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Show Too Old to Work tit rcrty-Six. Too old, as he had been informed, to be of further use in the world of work, where he had labored dur-, dur-, ing the" fullness, of his youth and middle age, and . wearied of the rebuffs he suffered in seeking employment employ-ment in Chicago, Charles B. Carpenter, 4$ years old, . in the prime of life, until recently employed as a bookkeeper for the United States Leather company, - ' in Chicago, took poison and expired. ..... ' Carpenter had been employed by the United Etates Leather company. He was discharged from Us position six weeks ago. ' ' - "They told me I was too old to work," he said, and smiled wanly into the appreciative faces about Um. "I' am 46 years of age and, have outlived my sefulness. They wanted a young man for my position posi-tion and I .was told to go, after half a lifetime of bard 5rork, too. ' -' . - . . "It came hard," thft dying man continued. It Deemed unjust, but what could I do? : The rules, you ; Inow, the rules of the company. ; And I was told the same thing at every place I have applied for work. ' . The same old story too old for usefulness. Solde-. Solde-. cided to end it all." And that is moden business: - v v Why; a man should be just in his prime at 46. . Few of the great men of the world have doue their best work before that age. i . The agony of soul alid body that poor devy suffered suf-fered js nothing, however, to the officials of the company com-pany who so cruelly cast him out to die. They must make every penny possible out of the business, no . matter how, many men their system drives to ruin and suicide.. . . ' Sometimes it seems there is mighty little Christianity Chris-tianity or humanity in the world since men began to . worship business as their god. - |