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Show : Boy's Cleverness Won Job. j "Boys often show moro originality! and good sense in going after a position i I ban their seniors," says a Toronto merchant. "I was verv much amused; the other day at a small boy who came ; i nround for a job. One of tho clerks had dropped a lot of sharp-pointed tacks into a drawer of brass screws, i and had given' up tho idea of taking i them out. ' "When the youngster turned up we1 thought we would try him by letting him sort the two articles. lie went at i it the sanio way the clerk had begun, , picking out the tacks with his fingers, and got the point of about everv third tack in the ball of his thumb. He had enough in about a minute, and he straightened up. Wo all began to smile, expecting him to give up tho job. "Instead of that he went over to the show case and pie iced out n horseshoe j magnet. Then he came back to lho box. In thirty seconds he had all lho tacks out and the screws were still iu the compartment. Ho knew that the , magnet would attract tho iron and not the brass, and in a jiffy he had accomplished accom-plished what we had been trying to do ( all morning. "Wo didn't really need a boy. but I this little fellow's smartness appealed to us and we engaged him at once." jlapgoods. I |