Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-07-27

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) such nonsense. 'Twasn't our money
and 50 we hadn't no reason to grunble
you sayp Well there's two sides t
that There's two sides to most thing
4 body'll only take the trouble /,
look for EN-.
Did you ever think how you'd fec
70 look down at your hands, big, strons
and willin', but helpless to pervide 70,
them dependin on you, and then see ,
pair OF soft. white hands cnrelessly
wastin' what would be life to YOU and
yours?
That's how it looked to us. For
Times had been hard with us. and, as
told you. Old keswick had always cal.
culated that the losses must be eyened
up on wages somehow.
And this Teller, I'll be bound hos
never invented nothin' more usefnl
than new tie to his cravatr says Jim
Bryce he'll fool away no end Of
money, and then either the mill win
have to go down, or wages will, and
mine has got about to the foot of the
ladder now
there's no doubt we'll go down,
unless some of his experiments blows
him up. Wish they would answers
Iom' only he put it rather uglier than
that
"Of course twas only talk, but the
leelin' was under it, and. after awhile,
from hopin' somethin' would happen.
The boys went a little farther, and got
70 plannln' how to make it happen.
Il amt goin' to tell much about anv
plot | took care not to know much
ABOUT It, for fear I'd run across some
thin I'd feel bound to try to bender,
and l didn't want TO hender nothin,
that's the fact. Only there was no muir |
der nor nothin', like that in it; the men
wasn't that kind-leastways, most of
EN- wasn't.
NO we amt goin to hurt mammy's
oarlin, bless his pretty little heart
not less he gets in the way, when he'd
better be out of it, says Tom, with
grim. But il the plaything he's so tick
ledover jest flies to flinders some dav
and the noise scares him SO that he
gives it up and runs home, it'll be the
Dess thing for him and all the rest of
us.
Seemed like nobody doubted he'd
be easily scared. and so tho whisperin, !
and blacks looks and secret meetin's
went on.
zone day in summer a box was [
brought into the room where we work.
3D. | shall always remember that day g
Iuss how every thing looked. 1t had a
Oeen bright warm mornin', but about a
aeon it clouded up slowly, and every v
breath OF wind died away. Not a leaf
moved on the trees, and every THING L
vas still, like as if the world was
loldin its breath and waitln for some Z
him. Il
Inside the mill every thing looked Il
a;ker aud gloomier than usual in that a
uher gray light Great piles of b
as TINS throwed back shadows over the
hppery floor; the long iron shafts g
'as like hungry arms forever reachin' j.
own and DRAWN back empty. and from
rder the brick archway the round it
cor OF the furnace seemed glarin' out w
ke big red eye. There's times when dt
ommon things don't have common bl
'ok, and it's mostly them kind Of al
mes that is burned into your mem'ry co
,mehow
"Nothin' seemed to go that day the Lin
ay folks had calculated. That miser- ha
G lit lie box had no sooner been set frC
'%n in the room than somebody tn
4led. Hist! Look outg and there We
rs Boss Darlin, comm back from his tin
nner at an onarthly hour when he'd re
'Ver been known to come before. He tbs
i'd a rose stuck in his button-hole. and
ooked like danein' master goin' to a th;
-rty, as l heard Bob mutter, as he tht
pped the box out of sight under n in
lie OF stuff at the end of the room. brt
icy couldn't carry out their plan then, wo
there was nothin' left 'em but to hide ain
KIN
THE boss looked round kind If hel
hin and pleasant like. He'd got that
'del he was busy with about into big
'rkin' order, and he was wonderful his
sased over it. And what did he do. set
1t day, but have it brought out into he
room because, the weather havin'
ned gloomy like, there was better use
ht by big window there. So there sir,
stayed fussin' over it, just as if he thr
5 on guard. out
Then it began to thunder and there wei
a sudden dash OF rain. SO that Jim NEE
ice's little girl, who had come down GOO
h his lunch basket. couldn't 90 wot
ne. Jim was piece worker, and mer
avs said he could do twice as much You
* In an afternoon If he had a snack
ut three o'clock.
Jim looked sort OF uneasy, now and 0"s
n, when little jimmy d get off to the Il
k part of the room any WAYS pieb H.
ere that box was. But he couldn't s,,ot
nothin, and may be there wasn't Zoal
danger; only was sure he didn't mo-.
her round there, and was glad h,m.
IN she wandered off into the room a.
ond-a store-room where she was Goo
stay some times, while she waited atto.
her fathers basket. $50 $50
The storm grew heavier instead OF read
ter, till we could hardly see to $50.
k All at once there was blindin' tbar
OF light and a crash as if the whole G.
h was a-tearin' to pieces. and we wo
- IT. ,''ia . sa'.. 'iou ~ every alrec- ing
- - - 80 49, We oou!u get our out {
whole end of the room was blowed naos4
and gully pIowed way down TO g..