Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-07

by and SEES the very bread taken from
their mouths? | say down on the wo-
man who would thus rob us of our !
rights, almost our very life, that she Z
may grow richer. Scarcely ever seeing
daylight from one weeks end to an
ether, we are paid g mere pittance, and
fometimes nothing, for unremitting.
Understanding toll Let us assert our
manhood, defend our. rights, and
trike. ~ r.
Loud shouts rent the air asghe finish
ed speaking, and after three hearty
cheers for Jack Lorley, they dispersed
toward their various cabins for the
night.
Soon after their departure woman,
contrasting strangely with the sur
rounding scenery, made her appearance.
and going to one of the cabins tapped
lightly on the door. 1t was Immediate
Fly opened by a poorly dressed woman.
IL am Mrs. Landmere, the owner of
these mines. Can you give me. lodging
for to-night?' The door was rudely
shut in her face She went to another
and still another, meeting with the same
signal failure and scowling, forbidding
countenances. It was commencing to
rain aud night was coming on. What
! would she do?
Tired, wearlinand travelstained, she
resolved to try once more. She was
met by q neat, klndly-looking woman,
who looked surprised at seeing a SO
! finely dressed woman ut the mines.
She dreaded disclosing her identify
lest the kindly expression would harden
as the others had done. She ventured
to do so, however, and there was look
J said respectfully, Madame, it is very
dangerous and daring for you to come
here. They have vowed to kill you if
they ever came in contact with you.
scarcely dare do it, but you can not stay
in the rain, SO come inn
| She entered poorly furnished but
clearly room, and the woman placed a
chair for her, blushpg painfully as she
said, Il can not offer you any refresh
ment, for have nothing to eat.''
! "My poor woman, how is that?' ask
ed Mrs. Landmere, synpatheticaily.
lit is the old question of Capital
against Labor" said the woman. ':Mv
husband gets very poor wages, and
sometimes nothing, and the overseer
has done his best for US, but it has been
of no avail;' and she looked at her
accusingly.
Mrs. Landmere's vague suspicious
were now confirmed as to the over
seer's duplicity. Holding out her hand
| to the woman, she said: Il assure YOU
your wrongs shall be righted, and now
will you allow me to retire; I am very
weary
The woman led the way to ladder
leading to a loft in the top of the cabin.
1T will be safer for you here,' she
said apologetically, as she assisted her
guest to ascend.
peacefully, oblivious of all danger. The
rain, which had commenced early in
the evening, was now pouring down in
torrents; it increased its fury; but still
the sleeper slurnbered peacefully on.
A great clap of thunder made hc1
stir uneasily, and awakening with
start, she felt a consciousness that some
one was in her room. She lay awake
nervously for several minutes. Su1-
denly a flash of lightning revealed to
her startled vision man bending over
her bed, knife grasped tightly in his
hand; plainly he intended to kill her.
In him she had recognized her long
lost son! After that one fash all was
again dark.
my sons she fonnd strength to say,
breathless|y.
'.Mother!'' came in a scarcely audi.
BILE tone from the darkness.
Striking q match and lighting the
lantern which he carried, and coming
nearer to the bed. he sank on his knees
at her bedside and implored her for
giyeness saying remorsefully with q
shudder that che had almost been Il
murderer, and his victim-his own
mother" All the time he had been at
the mines he had never heard the name
of the woman who owned them.
! She raincd tears of ,hankfulncss down
upon her restored son, and after their
emotion had somewhat subsidized, he
told her of his wanderines; how he had
left her; tried to get work. but in vain;
had searched for the girl of his choice,
but had almost given up in despair,
when he found her, sick and alone, he
had married her and gone out West to
the mines to try to make a living. for
he was too proud to appeal to her for
help. 'But, MOTHER he said "why
have you treated the miners so ruth
lessly, so heartlessly. Many of them
have nothing to eat and we are on the
verge of striking" -.
MY son this is the aim of my visit,
which has terminated so happily for me,
in the restoration of my son. 1t is not
my injustice. too have been deceiv-
ed. It is the ovcrseer who has been
grinding them down and defrauding me.
But shall let him go and will not pros
ecute him, but let his own conscience
be his punishment.
/ Many were the blessings heaped upon
Mrs. Landmere by the miners for her
| generosity to them, for she more than
doubled what they had thought of
striking for; the old oversecr was dis
charged, and his place filed by the hus-
band of the woman who had been so
kindly hospitable to her. 49,
The Fifth avenue residence is no long
! er somber and dull, but gay with child
ish prattle and, laughter, while Mrs.
Landmere, as she looks proudly at her
son, wife and children. who have re-
turned with her, says: ''My prayer
was answered. and my last days are in
deed blessed s..s :a* $yz.e
4 Troubles of a President.
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