The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-12-07

tAAH AlN l5aA AAN1hNA NhAtAN 3NA'
One grimy giant stocking the furnace
for The castings asked the question Of
another The other a taeiturn Scots
man, grunted out curt reply in the
negative. and, opening the furnace
door with his pole, flooded the place
with light
1t was Friday night The clock in
the front shop pointed to the quarter
before FIVE. IN another ten minutes or
SO the men engaged at the engineer
ing works of John n Ransom & Co,
would be paid of for the week. The
money was already neatly done up in
little paper bags with che name of the
firm ON them, and stacked in little rows
in the office Sandy MacTavish, hav-
ing temporarily finished with the fur
mace, caught his mate In the act
of getting into his coat He looked ut
him ia silent fury and burst into
Scotch expletye.
'Ay dinna work a minut over lang.
A loon Hike YOU has a miehtle import
ant beesness outside the shop. II wants
ten minutes to the COR II those bits
o piping are not staked-'
The boy fled from him in dismay.
The bits of piping measured six feet
In length and more, and he was due TO
play the eolnet in a church band at
six o'clock He refused to touch the
piping. and Sandy swore at him more
Justify than before Another man
WALKING through the casting shed
laughed as he listened to it all Il
was sandys way OF licking the boys
into shape
Ronald Leslie foreman filter at RAM
SONS, came and stood beside the fur
mace, too.
What's the row, Sandy? he said.
Ronald my lad, said the old man,
tits the cid story the young lads are
not worth their salt It's come in
late IL YOU can. 80 away early, slesp
in the cupboard or on the roof when
ever you think the old mans back is
turned Is that the way to keep your
job ia like TO know29
your jobn said Donald, with a
shrug. What's your job worth when
you've kept 1t? Thirty-eight shillings
a week won't keep man out OF the
workh0cse when he's old. Your job.
The lob that takes all your waking
time, chat gives you no leisure TO think
that
THAT dinua let you Sit down and
spend your days iddlin Wi 3 toy that
has uae mair sense in it than my
pole
Leslie Gid not speak Instead he
stared into the heart If the furnace
Ii may have been that he saw the
realization OF his dream there.
THE IDEAS good, he said, 'and
If 1 could patent it,
And II You could act ony firm TO
tax il up aud work ii for you. Ne
Gamma do it. Ronald Leslie. And why9
The things been tried before, man.
You've got brains in your head Gamma
you see that you're thrown away
time aud money, and braking a wo-
mans heart?"
The clock had struck new. The men
from the brass shop came Gathering
down the stairs. sandy got himself
into his coat
"lts not only thirty-eight shillings
a week yoU'rde THROWN away. Ronald,
mind you that
He went 10 claim his money and
Ronald Leslie kicked at The scraps of
iron and steel that ssrewod the floor
Give It ups" he said Il can't DO it,
The thing possesses me 4 can't give
it up ! must So on.
He went out into the darkness on
the night ana swung himself on TO an
electric car which would take him
to his home ia Walton, where most
az Ransom's men lived,
Usually the time occupied by his
journey was given over To his inven-
fion. hut tonight new thought chased
the other, Breaking w0man,s
heartg" What absurd NONSENSE why
Maggie was Just as eager as himself
There woald oe 40 need 80 stint the
Housekeeping when his idea was taken
up ana every ship In Liverpool carried
Leslic's steering gear. Sandy MacTav-
ish WAS ia old ioo who didn't know
what he was tslking about. Who would
Win IS ne one venturade How was
any ono 90 SET cd sticking Is the ola
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