The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-10

/ the IOI~IlGdtIS I0OA oRlt AAO44ietNA 2 So
his mad up; he's going to run his bust
ness or quit. He knows where he can
get some new men, and ii you strike
| he'll get them. You boys will maybe
| fight a week, a month, two months;
and then you will have to go back on
his terms, or you won't have the
chance to go back at all. /"
Judith clasped her hands together in
voluntarily, 'but if you strike how will
we pay for the house,"
We cant pay for the house. Not
unless"
He hesitated aud she completed the
words for him, Not unless my brother
could pay you back what you lent
him. But he'll be out of job, too"
That's it. And we've got to live, too,
And if the stores trust us they'll have
to be paid. Mr.. Tossing, he was awful
kind and said, You. tell Judy not to
worry, she sha'n't lose her house, but
we can't lay right down on him. ]
don't see how a man, jest to git him
self talked about, Jest to make a name
in the newspapers and have folks say
what big man he isl don't see how
he can be bringing other men to ruin
that way! Josh felt awful bout it, he
got up and said how he was situated
and how after being sick so much and
his family sick he was jest gittin' on
his feet and this would knock him fiat
again. He most cried, he felt so bad,
But it didn't do no good. They're era
zy!"
Judith found no word of cheer; but
she did not ask him whether he could
not keep at work whatever the others
did. The worlingman's wife recog-
nizes the working1nan's code of honor
as well as he.
There's only one man. said Billy,
who can do anything; that's Alder
man McGinnis-''
"Oh, Billy, won't he? But they say
he's a bad man, and you got some of
the boys to vote against him."
Il don't know; that's what Mr.. Loss
ing said and young Harry, and YOU
living so long in their family and they
giving us such nice presents. of course
| wanted to work, like he asked: and
| didn't think it was right spending so
much money on the streets-thougb I
may be glad enough to come to a
street job myself, little as + ever
thought it," he added with a proan
i wish ! hadn't gone against him
now, for | got to go to see him with
fltzmaurice and young Losing, to-
morrow
win be help you, do you think, Bill
ly?n
Il amt much hope You see he's
after an oil or lard or some kind of
inspectorship, good pay and awful lit
tie work; and Timberly can git it for
him; and Timberly's for the strike. and
! bet he won't mad Timberly and the
boys, too"
But why is Mr.. Timberly for strik-
ing? Don't he know"
He don't care, Judy. He's running
for the Legislature. and he wants the
labor vote; so he's making a big
splurge."
How smart you are, Bill, about such
things" said the wife, proudly. But
the unfeigned praise only brought a
dark cloud to the mans brow. II was
forgetting another bad thing" said he.
Morris, the foreman, he is going to
Illinois to his wife's folks; he's got
job there, and he told the men to-day he
recommended me to the boss: and he
as much as said he'd speak about me
to HOLSTER
"Oh, Bill, do you call that bad news?
IL would be SIS month more; it would
pay the payments on the housed"
and do you think" said Bill, bitter
~, ''do You think that they'll be max
ing a striker a foreman? No. they'll
bring strange Teller and put him
over ns,'
He got up: he began to walk the
floor in strong agitation. "Then. it
amt all that--it's more; I've worked
at the Hollister, man and boy, for al
most 3 years. Well j remember my
poor mother fetching me to Moore,
who was foreman then, and his prom
ising me a job. / began at $50 a week
and / was that proud-oh, Judy, III
be lost without the shop! One day Ifol-
lister, the old man himself, went
through and seen me at a casting.
That's good job you're making Hum
ter says he. He remembered my
name. He knows a good job when he
sees one. There's good things about
the old man, If he is pig-headed!'
Il can't butt hink it'll come right"
urged Judith. She comforted him, I'M
reasonably but just as efficiently as
wives do comfort their husbands.
whatever their class. may say what
ever their intellect Insensibly, under
the spell of her pretended hopefulness
and her real tenderness his heavy heart
lightened and his sore vanity was
soothed. But it was late in the morn
| ing before he fell asleep. Perhaps it
! was later before the wife who had
seemed so peacefully slumbering,
drifted beyond the reach Of her own
forebodings.
| Alderman McGinnis was popularity
supposed to hold the Eighth Ward in
the hollow of his hand. Rumor wag-
ged her tongue and shook her head
over the Alderman's paying contracts
his own private ayocation was that
of a contractor); she whispered how
he led junketing parties Of Aldermen
on visits to other cities at the expense
Of rival railways hoping to haul rival
brickmalSers' back; and how they par