The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-08
THROWN OUTOFA JOB
HOW A DISCHARGE AFFECTS piF-
FERENT MEN m BIG CITY.

FERENT MEN IN A BIG CITY.
Heroic Struggle of joe" Who Is but .
tunate Fellow Looking for work--How
Others Take the Sad News.
Joe's envelope said simply
''The house regrets it can no longer
offer you employment, but its reasons
do not hinge upon your competency,
and we take occasion to thank You for
good work for us, wishing you we'll"
Joe thought to hide the message from
John as he passed out-John had worked
at his elbows for months-but he didn't
John followed him out and said:
Stout heart. old fellow. You'll have
better job in week II can do you
favor, call on me. Ny turn next,
imagine
Joe walked the streets for hours, then
went home to his wife and babies not
less surely years older than when he had
left them in the morning He has fixed
his purpose, and will hew TO it. He
takes the usual trinkets to the children,
trifie of some sort to his wife, and
gives her, as is his rule, the weeks earn
ings Then ne acts for the first time in
his iife-he romps and carouseS with
Flora until she believes he is as much a
child as herself, and his wife watches it
all from her sewing table and wonders
If she was ever rs happy III the old
counting days rs she is now
And does heart is heavy under il all
for he determines that they shall not
know of his bad luck until he has anoth-
er job ,He is hurt, humiliated, repulsed
- he feels that the house has clipped him
OF because it could spare him more cas-
lily than any one of the hundred odd 9TH
ers that it has retained
''5ut that little wife sitting there with
her head full of belief in me mustn't
know size must believe me all seemed
TO De
woRk AT LAST
He looks for work ten hours day fer
Il week and doesn't find it. Saturday he
pawns his watch for a weeks wages and
carries it home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that he had clew to the thief and that
Inspector Byrnes would catch him in a
few days He says to himself that fate
stole ii from him, but he keeps up the
play bravely and with fortitude answers
the evening queries of the home ones
about whether they have found the
watch. The next two weeks are tided
over by selling the Building and Loan
stock Then he horrows another weeks
pay of Il friend
Every morning he starts Ito work" at
the regular hour; every evening he re-
turns They go to the theater, they buy
some needed and long promised clothes;
they pay their regular missionary money
and church fees-for Joe is playing
desperate hand now, but with an insane
sort OF GOODNESS. Something asks him
over and over agnin every day, Where
will it end?" but Joe jrst sets his lips a
little harder and don't reply even in
thought.
His encyclopedia goes next. He loans
it to a friend down town at the office, so
he tells them at home Joe can't eat
heartily this week He watches his wife
and children's Iightheartedness some
thing like a brute would do-stoically,
unmoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
of tea: he has appetite, and don't want
it; Then he is for the first time in his
life affected with satan'S specially ex-
ported article OF disease-insomnia. He
sits for hours watching his family as they
sleep. and he feels IL heavy weight slowly
settling upon his brain that he cannot
understand the meaning of
Next day he finds another position. and
his wife doesn't understand why he gives
way so completely for the first time in
his life and cries like child while tell
ing her of il
OTHER TYPES.
There are just few Joes in this world
mot too many.
Clarence Harney fells his wife about
it as soon as he gets home. He is sure
he knew the Internal job wouldn't hold
ont long anyhow. Plenty more, though
you just have TO have little gall: and
next day Clarence has another job. A
little less pay, TO be sure, but then, he
argues, Its only for n week or so-I'n
strike better one the first thing you
know You don't down me-not this