The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-12-24

@N GN> might satisfy ones
80 sHssy< ~ brain wi it, even if
=" EN7Z,YSISSZ2M he had an empty
%TNin 'EAW stomach, but it's an
~F insult on top of an
injury to expect half-starved man to con-
tent stomach and brain wi cruelty SER
mons. He never drew bluid from the text.
Joost all piece O. fiowry language,
without mair soul or religion int than
you'd draw from pump. II he had put
a bit heart int, but seen there was
neither heart nor brain in it, what good
was all the fine words2 They say he has
good delivery-the Lord deliver us
from such vanity in long words. People
who call in the doctors to help them
whet their appetites may be satisfied wi
that kind O. preachin', but people whose
wits are taxed as much as their muscle
to keep body an soul together want more
substantial food than Mr. Barnes brings
to the market. II we are starved in this
world, that's no reason we should be
piuched in the next But along comes
Mr.. Barnes wi his fowery sermons, his
cambria linen, an his hair banged, an
AOilS hS ludb IL We dlt llllh bluiiSN hSiN,
we ought to be thankful an satisfied, be-
cruise we are prepared to go where we'll
have no bluid at all.
A silence fell upon Sandy Rea's audi
ence Many smiled, and one or two
laughed outright at his quaint speech.
1t was a chilly morning; the dense fog
rising from the river obscured the sky.
The lamp in the railway station revealed
men in soiled, worn, ill-fitting, patched
and ragged clothes. Grimy, scanned,
knotted hands clasped dinner pals.
Faces lined with care; unshaved, full
bearded faces; serious, sad, resolute and
apathetic faces.
1t was on a morning like this, when
pail hung over the busy city, and the at
mosphere was laden with fog and SCOT
blended into a yellowish murkincss, that
Shuttleburg was shocked by an over
shadowing calamity. From the midst
of the dense fog flashes of light shot
forth at times throughout the morning
tongues of flame assembled from the mill
stacks; eyes of fires winked in the fog
bank, and dull, yellowish glares of light
were projected horizontally as the furnace
doors were opened. A babel of sound
arose; the changing of iron against iron,
the ringing of mighty anvils pounded by
gigantic hammers, the dull, muffled
sound of the iron rolls, and the ceaseless
clang of iron falling on the cooling plates
was borne from the river side up and
over the beetling cliffs.
On that dull October morning, wher
the wheels were whirling fast, and the
iron workers, stripped to their waists
were bathed in perspiration, SOUND
smote the heavy air like the crash o.
worlds. The iron workers, momentarilN
stunned, instantly comprehended tn,
nature of the disaster. Every man ant
boy who had sense and strength sought
safety in fight. In the headlong rush
puddler seized boy in his flight, anj
ran with him to the side of the building
A portion of the bursted boiler in its de
scent cut the roof of the mill as thougl
it were made of paper; the falling tim
bers caught the man and boy, and befor,
they could be extricated, the MAJ
breathed his last. The boys right arm
was lacerated from his shoulder to HI
elbow; quiyering muscles and bone wer,
laid bare, horrible sight, more pitiabl
than the headless trunk of the enginee
lying near the boy and the dead puddler
Physicians were there in abundance
there was no lack of surgical skill, o
sympathy for the victims of the explo
sion and the families of the bereaved
The calamity that desolated score o
homes fell heaviest upon the Dunns. Lit
tie Jem Dunn, who, when the surgeon
began the work of removing the cinder
and splinters from his arm looked stead
lily into his gaping wounds, then calmly
at the surgeon and said: Don't tell M
mother till it's over" lost hls father AM
eldest brother by the explosion. An
other brother the surgeons thought woulC
be crippled for life. The end of boile
wrecked the walls of the house tn
Dunns occupied, and the dead an
wounded members of the family were re
moved to Sandy Rea's house. Jem's re
covery was rapid. The toilers in tn
mill attributed it to his extraordinar
pluck.
The great tide of sympathy that fowe
out to the victims of the disaster, to tn
credit of Shuttleburg let it be said, as
sumed practical shape for time. TIL
charitably inclined promptly honored tn
first draft made upon them when the eA
tent of the calamity was known. BIZ
p when all was done that concerted actio
could accomplish, the future of the Dunn
was unprovided for. John Dunn,
CHEEKY, handsome fellow with laughin
! blue eyes, and a spirit that nothing coul
subdue, entered the mill one day, and a
the end of six months reviewed whs
seemed a horrible dream as he tried
sit up unaided in his chair. Among III
wage-workers in the adjoining mill, man
quietly aided Sandy Rae, who placed on
of his rooms at the disposal of th
Dunns, "until they were better provide
for But this htful and UNEQUAL contr