Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — The Firm Survived. [ARTICLE]

The Firm Survived.

I heard a clerk once in a large draper’s shop, who was smart and quick and a splendid manager, but he got a swelled head, and put on consequential airs. Once he took occasion to say to his associates that the concern couldn’t get along successfully without him. So the old gentleman who was the senior partner called him into the office one day and said: “Mr. Jenks, you have been very efficient, and we appreciate your services, but I hear that you have repeatedly asserted that if you were to die the business couldn’t possibly survive it, and this has worried me considerably, for you, like all men, are liable to die very unexpectedly, and so we have concluded to experiment while we are all in health and see if the concern will survive. So you will please consider yourself dead for one year, and draw no salary for that time, and we wih try it.”—Tid-Bits.