THE PASSING OF EFFORT--THE VISAGE OF CARE The next morning he looked over the papers and waded through a long list of advertisements, making a few notes.

Then he turned to the male-help-wanted column, but with disagreeable feelings.

The day was before him--a long day in which to discover something--and this was how he must begin to discover.

He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye.

One was a cashier wanted in a wholesale furniture house, and the other a salesman for a whiskey house.