The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-07-27

1t before 1 did-pretty close to the
eleventh hour! All right. Start In to-
morrow. It's the first o. the month.
Think you can get up in timer"
six o'clock" Blbbs responded brisk
ly. And l want to tell you-I'm go
Ing in a cheerful spirit AS you said.
III go and I'll like it!'"
That's your lookout" his father
grunted. They'll put you back on the
clippin' machine. You get nine dollars
q 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. / meant"
makes a hell of q lot Of difference
what you mesn!
II just wanted you to know. Good
night, father"
"G'nightv
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 Mt the fire, the shuffiing of a pair
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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, drows.ly.
"Why'n't you go to bed? 1t must be
goin' on 'leven o'clock"
She yawned. 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 I'm her voice. II knew
you were worried all dinner time.
You got something new on your mind
besides Jim's beln' taken away like he
was. What's worryin' you now, papa?"
~Nothin'."
She jeered feebly. an tell me that!
You sat up to see Bibbs, didn't your"
He starts in at the shop again to.
morrow morning." said Sheridan.
'Sust the same AZ he did before?"
Just precisely"
"Ao you sum. W hCSp hlhi
at 1t, papa?' she asked. tlmidly.
Until he knows something's 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. Hell go back to the
machine he couldn't learn to tend prop
eriy in the six months he was there.
and he'll stick to 1t till he docs learn
1t! That boys whole life, there's been
q settin' up o. something mulish that's
against everything / want him to do.
| don't know what 1t ia but it's got
to be worked out OF him. Now, labor
amt any more a simple question than
what 1t was when we were young. My
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 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. II he balks again
I'm just done with him! Sometimes
feel like l was pretty near done with
everything. anyhow!"
II knew there was something else"
said Mrs. Sheridan, blinking over a
yawn. "You better let 1t so 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 I depend on to hold things to
gether? A lummix! A lummlx that
hasn't learned how TO push a strip G
zinc along a groover'
"Roscoe?" she yawned. "You needn'r
worry about Roscoe. papa. He's IL"
strongest child we had. I V did
know anybody keep better health than
he does. l don't believe he's even had
a cold in i've years. You better go up
to bed, papa"
Suppose something did happen to
him. though. You don't know what II
means, keepln' property together these |
days-just keepin' 1t alive, let alone
maxim 1t grow the way I do. r tell
You when q man dies, IL that dead |
mans chuldern amt on the Job, night
and day, everything he built II get |
carried OF. My Lord! when I think
o. such things comm to me! It don't
q like I deserved it-no man ever
tried harder to raise his boys fight
l have. 1 planned and planned
and planned how 70 bring 'em up to
be guards to drive the wolves OF, and
how to be builders to build, and build
bigger. ! tell you this business life Is
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-5ut
right the nex breath you'll hear some
body hollerfn' about the great unrest
You bet there's q great unrestr There
amt any man alive smart enough to
see what its goin' to do to us In the
nor what day It's got Get to bust
loose. but it's frothin' and bubbiin' IN
the boiler. This country's been min
with It from ali over Inc world for
. good many years. and the old camp
meetin' days are dead and done with.
Church amt what Il used to be. Moth
ms what e used to be-everything's
turned up from the bottom, and the
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