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Show HARD LUCK STORIES. Various Reasons Assigned by Persons Who Lost Their Jobs. (Chicago Tribune.) People are still losing . their jobs-scores jobs-scores ; of them. The confessions of the canned continue con-tinue to pour in upon the Lost Jobs editor, revealing the sad fact that in the midst of salaiT days we are likely to hav our pegs driven in, leaving us nowhere to hang our coats; that the $14 per is hard to get and harder to keep getting. The following reasons are assigned' this week for discharges: Drunks 4 Swelled heads ..3 Loafers 5 Boss inconsiderate v Refused to wed boss' sister (old..." i Boss in love with her boss' brother' fired her . 1 Got employers' wives mixed ui..... I Other superintendents combined against him 1 Firm docked him for its own blunder... 1 Treated rich boys same as poor boys..l Found S20. save it to thf n-rone- 1oks 1 Money stolen refused to make good.. I Refused to let boss make love to her 1 Lawyer who opposed him demanded discharge 1 Spooned with girl guests of hotel 1 Broke his arm 1 Took day off, one boss permitting, one not 1 Rival preacher too liberal 1 i Too old 3 i Rival teacher had church pull 1 Pants didn't fit 1 Reached limit of advancement 1 Hitched horses wrong 1 Boss' son employed college friends. ...1 Boss hated old maids refused to be called Mrs 1 Knockers r 4 Set fire to shop 1 Boss a crank 1 Fox terrier puppy .1 .Exposed boss son as .thief ....1 Ousted "by machines..' 2 The prize"of the week is awarded to Vt. H. with full sympathy. His" hard luck story is a wonder. He lost tjbb, wife, baby, home, spent time inj-jaj!, and lost his reputation, all on account of a pup. Ilia story is as follows: ' "I lost my position on acocunt of a fox terrier puppy dog. I had a good job as oiler in the engine room of a gas works. The engines ran night and I day and the year around. One month j I worked days and the following- month nights. I was married, had a good wifej and a baby girl, 2 years and 9 months i old. A fat hot-tempered Dutchman, ran a milk depot half a block from whepe I lived. He had no children, but t w as exceedingly fond of them, to my sor. row. He did have a tine fox terrier with four puppies, just weaned. ( "I was working nights. This was Monday morning. I had my breakfast and started with the baby to get the day's groceries. The baby and I were passing the-milkman, and he asked the baby if she wanted a puppy dog, and of course the baby was only too anxious. We left the milkman's and proceeded on our way. Before we reached the store I was forced to take the dog from the child in order lo save its life, as the baby had a strangle hold on it. "I saw then that the child was too young to have such a young dog, and the dog was too young to have such a young mistress. The jgTocer noticed the puppy which I held in my arms, and ; offered me $2 for him, which I accepted. I pocketed the $2 and said nothing to the wife of the whole proceeding, intending in-tending to have that $2 as a little extra spending money. "All went well that day, but the next the fun began. The wife went over to the grocery and the groceryman informed in-formed her that he had 'her little pet,' 'her cute little pet.' "The astonished grocer hastened -to apologize and explain that I had sold him a dog the day before, a fox terrier puppy dog, for $2. He thought she knew all about it. The wife started for home at peace with the grocery man, but with blood iu her eye for me. The milkman asked how she liked the little dog. In a burst of righteous indignation indigna-tion she informed him that she hadn't seen any dog, and the only one that she knew anything about was one I had sold the grocery man. "That evening, when I got up, wife was waiting with the wrath she had nursed since leaving the grocery store. I was all unsuspecting, and was so greatly surprised that I immediately confessed to my sin as charged and gave up $1.60. The other 40 cents I had spent in riotous living. I came home next morning and found the atmosphere way below zero. So, after breakfast, I went over to the barber's. The barber shop was next door to the grocery. We heard a ruction next door. German swear words, the fall of canned goods from the shelves, wails of the grocery man, frightened squaks of a puppy, a door slammed, and then all was still. "I went home. Also I went around the block the other way so as not ' to pass the milkman's house. "Two days after I was served with a suDpoena as witness tor tne grocery man, who had sworn it out, also a warrant war-rant for the milkman. When the case was called the justice returned the dog to the grocery man and fined the milkman milk-man $15 and costs for assaulting the grocer. I was working days then and had to get off half a day to appear in court and testify. "I went back to work in great relief, thinking this would be the end of the the whole business, but two days afterward after-ward I was arrested on a warrant sworn out before another justice of the peace by the milkman. I could not get bail and was forced to spend the night in jail. My wife, immediately after my arrest," packed up, bag, baggage, and baby, and left for her mother's house. The next morning the milkman and his wife both swore that they had not given me the dog, but had seen me steal it. The judge would not give my story credence, as the preponderance of evidence evi-dence was all on the milkman's side and I had no witnesses of the transaction. Result, I was fined $.".0 and costs for 'stealing' the dog and selling him to the grocer. The grocer w'as ordered tc return the dog to the milkman. "I did not have, the money with which to pay . my fine 'and knew of no one in the city who would or could loan me that amount. So was forced to remain a 'week Mn durance vile,' until a letter for asisstance had time to reach my relatives and return. My wife's relatives rela-tives never had liked me and had opposed op-posed our marriage, and so would do nothing for me. Well, when the money did come and I paid my fine, I returned re-turned to the. gas house and found that another man had been engaged in my place. ."So I lost my job; also my wife, at the. instigation of her parents, began suit for divorce.. As I did not fight it. she received a. decree, with the custody of the baby. Job gone, home gone, wife j gone, baby gone, all on acocunt of a black, measley fox terrier pup." |