| Show A VI C TIM OF ZEAL destructive ant an Pit of a ito to mod med gas ga Il motor leter industry b ings sure reward tile the poet or some 0 c 1 no e said but let us look into tile the in matter tte 1 r a little I 1 rill am a poor old dust LIS covered er 0 rusted and forgotten gas meter c it 08 is with difficulty that I 1 restrain several laro largo damp tears as I 1 remember the time tim e but it a few chort years ago when my dainty cubic feet first started on n lifes grand march filled up tip to the he brini brim with tile the glad cirl ambition of youth dutli I 1 had ad but awde one desire and tha was to work I 1 re realized alizee that chat I 1 had boon placed in ili a position of trust by 1 i poor but bon honest est corpor corporation aaion I 1 knew v that illy my standing with will my employers would depend upon the efforts I 1 put forth in their behalf the first dily day I 1 went cut to work I 1 re registered a SO vow to ever merit t the lie trust and coti confidence fidelice of my amplo employers or burst foil I 1 inmost registered six s ix hundred and forty oy eight feet of gas tile the S same me day the first passed by in a trifle 0 ocr cr four weeks my life durin during t that t time itile was that of a happy child who when night 1 lit spread her inky mantle over things I 1 sought repose but the morning suns stills first rays found me at work wilh wi th renewed vi vigor wor A the end of the month an all employee of the company came to obier observe ve tile the result of my IDY Il iiron lonOs s work As lie he anad a a note in a little juile book I 1 noticed smile of approval hit flit over liis his countenance antl and lie he pitted no mo affectionately it parting his few demonstrations of approbation i kindled tile the fire of high hiell resolve within my lily tin till covered broo breast list I 1 would toil on nor ever cease durin during t the silent watches of tile the night as well ns as durin during 0 tile the long sunny lays days I 1 would not even stop for a sandwich and now came the shadow of a great trouble the shadow was a large angry looking man mail he came to my iny side with wilh rapid stops steps and gazed fiercely at me in one hand hallil he hold held a printed pirce of paper which I 1 observed contained the result of my first mo months tillis work by some occult process I 1 then knew that that tha lf man would textually bo be the means of my destruction st I 1 trembled but that help the matter any at tiny any rate 1 I chou thought lit awill I 1 will do mv lily duly perchance fienco reader 1 I am tired of gentle englc readers you do not know ahat iv hat hard work is you may liars hav read of tho the man who lost both arois arms and afterwards erected a three story d with gas and bith aul ald I 1 a five minutes lutes wilk walk of the pos pis co ja anee to ell n anno anne b irn a lien hen house 1 ami d a barbed wiro fanco around the whole you are told that ho lid did all this with his feet and possibly with some little assi assistance stanco of his eyebrows eye brows but oven even all that would bo be play ca compared with the work I 1 lid did A gas meter never depends upon luck to boost it along in life it is fully aware that hard work is tile the only means by which it may adlain success you have never heard of a gas meter poking 11 9 around in a dark collar cellar with a sti stick c 11 or around the decay d stump of a tree and Un unearthing carthin a tomato can full of if three thousand thou saRd dollars in gold such fortune is not for the block and lowly but get gel there just the sama saine gas meter time passed on nix used by special permission bit still I 1 continued to make myself round shouldered for those I 1 loved have you ever hoard board it ru rumored eran va vaguely n bely that the fire cro of loyalty over ever burned sufficiently low in the breast of a gas rieter meter to allow it to betray tho the high biall trust jed it in it by its employers I 1 guess not wo ire are not built that way sever never once did I 1 alg agn two months passed away before my old friend with tile tho notebook note book and pencil appeared As he a approached tile me in a jaunty lighthearted light hearted manner softly humming old hundred in long meter I 1 wondered if my lily work would please him the moment h he a gazed upon my ingenuous countenance ho he started back in amazement slowly the expression of amazement gave dav way to one of mingled awe and admiration mi ration ilo ila reverently noted tho the progress I 1 had made in ili tho the two moll months ill and lid then left me three days later as tile the sun was softly sinking 1 to sleep in a downy bed of azure clouds and I 1 was resting ili from a hard days work I 1 hoard board I 1 rapid footsteps approaching me in a moment tho the largo bartro angry man ax horn honi I 1 had seen beta before 15 re stood confronting frontin nic me but the expression I 1 lind had before mistaken staken ni tor for acl anger was one of an angelic alic sweetness coli compared parc with th that at which BOW ow furrowed liis his lace I 1 felt that some ghastly glias lly dood deed was about to be performed glowered lie ho upon mo me but for one short Ino moment mont and then with frenzied y yell ell lie seized a gleaming nao alad showered blow after blow U upon pan me I 1 was rudely torn from my resting place and mutilated beyond recognition after the villian had vente d his hia rage rag 0 upon rne ille ho he turned and walked away muttering something to the effect cal act that lie he didel L pt pi to pay for sixty one thousand feet of as when tho the house had bad been vacated vacate d for two months and no one had used a any 11 V I 1 th then e n re realized a lazed tile the fearful mistake I 1 had made and this is the story of my lily ref reform orm those who knew tile mo when the charm symmetry maikel my form would not reco recognize nie me now an ali axe is not a good f thing to reform one with awl anil now the remainder of my lays days must be spent in regretting the untimely quietus put upon my illy operations sorrow deep penetrating riling wrinkle producing sorrow make philosophers of Us all the C calm a im desp despier q ir of a wasted life is upon tile me hope is 11 thing 1 oi of the past alas I 1 must ever eve remain remain a battered example of thu ihu disastrous results attending 7 intemperate zeal JY L wilson puck |
