Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-01-25
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from Washington to be the head Of GU,
Bureau of Red Tape. s#
# And every man In the offico knew thai
oil their certificates had been examined
on "Wednesday, and that oil Governor Ogle
thorpe's men would be dismissed on FRIDAY
u was now Thursday evening. ra
II only heard OF this to-day" said the
officer We are interested IN. 81 would MOI
tell my wife. But she knew something
was the matter. But when the evening
paper came, saw you were here ut the
Esterhazy, and then / knew it was all
right"
"All right, dear friendl" said the Gen.
eral, In rcal distress. sit is oil wrong. I
do not know this Clodius-havo hardly
heard OF him. am out OF politics these
hYe years. None Of them know me or care
Tor me. can not help YOU"
20, yes, you can help me-" said the mc,.,
simply and confidently. .And you will
That is why I came. told my wife it wa,
all right-and it u.s."
y My dear fellow, you understand nothing
about it. Even the people at Washington
90 not care for me now. They have forgot
ten me. would gladly help you; but am
as powerless as q child" 49,.
Still he was touched-how could he helu
being touchedl-by the mans simple faith.
WI course will write letter for you.
BUTT will do no good. Your Mr.. Codius
cares nothing for me or mine. Stay here,
however, and will go and write it, =,
SO he crossed the hotel floor to the pri-
vate Office, whore, not the '.gentlemanly
clerk" but Mr.. Mann, the wise director OF
the whole, was sitting.
''Mann," said the General, do Won know
this Clodius2"
II should think did," said he. "He sat
in that chair half an hour ago. William, ~
and he struck his bell, ''see if Mr.. Clodius
is in 75" -
mo, no; do not want to see him. But
who knows him we'll enough-well, to tell
him story?"
II should think did. 1 have got him
this Office in the Red Tape Bureau. he
would not be there but for me-"
us that possiblea" said the General, q
little awe-struck. II want to toll him
about one of the people in it,"
''rhere is paper and ink. Write note
to me and it shall go to him. Man to be
kept int He shall stay in. II there is any
thing Clodius wants. it is to oblige me. Al
least, those were the last words he said to
me when he left this room.'
The General wrote his note, in q few
lines, as such men can. Mr.. Mann Endorsed
it: "Please see to this" The waiter TOOK
it tots -.
There came back q card, with "All right.
Mr.. Clodius." And fifteen minutes after
General Glover had left the reading-room,
he returned with this card to his friend.
II told you So" said tho man, eager,
modest and simple in his gratitude. II told
you that it would be wrong for me to do
any thing without consulting you."
And General Glover went back to Mrs.
Fonblanque, and told her the end of the
story.
I told ? story somewhat like this to q
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 it it did not show great deal more
And General Glover thinks, and Mrs Fou-
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 ant. go, there are some
times unseen hands which show US where
to 60 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
-EQacard EEe:ett Rale. IL N Y Inde1eadeat.