The Democratic Press

How She Got Into the Department.

Atlanta Republican.

As the Hon. John Sherman was sitting in his office, a bright-haired pretty girl suddenly dashed into his presence. She was apparently 16, and had about her an air of business which even the cold gaze of the Ohio statesman could not transform into maiden fright or flurry. Deliberately taking a seat, the girl said:

"Mr. Sherman, I have come here to get a place."

"There are none vacant," was the reply.

"I know you can give me a place if you want to, and I think I am as much entitled to it as anybody. My father spent his life in the United States army, and when he died he left nothing. The responsibility of the family is on me, and I think we've got as good a claim as anyone else on the Government."

"What kind of a place do you want?". "I don't care what it is, but I must have work at once." Mr. Sherman assured her that there were ten applicants for every one place, and there was very little chance. She very deliberately told him that such an answer wouldn't do, and declared that if he would allow her she would come up every day and black his shoes, if he couldn't do better for her. The Secretary was struck with her determination and charmed by her bright face and her sprightly manner. He told her to come back. In less than a week she had a good place in the Treasury, which she still holds. Every morning she walks to the department with the step of a business little woman who is proud that her delicate hands can be the support of others. She receives $100 dollars a month, and supports in comfort her mother and sister. This brave, bright young woman is Miss May Macauley, formerly of Atlanta. Her father was a Lieutenant in the Eighteenth Infantry.