The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-11
Copyright by ST. S. Mcclure COD

1T S coffee hot for him, and brought
NIX t9&tAE&]& him In "a stcaming cup wi thouti
II asking |, question: Judith Hunter had
~ been outgnt service before she married
IF lilly and she had learned n good many
il things beside cooking beetle a turn
Z They had eight rooms in the house, II
#syou include the lean-to, which was such
a comfortable $laundryand summer hitch
RAJ an for Judith. II was a very good house
W indeed, and the garden was so large that
Judith kept II tiny poultry yard. " In the
Is summer twas beautiful to sit on their
n own piazza and be- shaded by their tree
Es (really IL tree large enough to shadc)GandI
n to look at the honcysucklesa and; geraniun1s
F4 and the green rows of onions and parsley
No landowner in town could be prouder
Than Billy had been yesterday of his lit
8S tie domain. Now his handsome Il brow
wrinkled sulenly above his black eyes
wand he gazed about him in IL u dreary4
STARE seeing and not seeing, te q man
taking farewell. lie sighed before he.
drank the coffee. Fl His Wife, still saying
no word, smoothed the short curls which
Ills hat had matted on his forehead he
ratted her5hand. SHE was n tail woman,
as tall as fe. and of fine, supple figure
MI Here eyes were very bright and her skin
Very clear, and she had delicate, .sirregu-
553 Jar features, which changed so #pAettilyl
when she liked that no one ever found
fault with their irregularity. 4 II 5G
#sSS$$"It's you that lin thinking about, Ju-
8$diti, you and the kid said Huntcr;Fhe
nodded his head toward the open door.
through which one could SEQ q cradle
rocker. Arc they going to strike, there
well, as bad They voted to send a
i. committee TOT HOLSTER nnd ask hinito
submit their differences to an arbitration
9@comnllttec, or they'll strike Monday. liol7s
lister won't listen TO 4 hem. Not to any
{8i body. 1 guess, and not to 52obb and Luke
En- -NiEger, anyhbw .tIe sent Luke off IN
week ago, and the other fian Is Johnny
81 Mellin, who's mild as skim milk and was
Y S1ut on TO- represent u.s. He'll set there
fS and cit red in the face and say. That's
right to whoever speaks last i's8ifs s K
but did youespcak 10 them, Billy! Did
you say the things you were going to?
SsBilly's face grew rec. AZ Yes; ] did !; and
5y3 4 wish u hadn't never made a8spccch
before; Y but felt so worked Ip about this
III thought / could talk 10 the boys; lest
f9 give 'em plain sense how this here strike
hi ainit gotta show on Gods earth Of sue
fl Cceding; but you'll say you got a fool
for a husband, nll could get out whs
54 some fool thing about n. strike that failed
gf was worse tllan'no strikt;a and then Itobb
he got up. 80 slick and with such u
Not of fine, big words about organized
labor and the great union behind us and
capital already on the run; and slic work
5Es cd en- up about those new fellows (ard
they are n disgrace; theyGcant manage
their blast no how and they may he
n killing somebody any sdayD and he got
III the boys fighting mad; and he called me
his cautious friendr-like i Was IA coward!
And then they I'LL holered, You sec he's
got such a way with him. |; little, smil-
II ing, white-teethcd Teller and STUART as a
8s steel trap. and there mint anything on
\ earth we workingmen like like u5fcllcr
who can talk tf
Can't l,c see lIiUsclf It's crazyy. .5
t'IIe sees we've got 500 In the treas
5Af ury, and how we've been cut DOWN and
n cut down this winter. and he secs liol-
Il listers got some big orders on now. and
shat all he does see. a yo,, Tell him
HOLSTERS o,sthiate's the devil. 3hc jest
laughs and says he's heard folks threaten
81 10 bite offRthcir noses 10 spitoEth faces
b before, but they don't do IL all the same,
and IIolister can't buff him, j don't
think HOLSTERS SO had as they make
out But he's got the dcyil's own tcn,-
per, when sou Ell his mad up. They'd
have struck tlis very same night II II
hadn't been for young Fitzmduiicn,''5
Ill "l3ut he don't heiong to the union,A'g said
" Judith, who was NOW seated rs her hls-
band, listening Win absorbing interest
$ rhow'd he get ing.5
well, we've had BIN for d lawyer
scausc he worked for nothing and lie
was a poor boy that's worked mp: and hs
certainly has done well by us Nell, In
n came In, in time 10 see Robb wipe vi
the floor with me: and he made speech
VI said he just got back 10 town this after
neon. with Alderman McGinnis, and u,
AZ wasn't prepared 70 speak, hut he hoprs
they would give themselves TING TO se'
ihngs clear. Two things was necessary
10 have q good cause and "a fiehtin,
rhance 10 win, 20 he got Them 10 az
E point the committee that was The be-,
@ he could DO" His. wife looked AZ hin
" wtstfully i.If they strike, wlll 5it b
~ n long strike, Billy 81
SGod knows, -Hs,lt 10 sec HMry Los