The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15


an when he come home this mornin'
they got L scTappin', an he said he
was goin' { kill himself, an ma said
f'r Gawd's sake go an do 1t quick.
Well. then he got hotter'n ever, an
began L cuss like h Hully gee,
Didn't he swear! An then he picked
up a chair an went t soak ma, an
I got in the way. Then they stopped,
an pa went off somewhere. Say. but
ma was cryin' when 1 come L work!
Oh. it don't hurt much" he concluded,
with a consoling grin.
Hanford sighed. Ten years ago he
would have taken the child. found an
officer and investigated the case forth
with: at 80 he was beginning TO under
stand that he could not reform the
world and that his hands were full as
1t was He finished his note. sent the
boy away. and lighted his grimy fac
tory pipe.
AS a matter of fact. his hands were
very full indeed.
They had put him there, the Burn
sides, for more than one reason. AS
chemist he was young and modern;
his hand was strong, and his judgment
wonderfully accurate. and for him lati-
tude did not signify danger. Further
more. he had won his spurs as an able
executive in the old Fannet works in
son, only the toughest and most in
/ tractable labor element seemed obtain
able.
And that was a publication here, for
they had set HanfOrd a nasty task
the cutting of expenses. which means
the cutting of wages. 1t was inevita-
bic as business conditions stood: he
went about it firmly, and the result
was ciear-cut.
One or two Of the Irishmen left on
the spot. They were not indispensa-
bic, and their places were filled readily.
But when the Hibernian element began
to drop away in lots of ten or a dozen,
new consideration arose. The re-
placement seemed inevitably to be Ger
man, and Hanford was far from
pleased. The Irish crowd would take
its seedlings with explosive Interrupt
tons and go back to work-or quit.
/ With the new men it was otherwise.
They accepted direction silently; they
remained silent when he was about;
did they object to this or that, 1t was
/ in a rumbling. under-the- breath man.
ner Gradually the feeling grew upon
Hanford that all was not as well as it
might have been.
/ Indeed. he took TO specializing so con-
stantly on the state of affairs that 1t
was rather cOnsiderate of Marty to
present a diversion in the shape of his
/ injured hand.
/ For three long days the junior gen.
| eral-utiliUy boy had been manipulating
ammonia with an old brass measure
| of jagged edges. His hands were raw
and blistered, and torn here and there
! One of them took to swelling, and his
| mother applied such remedial agents
as tradition and immeasurable ignor-
/ ance suggested. The hand swelled on,
and another day or two later was dis
( cerned by Hanford from his window.
| He sent for the boy, and looked at
/ the puffed palm. He saw an abscess
/ that would have sent a finsr-grained
young person to bed. He found the
/ hospital card rather hurriedly and dis
patched Matthew to St. Stephens
In the course of two IT three hours
| the boy returned. white and weak. and
wincing, and related that a youthful
medicO of the free dispensary-cre
tably firm in the knowledge that car
bolic acid is excellent for pyogenic G. n
ditions-had applied it strong. and sent
| him forth to await a cure. There was
angry white blisters now, and the pain
was bringing tears to eyes which US
ually admitted their utter futility
! Hanford shut his teeth, telephoned
his own physician that a patient was
coming. and sent Matthew scurry ing
up town.
! 1t was a sad call, for The doctor did
! things that hurt, and said things that
almost frightened. In the gantlest way
he tolo the boy that the hand would
have to be poulticed hourly all night:
that If it were not the whole arm
might have 10 go: that he must i'm
press particularly upon his mother to
give the work most minute attention
/ Matty's mother was DEMONSTRATING
for a lady; she wouldn't be at kcme
until tomorrow night. Relatives? So
far as he knew, he had none. But he
guessed he could do the poulticing
himself all right. The doctor guessed
not and rubbed his bearded chin as he
CROPPED for a solution. Failing finally.
he called up Hanford and asked what
/ he had to suggest.
And To- at the other end of the wire
a Material Angel was waiting to save
Matty's arm.
The Material Angel was going to
marry Hanford. She was young and
good, and beautiful as only an angel
can be. She lived in a big house: she
owned a wealthy papa; she drove
about I'm a shiny carriage. On rare oc-
casions she dropped in at the factory;
this was one of them.
She had listened with real sympathy
! >
the telephone call from the doctor came
as a sequel, and Hanford told her Over
hts shoulder of the situation.
The Material Angel rose Characters
tically.
wait, Dick! Don't ring off"
Hsnford paused; the Material Ange
picked up her furs.
"Why?''
Because I'm going up to get the
poor little chap and take him home
with me. Tell the doctor TO keep hin
), there
At the first of the week Matty re-
turned. healed, clean. freshly clad. anC
in a mental haze.
For six days he had been waited up
on by a lady in a black dress and Z
white apron and cap; for six days ht
had reclined on a couch in a wonder