The Beatrice Daily Express

Question Caused Colored Boy to Reconsider Request for Employment in Munition Works.

George Ade says that a friend of his in Bridgeport, Conn., had a negro boy working for him as janitor. One morning the darky announced that he was about to quit.

"I laks you, boss," he explained to Ade's friend, "and I ain't got no fault to find wid dis heah job. But dey tells me dat over heah at dese munitions works dey's payin' fo' dollahs a day. And I 'lows to git some of dat easy money."

Being paid off, he departed. Two days later he came back and applied for his former place.

"Didn't you care for the new job?" asked Mr. Blank.

"I quit befo' I got dat far," stated the negro. "Yistiddy mornin' I goes over to dem munitions works and I tells de man in de little oflice at de gate in de big high wall outside dat I'se done come to get one of dem fo'-dollar-a-day jobs of his'n. He says 'all right,' and den he gits out a book and he axes me whut is my name. I tells him whut is my name, and den he say: 'Whar do you want de remains sent?'

And I look him in de eye and I say: Boss, don't you pester yo'se'f 'bout de remains, c'se I'se gwine take 'em with me right now." - Saturday Evening Post.