Show SURVIVAL IL OF THE FITTEST continued from last week of duty ditty at a I 1 sili smaller aller stati station oll near the one just mentioned I 1 learned that there were sonic some farmers who were getting geta tin interested in ill bear river valley a I 1 went to tile st station and ami C called all on oil tile agent but lie ile was not lint in ill tel telester ested at all in ill tile the ill immigration ignition business in ill fad fact lie ile would not 1101 tall talk about it T found the farmers and ile persuaded r four of them to visit icar bear i river valley we arrived at the depot after the ticket office kofl ice was closed I 1 asked a 1 small boy where here I 1 could find tile the ticket agent agnit I 1 lie lc told me over in ill 1 a I cert certain aill pool room ac I 1 alie ile agent was the best pool pla player er in ill ton I 1 called at the pool room and told the ilic agent 1 I had four iwo HU ale 1 wished to buy tickets 10 lo salt lake city and return tit the agent told tile me lie did not care i 1 d if I 1 had a lit indred hundred men that lie 1 as I not hired to chase up ip farmers or todo to do business outside business houri telephoned rily my friends at it the next station to have hav C four tickets read ready for salt lake balc and re burn when nc c arrived during the alie five minutes while they were caiati changing ill C engines 11 the four tickets were purchased and we went on oil out way rejoicing the important pool player ap goit agent will 11 never eye r act get promoted and shii a change of positions colli comes cs which will sooner or later lie will AIM be offered a job tamping gravel ravel under mider a I 1 railroad tic or wiam wiping engines in ill the rouia house the alie man I 1 who ho is af afraid raid I 1 he lie ile will do 10 more than ilian lie iva was hired to do never lias has his salary raised anil and tile lie inin alio does docs not t ca earn rn his sak liv will never liever get a promotion or a raise raise ili in nac na wages c I 1 if f an agent merits the aoi good N will ill and promotions of the lie road lie is working for lie must please the lie people alio ho patronize it if an all a agent ent desires desire to pa ac the general public lie ile must be well informed kind and dobli obliging ing and always ready and ili willing to answer aai questions lo 10 be cai well posted is arv cry I 1 important I 1 know many ticket agents who can call tell you you abonce the fare front from their station to en every erv other station on oil their road also I 1 know the lie lime of arrival and departure p arture of all trains at important stations and tile the connections they hey nia make k e with other roads one of these men is worth five paper lumbers lers A paper tumbler fumbler i is s one who asked aliat the fare is fron frair lis his station in ait lat lal k city and it if no 3 qui con 1 at oden O Z 1 den will have to finger er over two or three timetables timetable and rate sheets and after keeping a crowd N waiting abtin for ten tell minutes minute s I 1 says lie will let them thein know after ti the e t train rain leaves nother i joe foe thou liast hast been becil faithful over ovel a few thins lings thin ti s I 1 will avill make thee ruler Z over many things lings ti 7 lible I 1 made trips t to 0 deniis 3 idallia and new york in ill january and june of that year and I 1 had begun 1 l to think that the only good ticket ind and passenger sell er a agents ants were acre in ill the west of chicago 0 I 1 a good nian man in ill Wilkes barre pa to help tile me I 1 asked my lily friend mr ir W V IJ 11 cap wal editor of the dallas pa pot io t i if f lie knew 0 of f such lich a mall N mr I 1 r 1 I 1 replied ep lied linked ked I 1 do io it i isar aar fred irace frace tile the lackawanna city ticket a agent pent lie ile i 1 always looking ill for trade is always ready and accommodating and knows kilow II 11 his business I 1 called on oil mr frace all and slated illy my wants this pleased him hilli for he saw aw adi a alicc to help the llie road lie was wai working for lie learned leartic it all lie he could about biear river valley and the rou route lle west of chicago he did not have hav e to took look up tip liis his own road or its insl ile immediate ninie diate western connections he knew when every j train left new york city cita and N when lien it art aniced ived at scranton bin ill waver ly alil elibra lint all and d tiffalo isufi alo dic 4 al also knew tile connections til they made with the ille michigan ia cc central for niagara falls all and k I 1 chicago mr fr fracci ace is not I 1 i paper tumbler fumbler it was nai a very lint day when I 1 called on oil hill a day th eliat it would have maile made almost alev any one olic alisa disagreeable mr frace hail biad sent ins ills aisi assistant tant out to look after a I 1 lady idy ind her let dati daughter olter alio were soils geini to chica chicado cl F over tile the I while IV in vat kat at his desk a poor old laly lady canic came into tile the office glicr hair was with the snows S of I 1 many aiani winters her back as is bent from llie many burdens it had biad bourne her hands hand were cre deformed by bv toil she NA was IS very pokily dressed and she carried carried i t bu bundle lidle she lobbied hobbled up tip to thi r laid her bundle on oil the lloa ajla willi a cracked and childish vice as asked ked what the fare iva was to 1 1 i e havell and liow how soon the t 11 r in 11 0 I 1 ald izo co mr A I 1 r frace quietly argost from ills his desk and went welt up tip tn kotlus tIlls iier poor old ohl lady and toll told her that 1 was va s on it the belill Le lill h valley road and ili the lie fare was about seventy cents alic asked hint where tile depot was mr frace went outside of tile the counter comit cr picked up tip lier bundle and assisted her to tile the sidewalk pointed in ill the direction of the valley depot and told lier she had letter so 0 thru tile the cobit hou house c park to avoid the street c ears ari and teams and that she had thirty ich ly minutes to catch her train mr frace canic back to his desk and went ent to work as thou ii hotl I 1 illila ing Z biad d 11 happened appen cd it is comins in ill col comaca 11 let itai men as I 1 mr fr irace lee that makes railroading 1 a I pleasure and life worth levins I 1 will wager VY a bear river valley farm farill that if that hat poor old lady had rl gone gone in ill the podunk or Suc suckerville kerville depots on oil tile jerkwater railroad and asked the swelled kid who manipulated the tickets there tile alic same question alic lie asked mr frace fracci lie would not have arisen front from his ell chair air 1 but would have illch babkin ili an 1 I am air it and nou ou are nit lone don oll t t know taint on oil our road so po over to the valley then lie I 1 have leaned called back in ill liis his chair put liis ills feet on oil tile the desk les k rolled 1 a I cj c arcite and wondered ll 11 when tile roz road ad would I 1 make hint 1 a l general croiter 1 1 passenger a ent |