Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — THE VALUE OF PERSISTENCE. [ARTICLE]

THE VALUE OF PERSISTENCE.

How a Stranger Got and Kept a Good Job. “I’m lookin’ for a job. I’m a good feller and I’ll work cheap.” This is the language in which an honest and rather simple looking man approached the hend of a Chicago firm. “Sorry,” smiled the proprietor, “but we have nothing to offer just now. Call ’round again.” Jake, as he called himself, walked away a couple of blocks, and then faced about and returned to repeat his application. “I been here,” he said, “fur a job, and you told me to come again. I’m here.” The proprietor, being busy, did not recall the previous visit, and, after informing Jake that there was nothing

for him yet, asked him to come again. This time Jake made a round trip of about half a mile, and again dropped in, offering his services as twice before. “Persistent and looks honest,” said the proprietor to his bookkeeper. “Wonder what he could do?” “Might give him a chance to collect some of our impossible accounts,” laughed the bookkeeper. “He’s the kind of a man to keep pegging away, and even creditors can be worn out.” Jake was given some of the worst old accounts that could be hunted up and started out. By making forty or fifty calls on the same man on the same day, he began to make an impression, and the firm is now getting a good deal of money that had long since been charged to profit and loss.