The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-20

know at once that you considered them as dirt beneath your feet"
 Nonsense" she replied, with laugh
 "Woman, don't try to excuse your self. Have you ever in all these twen ty years given a girl to understand that you had asked for her confidence Have you shown any one of them by your attitude that she could come tc you with her troubles? Answer me that woman"
 q will. You had clerk over fin the office at 8 week IL was starvation wages. and you knew i;. and yet you refused to advance him. You knew that he freQuented pool rooms, but did you ever warn him against them? You knew that he was failing into the drinking habit, but did you ever sit down and give him a fathcrly talk: He swore. but did you ever tell him what vicious habit it was? He innl. ly became discouraged and hanged himself, but have you gone around feeling that his death can be laid Nl your door?"
 Mir, BOwser grew weak in the knees and sat down. Then he got so mad because he had grown weak that he stood up and motioned and gesturcd and tried to explode. He might have accomplished the feat In another mo. ment if the basement bell had not rung and Mrs Bowser said:
 That's probably girl in answer to the advertisement. want you 10 go down and do the engaging. Tell her that you run the house and that things have got to go as you say"
 IT didn't say"-
 "GO right down. We'll settle the servant problem right here and now If go down I shall look at her dis, dainfully and tell her that she ought to have been born coon or wood chuck, but you can welcome her as Lady Audley and put the whole house in her charge. There, she Is ringing Aagaln."
 MT. Bowser went down. It was a girl who wanted to secure the place He worked up a smile and invited her In and was just about to ask her q question when she said:
 "I didn't know that you were a wid- over or shouldn't have come"
 But am not"
 Then your wife Is an invalid, and don't care to come"
 But my wife is In first rate health"
 Then where Is she?"
 You see my dear girl, my wife holds rather radical opinions on the servant girl question. and she and ] don't agree. ] believe that a girl who works in the kitchen Is every bit as good as"-
 "I don't want the place." interrupted the caller as she made her way out and left hlm standing on one leg and 'ooNng very foolish. He was about to go upstairs when there came second ring, and he answered to find that three applicants had arrived together.
 Walk In, young ladies-walk In" To saluted, with flourish,
 Applicants For the Place.
 "Wlnt about the place?" asked the red headed girl. naturally taking the tcad
 "I want cook and will pay good wages. You will find the place as good as any Iu town"
 But what have you got to do about n?"
 "Um. My wife has heretofore hired .Il the girls. but we differ on how they should be treated She Insists on keep ing them down. while I Insist on
 "On soft soaplng around. l have met your kind before am going"
 "Is your wife at home. slr|' askc' ,he blond as she stepped forward
 Yes. but l am to engage the girl. look upon you as a human being, while my wlfe"-
 Has fool for a husband!' finished the blond as she walked out,
 Mir. Bowscr and the black haired girl looked at each other for half q min gtc, and then she asked:
 "Do you expect that girl Is going 10 hire 10 an old hen huZzy who will come Dokng around the kitchen. shall ci. ther hire to your wife or not at all"
 But, you see, my wIfe"-
 Good night, slr!'
 Mir. Bowser turned and went up. stairs. He stopped as he ascended, lie stamped down the hall He put on his hat with bang, opened the door with jerk and closed It with jar and then sat down on the front steps to mclltate. Men passed. Tramps stop. ped and leaned on the fence and called to hlm for a dime. The bats called out by the summer night wh!zzed about him, the skeeters sang In his ear, aud cats skulked and meowed, but he needed them not He had started row and got the worst of It, and he was pondering on how he could get