Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — A RUSTLING COLLECTOR. [ARTICLE]

A RUSTLING COLLECTOR.

II:- (lot the Money. But It Took Son, Time. “When I was a youngster of 17,” raid a successful business man, “I get a job ai collector with a man who wa about as strict a martinet as I over taw. He insided on everything be ug done just a; he said, and there w re times when ifo was verily a burden but I stuck to him. One morning he called me up and handing me a bill on tv man i knew, he said for mo to take i around and collect it. “‘lt’s one of our standbys,’ he said, 'and every collector I ever sent to him reported him absent or n t iindable or something. Now you go and don t com * back hero till you see him.' “ ‘Do you mean that':” I asked, as two or three clerks lo >ked up. “‘You know me,’was all he said in rep y, and I went out after my man. "tie wasn't at home, the ] eople said, and vv juldn tbe for six wee. s. So I stuck the bill in my pocket and 'vv nt oil’ up the country for a visit. The old man sent after me half a dozen times, but my folks c mid only tell I was i ut o. town, and 1 never paid any attenti n to a letter got from the boss, but went on enjoying myself. Tneii I came bae a:.d had a visit with so i e other friends, and at the end of six weeks 1 called on my man again with the bill. 1 f< uid h mat home and told him what .1 i a i done and ho paralyzed me by payin : the bill, with interest. Two hours la er I stooped into the bos,' office. " ’There. 1 said, before he hud time to gather his -wits 'is t .e amount cl your bill and intere t. He was out t< wn for six weeks, and t- couldn't sec him l e dire. You to,d me not to come bark till I did see him and I was obe , ing your instructions. I had a rattling good time and the house owes me s weeks salary.’ ‘ The old man gas] el, get blue in tli ■ free and 1 fhought he wa; going to explode; buthedidnt; he gulped it all down and stuck out his hand. “ 'Yoting man,’ he said, ‘you ought to have been a soldier. lam going to put you in charge of the collection d< - partment and double your salary,’ and.” concluded the merchant, “when I vru ”5 I wa ; a ] artner.”