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TWO COLLEGE BOYS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 45.

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TWO COLLEGE BOYS.

Our Dumb Animals.
Two boys left home with just money enough to take them through college, after which they must depend entirely upon their own efforts. They attacked the collegiate problems successfully, passed the graduation, received their diplomas from the faculty, also commendatory letters to a large ship-building firm with which they desired employment. Ushered into the waiting-room of the head of the firm, the first was given an audience. He presented his letters.
“What can you do?” asked the man of millions.
“I should like some sort of a clerkship.”
“Well, sir, I will take your name and address, and should we have anything of the kind open, will correspond with you.”
As he passed out, he remarked to his waiting companion, “You can go in and ‘leave your address.’”
The other presented himself and his papers.
“What can you do?” was asked.
“I can do anything that a green hand can do, sir,” was the reply.
The magnate touched a bell, which called a superintendent.
“Have you anything to put a man to work at?”
“We want a man to sort scrap iron,” replied the superintendent.
And the college graduate went to sorting scrap iron.
One week passed, and the president, meeting the superintendent, asked, “How is the new man getting on?”
“Oh,” said the boss, “he did his work so well, and never watched the clock, that I put him over the gang.”
In one year this man had reached the head of a department and an advisory position with the management, at a salary represented by four figures, while his former companion was “clerk” in a livery stable, washing harnesses and carriages.