Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — Leaving a Representative on Duty. [ARTICLE]

Leaving a Representative on Duty.

A Milwaukee railway clerk, being very anxious to “get off” one evening when all the men in his department were required to work late, applied to his chief for permission to cease his labors, but was flatly refused. He went back to his desk, at the far end of the room, and Bpent some time experimenting as to how little work he could do.< Finally an idea struck him. He went to a closet, secured some old clothes, including a coat and hat, and soon had a connterfeit presentment of himself seated npon his stool. Then he quietly stole away, hoping that the dummy would deceive his chief if the latter visited that part of the office during the evening, and expecting to reach the office the next morning in time to take down the man of odds and ends before the arrival of his chief. He was out late that night, however, and did not reach the office until late. His chief, as luck would have it, reached the office quite early, and the first thing he did was to 7isit the desk of the canning clerk. He gazed with amazement at the dummy. “What’h that?” he finally asked. “That," said one of the clerks, “why, that’s Jones, you know.”— Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.