Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — Better than Getting an Office. [ARTICLE]

Better than Getting an Office.

Washington Special: One man who came for an office has succeeded so much better than he expected that his case is worth recording in the Suu. He came from Georgia, and rebates his nxperience thus: “Being a Democrat and not having much luck at getting ahead at home, I thought I would get an office at Washington if I could.—■ L tting no one but my wife and a friend know what I was up to, I started. After landing here I saw just as plain as day that the water was too deep for me; besides, hundreds of others a great deal smarter at the busin' ss were ahead of me. I had not much money, and so, instead of paying much attention to the office, I began to jook around for work or someth'ng to make a living w- ile I stayed. To tell you the truth I had not been much away from home, and never in so large a place before. Somehow I kinder felt I could make it * j ? n^v acllance ; and after I had looked around some and clapped my eyes over things I thought I saw chances, if only they were worked right. I have a fancy I have a natu± al gift for knowing a chance as soon as I see it. I got ■ his idea all at once when I saw so many ways and things; so many persons selling everything and so many buying. 1 had about sls, and with it I concluded to start.—

I had looked around the rrarket, where more money was spent in a day than in my town in a whole year. Why can’t I have some of it? thought I. Well, I launched out $4 for Florida oranges and 50 cents for a basket. That day I sold half the oranges and -had my money back. How I did work, though—went everywhere, into the houses and stores, and somehow people bought willingly. Maybe it was because I was so earnest about it. The third day I had all the oranges sold, with nearly $5 profjt in my pockets. Better’n office, I began to think. While I was looking around for another chance the dealer from whom I had bought offered me two other boxes, the last of a lot, for $5,60; nice oranges, too. I knew at one what I could do with them. The next morning I sold them for $4 a box, $2,50 profit without breaking bulk. I had never before made money so fast in all my life.’ I kept on for two weeks, and I couldn’t be hired to take the office I was after. I began to think how well I could fix myself right here in Washington, with my little wife and baby and the boy, who by rights ought to be going io school. You don’t want to hear it all. It’s but two months and two days since I came, and I have got SBO and everything paid up. What’s better, there are a couple of dealers in the market who say they will back me for any thing in reason I want to do. I’m thinking I’ll keep on the line I’ve been going for the present. I see so many chances that sometimes I don’t know which to take. I wonder anybody that can work wants an office here. Some of the Georgia fellows hanging around here have come to me for money, but I tell ’m to go to work, for there’s a heap more money in it than in any office I know of.”