Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

are popular; popularity comes easy in kIs.
case, but, when the other thing comes, our
friends are pretty likely to turn against
u.s.
Tracy's noble theories and high purposes
were beginning to feel pretty damp and
clammy. He wondered if by any possi-
bility he had made mistake in throwing
his own prosperity to the winds and taking
up the cross of other peoples nnprosperity.
But he wouldn't listen to that sort of thing;
he cast it out of his mind, and resolved to
go ahead resolutely along the course ne had
mapped out for himself
Extracts from his diary:
have now spent several days in this sin
gular hive. 1 don't know quite what to
make out of these people. They have merits
and virtues, but they have some other quail
tiles, and some ways that are hard to get
ment appeared in a hat of the period no
ticed change. The respect which had been
paid me before passed suddenly away, and
the people became friendly; more than that.
they became familiar, and I'm not used to
familiarity, and can't take to it right of. I
find that out. These peoples familiarity
amounts to impudence, sometimes. i sup
pose it's all right; no doubt can get used 90
1t, but it's not satisfactory process at all.
have accomplished my dearest wish. am
man among men. on an equal footing with
Tom, Dick and Harry, and vet it isn't just
exactly what thought it was going to be.
Il miss home. Am obliged to say l am
homesiek. Another thing, and this IL
will make 1t, the thing 1 miss MOST
and most severely, is the respect, the
Difference, with which was treated all my
life in England, and which seems to be
somehow necessary TO me. get along very
well without the luxury and the wealth ana
the sort of society I've been accustomed TO,
but do miss the respect, and can't seem to
get reconciled to the absence of 1t. There is
Difference here, but 1t doesn't fall to NV
share. Itis lavished on two men. One Of
them is portly man OF middle age, who is a
retired plumber.
Everybody is pleased to have that mans
notice. He's full of pomp and circumstance
and self-complseency and bad grammar,
and at the table he is Sir Oracle, and when
he opens his mouth not any dog in the KEN
mel barKs. The other person is a policeman
at the Capitol building. He represents the
Government. The Difference paid to these
two men is not so very far short of that
which is paid to an earl in England, though
the method of it differs. Not so much court
illness, but the Difference is all there. Yes,
and there is obsequiousness, too. 1t does
rather look IS If in the republic, where all
are free and equal, prosperity and position
constitute rank.
The DAYS drifted BY, and they grew ever
more dreary. For Barrow's efforts to find
work for Tracy were unayailing. Always
the first question asked was: "What union
do YOU belong to?" Tracy was obliged 10
reply that he didn't belong to any trade
union.
Every wetl, then, it is impossible to en-
ploy you. My men wouldn't stay with me
if I should employ a 'scab" or rat or
whatever the phrase was.
FINALLY, Tracy had happy thought. He
said: "Why, the thing for me to do. Of
course, is to Join trade union
eyes" Barrow said, SHAT is the thing
for you to do if you can"
'tIf can? Is it dificult?"
"Well, yes" Barrow said, 'ft's some
times dificult-in fact, very difficult. But
you can try, and of course it will be best to
try"
Therefore Tracy tried, but he did not sue
ceed. He was refused admission with q good
deal of promptness, and was advised to go
back home, where he belonged, not come
here taking honest mems bread out of their
mouths Tracy began to realize that the
situation was desperate, and the thought
made him cold to the marrow. He said to
himself: $50 there is an sristoeracy of
position here, and an aristocraey of pras-
perity, and apparently there is also an
aristoeracy of the ins as opposed to the
outs, and I am with the outs. So the ranks
grow daily here.
casts"
But he couldn't even smile at his small
Joke, although he was obliged to confess
that he had a rather good opinion of it. He
was feeling so defeated and miserable by
this time that he could no longer look with
philosophical complacency on the horseplsy
of the young fellows in the upper rooms at
night. At first it had been pleasant to see
them unbend and have good time after
having SO well earned it BY the lsbors Of the
day, but now it all rasped upon his feelings
and his dignity. He lost patience with the
spectacle.
When they were feeling good they
shouted, they scuf1ed, they sang songs,
they romped about the place like cattle,
and they generally wound up with pillow
fight, in which they banged each other over
the head and threw the pillows in all direc-
tions, and every now and then he got buff
fet himself; and they were always inviting
him to ioin in. They called him Johnny
Bull" and invited him with excessive
familiarity to take hand.
At first he had endured all this with good
nature, but latterly he had shown by his
manner that it was distinctly distasteful to
him, and very soon he saw . change in the
manner of these young people toward him.
They were souring on him, as they would
have expressed IL IN tnelI language. ne
had never been what might be called popu-
lar.
That was hardly the phrase for it; he had
merely been liked, bat now dislike for him
was growing. His case was not helped by
the fact that he was out Of luck, couldn't
get work, didn't belong to union, and
couldn't gain admission TO one. He got
good many slightsof that small, ill-de6ned
sort that you can't quite put your finger on,