ILLUSTRATIONS
By F. R. GRUGER and B. MARTIN JUSTICE
[1.] “Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling me what a mean house they have been working for.”Frontispiece
[2.] “Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday School if I didn’t want to be saved.”4
[3.] “I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe who didn’t bring back a great deal except a few trunks of badly fitting clothes.”20
[4.] “I put Jim Durham on the road to introduce a new product.”38
[5.] “Old Dick Stover was the worst hand at procrastinating that I ever saw.”50
[6.] “Charlie Chase told me he was President of the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting, and Immigration Company.”62
[7.] “Jim Donnelly, of the Donnelly Provision Company, came into my office with a fool grin on his fat face.”72
[8.] “Bill Budlong was always the last man to come up to the mourners’ bench.”84
[9.] “Clarence looked to me like another of his father’s bad breaks.”98
[10.] “You looked so blamed important and chesty when you started off.”128
[11.] “Josh Jenkinson would eat a little food now and then just to be sociable, but what he really lived on was tobacco.”146
[12.] “Herr Doctor Paracelsus Von Munsterberg was a pretty high-toned article.”166
[13.] “When John L. Sullivan went through the stock yards it just simply shut down the plant.”184
[14.] “I started in to curl up that young fellow to a crisp.”200
[15.] “A good many salesmen have an idea that buyers are only interested in funny stories.”216
[16.] “Jim Hicks dared Fatty Wilkins to eat a piece of dirt.”248
[17.] “Elder Hoover was accounted a powerful exhorter in our parts.”268
[18.] “Miss Curzon, with one of his roses in her hair, watching him from a corner.”294
No. 1
FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Pierrepont has just been settled by his mother as a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class.