The Topeka state journal., 1897-03-10

scared at the idea that I was going to
kind and good that he didn't seem the
kind of man to let US people suffer and
starve, or do anything but right to his
men. got kind of dizzy, but there was
the most beautifully dressed ladies beside
him and all around him. I heard some
and looked at her. Pearls and diamonds,
and such a dress! Afterwards 1 asked
pearls would keep US for a year. Such
grand thingSi She smiled and looked SO
delighted Then 1 was close up to Mr..
Hanna
He's much nicer looking than his pic
lures s, in n the papers pc He e doesn't look like like
happy to my eyes that 1 felt that if I
begged him there to help us all and be
just to us he certainly wouldn't refuse
me. The lady with me said:
Il want to introduce a friend of mine
Mrs. Chadwick. Mr.. Hanna. She is the
wife of a workingman-one of those who
loolS & to you for so much in the future
big man that's got so much money and
everything he wants in the world shook
my hand: I could hardly speak. I cam /
describe it all, but If you lived in little
house in a mining place and lived as We
all have had to and then meet the man
pay the rent and have not much left to
buy anything to eat with. and you would
feel as did. But said:
''I very glad to have a chance to see
you, Mr.. Hanna. My husband works in
be good times on. Do you think they'll
be goon?'
'Ihat S What nope, and very soon.
But will we folks have any of it, Mr..
Hanna?"
The crowd of people were pressing be-
Il think everybody will have some of
it,. He said good-by and nodded again.
me was saying. "of course. Mr.. Hanna.
the credit will be yours
well, I'll take what belongs to me-
said he Is he laughed.
l stopped to look at the ladies. I don't
beiieve that kind of people knows about
a "
with her. If I was rich as she. it seems
to me L would send somebody to find out
help them. But that big man certainly
did treat me like lady, and I can't be-
thought he was, but then there's the
agreement he made all his men sign.
people were born to be rich and we were
born to be poor but at any rate for once
never can tell what I have seen at the in
auguration. 1 had heard that a rich wo-
man was going to give a ball in New York
that WOULD cost a pile of money and that
rich folks give big balls, but never heard
of such ball this. The building seem-
ed like fairyland. 1t must have cost a
sight of money, and it does seem as if
some of the money ought to go to poor
Starving you must think of such things.
Those women with all those jewels, too.
They tell me that big balls like this give
employment to a lot of people and l sup
pose it must be all right. I was told in
England that there was a levelling in this
vided between the people, and by and by
there was to be another. But my hus-
band says that's not SO and there never
will be anything of that kind.
I shall not be unhappy and dissatisfied
when go back, although when I think
of the day in last January when all we
had to eat were some bitter frozen pota-
toes that my little boy picked up after a
man had thrown them away, down by the
brook, and l think of what I've seen peo-
pie eating in Washington and at the in
augural ball supper, it makes me wonder
why it is
But 1 saw Mr.. Hanna and now I can't
believe that he will carry out any such
cruel course toward his miners as is be-
II g tried on US. Perhaps Mr.. anna
didn't hl.H shaking h 'nds with miuer' 8
wife al his big fine ball, but 1 shall never
forget it as long as I live
ELLEN CHADWICK.