Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — A Noble Offer. [ARTICLE]

A Noble Offer.

“I guess I’ll have to hire a clerk,” said a Galveston merchant, by the name of Merritt, to his friend Chrysler. “I am glad to see that the business boom has struck you,” responded Chrysler. “ It isn’t that,” replied the merchant, “ but you see I am very popular, and I am asked by my friends to step across the street and take a drink almost every minute in the day, and as I haven’t anybody to leave in the store I have to decline. Ten dollars a day won’t cover what I have lost by not having a clerk.” “I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said Chrysler, brightening up ; “ hire me as your clerk, and send me across the street to drink with your friends, and I won’t charge you a cent for my clerical services.” The application of Chrysler was put on file, along with those of a number of other leading citizens who had applied already.— Galveston News; ( "