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IT HAPPENED IN POLICE COURT WANTED! AN EASY JOB "Jedge, ah ain't strong enough to do that kind of work." He was ebony black, tall, thick set, muscular looking, so Judge Pomeroy looked at him in surprise. "You don't seem at all sickly," he protested. "No, Jedge, ah looks pretty strong, but ah 'ain't really able to handle heavy furniture. It's just too hard on me. Ah ain't strong enough. "He's, lazy, your honor," the pro bation officer protested. "His mother goes to work every day and he stays in bed and sleeps." "I has to lick him to get him up, your honor," the mother explained, with a good-natured smile.- ."He won't give me any money. He says he has to pay what he owes what he borrowed when he wa n t work ing, whenever he am working. And he smokes cigarettes, and I just abominates cigarettes." "Does he drink?" the judge asked. "No, but he smokes cigarettes, and I just can't bear them." "Oh, if he doesn't smoke too many they won't do him any real harm," the judge protested, a trifle impa tiently. The reporter looked around to make sure Lucy Page Gaston was not among those present, and she wasn't, so the case went on. "What's the matter "with you that you won't work and help your mother?" "Ah don't object to work, Jedge, but ah wants the right kind of work that pays me the right kind of money." "Some fancy job, I suppose, where you wprk a couple of hours and get a big salary?" "No, ah am perfectly willing to do any kind of work." ' "Well, what kind?" "Any kind that ain't too hard and pays me well." "Why don't you give your mother some money when you are work ing?" "Well, as she says, Jedge, when ah ain't working I borrows money from my friends so ah can get my break fast and lunch in a restaurant and when ah works ah pays my hone'st debts." "Huh!" his mother snorted. "You Kdon't pay no honest debts to me. I keeps you for a year and buys your clothes and you ain t paid me your honest debts." "You're a nice sort of a fellow," Judge Pomeroy said, "I understand your mother goes to work at five o'clock in the morning and you just lie in bed. Do you want me to send you away?" "That ain't at all necessary, jedge. Ah am perfectly willing to work if ah can get the right kind of work and the right pay." "Why don't you get a job as a porter?" "Well, ah had in mind a job as janitor, but such positions are not so easy to get at the right amount of salary." "What do you want me to do with him?" the judge asked the mother. "He has got to work and he has got to pay me," she answered with finality. So the ebony one was given two weeks to find a job suited to his weak constitution, his esthetic taste and his ideas of remuneration. o o WANT COOKING TAUGHT Grand Junction, Col., July 25. Leading Sunday school workers of Grand Junction have asked Federa tion of Churches to indorse study of cooking in connection with Sunday schools. Teachers want basement kitchens in all churches so that girls' classes in domestic science can be conducted twice a week. o o Statistical shark tells us there are 6,500 coal mines and 6,000 metal mines in U. S. This doesn't include the wild cats, either.