The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-11

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bloody work would follow Such an evil
moment must be postponed If possible.
Accordingly, he rode out from the fnes
directly toward the palavering rioters.
Men," cried the commandment, refining
In his charger about twenty PAGES from
their front, you must know why we
are here. I haveno doubt that you have
| wrongs to be redresssd, but you cannot
attain your obJea by vandalism. cali
upon you. in the queens name, TO dis.
/ perse and return, to your homes, after
pointed from among you to present your
| side Of the case. Failing your obedience,
| / will be compelled to use force. l give
/ you FIVE minutes in which to make up
| your minds" q b
| SO saying. the doughty officer refined
his steed about and Acantered back to
| his command.
! A mighty roar went up from the
| threats Of the angry 9erowd, and their
| vengeful nature was. we'll expressed In
| the stones. sticks land other missiles
hurled irnpotently after the retreating
| horseman. But there was one good sign.
| Not a single rifle or slug-loaded shotgun
| tried It's hand at assassination. Ihe
frowning guns Of tbs battery looked 10
be pointed too well, for q hundredfold re-
| taliation. 800 -
| The major halted upon the right flank
| Of his troop, plain to view by the riot
| ers, and sat calmly waiting, with watch
| in outstretched hand The mob could
hear the harsh words of command as the
| gunners went through the loading mo-
lions. The cotton bags containing the
! mock charges of the three held pieces
| looked as genuine as that covering tne
real one, rammed solidly home In Num-
Der Four. The empty, ding-practlce
shells had all the earmarks OF being
| meant for business.
The bombardiers stood, lanyards In
hand, with the convincing earnestness OK
purpose acquired by drill. Perhaps Fred
| Hooper, at Number Four was a shaoe
more stern of ceuntenance upon ths
particular occasion But it was hard to
! discriminate.
The combined spectacle proved too
| much for the huddled mass OF rioters.
| They hurried off IN couples and Squads
! at first ftfully, but soon generally. Be
| fore the five minutes had expired tho
| battery,s performance was without an
! audience.
But Maj Morgan knew better than 10
become unduly elated over this nrst
/ achievement He dispatched Lieut..
Hardy, who was a telegraph operator In
! private life, to the Mantorville off1ce, with
| instructions to wire for quick re-
| Inducements The young officer depart
ed. highly elated at his mission, ana was
somewhat surprised to find Mmseii 1e
the little frame structure without nav
ing suffered any more inconvenience tnan
being called vile names by few OF the
strikers wives and children. He round
the desk deserted. The regular occu-
pant. as the major surmised. hao heo
| for cause. II;
mot so bad. not SO bad" chuck1ed the
| lieutenant as he delved among the frag-
meuts. Grounded hts wires and-Why
| they haven't done any damage OF I'M
portance easily can hammer that Key
straight again. It won't take many min
| utes to have the outfit IN gooo eiioosA
working order"
But while he was readJusttng the shat
tered Instruments he did not fail to take
an occasional g1anceS out OF the sInali
| window. His vigilance was rewarded by
! detecting q knot Of men fastening To-
ward the office. Thep women probably
| had warned them Of his presence.
| For a second or two the young officer
| looked perplexed. Then he took up
printed blank, seribbled off a message,
| laid If carefully at hand and was just put
| ting the finishing touches to the bent key
| when the crew of excited strikers poured
| into the small room. 20
"Well. men, what can I do for your"
| said the lieutenant courteously, turning
| toward them.
| Some Of the crowd broke out into
| threats ana .inprecatiens, but six-foot
Irishman, leader, hushed them and de-
manded of the young officer: We want
to know what y may be after dom
! here ~: 50 ~. 81 zst.sf,.,e se--,a l. .
| "Going to send message" replied
Hardy. as coolly, as possible, you can
! read it, If you care to- and he showed
the yellow slip into the others out
| stretched hands.
".To the Diphty Adjitant Gineral.
Greensborough, commenced the big fell
low, seeming rather vain of his ability to
declaim the thing, aloud. "Oi have
mathers we'll in hand. No made to sind
more throops. All QUIET.
= Morgan, Major -
!, There was silence for a second.
You can sind that" at length broke
out the Irishman, a fash of triumph
I lighting. his face.
| With we'll dissembled composure Har-
l dy took the slip of paper from the ruff