Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18

| excuse TO 80 upstairs after my old
! cOrncOb? | had no sooner got into INV
room than my knees gave out. chills
| galloped up my spine, and l'll be hang
| ed If / didn't faint away and lie there
| tOr 10 minutes. 1t had suddenly oc.
| CURED to me that the bowl of that
| pipe was only six inches from my nose
while the fellow was doing his shoot
ing, ana have not yet got over touch
! ing my nasal organ now and then to-
see If it is safe.
A sweet-faced and cOmely.looking
lady, with grey hair, entered The
Globe Office Thursday. and having
taken a seat, asked:
rs The Globe any cheaper by sub.
| scribing for it by the month";"
DO you live i'm the city?"
yes sir"
We'll madam, we do not deliver
The Globe to city subscribers. Tho
wholesale newsdealers sell it to the
neWsboys and we supply the newsdoal-
ers only But m you are going out of
the city we viii mail it tO v0u.'
Thank you; [ shall go iu few DAYS
for brief visit, and D want Tho Globe
sent to me. would u0t mits~ a3Dv
Of it for anything
Thanking the lady iu return. she ro-
sumed:
"lf had but a nickel and was hum
cry | would rather purchase The Globe
/ than loaf of bread. lOu may think
this an exaggerated statement But
The Globe feeds my spirit and FIN %
measure makes my miserable life bear
able, for ! know that some of the
| Things 1t exposes are true as gospel"
To what particular subjects do you
refer?"
Well I will tell you my story
came here six years ago, and this hair.
which you now see so grey was black
as a ravens wing. / did not have 70
grey hair In my head. am q soldiers
widow and | have son who Us work
ing day and night to support u.s. When
| tried to get position I'm the Depart
ments ! was, as stated, without "a grey
hair and passably comely The chief
to whom | applied named the cOndi-
ton, which l Indignantly spumed.
since then / have repeatedly tried for
some place but now my hair as grey
they no longer name that infamous
condition, and 1 can not get even tenn
porary employment Recently % lady
friend told me that a certain Depart
ment was putting ON temporary help.
| secured a letter from the head of the
G. A. r. and took it to the chief He
had scarcely glanced ot the signature
when he loudly exclaimed:
No, have no work for you'
II protested that had heard he was
putting on people He eyajgd this by
repeating 1 have no work for YOU
The very next day he put ON eight
or nine ladies' Yes, they were young
and had no grey hairs. DO you Won
der, then, why l would rather go hum
cry than be without The GlObo2 They
try to say that you do not tell the
truth, but / know that you do, from
bitter experience I'm one particular, at
least, and If you were liballing them
they would soon arrest and punish
you"
Here the lady wiped the tears from
her eyes. and. rising TO go, she gently
requested to shake hands with the ed-
itor as an assurance of her profound
sympathy with his work and of CRATE
tul recognition for the good he was
doing. The gentle, ladylike deport-
ment and sweet, resigned expression
OF this unfortunate mother and widow
struggling for a bare existence, touch
ed a visitor i'm the office so deeply that
he too wiped a fTtve tear from his
eye and remarked after her depart.
ure:
"lf the country at large could be.
lieve for an instant that Government
positions were thus made matters OF
prostitution there would be o march
on Washington, or revolution I'm "a
hours. But it is all too horrible and
shocking for outside belief Tho
Washingtonian alone knows &c TO be
true, and is so used TO it that &c is
taken as a matter of course
us there a remedy"
mo you may check but you can not
eradicate the immortality of the De-
partmeuts Washington is the only
city In the world where women work
on salary who feel no degradation I'm
Illicit intercourse I'm other cities,
when woman fOrgets her honor sl-'
drifts to the bottOm-tho street au.
the bagnio. I'm Washington she simply
puts on a little more style takes am
extra slug of whisky and figures ON
promotion. The Washington Depart.
ment female clerk who Us crooked
and, mind you, | believe but q small
minority are immoral-will work
right along. I'm no other city or con.
dition will woman work who sells
her favors." and the visitor departed,
leaving a thought behind him which
had not before occurred to The Globe