The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29

10 look Tor burglars.
"Papar she exclaimed, drOwsily-
''Why'n't you so to bed? 1t must be
goin' on 'leven o'clock
She yawned. and seated herself near
him, stretching out her hands to the
| fire. What's the matter?'' she asked.
sleep and anxiety striving sluggishly
| with each other in her voice. Il knew
you were worried all dinner time.
You got something new on your mind
besides Jim's bein' taken away like he
was What's wOrryin' you now, papa?"
''Nothin'"
She jeered feebly. ''N' tell me that.
You sat up to see Bibbs. didn't you:"
HE starts in at the shop again to
morrow morning." said Sheridan.
Just the same as he did before?"
Just pre-ciselyT''
"How-long you goin' to keep him
at it, papa?" she asked, timidly.
| Until he knows somethingr' The
unhappy man struck his palms to-
| gether, then got to his feet and began
to pace the room. as was his wont
when he talked. He'll go back to the
| machine he couldn't learn to tend prop
erly in the six months he was there.
and he'll stick to it till he does learn
it! That boys whole life, there's been
a settin' up O. something mulish that's
against everything | want him TO do.
| don't know what 1t is, but it's got
TO be worked out of him. Now, labor
amt any more a simple question than
what it was when we were young. My
idea is that. outside O. union troubles.
1 q n in 7er1
is the man that's been one himself.
Well, l set Bibbs to learn the men and
| to learn the business. and he set him
| self to balk on the first job! That's
| what he did, and the balk's lasted close
| on to three years. If he balks again
I'm just done with him! Sometimes
feel like L was pretty near done With
everything, anyhow"
al knew there was something else"
said Mrs. Sheridan. blinking over a
yawn. You better let it go till to-
morrow and get to bed now-'less
you'll tell me?"
Suppose something happened to
Roscoe" he said. Then what'd |
have to look forward to? Then what
could 1 depend on to hold things to-
gether? lummix! A Iummix that
hasn't learned how to push a strip O.
zinc along a groover'
'Roscoe?' she yawued. You needn't
worry about Roscoe, papa. He's the
strongest child we had. 1 never did
know anybody keep better health than
he does. 1 don't believe he's even had
cold in five years. You better go up
to bed, papa"
/
him, though. You don't know what IL
means, keepin' property together these
days-just keepin' it alive, let alone
maxim it grow the way I do. 1 tell
you when man dies, if that dead
mans chuldern. amt on the job, night
and day, everything he built III get
carried of. My LOrdi when I think
o. such things comm to met 1t don't
seem like 1 deserved it-no man ever
tried harder to raise his boys right
than | have. l planned and planned
and planned how to bring 'em up TO
be guards to drive the wolves off. and
how to be builders to build, and build
bigger. l tell you this business life is
no fools job nowadays mans got
to have eyes in the back OF his head.
You hear talk. sometimes, d make you
think the millennium had come-but
right the next breath you'll hear some
body hOllerin' about the great unrest
You bet there's a great unrestr There
amt any man alive smart enough to
see what it's goin' to do to us in the
end. nor what day it's got set to bust
loose, but it's frothin' and bubblin' in
the boiler. This country's been film
up with it from all over the world fol
a good many years, and the old camp
meetin' days are dead and done with
Church amt what it used to be- Moth
ms what it used TO be-everyt things
turned up from the bottom, and the
growth is so big the roots stick out IL
the air. There's an awful ruction goin
on, and you got to keep hoppin' 4
you're goin' to keep your balance or
the top of it. And the schemers! They
run like bugs on the bottom of a boarC
after any piece O. money they hear il
loose. Fool schemes and crooked
schemes; the fool ones are the mos
and the worst You got to fight t.
keep your money after you've made
it And the woods are full O. might!
Industrious men that's only got on
motto: Get the other fellows none,
before be gets yoursY And when
| mans built as l have. when he
built good and strong, and mad
| good things grow and prosper-thos
| are the fellows that lay for
4 chance to slide in and sneak the ben
4 eft of it and put their names to If
i And what's the use my hsyin' eve
been born. If such a thing as that |
| goin' to happen? What's the use M
/ havin' worked my life and soul int
! my business. IL it's all goin' to be dis
: persed and scattered soon as I'm i
the groundT'
He strobe up and down the lon
a room. gesticulating-ntt regardin
the troubled and drowsy figure by th
d freside His throat rumbIed thundei
I ously: the words came with storm
If bitterness. s'You think this is tim
:" for young men to be lynn on beds G
e ease? tell you there never was sue
a time before: there never was sue