The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-21

from Washington to be the head OF our
Bureau of Red Tape
And every man in the Office knew that
all their certificates had been examined
on Wednesday, and that all Governor Ogle.
! thorpe's men would be dismissed on Friday.
1t was now Thursday evening.
~ only heard of this today" said the
| officer We are interested IN. II would not
tell my wife. But she knew something
| was the matter. But when the evening
| paper came, saw you were here at the
Esterhazy, and then knew it was all
right"
'All right, dear friend7" said the Cen
eral, in real distress. at is all wrong. I
do not know this Clodius-have hardly
heard of him. l am out OF politics these
| five years. None Of them know me or care
for me. can not help you"
80, yes, you can help me-" said the man,
simply and confidently. "And you will.
That is why l came l told my wife it was
all right-and it is"
"My dear fellow, you understand nothing
about it. Even the people at Washington
do not care for me now. They have forgot
| ten me. would gladly help you; but am
as powerless as child"
Still he was touched-how could he help
"Of course 1 will write letter for you.
But it will do no good. Your Mr.. Clodius
cares nothing for me or mine Stay here
however, and | will go and write it.
So he crossed the hotsl floor to the pri-
vate Office, where, not the ''gentlemauly
clerk, but Mr.. Mann, the wise director of
the whole, was sitting
Manu." said the General, do you know
this Clodiusp
II should think did," said he. ''He sat
in that chair half an hour ago. William"
ana he struck his bell, "see if Mr. Clodius
is in IS"
''No, no; do not want to see him. But
who knows him well enough-well, to tell
him storyl"
Il should think did 1 have got him
this office in the Red Tape Bureau. He
would not be there but for me-"
us that possible!" said the General,
little awe-struck. 81 want to tell him
about one of the people in it."
There is paper and ink. Write a note
| to me and it shall go to him. Man to be
kept ina He shall stay in. If there is any
thing Clodius wants it is to oblige me. At
least, those were the last words he said to
NE when he left this room"
The General wrote his note, in few
lines, as such men can. Mr. Mann indorsed
it: please see to this" The waiter took
it to IS.
There came back a card, with "All right.
Mr., Clodius." And fifteen minutes after
General Glover had left the reading-r room,
he returned with this card to his friend.
II told you sou said the man, eager,
modest and simple in his gratitude. a told
you that it would DO wrong for me to do
any tbin0 without couquifjpn ,o,,
And General Glover went back to Mrs.
Fonblanque, and told her the end of the
story.
l told story somewhat like this to a
very wise man last week, and he forced
himself to say: Eyes, it shows how close
ly we are all jumbled together in this little
world" But he forced himself to say this,
and at the bottom of his heart he was won
dering if it did not show great deal more.
And General Glover thinks, and Mrs. Fon-
blanque thinks, and Needles thinks, and
his wife thinks, and think that it shows
a great deal more.
We think that outside the people that
write letters and put them in the post
Office there are unseen people who tell them
what to say. We think that behind you
and me, who come and go, there are some
times unseen hands which show US where
to go and where to come.
And those of US who write stories some
times put into them such tales of crisis, as
that in which Jane Eyre hears the cry of
her lover, though he's two hundred miles
away. But we do not put in such things
merely to serve the purpose of the story
We put them in, because, if we did not put
them in, the story would not be true to Life
--Ed,Cdrd EUerett Hole, in ". Y. INDEPENDENT