The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-25


doors could plainly be heard. No ore
seplied to the doctors question. I -
men were all waiting to hear the neA'
word. They were not easily surprised.
but the sight Of the doctor up IT, Z"
and the sound Of his voice In this
revelation Of him were almost like
ing or hearing q man who had LerI
dead for 80 years come suddenly IL
life.
"And I'm not going to try It now
But want to tell you that II you 10
what you are threatening to do to-
night you'll be bigger fools than I've
been calling you for 80 years or more.
Why. you must be insane idiots, every
mothers son of you, to think you can
gain anything by pulling up pumps!
Who'll suffer? The mine owners?
What II they do lose a little property
up here? Haven't you got sense
enough to know that it is only one
item out Of thousands for them? But
it's the whole thing for you, and II you
weren't q lot Of blockheaded dummies
you would know that the result Of
pulling up the pumps will be simply
! to give me more work to do in mending
your cracked skulls and sewing up q
lot Of gunshot wounds in your useless
bodies, and tell you I've got my
hands full now without having a lot
of extra work piled on me just because
you want to have little picnic with
those pumps. And after you've pulled
'em up and about hundred of you
are killed or get what few brains you
have left knocked out what will you
gain besides that? How much chance
will there be for mining In the spring
with all the shafts flooded? Do you
want to kill me with all this prepara
tion for blOodshed? Tell you what
Ill do. Any man here that wants
me to amputate an arm or leg or fix
his brains back into his empty head
after he's gone and got himself mixed
up in q fight with the militia can just
take my word for 1t here and now
that I will turn him over to the job
work of these stranger doctors that
have been practiclng on you since the
fever struck in this winter. Hear
that? l simply won't do thing for
you!
I'm as mad as you are at the mine
owners. think that, with the excep-
ton Of Mr.. Duncan here, they will
have a heavy account to settle at the
day Of judgment. But, sure as death,
you won't gain anything by trying to
improve Gods punishment for 'em.
You know whatll happen IL the mines
close down for good In the spring. The
owners will have to open II you let the
pumps alone. and you can 60 back at a
rise over old wages. The pressure for
ore will force the companies to re-
sumo. But once you ruin the mines.
and what will you do? The babies cry
for food in the cabins now. you say,
but 1t will be worse than that IT,
! The doctor softened his voice for q
minute. The effect Of 1t was magical.
Stuart could not believe and will not
as long as he lives that DR.. Saxon was
talking for the next few sentences. He
has never heard him with that voice
since. "The babies that lie out there
on tho great slope will never hunger
again. have watched hundreds Of
them leave this unsatisfactory world
this winter and not one Of them that
did not pull my heartstrings with his
little fingers as death won him from
me. But God Is merciful There Is no
doubt of his justice. There isn't a
man here who doesn't know love him
and would never counsel an act that
was not sure would be for your good
and the good Of the wives and children
in the long run. Why, every one OF
you knows"-here the doctor resumed
his voice that the miners knew 80 well
and every one started and came back
again, staring Mt the great rough coat
ed fgure-"that even Ajax has more
sense than to 60 and kick over the
measure that contains his oats. But
that's what you plan to do. l always
said that the stupidest numskulls tina,
ever lived could be found In De Mott
where I've looked into more cracked
craniums than anything else. and I've
made up my mind that after this wher
I've broken heads to fix up I'll use cot
tou Or wool or something like that tc
stuff the vacant places l find
Just then there was a disturbanc,
down by the door, and the next mo
ment a voice broke the silence Of tn,
crowd: rs the doctor here? He'l
wanted at once outside. Been a row
and Pat Penryck has got a broker
head. Tell the doctor to come righ
out"
Hear that!' roared the doctor. IL
, you pull up pumps. I'll 60 right W
|, and get killed with the rest of 20,
> when the militia fires. and after Nv,
gone who'll come and pump life int
t you when death has you by tn
throat? And II l don't get shot ri
leave you and 60 down to Chicago
, where won't have to furnish tn
= brains for the whole community
5 Without another word + the docto
Jumped down of the platform ant
worked his way outside. where h
D cared for the wounded man as skillful
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