The Red Cloud chief., 1880-09-23

You think. perhaps, our nOu-'hphi "oyS
Are Just pcrchance "A little miIed,
Oh, when they get too horrtd bad,
We stir about and get things nIed-
What compensation has a man
Who earns his bread by sweat OF Dro~'
If home Is made n battle-ground.
And life one long, eternal owE
-Ifdrper's AdJdztne-
THE CHIMNEY At .LISGARvAN
MILL.
TWAS when I was a counting Katie
that the accident I'm going to tell you
about happened. But for the same nc,
cident, L don't think Katie an l would
be man an wife this day, for you see
my father was set again the match,
Katie being only a laborer's daughter,
while he himself was foreman in the
mills, getting good wages, and thought
a deal of by his employers. An if it
wasn't for Katie, l don't think I'd be
here now to tell you about it, for twas
she that saved my life, through hitting
on a plan that never c came INTO
the heads of me or of my comrades
aye, or of those that you'd have thought
would know better than any OF US.
| was not brought up to my fathers
trade, having been taken when young.
by a brother of my mothers. a master
bricklayer living in the town. When
nv uncle died | came home to Lisgarvan
for a bit, just to see my father, and
| finding that they were at work on the
new buildings at the mills, l Hooked for
employment there, an got it at once.
Lisgarvan Mill is a flour mill. an a
pretty place it was in those days, with
the river running just by the old red,
brick buildings, an the big water-wheel
always going round an round. The
river falls into n larger one a little
lower down, an the tide comes up as
far as the mill, so it's in boats that most
of the corn is brought in, an the flour
carried away. 'Tisn't half Sppreity a
place now; there are big whitewashed
building alongside of the old brick
ones, the big wheel is stopped, an you
hear the whirr of the engines instead oil
the sound of the water. But they
makes a power of money there. an
gives a deal of employment.
As | was saving, | got taken on as a
brick-layer. Katie's father was work
ing there, too. an | used TO see her
bringing him his dinner, and. after a
bit, | began to think that I'd like to
have her bringing me mine, too. She
was as pretty a girl then as you'd see
anywhere-she's good-looking to TINS
day-an' I soon became that fond o.
her that I'd have done anv thing Almost
TO get her. She herself was willing
enough; twas my father that made the
difficulty. He was a proud man, al
proud in his way as any gentleman, an
he was right down mad at the notion
of nv marrying a laborer's daughter
To be sure l was earning good wages
an might have married without askinS
any ones leave if I'd been SO minded
but / didn't like to 90 again the Ole
man that had always been good to me
I Besides, Katie vas just as proud as him
self, an would have nothing to say Il
me unless he was satisfied. l got TIT
master 10 speak to him, but, sure
'twasn't a bit of use. "How would yo'
like, sir" he says to the master, "If
had a daughter, to have Master Philil
take up with her. an wouldn't that b
the same thing?" l believe that tn,
master didn't think it would be ut al
J the same thing; but my father wouldn'
hear reason from him any more thai
from me; SO Katie an I had just nothin,
, for it but to wait in the hope of hi
coming round, an very little hope W
; had of that same.
As we were putting up q steamer
: CINE in the mill, We had, of course, t
. have a big chimney, an we got a ma
8 down from town to build it-one @
. them chaps that builds chimneys an
nothing else, an thinks nobody know
a ANYTHING about it but themselves.
' was working along with him, aud, in
Z deed, twas | that built the most OF II
{ an n right good job it a 'Twa
. finished by Christmas-ten years ag
a this Christmas coming on-all but tn
lightning conductor, and that was ne
put up, owing to the masters wantin
to make inquiries when he'd goto Lol
don an see for himself what would b
the best kind to use. The master VIZ
a scientific sort of a gentleman. al
had ideas of his own-sometimt
they'd be better than other people,
sometimes maybe not so good. At an
rate, there was a delay about the col
ductor, an in the meantime the 81
gines were at work, an the big chin
ney was smoking away like blaze
Mr.. Brown, the strange workman. ha
gone away, saying, very condescent
ing like, that he was sure Jim Fore
(that was me) would be able to taste
the rod to the chimney as well as !
could do it himself. He took all b
scafolding with him, but, before I
!, went away, he fixed a beam with
;. pulley in it into the top of the Gimme
- an left a long rope hanging throus
it, SO that q man could be hOisted up
any time; an there the rope hui
dangling, week after week, until Il
master come home bringing the n
along with him.
Once it had come, there was no got
losing any more time in fixing it, SO OF
SATURDAY. afternoon in January up
went on a plank, slung securely at &
end of the rope, my tools along wi
me, an settled myself astride on q
stone coping. Twas rather late in t
day, but the morning had been too W
and stormy to work. an the mast
was as impatient to get the job done
If it hadn't been himself that was hi
"a dering it all this time. 1 was as mu
= at home atop of the chimney as W
% on the ground. an 1 worked on witho
2 once looking down, until my job W
finished. an l was putting up my too
: Then, all of a sudden, l heard a rattli
noise, an looking over, / see the pla
. going down very fast. / called o.
J SHullo, there! send that up again, "
q you?" but the only answer l got was
loud laugh, for all the world like 81
1oa Jerry, the natural's; and sure enous
~ there he was, standing by the windla
81 jumping an clapping his hands.
5, looked about for the man whose bu
81, 10 ness it was to manage the windlass, [
[ = not a sign of him was there, an in
esi minnie I heard the rattle of the pu
sa e, again, an saw that the rope was n
ming through it in the wrong directs
no I made a grab at it, but twas jeri