Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25

iscd a nice position in Baltimore, and
Gus himself would take her there 1t
should be stated that she left the city
after loaning the $780, after waiting
until She was tired for a job. She left
word and her address with her rela-
tiyes to notify her when Gus had found
IL. Month after month rolled by, and
she wrote Mr.. Machen that she would
cancel the note If he would place her in
one of the Departments. 70 this she
got no answer, so the note being dBe,
she wrote to the relatives for its pay
ment They answered in surprised
tones, after her letter to Gus, Offering
to cancel it, reassuring her that the job
would be along all right, etc.
The widow, however, as stated, on
ascertaining that the only way to hold
the endorser was by having the note
protested, came to the city and did so.
After this act Gus was not so cor
dial, nor would we be either, so we
do not blame Gus. He however, took
he widow to Baltimore and had her
assigned to work in the postoftce. 1t
was hard work, and 1t is a long story
after this. She was superintendent, la
b0rer and mechanic. respectively, on
the payroll and everything was done
to freeze her out but she, not under
standing matters, worked on in the di-
roctory part Of the Office, the one she
was least fitted for, as she did not
know a soul i'm Baltimore.
at length, made desperate by separa-
ton from her aged mother and nearly
dead from the work, she finally sue
coeded somehow or other i'm being
transferred to her present place in a
Pennsylvania city, whore her mother
and friends reside. The work is too
hard for her in this place and she is
In despair She is trying to get trans
ferred to some Department in Wash
ington.
She came here last week and the
week before, the first time to see the
authorities, the second time to see a
friend. She related her story to Mr..
| Natsen. but he frankly told her that
! he disbelieYed her tale and would in
vestigate the matter Mr.. Matsen has
nothing to investigate. The note has
been paid The widow is out nothing,
and she has a job, such as it is. She
dld not loan the money to Mr. Machen,
! but to Mr. Liachen's relatives, and they
have returned the amount.
AS we intimated In the beginning,
we feel ourself sympathizing with Gus.
His relatives bring him down if he is
! "6red" for this. Such are relatives the
! world over. Th3 only safe proposition
for an ambitious, energetic man, who
| endeavors to forge ahead, is to sum
mon, at the beginning Of his career all
! his known relatives to a banquet and
poison the last one of them. If he
! makes an exception he 10 ruined soon
err or later superintendent Machen
was too loving and affectionate to do
this. And here is the result. His rela-
tives borrow $500, induce him to en-
dorse the note. make him promise to
secure a position for the loaner Of the
money, which he finally does but the
position not being anything like his
relatives, and subsequently himself
promised the widow here he is at the
end of the string looking down on the
block where his official head is to rest
while the POstmaster-G General swipes it
off close to his spine.
We regret If Gus loses his head in
such a good cause We had much rather
catch HIM and Brer. Abner in some
deviltry and, Gus may not believe it,
but we hope he will swim ashore in
tnls case all right, and that this is the
end of the affair.
We have had relatives, too.