The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19

latter awhile We 1OunQ tnere was
some experiments to be made-some
invention of his-and that was one
reasonrwhy he'd come here. We didn't
like him any better after We heard
that, i can tell you, for we thought the
company'd sink a lot more money in
such nonsense. 'Twasn't our money.
and so we hadn't no reason to grumble,
you say? Well, there's two sides to
that There's two sides to most things
if body'll only take the trouble to
look for 'em.
did you ever think how you'd feel
to look down at your hands, big, strong
and willin'. but helpless to pervide for
them dependin' on you. and then see a
pair of soft, white hands carelessly
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 evened
up on wages somehow.
And this Teller, I'll be bound he's
never invented nothin' more useful
than a new tie to his cravatf says Jim
Bryce, he'll fool away no end of
money, and then either the mill will
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
Tom, only he put it rather uglier than
that.
'Of course twas only talk, but the
feelin' was under it. and, after awhile,
from hopin' somethin' would happen.
the boys went little farther, and got
| to plannin' how to make it happen.
Il amt goin' to tell much about any
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.
i" No, we amt goin to hurt mammy's
darlin', bless his pretty little heart!-
not less he gets in the way, when he d
better be out of it, says Tom, with a
grin. But if the plaything he's so tick
led over jest flies to flinders some day,
and the noise scares him so that he
gives it up and runs home, it'll be the
best thing for him and all the rest Of
U.S.
Seemed like nobody doubted he'd
be easily scared, and so the whisperin'
and blacks looks and secret meetin's
went on.
Zone day in summer box was
brought into the room where we work
ed. shall always remember that day,
just how every thing looked. 1t had
been a bright. warm mornin'. but about
noon it clouded up slowly, and every
breath of wind died away. Not leai
moved on the trees. and every thing
was still, like as if the world was
l
thin
Inside the mill every thing looked
darker aud gloomier than usual in tina,
queer gray light. Great piles Of
castin's throwed back shadows over the
slippery floor; the long iron shafts
was like hungry arms forever reachin'
down and DRAWN back empty. and from
under the brick archway the round
door of the furnace seemed glarin' out
like big red eye. There's times when
common things don't have a common
look, and it's mostly them kind o.
times that is burned into your mem'ry
somehow.
..Nothin' seemed to go that day tbs
way folks had calculated. That miser
BILE lit lie box had no ooner been sci
down in the room than somebody
called. Hist! Look outr and there
was Boss Darlin', comm back from hi:
dinner at an onarthly hour when he't
never been known to come before. HI
had a rose stuck in his button-hole, an(
Cooked like dancin' master goin' to /;
party as l heard Bob mutter, as ht
slipped the box out of sight under ;
pile of stuff at the end of the room
They couldn't carry out their plan then
so there was nothin' left 'em but to hid,
il.
The boss looked round kind o
smilin' and pleasant like He'd got tina
model he was busy with about int
workin' order, and he was wonderful
pleased over it. And what did he do
that day. but have it brought out int
our room because, the weather havin
turned gloomy like, there was better
light by big window there. So there
he stayed fussin' over it, just as if h,
was on guard.
Then it began to thunder. and Their,
was a sudden dash of rain. so that jim
Bryce's little girl. who had come dowr
with his lunch basket, couldn't &C
home. Jim was piece worker. ant
always said he could do twice as mucl
WORK in an afternoon if he had snacl
bout three o clock.
Jim looked sort OF uneasy, now ant
then, when little jimmy d get off to tn,