Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-28

Il meet some OF them damn takers, an |
they'd tell me | ought to be no mans |
slave, and would get me so fired up, as
they knew they would, and then I'd go |
back home, and tell poor Ida all they |
said, an she'd cry, an keep cryin'.
Well miss, after while, all our things
was sold for rent, and we came down to
this yere place, where dog wouldn't
sleep, and there Ida's baby was born;
and there it died, an there she died.
Aud it's just u little over year since |
brought her from the country, bright
aud rosy.cheeked, an I'd promised I'd
take care of her, And how have done
it? My God, who is to blameg"
FRIENDS IN TIME OF NEED.
And the strong man threw up his
hands and then buried his face in them
and cried like a little child. And before
such remorse could only sit silent.
Mr.. Connolly, who had been quite
quiet in one corner Of the room, came
over, put his hands on TINS shoulder,
and said: That's right, my man, you
feel better now. It's all been a mistake,
but please God you've got whole life
time to make Il right. Me an Mis- here
will give you helpin' hand, an we've
got friend down in the South, an
reckon us two can manage SO that you
get down there an you can work out in
the open air for awhile. Tim, me boy this
is what comes from only listenin' to
one side OF the story. don't say nothin'
against the workingman, I'm one myself,
and think he ought to stand up for
5ein' treated right, but since I've talked
with some of tile gentlemen from the
settlement, I've learned that the man
who hires and the man who is hired
must work together in unison if we
want big wages. There are bad employ
ers, but there are more good ones, and,
usually Tim, Inc lad, when wages is re-
duced there's reason for it, Now,
amt blamin' you, me boy, but you must
know now that these men who go
around talkin' and excitin young chaps
like you, is paid to do it by the poll
ticians, who, while they say they are the
workingnlan's friend, is nine times out
OF ten, the very ones VINO grind HIM
down the hardest. Take some of these
men who make such fine speeches, and
ask them what they pay the men they
employ, and what they do when there
is a strike, and | guess you'll find,
Jimmy, that the ones who does the least
talkin' do the most workin'. Now,
brace up, and be q man, and your
friends will pull you through. Not
them friends as you've been tellin'
about, but them that found you when
you was in trouble. That's the way to
know your friends, Tim
With another approving pat on Tins
shoulder, Mr.. Connolly stopped, and
then with quiet good might" they
left me alone waiting for Mis- Connolly.
TRIED TO THINK IT OUT.
tried to see the right and wrong of
it, but always before me there came the
picture of the dead woman and her
baby, and it seemed to ME that in the
long months before the baby came, and
when she saw no solution of the riddle,
she must have wished for death. For OH
the thin, pinched face there was a look
OF satisfaction as If some unwhispered
desire had been granted.
All that was two days ago. This
morning, very early, from Mis- Con.
roily's little fiat, for they had carried
Ida and the baby over there, the little
funeral procession started. Just before
they went, kindly clergyman said
prayer, and after that girl whose voice
is heard oftenest in different part of
the town, stood beside me, and with her
eyes raised as if she could see way be-
You'd us all, she sang, There is a Green
Hill far Away" And it seemed to me
as il resting there, where the flowers
never cease to bloom and where the
sunshine is eternal, were Ida and her
little baby.
When they had gone. we waited for a
little while IN quieLness, and she said to
me, this good worker, "Have you ever
been able to solve the question 7"
And ! answered her, mo. All that
we can do is to do that which is closest
to our hands. Life is full of tragedies,
and the work in it is not sentimental.
Nobody can come down on the other
side and help people by talking. All the
preaching i'll the world will do no good. I"
1T is WORK THAT TELLS.
The best lesson of cleanliness is that
task which may not be pleasant, bathing
somebody who is sick and poor. The
best sermon on generosity is the DENY
ing yourself something to help the
women and children, and the sick who
need it, The best evidence of your be-
, lief in happiness here and hereafter is to
give pleasure to those who scarcely
Know what it means, and the best proof
! God all men are equal is your respecting
the feelings of others Nobody can 20
on the other side and expect to pose as
Lady Bountiful, but oh, there is SO
much work there to do. Thank God |
! Tlere are men and women who are
doing it gladly and wisely But always
, there is room for more workers.
And just then my little millionairess
|, looked at her silver watch, and straight.
ened her cotton frock, and said to me,
you are right, but muslin stop any
longer for | ain due down street to held
take care of women who has rot de-
lirium tremens."
It's work, my friend, in this world
!. that is wanted.
! In the future, can see Tim working
away down South, and in this work he
! will forget, for, thank God, we can do
! that. And |, well, l think that those
people who were kind enough to send
I me the money for the living babies will
|, not regret the use to which it was put
by BAB.
! Winner of the Ascot Gold Cap.
i LONDON, June 2l.-At Ascot Heath to,