ingot from an hour and a half to two houra
to reach the proper temperature, and during
thla time the heater must keep his eyes almost
continually on the masses of metal as they
lie In the " soaking pita." Tha moment for
removing tha lngota is judged altogether by
their appearanoe. The noTlee would aee no
chance whatever In tba glowing mass of
metal, but the heater reads tha story accu
rately In tha fire. His responsibility Is a
heavy one, too, for If he erra In Judgment the
whole batch of lngota Is spoiled. If the steel
la heated too much It will crack.
" How long does it taka a heater to laarn
Jils trade? " I Inquired.
" There la no apeclal tlma presoTroed," ha
answered. " It depends altogether on his
aptitude for the business and the opportunity
he hes to acquire his skill. Many man ad
vance rapidly In tha steel trades. It Is a spe
cialised Industry, and no man can acquire a
general knowledge of It Bach branch must
be intrusted to the men In that particular
branch. Even the superintendent must trust
the men under him, for he cannot beoome
skilled himself In all tha ramifications. For
example, ha never undertake to tell the heat
ers when the moment has come to remove the
lngota. All h aaya la: 'Are you ready?'
If not, he watta "
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Fails as Farmers Succeeds In Mill.
As an example of the opportunity presented
for advancement In the steel trade, Bach
pointed out a man who ha bewfl a farmer out
west and who had not been successful there,
lie had gone into the rolling mills a few years
ago as a laborer. Now he la a roller, drawing
a salary of $2,500 a year. Rollers are paid by
the year. They work twelve houra a day,
however.
I observed that Each waa a big, powerful
man, apparently In the prim of health, in
spite of the twenty-five year he hadi spent
In the steel mills, and I aaked him how ha
man a trod to stand tha work In auoh a high
temperature.
" A man grows accustomed to It," he said,
" and 6Vea not mlpd It. When I am out In the
heat of the sun on a hot summer day I find
that I grow dlsxy. but at my work I never
experience any apeclal Inconvenience. As
long as I am perspiring- freely I get alone
without any trouble."
"And your eyes?" I asked. "Isn't It al
moat blinding to ba looking steadMy at red
hot ateel for eight hours at a stretch?"
Opportunities for Practical Men.
"It has never bothered1 ma any," he said,
" but I am just beginning to feel the nee of
glasses for readiing at home. I am tfi yenrs
old, so I suppose I might need the glapses If I
were, not a heater."
" Would you advise a young man to taka
up a technical training first. " I asked, " or
to go Into a steel mill to learn the practical
part of It?"
Lazy Man Helps the Boss.
By George H. Ma.nlove.
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i IIJSON wa laty. Alto he was an
expert bookkeeper.
Usually laeineta is a detriment,
and the first loser la tha employer of
the laty man.
In this Instance th employer was the gain
er, for, with all tfls lalinast, Wilson did not
neglect hit work, but timpllfied It tn every
detail to save himself toll. Kit mind was
active in proportion to the Indolence of hla
body.
Hie employers noted the trend of hie work
with every change -in method, and, being
wise, they said nothing, satisfied if th result
was achieved, no matter what th means.
Wilson waa head bookkeeper for a manu
facturer of metal working machines, and the
plant was extensive, the bookkeeping being
equally so. When Wilson started out It
kept his nose close to the grindstone to keep
UP with the detail, but It made him tired.
He lay awake nights trying to figure out
" I 'would advise a combination of tha two.
