The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04

Sun Q few about the expenditure
oOa, 900. Humanity was full Of re-
IN to be helped. 1t was the same
that Jesus made. 'They will not
J unto me that they might have
nal iife." And these saloons! He
red past q dozen on the main street.
never had thrust themselves 20
p,cuously. into his senses before.
as he wns going by one Of them. q
I'd Of miners noisily burst out and
tered over the sidewalk. One or
Of them noticed Stuart and seemed
med as they skunk by. He went on
the Salvation Army hall and could
help thinking Of Rhena. living her
life In such surroundings, work.
with this rough. turbulent element.
ough the large part Of the miners
so far kept away from the saloon.
fingered n little a. he walked by.
ne to get q glimpse Of Rhena, but
not see her and went on home.
he next few days were days Of
\ anxiety to Stuart. The doctors
lotions as to the typhoid fever
red correct. It broke out and swept
Cornlshtown with great fury. No
could remember when such an cpl
ic had ragged there. Stuart sent
n to Chicago and had several train.
nurses come up and begin duty at
expense. He blessed God for the
gs that money could do in cases
this. He also relieved DR.. Saxon
hiring two assistants and Of course
e the doctor himself understand
all the work he did while the
es were shut down would be reck-
the same as IL the men were be-
paid.
1t all this was nothing to what ne
led to do. He went himself into the
ers cabins and acquainted himself
all their rough and meager sur.
ldings. Several times during these
IS he met Rhena, but she was al
busy with her duties and hardly
anged a word. Stuart fancied she
to avoid meeting him. Her man.
WAS different. He wondered vague.
she knew, II she had been told,
he had found her that night and
led her down through the upper
this time he was also working at
problem Of the men in idleness, and
more he thought it over the less
dent he grew Of his ability to
the difficulty. Champion was a
ne town. with nothing else Of an
strial character to occupy labor Of
kind. There had once been an at
bt to put in smelling furnaces, but
I'D failed owing to the expense of
Stuart confronted a condition Of
tical ignorance on the part Of the
ers concerning any kind Of manual
Except that to which they had been
1t is Of course hardly necessary
ly that he daily used his influence
the men to persuade them to
e to his terms, and yet even while
ng and urging he could not avoid
ling Of great unrest, and with it all
a certain admiration for the men
gave as their reason for not com.
back to the Champion mines on
rt's terms. 1T don't belong to be
,s to take the dollars while all the
Of De Mott men be shut out at the
wages by other companies" The
e situation was a deadlock so far
be union was concerned, and the
e problem was a complication Of
Is and conditions in the CONNER,
world which Stuart faced as 3
thing, especially when he found
elf attempting to apply the teach.
Of Jesus to his part of it. lie was
ng to act on those teachings as
as lie discovered them. but other
connected with the strike on boil
were not willing. And he was,
nSly or unwiliingly, part Of the
nerclal system, and as far as he
gone yet he saw little relief for the
npicn men or little opportunity for
use of the money he was ready to
or use except to help lessen the
ediate sufferings regardless OF
other people might call its cause
ad not been enough in the habit OF
money for other people to know
TO do 1t either wisely or In way
oduce permanent results.
the week went by, and it was the
of Aunt Royals and Louise's
Stuart dreaded the occasion
use his heart was not in 1t at all
Femed to him like q cruel thing
now to be having a gay, expen'
dressy gathering, as he knew this
would be, at tir when little
ren were dying ant rugged men
women in those wr, ched miners
were tossing ir he fever Of
scourge which lsld its bony
lIies Of death agat It nearly ey'
ioor In Cornishtof and grimly
one by one out the burning
within to the colo ,brnce of ths
ehger outside. st I spent tn,
round Of visits, At different
he found And.ey and Rhena
sric, All Of them were worn and
WIN the burdens of all they had
ana carried. Ri "A especially
Ell TO show the strs of her Crea,