Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Only a Bell-Boy, but a Hero. [ARTICLE]

Only a Bell-Boy, but a Hero.

"Say! What you doin’ there? Don’t you know Jimmie hain’t slept none for goin’ on two days?” It was a chunk of a bell-boy, wdth white hair and almond eyes at one of tho down-town hotels, talking, and his remarks woie addre-ised to a second blue-coated urchin who was engagedin an attempt to arouse Jimmie, the hero of this story. “Well, if you don’t let him alone I’ll smash you,” continued the speaker, and he advanced to put his threat into execution. "How is it Jimmio gets to sleep while the rest of you work?” I asked the pugilistic call-boy. “This is the first sleep Jimmie’s got for more than thirty-six hours,” said Jimmie's friend, “ana I’m hero to keep the porter from seeing him. You see that little squirt with a scar on his nose here tho other day? Well, he’s been sick, arid Jimmio stood his watch so he wouldn’t got docked. Dis boy helps his ma, who's sick, and he trills Jimmio what awful times dey has, so Jimmie just does his waten. Now, when do porter sees J Immle and tolls the clerk then ho gits do run, and that’s what I’m doin’ hero.” To my way of thinking Jimmie is a hero. He may nover be President of tho United States or oven go to Congress, but if I was proprietor of the hotel I would tee that he got a better position just as soon as he could take care of City Timos.