I put my own ot Into the mills, and b la
taking a correspondence couraa at tha aam
time. Howtrver. the company 1 giving tb
practical mew better opportunities for ad
vancement than it did tan of fifteen, year
ago. At that tlma It became quit the fash
ion to take technical bred ateel men and put
them In tha mllle over tha practical men, but
the results were cot satisfactory. The com
pany found ytat the quality of the product
turned out deteriorated. Now tha company
Is Inclined to advance Ita practical men
wherever posslbla I do not mean to amy
that the educated ateel man la not better
equipped, than tha other, but he must have
tha practical knowledge, too. Then, of
course, he la In a position to earn a great
Oal more than tha mtr practical worker. "
A heaUr'e calling Is not a dangerous ona
nor la it physically laborious Powerful elec
trical machinery takes away tb bard toll,
and now only threa or four helper are re
quired to do the waik formerly don by
twelve or fifteen. Borne of the. lngota weigh
fir tons, but ara handted Ilk straws A
single ingot will be rolled Into five railroad
rails,
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UnsKilUd Men Do Heavy WorK.
Tb most dangerous part of a steelmaker's
work Ilea in th blast furnace aection. where
tha molten metal Is bandied. Here, explo
sions frequently occur, or tha liquid metal
runs over. A great part of the actually labo
rious and dangaroua work Is done by laborers
who never expect to rlsa In tha trade and
who are scarcely fitted, moreover, to be any
thing except laborers. Tha skilled workmen
belong to a diatlnctly Intelligent class, many
of them wltli excellent aducatlona. A com
mon school education la a good foundation
on which to lake up ateelmaklng. Th skilled
workers, as a rule, live at considerable dis
tance from the steel mills, In homea of their
own. Borne of these homes are quite proton
tloua for a worker.
The heaters work In three shifts, day and
night, alternating each week. Ona shift
goes on at fl o'olock In the morning and worka
until 2 in the afternoon. Then the next ahlft
takes up tte work and keeps the Ingot, hot
until JO at nlgiit. The third ahlft la on duty
" until 6 In tha morning. On Sundays the
''soaking pita" are usually Idle.
Ton wilt find only ra-rely a steel worker
who does not like his calling. There is a glare
and fascination about It that holds him In
the business. The tremendous machinery
and ceaselese activity inspire men with a
love for the work, and tha excellent wages
paid the skilled- worker make It an alluring
field. Bestdea, thara ara possibilities alto
gather, outside of tha labor aspect of the
calling Without doubt there ara many
men now at work In ateel mills who will be
millionaires twenty or thirty years from now.
They will become foremen, superintendents,
managers. anl stockholders, and hlatory will
be repeated.
"I have been lucky," Each told me, "and
have got along better than I ver expected."
Workers Splendid Type of Men.
As I looked at him I thought that there was
something else besides luck in his case. The
luck was not altogether on his side. The
steel company wns lucky, too, In being able
to secure men of his lype to do Its skilled
work. The company owed as much- of Its suc
cess to h'.ir. as he owed his success to the
company. There Is not a great deal of the
element of luck In a worker's life, although
there are cases, of course, where natural
aptitude and good health may be called luck.
Generally speaking, tha worker has his
career In his own hands. Olvfn the oppor
tunity, he can make Ms future, or kill It. He
can do a Each has done learn his trade and
make It part of his nature, or he can alight It.
The steelmaking tTades offer men the oppor
tunity, but no mere luck will cause them to
rise In It.
The steel workers afford an object lesson in
thoroughness and precision.
Trfiok at a heater as he is heating Ingots for
the rollers. Observe his eternal vigilance,
to prevent disaster to the company. Watch
him as his trained eyes keep guard overtithe
masses of Incandescent stool In the pits, and
then be your own jurtre about the luck of
the thin?. He Is paid high wagos because he
is worth it. and for no other reason. No care
less workman, no haphazard mechanic, could
last five minutes In such a position.
an easier way. and Boon It came to him.
APteri that It waa easy, and) before loog he
had the books down to an allspice, no extra
entries, everything simplified to a degree.
It gave him Ample time to be laiy, and his
employer said nothing, for the work waa
done as well as before and It cost leas for
supplies and books than before.
Quietly they had the methods copyrighted
for themselves. About that time Wilson
conceived the Idea that he was Indispensable
to the concern, and that was his undoing.
