Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-04-01

[ \ " iooh uoWn at your handS--big
 strong and wilhn'. but helpless to pro
 vide Tor them Gependin' on you--an, then see eair of soft whlic hand,
 carclcssly Wastin' what would be If, n to you and yours?
 0 "That's how 1t looked to us. Fo,
 times had been hard with us. ana il, n told yon. old Keswick had always |, calculated that the losses must bt
 evencd up on wages somehow. , And this fellcr. m be bound he's ' never invented nothin' more useful than new ,iA to his cravat. says lin, Bryce. 'Ilc1l fool away no end of I. money. and then either the mill will have 10 go down or wages will. and r mine has got about to the foot of the , ladder now
 oh, tberc's m doubt we'll 20 down
 unless some of his experiments blows , hiM np. Wish they would. answers Tom. only h' put lt rather uglier than
 that
 "Of course twas only talk. but the feclin' was under it, and after awhile
 from hopil' somethl;f would happen
 the boys went a Hdle further and got
 to plannln' hGa to make it happen
 "l aint guin' to tell much about any
 plot. toos care not io know much
 about it for fear I'd run across some
 thin I'd feel bound to hcndcr. and
 didn't want to hcnder nothin. that's
 the fact. Only there was no murder
 nor nothin' like that in it: the men
 wasn't that kind--lcastways. most cf
 'em wasn't
 "'No. we ain't a-goiu' to hurt mann.
 my's darlin' - bless his pretty little
 hcart.-not less he gitS in the wav i when he'd better he out Of it., says
 Tom. with q grin. But If the play
 thing he's so ticklcd over jest flies to 1 flinders some day and the noise scares
 him so that he gives up and runs home itll bc the best thing for him and all ! the rest of us' Seemed like nobody doubted he'd l,e easy scared. and so the whispern' and black looks and secret meetin's went
 OH.
 One day in summer box was !
 brought into the room where we work |
 ed. | shall always remember that | day, just how everything looked. It
 had been bright warm mornn'. but
 about noon it clonded up slowly. and
 every breath of wind died away. Not
 lcaf moved on the trees.
 Inside the mill everything looked darker and gloomicr than usual in that 1 queer gray light. Great piles of cast fn'S IbpnvsaH lla.I. sl, I slippery floor; the long iron shafts was like hungry arms forever reachin' down and drawin' back empty. and from under the brick archway the round door of the furnace seemed glar- in out like a big red eye.
 'Nothin' seemed to 70 that day the way folks had calculated. That mis- cr'ble little box had no sooner been set down in the room than somebody call cd: Hist Look outr And there was Boss Darlin comin' back from his din ncr at m onarthly hour when he's never been known to come before. He had rose stuck in his buttonhole and looked like dancin' master goin' to party as l heard Bob mutter as he slipped the box out of sight under a pile Of stuff at the end of the room. They couldn't carry out their plan then. so there wasn't nothin' left for 'em but to hide it.
 ''The boss looked round kind of smilln' and pleasant-like. He'd got that model he was busy with about into workin' order. and he was wonder. ful pleased over it. And what did he do that day but have it brought into our room. because the weather havin' , turned gloomy-like there was better light by big window there So there he stayed. fusSin' over it. just as if he :. was on guard.
 Then 1t began to thunder, and there , was sudden dash of rain. so that Jim z Bryce's little girl who had come down ' with his lunch basket wouldn't 20 < home. Jim was a pleceworker and al- f ways said he could do twice as much . work in an afternoon if he had a | mack bout 2 o'clock.
 Jim looked sort of uneasy now and , hen when little Jiuuy d get off to the T pack part of the room anyways nigh where that box was But he couldn't |, ay nothin and maybe there wasn't u my danger. only l was sure he didn't d Ike her round there and was glad I, when she wandered off into the room :, 'eyond-a storeroom. where she was c et stay sometimes while she waited or her fathers basket. IT "The storm grew heavier instead of ,, ghter till we could hardly see to h york. All at once there was bllndin' fl ash of light and a crash as If the 1v 'hole earth was tcnrin' to pieces. and h 'e all started and tumbled in every b irection. The minute we could get h, UT senses and look round we found V, nat the whole end of the room was lowed off and gully plowed way " own to the foundations like as If n ., ombshell had tore through. tb Beyond that ragged openn' the h, reat brick wall was still standin'. but -c e could see that it was swayin' and fo avin just ready to fall. I've never if zen anything look so awful as that emblin' wall did, for over GU the or her side of 1t run another baildin' w here the finisbin' rooms was and all il, lnds at work.
 T s'pose the same thought struck us us at oncc--that the only hope for cm sil as q peal of the bell that would send th m all fyin' to the entrance at the far ,ot, I pf fIn Inn, ;,, ei,l