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Show DIHT OANO'8 DALLAPI8T Does No Vturh, bat Heartens lip Hit Other Ilea. "Ono of the fellows in my gang," aald a foreman who had been superintending superin-tending a section ot conduit work, "la a (trapping big negro named Pete, black aa the ace of spades, perfectly good-natured good-natured and Incorrigibly laty. Ills on accomplishment waa In singing those queer, droning songs that all darkles aet up Instinctively when they do anything any-thing together, and In that particular line I htlul admit hi wai atnguiarly gifted He would start out with any old thing for Instance 'My honey lives In Moo bile' and keep on Improvising Im-provising nil day long In a voice as loud aa a fog born I his, however, was II I ever detected him doing, and aa 1 bad no authority to pay out money for professional musician! In a dirt-sling Ing gang I gave him the grand bounce Next day tne work laggid In a most unaccountable and myaterloui faehlun I rouldn t put my finger on. any out-and-out shirking, but the men seemed listless and dispirited, and we tell short of our average by a good many cubic yard! 11 waa the same next day and the next, and I wai getlng dtiper-ate, dtiper-ate, when my assistant, who Is a pretty shrewd young chap, suggested that we tako back old Pete 'The black ra.ic.il won t work,' he said, but be certainly heartens up the men with his singing' I waa willing to do anything about then, so I tried the experiment, and the result wai magical He hadn't been on half an hour before be began tu bellow out one of hli conitan 'chan nel,' and all hands Instantly Joined In the chorus and struck their old gait. Since then Pete has been official Ul-ladlst Ul-ladlst fur the gang, ind Is cheap at the money What reminded me of the Incident In-cident wai a paragraph I taw In a technical Journal the other day nytug that the contractor ou the Southern railway engage one harpist and one flute player to every forty laborers I would have laughed at that atatement a month ago, but now I'm Inclined to believe be-lieve IL" New Orleani Times Democrat |