When he puffed up he was droppod. The
firm knew the books were so simple It. would
be easy to get some one else to keep them,
and so it proved, the successor having tie.
trouble from th start with th detail of the
ayttem.
So the laslnes not only was no harm to
Wilson's employer but It really made them
gain, In that they could hire a head book
keeper of less ability, and more energy for
less money and us Wilson's abort suts.
Where Death
Making Tunnels, Bridges, and Skyscrapers
Modem Industries Dangerous cvs War.
By Frank J. Sullivan.
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OT minions of dollart alone nor the kill
Of deeigmrt nor th cunnlr of crafts
men eater into the making of great
ctty. Bkyecraptra, bridges, and oaie-
son work must be purchased at a
heavy' lose of fcufnan Ufa.
Contracting nglnrs and builders say that
th human aacrlfle la Inevitable and report
how that every floor of a modern building
Of skyscraper magnitude haa cost a Ufe,
either In th forests where the timber la out
or In th caisson wells or in th steal and iron
work which. oautes mora deaths than any
other occupation followed by workmen.
Howarar, tha spirit of adventure walks
hand In hand with death, and while many
lives are lost that large buildings and bridges
may be built thar are escapes by workmen
engaged in- these haierdous callings that
would enhance tb fame of aotns of our best
novelists.
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Dantforeas Worl in Caissons.
Large bridges cause th death of marry
workman, Th ontra of Interest In the
Brooklyn bridge wars th caissons bugs
wooden boxes sank forty feet below the
water line to hold th foundations and in
the caisson disease or " the bends " oaused
and lees anxiety. Tb disease is all the more
dangaroua for as yet although thirty-seven
years have passed alno the big structure
was computed, physicians have not been
able to discover precisely what It la.
Men who work In caissons or tunnels under
compressed air are seised with violent
cramps, sever pains In the joint, and dis
slneas, and double up like jackknlvea, and
frequently paralysis and death follow. The
reports of th building of th Brooklyn
bridge show that there wer twenty-eight
cases of " th bfids." Thar wer between
tMrty and forty fatal accidents while the
towers and superstructures were building.
Rome of th esoapea, miraculous as they
seemed to b. wr not without their sug
gestions of humor. On workman fell from
the Manhattan anchorage eighty feet to the
ground and lived to tell tha tale. Anothrr
workman plunged Into one of the well holes
'.n the Brooklyn tower. At the bottom, 104
feet below, was a pool of wsttr with en
empty cement barrel floating around In It.
The falling workman landed on the barrel,
rolled off Into lbs water, and was Injarotriy
lightly.
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Greatest Cart Proves Useless.
Despite every precaution and the advance
In medical science, mors than one-half of
th deaths In the tunnels last year were due
to caisson disease. Elaborate precautions
Everybody HasTime to Read;
Use Time You
By S. H.
I
'M TOO busy to read much."
How of tn do w hear this! Ask al
most any man or woman whether he
or ahe has read something, and th
reply com-ei as if stereotyped.
And j et, even In the busiest llfe-ln, thsbunj
est city In the world, thersis time and toapar
for reading. Every parson has Urns to read
and study. Every person haa plenty of time
to read everything that Is worth reading that
is written If only he will discover the time.
City workera, even those who declare them
selves "too busy to read," have almost as
much time for reading as their fellow In th
country.
Ths truth is that th person who lives on
a farm or In a email town 1 better posted
on current events, reads mors and better lit
erature, and devours more books, magazine,
ar.d1 newspapers than his fellows In the1 city.
Tho Idea, of " being- too busy to read " Is
a fallacy. Tho differenca In rending Is dus
!a.rjre!y to imagination. Th city man Im
agines himself busy. Tho truth Is that he
wastes his time.
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Country People Read More.
