Show COLOR BLINDNESS HIM an unfortunate employment for a man man who distinguish colors from the ike detroit F free ree press it was in chicago he ile was standing ingon on a corar of dark and manion man a streets leaning against a 06 lamp post pit and looking at the passers by with the air of 0 a friendless man his ilia upa appearance g pe arance was decidedly ula ilia we A ce was bloated bib nose red and liia his eyes watery he ile caught eight sight of me I 1 turned my lace face a away ay but it was too toolate late he baw t that bat he h a had aroused my and be he made in mv direction yon you look like a man with a heart be he bald said softly yon look like a philanthropist sir air behold an object 0 for O your charity 1 I have no time ah ab bay say not BO so he hi gurgled we must always find time for good deeds Inthis in this world behold your opportunity 11 I 1 i hesitated his breath was vile with liquor but bis his smooth tongue made me undecided he ile caratu me by a button and I 1 BuCTer eJ myself to be drawn into a near hallway honored biro air be said with a plaintive 1 I am a wreck mentally and physically bat I 1 was wealthy once not many years ago it was my wont to ride along the streeta jn my own carriage with a coachman and a t tiger i e r b but ut a wheat deal on the board I 1 lost 0 t li me my riches from michigan avenue I 1 tamed turned to the environs of south dark clark street with the remnant of in my Y fortu fortune ne some ome my pocket the friends of my palmy d days ays passed without recognizing me and I 1 spent one week in familiarizing myself with the worlds ingratitude then impressed with the fact that I 1 must do something or starve I 1 looked I 1 0 about me for an honest occupation the proprietor of a restaurant observing my qualifications to be above my condition made me his cashier I 1 worked for him one day and that day completely wrecked me I 1 was driven to dri drink and an d you now see me a bot a man without a character 1 it t was impose ble hie to leave him wi without about parting with a button BO so I 1 rema rems nd while be he recounted the ce ve culiar story of bia his downfall you ate are unwilling to accept my stat statement emerit be he ventured noticing my caustic smile let me tell tel I 1 you eird air that fortunes bare have been m made ad and lost by three strokes of the ticker I 1 bad ad a whole day in which to be ruin ruined e d you see when I 1 wont went to work in the restaurant the proprietor banded handed me a paper our meal checks are printed aper in different colors he said prin too and d do not contain the price of the meal sud S udy v the paper and yo you u will understand it 11 1 look at the memorandum and found that a white check meant ac a blue check a red check 15 and BO O on up to the green check which 0 toed for 1 I 1 posted myself thoroughly ou ehly on these colors and their relative prices and ani began taking in checks check and sand giving out change with the eang sang froid frold of an old cashier and a confidence in in mys myself e if that was sublime we had a an n unusually heavy day at 0 9 that evening I 1 bad had a bushel basket full of ae ar sorted checks tho the proprietor came around to congratulate Frat me on my success as a cashier cashler and while be was talking a gentleman gentlemen presented a red check and a 2 bill I 1 gave him tl 85 and shoved the pasteboard into the basket hold up eaid said the proprietor you made a mistake I 1 guess not end said 1 I m my memorandum under udder bis his noe nose irel red fifteen lie he gave me 2 and I 1 gave hin bira 1 85 1 man alive I 1 that a red one it wag was a green one 1 I beg your pardon said 1 I pulling it out of the basket it that aint red ill eat it 0 better eat it then said ha he 1 I say its green I 1 I 1 I 1 you must be color blind I 1 remarked youre the one color blind 1 he replied and be he called a third person who positively swore that the check was green and BO so it was I 1 had never before known that I 1 was color blind but it was a fact and there I 1 had been giving change on red checks when I 1 should dhave have taken cash for green ones that days work put me in d debt abt to the restaurant keeper forath fie over he ile discharged me on the spot and took all my clothes and personal property he could get at to balance accounts even then I 1 owed him something but he could do nothing more and I 1 went straight to a saloon and bought my first drink with my last dime from that time on every cent I 1 could beg or borrow has gone for liquor until lo 10 I 1 am become a wreck 0 kind sirl airl you have never been color blind you know not what it is to struggle with this great ocular defeat have pity have compassion cast your pearls before he ile released my button and balked both bands imploringly I 1 gave him a quarter not so much for himself as for the pleasure his hie fabrication bad had afforded me and passed meditatively vely on my way |