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Show A Modern Job la Frea Actrica. That Job did not have ajl the trouble , in the world Is the sad observation of a Civil war veteran who has had a variegated experience. Henry Martin Mar-tin thinks he is a good running mate for the meek man of Biblical lore. At any rate, Martin, who ia a Hollander, has not found free America a land flowing flow-ing with milk and honev at all staees of the game. While the Civil war was raging Martin's atten-' atten-' tkm was attracted by a picture of the Monitor and the Merrimac. He was an experienced sailor, and concluded the United States navy was the place for a bright young seaman. When he reached New York he found the navy was not needing any recruits, re-cruits, and enlisted in the volunteer, infantry. At the battle of Five Forks, one of his legs was shot off, and his dream of an army and navy career came to an end. .' Martin then drifted to Chicago, .where he lost part of one of his hands in a smelting works, and suffered loss in the Chicago fire. He then went to Nebraska. and took a homestead. Grasshoppers and drought visited his homestead and ruined the ; crops, and blizzards howled about his sod house and : invited pneumonia, which came near ending Martin's '-life. - V " Finally he went to .Washington, and was appointed ap-pointed a messenger in the Treasury department. He was a Republican, and when Grover Cleveland came along Mr. Martin had to make way for a Democratic Dem-ocratic messenger. At that time he was engaged in making figures out of macerated money on a small scale. He enlarged his plant and got along very well until Tom Beed issued the order banishing all sorts of stands from the Capitol. Mr. Martin's Washington Monuments and pussy cats,' made of the discarded greenbacks that are reduced to pulp in the bureau of engraving and printing, sold better - there than anywhere else, and his income was greatly great-ly curtailed. But Secretary Shaw has now struck the finishing blow by ordering the macerated bills to be bleached. Martin has nearly worn out his artificial leg trying to find customers for Images made out of the white remains of the bills, but nobody wants tbem. The Interest in the souvenir is gone when the numbers and figures cannot be seen in the chewed up money, and Martin is seeking reinstatement as a messenger in the Treasury department. |