The average farmer, who starta work at
5:30 a. m. and ends b day's labors at 0:4f
manages to read for an hour In th evening
before retiring. Perhaps bs seana ths week
ly paper during the noon hour, and In th
evening, when the chorea ar dons, th stock
fed. the supper eaten, hs aits down aod raads
for an hour. The average resident of a small
town or city puts In an hour or two over his
paper, his magaxine, or hla book bsfor re
tiring. He has no ttme to read during the
morning houra, he haa no time at noon, and
his evenings are curtailed through the neces
sity of early rising.
Tha average city man rises at 7 o'clock and
reache hit work at 7:45. He la an, hour, al
ThinKs While
Saves Money
By Allan
T
HERE once was a man who did not do
.thing. He wa running a certain sec
tion of a certain large firm's buslneea,
and people began to talk of h-lm.
"What's ths matter with that fel
low?" said they. " Do you rnotioe how he
does nothing? All he does ell day Is noth
ing, or, oot much, at all events. How does he
manage to hang on?"
The other fellow made reply to the effect
that " He doea not hajig on. He's anchored
here. If h wasn't, he'd be let out. But he'll
never get any further up. Watch him."
And everybody watched.
Many Eager to Fight in Court
One day this certain firm happened to have
a certain something on its hands that stirred
everybody up. It waa a big contract and
there waa someUiing wrong with the word
ing, so the firm had to win a big lawwuit or
lose a lot of money. And all the people in the
firm, everybody whcydld things, began to run
around and eay: " What are we going to
doT What are we going-to do?"
And the man who did not do things sat ait
his desk and smoked.
Finally everybody had turned In their eus
geetlone and the firm waa going to begin to
fight tb- ease, for -cons of tha-araggestlocs
TaKes Its Toll.
are taken to guard agetnet th disease.
When a proapsctiv " sand hoc " eppllee for
work hs goes through a rigid physloal exam
ination, especially of the heart, rungs, kid
ney, and bronchial tubas. Than h la n
several time Into th compressed air Cham
ber for an hour at a tlma, and th affeot of
the pressur la noted. If there ar no III
effects he may go to work.
The calason workers ar warned against
using too much liquor and tobaeoo. Coffee
Is one of the malnstayu, and every tunnel haa
Its coffee machine, with plenty of the bever
age alwaya on tap Rigid rules ara enforced
to prevent the men coming out of the air lock
into the open air too quickly. In each work
ing compartment there la a medical air lock,
a boiler like chamber fitted out with oots.
where men suffering from th "benda " ar
treatsd while under th pressure of com
pressed air. With all these precaution, HI
Impossible to prevent tha " bends " claiming
Its victims,
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Iron Werleri Injured Dally.
The structural Iron workers' profession al
most in as full of danger as is th caisson
workers'. Working at dlaay heights above
th noisy ctty street, treading on trestles
only a foot wide In high winds. It takes a
man with an extraordinary amount of cour
age to do th work. Hardly a skyscraper I
built but some structural Iron worker meet
hli death from falling. It 1 said that th
mortality In tn rseiks of th workers of
structural building I two a day and tb In
juries five a day.
Some of the men hare miraculous escapee,
but thoie that do escape with their live sel
dom are able to go back to their work, the
awful nervous strain lsavlng them In a con
dition from which they never recover. Like
the caisson workers they must b in the. best
of physical condition, for, although tha first
named works deep below th surface, ths
iron worker plies his trade near the clouds,
and a moment of dlizlness would mean de
struction. Majiy of the men who frillow tMe line of
labor are formeT sailors, and nearly as sure
footed as mountain burros, but a slight hesi
tancy while walking on a beam sometimes
may hurl th worker to bis death, and sel
dom a week goes by that tho death fund of the
labor orKanlzaitlon Is not called upon to help
the widow and children of aom unfortunate
worker.
11 ut the work must b don, and soms one
must do It, and until safer methods are
thought of death's harvest will not decrease
among th caisson men, bridge builders, and
structural Iron worker.
Ride on Cars.
Hughes.
most, behind his fetlows of th small town
and tha farm.
