Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-24

! eiOfe ana says: wen, my Olu Dltiiui i
was this morning thinking over what
you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out of an awful crisis in my
commercial history. learned wisdom,
prosperity has come and the pallor has
gone out Of my wife's cheeks, and the
roses that we're there when courted
her in her fathers house have bIoomed
again and my business is splendid, and
] thought ought to let you know that
you saved a mani"
In a short time after, the old mer-
chant, who had been good while shaky
In his limbs and who had poor spells, is
called TO leave the world, and one
morning after he had read the twenty
third Psalm about THE Lord is my
Shepherd, he closes his eyes on this
world, and an angel, who had been for
many years appointed to watch the old
mans dwelling cries upward the news
that the patriarch's spirit is about as
cending. And the twelve angels who
keep the twelve gates of heaven, unite
in crying down to this approaching
spirit of the old man, Come in. and
welcome, for 1t has been told all over
these celestial lands that you saved
man"
IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN
There sometimes come exigcncies in
the life OF woman. One morning a
few years ago saw in the newspaper
that there was young woman in New
York, whose pocketbook containing
thirth-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents had been stolen, and she had
been left without n penny at the begin
ming of winter, in a strange city, and
no work And although she was a
stranger, did not allow the o'clock
mail TO leave the lamp post on our cor
ner without carrying the thirty seven
dollars and thirty three cents. and the
case was proved genuine.
Now, have read all Shakespeare's
tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's TRACE
dies, and all Alexander Smiths TRACE
dies, but l never read tragedy more
thrilling than that case, and similar
cases by the hundreds and thousands
in all our large cities-young women
without money and without home and
without work in the great maelstroms
of metropolitan life. When such a
case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it2 "Get out of my
way; we have no room in our estab-
lishment for any more hands. l don't
believe in women anyway. They are a
lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please
show this person out of the door"
Or do you compliment her personal
appearance, and say things TO her
which II any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him ON the
spot2 That is one way, and il is tried
every day In the large cities, and many
of those who advertise for female hands
In factories, and for governesses in fam
lilies, have proved themselves unfit to
be in amy place outside of hell. But
there is another way, and | saw it one
day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman APP
piled for work and the gentleman in
tone and manner said In substance;
my daughter, we employ women here,
but do not know of any vacant place
In our department. You had better in
quire at such and such a place, and
hope you will be successful in getting
something to do, Here is my name and
tell them sent you"
The embarrassed and humiliated
woman seemed to give way to Christian
confidence She started out with
hopeful look that, think, must have
won for her place in which TO earn
her bread. rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved a
woman. New York and Brooklyn
ground up last year about thirty thou
sand young women, and would like TO
grind up about as many this year Out
of all that long procession of women
who march ON with no hope for this
world or the next, battered and bruised
and scoffed at, and flung of the preci
pice, not one but might have been
saved for home and God and heaven.
But good men and good women are
not in that kind of business Alas for
that poor thingl Nothing but the
thread of that sewing girls needle held |
her and the thread broke
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what a man is; but what is a |
womanl Until some one shall give a
better definition | will tell you what |
woman is. Direct from God, sacred |
and delicate gift, with affections so
great that no measuring line short of
that OF the infinite God can tell their
bound Fashioned 60 refine and soothe, |
and lift and irradiate home and society
and the world OF such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
lived long enough 10 let him under
stand Il, or who IN some great crisis |
Of life, when all else failed him, had a |
wife TO reenfonce him with a faith in |
God that nothing could disturb
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell OF the !
feet that rocked you and the anxious
faces that hovered over youl Speak |
out, ye nurseries Of ell Christendom.
aud 20 homes whether desolate or still |
In full bloom with the faces of wife, |
mother and daughter and help me 20 /
define what woman Is But as geogra- |
pliers tells us that the depths Of the ssa |
correspond with the heights Of the
mountains l have 20 tell you that
good womanhood is not higher up than
bad womanhood Is deep down. The