The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-09-15


Think you car get up IN timer"
six O'clock" Bibbs responded brisk
". And l want to tell you-I'm 90
ing in a cheerful spirit As you said.
III go and I'll like IT."
That's your lookout" his father
crunted. They'll put you back on the
clippin' machine. You get nine dollars
a week"
"More than I'm worth, too" said
Bibbs. cheerily. THAT reminds me, |
didn't mean you by Midas In that
nonsense I'd been writing. l meant
Makes a hell of a lot Of difference
what you meant
night, father"
"G'night"
The sound of the young mans foot
steps ascending the stairs became in
audible, and the house was quiet. But
presently, as Sheridan sat staring an
grily at the fire. the shuf1ling OF a pair
Of slippers could be heard descending,
and Mrs. Sheridan made her appear
ance, her oblique expression and the
state OF her toilette being those OF a
person who, after trying unsuccess-
fully to sleep on one side. has got up
to look for burglars.
"Papa!' she exclaimed, .drowsily.
"Why'n't you 80 to bed! II must he
goin' on 'leven o'clock"
She yawnod. and seated herself near
him, stretching out her hands to the
fire. Whats the matter?~' she asked.
sleep and anxiety striving sluggishly
with each other In her voice. II knew
you were worried al dinner time.
You got something new - your mind
besides Jim's bein' takes away like he
a WHATS worryia' yss BOW. papa?"
"Nethtn'."
She jssred feebly. ~ tell ne that!
You sat up to zee DibbA lidA't you?"
He starts IN At 0hs shop again to-
morrow morning." said Sheridan.
AUST the same - he did before? -
"Just pre-ciselyr!
"How-long you goin' to keep him
at 1t, papay" she asked. timidly.
Until he knows something" The
unhappy man struck his palms to-
sether. then got to his feet and began
to pace the room. as was his wont
when he talked. He'll 60 back to the
machine he couldn't learn TO tend prop
erly in the six months he was there.
and he'll stick to 1t TIL he does learn
1t! That boys whole life, there's been
4 settin' up O. something muilsh that's
against everything ! van him to do.
| don't know what 1t il but its got
to be worked out Of him. Now, labor
amt any more n simple question than
what 1t was when we were young. Ny
idea IS that, outside O. union troubles.
the man that can manage workin' men
Is the man that's been one himself.
Well. l set Bibba 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
IN to three years. II he balks again
I'm just done with him! Sometimes |
feel like was pretty near dons With
everything, anyhow"
Il knew there was something else"
said Mrs. Sheridan, blinking over q
yawn. You better let It 60 till to
morrow and SGT to bed row-'less
you'll tell me?"
Suppose something happened to
Roscoe" he said. "Then what'd !
have to look forward to? Then what
could I depend - - hold things to
gether7 A lumnf1l 4 lummix that
hasn't learned how u push I strip G.
zine along q groove"
"Roscoe?" she yawned. "You needn's
worry about Roscoe, papa. He's tts
strongest child we had. I never did
know anybody keep better health than
10 does. l don't believe he's even had
. cold In Ave years. You better 60 mp
to bed, papa"
suppose something did happen to
him, though. You don't know what It
means. keepin' property together these
daysIjust keepin' It alive, let alone
maxim it grow the way l do. tell
you when 4 man dies, II that dead
mans chudern amt on the Job, night
and day, everything he built II get
carried OF. Ny Lord! when l think
o such things comm to me! II don't
seem like l deserved it-no man ever
tried harder to raise his boys right
than I have. I planned and planned
and planned how to bring 'em up to
b guards to drive the wolves OF, and
how to be builders to build, and build
bigger. ten you this business life Is
no FOOLS Job nowadays mans rot
to have eyes in the back OF his bend.
You hear talk, sometimes, d make you
think the millennium had come-1ut
right the next breath you'll hear some
body hollcrin' about the great unrcst.'
You bet there's Z great unrest! There
amt any man alive smart enough to
see what its goin' 70 do to W In the
end, nor what day ne got set to bust
loose, but it's frothin' and bubblln' In
the boiler. This c09olry's been min
up with It from ~ 0Sef the world for
Z good many yean and the old camp
meetin' days arr dead and dime with.
Church amt what = I'D to be. Moth.
Ne Whist It used % be-everythinn
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