Eut the city man haa ample opportunities,
which for the most part are neglected, of
reading. In big cities it takes an average of
forty-five minutes for workers to read) their
placea of employment from their hemes.
This time could bs employed In reading the
morning papers. The man who Uvea at all
far out can read and study his morning
paper, keep up with current events and po
litical happenings. Yet four out of five
workers waste this time In staring out of
the car wlndowa at the backs of flats.
Read on the Cars.
In the evening hours workers spend an av
erage of forty-five minutes In getting home
from their places of buslnaes. If they would
read and study on street cars and suburban
trains they would kep pace with current
literature at leant.
The average, man spends over sn hour on
street cars and trains every day In the year.
If he utilized this time only he would have
time to read almoat everything worth read
ing that Is printed, and that without reok-
onlng on the hour or more at home In the
evening.
The city dweller wastes his time and neg
and nog-
while the
or in the
lects his opportunities for reading
person who lives In a small city
country uses his available time.
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City Man Wastes Time.
The " country cousin " works longer hours
than the city man and yet finds more tlm
to read. The city man, with shorter hoars
of work, wastes his leisure time.
The cry, " I haven't time to read " merely
Indicates that the city man does not know
how to utilise his leisure time.
Many WorK;
for the Firm.
Wilson.
suggested anything else. And then the man
who did not do filings spoke.
Man Who ThinKs Solves Problem.
" Suppose I go over and see the other firm
and try to frame up a compromise," aald he.
" We'll both lose money If it goes Into the
courts. They'll lose; we'll lose. Suppose w
see if we can't make them see It la the same
llTht."
The head of the firm threw up hla hands
and collapsed.
" Oood heavens," he gasped, "why didn't
somebody think of that before?"
And the meji who did thing, made reply:
" We've been too busy planning the fight to
have time to think about It."
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Stops WorK to ThlnS.
And the head turned to the one man and
said: " How In the name of all that la profit
able did you happen to have such an inspira
tion?" ' And tha man laughed.
" That's no Inspiration,' he said. " that's
common tens. I simply have eat back here
not dolrgj thln;--thlnklnt. And I know we
can square It up."
And they did.
Moral: Don't do things sJl the Urn. , Think
Uttla.
High Finance for Vacation;
Plan to Reduce Expenses.
By Hollis W. Field.
H
OW to go on a fishing or outing ex
cursion of any kind and maks your
friend pay most of th expenses of the
trip with all the wltllngnee tn th
world!
Doesn't thla strike yon as a dsMghtful UtU
plan for combining pleasure and some really
high flnanc in a small way? If It do, th
whole scheme Is simplicity In Itself. The only
possible drawback to th plan la that at th
start you must arrange to be a good deal
mora "flush " than your friend la, making
sure, naturally, that ho still has enough cash
to pay hi own axpsnsse and most of your
Tou must get your " roll " together, (ben,
as th first precast! on, and make sure that It
overlaps your frlsnd'e at least two lacgthe,
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lager to Spend Cask Part of Plan.
It It human eaters that, starting on sochi
an ourlng, a man Is Mrht heart sol atul lib
eral and sfithustsstlc. But It also is hwmaa
nstur Vhnt ths ma with Oi btggvst roll
should be all th mors eager to part w4tt It
readily.
" O, that's sM right, Artts; we'll sojuarstip
evenly when ws get back. Tou keep track
of whet you spend and 111 keep track of my
eTpenwe,. and ws'li split 1t up later. I'd Just
like Do ret rid of soma of this stuff."
Thn, as a starter, you buy the railroad!
tlcketa for two and! reasrvs tb steeper berths,
ar.d In cas you sat tn ths cVfaner that nlgt be
sure to pay for ths meals for the two.
Just to let Artie feel comfortable end! un
suspecting you might let bin, pay tha car
fare to the station, or possibly buy ths drinks
for tlie two as you leave the office.
But you regisDer at ths hotel for the wo
ar.d In every way possible show Artie that
you are the capitalist of tba trip. In a few
hour, he wfll be smiling lnduhyently on you.
