Arizona republican., 1911-09-07

hausting steam, were peace and quiet to the turmoil that ragged in his soul, where ten thousand clamant tongues, each with @ voice of thunder, were crying out the protest of his nature against the state in which he found himself. His veins were full of fire. His muscles swelled with a strength that seemed to him cosmic and eter- nal, but 1t was chaos and not cosmos that was liquid in-his soul.
 As he strolled moodily, out of the depot for a turn in the air. the crowd iostled him rudely. aHe -awoke to his surroundings when he noticed that those about him seemed to be me chanics.r that thaaaA wene fifteen 1, Or twenty of them, and that the superin- tendent, his superintendent of the Rockport Foundry and Machine Com pany. was in charge and ,hurrying them into two or three automobiles that were waiting at the. curb. He was keenly alert in an instant. With a bound he. Ieaped to the footboard of the first car, which had already filled with men.
 Did you boys know there was 8 strike on?" Martin asked abruptly.
 Some of the men shook their heads. Some nodded affirmatively. Some sim. ply stared at him coolly with what. business-is-it-of-yours air.
 Well" affirmed John, there .. is We've held out for three months twelve hundred of us, and you men are comin' here to break the strike, to force us back to old conditions. and you'll have to come to them, too. your self, as soon as we're beat You'll help starve us into submission. and then we'll turn around and in our own helplessness be used as a weapon against you. Don't you see that? You're working against yourselves when you come here and take our jobs. The only thing for you boys to do is to keep clean away from here"
 In sixty seconds John had said all of this, and in that same sixty sec onds the superintendent had come hurrying up.
 Here, you!" he said. addressing Martin. You get away from here. This is none of your affair. Don't in- terfere with these men"
 "Oh, yes, it's my affair" said John coolly. throwing of as if it had been a gnat on an elephant the hand the superintendent had laid upon his arm. I'll talk to these men now, and tell them what's what.
 Start the machine" the superin- tendent commanded of the chauffeur
 But John had laid a hand upon the chauffeur's shoulder, hand that was very. very heavy.
 Don't start it." he said, and thc chnuffeur obeyed him.
 The superintendent grIpped the re- straining hand and sought to raise it
 Johns great right arm crooked at the elbow and his fist frightened into a mass of bony knucl5les that were like hammers for hardness.
 will I hit you?" he asked. You were a good foreman to me when l was an apprentice boy. have nc quarrel with you now
 "Yes, hit me-" said the superintend. ent hotly. For if you don't get o1 this car I'm going to hit gor."
 Two men on the back seat had climbed down to the ground.
 We ain't looking for trouble. mis. ter" one said. "I guess we'll call our selves of"
 "Aw. let's get away from here. growled huge, bullnecked fellow who remained in the middle seat. Get of of the car, you big stiff, or I'll knock you of don't give damn whether you're strikin' or not. I come here to work and I'm goin' to work. and I'd like to see the man thatn stop me Do you get that. you lobster?" he added. leaning forward. until his impu' dent leering face was close to Martins Roman nose. e
 Martins bloodshot eyes almost closed Tn the blind passion of his sudden rage.
 Yes" he roared. ''Do you get that?" And he hooked his already clenched fist full into the ugly face before him, and as the mans head went back with the force of the blow. Martin grabbed by the collar two other men from the seat with the big fellow and hurled them to the sidewalk. There was an. otber man ir the back seat but he l-aped over the wheel and was gone -Se big fellow lunged at John now, but the latter stepped aside aud let him crash headlole 70 the curb. johu lifted his heel above the prOstrate face. and the man wh'mpered like a child. before the blow that threatened