Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-27

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Die next few days were days of
BIT anxiety to Stuart. The doctors
alictiOns rs to the typhoid fever
Ned correct. 1t broke out and swept
NJ COrnishtown with great fury. No
could remember when such an cpl
. mic had ragged there. Stuart sent
Nn to Chicago and had several train
nurses come up and begin duty at
expense. lie blessed God for the
Nngs that money could do in cases
this. He also relieved DR.. Saxon
hiring two assistants and of course
de the doctor himself understand
t all the work he did while the
hes were shut down would be reck-
ed the same as if the men were be-
paid.
BUT all this was nothing to what he
ged to do. He went himself into the
hers cabins and acquainted himself
h all their rough and meager sur
ndings. Several times during these
is he met Rhena, but she was al
VS. busy with her duties and hardly
changed a word Stuart fancied she
I'd to avoid meeting him. Her man
was different. He wondered vague
if she knew, if she had been told,
I he had found her that night and
ricd her down through the upper
il.
II this time he was also working at
problem of the men in idleness, and
more he thought it over the less
fident he grew Of his ability to
We the difficulty. Champion was a
hing town. with nothing else Of an
Kind. There had oHce been an at
pt to put in smelling furnaces, but
had failed owing to the expense Of
|. Stuart confronted n condition of
ctical ignorance on the part of the
hers concerning any kind of manual
except that to which they had been
n. 1t is of course hardly necessary
say that he daily used his influence
II the men to persuade them to
ee to his terms, and yet even while
sing and urging he could not avoid
neling of great unrest, and with it all
pt certain admiration for the men
gave as their reason for not COM
back to the Champion mines on
arts terms, 1T don't belong to be
us to take the dollars while all the
of De Mott men be shut out at the
wages by other companies" The
Die situation was n deadlock so far
the union was concerned, and the
ole problem was n complication Of
nts and conditions in the CONNER
world which Stuart faced as a
thing, especially when he found
lself attempting to apply the teach
Of Jesus to his part of it. He was
ling to act on those teachings as
as lie discovered them, but other
connected with the strike on both
rs were not willing. And he was,
ingly or unwillingly, a part of the
lmercial system, and as far as he
gone yet he saw little relief for the
lmpion men or little opportunity for
use of the money he was ready to
mediate sufferings regardless of
mt other people might call its cause.
had not been enough in the habit of
Ig money for other people to know
to do it either wisely or in way
produce permanent results.
the week went by, and it was the
hit of Aunt Royals and Louise
y. Stuart dreaded the occasion
muse his heart was not in it at ALL
seemed to him like a cruel thing
chow to be having a gay, eXpen-
dressy gathering, as he knew this
ir would be, at n time when little
dren were dying and rugged men
women in those wretChed miners
ms were tossing in the fever OF
scourge which laid it's bony
. cllles of death against nearly ev
door in COrnishtown and grimly
ed one by one out of the burning
within to the cold embrace of the
Isenger outside. Stuart spent tho
in round of visits. At different
hes he found Andrew and Rhena
Eric. All of them were worn ant
with the burdens of all they hat
g and carried. Rhena especially
ned to show the strain of her great
ihCes. Stuart came very neal
king to her once about her over
k. If he had, it is doubtful if hC
d have kept from telling his love
he same breath. Somehow he die
say it. And late in the evening
went home with a feeling as neal
heartache as he ever knew. II,
ned to have thought he must spenC
day in as sacrificial and helpful :
ner as possible in atOnement 70
evening he was to spend. But Ger
ly if ever man was in a poor frame
lind to enjoy festivity of the fash
Bile sort Stuart was that man. jim
hey had died that afternoon, ant
rt had been there just in time t,
Rhena kneel by the bed and pra.
he spirit went back from the rougl
rnaCle to God who gave it. Tn
ls of the prayer and the great sob
he miserable wife and mother, tn
of the children, the wretched hu
its few broken pieces of furni