" Jove!" he say t to himself. " It's wonder
ful how Bill wakens up to a little outine Til
juat hirmpr htm if hs Hkas!"
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Contest to Show Good Fellowship.
When Artie has aald thla, tettllng back
comfortably to enjoy himself to ths full, you
have TOUR outing charges about as good as
paid. Tou have given Artie to understand
that a little money Is a eort of burden any
how as between friends; he hat warmed to
you Immensely more than he ever had
thought of dblng before. When the ttme
c ornes he's going to show you that while you
have more cash than ha has you can't beat
him out on liberality and good fellowship.
This feeling will hav grown upon him until
at the end of a day or a weak, as th cat may
be. he's anxloua to get dons with ths final
sottlement and have all mere MONET dif
ference over with Just as soon as possible.
The length of the trip and the distance yom
travel there and back Is something; whloh
must be considered In any reducing of ths
plan to fit th financial schem. For th pur
pose of this article, however, w will con
sider a trip of two days to the lakes, 1B0
miles away, with tha ordinary "trimmings"
for tuch a trip.
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Expenditures Itemized for Settlement.
On this basla, when you ar on your way
back horn In th train, your eccounte
should stand about In this proportion:
Railroad far for two, round trip... S14.0
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JLsf UCj J
in Trade Race, Fails;
Success in Politics.
By A. S. Hamilton.
Wins
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NCE epon a time I worked for a fine
fellow who owned a ahoe store. He
always referred to himself aa a shoe
man, but the facts of the case were
that he simply owned a shoe store he
was not a shoeman.
One day a young fellow came Into the store
lb answer to an ad asking for a ahoe sales
man. The boss liked his looks. He asked
Dim, finally, how mnch pay he wanted. He
aald $15 would do to start. " To start" said
the boas. " why, I don't makeover $20 a week
myself I"
" It that so," said the young man, " and
you own the store?"
" Tea," said the'boss, " that is so. and I do
own the atore."
" Well," said the young man, " In that case,
why don't you sell out the business and give
some good man a show." lint the young man.
didn't wait for an answer.
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Time for Everything Except Business.
However, the question he asked the boss
was the question the boss should nave been
asking himaelf. Tou remember that old ad
about the cijrarets. " Ef smokln' Kneebob
clgarets interferes with your bliuix, quit the
blanis." I want to amend that to read: " If
your business does not agree with your abil
ities, get into a business that does."
This Mr. Not-a-shoeman was a brilliant
man in many ways, but he didn't have, aa
much trade as an easy going competitor of
his. He Couldn't see what the reason waa, -and
neither could I till that smart aleck'told
him he ought to sell out and give a good man:
a chance. The trouble wa be waa not a
ahoeman, but he thought he was.. , V f'
He wae a nice dresser, went trfcftureh with
hie wife, could make a good talk almoat any
time on almost anything, knew the dates of
history from the time Adam choked on the
apple. But he never knew that a certain,
style of shoe was in style till Just as it wae
IBTr rM.rrsMsM
Dining ear ul tt te wetter.
rallmtn porter .
Hotel, two aT
Inolsaotals
ate
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a so
1 so
TWsl X3O.00
A against this you win hav allowed
Artie to spend enough not to sxelts his un
belief in the possibilities of the figures wtien
he Insists that ha la going to settle with
you at once, ths moment you ar seated tn
the train on ths way horns. Let him hav
an aocount about like this:
aivttb7s mat rz kid a-xriiMi rmesej.
Ob to Metieo aa4 drinks $ 1 SB
Boa to botes.. . ...... 100
Par of boat puihe, two 4 re-- SOO
Bot, bJC aiwwifnlUo -m .. , - , SB
laetosoUls .10
Bertha anO porter, retars trie... S.M
Bntktmml In 4lc.r and Ctp.. .......... S.M
Otb Sure frvm HUn. LOS
Tetal fig 00
Out of your mutual contra ulatfcms en what
a bully tlm you both have bad those two
days. Artie It going to break I a suddenly with
his determination to square everything' up
right then and there. He will even erttcipst
th meal next morning and th cab fare from
the station to ths office in ths city.
