Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-28


 Yes. What do you want"
 "Lew Trethven has broken his leg. Fell into prospecting hole near upper trail of Cornishtown. He wants doc tor to come right up."
 'Yes. Hear that, will you.' said the doctor, who was listening hard to catch every word. "Trethven has broken ev- cry leg of his body three separate times since Eve been here. If he had six legs, he'd break every one of 'em. He always falls into hole at the close of day, when I'm the farthest off and feel the least like going to see him. I've mended him so often that he looks like a bamboo fish rod.'
 say, doctor. can you come right up!' asked the man outside as he caught a glimpse of him through the opening.
 ''No; I haven't had anything to eat all day since breakfast. Tell Trethven to wait until morning. He's used to breaking his legs by this time. Tell him to set the fracture himself. Tell him I'm sick. Tell him
 Eric shut the doov and the man out side walked slowly away. The doctor saw him go by the window.
 
 got to blanket Ajax He darted out | of the room, and Stuart saw him go around the corner and overtake the man. Ajax was standing out near the street where the doctor had left him. | Stuart saw Saxon rush the messenger from Tre:hven into the cutter, climb in l himself, leaving one foot out as usual, turn Ajax around with such haste that for ,,,n {tf,,. cf1 whether the miner would remain in side or outside the reeling, swayinG cutter, and then they disappeared be- hind great drift by the side of the street.
 | When Stuart went home that after noon, he carried with him a burden that grew heavier as the twilight deep ened. There were more questions to settle than few about the expenditure of $1,OO0,oOO. Humanity was full of re- fusals to be helped. It was the same cry that Jesus made, "They will not come unto me that they might have eternal life.'' And these saloons, He walked past dozen on the main street. They never had thrust themselves so conspicuously into his senses before And as he was going by one of them, q | CTONu Ol uOlSilS burst out anu scattered over the sidewalk. One or two of them noticed Stuart and seemed ashamed as they slunk by. He went on past the Salvation Army hall and could not help thinking of Rhena, living he1 daily life in such surroundings, work ing with this rough, turbulent element, although the large part of the miners had so far kept away from the saloon.
 He fingered a little as he walked by. hoping to get q glimpse of Rhena, but did not see her and went on home.
 The next few days were days of great anxiety to Stuart. The doctor s l predictions nS to the typhoid fever | proved correct. It broke out and swept over Cornishtown with great fury. No one could remember when such an epi- | demic had ragged there. Stuart sent down to Chicago and had several train cd nurses come up and begin duty at his expense. He blessed God for the things that money could do in cases | like this. He also relieved Dr. Saxon by hiring two assistants and of course made the doctor himself understand | that all the work he did while the mines were shut down would be reck- oned the same as if the men were be- ing paid.
 But all this was nothing to what he 1onged to do. He went himself into the miners cabins and acquainted himself with all their rough and meager sur rounGingS. Several times during these visits he met Rhena. but she was al ways busy with her duties and hardly exchanged q word. Stuart fancied she tried to avoid meeting him. Her man. ner was different. He wondered vague ly if she knew. if she had been tolG that he had found her that night and carried her down through the upper trail.
 All this time he was also working at the problem of the men in idlencss, and the more he thought it over the less confident he grew of his ability to solve the difficulty. Champion was a mining town, with nothing else of an industrial character to occupy labor of any kind. There had once been an at tempt to put in smcltiGg furnaces, but it had failed owing to the expense of | fuel. Stuart confronted 9 condition of practical ignorance on the part of the miners concerning any kind of manual toll except that to which they had been | born. It is of course hardly necessary to say that he daily used his influence with the men to persuade them to agree to his terms, and yet even while talking and urging he could ret avoid | a feeling of great unrest. and with it q went q certain admiration for the men who gave as their reason for not com ing back to the Champion mines or Stuart's terms, Tt don't belong to be for us to take the dollars while all the rest of De Mott men be shut out at the old wages by other companies The whole situation was q deadlock so fal as the union was concerned. and the whole problem was a complication of events and conditions in the conner cial world which Stuart faced as q new thing, especially when he found himself attempting to apply the teach ingS of Jesus to his part of it. He was willing to act on those teachings as fast as he discovered them, bat other men connected With the strike on botl c;1oe, -x-.,,, not yriIlin~ And ha wa S