Show WV 71 V 4 quiet and the janitor reigned su preme in the big room on the board ol 01 trade where pandemonium bad had existed a tittle little while before graham swung back and forth before his desk in a side office in the hall below talk tall ing to a friend look here he waa was saying it if you knew grain as I 1 know it you wouldn t have been sold when I 1 was a boy you see there was an elevator in my town and I 1 hung around there till the proprietor had to give me a job from sheer des aeration pe ration the first thing I 1 knew there was a course in the agricultural col lege to be given to some one and I 1 thought I 1 would aspire to it well I 1 got it from the congressman of the district and went away with my sum mers mer s earnings in my pocket you see I 1 was making my way and p paying ying as I 1 went at least that Is 1 what I 1 expected to do there was to be a reunion of soldiers at another town and I 1 thought I 1 would surry up a bit before school and get to the en on camp ment where some one could do an odd job or two for the command ers the thing worked all right and I 1 counted out to put in the bank in the agricultural college town but one night every cent was stolen when I 1 got up in the morning I 1 slipped my fingers under the pillow where the purse should have been and nothing was there no matter bow how I 1 looked he wallet could not be found and at last I 1 went to the hotel keeper and told him of course he was sorry and said it he even ever heard of the money he would notify me I 1 was in a quandary I 1 suppose I 1 could have gone bad to the elevator man and told him my troubles I 1 had every reason to think he would have believed me but I 1 bad had a strong aversion to going back at all my J ticket had been bought to he college town and it too had disappeared with my pocketbook but the walking was good and I 1 rould could make it in a day so I 1 went my way in the course of 0 time I 1 came to the college ollege I 1 faced the pies president dent ident with my story we can set you to aik oik in the barns said the president can you sort gort graine could 19 it was vas my trade as it were I 1 sorted I 1 R ain aln leav ing the small I 1 ennels and picking out the big at the late of 12 2 cents an hour I 1 worked hard bard too fhe con bresman gr easman esman came once and stood watch ing me finally he filled his pockets with the packages of 0 wheat and III bet every one of the samples made 1 him a vote wheat gave out after a time and I 1 was given other grain to sort until t j vacation came and then I 1 was ilka like jf the boy who wanted to go to the cir cus and couldn coulden t I 1 wanted to go back to the town with the elevator but A didn dian t have money enough so I 1 went to the college president with my trou brou bles and as a result I 1 worl ed while others had a good time most all the students went home but I 1 well 1 I sorted beans and did other things throughout the christmas holidays t that Is the way I 1 got through school the next move I 1 made was to get an interest in the elevator and finally I 1 came to chicago as a grain expert after that I 1 started ah aft office here in the board of trade I 1 but all self made men will tell toll you much the same story the self made man turned to his desk with his letter opener for the mall mail carrier had come in and thrown k down a bundle of buy ciders |