Now," ha say after ths two of yon bar,
settled back In th smoking oompartmsnt of
ths sleeper, " left get this money business off
our hands."
If you think there's any doubt ahotct his
sincerity in th matter of pushing It to a
finish, Just say, " O. what axe you In such a
hurry for; let It go letltgo; anyoldltlma'wU
do ME"
Artie will be footing- figures to beat the
band In ten seconda. As we see, you will have
spent 30 on tb partnership trip and ha will
have spent Just fid.
o o
Bringing" Plan to Climax.
" Say, you've been doing th whole thine
I'm no pauper. I want to close this thins;
right up. Let's see you've spent S80 and Tv
spent Sift sixteen from thirty Is six from
ten Is four one from two is one 114. Four
teen dollars bars you got change for a
twenty? GH'me $6 and ws'rs even."
We are anticipating, of course, that Artie
isn't an expert accountant, bookkeeper, or
anything Ilk that. Tou'd be foolish to at
tempt it with sch a man. Jssrt so Artts I
" good at arithmetic " is enough hTJ do the
rest. Tou give him his 13 change, tak his
$30 bill and you hays had: a mighty cheap
tftp. all considered.
For, sjsa matbar of fact Artie owea yon errfy
7 1 Th ousands of fellows on suoh a psstner
shlp trip hav been settling: for years on th
$14 basis, but they have been dead easy.
It looka to Art! a k h owes yea th
dlfferenc between what you have spent and
what he has spent. But when he hands you
ths $14 difference he has spent th $30 while
you, getting $14 back, are out only ths $16
that Artie has spent I
If finally you decide to play square with
Artie or 1f Artie should catch on, which.
Isn't : ;ely you find what Artie really does
owe by subtracting ,bls expenditures from
youra, dividing- th difference by two, and
collecting ths quotient, only.
It's easy, when Artie seeafcowtfedon.
going out. Then he found: out about It sad
den ly, and would order a year's supply.
Just about the time he got them in, his com
petitor across the street would be putting in
something six months to a year later In style,
and having a big closing out sale on all he
hai left like my bote, Mr. Not-a-ehoeman
waa Juat getting in.
Competitor Always in Lead.
Next week he would fill his window with
the new things, and! about the only custom
er we would tee would be men hurrying to
catch a train who would stop long enough to
buy a pair of shoestrings or a box of polish.
When raxor toes came into stylo ha didn't
put them In said) they wouMn'r sell. A year
went by and they kept Kn!t:R more pointed,
and- etlll he dldta't put :he-m in. finally he
stocked them heavily. In all. kinds and all
prices, Juat thecaon whtn the public got
tired of them, and that srason Mr Com-
petitor across the street bought th new
coin toes Instead and hxid a big reduction
tale on what he hd kft of the " razzera"
Quits Business,- Success in Politics.
Mr. Not-a-shoeman held on to his a. tittle ,,
longer, but sales were slow, and In the "print;
following he sold out all he could of those
raeor toe at $2, then at $1.80, and finally a "A
98 oenta. He lost a lot of money and X could '
see that le was sore at th aho business. -Hla
competitor was ajtittle worried about his
: being in ths butlWiSk teo, at ht.waa iways4
making tome mistake la buying that meant
i a lot of good shoes on the market at leas then,'
cost So be started a movement to nominate J? ,
Mr. Not-e-shoemaa for state eenator. Th
idea found plenty of friend and he was nom
lnated and elected and sold blsr Shoe tror.
:NoW be refers to t days 'when he was In
ehos business and doesn't t :', z wbnt
P'allur be waa as a ghoema n. I;t !. mits
good state eenator.
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