Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Not Wholly Careless. [ARTICLE]

Not Wholly Careless.

Thomas Gbett was a meek but less clerk, who, through no greater fault than carelessness, was continually blundering in his work. His most usual mistake was to misdirect letters, either by substituting a wrong street number, or by writing, say “Cal.” for “Col.” One day his employer laid on his desk a letter which had been over a month in the mails without reaching its destination —and all because of Thomas’s error. “Now, this has got to stop,” said his employer. “Such delays waste time and money. If you had used an envelope which hadn’t had our address in the corner, we might never have known where this letter went to.” “That’s true,” assented the humble clerk. “But I am always careful to use that kind of envelope just for that reason. Being a little slow of comprehension, he did not understand why his patient employer bit his lip and turned away smiling.