MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less His Line of Thought

At two conventions that I have attended recently, the same excellent story was told, illustrating the queer, unbusinesslike, and indirect thinking of some men. The inference is that lots of business men have as bad a way of thinking of their business, as the witness in the railroad wreck lawsuit had.

This witness was on the stand. He testified that he was walking along the railroad track, when he came to an open switch. At about the same moment he looked up and saw a train approaching the open switch at high speed. He testified that he turned and ran out into a field well away from the track until he reached a position of safetn'when turned and watched the train pile up. Said the railroad attorney, cross-examining him: "Do

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you mean to tell me that you were walking along that track, and you saw that open switch?"

"Yes, sir," replied the witness.

"And that you saw that train coming to sure destruction with that switch open?"

"Yes, sirr" said the witness.

"And instead of trying to do something to save the wreck you ran out into the field and there watched the wreck take place, without raising a hand to help?"

"Yes, sir," replied the witness.

"In the name of God, man, tell me, what did you THINK?" asked the lawyer.

"I thought," said the witness, t'what a lousy railroad this is, and what a Hell of a wreck this is going to be."

WILFREDT. COOPER A SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

Wilfred T. Cooper of the wholesale lumber firm of Williams & Cooper, Los Angeles, spent a few days in San Francisco during the latter partof November.