The Republican journal., 1875-09-02
IN the Dark.


as the whistle sounded from the root Of tn
boiler house and the echoes OF its boomin,
1hrieI; came back from the hills across th
ravine through which the Black Rive
found its way He had handed in hi
report at the office before the slackenin!
speed OF band and wheel and Shatting ha,
soitened the clamorous whir of the spin
dies and the rumbling of the mules to
whisper and then to silence; when dow
the stair-cases of the general central tow
er, past the now unguarded door, and on
into the gray darkness OF the late twilight
rusLled II crowd in calico, dividing into
three streams ;lS it flashed over the thres
hold one going north to the corporation
boarding house, another taxing the oppo
site direction toward the meaner part o
the small village, and a third crossing the
canal directly to the tenements dimly seer
on its bank. The hundred windows of th,
huge mill shone yellow. 10 travellers on
the down express" that stood by the plat
form station, the pump OF It's safety brake
painting as if impatient OF the delay, these
lights seemed golden llechs in q mine o
prosperous industry, and their distant
CLEAN suggested pleasant thoughts OF ;
busy multitude. Near to the walls the
slanting rays lighted.up indistinct figures
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