The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-21

bar work and obey and this I've found TO
De true the women who were once sersans
sirls and who TOW employ servants are
TO get girls enough 30 fill our orders. ana
there are some houses we cannot supply
az gu: girl. vii nos g. there 10 matter
Chinese or japanese boys. but never when
we can supply white help
but what was thinking about was shs
number OF women a. wsrk today support
ing men In sd1eness: . mother supporting
her husband ard two grown sons wife
her worthless husband and her istis chill
ward blow Fortunately We can find work
for nearly all OF the women who come
with good character. II n only wren they
are old-think OF y, 60 years Ole and hunt
the toii-worn body had strength to do"
a I'D Just then a man with every mark
- Of the vagahond on his face. his eyes
bleared and face scanned with debauch and
dissipation. called. not 10 ask for work. bu,
20 ask whether a woman had succeeded in
believe in the TRANSFORMATION OF souls The
yellow dog. the snarflrg, swapping cur that
died 20 give the beast In human form the
only soul he has heausathed + to fitting
hts wife lay dying. He never asks for
work. He won't work. and what n worse
he rlcries and boasts OF THE fact that
woman works for him. When she. poor
slave. falls ssck. worn on. body and mind
then ne whines for charity and IL that
fails him he abandons her 10 her fate. II
again. an ..oid man Of the sea" n she dies
the county buries her and he looks for
another Save.
And that wac another man.
Bowed with the weigh. Of years. hts face
furrowe6 by time" his limbs trsmulous
with age. an old man asked for work.
What could he do' He did not know. He
was willing 10 do whatever he .ou.d. His
story. All. mans inhnmanity 70 man
makes countless thousands mourn" he
was from New Zealand: The father Of
tIent toll and who are now enjoying the
wealth he gave them ard that which they
acquired by following his teachings. But.
10 daughter ne was sent back and forth. a
homo nowhere. nowhere q welcome guest
until ~ last they sent him 10 America 80
get rid OF me-"
what story In those few words, wha.
q story IN the picture OF the white haired.
broken down old man. who had been ship
ped away by his children 20 die. friendie-s
death among strangers. while they they,
flesh Of his iesh blood Of his blood. bone
Of h. bone bone. I've II 'ssu, s,
no work for him. and he turned away. as
he has perhaps turned away from half
hundred places before. only to realize how
enysehled mind IN This buoy. busting
pushing veryday life.
Time at last makes all things even. Not
long r. his Journey TO the sunset gates Of
life BY and by, when he comes 10 law his
weary burden down. and with trembling
hand lift the wind-woven curtains Of pur-
nle and gold that hide from human eyes
the valley Of the shadow, Re win take one
Tong, iaE look back over the pathway he
has frod ana thank God that AT last there
Is rest: When the son or daughter sha!
stand In that place. with thunder OF the
waves thse break upon the shores Of efer-
nifty ringing In their ears. will thew. az they
look back, sec standing somewhere the
shadow OF that old father they shipped
away 80 get rid of7''
And that was another man.
A verifable house Of SORROWS - the pub
Ne employment bureau, with hut a gleam
% light here and there which aarkens the
shadows about II. Grand. gosd and noble
work are the men and women doing who
seek 20 aid and who do aid hundreds and
hundreds every month 20 earn their bread
nv the sweat 81 their brow. Blu. II is those
they cannot help. those who cannot help