Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — Sentences Prisoner to Job [ARTICLE]

Sentences Prisoner to Job

Judge Sabath of Chicago Goto Employment for Young Man Who Was Pursued by Misfortune.

Chicago.—" Young man, you have a good face. I sentence you to work at $1.60 a day ” “Judge, that’s fine.” i "And here’s a dollar. Get a room near the factory.” It didn’t take five minutes, yet Sabath, sitting in the Maxwell street police court, the other day, heard Harry Jackson’s story of woe, took stock in it, got him a job and gave him a dollar with which to make a good start. Thirty minutes after the case had been called and he was led to Judge Sabath’s bench by a policeman, Jackson was at work. Jackson was arrested by the Maxwell street police. He was idle and was taken on suspicion. He told Judge Babath a story of hard luck. He said wherever he turned misfortune pursued him, even caught up with him and detained him. "I’m n{t a ‘bum’ judge,” .Jackson said sorrowfully. “I’m just playing in fierce luck For seven weeks I’ve slept out of doors. I’m an orphan and I ain’t got anybody to help me when

I feel blue. Look at my shoes. The soles are gone. I might as well be barefooted. Say, if I could get work I’d be all tight. On the square, judge, I’ve been after Jobs every day. Nobody has any work for me to do. I’d feel swell if I only had a Job and a chance for a pay envelope. When a man’s not workln’. judge, he's no good.” / At this juncture the court paused and stroked his chin. “Young man,” Judge Sabath said. “You look all tight I’ll sentence you to go to work at a dollar and a half a day. IH get you a Job." —— He then called up an acquaintance who Is In the picture frame manufacturing business and got work for Jackson.