News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-02-27

been formed around her, and one
them with kick sent his heavy boo,
through the drum, and another stag
gered, with drunken oath, close up to
the woman and raised his fist Stuart,
as he saw the face, thought that the
rum crazed man imagined the kneeling
figure to be that of his own wife, who
had more than once begged him on hel
knees to spare her and her children.
1t was a flash of time, and Stuar
gave the man blow with his fist that
knocked him swearing against a man
behind him. Before any one could raise
his arm again or strike blow the min.
ers had seized on every one of the as.
sailants of the army, and roar went
up from the entire mass of excited and
angered men. The influence of the ar.
my still was so strong with the great
majority that it resented with the deep.
est indignation any indignity offered its
little band of officers and men.
'Duck 'em in the fountainw yellet
some one with more than touch OF
grim humor.
The fountain" was a huge cast iron
basin in the center of the square which
for several years had been used for a
watering trough. 1t had about foul
feet of water in it, supplied from the
pumping of the mines.
The suggestion was just suited to the
coarse, rough spirit of the crowd
Struggling in the clutch of a number
of brawny hands, the offenders were
dragged up to the basin and flung into
it. AS fast as they floundered out, drip.
ping and cursing, they were thrown in
again. A great roar of laughter and
shouts rose from the mob. In the midst
of it all the army marched out of the
square singing:
Come, sinners to he Saviour now;
lie wore the thorn crown on his brow;
He shed his blood that you might be
Redeemed to all eternity.
There was the same dauntlesS look on
the leaders, face. No one could say
that she was disappointed or disheart,
ened by the seeming lack of answer to
her prayer or by the wild confusion all
about her. The squad halted out in the
street, and there another group gather
ed about them listening to testimony
and prayer and song.
! Stuart and the minister hesitated
Avhere they were for a moment, not
knowing what to do now, when the
&rowd farthest away, over by the rail
load tracks. began to run altogether to-
lard smaller crowd coming down tn,
Pill from the Davis mine.
II believe the men that did the burn
ing are caughtw cried Stuart to Burke
The two struggled over in the direc'
tion of the hill and were met by the
same company that had come out tC
Ehe house demanding Eric.
The newcomers marched into the
square, and one Of them going up into
the stand told the news. They had
! found the engineer, fireman and pump
men locked in an old dryroom be
longing to recently abandoned mine
about a mile up the hills, tied secure
| ly, but uninjured. There was no trac,
| of the men who had done all this fol-
the evident purpose of firing the engine
house and getting rid of Eric and Stu
art as two men who would be likely
TO insist upon law and order as lone
as they had any indu&lce. TO the
credit of the thousands of miners in al
the ranges about Champion the at
tempt was regarded by the vast ma
jority as n cowardly and murderous
act; a disgrace to the name of work
ingmen and a setback TO the cause
There was special Indignation express
ed against the attempt to kill or In
jure Eric by throwing the mass of ore
down the ladder hole, for that hat
been done, according to the story Of
the men who were overpowered at tn,
shafts mouth. One or two of then