Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-07-27
BOSS DARLIN'."
a Lions Heart That Was Hidden
Under Effeminate Manners.

You can't always tell what's in a
bundle BY the look of the wrapper"
The old man had found a seat m a
fallen tree that lay upon a sunny hill
SIDE, and was carefully smoothing and
shaping cane he had cut near by. He
held it up as he spoke and let his eve
run along its length as if to discover
It's irregularities; but his gaze wander
ed quite beyond the stick to the valley
and river below, where stood the great
mill, with its tall, blackened chimneys
and massive walls.
NO sir you can't always tell by the
looks OF bundle what's inside it, he
repeated, more emphatically. '.And if
folks would only understand it, and
stop tryin', 'twould save deal of trou.
bic. Now there the Darlin'-n
'Darlin'p" the visitor repeated. nm
certainly.
The keen eyes under the old mans
shaggy brows twinkled, and his gray
mustaehe twitched.
ooh, faint the name of anv kind Of
workman, like puddler. or mailer or
such; it's just name that's his. We
give 1t when he first come here. twelve
years and more ago. Things had been
going pretty bad at the mill then-stops
and bitches Of one kind or mother
and times gettin' worse for the men all
the while. - ~
"Mlsmanagement most of it was. or.
leastways, we thought So Old Kes-
wick-he was the overseer here-was
one of the short-sighted. savin' kind
that would lose dollar in irwin, to
Keep penny. He'd pinch and screw
ana 'conomize, as he called it. and let
things go that ought to be tended 10
till at last some big break would sweep
OH IN day all his stinginess had saved
in year. Then he'd think EXPENSES
was SO high that wages ought to be cut
a little lower
I don't need to tell you that there
wasn't any love wasted between him !
and the men. The'd got DISCOURAGED ,
ana bitter, and sort of reckless-lize. I
when all OF sudden one day Keswick /
dropped down in dead faint in the &
mill, and had to be carried home. That t
was the beginnin' of long sickness l
mat ended his work at the mill. h
The rest of the company bought out v
als interest and he went off to Europe.
we didn't know who would be sent to Y
AXE charge then, but we sort of boped F
tWould be left in Jim Bryce's hands y
led been here the longest Of any of the h
men, and knew deal about the bust >
less IN practical kind OF way. W
There wasn't much reason TO exnect y
J. OF course, but he was the man We
wanted Naturally, after the wav Il
Kings had been goin' we thought one b,
I ourselves, who'd feel some interest in W
IS old mates, would be an improve G,
lent Then, one day, down in the a,
lornin' train comes one of the com hi
any bringin' with him a young Teller W
looked younger than he was. with h,
IS white skin, blue eyes and light curly lie
air like a girls; that kind always 70
oes-that he said was the new super
tendent. Il,
superintendent says Tom Clark W,
W. as they passed by where we was IA
orkin'. That chap never super "a
tended nothin' heftier than a band al
x in his born days. te
Well. he didn't look like it. that's 81
Ct But the company owned the IN
IL, you sec, and this Teller was ono Of of
cir sort, and 50 into the place he goes. II,
70 clos, curly hair. white hands and ha
/ lblieve them white hands made the
US madden than any thing else. Thev or,
Is strong enough lookin', too. but W.
aite as lady's. Ne
s Look at 'eml' said Tom, holding an.
his own rough, black paws to show hi
9 difference. If the companv's sid
und to give him somethin' 70 do. tbe
" don't they buy him pretty little N
amer, and set him to playin' itp
ats all he's fit for. He ought to be ali
g at home mammy's darlin'p wa
80 that vas the name We got to en-
LIN him Tho Darlin'. Not 70 his ent
g, bless you, mol Thorn blue eyes da,
iid burn steel blue now and then, and the
i out SHARP II 8 sudden liko : cor
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